Friday, March 11, 2005

Oh, Magic 8-Ball... 

In a two-barber town, you go to the barber with the bad haircut. In blogging, I guess, one solicits comments. Even oracles don't look to themselves for the answers.

And so I prostrate myself before you in my quest! Slake my thirst for knowledge! Speak, O Bloggiverse!

1. Why does it take a two year old fifteen minutes to clean up one can of magenta play-doh?


2. Where did I put those CDs...you know, the newer Norah Jones, and the other Deb Talan album...probably some others with 'em, too...


3. Is it better to see my family at lunch every day and by 4 each evening but come home to a cramped rent-free prep school dormitory...or make slightly more, leave work at work each evening, rush home -- an hour commute -- to a tiny, mortgaged suburban cottage, and see my daughter for a single hour before her bedtime?


4. When did I decide to stop looking at schools too far from our parents?


5. How far is too far?


6. Why is it that all the students I most loved over the years are falling apart and dropping out -- just like I did when I was their age?


7. When did I become a man whose happiness depends exclusively on getting the kiddie cart at the supermarket. You know, the one with the red plastic truck built into the front. Yeah, the one your daughter keeps falling from. Into the path of oncoming old ladies whose noses are stuck in their shopping lists.


8. Why can't I cook fish?


9. When you pour an entire saucepan of chunky fish grease down the kitchen sink, where does it go?


10. What does the quadratic equation do again?


11. What am I doing wrong?


12. Is it Spring yet?


13. Why?

posted by boyhowdy | 10:14 PM |

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Comments:

10. The quadratic equation is a way to figure out the possible values of x in a formula containing a squared x and with a known value.

(i.e. f(x) of the form x^2
e.g. f(x) = 5x^2-2x+2 = 0).

Since you can't solve it simply otherwise through simple subtraction/addition/multiplication/division.

# posted by  Rich Gautier : 11:15 PM, March 11, 2005

 

Oh, and #5 - more than halfway....e.g. How far can you walk INTO the woods?

# posted by  Rich Gautier : 11:16 PM, March 11, 2005

 

Allow me to advise regtarding the fish:

If you're cooking haddock or cod, say, steaming works great and is foolproof. A little soy sauce, finger, and green onion, and it's scrumptious.

As for pan fried fish,you should remember this: fish, like all seafood, should really only have a passing association with heat, and that heat should be very, very hot. For thin fillets, like trout, salt and pepper them, then toss into an oiled, very hot pan, skin side down. when the cooked color creeps up the edges, flip, cook until just done, and no further, and then eat.

If you're inexperienced, thicker fillets like salmon can be convieniently broiled, allowing you to check on it again and again until it's done. My advice: broil it with a mixture of soy sauce and maple syrup on top. Very luxurious.

-Matt

# posted by  Comic Tools : 10:15 PM, March 12, 2005

 

um, ginger, not finger. Please do not mutilate yourself over a typo.

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