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19:19 / 15.09.05

If I understand Jub's question correctly, I think the answer is we get letter grades, typically on a thesis paper and often some sort of oral review as well. But we also have a GPA (grade point average) that's numerical. Maybe some places base the graduation grade only on GPA for a Bachelors Degree? Not sure.

Now for my question - how long can you keep (refrigerated) eggs before they're no longer edible? I've had some for at least a month, maybe two, do I have to throw them away?

19:30 / 15.09.05

If you've got good eggs you probably should't refigerate them, anyway, unless you live somewhere really hot. If you've not used them in two weeks they're probably only going to be fit for use in sauces or baking. Poached eggs don't work after a week or so from purchase. If you have any left after three weeks you're buying too many, and they should be thrown away.

22:07 / 15.09.05

Thanks.

I hate to just throw them in the trash can though. Can't I throw them at houses? Mean people? Mercedes Benzes?

22:52 / 15.09.05

Of course. If you keep them about three months and their shells don't crack first they smell like buggery when they hit John Prescott. Not that you'd notice.

Pooky Is Just My Pornstar Name

23:06 / 15.09.05

Ibis,

Here is a way to find out if your eggs are still fresh.

How To Tell if Eggs Are Fresh
From Diana Rattray,
Your Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine.

If you aren't sure how fresh your eggs are, here's an easy way to test them.
Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 1 minute

Here's How:
1. Fill a deep bowl or pan with enough cold tap water to cover an egg.

2. Place the egg in the water.

3. If the egg lies on its side on the bottom, the air cell within is small and it's very fresh.

4. If the egg stands up and bobs on the bottom, the air cell is larger and it isn't quite as fresh.

5. If the egg floats on the surface, it it should be discarded.

6. A very fresh egg out of the shell will have an overall thick white which doesn't spread much and the yolk will stand up.

7. Grade AA eggs are the highest grade available. They cost more than other grades, but may be a good choice because of their high quality and longer shelf life.

Tips:
Store eggs in the refrigerator small end down in their original carton. Eggs which are a week or so old are easier to peel than very fresh eggs when cooked in the shell.

23:15 / 15.09.05

Agree with everything but the fridge bit. Refrigerated eggs are:
a) Likely to crack when boiled
and
b) More likely to curdle in sauces.

It also gives you a false sense of security about how long you can safely keep them, so you're more likely to keep them well past their best instaed of remembering to use them.

02:39 / 16.09.05

Hm, I will try the floater technique soon.

I neither boil my eggs nor put them in sauces. I bought them because once upon a time I used to fry some up for breakfast for me and the old man on weekends. But since we found some great breakfast sandwiches at the corner store the carton's gone to waste. Actually, what am I thinking, who knows how long those suckers have been in there....

08:50 / 16.09.05

Please please help me: if I don't find an answer to this problem soon I'm going to have to *kill* myself in sheer frustration...

I want to buy one (1) of those spinners that you see in shops displaying greetings cards, postcards etc. They are about person height and freestanding. The only ones I can find are either
wall-mounted
available only in huge bulk
made of strange futuristic plastics using the latest technology from NASA and cost several million pounds

Cheap and simple is what I seek, and it doesn't help that I don't really know what they're called.

Does anyone else? Does anyone know from whence they can be purchased? You have to help, it's for charidee (and my sanity).

08:59 / 16.09.05

I'm going to let you off on that dialogue emphasis. This time.

You may be chagrinned to know that a quick googling (I am teh google master!) reveals that they might actually be called "Greeting Card Displays" or (you'll love this) "Spinners".

The search string I used was "rotating greeting card display" (you may want to remove greeting for a wider base of results).

Ho!

09:08 / 16.09.05

I don't believe you just did that.

Do you know how long I've been trying to find such a website? (Sorry. I'll stop with the crazed emphasis now. I can, after all, relax for the first time in weeks, and my charitable employer will no doubt be eternally grateful. Although they'll be grateful to me rather than to you, which does seem unfair.)

I am, however, ashamed of my poor google fu.

10:02 / 16.09.05

I'll let you try my Google-Fu style...

Glad I could give a little help. Good luck making loads of phat charidee loot

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:47 / 16.09.05

Hello all! Well, I'm sure you've all heard me prattle on many times about my little hobbies (toy poodle breeding, Tuppereware parties and ladies' tag team wrestling), but I bet you didn't know I was also a keen scrapper! (That means a person who keeps a scrap-book, to all you "Muggles" as we scrappers fondly refer to our non-scrapping friends.) My current project is a tasteful piece celebrating leading lights of the comics industry. It's going wonderfully, but I'm laking the items that would really give it that final touch of polish: some really nice pictures of Geoff Johns. Can anyone help me?

12:02 / 16.09.05

Re: spinners. Hold off on the buying. It's the sort of thing that shops who deal with greetings cards (including bookshops) get sent far too often by card suppliers, so thy often have a stash lurking in their stock rooms. Ask around and you might get lucky.

