Smooth the surface of the sour cream left in the container before you return it to the refrigerator, and it will not separate as much. (Thanks to the printed information on the seal of a tub of Daisy brand sour cream; I’d never seen this advice anywhere else.)
Taking two 3 unit courses in a [...]

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While cold pizza is OK for breakfast, cold Chicken Burrito Supremes are not.
Mission College parking lot C offers a reasonably good view of the fireworks display on July 3 at the nearby Great America theme park.
Getting out of the vicinity of Mission College around 10:30 PM on July 3 [...]

Seen in an article in LWN:
The early years of the 21st century were [...]
Wow, not only is it really the 21st century now, but we’re far enough into it that we can legitimately refer to “the early years of the 21st century” in the past tense.
OK, maybe I’m the only person amazed by this.  I [...]

Steve gave me a nice set of Balancing Koalas, hand made by Tarata in New Zealand. Tarata also makes Balancing Kiwis, Apes, Penguins, and other animals. One of my coworkers said that she thinks they’d be great gifts for children, to which I replied, “and forty-one year olds”.

Just trying to blog from my Treo 650 phone/PDA using u*blog. Here’s a poor photo of myself taken with the phone:

On a flight from LA to Chicago last night, I asked for water, and was given a can of Deja Blue, a brand of purified drinking water by Seven-Up, which presumably competes with Coke’s Dasani and Pepsi’s Aquafina. It seemed perfectly fine, though I’d never seen canned drinking water before other than some that [...]