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Well, we found stuff living at the boiling point of water here. Why is it so hard to keep an open mind for the chance that something more exotic than we have found so far on this hunk of dirt exists out there?

As for hotter than the surface of some stars? That's a bit misleading. There are thermal vents on our planet hotter than the surface of some stars if you count the same stars you are referring to - and that's not exactly mind-blowing.

In other news. Temperatures hotter than the surface of stars used in everyday dessert cooking!

It's a great recipe for Chicken Pasta BLT salad.

I mean, while we're making non sequitur comments that have nothing to do with the parent post we may as well do something tasty, right?

(Oh, and don't use the Chili sauce - the bbq sauce is much better)

Anything that has to do with exploding food always reminds me of Swedish Lemon Angels -- before all the copies of the recipe on the internet spoiled the joke. I actually passed the recipe to my sister. Apparently it had the desired effect because she still won't give me any details. :)

• I don't obfuscate my email address anywhere. Not on Slashdot, not on Usenet, not on web pages.
• I don't create fake emails for miscellaneous "free" services. I just provide my GMail address.

Or people could eat more fruit and vegetables,
especially the un-denatured raw uncooked kind.
That way you'll also avoid having a colonostomy when
you're 45 because protein, and meat especially,
is the hardest thing to digest.

Also I eat this for breakfast:
http://www.recipesource.com/main-dishes/breakfast/ cereals/whole-grain-cereal01.html
You might want to add some peanut butter, Stevia sweetener
or raw unprocessed cane sugar for some flavor.

Can't beat a nice bit of fried pigs blood! ;)

It's actually a pretty clever design (though probably not original). The bread is crimped around the edge so the sandwich can stay for some time without danger of leaking.

"Probably not original" is right. This is basically identical to a "pasty" (rhymes with "nasty" not "hasty"). To make a pasty, you take some dough, make a circle, put some fillings in the middle, fold it over, crimp the edges, and bake. Probably the most famous type of pasty in the English-speaking world is the Cornish pasty. There's also a Russian version called pirogi. They've also got a strong strong pasty tradition in northwest Michigan, which is where the hapless supermarket that Smuckers took on was located.

Basically, this method for creating a portable, self-contained meal has been around for centuries. Smuckers just put in a different filling. The only really original thing about the case was that they thought they could get a patent on the idea -- and that the patent office agreed!

First thing that crosed my mind was irish coffee.
The Original Irish Coffee

The caffeen alters the effect. You can more appreceate being blitzed when your brain stays functional due to caffeen.

"Caffine is life" - What happends when you replace Jemhadars white with foldgers crystals. :)
(That is just before they go insane and kill everyone)

Or you can buy a machine like this Automatic Espresso Machine. It has upfront costs but you can make your own espresso (with as many shots are you want) for MUCH less than Starbucks or your local coffee house.

Here are some rough calculations:
espresso machine $550.00
lb coffee beans $4.00
shots per lbs 84
milk per gallon $3.60
latte's per gallon 24 (1.5 deciliters per shot)
starbucks venti latte $2.50

home latte cost per day (venti w/ one shot) $0.20

espresso machine cost per day for a year (incl ingredients) $1.70
Starbucks latte cost first year $912.50
home latte cost first year incl. machine $622.13

home latte cost second year $912.50
home latte cost second year $72.13

home latte total after 2 years $1,825.00
home latte total after 2 years $694.26
A beer a day for a year: $3,832.50

And it means you can make delicious things like Irish Coffee

I know how the MPAA feels...

In my area profits are down across the restaurant business, and it can only be due to one thing: Internet Recipe Sites.

It used to be that it took a trained professional to cook a meal, but now people can download recipes and try to do it all at home. And, with supermarkets all over, and too many people competing for restaurant-market-space it no wonder the industry is hurting.

I am sure I'd be making more money if not for recipesource.com, or allrecipes.com. And there are so many recipe sites, it's un-American. People are cooking for them selves and it's hurting the free market. When will it end?

I don't know what I'm going to do, and I'm sure the MPAA feels the same way.

On vacation in Delaware last year, I discovered Old Bay Seasoning potato chips. They were prominently displayed at supermarkets and convenience stores everywhere I went in the DelMarVa region--and lots of the seafood places I ate at also used this seasoning. The chips were pretty good, although it looked like someone had just taken a bag of regular potato chips and dumped a pound of paprika in it. They were strangely addictive, but also off-putting: after a few handfuls you had to stop eating them or risk taste-bud-blowout. This recipe for making your own Old Bay Seasoning seems to indicate celery seed is more of a major ingredient than paprika.

Or he could bake it in a pie.

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I have tried some of them. They are another good reason for drinking lots of coffee.

Here's the summary of these links below:

http://www.cookbook.com/

http://www.allrecipes.com/

http://www.foodnetwork.com/

http://eat.epicurious.com/

http://recipedelights.com/index6271m.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/

http://www.recipesource.com/

http://www.meals.com/Index/Index.aspx?Theme=0

http://www.altonbrown.com/

BTW I did this for me so I can look them up easier! Thanks for the links everyone.

I've always been fond of using Recipe Source. Rather extensive listing, and you can submit your own recipe. The only problem is there is quite a bit of redundancy.

I couldn't find the fancy gyros

Any good greek restaurant has them... You can also make your own.

Eat Food - Well, you can't download a hot dog, but you can find things to make eating more pleasant or order food online.

Breathe Air - You could suck down the power supply exhaust, but that doesn't really count. You can however check to see if you can breathe when you go outside.

Sex - Technology has not advanced that far yet, but I've had good luck meeting new people online, then meeting up with them in person.

Ride a bicycle - Buy parts, plan routes, get maps, etc..

