You will be thrilled with the ease of this recipe although possibly surprised by the ingredient list. Short, sweet and scary. You’ll be serving the BOGs for years of holiday festivities. Works best to have a cocktail then dig into the “work.”
1 lb oreos, crumbled
1 oz pkg cream cheese, room temp
1 pkg almond bark, melted (I don’t think you need to melt the whole thing. Can’t remember. Start w/ half and eyeball it.)
First of all place that beautiful pink Kitchen Aid in a suitable spot and mix the oreos and cream cheese. Chunks of cookie are fine, they just need to stick. Roll into balls, place on a baking sheet lined with wax paper and freeze those little babies. Melt the bark and dip those balls. Place on the aforementioned wax paper lined baking sheet and freeze until bark is hard. Hard bark. Tee hee. Store them in the freezer until just before the party where your friends will devour them.
“There are thousands of other striking instances of animal asymmetry. The akita dog in Japan with a tail that curls one way on males, the other way on females, the tendency of dolphins to swim counterclockwise around tanks, the asymmetric sex organ of the male bedbug, a fungus called laboulbeniales that grows only on the back left leg of a certain beetleâ€â€”and so on.
kids obviously don’t have as long of a history with Windows as the adults. What about them?
I wanted to find out for myself so I put Linux to the test with the two most demanding public school students I know — some pals’ kids.
I loaded Xandros Professional 4 onto an old Compaq Presario 2500 (I tried SLED 10, Ubuntu and an earlier version of Xandros, but Xandros Pro 4 did the best job of recognizing all the hardware and connecting to the Internet.) I put the notebook in front of the 11-year old daughter, bookmarked her webmail URL, set her up with a Google Docs account for her homework, and showed her how to use Pandora to play her favorite music. And then I walked away; a half-hour later I walked back and she was knee-deep into a Flash-based game on Disney.com via her Firefox browser. She looked happy. She later wrote a draft of an email on Google Docs and then sent it to me. Among other things, she wrote, “Thanks.”
Later in the day, I sat the 10-year old son down in front of the laptop. I set him up the same way as his sister: webmail, Google Docs, Pandora. I left him alone for a half hour and, lo and behold, he found some video games, too.
“So,” he asked. “What is the difference between Linux and Windows?” I tried to explain but it was a waste of breath. “What difference do you see?” I asked back.
“Nothing, really.”
Interesting…
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In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round.
A six-game chess match between Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, the world champion, and Deep Fritz, a souped-up version of commercially available chess software made by Chessbase, ended today in victory for the computer, which won the final game and clinched the match, 4 games to 2.
Mr. Kramnik fell behind in the match when he lost Game 2 by walking into a checkmate in one move with hardly any pieces remaining on the board, a mistake that ranks as one of the biggest in championship-level chess history. Needing a win today to tie the match, Mr. Kramnik took some chances, eventually lost a pawn, and was then outmaneuvered by the computer.
