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  3. "Neat" Pictures

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    On the other hand' date=' if you wear four of them (one on each finger), you can do 4d6 damage with every punch.[/quote']

     

    Do they come in different colors/metals so you could have one be for a stun multiplier and make it a HKA?

  4. Make Your Own Motivational Poster

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    But impractical. As long as the portable hole and bag of holding are incorportated into the device they are unable to fulfill their usual functions, meaning you might as well not have them, and if the weapon is actually deployed, the hole and the bag are both permanently lost.

     

    On the other hand it's a wonderful plan if you're up against something that cannot be destroyed by more conventional means and there is truly pressing need to destroy it anyway, or destroying it nets you access to something of greater value than the magic items you sacrifice.

     

    Lucius Alexander

     

    A palindromedary with saddle bags of holding

     

    The problem I found with it is the weight. The lightest bag of holding is 15lbs. empty. While it would work for a ballista, it is not man portable. Then there is the cost. You are looking at blowing circa 22,000 GP on a one shot item to blow a hole in something. That kind of cash will buy a lot of scrolls of disintegrate or meteor swarm.

  6. "Neat" Pictures

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    At our year-end meeting, my school's IT guy gave me this sticker to put up my classroom:

     

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    He said I was he only member of the staff he could trust to understand its significance.

     

     

    You should give extra credit to any of your students who show up to their finals with a towel. Or peril-sensitive sunglasses.

  8. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    Well, two out of three ain't bad.

     

    I started by cooking up some sausage in the skillet, hoping to use the fat to cook the meat and as a base of the gravy. Stupid healthy low fat sausage, not nearly enough fat rendered out, so I had to add oil to cook with. I used an egg/buttermilk mix as the wet for the breading, and just flour with salt/pepper/cyanne seasoning for the dry. Should have seasoned the flour more, but it didn't help that I had to add more flour while in the middle of cooking and didn't re-season it. I don't know if it was the temperature, or the amount of oil, cook time, or something else, but the steaks were a little on the soggy side. And the first out of the skillet was a little burnt. Eatable, but nothing to write home about.

     

    Once the steaks were done and on a rack in the oven to keep warm I moved on to the next step: gravy. I deglazed the pan with a splash of white wine to help get the bits up. Added a lump of butter and flour to make a roux. Added milk, pepper and thyme. Done, and done well; good flavor and consistency.

     

    The buttermilk biscuits I made before starting cooking everything else. It would have been nice to have them fresh out of the oven when everything else was finished, but I didn't feel like juggling everything at once. Light and fluffy. I wasn't worried about these turning out, they are well within my skill set/comfort zone.

     

    Dinner was rounded out with mashed potatoes and broccoli.

     

    So my chicken fried steak was "meh." I chalk most of that up to poor technique. I don't do a lot of pan frying. But the biscuits and gravy were good. And I had all the sausage I cooked up at the start of this, which I tossed into the leftover gravy. Which brings us back to "Food for those that just don't care anymore." Breakfast this morning was biscuits and gravy. A more unhealthy breakfast is hard to find, but it was quite yummy.

  9. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    OK, I have a question that is oddly appropriate to this topic:

     

    It's a grey, dreary day here, looks to be that way for the week, and I was grocery shopping. I'm thinking old fashioned comfort food. I see cubed steak on sale and think to myself "Chicken fried steak!" something I've always wanted to try to make. Now, ~10 years of living in Louisville KY have instilled a good love of southern cooking in me, but my grandmothers were from Boston and Connecticut, so I've got no southern family recipes to speak off. And the guys in the meat department here in upstate New York just had a good laugh with me for even asking.

     

    Now I could just to a random internet search, or check an Alton Brown cookbook, but I figured I'd ask my foodie friends here in this thread to see if anyone had a good recipe to share.

     

    What I picked up at the store thinking it might help:

    Cubed steak

    Sausage (was thinking sawmill gravy)

    Buttermilk (dredge/biscuts)

     

    Butter/flour/most spices are also on hand, and I'll go back to the store if something sounds really yummy. I've also got The Wife's grandfather's cast iron skillet which could be put to task, and most other mundane kitchen hardware.

     

    Thanks in advance for the help.

  10. Creepy Pics.

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    I believe that is somewhat a myth. IIRC' date=' sticky foods that are high in sugars are the worst -- like caramel, or raisins and dates.[/quote']

     

    I've generally seen sodas condemned in reading I've done on the subject. I also recall a friend's dentist telling him Certs were the #1 reason for his cavities. I guess that makes sense' date=' as they're basically big time-release capsules of sugar if you allow them to dissolve in your mouth.[/quote']

     

    Both are bad. The sugar from soda can at least be washed away from your teeth by saliva. Sticky stuff is extra bad due to the prolonged contact before it gets rinsed off.

  13. "Neat" Pictures

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    "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebel's hidden fortress..."

     

    ...But it does impress the chicks

  15. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    They're pretty good' date=' but I can think of things I'd rather eat ... I'm not a huge crunchy taco eater, though, mostly 'cause I always wind up wearing it. I frequently order the Nachos Bellgrande meal and scoop out the taco that comes with it onto the nachos and just eat the shell ... and then have meatier, cheesier, tomato-ier nachos. :)[/quote']

     

    That's why I like their double-decker tacos. With the flour tortilla wrapped around the corn one (held there with a little refired beans) You get the flavor and crunch of the corn shell, but don't have to wear it.

  20. Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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    I've tried that. (Sounds like the same stuff I tried.) I was underwhelmed. My sister serves it to her family often' date=' though, because the prep is really easy and the kids like it.[/quote']

     

    I would't eat a bowl of it, but Cincinnati style chili works really well for chili dogs. Assuming it's the stuff -I- think it is. When I was living in Louisville there were a number of chili places within walking distance of my high school. I ate a lot of chili dogs...

  24. "Neat" Pictures

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    You really want to know? Mont Saint-Michel' date=' Normandy.[/quote']

     

    heh, sorry, was making a joke I recognized it. It does look like someone took a nice little chunk of land and displaced it to another dimension. You have a lovely little rocky/green hill on an alien mud flat. Replace "castle" with "science lab" and you have the start of many campaigns right here.

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