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Okay. Making those changes to the recipe isn't exactly a disaster -- but it's not what I wanted to have happen, either. The flavor of brown sugar doesn't come through the way I want it to. Using brown sugar instead of white makes a stickier, softer dough. The omission of lemon zest makes the cookies somewhat insipid. *sigh* Edible, but not spectacular. Ah, well, now I know this. Hooray for science!

Meme swiped from almiqui:

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the "coolest" book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

The Holy Bible, King James version, acquired free of charge from a pair of mormon elders:
P. 123, Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Full disclosure: Atheist. Book was on top of stack to be handy in case I needed to look up biblical references for Moby Dick. Yes, really.

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Okay, people. Today we have a discussion of yaoi bondage porn, with visual aids. The visual aids are from putting the porn under glass (no lie) and photographing it with my digital camera. Most of it is pretty decently in focus, at least for the pictures. Max image size is 188 Kb, which isn't bad. Some of the kanji are kind of hard to read, but we're not exactly here for the text and I don't think that many people in the studio audience have any working knowledge of Japanese. I know not_your_real reads a bit... Is there anyone else?

IMPORTANT: I am going to talk about yaoi bondage porn, with visual examples. Below the cut, you'll have the option (images are just linked, not in-line, so that you can read the commentary without looking at the pictures if that's what you want) to be exposed (hur, hur) to the complete text of a one-shot semi-stylized black-and-white comic of, well, porn. It's not a political statement or a reflection of reality. It's porn, stylized but still somewhat graphic, pretty boys drawn for the amusement of chicks. If you think you might have problems viewing this sort of material, don't hit the cut.

( By clicking here, I agree that I will not whine about being exposed to inexpertly-drawn naked guys fucking each other. )