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Breaking Bad... (4.00 / 3)

I've just really gotten into the AMC original series Breaking Bad lately.

I missed the first season completely, although I think I caught one or two episodes in repeats before I really got into the show.  So it took me a while to get into the show.  Even now, there's some references here and there I don't get because I missed the first season.  Right now, the entire 13-episode second season is available free 'on demand' on my cable, and I've been working through it over the past week.  

Season 3 starts Sunday night, and for the first time in memory I'm actually planning a night around being able to watch a teevee show.

Anybody else watch this show?  Best thing on teevee right now imo, along with Mad Men (also an AMC original series).  When did AMC become the best producer of American teevee shows?

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 02:13:22 AM UTC

My brother says good things about that show (4.00 / 3)

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by: rossl @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03:10:20 AM UTC

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no but now I am interested In B Bad (4.00 / 3)

I LOVE Mad Men. I follow Betty Draper on Twitter. MM does an amazing job of dealing with serious issues in an interesting and compelling way. Just watched the first season in order.
Oh and I love the period music they weave in...

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by: LeeN @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 17:59:24 PM UTC

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PDX is calling... (4.00 / 1)

Ah, okay.  Time for me to head to the airport soon and meet my mother and one of my nieces.  The website says they're just entering / flying over Montana right now.  Cool flight-tracking map thingy on the Continental website.  They'll be here from tonight until the crack of dawn on Monday.  I'll be around, but mostly late nights and early early morning for the rest of the week and this weekend.

Looking forward to a Seattle trip, probably Friday.  Pike Place Market, here I come (again)!  This time, I should be able to get some pictures...

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 02:19:08 AM UTC

Have fun! nt (4.00 / 3)

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 02:59:58 AM UTC

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jay (4.00 / 1)

you got mail....

come firefly-dreaming with me....

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by: RiaD @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 21:45:53 PM UTC

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Posted a new diary (4.00 / 3)

at kos, docudharma, firefly-dreaming, and a couple other blogs.  It's about upcoming antiwar and immigration demonstrations.  Check it out if you'd like.  Here's the dkos version

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

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by: rossl @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03:11:09 AM UTC

Made more deep fried dumplings today (4.00 / 3)

and more emu enchiladas. I had some of the meat filling I used to make the dumplings last week left, so I decided to use it up. Then I had more wrappers left from that, so I made some fresh cheese flavored with Italian herbs, garlic powder, chopped dried onions and a bit of salt and Chinese five spice. Then I had leftover cheese filling, so I put it in the fridge and will probably make ravioli in a day or two. At least what ever pasta dough I have left over I'll be able to make noodles out of so I'll stop the cycle of leftover filling - then leftover wrappers.....

The meat filled dumplings were great, the cheese filled ones were a bit bland, even with all the seasonings. It takes a lot to overcome the flavor mitigating properties of milk.... But they're good with a dipping sauce I made with fresh salsa and ranch dressing.

I think that if I made the fresh cheese and then mixed it with a berry mash or strong jam, then used that to fill the dumplings and deep fried them they'd be good with whipped cream and/or a chocolate dipping sauce.

Normal people scare me.... But not as much as I scare them.

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by: JoanneRigutto @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 03:33:53 AM UTC

sweet yogurt (4.00 / 2)

Jill, I was just thinking back to your conversation with a yogurt producer who told you people wouldn't buy his product if it wasn't flavored, or sweet.

I bought some Dannon fruit-on-the-bottom 6-oz yogurt cups. I tried it because it was on sale and I had a coupon. Just now, I ate the yogurt from two cups without stirring up the jam. To me, the yogurt by itself is better than the yogurt with the jam stirred into it. I discarded the jam. The purchase wasn't a good deal for me because I discarded 1/4 to 1/3 of the product. If I could have purchased 6 ounces of nothing but this flavored yogurt, it would have been a better deal.

Both yogurts were white on top, shading to faint color as I approached the jam layer - pale pink in one case, pale royal blue (blue-purple) in the other cup. Some sweetness and mild flavor seems to have diffused into the yogurt, along with color, just from sitting in contact with the jam.

This experience raises several questions in my mind. I wonder how the manufacturor determines how much jam to add, and how much sugar to put in the jam. I don't get much strawberry or blueberry flavor when I mix the jam in, it's mostly sugar "taste" - it's too sweet for me. Does the manufacturor have real data that tells him how low the sugar content can go before sales decrease? How much is the formulation determined by consumer taste preferences and how much by cost calculations? If consumers won't buy small cups of plain yogurt, would they accept yogurt containing 100% fruit puree with no other added sugar? Alternatively, would they accept yogurt containing only a small amount of maple sugar or honey, or brown sugar and perhaps a trace of cloves? Does the refrigerator case really need 10 brands of copycat strawberry flavored yogurt?

I don't know the answer to any of these questions, but I can't help but think there must be ways to improve the flavored yogurt industry.

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by: count @ Wed Mar 17, 2010 at 06:21:42 AM UTC