soapbox

I had buffalo burgers on Sunday.

Here’s the question for the grilling experts out there… how long do you cook your burgers? I did 5 minutes a side and they were a touch overdone. I’m not complaining that much since undercooked ground meat worries me a touch, but a good medium burger wouldn’t be a bad thing either.

Two other things…

1) The good thing about using charcoal briquets is that you can toast marshmallows after you’re done with dinner.
2) I ran out of match-light briquets and didn’t have any real lighter fluid, so previously I’d been using whatever semi-nonfatal industrial solvents I have laying around. Denatured alcohol works really well. The charcoal literally explodes into flame. Real lighter fluid only catches fire. No where near as exciting.

Well, now I feel like an accomplished geek, because last night I was able to convince the ppgplot setup.py to run on my computer. I have the power….of plotting!

I made up one of these “facts” yesterday and read one today. Guess which is false and which is true.

1) Thirty-four percent of all new public radio listeners are listening to the radio to hear something by David Sedaris.

2) Soft drinks have overtaken white bread as the main source of calories in the U.S. diet.

Get the answer here.

A couple shots of the ladybugs, and a nice sunrise pic for the hell of it. The sunrise pic is a wee bit blurry, because I had it on the night setting, and I don’t have a fancy tripod like some of us.

so, we’ve got a bum shutter and a smoke detector that’s chirping loudly for a new battery. what else can fail today…..

perhaps we need an “edgy” mood, that seems most appropriate here.

(if the images are too obnoxious, i’ll fix it later. have to shower and eat!)