Like, as in toxic waste?
You thought that was a mountain you were skiiing on? Dude, you were in NE PA. Those were tailings from a coal mine.
There absolutely are landfill ski slopes.
Say, I hear the Fed is going to buy some toxic assets after all!
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What was that recent commercial where one of the happy customers says, "And the price was way more than affordable!" I never did know how to take that.
Undoubtedly these guys.
Aaron Smith, Superfund's North American director, said Baha did not know that the term "superfund" had been used in the United States since 1980 to designate toxic waste sites that would be cleaned up using government money. "When I told him, he said, 'Good. We'll clean up the markets,' " Smith said.
The company sells hedge-fund like investments to the "masses", so the name be appropriate, although reading the article and seeing the entrenched criminals sneer at him gives me some sympathy for the guy.
Baha's approach rankles some industry veterans. "He's an embarrassment to the hedge fund community," said John Godden, who heads IGS Group in London, which invests in hedge funds for pension funds and other institutions. "Baha is a wonderful self-publicist in a world where self-publicists are not welcome."
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My favorite statute is still L.U.S.T.
I've found the acronym of the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funny ever since I heard of the program, but I'm the only person I know who does.
My 15 y.o. Gothish niece just declared she's a lesbian. You cannot imagine what a relief that is for everyone. we had imagined her taking up with a Goth street person and having his babies.
Isn't goth more a suburban subculture? In which case, she was more likely to take up with a Goth mall rat and have his babies. Probably not much improvement, although he'd be more likely to have health coverage. Maybe not where you are.
10: She just hasn't met the right Goth street person.
Happy New Year! maybe it's too early in the day, but the other hemisphere i like affiliate with already celebrated it, so maybe it's not
And Happy New Year to you, read. You can't be too sticky about the `right' time on the web, methinks.
My favorite statute is still L.U.S.T.
Also the standard acronym for "leaky underground storage tanks," a source of much amusement to my parents when they were dealing with that problem (which was otherwise not very amusing).
There's a lot of money in LUST remediation, though.
17: Isn't that pretty much will's line of work?
There's a lot of money in LUST remediation, though.
You're telling me.
All the 30 gig Zunes in the world have stopped working. I'm not sure how, but I'm pretty sure this is step one of a 13-point plan to destroy America, and only Will Smith can stop it.
Also the standard acronym for "leaky underground storage tanks
same statute.
The statute was originally called "Storing Leaky Underground Tanks," but wiser minds prevailed.
Isn't that pretty much will's line of work?
I help people get lust back into their lives.
OT: Watch out, Redtailfoxshrub and all you former lawyers turned cooks! I just got my copies of Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni and Jaffery's World of the East Vegetarian Cooking!
And, no, Stanley, you cannot borrow them!
Then, will, you need to know about this.
Thanks Oudemia! But RTFS beat you to it. I'm waiting for berbere spice and some other stuff that I ordered there. Unfortunately, you have to know what you want there. Browsing isnt very easy.
She has not yet provided me with a misir wat recipe, so you can redeem yourself if you provide me with one that recreates those delicious ethiopian lentils.
26 -- And, tying this back to the thread, I hasten to note that you can't spell "Kalustyans" without "lust".
an alicha recipe wouldn't go amiss, either.
I hasten to note that you can't spell "Kalustyans" without "lust".
Are you surprised? oudemia and Ben's favorite book is the "Sex Terms in Latin" book.
30: Also an anagram of "A yak's lust"
20: NOOOO.
Man, that's a devious plot... next, all our automatic potato-peelers will seize up.
An yak, that is. Y is a vowel. Pronounciation is Ee-Ah-K.
I'm going to have to disagree with "an yak", based on the rule that "When u makes the same sound as the y in you, or o makes the same sound as w in won, then a is used.". Seems to me that what applies to "U" when sounded like "Y", also applies to "Y". And nobody I know pronounces Yak like it starts with "E", so don't even go there.
Also, people who say "an historic" piss me off.
You have a very fine mind, Spike.
That's Mr. Togolosh's theory of yaks, which is his, and not Miss A. Elk's theory.
I had elk for dinner last night. It was delicious.
In 2009 "yak" will be pronounced like it starts with an E.
Also, while we're on the subject of "h" - herb is pronounced herb, not erb, for god's sake. Unless it's also artford, ereford, ampshire and urricane, that is. The common mispronunciation is, no doubt, an istorical accident.
Baha did not know that the term "superfund" had been used in the United States since 1980 to designate toxic waste sites
I mentioned "brownfields" to the guy next to me on the train yesterday and there was a good ten seconds of silence before I thought to clarify that I was talking about the environmental problem rather than describing the human population of the devastated area we were discussing. It's very disconcerting to realize that a total stranger may think you are disgustingly racist.
