Nine for Random Chatter, doomed to die

[Dragon Lady]

I have a recipe somewhere for spinach in brownies. Once they're cool, you can't taste it at all. And they're quite tasty. So if you wanted to sneak some spinach into your kids diet (but maybe they'll eat it anyway?) I could find it for you. But… I believe it calls for frozen spinach. So maybe this isn't so pertinent.

Did you ever try Yellow's mom's Spinach Salad with mandarin oranges and craisins and poppyseed dressing?

[TheAnswerIs42]

I love green eggs and ham. Seriously though, I just cook the spinach and then blend it up a bit, then mix it into scrambled eggs.

[Wisteria]

Add handfuls of it to vegetable soup, or wilt a bunch of it and use it to top off a cheese sandwich.

[Wisteria]

Also, I dug up the rest of the carrots and beets and a lot of tomatoes and some of the peppers and boiled it all up in a pot and blended it and it's pretty yummy soup.

[Marduk]

Nuts, I knew I shouldn't have deleted that spam e-mail! Now how will I ever enjoy the benefits of being an AARP member?!

[mic0]

Took a language proficiency test over the phone today. At one point he asked me if I could describe my route to school. I replied (in Chinese, obviously), "Haha, I wish I could but I have no idea how to say that. It's really an easy ride, but I can't say it." It was funny to me... maybe because I have a cold and am a little delusional.

[Digit]

I just found lulu.com and started a book project and got myself an ISBN number. I'm going to write a math textbook the way I always thought one should have been written and buy a copy just so I can hold in my hand a book written by [Digit] Who knows, after I put it on the Lulu marketplace and on Amazon (they can do that), maybe one other person in the world will actually find it and buy it too. I doubt that, but the part about me having my own book pleases me.

[Dragon Lady]

Nuts, I knew I shouldn't have deleted that spam e-mail! Now how will I ever enjoy the benefits of being an AARP member?!

I used to get applications in the mail all the time for AARP. They kept telling me I was fully qualified to join! (Yeah, except that I wasn't even half the required age…) I ignored them for awhile, but they kept coming. So finally I took their application, just filled in my birthday, circled the year in red, and sent it back. It took them another 3 years or so to send me another one. I haven't heard from them in awhile, but it is common for me to get advertisements for hearing aids and retirement seminars.

[Whistler]

I just found lulu.com and started a book project and got myself an ISBN number. I'm going to write a math textbook the way I always thought one should have been written and buy a copy just so I can hold in my hand a book written by [Digit] Who knows, after I put it on the Lulu marketplace and on Amazon (they can do that), maybe one other person in the world will actually find it and buy it too. I doubt that, but the part about me having my own book pleases me.

sounds cool! tell me when you publish it, I am always interested in experimental or awesome textbooks.

[Portia]

World Series game six went from one of the most excruciatingly ugly baseball games I've ever watched (did you SEE Freese drop that ball!? ^%&*!) to one of the most Hollywood-worthy, sheer awesome ones (did you SEE the look of pure joy on the guy who grabbed Freese's HR ball? %$$$@*!).

Journalists are prone to hyperbole, but it has been nearly a decade since I've seen sportswriters use the terms "best offensive performance/game/extra innings in WS history." Sorry BYU football, but I am SO tuning in to St. Louis tomorrow night!

[Dead Cat]

I dreamt I was auditoning for Divine Comedy and Mallory was giving me...well, writing prompts that I'd have to respond to in a funny way on stage immediately. So I guess they were impromptu prompts?

[NerdGirl]

I just found lulu.com and started a book project and got myself an ISBN number. I'm going to write a math textbook the way I always thought one should have been written and buy a copy just so I can hold in my hand a book written by [Digit] Who knows, after I put it on the Lulu marketplace and on Amazon (they can do that), maybe one other person in the world will actually find it and buy it too. I doubt that, but the part about me having my own book pleases me.

sounds cool! tell me when you publish it, I am always interested in experimental or awesome textbooks.

Me too! I want to buy your book!

[Digit]

Wow, two people other than me reading it would be amazing
I started a blog to track the book's progress. Probably most of the content will end up there by the time it's done anyways. I've got ideas about putting up supplemental material like interactive content on my Google sites site and detailed solutions of whatever end-of-chapter problems I make.

[Dragon Lady]

Congrats to Heartless Siren and CPM! Their healthy baby girl was born today!

[Portia]

Congrats to Heartless Siren and CPM! Their healthy baby girl was born today!

Whose hair color does she have?

[Dragon Lady]

Congrats to Heartless Siren and CPM! Their healthy baby girl was born today!

Whose hair color does she have?

Umm… from the tiny bit I can see in pictures… his.

[Digit]

I don't like that this Texas judge is protected by statutes of limitations, even if it looks like the daughter doesn't want to see him prosecuted. The video evidence of him whipping her with a belt is not weakened by time, which weakening-by-time of evidence is what I thought the purpose of statutes of limitations was.

[Laser Jock]

...which weakening-by-time of evidence is what I thought the purpose of statutes of limitations was.

I always thought it had more to do with not dragging up something bad from forever ago, unless it was really, really bad (like murder, which has no statute of limitations).

Checking on Wikipedia, they give both as reasons: along with easier evidence when a crime is recent, they also say this:

While it may seem unfair to forbid prosecution of crimes that law enforcement can later prove to a standard required by law, the purpose of a statute of limitations or its equivalent is to ensure that the possibility of punishment for an act committed long ago cannot give rise to either a person's incarceration or the criminal justice system's activation.

In short, unless the crime is deemed exceptionally heinous – for example, murder, to which the statute does not generally apply – social justice as enacted through law says that lesser crimes from long ago are best left alone so as not to distract attention from more serious crimes....people want to get on with their lives and not have legal battles from their past come up unexpectedly. The injured party has a responsibility to quickly bring about charges so that the process can begin.

[Katya]

...which weakening-by-time of evidence is what I thought the purpose of statutes of limitations was.

I always thought it had more to do with not dragging up something bad from forever ago, unless it was really, really bad (like murder, which has no statute of limitations).

That's what I thought, too. Kind of like the Jean Valjean principle.

[Digit]

Looks like just last year Japan abolished its 25-year statute of limitations on murder.