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Grandmothers Out There
We need some advice, but first of all, you have to be a grandmother to give it. With more and more young people on their own and many families split up by jobs and just the sheer mobility of modern society, we need help. We've called it "From Grandmother With Love". If you have a recipe for those who are alone and do not have the time to cook or just do not know how, and some advice or... click to read further
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Volume 2 No. 5 |
The King - story of the month Advice I wish I had been given Will the real please robot stand up Rules for cooking alone |
There was this duck floating on the hippo pond. She had flown a very long way and had gotten separated from the others of her flock in a huge storm. She had heard the quack, quack of the others but because the wind was swirling so fast, it seemed to be coming from all directions at once. So she had kept flying as best she could and when the storm cleared, there she was… alone in a great big empty sky. Totally exhausted, and totally confused, she headed down to a small lake to rest a while and gather whatever was left of her thoughts. And there, floating, floating and not knowing what to do next, she fell asleep. When suddenly, our friend the hippo, having finished his nap at the bottom of the lake, as he was wont to do, rose up to the top and stuck his head out to have a look around. And he had come up right under our duck. Well, the sight of a duck sitting on top of hippo's head was just too funny for words for all the other animals. It may not be that funny to you or me but to the plains animals, it was the funniest thing they had ever seen, and everyone was laughing. The duck, hearing all the ruckus, woke up... All rights reserved
The idea of a humanoid robot walking around doing basically what we do but better, fascinates me. I always wanted a friend who was smarter and was programmed not to lord it over me. My only problem with this is that I would constantly have the feeling that I was boring it, that it could be doing much more interesting and productive things somewhere else and that I was breaking some self respecting robot rule by not letting him do that for which he was destined to do, somewhere else. While I have these fantasies, the real robot of the future is sitting right in front of me. Doing all of the things which a robot should do, like: Protecting the integrity of its system by automatically downloading and installing new programs, expanding its functionality with downloads every so often, becoming smarter as I type by 'remembering' everything so it can play it back in a growing number of different formats, anticipating my usage by automatically completing addresses, words, sentences for me, and even writing a synopsis of my stuff which sounds better than the original. When it senses that I have entered the room, it plays 'Hail To The Chief'. When I... |
I've been at it for a year now, but I'm still finding out new things, which could have saved me a lot of trouble early on. Eggs are really the cheapest, most complete, and longest lasting protein under any condition. Do not even have to refrigerate them. Will last for weeks just sitting out. Just be sure that when you crack one, take a whiff to see if it's still good. Salmonella is less of a problem but its still there, so I really cook the eggs and wash hands after breaking them just to be on the safe side. A lot of people eat them raw, so take your pick. Do not crack an egg into a pan until the oil is smoking hot, and then turn the flame down to low, or use butter which will do it, hot or not. But, if you have brought your budgies or other birds with you, do not use Teflon. Kills them if overheated which can happen very fast. Read last months issue http://tsingle.info/julyaug.html Always turn off the stove when you take something from a pot to eat or take the pan to serve and then put it back on the stove. Twice now I did not notice the low flame still burning. Have lost...
Two Parts: First part, mostly not serious. Second part, the real rules Read full article 1. Never cook on a stove which is moving. But, according to estimates, we are traveling on the earth's surface at a speed of 1670 km per hour at the equator. If you are somewhere else, relax - you are not going that fast. But when you combine that with the speed of the earth around the sun 30 km/sec - it's enough to give you indigestion. We won't even think about the speed of the solar system through the galaxy. And yet everyone is cooking. It would seem that the rule dates back to the days of the flat earth theory. Of course, it you are in the middle of an earth quake or a hurricane, or twister which has picked the house up, the advice would appear to be sound. source details on speeds 2. Do not tie your food to a lightning rod to get it cooked. At the rate of lightning strikes, you may not eat for quite a long time, and then again you may be able to eat burnt-whatever one second from now. It's a matter of luck and season. 3. I'm serious about this one. Do not pour water on hot oil if you are cooking in sparce clothing. On second thought, don't pour water on hot oil, period. This includes dumping freshly washed vegetables or other things into the hot pan. 4. Do not upset the cook... |
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