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Reply #25 on: March 09, 2007, 02:02:09 PM
I love ski-racing on a cold, bitter, white winter day.
I love trying to prove to my sister that I really am three years older than she.



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Reply #26 on: March 09, 2007, 02:08:06 PM
I love bread.  Specifically, Italian bread.  Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam.

I've got a great Cibatta recipe I could share. It's pretty simple too.

Yes please, that would be great:)



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Reply #27 on: March 09, 2007, 05:48:33 PM
I love bread.  Specifically, Italian bread.  Back when I ran the comic shop, there was a really good coffee shop just up the road from us (A really good, basic latte being one of my other loves) and I used to regularly go there for lunch which, most days, would be simply a ciabatta loaf with real butter and strawberry jam.

I've got a great Cibatta recipe I could share. It's pretty simple too.

Yes please, that would be great:)

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Reply #28 on: March 09, 2007, 08:25:19 PM
Brilliant:)  Thank you:)



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Reply #29 on: March 09, 2007, 11:14:05 PM
DM of the Rings

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Reply #30 on: March 09, 2007, 11:23:05 PM
Glenmorangie Port Wood Finish

That's one of my favourites too, of the branded whiskies.  I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).

My heart is now given to the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (http://www.smws.co.uk/) of which I am a paid-up member.  Their bottlings are unique so some will inevitably fail but oh, the ones that work...

Steve, if WorldCon is ever in Glasgow again (and next time I promise I'll attend) I'll bring along some Society bottlings for the after-programme drinks.  And you may drink your fill.



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Reply #31 on: March 10, 2007, 09:28:19 AM
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You would probably love Order of the Stick, then.

I didn't read all 424 of these, thereby staying up very late, and leaving many words unwritten. No, that was someone else.

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Reply #32 on: March 10, 2007, 04:40:55 PM
That's one of my favourites too, of the branded whiskies.  I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).

Oooh.  That one's the limited run, right?  Very expensive?  If it's the one I'm thinking of, then I'd heard about it before, and decided that it would be a reward for myself when I sell my first novel.  >8->


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Steve, if WorldCon is ever in Glasgow again (and next time I promise I'll attend) I'll bring along some Society bottlings for the after-programme drinks.  And you may drink your fill.

Lovely.  It's a date.  Though it's unlikely that Anna and I will wait for Worldcon to be there before going to Scotland.  We'll hopefully do it in the next few years for the sake of Scotland itself.  (Drove around Ireland a couple years ago and had a fabulous time, and we need to do that again, too.)

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Reply #33 on: March 10, 2007, 04:45:47 PM
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You would probably love Order of the Stick, then.

I didn't read all 424 of these, thereby staying up very late, and leaving many words unwritten. No, that was someone else.
Nor am I now addicted.

Huzzah!  Another convert.  >8->

It really is amazing how much he manages to pack in with such simple art.  The early ones were really funny gaming humor, but there wasn't too much depth.  It wasn't until the recent Haley/Elan stuff that I realized just how good the storytelling was here.

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Reply #34 on: March 10, 2007, 05:46:00 PM
I've also had a beautiful Sauternes-finish Gelnmorangie (that I believe is only available in airport Duty Free shops).
Oooh.  That one's the limited run, right?  Very expensive?  If it's the one I'm thinking of, then I'd heard about it before, and decided that it would be a reward for myself when I sell my first novel.  >8->

Even duty-free, it certainly wasn't cheap.  The Sauternes isn't as widely available on UK shelves as some of the other finishes but I don't know how limited the availability is.  Glenmorangie's site lists the 15-year-old in their shop (at £57: quite a bit of money, but fairly ordinary bottles of Port Ellen go for £90 these days just because the distillery's been closed for over 20 years).  I don't regret a penny of it, though.  Every sip was a treat.

Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible didn't rate the 15-year-old as highly as the 10-year-old, but I think he must have got a duff bottle: his tasting notes sound nothing like the drink I remember.

My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out.  That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left.  :(



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Reply #35 on: March 10, 2007, 06:39:07 PM
Jim Murray in his Whisky Bible didn't rate the 15-year-old as highly as the 10-year-old, but I think he must have got a duff bottle: his tasting notes sound nothing like the drink I remember.

And now you've made me go and pull out my Jackson's guide to verify.  >8->  Which makes me think that I might have been thinking of the Madeira Matured bottling, which was a single cask bottling.  I remember seeing it online for about $250 to $300 a couple years back. 

(Sadly, I've determined that Jackson's book is good for knowing what's out there, but not much more, as I don't find his tasting notes comprehensible at all.)


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My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out.  That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left.  :(

I am jealous.  I heard about that one from the WhiskyCast podcast and knew that, like most of the limited whiskies, I'd never come anywhere near it.  >8-\

The other vatted malt I'd like to try sometime, but probably never will, is the Compass Box Spice Tree.  That's the one where they matured it with charred oak staves inside the barrels, to intensify the wood flavor...  Until the Scotch Whisky Association decided it was too nontraditional and forced them to stop making it.

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Reply #36 on: March 10, 2007, 08:52:54 PM
I remember seeing it online for about $250 to $300 a couple years back. 

Yikes!  I've become a bit inured to expensive bottles of whisky through tastings at the Society (where after a few drinks it's easy to get out the credit card for something special) but that's a lotta money.

