Subj : Re: moving or not To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Feb 03 2020 03:11:32 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 29-Jan-2020 08:42 <=- BM>> Shorter humans might be at an advantage: they can hide amongst the BM>> tall ones!! NB>> One of my sisters is quite short, but also was quite athletic... she NB>> was able to play basketball and field hockey quite well... seemed NB>> to be able to run between the legs of the taller players... ;) BM> Haha!! Probably being lower to the ground has a sneaky advantage in BM> better stability: the tall ones start to fall over reaching down to BM> her! NB> She also was very wiry and agile... and very well coordinated... :) BM> All beneficial for playing basketball! Yup. BM>>> LIS some time back Autumn loves to eat pancakes and help with the BM>>> preparation, especially the mixing part. She had a fascination with BM>>> mixing the dry mix and sometimes got a little over-exuberant. Now she BM>>> kind of sneaks that into the occasional overmixing of the batter. BM>>> Rarely splatters, but sometimes that bowl starts to spin pretty good! NB>>> She's learned some control of the exuberance, then.... :) And still NB>>> has fun doing the cooking... :) BM>> Yes, essentially rules-learning: mixing the dry mix really fast may be BM>> fun but makes a mess the adults don't like. Mixing slower might not BM>> be quite as much fun but can do it longer because doesn't make the mess BM>> the adults don't like. And the pouring of the batter into shapes, BM>> well, that's legally playing with food! NB>> Besides, by now, she's probably learning that by not making too much NB>> of a mess, the finished product is better, since the proportions are NB>> more like they should be (even if she doesn't realize that's the NB>> reason)... :) BM> Yes: "subtle learning". Though that type of learning has been going BM> on probably since Cave Man Times: when Ogg throw stick on fire make BM> pretty sparks but some pretty sparks burn Ogg - wrong type heat! Ogg BM> learn to place stick in fire. And no, Autumn has not been burned while BM> cooking. That's a good thing... BM>>> She also gets to make a pancake: batter is poured into her special BM>>> pitcher -- a metal creamer. She can make whatever size (well, not BM>>> HUGE!), shape, pattern, etc., pancake she wants. NB>>> Size being limited by the amount of batter and the size of the pan, NB>>> for one thing... ;) BM>> Yes. LIS earlier, sort of a legal playing with her food, plus BM>> participating in creating the meal. OTOH it's hers and only hers. NB>> Yup... learning that cooking can be fun... ;) In fact, one of my NB>> childhood cookbooks was called just that... Fun With Cooking.. :) BM> Some adult cookbooks should better incorporate that concept, BM> especially for the everyday cooking. OTOH I'm not sure how I'd react BM> to seeing a dish of spaghetti and meatballs presented with the BM> meatballs arranged in a smiley face pattern!! I don't remember that being the sort of thing they were referring to as having fun with cooking.... :) But the recipes were reasonably simple and produced good food... :) BM>>>> There's a country-western song "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere". :) NB>>>> Yup.... :) BM>>> They play that on the PBS stations?! NB>>> Of course not (at least not usually [g])... But I do have some other NB>>> experiences besides PBS... ;) BM>> Nancy! You wild woman you! NB>> I hung out at the campus radio station when I was in college... Wide NB>> range of music there, from top 40 to oldies, to jazz, to progressive, NB>> with even some folk, C&W, and classical, depending on which student NB>> DJ was doing the show.... ;) Heavy metal was just coming in before NB>> I graduated... ;) BM> Sort of sounds (pun?) like my Pandora station: nothing I'd classify as BM> 'heavy metal' -- maybe "approaching but still a block away". ...When BM> I first moved out here in 1975 there was a station which advertised it BM> as a heavy metal station; per my 'Boston standards' (raised 50 miles BM> north) wasn't close. The midwest equivalent, perhaps.... BM> (Rarely listened to either -- sometimes on BM> station scanning something playing of interest,) I wouldn't regularly listen to such... at least not on my own... ;) BM>> The old way had the various television stations in the state identified BM>> by their call letters: locally KQIN. Now simply IowaPBS. So all dozen BM>> or so stations now are identified the same. BM>> Although "I-o-wa P-B-S" is easier and faster to say than "Iowa Public BM>> Television Network". :) NB>> Unless the corporate heads explain it out, guess you'll not really NB>> know... ;) BM> No, and I'm not all that interested in finding out. More just the BM> mental notation of the change and possibly relaxation of the some of BM> the FCC's rules. Last year the local station was identified as KQIN, BM> with the call sign; this year just "IowaPBS" so don't know if it's the BM> Quad Cities' or Iowa City station (other than what channel one tunes BM> to: 36.x and 12.x, respectively). ...Slipping into that technical mode BM> again! What I see as the most iffy part of it is not being able to tell just from listening which particular station you are tuned to... but that goes by the boards anyway when they announce all the different stations you might be listening to... eg here, "WXXI 91.5 Rochester, WXXY 90.3 Houghton, streaming from wxxi.org, or from your phone app (etc)" BM>> And good news: AFAICT no one lost their job with the merger (?) / new BM>> affiliation: Abby and Dan are the two humans doing most of the BM>> hosting, DanBot the robot (who thinks he's Dan's son) are still BM>> present. Not recalling if I've seen Steve, the guy who plays the BM>> guitar -- sort of. NB>> Just have to keep your eyes and ears open, I guess.... BM> He's still on the website. As an icon, or actually doing things...? NB>>> ... A shining beacon of garish neon signs and tourist traps BM>> For some reason thinking "Little Shop of Horrors" when read 'tourist BM>> traps' ==> slurp! NB>> That's even more of a trap...! I only thought the tagline referred NB>> to the shops with over-priced merchandise emblazoned with area NB>> logos... and price-y restaurants with a local-ish theme... ;) BM> Probably more the intent. And of course tourists are not trapped such BM> as with a bear trap or trapdoor floor but beckoned in to a shop and BM> enticed to buy an overpriced imprinted mug when they have a perfectly BM> good set of matching mugs at home. Exactly... :) BM>> ... Cat Haiku BM>> Oh no! Big One BM>> has been trapped by newspaper! BM>> Cat to the rescue! NB>> POUNCE!! (rattle, crinkle, shred.... ;) ) BM> When I had my dog I did learn quickly not to leave BM> paperwork on the floor: sometimes pawed at, sometimes sat/laid on. BM> OTOH we did leave newspaper on the carpet: she liked to run and slide BM> on the sheets. Which is fine if you are done with the paper... :) ttyl neb .... 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