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I am a Trodon:

Current research suggests that Troodon was a small and speedy carnivorous creature…according to your answers so are you!

Troodon had an unusually large brain for a dinosaur, compared to the size of its body. Its teeth were also out of the ordinary for a meat eater, with [...]

Because she bought the Zojirushi, otherwise known as “the Cadillac of bread machines,” my mom gave me her old Panasonic bread machine. I believe it makes the 1.5 pound loaf, same as the bread maker we lost to Katrina, but mom said to make the 1 lb loaf recipe.

To try it out, I made one batch of honey oat bread that didn’t really rise. I thought that perhaps my yeast had expired, so I bought new yeast and made another loaf. That one seemed to rise, but not very high. It’s not really really dense, but it isn’t fabulously spongy either. So I decided to make the recipe I always made in my old bread machine (French Honey), and to live really dangerously, I made the 1.5 lb recipe. I put in the ingredients before I went to work this morning. Continue reading Bread Machine Hijinks

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I was over at Mindhacks today and read an interesting blurb about the psychological nature of happiness. Most people think that having kids and getting more money will make us happy. Apparently, this isn’t true:

But the data show that money has minor and rapidly diminishing effects on happiness, and that parents are generally [...]

So in the interest of providing new content to replace that hosed by the losers who hacked my site, I thought I might let y’all know how I waste my time. Besides the links that I am slowly adding to the sidebar under the “Almost Daily” category, I feel there are numerous other available [...]