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Australian Opals from Planet Opal

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Change of tumblr

So, while I’m keeping this tumblr around for nostalgic purposes (2011 seems like a long time ago), I’m continuing the tradition of the periodic ‘refreshing’ of online presence, and changing to a new tumblr. If I’m following you now, expect a new follow from nintyfinn :)

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Change of tumblr

So, while I’m keeping this tumblr around for nostalgic purposes (2011 seems like a long time ago), I’m continuing the tradition of the periodic ‘refreshing’ of online presence, and changing to a new tumblr. If I’m following you now, expect a new follow from nintyfinn :)

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Only six weeks of this schedule. I can do this. It's going to be damn awesome.

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America

England

Australia

what the fuck is going on

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Poor kitty! D:

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In The Princess Bride, Inigo’s quest for his father’s killer is one of the most successful subplots in film history. Watching his performance, it’s such an emotional scene. I was looking up little known facts about the movie and found out that the reason this scene is so moving is because just after Mandy Patinkin took this role, his father died of cancer. In this fight he imagined that this was his chance to beat cancer, to come to terms with his father’s death by getting revenge on cancer (The Six-Fingered Man). Pretty sure I’ve cried whenever I see that scene ever since.

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No, but like, rice cookers are /brilliant/. They don't exist to avoid messing up rice, they exist to make the daily preparation of rice much easier, in places like Japan where rice is the main part of nearly every meal (breakfast meals included). Having a rice cooker means that you can set the timer to start cooking the rice, say, an hour before you get home from work (if it's a large amount of rice), and when you get back, it'll be waiting for you. The 'warm' function on the cooker means that when the rice is done, it stops cooking but is kept warm, so neither burns nor goes cold. It means that when you soak and wash your rice, you can leave it in the same bowl-pan thing that inserts into the cooker, and not have to mess around with awkwardly shaped saucepans or microwave proof bowls. It means you save a hob space (or microwave space, but I know many people don't trust the quality of rice produced in a microwave - it's a raised on belief in quality and the sacredness of rice (I jest a bit but the idea is there) thing), when cooking at any time during the day, and it means that you can cook rice when you don't have access to a kitchen. It means that you can put a scoop of rice and the corresponding amount of water in, close the lid, press the button, and know that it will cook perfectly, without any need to select a temperature, or change temperature partway through, or account for a dodgy saucepan's uneven base thickness, or keep an eye on the time.

It also means that I can cook basically whatever I want, in my room in Russia, including bacon, stir fry, fish fingers, cake, soup, pasta and porridge.

They are glorious.

rice cookers are straight up magic, okay? they always cook rice perfectly, always (i mean, as long as us lowly humans don’t get the water to rice ratio wrong…) but they can also cook so much more than that! for example:

risotto

polenta

frittatas (here’s another recipe just to double the awesome)

rice pudding

chicken

quinoa

chocolate lava cake

jalapeno bread

"stir fried" cabbage

bibimbap

vegetable hot cake

and that’s just a few of the recipes out there! sure, crock pots are the versatility hero of the culinary world, but rice cookers are SUPER easy clean up, and come in super cute colors like the one above (seriously, can someone buy me that one for my femme dream house?).

so, here’s to you, rice cooker, you unsung hero. you will always hold a special place in our kitchens.

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It's not even a grammar school thing

the ridiculous amount of homework and emphasis that it must be done even if it was pointless and had you up literally all night else you were being disrespectful to the school, wasting your education and ruining your future exam results

it's an LGGS thing.

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The King.

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This was so funny. I ran into this Mexican couple on a trail in Central Park, and they were lugging around all these balloons. I asked what the balloons were for, and the guy told me that he’d brought them all the way from Mexico. He said he’d concocted this elaborate plan, where he’d given balloons to different people around the city (starting with the hotel concierge), and sent the girl on a scavenger hunt to find them. "Just because?" I asked. "Just because," he said.

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When I got home, I had an email. It said: 

Brandon,

I couldn’t tell you, but I was about to ask her to marry me.

She said yes!

Rodrigo

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I rang the literary editors of a few ‘respected’ papers and asked them how much space they were giving to women writers in their ‘review’ sections. Perfectly predictable response. They all said the allocation was fair. One said it was equal, and one prominent editor went so far as to say women are dominating the reviews! … What happened when I asked who was doing the talking in mixed gender conversations? Well, it was the women of course. And then when you get to measure it you find that women get to talk about 10-20% of the time in conversations with men. A woman who talks about a third of the time is seen to be dominating the talk. And what happened when I asked teachers who got their attention in class? Well, it was all equal, wasn’t it? No preferences there. And you measure it and find that girls get about 10-20% of the teacher’s attention. Any more, and the boys think it unfair - and go into revolt. So what do you think I found with the reviews? I would have predicted about 10-20% of the space went to women’s books. Well, it is less than 6% of the column inches. And the reasonable editor who thinks that women are getting more than their share is one of the worst offenders. Poor boys! It really tells you something when they think only 94% of the review section is not enough, doesn’t it? When 6% for women is too much you get some idea how much men think they are entitled to - as a fair deal.

Dale Spender, correspondence, in Dale and Lynne Spender, Scribbling Sisters (Camden Press, 1986), pp. 31-32 (via radtransfem)

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Extremely personal piece. Doesn’t really need that much explanation.

*apologies if it turns up pixelated, just click the picture for a full res. view