Am I required to keep him alive?

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I just watched my first episode of Fringe (2008–2013). It is amazing how disorienting it is to be told a city is Boston when it is very plainly either Toronto or New York. Also, I think the show's Harvard University might be Yale. Can you do that without starting a small war?

(John Noble is awesome. All mad scientist buttons checked. Including the one where he looks good in a lab coat.)

I saw these cat portraits on Tumblr a few days ago, but I had no idea they were actual guard cats of the Hermitage Museum. I approve.

The baked Alaska this afternoon was an amazing sucess. I am very proud of my skills with folding egg whites. rushthatspeaks and tilivenn can be proud of their ice cream wrangling and attention to baking times. The weevils in the confectioner's sugar were a surprise no one was looking for, and so was the time out where we had to get more eggs because the kitchen was too hot and humid for the first attempt at meringue to peak at all, but the results in Earl Grey and cardamom ice cream were wholly worth it. The sponge cake base was fluffy, the ice cream was sliceable and cold, the meringue on top was crisp-brown with the delicious marshmallow taffiness of burnt sugar at the tips. Egg whites are exactly as effective an insulator as I was always told. We really have no excuse for not reverse-engineering a butter-pie now.

I wish my head did not hurt this much.

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My husband likes to tell the story of how years ago he was in a Toronto bookstore and wandered into a section that had been set up for a location shoot for the movie In the Mouth of Madness. They actually had a big display of "Sutter Kane"'s books -- all of which, if opened, turned out to be the same page endlessly repeated. In retrospect, that's the sort of creepy thing that would have happened in the movie itself.

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-- all of which, if opened, turned out to be the same page endlessly repeated. In retrospect, that's the sort of creepy thing that would have happened in the movie itself.

Seriously. Yeeesh.