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Skriven 2014-12-15 12:28:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: variability 433
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-13-14  07:54 <=-

 ML>> but it was sleeting, and we decided to go someplace closer
 ML>> to minimize the driving. We ended up at the Witch's Brew
 ML>> (possibly Witches' Brew), where we got various seafood
 NB>> Sounds like a wise decision... sleeting driving isn't much fun..
 ML> Of course, the person with the car had to eventually drive
 ML> home in worsening conditions, but that wasn't to be avoided
 ML> except by cancelling the meeting altogether.

One does what one must...  And some drivers are more intrepid than
others...  ;)  And the worsening conditions would have been even more
hairy had you gone further away...  ;)
 
 ML>> things - in a fit of optimism I ordered baked scallops,
 ML>> which were not the erasers that I feared but not the sweet
 ML>> creatures I hoped for, either.
 NB>> At least they were real... and, I trust, not too badly baked,
 NB>> either....?  ;)  How did they do with the other seafood items..? 
 ML> The others at table seemed to enjoy their giant helpings, but
 ML> it wasn't a sharing crowd, so I didn't get tastes (I offered
 ML> scallops around but was rebuffed politely, but no reciprocity
 ML> was forthcoming). They both ate precisely half of their meals
 ML> and took the rest in styro takeout containers for next day.

I've known that type... ;)   A couple we regularly eat out with is 
like that... I've been known to ask for a taste of something totally
intriging, but it's not usually offered, and they'd politely refuse my
offers, usually...  

Did they express at all how good things were...?  

 ML>> Daikon should have a little kick, but I don't recall any
 ML>> that had the level of bite of a regular radish. I'd probably
 ML>> like it, though.
 NB>> I'd expect you would.  This actually had close to the actual bite
 NB>> of a regular radish, enough so that I accused it of being such at
 NB>> first... ;)  I was quickly put right, though.  It was very nice,
 NB>> even if a bit unexpected... 
 ML> There's always evolutionary variation, but given the
 ML> tendency toward debasement, adding character is infrequent
 ML> compared to blanding down. 

Fu explained the extra kick as coming from it being raw... having never
had it raw before, I figured that was reasonable...  Raw regular
radishes are much spicier than if one cooks them...  :)

 ML> One remembers the case of green bell peppers, which used to have
 ML> actual capsaicin in their interiors, but that nastiness was
 ML> rapidly bred out when the farmers looked to increase the market
 ML> presence of that vegetable.
 
Blanding down is perceived as being more acceptable...  sigh...  

 ML>> I always thought that VOIP should be just as regulated
 ML>> as anything else and would not mind if substantial levies
 ML>> were made against the companies to pay for that regulation.
 NB>> Likewise...  although you know that the levies would be passed on to
 NB>> the customers in whatever ways they could...  Not so much a problem
 NB>> when regards the scammers/telemarketers, perhaps...
 ML> Of course they would. I'd not be against paying for such
 ML> a layer of protection and also the falling-by-the-wayside
 ML> of those who wouldn't comply.

If I thought it might really reduce the scammers etc... yeah, it could
be a beneficial thing...  ;)

 ML>> I couldn't find it, but then there was a big concert
 ML>> weekend, and when I don't download for a few days,
 ML>> often things get lost between the cracks. So thanks.
 NB>> It never made it to Docs (or Outpost, for that matter)..  Dunno why
 NB>> she's having problems getting things up and out... at least, since I'm
 NB>> now also pulling a packet from one of her downlinks, I'm seeing the
 NB>> ones that at least leave her bbs that direction...  :)
 ML> This kind of issue begins to run outside my field of
 ML> competency, and I'm glad it's been addressed by the
 ML> higher-ups in the administration, as I'd not know whom
 ML> exactly to discuss it with. Interesting that this odd
 ML> incident occurred on the heels of a discussion that
 ML> touches on the topic.

First one loses messages, then one gets inundated by extraneous ones...
at least the latter wasn't connected with carol...  I don't know any
more than you how to deal with such... all I bring to it is observation,
which I gladly pass on to those who can and hopefully will take care of
things...  ;)  

ttyl        neb

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