- I am delighted to find that there are clever people who waste their time even more spectacularly than I can. Language log is one of the blogs which does the work that some mailing lists used to do ten years ago. I had never thought it would provide a justification for the use of regular expressions.
- An unscientific survey of comparative religious fervour: an article about word processors in the Guardian has drawn at least 60 responses, not all published here. An article about cooking geese has drawn one. An article on the study of actual religious religions has so far had no response at all. Ditto the interview with James Lovelock. Yet in some moods I think that any of these subjects are more important than open source software.
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Well, I did at least read the religious religions article, in deadtree format even. First Saturday Guardian in new format that I actually bought for money.
Sorry, I’ve only just now seen your Grauniad piece about goosecooking. If I count right there were five of you at dinner; and yet you managed to have half a goose left over?!
It wouldn’t be a terrible thing were you to post the recipe for those pears.
Interesting way of dealing with the leftovers. Minus the goose, the dough you describe is very close to that used for the dumplings we served (which are quite different to the usual dumplings made from raw potatoes), though the dumplings are simmered not fried, and have a bit of nutmeg in place of the onions. But little fried potato-dumpling-dough sausages (again, normally without diced goose) are a very south German thing, called Schupfnudeln in cookery books, but never in real life (the people who make and eat them invariably call them Buabaspitzla, which we may translate roughly as ‘little boys’ willies’, and if you ever see them you will know why).
Well, of the five people, the daughter won’t eat goose and my mother doesn’t, to a first approximation, eat anything at all.
Pears coming some time. They will make a change from theology.