1. ooh macaroons! but seriously $1.60/each is an unsustainable habit. i'll add macaroon ingredients to the ziplist.
2. seriously, up all night was not good. we, like lorna michaels, kept expecting it to get better, to actually be better than what we saw. but it actually was what it was.
3. i was all heartwarmed thinking of law schools actually doing good. but then it seemed more like they're employing graduates like interns - charging half price to their own schools but not paying the students much, not helping the low-income (because $150/hr is a lot even for people like us to pay a lawyer) and possibly putting other law firms out of business with their low prices but also low salaries. heart not as warmed anymore.
4. surprisingly the liberal retort to this article was that unemployment was not that bad - that it had already dropped to 7.9% showing we're on an awesome recovery. this was confusing to me since 7.9% still seems terrible. but i also wanted to see what real unemployment looked like - is 23% real unemployment historically bad? turns out, unsurprisingly, yes. also, real unemployment seems to be increasing.
also, are hotels unsafe? that quote kinda stuck out at me? are people getting mugged outside their hotel rooms? inside their hotel rooms?
5. the stylist video - i didn't think i would like it so much either - and it would certainly be more my cup of tea than yours. but it was so amazing - and i think the comments read this too - that a parent would take a seemingly ridiculous dream for a 7-year old but give him a little fantasy day for it. and the fashion people all took him seriously too. and her remarks about how proud she seems to be of him. aww. it was kinda like a thing that would only happen on tv but it was all real people. i totally like that article.
6. you didn't like the nicolas cage video?!?!?!!?
7. we can always look for a boston cream donut recipe if you like.
1. Are macaroons the next cupcakes?
ReplyDelete2. Sometimes aspiration carries you further than you think. Just ask the WNBA.
3. It's a work in progress. The way I described the model was with something as straightforward as a mortgage loan negotiation. Prior to the financial crisis, people would get loans whose default (i.e. original, not what happens in the event of nonpayment) terms would include crazy things like prepayment penalties, teaser rates that would later blow up, and other nonsense. How easy in this case would it be to give a lawyer $250 (or maybe even less, depending on the transaction) to come with you, review the terms of the agreement, and make sure you didn't get screwed? It would be easier in the case of a mortgage because you could add legal fees to the amount borrowed (what's $250 or even $500 to make sure that a $250k loan doesn't blow up in your face?). The problem with their model is that the fundamental cause of the problem - the high cost of a legal education. Honestly, I don't have a problem with forcing other lawyers to reduce costs. Ultimately there should be several tiers of lawyer that address the needs of different kinds of people. We'll still get paid because we provide large amounts of value to large corporations, but there could be a such thing as a lawyer who makes $40k in Arizona who helps people negotiate homes and cars.
4. It used to be standard for the bellhop or some other hotel rep to walk you to your room, threat of crime or not.
6. I don't know if I like the video because I haven't watched it. :P
7. And the real reason I replied to this - I don't know if you understand the doughnut recipe. A Boston cream doughnut is simply a doughnut (like the recipe) filled with vanilla cream that topped with chocolate frosting instead of coated with sugar. All we need to do is make the doughnuts in the recipe you sent and coat the top with chocolate frosting. It's that simple.
Oh, and I don't like your tone wrt the vacuum vs. stand mixer debate. I've actually mentioned buying a vacuum on several occasions, and you told me that you were just going to get one from your parents. Well, I don't see a vacuum, and I'm tired of my floor looking like crap.