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Hello, Fluffsters!
I’m just needing to share why I am currently confused.
Google is using Spanish advertisements for me.
Yup. That’s the most confusing thing for me at the moment. WHY am I getting advertisements that I not only don’t understand the purpose of (as with many) but also don’t understand the language of?
Anywho. Happy Thursday!
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Greetings, readers.
As a public service announcement, I thought I would provide an example of an overreaction to a spider in the house. In other words, do not try to kill it with fire. You might burn your house down.
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Greetings, readers.
The other day, I found a remarkable conspiracy about two actors conspiring to assassinate Hitler.
It is unique.
I hope you have a happy Tuesday.
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Hello, Fluffsters!
So, I have a silly little dog. I’ve been recently realizing how silly she really is.
What sparks this? Well, dinner time for the doggy.
I’ve known for a while she isn’t quite normal when it comes to food. Back when we had the other dog as well, we needed to tell her to eat, otherwise the other dog would (try to) eat her food. These days, since we’re not worrying about the older dog eating her food, we just let her have her own schedule. She’ll (probably) eat when she’s hungry, so she seems to be doing ok.
But that’s not the funny part. No, the silliness comes when she is eating. Because, you see, for some reason she does not seem to want to eat her food out of her dish. I think it’s the (probable) French Poodle in her. She seems to need “the right ambiance” before she’ll eat. So, recently, I’ve noticed the little thing take a mouthful of food, trot all the way across the house, deposit the food on the floor, and then eat it.
Because that makes perfect sense.
Happy Monday!
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Greetings, readers!
I have recently discovered an interesting musical artist from your world. He is called Weird Al Yankovic. I discovered his song “The Saga Begins.” It is a Star Wars themed song, and it is set to the tune of a different song that apparently used to be quite popular on your world.
This is the original version:
And this is the Star Wars version:
I hope you have an excellent week.
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Greetings, readers!
In honor of it being the weekend, and therefore of you having more time, I am sharing with you a video I watched recently. To be more accurate, it is an episode of a TV series called Chopped.
The premise seems to be that four chefs, on television, are given ingredients they must incorporate into a specific category of dish. (For example, appetizer or dessert.) Then one of them is eliminated. This happens three times during the show, until one winner remains.
In this episode, the viewers of the show chose the ingredients. This led to a rather amusing episode. Certainly the first 17 minutes or so were rather interesting. Actually, the next two to three minutes (when you find out the next set of ingredients) were also fantastic.
The creativity of the chefs is also astonishing. I encourage you to watch the episode. If you want to, of course.
I hope you have a good Saturday.
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Once again, we’re featuring a Kickstarter campaign on Total Fluff. However, this campaign is a real campaign that asked for a more reasonable amount. (Not the $10 egg salad campaign.)
Its purpose is wonderful.
Some guy invented a way to fill lots of water balloons really quickly. Now he’s making his invention for sale. Ok, so really, some time ago he said that he would make his invention available if he got funding on kickstarter. But since he’s at over 20 times his goal, and it’s still growing, it’s pretty safe to say that he’s making his invention for sale. So, yeah. You should
It would be fun to fill that many water balloons that quickly!
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Greetings, readers.
For today’s Fluff, I am going to share with you a link to an image of the new Hobbit movie poster.
While we are on the category of The Hobbit, however, I thought I would take this opportunity to complain a bit.
From my arrival at this location, I have been a fan of Tolkein’s works. I have read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. I enjoy the stories and the elegant prose. Tokein has a way of telling story that I truly wish my Family’s author could experience. Our productions, already very highly acclaimed in our world, might improve.
However, I have been quite confused by Peter Jackson’s film-making decisions. I do not understand what audience he is trying to cater to. If he was truly trying to cater to the fans of the stories, he would not have changed the story of The Hobbit quite so much. If he were aiming to impress the originally intended audience of the hobbit– children– he would have kept the name of the third one “The Hobbit: There and Back Again.”
Instead, he has been all over with the movie decisions. In some places the movies are high fantasy, which works well with the fans of the original movies. In other places, however, he incorporates truly goofy aspects that are ridiculous and jarring. For example, in The Desolation of Smaug, what is up with the “spider-surfing” elves? In a similar vein, there is a moment in the barrel scene where another empty barrel just seems to arbitrarily appear. It serves no point.
I actually liked those scenes. They were lighthearted. And funny.
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Despite these problems, however, the graphics designers and special effects artists have talent. The poster looks impressive.
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Greetings, readers!
I hope this week is finding you well.
I recently encountered an interesting set of selfies. They are surprisingly well done photographs. The woman involved uses her mirror to make actual pieces of art with her reflection, and various pictures she draws on her mirror and interacts with. You might enjoy looking at them.
Happy Wednesday.
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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Tuesday!
So, last night (aka, when I’m writing this), I had one of the most amazing experiences. (That might be a slight exaggeration. But anywho.) It was certainly one of the most amazing experiences of the evening, though. So that works.
Now, “what is this experience?” you might be asking. Well, I’ll tell you.
I baked “PB & J Pie Pockets”. (My own term.)
I was experimenting a bit with pie-crust baking. As you may recall, I did a bit of that last winter. But it’s been a while, so I wasn’t sure if I remembered how. And I don’t have the recipe that I used then. And I’m in a different place. So I wanted to see if I could make a pie-crust.
I ended up using this all butter recipe. The “All Butter” thing was a bit new to me, actually. I’d previously used a Crisco recipe. And I was hand-mixing stuffs instead of using a blender like suggested. So I was already a little unsure about the recipe.
And then the dough ended up not going to the “crumble” stage of mixing- it went to a very smooth consistency very quickly. So I got really worried, and thought I’d over-mixed the dough. Which is bad. I’d heard that over-mixed dough tastes (and feels) a lot like cardboard.
Nonetheless, I decided to press on. So I let it chill, then rolled it out, and cut out 8 circles with a cup.
I put a tad of peanut butter & jelly into four of the circles, and pressed another circle of pie dough on top to cover it up and try to keep the delightful stickiness from squishing out while being cooked. I put them in the oven for about 12-15 minutes (I don’t remember) at 375.
When they came out, they were visibly flaky. (Which is the sign of a good crust.) They also sounded flaky when I took them off of the lined cookie sheet.
Letting them cool was a bit difficult, since I really wanted to try one. Fortunately there were some towels to put away and an email or three to write.
By the time I was done with those tasks, the pies were cooled. And I tried one, and it was fantastic. (If I do say so myself.) The crust was light and flaky, and so tasty. The peanut-butter and strawberry jelly also made the pie pockets quite excellent.
So long story short, it was a very good evening.