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Standing in the aisle of the grocers, I saw amid all the nuts and legumes and such a clear plastic box of... carob root. Carob all ground up is used as a naturally sweet substitute for chocolate. But -- can you eat the pod itself? Without grinding it up? How? If you peel open the pod...

My local TV guy was going on and on about NuVision today. Any opinions, information, etc? Thanks!:)

Anybody still use a coffee percolator? Since I've gotten down on my Cuisinart Grind & Brew some months ago, I made the switch to a Bodum French Press and I've been extremely pleased with it. But I'm always curious about coffee brewing methods. So, I dug out a 35 year old, really...

I ordered a Dell notebook for somebody. Checked the UPS tracking online. It said Out For Delivery this morning. Fine. Then I checked later this afternoon and it said: THE RECEIVER WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 2ND DELIVERY ATTEMPT. A 3RD DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE. What? Wait! The...

Hobson, played by John Gielgud, in ARTHUR... was he Arthur's biological father? Or was he just the butler/personal servant who acted like a father? When Arthur tells the drunk "my father died, so I stayed sober," is Arthur speaking only metaphorically, or does he literally mean that Hobson was...

In between school ending and camp beginning, so I took some time off today and went with my 11 year old girl to see a matinee. The new GARFIELD thing -- don't ask. With Bill Murray as the lead voice actor I was hoping for something good -- don't ask. Anyway, one of the trailers was for the...

How is this man's physical condition even possible? How can the human body stay alive for more than 10 minutes like this? Link to photo of the guy http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060627/...o_half_ton_man (Admin note - photo converted to link.)

I bought Bison meat yesterday. Glatt kosher Bison meat burgers. Looked good. Supposed to be great. Took it home. The two burgers were very tightly packed. Vacuum-sealed. That struck me as odd. Then I popped open the plastic covering... :eek: HOLY MOTHERFLIPPIN' F*CK did I ever get...

I'm thinking about switching over to a French press for my coffee. Anybody use one? Opinions? Since it's said that you need a coarse grind for a press, do you have to buy a brand of coffee that explicitly is labelled as such? Or is most coffee coarsely ground? Do I need to buy a coffee...

Is it typical that a director will also be responsible for creating the trailer to his or her movie? Or does the studio hire somebody else to do that? Since a trailer is a marketing device, is it normally out of the hands of the director? Is this something a director has to insist to have...

When I need to edit severely a long piece of writing for work, my wrists are usually fine -- but my index finder tends to stiffen and get a bit sore from manipulating the mouse o'ermuch. What to do? Is there a finger-brace or something?

I believe this is a photo of Judge Smith:

I placed a DVD order (regular shipping, not express) with Amazon very late in the evening on Monday. The order was confirmed on Tuesday, for shipping via the USPS. Wednesday night the USPS picked it up at 10:24 pm, and according to the tracking information, it was delivered to my local post...

I downloaded Yahoo Messenger. Now suddenly what happens is when I'm on page and I want to open a different page in another window, as soon as I click to do that and the other page opens, the first page (and any other pages already open) will automatically close! The newly opened page will...

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_094073100.html Another person shocked by stray electricity in Manhattan. This is getting scary... especially since Con-Ed is basically just shrugging.

You got yourself a great cup of coffee. So you sit and drink and work, drink and work, drink and work. You've downed about 4/5, but by the time you get back to that remaining mouthful, the coffee's dead cold. What do you do? Drink it? Pour it out? Microwave it? Leave it and fill the rest...

Uh huh. Fare hike ahead.:thumbsdown: :angry:

I bought an iPod yesterday, and I feel like I suck SH*T for it. I'm a LOSER. I opted IN to something trendy, something for the kiddies, bless 'em, but I'm too DARNED OLD for this! I saw Ozzy with Randy Rhoads in 1981! I saw VH with DLR in 1982! I even had a pass ready for the up-coming Zeppelin...

Another St. Paddy's Day in NYC looms... Yet another morning and early afternoon to anticipate countless insufferable dipsomaniacal hooligans rudely, crudely cramming the streets and subways. And then to look forward even more to sharing the evening rush hour home with these sotted savages...

So, it's not a pointless exercise?

I need to be in the San Francisco area on Friday, March 24th, for business. It's important -- but will only take me a few hours. I have to be at UC Berkeley by 10:45 AM. I'll be done there in no more than two hours. I just want to go in and out, no overnight stay. So, a day-trip: is this...

I can't stand about half of THE CAINE MUTINY, all the doofy dopey love-story bits. Just unwatchable tripe to me. But I love all the other parts related to the mutiny and all the courtroom scenes, all the stuff with Bogey and Ferrer et al. So... I blip through all the junk and just watch what...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/op...hp&oref=slogin

What's your all-time number ONE favorite food? Just ONE, the one favorite of ALL. Mine is: dandelion greens in lemon juice and olive oil.

Yikes!

A devastatingly depressing NPR report. Modern marketable crap trumps America's great musical heritage.

Toward the end of the film MRS. BROWN [1997], Billy Connelly as John Brown, servant to Judi Dench as Queen Victoria, runs out in slo-mo over a good stretch to stop a would-be assassin, all the while shouting, again in slo-mo, "nooooooooooooooooooooo!" How often has this cheesy cliche been...

Roxio or Nero -- which is better? I have Nero, latest version. Was recommended Roxio.

John Spencer

Looks like remake fever in Hollywood not abating any time soon (unfortunately, IMO). But these remakes are getting QUITE obscure. The latest I've seen is Queen Latifah/Wayne Wang in a remake of the old Alec Guinness/J.B. Priestly film LAST HOLIDAY. From Guinness and Priestly to Queen and...