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jeez, what am I, NOT lazy? i don't want to have to go FIND each song hahahah

Some great tunes during the end credits - does anyone have a line on a collection of those songs? pretty please? Someone must have compiled something!

only 4 fans - heady vibez for more r3 fans for you

saturdays Radio 1 (I need my weekly wire tap fix), most of the rest of the time R3 which I especially like for the ability to easily add songs to playlists and thumbs-up so that I can come back to them later. Great little system they have set up there. FOr non music, Radiolab is fantastic and I'm just getting into This American Life which is also quite good.

you guys may have the R3 page with the longest single song...

their R3 photo is hilarious http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Burt-Neilson-Band

I also assumed they had been broken up for years. It has been great to hear jack white play in some other projects that don't suffer from shitty drum timing the drum argument may be tired, but to all of you who clearly have no sense of musical time yourselves (i.e. those who love meg's drumming), don't take it out on those of us who do, you are welcome to your wrong opinion

poor bell and rogers. cry me a river

istanbul was crazy - identical even in the "quirky" bits - just slower and less nasal-y. I should find some obscure covers and become a pop sensation on someone else's work!

my girlfriend is baking cornbread in the cast iron as we speak. CAN'T WAIT TO GET HOME!

Hehe.. it turned out really well for a "second try". My girlfriend makes the dough, I am not sure her recipe. We usually just bake pizza on a cookie sheet. The cast iron method goes like this... -lightly oil pan -Dough is pressed into the pan flat and then up the edges (like a pie crust) -fill with toppings in this order: cheese, well drained diced tomatoes (it would be even better if you stewed them your own with spices I bet), spices, toppings, grated parm put lower rack to the bottom of oven and upper rack to the top. put a large baking sheet on the top rack to guard pizza from upper element. put pizza in oven, then turn oven on to max - 500 or 550 - however high it will go. wen oven reaches temperature, reduce heat to 400 and bake for another 15-30 minutes (this timing depends on size of pizza, oven etc - ours takes only 15 minutes presumably becaus eit is a very well insulated self celaning oven) remove from pan to cool for a bit, then slice and eat the shit out of it!

Honestly - if it is a new pan, it is probably not going to give great results for a long time. Is the cooking surface machined? Or does the inside have the same texture as the outside - kinda rough? I had no idea there was a difference until I stumbled across that website and once I saw it for myself it is unmistakable. The most scientifically in-depth seasoning instructions I have seen are these: http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/ Make sure you are starting fresh. Burn the old crap off (I do it in a self cleaning oven cycle - but i only let it run for about 20 minutes) and start over with very thin layers. I have had great results with antique pieces coming out of the self cleaning cycle - I put a layer of oil and start using it the next day. I find the worst culprit for sticking so far is low fat meat (chicken etc) so I try to oil up beforehand just in case. Making sure you are up to temperature before putting the food in the pan also helps with sticking. And of course the aforementioned flat edged stainless spatula! Another good way to season is to bake in it a bunch of times. This is why I have started doing pizzas :-)

Not trying to communicate with any group in particular - just spreadin' the cast iron love! THe single best thing I have found to reduce sticking is to use a flat edged stainless spatula (as discussed in that website I linked). I have had good results with eggs even on barely seasoned newer cast - the stainless spatula lets you get right under them. My plastic spatula just turned the eggs into a sticky mess. But I have to say, if you have been frustrated with cast it is well worth it to ask around your family for older pieces and see what you come up with. The old stuff is just so good.

for your own good! please read this website and then get as obsessed as I did: http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp I got a griswold and 3 wagner skillets for christmas. Then two of my grandmas came forward with old pieces as well, one of which turned out to be an old wagner "chicken fryer" (basically a deep skillet) I am drowning in cast iron and loving it. I cooked an egg in a barely seasoned pan today with the tiniest amount of butter and it slides better than any non-stick crap I have ever owned. All of my teflon is in the value village pile now. If you like cooking, you owe it to yourself to find a pre-war cast iron pan with machined cooking surface. All of my previous cast iron experience was with crappy new junk smelted down from recycled engine blocks. Real cast iron is nothing even remotely like that. It is glorious to use.

YT you should come on over to the bike forums and join my rally against helmets :-)

i save my gravy for bathing i believe in aluminum recycling and newsprint. but there is way not enough focus on REDUCTION. there needs to be some sort of positive reduction reinforcement. like, maybe the city gives you $100 a year and then charges you for waste removal tags for your garbage, so if you actually reduce then you get to keep the money. or better yet, a packaging tax.

very cool. i'd like to sell your book in my bike shop once it is done :-)

most of recycling is a scam anyway. well according to penn and teller

I have been enjoying unlimited worry free internet access from primus for 3 years. Just got this email today. FUCK BELL. I suggest anyone with any bell services make their opinion known through cancellation. I will be switching my cell phone from Virgin (running on bell towers) to Wind, and telling Bell why. I will be switching my internet access to cable from Primus (running on bell's lines) and letting Bell know why. Apologies to Virgin and Primus who have been reasonably good to deal with. Sorry bell canada - we don't need ya anymore!

they both do such a great job in that sketch - love it

now we all know that the moon is not made of green cheese. But if it was made of bbq spare ribs, would you eat it anyways?

they should have called it "the electric eel"

http://www.coinflation.com/canada/

Am I allowed to rip my own CD? If I lose the CD do I have to delete the MP3? If I scratch it? If I throw it in the garbage? If I donate it to Value Village? If I give it to my sister? If I sell it? If I make a mixed tape for the car out of a dozen CDs, and then sell one of those CDs do I have to erase over the song in the mix that came form that disc? Am I allowed to PVR a tv show and keep it forever? Am I allowed to PVR a digital radio station? Am I allowed to time shift from broadcast radio? Am I allowed to record one song from broadcast radio? The lines are all way too dim. The world has changed. It does no good to try to paint it in black and white, which it was back when there was no such thing as home recording gear. The "100% right vs 100% wrong" moral/legal high ground argument does not help anyone, including the artists.

this is great: