Dictionary: greas·y
adj., -i·er, -i·est.- Coated or soiled with grease.
- Containing grease, especially too much grease: a greasy hamburger.
- Suggestive of grease in slickness or slipperiness: a greasy character.
greasily greas’i·ly adv.
greasiness greas’i·ness n.
REGIONAL NOTE One of our most notable regional distinctions is the “greasy-greazy” line. It is famous among scholars of American dialects for marking a clear division between major dialect regions of the United States. In the North and West, greasyis pronounced with an (s) sound; in the Midlands and South, it is pronounced with a (z). According to the Dictionary of American Regional English, the “greazy” region extends from the deep South to southern parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and all of Missouri, Texas, and New Mexico. The verb grease also follows this pattern, although not the noungrease, which is pronounced with an (s) sound everywhere. A few Southerners also use (z) in blouse. The (z) pronunciation is so stable and so characteristic of Southern dialects that dialect scholars use it to trace the migration of Southern speakers into other dialect areas, such as Colorado, Oregon, and California.
2 Oranges
1/2 Cup Orange Juice
1/3 Cup Soy Sauce
4 Cloves Minced Garlic
2 Tablespoons Honey
1 Tablespoon Worcesthire
Teaspoon brown Sugar
1 1b. Chicken
1. Zest and juice oranges and add to small sauce pan. Add a soy sauce, minced garlic, honey, worcestershire sauce, and sugar. Cook on medium until it boils and thickens
2. Cut up chicken and sauté in olive oil.
3. Set chicken aside and discard most of the oil
4. Sauté vegetables in remaining oil
5. Once veggies have almost cooked, add cooked chicken back to pan
6. Slowly spoon in sauce until coated
7. Serve over rice
From the Star Trek Wiki’s article “Performers consider for Star Trek roles”:
Edward James Olmos (born 1947) is an Emmy-winning, Academy Award-nominated actor. Leonard Nimoy wanted Olmos to play Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, but the role ultimately went to Christopher Lloyd. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Special Edition) special features) A few years later, Olmos was offered the role of Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. However, he had to turn it down as he was busy with other projects.
Wow. I’m not saying I would have preferred this, but maybe I’d like to visit the parallel universe where it happened.
(From Kevin Drum) Houses are not a good investment:
People are bad at adjusting for inflation. If you bought a $20,000 house in 1947 and sold it in 1997 for $150,000, that seems like a tidy profit. In fact, it’s zero profit. Adjusted for inflation those numbers are identical. But despite all the complaining we do about inflation, most people don’t realize just how much it adds up to over the years. (It’s that pesky compounding problem again.)
Wikipedia says:
Degrees of freedom is a general term used to express dependence on parameters, and implies the possibility of counting the number of those parameters. In mathematical terms, the degrees of freedom are the dimensions of a phase space.
Because I’m an ignorant lout, I only learned about this concept today. It’s really useful as a metaphor. (I’m certain I just heard everyone I know that actually understands physics or chemistry cringe*.)
*Yes, I can hear cringes. Can’t you?
The Land of Counterpane
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay,
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.
(h/t Little Bear)
