Am I required to keep him alive?

[sovay]

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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[sovay]

I finally took the advice to skip half of the first season (normally I am a dedicated completist) and go from there. It worked well enough for me, and I'm up to season 4, a couple of weeks later, and love it.

So noted. I've heard similar things about the first season; my father is insistent that the arc is present from the first few episodes and instantly strong, but we do not accord in everything about our television preferences. He loved Dollhouse. I bounced completely.

Cardamon ice cream sounds fantastic. I had some amazing rum punch with cardamon bitters a while back, and have been putting cardamon in everything since.

Cardamom is excellent. I've been putting it in mulled cider, apple pies, and occasionally oatmeal cookies for years. It works beautifully in drinks.

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My problem with the first few episodes is that I was genuinely disgusted by the hostile interaction between Broyles and Olivia. I found it so repugnant that I had to skip forward until that was no longer an issue. If you're sufficiently familiar with the genre (and I assume you are), reading brief episode summaries and the 'previously on' flashbacks at the start of later episodes will be sufficient, and you'll be less likely to want to kick the screen.

Cardamon is one of the spices that I would want to wear as a perfume. Heady and floral. It's one of the spices that I also tend to assume likes to hang out with its friends- anywhere cinnamon goes, for instance, it often liked to bring along ginger, nutmeg, mace, cardamon, and others.