It's very disconcerting to realize that a total stranger may think you are disgustingly racist.
Become a Republican among Democrats and it probably will get less disconcerting over time.
You know, PG, if you just said "Pay attention to me", it would be more subtle.
Become a Republican among Democrats and it probably will get less disconcerting over time.
Only if you tend to say racist (or ambiguously racist) things. To be fair, it's probably correlated.
Unless it's also artford, ereford, ampshire and urricane, that is.
Honestly.
45: I don't think you're honoring tog's wishes, apo.
Walt: ?
soup: What people find racist/ ambiguously racist varies by their own beliefs. I found "300" racist in an Orientalist way (and even more bigoted toward the disabled), but didn't think that about the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy because it was a fantasy instead of a purported historical epic. Especially on the left, people get into fights about which one of them is being racist (I think people on the right are more likely to get into fights about which one of them is being pro-statist or Neville Chamberlain-esque). I was commenting on a thread recently where some people were asserting that to recommend that Iraqis not use violence against the U.S. was racist Western privilege and an iteration of "white middle class parlour manners." To me, the idea that nonviolent resistance was somehow "white" was racist (after all, the exponents of nonviolent resistance most famous in the West were a brown guy and a black guy). As you would expect, that thread got very ugly.
What people find racist/ ambiguously racist varies by their own beliefs.
In general, agreed. The worst case is when you are culturally sort-of close, I think. You make (or should make) more allowances for statements from people whose background and language usage is obviously different from your own.
My statement was very specifically responding to the Republican surrounded by Democrats thing you brought up though, not the general role of racism in our society. Several current Republican (or to be more fair `red state'ish ) tropes are actually racist, and if you as an isolated Republican were to utter them in a group of Democrats you'd mostly likely be called on it. This is much less likely in the converse situation. Note this says nothing about the relative rates of racism in those groups, either actual or percieved.
aside:
300 was in an essential way as much a fantasy as the Lord of the Rings. Both stories are impacted by historical places and events, neither attempts to describe a world that actually existed. Though it's true that 300 pretends to, in a way that LoTR doesn't. On the other hand, parts of LoTR are probably more true to their historical influences... so how do you measure?
24: I just got my copies of Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni
That's not a bad book for reading, but not so much for the cooking. This one is awesome because every other page is a picture, so even if you don't use it that often (because I haven't had much call for indian lately) just looking through it will make you hungry. (I have the softcover version here, which is like 10"x16" with the same photo... but cheaper. Which, I suppose, is why they don't keep it in print.) Or you could just go steal this woman's recipes for free. (Although she's made it 'more convienent' to order her stuff. Which is maybe annoying, maybe not.)
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That's not a bad book for reading, but not so much for the cooking.
Really? I have Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking, which I confess I've barely looked at yet. It has no pictures, alas. I'd been expecting great things from it, along with Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Grains and Greens which I also haven't looked at much.
I can't help myself bringing these things home from the bookshop when they pass my desk -- it's not easy to find 'international' vegetarian cuisine in the cookbook arena, so I gotta have it.
For Indian vegetarian dishes, this book is fabulous. It has great previously unknown to me dishes and supior spicing for familiar ones. Good pictures, but not enough of them.
49/50/51:
A restaurant, rather than general, book this one is pretty good.
53 is nicely barely comprehensible.
it's not easy to find 'international' vegetarian cuisine in the cookbook arena
Najmieh Batmangjli (or however the fuck you spell her name, google "A Taste of Persia" for the right way) has a giant all-across-the-Silk Road international vegetarian cookbook.
56: Persian vegetarian?
Nice links all around, thanks.
it's not easy to find 'international' vegetarian cuisine in the cookbook arena
Madhur Jaffrey, Eastern Vegetarian Cooking is a bit old, but reliably good. I expect she's done others since.
And happy new year to all present, by the way.
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No more masturbating to Donald E Westlake. Fuck this year already.
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58: Yeah, in reviewing my shelves I have her World Vegetarian, which is a very pretty book in its own right. You'd think I'd cook more with this stuff at my disposal.
57.---Persian, general Middle-Eastern, also some Indian and Chinese I think. I didn't look at it carefully.
59: Nor to Claiborne Pell, which is less of a problem for OFE, I'd imagine.
62, True, never heard of him before. Still, he looks like one of the good guys, so fuck this year twice.
59: It was still 2008 in the time zone Westlake died in so 2009 is still okay. Enjoy it while one can, it won't last for long.
No more masturbating to Donald E Westlake.
Shit.