Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-11-19 05:58 <=-

Speaking of which, relating to another discussion,
there really is no such thing as a shank steak.

It is, though, what it was billed as.... Jim said the Canadian
description was "cross-cut shank" or similar... which makes sense to
me... ;) But this did look like a steak... :) The price, however, was
much lower than the typical steak... :)

I'd have liked the chance to inspect it.

It appears to be a regular item in our store, so you might get that
chance at some time...

With baking a little more precision is required,
but not by all that much.

After I'd been baking bread for a while, I found that I really wasn't worried about precision of measurement at all... and it always turned
out fine anyway... :)

For sure. It's more a feel thing than
anything else.

Yup, that's what I learned... :)

... WindowError:00F Unexplained error. Please tell us how it happened.

Both Windows and Firefox do that, in almost those words.

Oh, dear....

Chunk really is best.

No doubt... but as you know, I do tend to take some shortcuts... ;)

Hate it. Okay, I'm suspicious of that tendency.

Oh, I know... but I don't make any pretensions to being a real cook.. :)

But there are easy things that make life better.

And I've incorporated some of them... but using fresh garlic and onions
does take more time... :) There can be trade-offs... ;)

I'm in favor of countries aspiring to
first-worldness and don't even have any argument
with their surpassing us, just so we don't lose
ground on an absolute scale (which there is some
danger of, which we must fight).

Likewise.... and yup....

Whatever became of respect for education?

Good question...

One thing of course is the equation of dollar value
with real human worth. Do you remember The Game of
Life? As I recall, you were assigned a profession at
the beginning, and doctors and lawyers were assigned
salaries of many times what teachers were, not
unlike real life.

Oh, yes, I remember that game... and I remember those salaries... one
spun a dial to see what one would be... not quite like real life... I'm
told that nowadays, teachers get much higher salaries in comparison than
then, though...

I promised her I'd show her how to do just as
well with pork shoulder. Better, in fact, because
they often don't remove the skin from shoulder.

And have you yet...?

She's in Turkey at the moment, and I'm not.
It may be a while.

I know how that goes... Where in Turkey...? Anywhere near Bodrum where
the kid is...?

One has to trust that the writer is not
stretching the thought into irrelevance, so
there may be relations implied in the text. Some
of us miss these occasionally, which may reflect
on either writer or recipient or both. Some of us
miss these consistently, which calls for a different
interpretation.

I suppose that if things are consistently being missed, being more
explicit might be more called for... But, admittedly, sometimes that
will backfire, too...

As the cardiac surgeon admitted when I found his
disquisitions rather simplistic, "I spent most of my
life treating Marines. I'm used to explaining things
in words of at most one syllable." It was the one
humorous thing he said in more than two weeks.

Not the least because it was true, no doubt... :)

ttyl neb

... Psychiatry is the care of the id, by the odd.

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