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Wednesday, March 20, 2002
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Here's a snickerdoodle recipe I found after about 2 minutes of searching on Google Groups:
SNICKERDOODLE COOKIES
1 cup Butter
3/4 cup Brown sugar
3/4 cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1 3/4 cup Flour; all-purpose
2 cup Uncooked oats
2 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Baking soda
Heat oven to 375F. Grease cookie sheet. In large bowl, beat together
butter, brown sugar and 3/4 cup granulated sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs; mix well. In medium bowl, combine flour, oats, 1 teaspoon
cinnamon, soda and salt. Add to sugar mixture; mix well. Drop by rounded
teaspoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheet. In small bowl, combine
remaining 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle lightly
over each cookie. Bake 8-10 minutes. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet;
remove to wire cooling rack.
9:21:44 PM #
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There is, of course, a snickerdoodle.com website. Not sure what they do, though.
9:20:18 PM #
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The other day my wife asked me if I liked "snickerdoodle" cookies. I wasn't sure what they were. But I knew that when it comes to food, my best answer is always "yes" when asked if I like something. But, I wondered, what could a "snickerdoodle" cookie be? It must be like a Snicker's bar. Mmm. My favorite. It must be a cookie with chocolate, peanuts, caramel. Yep. I'd love them.
A few days later my wife made these yummy sugar-butter-cinnamon cookies. We all had some and they were great. The next day my daughter asked me where the snickerdoodle cookies were. "Mommy made snickerdoodles," I asked hopefully. I was sure I'd remember seeing cookies covered in chocolate. I was sure I'd have already stolen one and eaten it. Then my daughter pointed to the sugar-butter-cinnamon cookies and said "here they are."
So snickerdoodles are made out of sugar-butter-cinnamon? And no chocolate? Why the heck are they called snickerdoodles? To trick people?
They are good, though.
9:14:06 PM #
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Here are many of Ramirez's cartoons. The one I'm talking about is March 16. Equally depressing is March 14, in which he compares the Democratic Party to the Klu Klux Klan.
10:13:50 AM #
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Here are some letters-to-the-editor concerning the Ramirez cartoon.
10:09:13 AM #
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I'm subscribed to the Los Angeles Times. I used to get the San Diego Union Tribune. But many Tribune stories are really written by reporters at other newspapers. Frequently, they are LA Times reporters. If you look at the LA Times, on the other hand, most, if not all, stories are written by LA Times staff. I'm not sure it's quite as good as the NYT, but it's pretty damn good.
Except for their editorial cartoonist, Michael Ramirez. He is a real hack. He just falls into line behind many ultra-conservatists and parrots them without any thought at all. They don't challenge, and frequently they are just disgusting. In a recent, very disgusting, cartoon, he had a woman with a NOW t-shirt on holding up a sign that said "We support Yates". It was worse than that, though. The woman's words below the cartoon are: "Just think of it as late, late . . . late term abortions." Very very disgusting. That's about the worst of his cartoons, but he has other very disturbing ones as well.
10:07:43 AM #
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Speaking of newspapers, I love reading them. But I now spend so much time on-line that I have no time for it. Same with books. I have about three books I'm in the middle of reading. I just can't finish them. I'd rather be messing around on my computer. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure yet.
9:55:39 AM #
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After thinking about it on my bike ride to work I've decided to unsubscribe from my one New York TImes RSS feed. The news aggregator is not the way to read the New York Times. In some ways, the news aggregator may be worse for the New York Times than it is for weblogs. The proper way to read the New York Times is, as with weblogs, in its proper context. For the New York Times, that would be printed on dead wood.
My wife and I spent a summer at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. We decided to subscribe to the Sunday edition of the New York Times. It took a whole week to read the thing. And not just because there is so much to read. Every story is so well written that you want to read it from beginning to end. I just don't get that from an aggregated list of NYT news items. Sorry.
Oh, and the New York Times makes particularly good reading when you are looking for something to take with you to the bathroom.
9:53:19 AM #
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I just subscribed to an RSS feed. I had unsubscribed to all my feeds a few weeks ago and I've been enjoying an RSS-free life. But today UserLand announced that you can now subscribe to New York Times headlines. I think headline news is probably what RSS was meant to be used for . It's weblogs you don't want to subscribe to. So I tried, as an experiment, mind you, subscribing to the Technology feed. And I immediately had about 20 items in my news aggregator. Talk about news overload. I'm not sure I'm going to like this feature.
7:39:49 AM #
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© Copyright
2002
Will Leshner.
Last update:
3/20/02; 7:39:50 AM.
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