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krapposelli wrote:L O L. Usually it gets shortened to krappy, but krappo is a good one. I think the PWA'ers settled with 'selli.

Selli really sounds a lot nicer.

superspryte wrote:-_-

I fail. If there wasn't already KLS I'd just call you KS. But we've got ELS and KLS and KS on top of that would melt my brain.

You are forgiven about the samoas. What do you have extras of? Oooh, what's the special one this year? Do you remember those frosted oatmeal raisin bar things from ten years ago? They were pretty good heated and dipped in milk but were pretty bad otherwise...

Don't really have any extras - just ordered what "she" sold. We are doing cookie booth sales the next few weekends - can't you just hear the excitement in my voice? We live in Maryland where it's been FREEZING lately, so the prospect of standing outside a store for 2 hours sounds oh so fun. I grew up in CA, so the weather was always decent when it came time to do the booths. How bad would it be for me to just drop her off and go shopping?

I don't remember the cookies much from when I sold them many years ago (expect the thin mints, trefoils (shortbreads) and the peanut butter ones) and this is only our 2nd year of the kid selling them. The new ones this year were some lemon creme thing and some sugar-free chocolate chip cookies. The choc chip barely sold, so I doubt they'll be back again.

Great, now I've made myself hungry. Off to scrounge up some food and put the kids to bed so I can watch Big Brother. Have a good night...

krapposelli wrote:Don't really have any extras - just ordered what "she" sold. We are doing cookie booth sales the next few weekends - can't you just hear the excitement in my voice? We live in Maryland where it's been FREEZING lately, so the prospect of standing outside a store for 2 hours sounds oh so fun. I grew up in CA, so the weather was always decent when it came time to do the booths. How bad would it be for me to just drop her off and go shopping?

I don't remember the cookies much from when I sold them many years ago (expect the thin mints, trefoils (shortbreads) and the peanut butter ones) and this is only our 2nd year of the kid selling them. The new ones this year were some lemon creme thing and some sugar-free chocolate chip cookies. The choc chip barely sold, so I doubt they'll be back again.

Great, now I've made myself hungry. Off to scrounge up some food and put the kids to bed so I can watch Big Brother. Have a good night...

The lemon ones were pretty good last year, but not as good as the lemon creams from previous years. I love them. I order those for me and the shortbread for husband.

I killed it.

SkekTek wrote:My departmental committee gave me 3 thumbs up for promotion to Associate Professor. Waiting to hear from the college committee. Then it goes to the dean, then the provost, then the president/board of trustees. If the college gives it a go, I should be clear sailing the rest of the way. Prolly won't hear back from all levels until May.

Thats fantastic.. tenure is HUGE.. wish i could get a tenured position somewhere.. Congrats.. mind if i ask professor of what??

Patchitect wrote:Thats fantastic.. tenure is HUGE.. wish i could get a tenured position somewhere.. Congrats.. mind if i ask professor of what??

Biology and Psychology (I'm in two departments since I do research that is in both).

superspryte wrote:I obviously know what tenure is, but from what I'm seeing from krappo (is there a better way you want me to shorten your name?) there's a lot involved in that. What'd they make you do? ^_^

You have to have good teaching evaluations over the years, and participate in service around the university (serving on committees, volunteering for orientations, etc) and research. So I do a stuff, most of which is pretty fun, and as a result, if I do a good job, they give me tenure. Which is cool!

superspryte wrote:Oooooh, that sounds interesting. What's your research?

Research is twofold: one project is looking at how homing pigeons remember how to get home from a distance. It's a project that will hopefully shed light on memory problems seen in alzheimer's and parkinson's- people with those tend to have trouble with spatial memory long before they show the bigger symptoms, so I'm trying to develop tests that can be applied to people to detect early problems.

The other is on evolution of language, which is a lot more fun. I'm looking at the changes in song in a group of birds only found in Hawaii (honeycreepers). So I have to go out there every couple of years... bad, huh?

SkekTek wrote:Research is twofold: one project is looking at how homing pigeons remember how to get home from a distance. It's a project that will hopefully shed light on memory problems seen in alzheimer's and parkinson's- people with those tend to have trouble with spatial memory long before they show the bigger symptoms, so I'm trying to develop tests that can be applied to people to detect early problems.

The other is on evolution of language, which is a lot more fun. I'm looking at the changes in song in a group of birds only found in Hawaii (honeycreepers). So I have to go out there every couple of years... bad, huh?

wow.. travel to hawaii to research bord language.. thats a really trough job..

reminds me of the thesis topics listed in a graduation program once.. one of them was on the travel patterns of elk in the rockies,,, and i totally can see the guy saying.. i'm going hunting.. how can i call that a thesis....

superspryte wrote:Come on guys, we need some happy.

I am finally over my flu bug and haven't coughed up my breakfast/lunch/dinner in 24 hours now! yay food!

I take it I missed the mud flinging for this week. Can't say I missed it though.

Ok, thats all the happy I got for now.