Walk through the woods - here you go - it's a QTVR I made a couple of years ago of a walk along a creek to the river it joins up with. All kidding aside, this one probably can have the most computer involvement. After all, you want to get topographic maps somewhere, and maybe check out an overhead view of the area you plan on walking through, not to mention sharing details of where you went with friends.

You're assuming that the opportunity to work on the plane hasn't been factored into the plan. In general, it has.

So it's planned to have someone doing important work in a crummy environment right up to the wire? That seems to violate what an ex-Navy friend called the 7P Principle ("Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance"). Seriously, fly over a day or two early and work from your hotel room. Or better yet... (see next block).

An example of last-minute figures might be a company's quarterly statement filed with the SEC. The client needs the analysis as quickly as possible in order to make a decision. Or maybe the figures are delayed until the last possible moment so they can be error checked more thoroughly. Maybe a competitor has just made an announcement and you need to arrive at head office the next day with a response. These are all very common scenarios.

What matters in business is not just accuracy, but speed. The best analysis in the world is useless if events overtake it.

I'm well aware of that fact, which is one of the reasons why I think air travel for business purpases in an age of a globe spanning, nearly zero-lag telecommunications network is singularly paleolitihic thought. Last time I checked, electrons traveled faster than planes.

So you haven't, then. [business traveled]

It's not the same thing at all.

It was an allegorical statement. I see that you disagree with my premise, that's ok. You people also eat things called "spotted dick", so obviously we're going to diverge in spots... ;-) [sidenote for those unaware of it, spotted dick is a kind of pudding with raisins in it. pretty good actually, if you can ignore the name...]

The material you work on onboard a plane often doesn't exist in a usable form beforehand.

Where you see efficient working, I see incredibly poor planning. Again, I maintain that if you're patching things together on the way to a deliverable, odds are the final result is going to be crap, steaming and cubed on a silver platter.

Really, let's get to the heart of the matter, the core of my objection to "business travel." I see it as inefficient expenditure of resources. The central thought behind it seems to be that the person traveling is so important that only they can do something, and only in person. It seems to be a very "Theory X" management theory sort of conjecture, that if some random C-level employee isn't personally there to get his/her hands on something, it won't turn out right. More corporate warriorism, rather pointless self-importance displayed in the war-paint of "The company must spend Lots of Money to get me to the action, becuase only I can Save The Day!!! Bow before m3, for I am B1FF, the Super-CEO!!1!" More, to be blunt, bullshit the corporate suits and shiny shoes set thinks smells like roses.

At this point in time, I see no real technical barriers to telecommuting for white-collar jobs. It's all social. And I don't think that telecommuting will be common until today's teenagers and Gen-X-ers are grey haired executives becuase nobody older than them has grown up with near-infinite permiability of the infosphere they (we) have. They see loss of self, loss of importance, with the lack of need for any one person to be in a particular geophysical place at a particular time. I'll draw an analogy back to the world of physical travel: CEO A takes a private jet and a helicopter to arrive at an event. CEO B flies coach and takes a cab or rents a car. If they both arrive on time, who is the better CEO? I'd argue that CEO B is a better CEO becuase they have been better stewards of their stockholder's money by planning better to acheive the same result at lower cost. But people, sadly, rely on symbols for too much of their self-worth. This is why, I feel, most of the orignial responses to my post were very emotions-based (one fool going so far as to label it the stupidest thing they'd read on slashdot, an allegation with the punch of a feather coming from an Anonymous Coward).

But hey, if you're convinced business travel as you define it is a good thing, have at it and good luck. Maybe I'll feel the same way when I've established my globe-spanning liberal army of darkness (oops, did I say that out loud? lies, all of it, i'm as meek as a church mouse! 0:-]).

Sorry, I meant to link to this one

Here are the seven "secret" spices and herbs:

Rosemary
Oregano leaves
Powdered sage
Powdered ginger
Marjoram
Thyme
Dry minced parsely
Pepper
Paprika
Garlic salt
Onion salt

TA-DAAA! : )

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Secrets are not secrets for long and the secret holder cannot sue if you discover the secret (or reverse engineer it)

With copyright and patents on the other hand, the patent holders are lobbying everyone they can to extend their monopolies as much as they can, effectively hindering progress.

RecipeSource, by the way, used to be the SOAR archive at Berkeley, for those familiar with that site. One fun thing about it is that it's based heavily on old Usenet posts, so it contains recipes from a lot of old skool Internet figures. Rob Pike's cheesecake is really good.

I'd rather see the "book" released as a collection of RecipeML files, so that I could re-arrange/import/manipulate them down the road...

I care nothing about Word nor PDF. Give me docbook sources, so that I can [again] reformat to my eBook for use in the kitchen... or to my custom kitchen appliance, should I ever make that exist.

Given the state of the populous [sedentary, generally-low-metabolism males] I'd try to focus on healthier stuff. For instance, Chicken in Mango Sauce is quite tasty [just made it last night], and is better for you than corndogs.

But, I don't see why this is better than SOAR^H^H^H^Hrecipesource.

There is a great archive of recipes (more than 70,000) at RecipeSource. It's free, searchable, well-organized, and you can submit recipes too.

There is a great archive of recipes (more than 70,000) at RecipeSource. It's free, searchable, well-organized, and you can submit recipes too.

Anyway, the biggest and best recipe archive is SOAR (Searchable Online Archive of Recipes) which used to be hosted at Berkeley and is now here.

Probably the result of adding red and blue food coloring.

If you really want something different, try something other than tomato ketchup. Catsup is a generic term for a smooth, chutney like sauce made from fruit.

Try this link: http://www.recipesource.com/cgi-bin/search?search_ string=catsup.