PSoTD

If someone you knew drank several pots of coffee a day, would you think they knew much personally about the nuances of flavor? How could they, with their mouth completely and constantly coated in coffee?

And yet, there's Rachael Ray.

Q. You must drink a ton of coffee.

A. It's several pots a day. I'm not proud of it, but it's true. And I can't make coffee, that's the hysterical part. That cranky girl I was telling you about, while she was writing this book she was getting her husband out of bed at 3 in the morning to make the coffee. I just can't get it right. I can't bake and I can't make coffee.

Yeah, really. 30 years ago, Sebastian Cabot, who portrayed the character Mr. French, died. Surprisingly, Mr. French was a very enduring character on a fairly uneventful show, at least for my generation. This clip is interesting, if only because it serves as a time capsule of what seems to me to be a very long time ago.

(The saddest thing about "Family Affair" was that the second best character, sadly, was Mrs. Beasley...)

My high school (Granada High School in Livermore, California) has a memorial web page for alumni that have passed, sorted by year.

I think it's actually privately maintained by a graduate from the "other" high school in town, Livermore High School.

I just wanted to say that I think this is a good feature for all high school web sites to incorporate in their web site, as well as an "accomplishments" page. High schools (just like colleges) are more than just the students and faculty at the school in the present, but also are summed up by the accomplishments and community of previous classes, and I'm not sure that relying on the profit margins of Classmates adequately serves those purposes.

Would like to see my high school do more of this kind of thing.

Yes, convergence is possible. Wait for the popular crusade of the American version of The Sex Pastor.

Wow, the Granada Bowl in Livermore is closing next year to make room for some additional home development.

I know you probably don't care, but it was one of those places I hung out at for a while in the 1970s while growing up. For a while, it had the only football video game (the one where you had a ball wheel you rolled to move the player and you would slap at it intensely to get your player past the defense) and best Space Invaders game in town.

I haven't been to Livermore much since 2001 when my mother passed away, but for 10 years before that, I would come back to town every so often and be amazed/surprised/encouraged/disappointed by all the changes that were going on there. I'm sure my next stop there will be even more surprising to me.

I don't know why, but in the past month it seems like every time I've opened an already-opened International Delight coffee creamer, it spits creamer all over from pressure that has built up inside the container. We've used this creamer for a long time, and the design of the container doesn't seem to have changed, so why does this happen now?

I recommend the buffalo flank. Delicious.