Meat, we want MEAT!

You and me both, Kani! I know I've been espousing the joys of buffalo and ostrich the last few posts, but man-o-man, right now I could really go for some nice tender lamb or some seriously crispy duck.

I've actually never tried it on the bar-b-burner yet. I lurves me my Foreman grill, and that's pretty much the way I've been cookin' my meats since I got with the George-man's program.

First time I ever tried ostrich was at the Ren Faire in Ohio in the early 90's. Loved it from the first bite, but I couldn't tell you how they cooked it except to say that it was a drumstick! First time I ever tried buffalo? Last night, and it was one of the best cuts of meat I'd ever had.

God, I wish I wasn't such a dedicated carnivore.

Just not dry duck. Peking Duck tomorrow for moi. Damn you.

Feel the duck love.
Live the duck love.

Love the duck.

An wil U hav ranch wit dat? Kuz kitteh do lyk hrr ranch!

My problem with the prof was this....

I understood his position that we needed to think outside of the box. But sometimes, we needed to have a frame of reference INSIDE the box before we could start thinking outside the box. He wasn't giving us the frame of reference.

I am also a teacher so it was that that he took into account in my personal arguement with him that eventually made him start to answer my questions. I wasn't asking him for the whole chicken, just a feather or two...

No ranch with the duck. I still need to lose the weight you already dropped. Bitches.

And just out of curiosity what don't YOU (lia) eat with ranch?

:::hangs hed::: poop. So sorry! Kitteh wayvz wand; mayks wayt go thee eff ay-way!
Umm ... Sam? Wait, no!!! I mean ... seriously ... seriously?

Marcel!!!!!

GOOD TRY!!!!! You need to do some figurin to find Mols/g (Stoichiometry). You'd need to know the chemical structure and weights to do so (Chemistry). Also need to understand the krebs cycle and how many ATPs generated from phosphorylization of one glucose molecule (biology). Heck don't wander back there, c'mon up front and play with the rest of the brainiacs! It's fun!!!

Thanks for the answer to the Gym question. I wonder what it is that motivates folks to do what they do. Being a working stiff...$400 is out of my reach, so have to fall back on my ingenuity and know how to Git-er-done. I'm not really knocking Jackie's gym, just trying to justify $400 for a trainer who really doesn't have the education to back that kind of $$$. It really is interesting to see different perceptions to this questions. Exactly what is it that draws clients? Looks? Fame? Some folks have said she's a great motivator...I watched the same show, and saw lots of lesbian drama...not a whole lotta motivating. I heard her say the word "motivate" in a few sentences, but didn't really see what she was talking about. I musta got up to go use the potty or something and missed it.

Admittedly, sometimes PhD stands for 'Piled Higher and Deeper" Depends entirely on the individual who earned the letters. My favorite profs in my tenure as a student (actually when you stop being a student, somehow you get a whole lot closer to death) were the truly tough ones. The ones where you had to go above and beyond to earn your grade and forced to do research for answers...and sometimes went as far as to set students up to fail some tasks.

There was a lesson behind ever moment. What I got out of it was that no matter how good I thought I was, there was always going to be someone either moving up the ranks close behind me or there was going to be someone slightly ahead of me. Therefor, my toughest competition would always be myself as well as my toughest critic.

I can see the point of being frustrated at a prof who "never gave out an A". Seems the guy was a tad lazy in sticking to the standards he set. There has to be a high end and a low end in the scale of general students' abilities. If he had to doctor the scale to keep to his "no A" policy, then yeah, I'd be pissed too.

But if this guy had told you from the get-go that it wasn't a grade you should be after, it's excellence...define excellence. Once you achieve it, what do you do next?

I'm having a rough time with the concept of "giving" answers. The whole idea of higher academia is to push, prod, poke students to become free thinkers. To have the ability to take new knowledge and apply it as opposed to regurgitate.

Do I give "A's"? Yes, when earned through hard work and original thought. Do I give out my answers as the ultimate truth...Hell no. All I give are guidelines to get to possible answers. The students who really are interested in the subject or field of study discuss their findings with me. The ones who are there for a grade get one. Maybe not the one they wanted, but the one they earned. It's a style of teaching called guided discovery. Very difficult to do, but much more rewarding in the long run for everyone involved.

I know being a student is tough...been there. Try it all from the other side of the podium...it ain't for sissies :-)

My problem with the prof was this....

I understood his position that we needed to think outside of the box. But sometimes, we needed to have a frame of reference INSIDE the box before we could start thinking outside the box. He wasn't giving us the frame of reference.

I am also a teacher so it was that that he took into account in my personal arguement with him that eventually made him start to answer my questions. I wasn't asking him for the whole chicken, just a feather or two...

