What are you...

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

A small segment of myself being interviewed for our regional TV news. Took about 20 seconds. It was regarding the government budget that was presented today. The Minister of Labour (who I coincidentally knows from university) presented here in the city where I live.

[Escriba]

Ah, yes, Sofrito, the base of every Spanish stew or casserole (but usually here is simpler: onion, garlick, olive oil, tomato and sometimes pepper). My mom calls "sofrito" to frying garlick with olive oil and putting it over the fish dishes

[Alelou]

It's a great way to keep all the onions and peppers and stuff I grew this year. I even grew garlic, although not nearly enough to keep me in sofrito. I don't know whether it's really worth trying to get more ambitious with it in next year's garden. The cloves I grew were not at all impressive.

To be honest, not all of my Puerto Rican relatives use the cilantro and culantro. One of my sisters-in-law despises the flavor and use fresh oregano or parsley instead. I throw those in occasionally, but I just don't like them as well. And I prefer to add the oregano dried, when it's stronger. But this is the basic recipe used by my wife-in-law, my stepdaughter, one of my other sisters-in-law, and Daisy of Daisy Cooks who was the only one who gave me the ingredients in a more detailed way than "just chop up this and this and this."

Okay, I'm waiting for word back on some copy but maybe I should go mop the kitchen floor. It's kind of yechhy after all that stuff yesterday!

[justTripn]

...watching?

A small segment of myself being interviewed for our regional TV news. Took about 20 seconds. It was regarding the government budget that was presented today. The Minister of Labour (who I coincidentally knows from university) presented here in the city where I live.

Congradulations. Are you an expert on the budget or a "man on the street"?

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

A small segment of myself being interviewed for our regional TV news. Took about 20 seconds. It was regarding the government budget that was presented today. The Minister of Labour (who I coincidentally knows from university) presented here in the city where I live.

Congradulations. Are you an expert on the budget or a "man on the street"?

Neither really. But I am an editor at the regional newspaper and thus my view was wanted by local TV.

To be honest, being a rather private person, I'm not that keen on displaying my mug in public. I'm forever grateful that there is no picture byline in the newspaper.

[justTripn]

Cool! My husband is on the editorial board of a newspaper! And in my own job, at an economics journal, my bosses and some of the authors we work with get interviewed about economic crises - like the one we are having now

[Eian Flannagan]

Grading the first bluebook exams of the semester. Subject = the role of capitalism in pre-industrial Early Modern Europe. Bonus points awarded for any tester who can bring Star Trek into their answer and have it make sense.

Good times, aye.

Dr. Flannagan, Ph.D

[evcake]

Entering ancient Tune-Dex cards into the Pop Song Index.

Carpal tunnel, here I come.

evcake, Drudge

[Distracted]

Grading the first bluebook exams of the semester. Subject = the role of capitalism in pre-industrial Early Modern Europe. Bonus points awarded for any tester who can bring Star Trek into their answer and have it make sense.

Good times, aye.

Dr. Flannagan, Ph.D

I SO wish I were in your class, Professor. I'd find some way to reference the accuracy of the various depictions of historical capitalism in the media, especially the Ferenghi Rules of Acquisition as they apply to capitalism in pre-industrial Early Modern Europe. Of course, it would probably help my grade if I knew something about pre-industrial Early Modern Europe.

[Linda]

Hey, if we could all get our hands on "The Idiots Guide to Pre-industrial Early Modern Europe", perhaps we could run a contest here on the comparison of the Ferengi Empire of the 22nd Century to Pre-industrial Early Modern Europe. I do have a copy of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. Doesn't everybody?

[Eian Flannagan]

I SO wish I were in your class, Professor. I'd find some way to reference the accuracy of the various depictions of historical capitalism in the media, especially the Ferenghi Rules of Acquisition as they apply to capitalism in pre-industrial Early Modern Europe. Of course, it would probably help my grade if I knew something about pre-industrial Early Modern Europe.

Crikey! May I use this in class Monday morning? It's bloody perfect! So far, no one has used the Ferengi in their essays, and they are the easiest to compare!

Eian

[Distracted]

Heh. Be my guest. I was always a champion bullshitter with my essays, even when I knew next to nothing about the subject. I'm happy to see that I haven't lost my touch.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

...watching?

The first episode of SG-A season 5. Rather underwhelming, but the cliffhanger wasn't much to write home about either. I hope this season turns out better than the last, which I found disappointing, did.

Cool! My husband is on the editorial board of a newspaper!

Then he and I are practically colleagues.

[Eian Flannagan]

Heh. Be my guest. I was always a champion bullshitter with my essays, even when I knew next to nothing about the subject. I'm happy to see that I haven't lost my touch.

Well...I would require my students to actually explain the similarities and diffferences between the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition and the role of capitalism in pre-Industrial Early Modern Europe.

[Alelou]

One of my physics professors in college used Battlestar Galactica (the first series) to ask all the exam questions about relativity. I loved that!