h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*puzzles at the toffee-chewing dragon*

Hmmm. Maybe the Atrium would be nice. He should calm down as soon as things stop attacking him... having to self-repair makes him cranky.

*She pats the dragon gently. The dragon is far too busy working out why the toffee seems to be impossible to swallow to notice.*

Yum, toffee.

Toffee crushed fine and mixed with ganache (sp?) and coated in Sound like a good idea, HN? Be a bit crunchy to technically be a truffle, maybe, but worth the experiment?

Ahhh, now I want some kind of dessert! Besides the generic ice cream I have. Eh, I'll get something next time I have to do a major grocery.

Lil: Long story short, I live on the noon-to-4-AM lifestyle because I got into the habit during college due to various classes, and never got out of it.

Makes sense.

Meanwhile, we've got fresh mbougatses.

Yar, you and my daughter have something in common, if not the age thing. She's in thirteenth year, and during the summer months (read: not in school) she throws her daytime schedule right out the window. We typically don't see her until after midday, slouching to the fridge, nibbling on whatever is handy, then shuffling to the computer room to start her day of anime episodes anew.

I have raised such a little geek!

The best I can hope for--if this continues for any length of time--is that she'll quickly find a job nobody else desires: the night shift at some well-paying corporation. If not, she's hosed and will have to seriously rewrite her circadian rhythm.

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What a good idea, Amy. And that dragon could certainly help caramelize the sugar.

Remind me what mbougatses are?

And here I am stuck on making grilled cheese sandwiches. Actually, I'm currently able to fake them by putting slices of bread in a toaster, putting the cheese between them, and then microwaving it a bit.

... which is to say, I put the cheese on and microwave it after it comes out of the toaster.

...and there was me, hoping for massive explosion...

*dashes in, drops her bag, dashes out to the backlog files*

[GDZ]

mbougatses are a flaky pastry filled with apple, cinnamon and a bit of sugar. Kind of a turnover made with strudel pastry. It's a specialty from Corfu, which is Matina's ethnicity.

*helps herself to one*

Great scribing, Lil, as usual! I've slipped back to the 3rd led again.

I've had the strangest day. I went to the market to get some veggies, decided to verify that my transfer had made it to my checking acct, and found that, while it was higher than when I did the transfer, it was considerably less than it should have been. Turns out I was hacked...bank notified, debit card killed, and will have my money back *someday*. B****r. I can PROVE I didn't leave my house yesterday, my helpers were there, helping me clear the detritus of the past little while.

My debit card was hacked a wee while ago, sc. Apparently, someone had tried to use it to pay for something in Russia (I live in England and have never been there).

They had tried at first for the equivalent of £80.00, that was declined. They tried a bit later for £8.00, that was also declined. It was the day before pay day, thank the gods. My bank rang me and the card was then dead until I got a new one.

One of the local cash machines had been 'altered'. Loads of people were proper burgered for a while.

A few days later, someone had stenciled (under the bank/cash machine name 'Funding Russia Since (can't remember the date) - it only lasted a few hours, but how we all laughed

It made the news and evwyfink (but I can't find it, natch)

Hmmm, my picture link in the scribing posting (great work, Lil!) doesn't seem to be working, but this one might (it's the same picture):

http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/6883298143/neil-gaiman-and-douglas-adams-submitted-by-many

Ah, yes, mbougatses sound tasty. They've probably been described before ...

Magwitch: I've been playing Team Fortress 2, so that made me think "Spy sappin' my ATM!" in a southern USA accent.


(... er, Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer first-person shooter, and you can select one of nine "classes" to play as, each with their own skills, tactics, and personality. One of the character-classes is the Engineer, who can build things like teleporters, sentry-guns which attack enemies automatically, and so on. Another is the Spy, who can disguise himself as a member of the opposing team (so that, for instance, sentries won't target him), and he can attach a device called a "sapper" to engineers' creations, rendering them inoperative and slowly draining them until they explode. When this happens, the Engineer will immediately exclaim "Spy sappin' my _____!" People who commonly play as the Engineer (i.e. me) will soon learn to hate Spies. Well ... unless you only play against the computer, and the Spies almost always do incredibly silly things like attempting to attack your Sentry with a knife instead, thus automatically dropping their desguise and only blowing themselves up.)


Also, my latest attempt at making a *proper* grilled cheese sandwich was a success!

Very talented, Yar! But, was it a *good* GCS?

I don't think I used a tampered ATM -- when I need cash, I just get it as "Amount over" the purchase. I think it was either cloned by a waiter or cashier recently, or by someone with one of those RFID scanners they're using now.

Someone just needs to walk closer to you than about three feet and then everything on your card's chip is picked up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmajlKJlT3U

Since it was run as a credit card, they didn't need a PIN. The good news is, if you can't afford the spendy stainless steel wallets that block scanners, you can just make an aluminum foil pouch for your cards.

*Eyes dragon*

Do you think that thing would be good for cheese and bacon toasties? I'm proper starving, and cholesterol and bread would go down a treat.