Just some questions that popped into my head:

[capri0mni]

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[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Here is an impromptu confectionary for you. I haven't done it in a while because I tend not to keep this kind of thing in the house.

1. Toast a toaster waffle.
2. Spread a thin layer of canned frosting on it.
3. Spread ice cream over that.
4. Eat it before it gets too soggy and melty.

I imagine your powdered-milk-and-cocoa concoction would be rather nice spread on waffles.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I imagine your powdered-milk-and-cocoa concoction would be rather nice spread on waffles.

Oh, yes.

One thing I did for a brief time, years ago, was make a luscious desert out of unfrosted pop-tarts (I haven't seen the unfrosted ones in ages -- they're all coated with sugar now:

Toast !Unfrostested! strawberry, cherry, or raspberry pop-tarts. While they are still finger-burny hot, place them on a plate (use tongs, maybe, or hot mitts) and arrange a single layer of semi-sweet chocolate chips on top. Watch and wait in anticipation until the chips just start to get shiny. Then spread them into a smooth frosting over the top, and enjoy the rich lusciousness.

But really, though, my definition of "Impromptu confectionary" is what you do when you're craving waffles, and have none in the house -- winging some approximation with whatever you have on hand. ...I once made "chocolate truffles" that were edible, if not gourmet, out of an instant potato flakes base.

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I have no opinions.

I keep 42 interests at all times. ;-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Stereo-typically, women are supposed to have their sense of crisis hit when they're 40. My crisis hit when I was 42.

[jekesta]

WHY ARE EVERYONE WRONG ABOUT KEEPING INTERESTS AND FRIENDS EQUAL????? I am surprised by the voting there.

I always have 147 because it's a maximum break in snooker and therefore the BEST NUMBER, but otherwise keeping things equal is WINNING.

You're right about chimeras. It's a shiny word for all its things.

Once you stop worrying about friending people it is very happy because you can change your friendslist around at a whim, and also if everyone worries about friending livejournal will DIE and you don't want that. Unless you do.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

WHY ARE EVERYONE WRONG ABOUT KEEPING INTERESTS AND FRIENDS EQUAL?????

Maybe I made a mistake by inserting the word "just" into that sentence, and I should add friends and interests together for many reasons?

This is what is wrong with dualism.

and also if everyone worries about friending livejournal will DIE and you don't want that. Unless you do.

This is very true and important. It's an example of Kant's Categorical Imperative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative), which my father always said was even better than the Golden Rule, because it was the Golden Rule all Grown-Up. Kant's wording is a bit stiff and fuddy-duddy. But Dad defined it this way: "If you want the whole world to do something, do yourself, first."

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Because I am tired to the point of exhaustion and cannot believe no one has made the obvious comment yet (unless they have, and I am so behind that I missed it, in which case I beg the court's indulgence for the aforementioned reasons):

I think that if you have 57 interests and 57 friends, you clearly need 57 varieties to go with them.

Yeah, I'll get my coat...

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Heh. No one's made that comment before you, but that was one reason, in the back of my head, for not adding any more friends or interests...

Of course, that begs the question: 57 varieties of what?

(I'm wondering, now, if this little exchange makes any sense at all to the British people who've responded, or if this is an entirely American joke).

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Oh, Heinz exists in the UK. And the Heinz Baked Beans (UK) magnet I have on my fridge says "57 Varieties" right at the bottom.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

...

I should probably start with the assumption that if it's American, people around the world know about it, huh?

[barbarafett.livejournal.com]

I just added "month-long challenges" to my own interests, so it should turn into a blue-clicky soon if it hasn't already. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yay!!