02/05/2011 archive

Regular Daily Features:

• News at Six in the Morning from mishima
• Steely Dan in Late Night Karaoke from mishima

Essays Featured Saturday, February 5^th:

• Alma shares Saturday Open Thoughts ….Roasted Pecan Butter Pecan Pie, yummmmmm!
• mishima graces the walls with new Saturday Art!
• patric juillet tells of the Latest, Greatest in the Speculative Trading Markets: The Incoming Food Crises

Alma takes a look back at some of the Brilliant essays we’ve had in our first year in the tooobz in Firefly Memories 1.0. Featured Today: Dreams of Living Off the Grid

come firefly-dreaming with me….

HERE & THERE

The Sanyo Hotel in Yamaguchi, which was a favorite of “Japanese royals and high-ranking government officials,” is being torn down. Among the foreign luminaries to have stayed at the century-old inn were Babe Ruth and Helen Keller.

It was reported that a salon in Nagoya is offering a vitamin-rich intravenous drip to salarymen “as a quick way to get rid of work-induced fatigue.”

A company in Kobe has perfected a method of transforming old clothes into a wood-like substance it calls Rifmo. According to the company president, “You can saw and hammer a nail into it just like ordinary wood.”

Sony and Victor announced that they had developed the world’s first “full high-definition digital video cameras capable of taking 3-D moving images.”

Alternative Super Bowl programming.

Welcome to Super Bowl Sunday.

As far as disrupting TV programming is concerned this is almost as big a holiday as Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s.  Much bigger than the 4th of July though St. Patrick’s Day, Memorial Day, and Veteran’s Day are bigger than the 4th too.

The hype on Faux starts at 2 pm so you have 4 hours of pre-game if you can stand it.  If you’re interested in something else you can check my listings below.  I’ll remind you that we’ll be live blogging Puppy Bowl VII at 2:45 pm and starting our XLV live blog at 5:45 pm.

Expect updates.  This edition good until 1 pm.  Now 7 pm.  Now 9 pm.  6 am, have a good night!

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Welcome to the Stars Hollow Health and Fitness weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share and exchange your favorite healthy recipes.

Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.

You can now find past Health and Fitness News diaries here and on the right hand side of the Front Page.

This week’s gratins are made with a couple of pounds of a cooked vegetable, seasoned and bound with eggs, milk and a small amount of cheese. (In Provence, rice is also used to help bind the mixture.) Gratins are a great way to use both fresh and leftover cooked vegetables. . . .

Casseroles need not contain eggs or dairy products. And baked beans, exceptionally creamy after their long simmer in the oven, can be made into perfect vegan fare. Add vegetables of your choice and you’ll have a perfect one-dish meal.