The Tv Tome (like the IMDB but for television) seems to be under new management.
Also- have any of you ever made ceviche at home? Tips, cautions, and recipes would be appreciated.
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This streaming video of what happens when 30 hornets find a bee colony is just, well, cool. Put this in IMAX, please.
BTW- Loved the helicoptor sound effects- would it have been too over the top to have the Ride of the Valkyries playing in the background, ala Apocalypse Now?
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Ricky West has some things he needs to get off his chest.
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Michele has her book list up. That leaves the following who have not put up their lists:
Gary Farber
Ted Barlow
Matt Welch
Kimmitt
Captain Ed
Laurence Simon
Kathy Kinsley and MommaBear
Donald Sensing
The Instapundit has up a list of his own.
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Just got back from the vet with Tunch, and boy was that fun.
Tunch, it turns out, does not like rectal thermometers.
I just watched my normally docile cat turn into a snarling, hissing, growling beast straight out of Stephen King’s Pet Cemetary.
Bastard even bit me (and the doctor, and the attendant).
My response- take him home and give him tuna. Man do these animals have us wrapped around their damned fingers.
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How does Splenda work, and why does it taste good without having any calories?
How do cell phones work? I realized the other day I have no idea how my phone knows to ring, and I felt like a confused 8 year old. With a cordless home phone, the land line connects to a specific transmitter. You get the point.
Just curious.
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I did not know this:
In essence, the presence of gigantic fish farms will supposedly relieve pressure to ensure the survival of wild salmon stocks, as a federal judge just ordered the administration to do. (No doubt he was merely an “activist” judge.)
So now Americans won’t have to worry about endangered salmon. Hey, they can get it right from the can!
Er, well, and pay no mind to what you’re getting in that can.
Most of you probably already know that when you buy farmed salmon, that nice “pink” color is faked. It would be naturally grey except for the dye they feed the fish:
Another difference in farmed salmon: their flesh would be light grey if they weren’t fed ad additive to give them their salmon colour. Farmers can pick the colour they want their fish to be from a ‘SalmoFan,’ something that resemble a collection of paint chips.
And, when it comes to eating them, farmed salmon have notably higher levels of toxins contained in their meat. Oh, and did we mention that they’re high in delicious and nutritious PCBs too? In addition, the live fish are constantly fed a chemical diet of antibiotics (more per pound, in fact, than any other kind of livestock).
And just like that, my appetite for salmon (one of my favorite fish dishes- filets baked or grilled with a brown sugar/soy sauce crust are my favorite), died.