http://collectionquest.today.com Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:51:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Artichokes can be healthful and delicious, as long as this doesn't happen to you! Don't get all artichoked up! My recipe said that if you don’t have a steamer, you can boil artichokes, placed upright and arranged snugly in saucepan with a few inches of water. I think there was a ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/20/artichokes/ Stick and I picked up the Narnia movie from Gua Ye (now that I know her name, I should probably stop calling her DVD Lady) the other day. Neither of us had seen it, and I was hoping to use The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, as morphine for ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/20/narnia-movie/ “Why not?” I asked him. “Lots of people hyphenate!” After you're married, do you plan your keep your name, change your name or combine your name? Or do you, like Simpson’s Paradox, want to do something completely different? Are you going to keep one name for professional use and another for ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/20/bridal-names/ <blockquote>I saw <a href="http://simpsonsparadox.com/2008/09/bertie-botts-every-flavour-perfumes.html">this</a> and wanted to share with you all: the site WeirdFragrances.com is offering samples of zany perfumes!  I’m not entirely sure what their deal is, since the site says that the scents aren’t available for purchase, but the fragrances are things like Fresh Bread, Fourth of July ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/18/crazy-perfume-samples/ <br><blockquote>Some of my students will <a href="http://simpsonsparadox.com/2007/03/academic-triage.html">learn English whether I’m a good teacher or not</a>. They are the most fun to teach, and they ask the most interesting questions, but I spend most of our class time on the middle of the bell curve, the ones who are progressing and ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/18/wasting-time/ On <a href="http://simpsonsparadox.com/2007/09/international-trade-relations.html">Chinese Taxi Drivers</a>...<br><blockquote>One of them suggested 100 RMB to go home, and when I said that was too expensive, he asked me to say a price.<br><br>“60 kwai,” I said.<br><br>“10,” he responded.<br><br>“No, no, you’ve got it all wrong. You say the higher numbers, I say the lower numbers,”</blockquote><br>Read the ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/18/thats-not-how-it-goes/ But a Captcha at the end? Seriously? A check to see if I’m human after all that? Turbo, honey, if there were a program that could find my gross income from last year’s return, the employer numbers from a half dozen 1099s, my date of birth, my social security number, ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/18/captcha/ What makes Nancy Drew: Lights, Camera, Curses! a girls’ game is the female protagonist. It’s not pink, it’s not cutesy, there are no magic animal friends, there is no shopping. Let me repeat that in case you were skimming. This game is not pink. Via Nancy Drew: Lights, Camera, Curses ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/04/06/new-games/ I was predisposed to like the new Wizard 101 game. It’s not exactly a secret that I love Harry Potter, and the game promises to be a wizard school MMOPRG. The game is adorable from the first loading screen. They’ve got a Wizard 101 gallery on the website, but it doesn’t do justice to ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/03/27/about-wiz-101/ A review of the new Unaabi Grill on Kildaire Farm Road. We were intrigued by the new restaurant Unaagi Grill, but honestly, we were not impressed with the outside. Unaabi Grill is in a converted Pizza Hut, and from the street, it looks it. But Unaagi Grill turned out to be ... http://collectionquest.today.com/2009/03/20/unaabi-grill/