13:43 / 16.09.05

Can you believe I used to work for The Largest Independent Bookshop in the World in London Which Shall Remain Nameless and I hadn't even thought of that? I shall have a whisper in the ears of my former colleagues.

I never thought that Barbelith would be so wise when it came to spinners!

09:48 / 20.09.05

More questions, I have more questions to be answered by your wisdom!

Can anyone recommend a tattoo shop or designer in north London? I don't really know where to start finding out about decent places. Eep!

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:19 / 24.09.05

I have no tattoos, but a friend of mine recommended Sacred Art in Stoke Newington should I ever choose to get one. Hope that helps.

Erm... I figure this might be a bit of a daft question*, but I was wondering if anybody has any advice to offer for breaking into freelance journalism? Basically, I don't think my knees and my back can handle much more "honest hard graft", so I realise it's about time I got myself on a (shock, horror!) "proper career path". My gut tells me that probably the best thing I can do is write a few articles and try sending them off to different publications. However, it also tells me that within this profession nepotism rules the roost, and as I have no contacts in his field...

So, help? Anyone?
__________________________________________
*Daft because, no doubt, I'm not alone in wanting to get a foot in this particular door, and, well, I should probably be doing ALL the leg work myself, right?

17:56 / 24.09.05

Doozy - Into You in Clerkenwell is extremely professional and all around top notch.

18:25 / 24.09.05

...and if that's where Loomis got his done, there is no better recommendation.

18:56 / 24.09.05

where d'y'all go for yer torrents?
mininova isnt great, but its the best i've found so far.
share your favourite sharing hub.

19:49 / 24.09.05

Does anyone here have a totally diary free diet. Is it true that when you come off diary, other people smell odd for a while?

19:54 / 24.09.05

Do you mean someone coming off a five year diary? A page a day diary? That would probably affect the smell, man.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:01 / 24.09.05

I can give it up any time I like.

20:26 / 24.09.05

For a brief moment there, I completely forgot how to spell diary (as in moo cow) and was about to moan about pedantry - but it's spelt the same. My head hurts. Does this make it a homonymn or is that just words that sound the same but spelt differently?

20:42 / 24.09.05

Uh... “Diary as in moo cow”... so, you do mean dairy, right? Only, I’ve never heard of dairy being spelt as diary before.

And I’m sorry for making the joke, Benny. Lame-o spelling joke. I just couldn’t help myself. If you want to edit, I’ll delete my rubbish joke, too.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:00 / 24.09.05

Oh go on, leave it, do! It's brilliant in light of the severe plague of blogaddiction that ravages these halls. I thought you were making a sophisticated joke.

21:09 / 24.09.05

Is it blogaddiction that’s doing the hall-ravaging thing, then? I thought it was just Saturday night. That everyone else was out dancing.

21:25 / 24.09.05

Paranoidwriter - I don't have a very useful answer to your question, but might be able to save you a bit of work - unsolicited articles are very rarely used. I mean, if you just happen to hit on the right topic, or if you have a particular expertise in the area, then yes, you might get lucky because an editor has an empty space to fill. But the majority of articles are pre-planned - either an in-house writer is asked to write it or a freelancer is contacted by the editor and given a brief.

I'm afraid I don't know the best way to break in to freelancing. I got in through being a full time writer and getting known - I just want to save you the hassle of writing a load of stuff for nothing.

It's possible that having some work to show might help you win work, and maybe you're a good salesperson, so feel free to give it a shot - I just wanted to make sure you know how things (usually) work.

06:12 / 25.09.05

stupid fingers dairy diary dairy diary argghhhhhh. Stupid tired head, stupid work bunged head and stupid stupid eyes. I did three google searches, THREE to check spelling and, still couldn't see the a and i spin! SO leave joke there, leave spelling there, as a lesson to all. Anyway. Anyone on a dairy free diet? Do people on dairy diets smell funny to you?

06:56 / 25.09.05

I'm vegan, if that counts? And no, I never noticed any smell from anyone else.

07:51 / 25.09.05

I'm vegan too, and I don't smell but Ariadne does. Don't tell her I told you though. She's sensitive about it.

As for tattoos, Into You was where I had my most recent one done, but Tom Hooper who did it isn't there anymore and I couldn't find him through googling so he's probably working somewhere smaller that doesn't have a flash website. I would happily have any of the guys there work on me though.

08:16 / 25.09.05

But to actually answer your question Benny, no I didn't notice dairy consumers smelling any different.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:59 / 25.09.05

(I'm like that with Is and Es. Not only do I mistype them but I never notice I've done so until I hit post...)

09:05 / 25.09.05

Anther vegaaan here. And haven't noticed people smelling, but their meaty/fishy food is often pretty grim to be around.....I find tuna particularly difficult, particularly as to me tuna smells = catfood.....

10:06 / 25.09.05

Rampant carnivore here, but I'd agree with the tuna thing, especially when mixed with mayonnaise. Fair turns my stomach. Almost as bad as egg mayonnaise sandwiches.

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:42 / 25.09.05

Ariadne: cheers mate. (I've also sent you a PM to say thanks)

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