Timewaster's Guide Archive

So Fell actually EATS his bacon-themed band-aids and bacon-scented air-freshener?  Now that's disturbing.

Shaggy, I agree.  Many classics really are worth reading, but Tess is not one of them.  Either that or I'm just not smart enough to get it.

I had the impression Kaz's rather crude response was meant to be funny, pretending to take offense at your implication that northern sports fans are not fanatical enough.  But maybe I misread it.

I tried a Cameroonian recipe last night called Egussi Soup.  It's a tomato-based beef stew, with fresh parsley, onion, garlic, and ginger.  The egussi part refers to a paste made of pumpkin seeds (it's supposed to be egussi seeds, but those are harder to find in the U.S.), which helps to thicken the stew but doesn't change the taste much.  I served it over rice, with fried plantains on the side.  It's OK, has some interesting flavors, but not by any means my favorite African recipe.  The plantains were a treat though, I need to have those more often.

Le petit prince is my favorite because it's charming, heavily philosophical (in the most delightful ways), highly accessible (technically a children's book), has moments of absolute beauty, practical, still has high intellectual and aesthetic value over multiple reads (I rarely reread books), and sad.  All of these in one little book (I can't vouch for it being the same in English—I haven't read it in English since I was a small child, and I didn't nearly like it so much then).  I've never read another book like it.

I agree completely.  "Dessine-moi un mouton, s'il te plait."  "Je suis responsable de ma rose."  I love that book.

Renoard, who's doing that other than EUOL?  His gender-neutral usage of "monk" bothered me mainly because I hadn't seen that usage elsewhere, so it seemed like a mistake to me.  I have no problem with words changing meanings - that's what words do - but until the new meaning becomes common, it seems like a misuse.

And I don't get what's funny about a minivan full of nuns.  Do you think they ought to be using horse-drawn carriages?  Or a Pope-mobile?  Or should they not be leaving their convent at all?

Ookla, I agree that it's likely Fjorden monks were all male.  My point was that Sanderson has no difficulty in using the English word "monk" to describe women, so that in itself would be no argument.  (Not that anyone was actually making that argument, but I might have been tempted to do so if it weren't for the Warbreaker monks.)

I doubt that everyone who is born is a reborn soul though.   If this was the case the population would have to be stable.

Well, at least the population of the real world + the dream world + any alternate soul-habitats (such as other creatures?) would have to be stable.  Which could very well be the case.  Not that I think it's a slam-dunk by any means, just that it's possible.