I haven’t posted about books I’ve read or purchased in a long time, and I know you all (i.e. Tommyboy) are wondering about it, so here you go:
I purchased the following last night because they were over 80% off their original price, and they’re all excellent books, I think.

Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss. [...]

I have no idea what a “Gucci” is, but the technique described in How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steaks into Gucci “Prime” Steaks works on the cheap steaks I’ve tried it with.
Massively salt your steaks 15 min – 1 hour before grilling.
That’s it. It should look like this (image from that website):

Don’t use table [...]

Tags: cooking, salt, steak

I found my paperback of Papa Hemingway, by A.E. Hotchner, behind my couch today. I don’t remember ever reading this book. A found a bookmark between pages 74 and 75. On page 75 it reads:
Hotcher: Mr. William Faulkner [said]… that you never crawl out on a limb. Said you had no courage, [...]

Tags: faulkner, hemingway

Christopher Moore, author of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal and other amusing novels, posted An Old Child’s Letter to Santa, listing what he wants for Christmas this year. Some of his items:
- Immediately strike dumb and deaf any stupid motherfucker who thinks that by wanting to keep the troops from [...]

I dare ya to end every non-professional email with “Hugs and kisses, [your name]” for a day. I did it for the first time today to a person I’ve known a long time but have never hugged or kissed (that I can remember).
Go on, try it.
Hugs and kisses,
jody

I’m getting paid to teach myself C#. Here’s my first program:
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
class SpitItOut
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(“Hello world.”);
[...]

Here they are in chronological order with links to DVD Talk: 1) Star Trek: The Motion Picture; 2) The Wrath of Khan; 3) The Search for Spock; 4) The Voyage Home; 5) The Final Frontier; 6) The Undiscovered Country; 7) Generations; 8) First Contact; 9) Insurrection; and 10) Nemesis.

4,200,000 search results for “dumbledore gay“.
Why did the author, Rowling, proclaim this? Because she wasn’t in the news enough lately? Why is this item so popular?
Really, who gives a fuck?

Tags: dumbledore, harry potter, homosexual