You all are impressed at the cooking we are doing.

But the real achievement is cleaning off the dining room table.

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Evidence

My Amazon review of _52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen_: a lovely selection of special (but not fancy) meals. It'd be an ideal Hanukah present. https://amzn.to/3SWU4Kf

Five people for Thanksgiving dinner.

Three pies.

We won't starve.

"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here."
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/

GrapeGPT is an AI sommelier. Snap a picture of the restaurant wine list, and the app tells you what to order based on your tastes and preferences. ...Or so they promise, I haven't tried it yet. https://grapegpt.wine

TIL Cheez-Its were originally meant to conjure the toasty, cheesy flavors of Welsh Rarebit https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1851020789/cheez-its-making-that-cheddar

Researchers think that a flavanol found naturally in red wines can interfere with the proper metabolism of alcohol and can lead to a headache.
https://www.futurity.org/red-wine-headaches-flavanol-3000832/

Is this the real wifi?
Or is this just 802.11b
Caught in a LANslide
No escape from this latency

Thanksgiving 2023
the menu

Shrimp-stuffed mushrooms
Burger’s Smokehouse city ham
Sweet potato casserole
Cheese biscuits
Cranberry-ginger chutney
Leek gratin
Pumpkin pie
Greek walnut pie

“A team of computer science researchers at the University of Chicago wants to level the playing field and arm artists with the tools they need to fight back against unauthorized use of their work in training new AI models.” https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/11/meet-nightshade-a-new-tool-empowering-artists-to-fight-back-against-ai/

I've been cooking regularly from Beyond Bacon: Paleo Recipes that Respect the Whole Hog for 10 years. I'm using it for my Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole this week. #cookbooks https://amzn.to/3MRKhRO

Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and US-based startup Inkbit have figured out how to 3D print a robotic hand with an internal structure composed of human-like bones, ligaments, and tendons.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/scientists-3d-print-a-robotic-hand-with-human-like-bones-and-tendons/

Some days, you just need to look at hats. A LOT of hats. https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/hats

Update! https://gizmodo.com/aardman-clay-shortage-update-wallace-gromit-chicken-run-1851035687

"All of what remains of that clay is now being used for a Wallace & Gromit film due to release in 2024."
https://gizmodo.com/aardman-animations-clay-supply-dwindling-1851034665

Are you defrosting your frozen turkey? If not, now’s the time to start (it takes a few days). The U.S.D.A. has information on how to do this safely.

(No turkey for me. I'm allergic to it.) https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/11/18/how-safely-thaw-turkey

What book did you read this year that still lingers in your mind?