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My favourite whisky is probably Ardbeg Serendipity -- an accidentally created vatted malt that I was lucky enough to track down a bottle of before stocks ran out.  That one is truly special, and I don't have nearly enough left.  :(
I am jealous.  I heard about that one from the WhiskyCast podcast and knew that, like most of the limited whiskies, I'd never come anywhere near it.  >8-\

It gets parcelled out in really mean measures every so often so I'm hoping that my one bottle will last me a few years.  (It could never be enough years, of course.)  If I do get a chance to meet you in the UK, I'll make sure to bring it along.  You'll only get a sip, mind.  ;)

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The other vatted malt I'd like to try sometime, but probably never will, is the Compass Box Spice Tree.  That's the one where they matured it with charred oak staves inside the barrels, to intensify the wood flavor...  Until the Scotch Whisky Association decided it was too nontraditional and forced them to stop making it.

Ooh, hadn't heard of that one.  Sounds very interesting, and if their Peat Monster is anything to go by it's likely to be very drinkable.  I'll have to keep my eyes open for it.

Thanks for the link to WhiskyCast.  There's definitely room in my commute for that podcast.  :)



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Reply #37 on: March 13, 2007, 04:33:12 PM
I love The Pixies and They Might Be Giants.

I love Buenos Aires and New Orleans.

I love the rapping of a woodpecker in the day and the hoot of an owl at night.

I love chocolate and tea.

I love the scream of cicadas and the mrakking sound Initiate Rorschach (one of my two cats) makes when he purrs and meows at the same time.

I love the color of my daughter's hair.


I love sleeping and I love dreaming.

I love Montessori education.

I love the word salamander and the word quotidian.

I love the movie "Pan's Labyrinth".

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Reply #38 on: March 13, 2007, 04:36:41 PM
I do not love not knowing how to make an image appear inline, instead of as an attachment.  Somebody cluegun me?

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Reply #39 on: March 13, 2007, 05:10:52 PM
I do not love not knowing how to make an image appear inline, instead of as an attachment.  Somebody cluegun me?

First, upload an image to a web hosting account that you have access to.

Then, click the "Insert Image" button in the toolbar above the input box for your post.

Then, type or copy/paste the full URL for the image file between the tags.

Use "Preview" to make sure you did it right. Check for typos if the image doesn't appear.

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Reply #40 on: March 13, 2007, 05:36:47 PM
First, upload an image to a web hosting account that you have access to.

Then, click the "Insert Image" button in the toolbar above the input box for your post.

Then, type or copy/paste the full URL for the image file between the tags.

Use "Preview" to make sure you did it right. Check for typos if the image doesn't appear.

Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue.  Works like a charm.  Thanks!

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Reply #41 on: March 13, 2007, 08:40:30 PM
Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue.  Works like a charm.  Thanks!

Unfortunately, I got a question mark error icon instead of the picture; when I try to load it in a new page, it gives me an Access Forbidden! error.   ("You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.")

Just so I'm not only griping, though...  My kid looks like this:


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Reply #42 on: March 13, 2007, 09:47:14 PM
Bless you, Jim, for your tender application of the clue.  Works like a charm.  Thanks!

Unfortunately, I got a question mark error icon instead of the picture; when I try to load it in a new page, it gives me an Access Forbidden! error.   ("You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.")

Right, direct linking was mucking up our server stats, and was resulting in weird forum postings of random images from our database, including pictures of my pregnant belly in fora whose languages we could not read.  It was giving me the creeps in a way random hits of people browsing the image database was not.  I forgetted (sic) that.  Because I'm on the inside, so to speak, the network was showing me the image just fine.

Anyhow, I moved the thumb to my own directory, and maybe that fixed it?  Does it show for values of people not on slithytoves.org now?  Not that it's a huge deal, it was merely illustrative.

Just so I'm not only griping, though...  My kid looks like this:

Awww, what a cutie.  Very alert and interested. [proselytize] He looks like an excellent candidate for Montessori school! [/proselytize].  That pinchable cheek babyfat's not gonna be with him much longer so enjoy it.  And cute vibes emanating from the half-hidden, what, corgi? as well.
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Reply #43 on: March 16, 2007, 05:56:09 AM
I love that my two sons and I can speculate around the dinner table (when we actually all eat at it) about things like "four dimensional cheese slicers".

I love SCA Rapier Combat. - http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval/practise/first.htm and http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval/rapier/rapier.htm - "The family that slays together stays together."

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I love the World Wide Web.

I love that pheasants often stroll across my yard, on their way to ... wherever.

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Reply #44 on: March 17, 2007, 09:20:01 PM
I love the Six Nations rugby tournament.  Even if Scotland just got the wooden spoon.  Again.  Hey, it was still a day of thrilling rugby matches.

Roll on the World Cup!



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Reply #45 on: March 18, 2007, 02:16:22 PM
I love St. Patrick's day, but I love coffee and blackout curtains the day after St. Pat's more.

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Reply #46 on: March 20, 2007, 02:57:10 AM
i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?


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Reply #47 on: March 20, 2007, 03:32:06 AM
i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
That's not even fair!

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Reply #48 on: March 20, 2007, 10:50:09 AM
I love riding a bicycle everywhere. I love Erie weather, with its 8-10" of snow in late March. I love paying for stuff on my own instead of calling home to ask my parents for money. I love the Nintendo DS. I love the people I'm moving in with in a few weeks. I love having no classes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, giving me a four day weekend every weekend, and a break in between days.



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Reply #49 on: March 20, 2007, 12:30:22 PM
i love waking up naturally at 10 AM, and not having to actually get up for another 3 hours
That's not even fair!
I'm happy if we don't hear screaming or get pounced before 8
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