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On 4/23/2024 at 2:56 PM, Old Man said:

...  Not that I think Trump will ever see the inside of a jail cell, ...

I'll settle for the inside of a coffin.

ocellated thrasher

I note that being at sea level on a fjord doesn't do much for your chances, either.

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones....

And rings of LEDs around the crown, with counterrotating lit-up elements in alternate rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromaticity#/media/File:PlanckianLocus.png

33 minutes ago, Old Man said:

Blue and orange is a ghastly color combination regardless. 

A different sport, but I was very confused by the Rockies' pine-green-and-white "City" uniforms the other day.  If you're going to have novelty uniforms, go all the way, man.  Fuchsia and emerald!  Peachpuff and cyan!  Bisque, Gainsboro, and Warringale!  With frickin' UV laser spots on the pants, inducing fluorescence of colors outside the standard chromaticity space!

Yeesh.

Carroll gets the credit for that one.  Beastquake is the one he does get credit for.

Being far from the source, the only Hatch chile I have seen around here has been the 505 stuff, which Costco carries.  I'm aware other heat levels exist, but I don't have them available to me.

Idiotically easy (if rather on the gringo side in terms of heat) enchiladas:

• mild Italian sausage (a package of 5)* OR one boneless skinless chicken breast* OR two or three boneless skinless chicken thighs.  You will need the meat already thawed.  NOTE that if you are doing chicken, slice it into pieces the size of pickle chips but twice as thick, and you'll need to season the saute strongly with onion, garlic, oregano, basil, cumin, minced chiles or chili powder, etc., to your taste
• 505 Brand roasted Hatch chiles, in a jar* (A single 24-ounce jar will provide enough for a batch)
• 10-inch soft flour tortillas; this recipe uses 8 or 9 of them*
• shredded Jack cheese***
• El Pato canned green enchilada sauce (one 28-ounce can)
• anti-stick spray*

(Things marked with * are Costco items)

(***If you have someone with a diary intolerance, you can use canned black beans* in place of the cheese in the enchiladas, and foregoing the cheese sprinkle late in the bake)

(Preparation will take 60-90 minutes from start to finish)

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Cut the casings off the sausage, mash up, saute until fully cooked.  You can add some additional seasonings in with the sausage if you like.  Let cool a bit (you're going to be using your fingers on this); keep the pan tipped while cooling, and blot off the extra grease (chicken won't have excess grease).

Spray a 9-by-12 rectangular cake pan with the nonstick.

Lay a tortilla out flat, distribute a couple tablespoons each of the sausage, shredded cheese, and Hatch chile in a line the tortilla, about 1/3 of the way from an edge to the center.  Of the three, the Hatch chile is the most important; don't skimp on that.  Roll the tortilla up.  Put the roll in the pan.

Repeat until the pan is full of rolls.  This will take eight or nine of them.

Open the enchilada sauce and pour evenly over the rolls.  This won't cover the rolls, but make sure the tops are wet.

Bake for 25 minutes.  Pull the pan out, put more shredded cheese over the enchiladas.  Return to oven, bake another 5 minutes.

I find it easiest to cut the enchiladas in half while still hot in the pan, and put three halves on a plate for each serving.  A wok shovel is the best tool I've found for extracting half-rolls from the pan and putting them on plates.  Makes 6 servings or so.

If I was preparing this for a crowd who likes more fire, I would get two or three serrano peppers, shop those up fine, and include those in the saute of the sausage.  And wash my hands twice in hot water with lots of soap after doing the mincing, or use gloves while doing the chopping.

(I assume you could make this vegan by doubling or tripling the beans and foregoing the meat, but I've never done that myself.)

A rom-com where the female lead is a zombie

Quiz: name all 101 players who scored TDs for Seattle in the Pete Carroll era

... you get 15 minutes.

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Besides raw materials and political thuggery, the only things Russia exports are talented people.

2 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

NT: Subtle signs the consultant making your retirement plan is out of their mind.

"This is actually simpler than most people realize, because once you make the correct Lutz-Bogolyubov transcription corrections of the Dresden Codex texts, it turns out the baktun rolls over in July 2029, and the world will end then.  So our goal here is to end with exactly zero dollars balance on 1 August 2029."

Our group is formulating their annual multisession even for the local gaming con, and I had a bizarre idea ... for reasons coming out of a spurious plot to confabulated later, the PCs are at a gaming con and a real firefight breaks out there!  With cosplayers on both sides!  At least you hope they're cosplayers on the bad guy side, because you'd prefer not to fight the *real* Deadpool, Harley Quinn, Shaggy and Scooby (who both use machine pistols, BTW), Venom, and Judge Dredd!  Heck, have the PCs be cosplayers too, and have identical antihero teams blazing away at each other!

******, another account I didn't know she had.  At least this one has a positive balance.

2 hours ago, Cygnia said:

https://www.themarysue.com/theres-a-double-standard-being-applied-to-conspiracy-touting-aaron-rodgers-in-the-nfl/

 

Rio de los Guanos

I'll avoid laying out teams who are in the "Comfortably numb dumb" bin.

Hey, I talk to myself all the time!

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Your guess was 4m away from the target.

And he'll probably demand more than $200,000 before he jumps, too.

"I'm somewhere in Siberia, next to a house with a blue roof.  Come get me."