ACTUALL OFG

KINDA LIKE WHERE I AM WITH ME O'L POINTED HAT

IT'S ALL GOOD YOU LIKE ALL THE CALCULATIONS

AND RESEARCH NEEDED

I'M A LITTLE PAST THAT AT THIS POINT

AS I HAVEN'T GAZED AT AN ELEMENTAL CHART IN YEARS

AND REALLY DON'T WANT TO LOL

THE ORIGINAL POST I HAD REPLIED TO YOU WITH

GOT GLITCHED OUT AS DID THE ORIGINAL TO THIS LOL

I REITERATED IN THE LATER THAT THE ONE ADVANTAGE TEACHERS

HAVE IS THE BOOK WITH ALL THE ANSWERS LOL

UNFORTUNATELY I'VE FOUND IN INSTANCES LIKE THIS

THE ANSWERS NEGLECT ONE VARIABLE

THE METABOLIC RATE OF INDIVIDUALS

HERES AN EXAMPLE

I HAVE A FRIEND WHO EATS THREE HEAPING BOWLS OF RICE

THREE TIMES A DAY

HE ISN'T AN ATHLETE ON THE CONTRARY HE'S A PUTER GEEK

MED BUILD NOT MUSCULAR NOT FAT

THE ADDED CARBS HAVE NO ILL EFFECTS ON HIM

BECAUSE HE HAS A FAST METABOLISM

NOW ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN

WHEN I COMPETIVELY CYCLED

TEAM MEMBER ATE RELATIVELY NORMAL SERVINGS OF ANYTHING

AND ONLY ON DAYS PRIOR TO AN EVENT WOULD START CARBO LOADING

AS THIER METABOLISMS WERE PRETTY MUCH NORMAL

AND WEIGHT GAIN WAS A CONCERN

SO THOUGH SCIENTIFIC ANALISIS OF A MOL OF STARCH MAY PROVE TO

BE INTERESTING

DOES ONE REALLY "NEED" TO HAVE THAT FINITE SUM AT HAND

ESSPECIALLY SINCE IT WOULD ONLY HAVE GENERIC APPLICATIONS?

NOW WITH THAT SAID

ARE YOU SURE YOU WOULD WANT ME UP THERE WITH ALL YA BRAINIACS?

HMMMMMMM

THEN AGAIN I HAVE TO WONDER....

THAT INVITATION COULD BE CONSTRUED AS SOMETHING INSULTING,,

BUT WHAT THE HECK THAT'S WHY I HAVE THE POINTED HAT



NO PROBLEM JMO FOR WHAT IT IS WORTH

TO ME EXERCISE IN ANY FORM

DONE DILIGENTLY FOR AT LEAST 20 TO 30 MINS A DAY

IS ALL GOOD

TAKE CARE OVER THERE

ALOHA

HAVE FUN

OK, Ohio and I have gone on and on about our lesbian selves, how about you tell us about your Bravo male harem. Who's in Lia's all star line up? Let me start - Stephen. Continue.

Gotta 'splain it too me, Lucy.

You want to know who'd I put in my harem amongst the bravo male stars or do you want me to think of which guy I'd set up with Lia if I could?

If I had to make a harem, I'd be hard pressed to think of any of them as sexual objects, but if I had a chance to set-up Lia, I'd have to say, Dave MArtin, maybe. I love his attitude all through season one of TC and just think he's a big ol teddy bear kinda guy...the kind I'd love to get to know...fun, artistic, non-diva-ish...down-to-earth, cool guy.

If there's another list I should be picking from, you'd have to fill me in.

On the gym question, what is it that you think drives folks to spend $400 per session at Jackie's gym?


Martha Stewart, way back when before she was "Martha" decided she wanted to start a business selling her baked goods. Pies I believe it was. At first they were priced reasonably but they just weren't moving. What she did next seems counterintuitive to me but it worked. She made her price point higher, much higher. The pies took off. The rest is Martha Stewart history, or mythology if you prefer.
There is a market out there for everything. Jackie is not aiming her business at the work a day people. Her's is the very specialized niche of the Hollywood market, the rich and famous, the richer and more famous the better. To them, $400 per session is chump change. Their bodies are their "instrument," their bread and butter. That $400 per season might be worth every penny to them. Who knows. Spending money on a device that is slowly killing you seems crazy to me but people still smoke like chimneys. Buying giant plasma TVs, considering the state of television programming seems wasteful. But in our economic system, if the market can bear it and your business is successful than I say congrats to her on identifying a NEED that she is addressing. Were Martha's pies any BETTER at the higher price? Of course not but the perception of them from the buying public did change.

Here's a question along the same lines. If they stopped selling cars tomorrow, would anyone really NEED a new car the day after?

So, the more it costs, the better it must be? or...the more the other guy has, the more I need it?

I am admittedly naive in the business and marketing world. Kinda amazes me how it's like leading sheep to the slaughter house. We don't know where we're goin, but if the whole flock is headed that way, must be right?

