I mean besides to take care of an itch. It seems likely that the cause of an itch is often some external irritant so scratching might elliminate that irritant or bring your attention to it. What I noticed the other day though as I was having an allergic reaction is that scratching increases blood flow to that area. So perhaps another reason is to get blood to the area so white blood cells can deal with anything that needs to be dealt with.
Apr 192007
Apr 122007
I just got one of these in change and realized that it’s the first quarter to feature death. It makes it kind of unsettling.
Apr 102007
Last night I attempted a version of pad thai, and the result was fairly good. In the first couple batches the rice noodles weren’t cooked enough but it’s hard to know when they’re done. The cooktop can easily keep the heat high enough without even going into boost mode, I can kind of simulate putting the food higher in the wok to not cook as fast by having part of the pan off the cook zone, but the oil splattering mess is amazing.
Is there an iron bottomed wok that is flat on the outside but curved on the inside?
Apr 092007
The road the crosses the yacht harbor from 7th Avenue and continuing past where it turns into San Lorenzo as it goes by the Boardwalk is being repaved, which is fantastic news. On either side they have the electronic displays explaining that between the dates shown there will be delays.
On the 7th Avenue side it said “Expect Looong Delays,” but I guess that wasn’t considered appropriate so it was changed to “Expect -Long- Delays.” On the San Lorenzo side it still says “Looong.”
Apr 042007
I rented Sonic and the Secret Rings and it is definitely the nicest looking Wii game I’ve played so far. I like how the story is told with lightly animated storyboards. The voice acting doesn’t make me cringe in pain like with older 3D Sonic games.
This was supposed to be the 3D Sonic that most captures what Sonic is like in the 2D games and for the most part that’s true. When you have control you steer left and right and aside from that Sonic runs as fast as he can. Upgrades come later that let you go faster and have better handling. The controls fall apart in the jumping I think. The jump happens on the jump button release instead of on the button press so it lags behind when you wanted to jump. The developers chose this so you could charge your jump for a higher jump by holding the button down, but the higher jump is accomplished in other games by holding the jump button while in the air which I think works better.
Overall it’s pretty good, but I’d probably only get it after it gets discounted to $20 or less.
Apr 022007
Thanks to those who brought chocolate and voted. I’m glad to have help in this critical research!
Voted most deadly of the chocolate dishes last night was Black bottom chocolate pie prepared by Shelley. Second was the chocolate mousse brought by Ian.
My arms feel their arm workout from mixing the extremely thick cookie dough. That’s the thickest cookie dough I’ve every worked with.
I ran into a hitch making the Chantico death cake, it turns out Starbucks hasn’t sold Chantico in over a year. Nicole told me that she thought they made it with half-and-half so we got some of that and then I looked it up and found a few recipes for similar chocolate drinks. They used whole milk or evaporated wilk with heavy cream. I decided to go for the half-and half since it’s what I had on short notice and it came out a little thicker than would be drinkable, but not quite as thick as pudding. I decided to go for it anyway. I don’t think it really enhanced the cake portion but the “Chantico” frosting was really potent. I can imagine that with the real thing it would have been impressive but unfortunately this can’t really be duplicated anymore.