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Post #407, because I didn’t think of a snappier title

You can learn a lot from reading blogs — how to eat more meat than you thought possible, tips on confounding marketers.

what not to do for dessert

Dulce de leche is a culinary cry for help. It says “save us, we are baffled and alone in the kitchen, we don’t know what to do for dessert and we’re going to boil condensed milk and sugar together until help arrives”.

This is from Argentina On Two Steaks A Day, a post on a blog called Idle Words. It is written by Maciej CegÅ‚owski, a painter now living it Buenos Aires, who also apparently used to geek out with Joshua del.icio.us Schacter. He’s been writing online long enough that he said Dave Winer had the emotional maturity of “a bipolar, sanctimonious hamster with weak technical writing skills” in 2003. Which, I must confess, made me pretty happy.

annoying telemarketers right back

John Scalzi has some advice for guys dealing with annoying telemarketers:

…use the following words:

“I’m sorry, you’re going to have to speak to my wife. She is the one who makes all the major financial decisions in the household.”

Personally, I like it when they ask for the man of house, or if Mr. Spadafora is home, and I say “speaking.”