Cookie: Peanut Butter Cookie

So, over the past year I've gotten to introduce Jingping to the magic of cookie making. We've done chocolate chip, macaroons, oatmeal cookies, all the basics. But we still hadn't made peanut butter cookies! So we made some, Sunday night, as a final New Year's gesture. Man, it was a tiny recipe, only like 18 cookies in the end! I.. um, we, ate almost half of them that night, and we took the rest to our respective labs to... hm... share... with others.

Recommend: Between chewy and crunchy, peanut buttery, not too sweet, a bit salty: an excellent cookie. Good with lukewarm office coffee.

Movie : The DaVinci Code

This movie stars Tom Hanks, and I had a little bit of trouble identifying him as a professor and not an island outcast with HIV. The beginning of the movie followed the book pretty closely, but right about the time they were going to break out of the art museum, my head started really hurting and so I went to go lie down and I kinda fell asleep during the middle part. But I kinda recall some action noises and maybe a rise in the tempo of the music? And then at the end they strayed from the book and I thought it was a little bit corny, but maybe it fit the middle part of the movie?

Recommend: I got more out of the book.

Movie : Little Miss Sunshine

The ending definitely wasn't expected. But I liked this movie in the same kind of way I liked Life Aquatic.

Recommend? If you liked Life Aquatic, maybe you'll find similar enjoyment here?

TV show: LEXX

LEXX is excellent! I've been working in episodes in between... working... here in the lab. Someone at YouTube put all the episodes on in 10 minute chunks. I'm halfway through the second season. It's all very funny and very weird.

Recommend: Of course! I don't know what else to say. Somebody has to review something.

Scientist: Meteorologist

If a meteorologist, or a team of them, or a TV network full of them, or a government agency staffed with them, tells you that there will be two days with a 90-100% chance of snow with accumulations up to maybe 3 or 4 inches by the end of the second night, what they really mean is that there will be about 45 minutes total of snow with an accumulation of about .35 inches by the end of the first afternoon. This is because they are experts.

Recommend: No! Stop checking the weather reports. You will only be disappointed. It will only be cold outside, and snow will be a mysterious surprise.