SkekTek wrote:Research is twofold: one project is looking at how homing pigeons remember how to get home from a distance. It's a project that will hopefully shed light on memory problems seen in alzheimer's and parkinson's- people with those tend to have trouble with spatial memory long before they show the bigger symptoms, so I'm trying to develop tests that can be applied to people to detect early problems.

The other is on evolution of language, which is a lot more fun. I'm looking at the changes in song in a group of birds only found in Hawaii (honeycreepers). So I have to go out there every couple of years... bad, huh?

That sounds really cool. Interesting and useful stuff.

Now, can you train a homing pigeon to help me find where I parked my car?

AttilaTheMom wrote:That sounds really cool. Interesting and useful stuff.

Now, can you train a homing pigeon to help me find where I parked my car?

Wish they could help me find mine sometimes...

superspryte wrote:Sweet. I don't know where you're from to begin with, but that's awesome. I live in Michigan so Hawaii is...yeah. But it'll be a puddle jump away in about 6 months (Japaaaaan!).

Hee! Used to live just across the border from Michigan, south of Toledo in Bowling Green...

Man, I wubble last day of shirt derby- That post-it design just won't slow down!

I have to plug my asst chef today he made his first chocolate piece for valentines day. and just downloaded tryout illistrator to my new mac.

Happy valentines day to all y'all.

Is anyone else unable to see designbyhumans any more? It started yesterday, and I thought it must be a website maintenance thing, but it's still going on today, and I'm wondering if they've gone under.

Josephus wrote:Happy valentines day to all y'all.

Is anyone else unable to see designbyhumans any more? It started yesterday, and I thought it must be a website maintenance thing, but it's still going on today, and I'm wondering if they've gone under.

I can get to it.

me too, now. how odd.

Josephus wrote:me too, now. how odd.

Think they are trying to be more like woot? The servers crashed! The servers crashed!

krapposelli wrote:Think they are trying to be more like woot? The servers crashed! The servers crashed!

I can get it here... now, at least.

TAYLORT5 wrote:
I have to plug my asst chef today he made his first chocolate piece for valentines day. and just downloaded tryout illistrator to my new mac.

Hey, Taylor, I have a sort of food question for you. I'm working on making a cheese serving tray from a piece of slate I got from my brother. My plan is to write the cheese variety with something like chalk on the slate, but I'd prefer to use something edible. would you have any suggestion as to what might work, and still give me that kind of look? I don't want to use stuff that might get on the cheese and taste odd, like powdered sugar would. I also don't want a smooth look like icing would have, though I can see I could make some kind of cheese paste that would work. I know you're on probation, but I would appreciate your suggestion when you return.

-Joe

superspryte wrote:Ohhh, just shy of 10th at the end of the week. Sadness. It was so very close. If you know anyone... I'd appreciate a leg up. ^_~

Okay.

Josephus wrote:Hey, Taylor, I have a sort of food question for you. I'm working on making a cheese serving tray from a piece of slate I got from my brother. My plan is to write the cheese variety with something like chalk on the slate, but I'd prefer to use something edible. would you have any suggestion as to what might work, and still give me that kind of look? I don't want to use stuff that might get on the cheese and taste odd, like powdered sugar would. I also don't want a smooth look like icing would have, though I can see I could make some kind of cheese paste that would work. I know you're on probation, but I would appreciate your suggestion when you return.

-Joe

I'm not sure what you mean, so this is a temporary thing that you would write on the slate? Anyway at cake decorating supply stores, they have different colored "dust" that you can paint on with a soft artist brush. I just used the silver dust to paint the rim of my husband's drum cake I made for his birthday, you could use white to look like chalk. It does need something a tiny bit tacky underneath to hold it, but you could do that with a very thin cheese paste or even use a dab of margarine on your finger, that would go on clear. It's pretty cheap and a little goes a long way. Could be an option for you.

shan24 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean, so this is a temporary thing that you would write on the slate? Anyway at cake decorating supply stores, they have different colored "dust" that you can paint on with a soft artist brush. I just used the silver dust to paint the rim of my husband's drum cake I made for his birthday, you could use white to look like chalk. It does need something a tiny bit tacky underneath to hold it, but you could do that with a very thin cheese paste or even use a dab of margarine on your finger, that would go on clear. It's pretty cheap and a little goes a long way. Could be an option for you.

We've used corn starch in water to make a white liquid (about 50/50 each), and used that with a paint brush. Dries to a white line, and is completely edible.

Thanks, everyone. The idea is that I/ my wife could write next to each pile of sliced cheese what the variety is, each time. It is something we fairly regularly have, a small cheese and crackers dinner. something like this:

Josephus wrote:Thanks, everyone. The idea is that I/ my wife could write next to each pile of sliced cheese what the variety is, each time. It is something we fairly regularly have, a small cheese and crackers dinner. something like this:

If you used larger crackers, you could put more of the small cheeses on each one.

tkenney9226 wrote:If you used larger crackers, you could put more of the small cheeses on each one.

well, yeah, but you couldn't eat as many.