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Tasty Burgers

I made this recipe up as I went along. My boyfriend ate them all and he said they were the best burgers he’d had in about 10 years. But then not to be too complimentary or anything he added “but maybe that was just because I was really hungry”.

I started with regular ground beef from Fresh Direct, not lean or sirloin-just chuck and less than a pound. You can use more but the more meat you use the more garlic and onion and spices you’ll need.This was one of those days were I just did not want to go to the market so I fished out whatever I had in the fridge…so don’t feel trapped by my measurements and amounts-they’re just a guideline.

I got out a big bowl and dumped the block of beef in then I added Italian seasoned breadcrumbs,2 eggs,liberal Worcestershire sauce,salt,pepper,chopped half of a red onion and 2 cloves of garlic,minced,fresh tarragon (about 4 leaves,snipped up with scissors) and a generous amount of olive oil to help in getting the beef to blend with the other ingredients. I used half a cup of breadcrumbs and the 2 eggs as an extender because A. can eat a lot and the package of meat was small.

I energetically mixed it all up with a fork.As I was mixing I added a splash more olive oil and a dash more breadcrumbs.Then I slapped the mixture into medium sized balls and plopped them in a hot pan.
I sliced some Swiss cheese and placed them on top.The burgers fried for about 5 minutes on the meat side and 1 minute on the the cheesy side.Then I turned on my toaster oven and scooped the hamburgers into a pan and let them cook at a lowish heat(300 degrees) about 15 to 25 minutes.

Because I used a small amount of beef the patties were more like large meatballs and this amount of cooking time ought to be enough for even those who fear undercooked burger meat.I too read Fast Food Nation.I also treat ground beef like it is a radioactive substance.This is why I feel better about buying antibiotic-free or free range or organic when our budget allows.

Additional ingredients
Fancy rolls,sliced tomatoes and lettuce leaves.

Avoid this movie

Trouble Every Day

The plot is the kind of maddening, meandering crap that makes you want to kick something.
Vincent Gallo,the lead, does a lot of staring in this movie.Everyone in this movie does a lot of staring.I suppose director Claire Denis thought that providing coherent dialogue to go along with all the staring would have been “too obvious” or something.
Vincent plays a honeymooning in Paris American doctor who suffers from the same affliction as his old girlfriend, a woman married to another doctor,a former colleague of Vincent’s who is trying to cure the affliction:the need to eat people and have sex with them at the same time.
The female cannibal enjoys going roaming and eating people but Vincent doesn’t.He takes pills and avoids his wife in bed and starts mooning after the French hotel maid instead.His wife copes by sleeping a lot.

The blurb on the DVD cover promised that Vincent and his former girlfriend were going to go on a bloody rampage together.But they got it wrong.The woman goes on a bloody rampage on her own but old Vincent shows up after it’s over.She lights a fire in her house,Vincent drops by for a chat and she tries to bite him but he shoves her down and she catches on fire,presumably expiring.He leaves and the dead woman’s husband walks in to the burning house.The fact that Vincent never gets to talk to this guy totally deflates the urgency built up around their meeting.The fact that Vincent seems to spend days trying to find this couple yet has about 2 minutes screen time with her is just irritating.It was the one solid plot device handed to us and it goes nowhere.Ok,she was so far gone that she wanted to screw and eat Vincent.But why could he not have had a talk with her husband?
Movies that end abruptly like this, having settled nothing plot wise,are annoying.I know they’re supposed to be artsy but it looks more like they ran out of money and had to stop filming.

I was going to use a still from the movie but I found this picture. It’s a beauty.

No Input File Selected Oddity

I tried to view my website about an hour and a half ago and all I got was a blank white page with the message “no input file specified”.No matter what page I tried to see as long as it was a php file I got this message.I could see jpgs and html pages.
So I checked the database and all the files and everything was neatly in its place.
Then I searched “no input file specified” to see what came up.

I found this suggestion, create a custom php.ini and put it in the root,containing this little line:cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;
Once my website decided to load I couldn’t login to the dashboard. And I had to refresh each page about 4 times before no input file message would clear off and load the page.20 minutes later though, I was able to login again and it was as if the problem had never been.Back to normal then? But I have no idea if adding a php.ini file to the root(as well as the admin folder) helped or if this was something caused by my host.

More searches turned up a boatload of various forums with posts about this issue.Some suggestions were to put a question mark after index.php.But since WP writes the .htaccess file correctly using Request Filename I also read that using a question mark after index.php is unnecessary.
So basically I don’t know why this happened or if it will happen again.
Boring.

Please Mind Your Manners

“People often think the tone or emotion in their messages is obvious because they ‘hear’ the tone they intend in their head as they write,” Epley explains.

At the same time, those reading messages unconsciously interpret them based on their current mood, stereotypes and expectations. Despite this, the research subjects thought they accurately interpreted the messages nine out of 10 times.

The reason for this is egocentrism, or the difficulty some people have detaching themselves from their own perspective, says Epley. In other words, people aren’t that good at imagining how a message might be understood from another person’s perspective.
from
The Secret Cause of Flame Wars,Stephen Leahy,Wired.com

I was going to post a link to an unpleasantness in the wp-shoppingcart plugin forum but the thread was cleaned up.Which is good even if it erased my awesome answer to the flame up I got for no reason other than the guy is half a crazy pill short of punching old ladies “for looking at me funny”.

But this is the problem with forums isn’t it?

Your Basic Forum Spoilers

The Misanthrope.
This guy has no friends and is an ugly little bastard without a girlfriend.His attitude and responses are such that he could only be single and living in his Grannie’s basement.No workplace,woman or social group would put up with him in real life so he gets his kicks blasting people in an internet forum.
Republican.

The Guy Who Knows The Answer But Will Not Tell You
He just doesn’t feel like it.But he will post about why he doesn’t feel like it.And he will nitpick your spelling and or grammar.
Might also be a Republican.

The Look At Me Guy
This person, desperate for attention,9 times out of 10 will bait and flame or scold innocent parties.
If he ever does try to answer a question it’s usually just parroted information that is garbled and misspelled.He is a person of low intellect and should be avoided.The problem is he is so ubiquitous that he is hard to avoid.
He is too busy in the forums to vote.

The Parasite
The parasite also knows very little but he has buddied up to someone who seems to know everything.
Similar to the Look At Me Guy he will parrot garbled information or he will chirp “ask the Know It All Guy”. In fact,he wants to be the Know It All Guy but he is too stupid.
Too stupid to vote.

The OmG,Know It All Guy, YOu ArE A GoD Girl
This person means well but they do harm in that that puff up an already swollen head.
Might be a liberal,it’s hard to tell.

The Know It All Guy
A big fish in a small pond or rather the one person who has it all figured out and generously shares his knowledge with others,at first but soon becomes overwhelmed and may de volve into The Guy Who Knows The Answer But Will Not Tell You.Usually there can be only one Know It All Guy per forum but in larger more populated forums there are several and sometimes they fight with each other to the amusement of of silly people.
Libertarian.