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[azurelunatic]

http://cadhla.livejournal.com/1217584.html -- Mario's Lament. (I have to send this to my best friend. He will either appreciate it, or whack me, or both. I'm not discounting the possibility of both.)
http://boutell.livejournal.com/588866.html -- how to break up with a really nice person
http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/?p=625 -- dad needs this link
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008577.html -- half a street.
http://xkcd.com/c215.html prompted me to say: "It works from the other side, too -- there's nothing more satisfying in a vengeful breakup where you still have to share a box than to take away all their rights and delete anything you feel is wasting space."

I have fresh cucumber pickle. This is due to me noticing that cucumbers were two for a dollar at Sprouts, getting two, scoring and slicing one, and putting it into a brine half of my own devising, and half of a pickling spice with instructions in a language that I cannot read, nay, not even sound out. I decided that I would see how it came out before doing the other one. It has come out beautifully, though I imagine that the shelf life cannot be as scarily-long as the average store-pickle.

My time is stretched too thin. I may not take on any more commitments. 'k?

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[suckswhen.livejournal.com]

that xkcd really got to me.

gotta watch the cucumber pickle, eh?

[http://users.livejournal.com/chas_/]

Why wouldn't the shelf life be as long? Sounds like a perfectly fine pickling solution, so it should last as long as any other pickled food. As long as it is in the brine and the brine is covered, it should last, I dunno, years? Months, at least. Canning it properly would probably properly insure it's shelf life. Canned goods last FOREVER. I've opened stuff canned by my late mother-in-law that was done over a decade ago and it has been fine.

As with many things cooking, I highly recommend getting the episode of Good Eats that deals with it, especially if you're a geek. I believe it's season 1, episode 7. While I don't recommend it, I'm sure it can be found via bittorrent.

[azurelunatic]

I diluted it a bit when yesterday's turned out too salty.

I'm thinking about the amount of scary-preservatives in the worst of the store pickles. I heard tell of an unwrapped Twinkie that was nailed to a wall in a drama department, and remained fresh-feeling some years later. Of course, I suspect there was a large component of urban legend to that, but it's still a nauseating prospect.