Via The Straight Dope, the groundhog is wrong more than right.
According to Canadian Geographic weather columnist David Phillips, a multidecade, multicity study in Canada found that groundhog-driven predictions were right only 37 percent of the time. Which means, I guess, that you'd be right 63 percent of the time if you said good weather on 2/2 meant good weather ahead. But what kind of weather proverb would that make? If the choice is between right and catchy, catchy wins every time.
I made some bacon toffee this Sunday, just to see what it was like. The recipe was pretty easy: measure, dump, stir, stir, stir, stir, stir, dump.
The flavor wasn't bad; sugar, butter and bacon is essentially what happens on the plate next to pancakes. But the texture was totally wrong. Toffee should be smooth and sticky, not crunchy and gritty like the salt crust on a beach. I guess my sugar didn't dissolve well enough, or crystallized on its way out of the pan, or something. A little postmortem research tells me that making toffee requires things like a consistent stove, a candy thermometer, and lots of practice. I stirred when I should've stayed, or vice versa, or there wasn't enough butter, or too much water, or something. Bah. That's why I prefer stove-top cooking to baking or candy-making; you can taste as you go and aren't depending on finicky chemical interactions and sensitive temperature regulation.
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"All these mortgage companies are going down because of people like me who don't pay their mortgages," he said. "I'm partly responsible for that."
What's self-leveling, with an 80kg pendulum, has a high speed microprocessor controlled motor drive unit (as used in Mars Rover), a real time speed control, and an active blue LCD display, and weighs approx. 770 pounds ?
It's the Statement:
What is it? It's a record player.
And it costs $150,000.
That's quite a statement.
Who among us does not love the Savage Chickens.
