i've learned love is like a brick you can

me: completely randomly and out of left field, Amon from the Legend of Korra NEEDS to be the son of the cabbage man.
gochan: lksdfjlsf lsd I now say YES!
me: or grandson.
gochan: "Lousy benders have made it impossible for my family to sell cabbages for generations!!"

You, yes, YOU TOO can make awesome healthy(ish) soup with nothing more than a big enough pot and a fire to put it over, without any real need for cooking skills. If you can burn water, you can make this!


Ingredients:

- 1 can of corn nuggets
- 1 can of sliced carrots
- 1 can of diced potatoes
- 1 can of green beans
- 1 can of chicken, in water
- 8 cups of water
- ~2 packets of french onion soup mix *
- ~4 chicken bullion cubes *
- (optional) minced garlic to taste **

To do:

1. Put everything in a pot - do not drain the cans first (yes, you want that delicious canned chicken water too). Put it over a burner. Put the burner to high***.
2. Wait until it just starts to bubble. Stir it. Put the burner to medium***.
3. Go walk your dog, take a shower, play some Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook, whatever takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
4. Return. Turn off the heat. Stir. Serve.

Optional edits:

* The packets of french onion soup mix typically state that you should use four cups of water to one packet. Most bullion cubes say one cup to one cube. You'll notice the math above does not compute, because I like my onion flavoring strong. If you do not, you may only want to use one packet, instead of two.

* Both bullion and soup mixes like this tend to come a little heavy on the sodium, so this actually doesn't need any flavoring beyond what goes in the pot. If this is too salty for you, you may want to put in less bullion along with less french onion soup mix.

** I put garlic in almost everything I eat because I'm nuts. I buy the huge gallonish sized jars of minced garlic... they last maybe a year. I don't measure. But if I had to measure, I'd say I probably put in two heaping tablespoons.... maybe three. Ish. (It was a large spoon.)

*** I'm talking about electric stove tops here. I have no idea what you'd want to do on a gas stove.

Gochan: They don't tell you, but on programer or modeler resumes, it's actually a bonus if you put down "pimp skills".
me: XDXD
Clearly, I must remember this for any future resumes I write
thank you, master
Gochan: You're welcome! =D
me :3
I now need to add that to my LJ list of crack....
Gochan: Bwahahaha.
me: wow, it's been nearly a year since I added anything to my crack tag....
Gochan: Heavens, you need more crack!
...er.
Well.
You know.
me: *applies crack spackle*
Gochan: It comes in spackle form now?!
me: XD!
it's for spackling up cracks! like on plumers!
... did I spell that write?
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sigh

Both of my gmail accounts just got disabled! What the fuck, google? >:[


Edit: Yay! I got one of them back so far. And here I was afraid I'd get lumped in with the other poor sods in the Google Help section that didn't get their accounts back for months. *phew*

While they've usually never been on the cutting edge, electronics have been a large part of my whole life, due to grandparents and uncles who worked for NASA, the Lab in Livermore CA, and with AI. As a result, I honestly cannot remember if my first 'game' was on a computer (DOS, of course) or an ATARI system.

Probably my favorite game on the ATARI was BurgerTime. It was AWESOME. But I did also play the usual Pong, Pac-man, and Centipede. I really only liked Centipede of that bunch. And there were actually quite a few others (we were given the ATARI and about twenty games as a gift from my aunt, I believe), but I didn't play the others very much. I hated Pitfall, probably because I was too young to have very good reflexes.

By comparison I loved our DOS computer far more. I played Zork, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and King's Quest, and something else I can't recall the name of, all of which are probably the reason why I love text-based roleplaying so much. But hands down the game I put the most time into was Rogue.

Oh, Rogue, how we miss you. None of the Rogue-likes will ever touch you, my sweet.

Greatest apologies for being so cruel to your character, Bel. But I can't help it; Cillian Murphy set the precedent first.

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To the members of the House of Representatives who voted for the Pence Amendment to H.R. 1:

How could you?

How could you betray millions of women — and men, and teens — who rely on Planned Parenthood for basic health care?

How could you condemn countless women in this country to undiagnosed cancer, unintended pregnancies, and untreated illnesses?

Your vote was not only against those who seek care at Planned Parenthood health centers, but against every one of us who has ever sought care there, and against every one of us who knows that when we are healthy, when we are in charge of our lives, we thrive.

It was a vote against me.

To every senator who will soon consider this legislation:

I stand with Planned Parenthood to say to you: STOP THIS.

I stand with Planned Parenthood and the hundreds of thousands of people from every walk of life and every corner of this country who join me in signing this letter to tell you that we will fight this bill and we expect you to do the same.

I stand with and for the millions of women, men, and teens who rely on Planned Parenthood, and I expect you to do the same.

To every member of Congress, know that we stand together today against this outrageous assault, and together we will not lose.

Have a holy crapton of youtube videos.

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If nothing else, though, you should at least watch these two:

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A Letter To My Students: Stop Rape Now By Doing These Ten Things

Over the past six months, we at Zenith University have been talking about rape and sexual assault. We talk in the dormitories and program houses; we talk in faculty offices; we talk in special hearings run by the deans; we talk in a committee convened to examine sexual assault on campus; we talk on the Anonymous Confession Board; we talk in the pages of the Zenith newspaper.

So enough talk, Zenith students. It is time to act. Direct some of the compassion that you so frequently exhibit towards people off our campus towards each other. It is time for you to stop rape at Zenith right now.

I have never used this blog to talk directly to Zenith students. But because I know you read it, and because there has recently been a public announcement about sexual assault on campus, I want to speak to you directly about how you can stop rape and sexual assault on campus without any intervention by the university at all. Here are ten positive steps you, the students, can do to stop rape and sexual assault on campus, without any member of the Zenith administration doing anything. These steps can be taken by men or women, by victims or friends of victims, and they can be taken today.

The Zenith administration can police rape, punish rape and provide resources to support you in the aftermath of a rape; only students working together can stop rape from occurring in the first place. My hope is that institutional resources on campus aimed at combating rape will be strengthened dramatically in the coming months, and that feminist faculty will be a part of that discussion. But the Zenith administration and the faculty are not raping you. You are raping each other, and failing to deal with the conditions that make rape possible in your community.

And you can change that. Now.

Read the rest....