Hence, my take of Jackie and her gym is that she's an awesome business woman. Kudos to her!

Ahh, but you're not naive in the business and marketing world. You watch tv which is just a big device for selling anything and everything. You have to eat and unless you live totally off the land, you go to the grocery store and make business decisions every time. You have pets, yes, so you make business decisions concerning them all the time. You understand how emotions affect those business decisions concerning the health and well being of your pets. You market yourself by the clothes you wear, the car you drive, the place you live. It is the very nature of our American society that we are all well versed in business and marketing. Some are just better at taking advantage of people's desires and emotional insecurities. Whether it's paying $400 for a session with Jackie or buying scads of nail polish off ebay, who's to say whether it's worth it or not.

AMERICA, I love it.

On the gym question, what is it that you think drives folks to spend $400 per session at Jackie's gym?

Status!!! To be able to say you did............

Hey Aq! Welcome back!

Status? Wow, that would be so sad. I mean, believing that spending more money on something makes it more valued or valid.

I guess I'm more grateful for being a working stiff. I can't imagine having to live that way, but it does shed light on maybe why some folks who win the lottery end up bankrupt in a few years.

Psssst......It's Kani's Birthday today.....make a secret wish for her.....pass it on.....

~secret Kani Wish: I wish Kani has a big buffalo burger with a side of peking duck and a slice of blackberry pie and gets to eat it in her birthday suit today~

Can I get that buffalo burger marinated in pomegranate glaze, I think it would be oh so tastee.

I heard a very astute observation about big payoff lottery winners. It went along the lines of if you were good with money before the lottery, you would be just as good after winning. If you couldn't save a penny or live paycheck to paycheck, blowing thru millions in a short amount of time would be a piece of cake for you.

OK, Ohio and I have gone on and on about our lesbian selves, how about you tell us about your Bravo male harem. Who's in Lia's all star line up? Let me start - Stephen. Continue.

... but if I had a chance to set-up Lia, I'd have to say, Dave MArtin, maybe. I love his attitude all through season one of TC and just think he's a big ol teddy bear kinda guy...the kind I'd love to get to know...fun, artistic, non-diva-ish...down-to-earth, cool guy.

Happy Birthday...........how about something chocolate???

:::ponders:::

Hmm ... I guess I wouldn't call it a harem so much as a club, or maybe even a "clique," since the only thing the card carrying gay guys will do with me is shop! Now, we're talking Bravo only, right?

Ok, here's the roster, then, in no particular order ...

From Top Chef:

Stephen Asprinio
Ken Lee (yeah, I know--he was an a$$, but he was still kinda hot)
Sam Talbot

From Project Runway:

Daniel Franco
Austin Scarlett
Nick Verreos
Michael Knight
Keith Michael

From Shear Genius:

Theodore (he's from Canton, Ohio, my hometown, so he's totally grandfathered in)

From Top Design:

Absolutely no one. That show wasn't good any way you slice it. Measure twice; cut once; yawn indefinitely.

And to keep 'em all in line when I'm not around? Why, Tim Gunn, of course! Meetings held every Thursday at the local Red Lobster.

So, that's it, really. Kind of uninteresting, and no real shockers, there--at least I don't think so!

~L~

Psssst......It's Kani's Birthday today.....make a secret wish for her.....pass it on.....

~not-so-secret Kani Wish


More like this pleae!

~not-so-secret Kani Wish




More like this pleae!

Wow. Is that Michelle Rodriguez? I totally never would've guessed. So much for Bravo peeps!

Woman in Tank Top = Kani Lust

Well, yeah, I get that, and much woman-in-tank-top-lustage to you on ye olde b-day.

But, still--is it Michelle Rodriguez?

Well, yeah, I get that, and much woman-in-tank-top-lustage to you on ye olde b-day.

But, still--is it Michelle Rodriguez?

She cleans up nicely!

WOW! That's nice to look at! The hair...the smile....the curves....Good Choice!

She is yummy, no?

Yes, but I have to admit that the scruffy one appeals more to me than the glamorous one.

Ah, you like the "just in from the fields" look. Good to know.

Really good try! The question is designed to get someone to mentally learn how to crawl before they try walking around with the information. Unless you were into a scientific or medical field, of course you wouldn't be into the periodic chart...takes a rare breed (sometimes even strange and/or geeky breed) indeed to see the beauty of it. The information that is not there regarding an individual's metabolic rate isn't in the question, because you have to get through the basic, general stuff...and have a solid understanding of it, before advancing deeper into the next level of inquiry. Tht question posed was derived to scratch the surface...get someone "thinking" about possibilities...apparently it is a better one than I originally thought. I've totally enjoyed your take on it and your ability to look into it. Thank you!!!

On the gym question, what is it that you think drives folks to spend $400 per session at Jackie's gym?