Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

Not if it is true that Sebby really is an excellent masturbator. See Gentile v. State Bar of Nevada.

AbsinthegalapagosIslands.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

We talking speed and accuracy, or distance? One can never be too cautious in ethics matters.

Re: Top Chef
 

I didn't hate the new format for the finale. Kind of cool for the judges to get to watch the chefs work. Although it was weird the timing was so condensed (we didn't see them work out their menus or anything).

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I really wanted Brooke to win. I used to be a regular in one of her and her husband's restaurants (though he was the chef in the kitchen there) and I really liked her personality on the show this season. Though I probably would have preferred Kristin's dishes too in the finale meal...

Re: Top Chef
 

It just felt like they weren't really the ones cooking, as they had to oversee a staff preparing 160 of everything all at once.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

What is the criteria for this? Style? Speed?

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

I find it interesting that nobody has suggested volume of output as a benchmark.

Re: Top Chef
 

I agree. The problem wasn't so much the live-audience format (though I didn't like that either), but the quantity that they were preparing. I don't think I've seen that before, and I didn't like it.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

In that category, the performance enhancing drug (mass doses of Vitamin E) is too easy to obtain. We have enough Lance Armstrongs already.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

Well, my brother finally died. It was a couple of weeks ago. People at a loss to say often say things like "it was time" or "he's in a better place" and in this case it was certainly true. There was none of the "dignity in dying" crap, and he wasn't very comfortable. He just died, slowly, painfully, and unable to move or communicate. It was pretty horrible.

The hospice nurses were pretty, so I suppose that part was good.

I don't have any short-term plans. I'll stick around here for a bit to help my mom adjust, for sure. Shortly before my brother's Final Descent a former colleague had contacted me about a job that paid really well, the first of its kind for me. I had to turn it down. Given how difficult things had been for me for a time, that was pretty hard to do.

I'm thinking Dallas in the near-future. That doesn't thrill me. It kind of revulses me. Baby steps . . .

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

I suppose that sounded like I'm totally bummed out, which I'm not. Maybe depressed a little, probably decompressing.

Sometimes the best thing is a virtuoso songwriter doing a song by another virtuoso songwriter. And it has the fb tie-in of being the closing song for The Big Lebowski.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBwC7Qzljso

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

whenever I'm a bit sad I change my avatar! It can really make things seems brighter! Just a thought:o:):P

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I am so sorry for your loss.

I have nothing particularly wise to offer other than to let you know that it takes time, but it gets better. I am sure it was a great comfort to your brother and your mother for you to be there.

Re: Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!
 

All I can say is I am very, very sorry for your loss.

Re: Top Chef
 

I am still watching and I did not like how they changed the finale. There is no need for generated excitement. It's much better watching an edited version of them putting their meals together. And no one cares what past-winners think about their process. You have a good format. Leave it alone.

TM