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Notahotpocket

Yep.That’s the name of this notarecipe: Notahotpocket. It’s not a grilled cheese “sandwish” either, since it’s not grilled in any way, but when I’m rushed for time, it does OK.

Need:

Bread
Cheese
Toaster
Microwave
Paper towel

Pop a coupla pieces of bread in the toaster.
Slice some cheese (or unwrap a piece of pre-sliced, if that’s the way you roll).
Place toast, buttered if you wish, on paper towel
Place cheese between pieces of toast
Microwave for ~20-30 seconds, more or less depending on your microwave.

Quick, no clean-up. If you have the time and want to clean-up something, pan poach an egg beforehand. Add some precooked bacon (please, the less cooking the better when this shortcut “sandwish” is necessary) and you have a quick breakfast “sandwish”. But better to skip cooking the egg and just slap on some precooked bacon (again: saves cleaning time). It’ll warm up nicely in the microwave oven while the cheese is melting.

Other variations are easy, of course. Cleaning a knife’s not all that time-consuming, so slicing some onion and peppers while the bread is toasting wouldn’t really cost any time. A hair more time in the microwave, maybe.

There: Notahotpocket.

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Who’s to Blame?

Since the Feds were directly responsible for more than 2/3 of the risky sub-prime mortgages that led to the crash, why, oh why, aren’t the Republican candidates making that argument? From IBD:

Oh, BTW, the other less than a third of risky mortgages? Oh, they were mandated by the Feds, anyway…

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OWS: It Fisks Itself

Shooting fish in a barrel, tasking candy from babies: both several orders of magnitude harder than ridiculing OWS, since the OWS crowd does that to itself without even being aware of it. Exhibit #3,476:

She (that is female, isn’t it?) can’t figure this one out on her own? Of course not. Such self-made idiots need to go live in an assisted thinking facility. “Here, dearie, don’t bother with trying to think things through. Let me make all your decisions for you.” After all, it’d just be the next reasonable step from letting the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind and Academic Nut Fruitcakes do their all their so-called “thinking” for them.

And, even given the expenses, I think such a move could be a net gain for society as a whole.

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Sure, Despair Is a Sin

…but things like this make one wonder if it’s sometimes just being aware of reality. *sigh*

“In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.”
— Joseph Sobran

Remedial English, dumb-dumb “math” (counting past fingers and toes?) and “wymyn’s studies”. This is supposedly among the best and brightest we have to offer? Is it any wonder the primary influences in our society today are illiterate, innumerate, self-lobotomized Mass MEdia Podpeople, Hollyweird celebrities and tone-deaf “musicians”?

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Imagine…

(Not great, but not all that bad either. Imagine it: a president who can sing better than 90% of “manufactured music ‘artists'” plaguing the “music industry” nowadays… just imagine… )

*heh*

The guy also seems to have a better sense of humor than anyone who’s run since Reagan.

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I’ll Hand This to Apple…

The Iron Fist with which Apple Rules Its Software Realm means that stupid things like I ran into on a lil netbook recently are less likely to happen with Macs. Of course, they simply do NOT happen on ‘nix computers anyway, because of the way apps install and uninstall so very cleanly (for the most part, unlike Windows apps), so the Iron Fist of Apple™ is really not all that necessary, but still: minor advantage to Macs.

OK, here’s the deal. About 2.something years ago, I installed Stardock’s freebie subset of Windowblinds on a lil HP netbook as the easiest way for the user to kludge around Win7 Starter’s stupid “No, you may NOT change the desktop background!” restriction. Later, I upgraded that lil netbook to Win7 Pro for the user and the Stardock app was no longer necessary, so I uninstalled it. I thought.

“No, no!” said Stardock, “While we know you want to uninstall the product and you have explicitly stated that you want ALL the product uninstalled, we’ll leave the Stardock service to run on the computer, eating up limited Atom chipset resources. Because we can (and because we just don’t give a damn what YOU want).”

After disabling the Stardock “service” and manually deleting files and references to the product in the Registry, it’s FINALLY gone.

I think. *heh*

I swear, Stardock software is almost as inconsiderate and intrusive as Apple software on a Windows computer. Almost.