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So it’s my birthday soon. Dad is harassing me about what I want. I don’t know. Any ideas? :/ I guess I could use a not fail monitor but…
One of his ideas was a new phone. My three year old tracfone is fairly shit But all phone plans seem super expensive. Of course he thinks any phone that’s not a bricphone is a smartphone, but do you guys have any suggestions for affordable wireless, with decent phones? He was looking at net 10 or some junk. I guess I could pay for a nicer phone (I do have like 6k in the bank...) but I'm not sure if it would be that beneficial.
Food: For the past 10.5 years I’ve only had failwiches for lunch. Any ideas on how to improve my school lunches through either improvements in sandwich (manwich?) or alternative ideas to sandwiches? Next time I blog I’ll do one about my bibimbap adventures :DD
Err, as manifesto encouraged before I'm perfectly willing to make my own stuff. I like to cook 
Rice: Mom yelled at me for rinsing rice. Why do they tell you to rinse it? 
And finally I wasn’t planning on including this, but QQ @ colossi and storm. I found myself in one game facing both, and I was just super screwed. I mean, I played bad, but still, I wish I could t click and a move and win (well, maybe I can in early game ) I’ll include a replay if anyone wants to yell at my 3k diamond ass. Right before that loss I got to…
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/NPASG.png)
(Two replays in which I lose to toss, how should I improve? AKA official HALP A NUB time
http://replayfu.com/r/tBKKw#
http://replayfu.com/r/4GNgnr
 
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If you don't rinse rice you are stupid. Tell your mom this comes from a guy in Japan who grows his own rice. I really should call your house one of these days.
As for school lunches, if you complain about them, make them yourself. A good option is to make large dinners and take the previous night's dinner so you can have hot meals for lunch. Those are so much better than brown bags.
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Get the iPhone 3G? I got one for $130 last week that's new in the box, granted I bought it from online ads on a local buy and sell website. Would you consider that to be "affordable?"
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On March 02 2011 16:20 Manifesto7 wrote:
If you don't rinse rice you are stupid. Tell your mom this comes from a guy in Japan who grows his own rice. I really should call your house one of these days.
As for school lunches, if you complain about them, make them yourself. A good option is to make large dinners and take the previous night's dinner so you can have hot meals for lunch. Those are so much better than brown bags.
I make my own failwiches. Any advice on recipes to make that aren't fail? My brother always takes any leftovers of my mom's cooking, but I could certainly make my own stuff.
@Link It's the plan cost that's bad. I can easily afford any individual phone: it's the plan. And I think the iphone plan is like 80 bucks a month so...
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I just put my old sim card in. I'm on the cheapest non-pay per minute plan on Rogers (still overpriced imo). I turn off 3G and only use Wi-Fi. I can send unlimited emails and IM over 3G though i rarely do since I have unlimited texting. My plan is 30 a month.
Edit: forgot to mention this. The minimum smartphone plan starts at $50 dollars in Toronto. I had a regular phone, bought the iphone and put the sim card in from that phone. Just no data, hence not using 3G.
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Ow. I'm in the USA. I think things run a bit more expensive in my area.
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On March 02 2011 16:20 Manifesto7 wrote:
If you don't rinse rice you are stupid. Tell your mom this comes from a guy in Japan who grows his own rice. I really should call your house one of these days.
As for school lunches, if you complain about them, make them yourself. A good option is to make large dinners and take the previous night's dinner so you can have hot meals for lunch. Those are so much better than brown bags.
This actually depends on whether you purchase Asian or American rice. Rice for American consumers is fortified with extra powdered nutrients (vitamins/minerals) that get washed away if you rinse the grains, but it's taught in Asian culture to wash your rice multiple times to clean it before cooking because it was covered with impurities, dust and other things such as chemicals.
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You're not supposed to rinse white rice I thought because it washes away nutrients (cuz white rice doesn't have the coating). All other rice you rinse though.
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No, there's no point rinsing brown rice because it still has the husk so rinsing it won't do anything. Rinsing white rice grown in America and packaged for American consumers will wash away added nutrients (which are just the nutrients lost from converting it from brown to white rice). Rice imported from Asian countries does not have those added nutrients, and should be washed until water is clear due to the extra starch, dust, and possible contaminants.
Washing American rice actually just makes it equivalent to Asian imported rice in terms of nutrients and both are inferior to brown rice, but if you want those extra nutrients that are added back in to make it nutritionally equivalent to brown rice, then you shouldn't wash it.
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On March 02 2011 18:00 Musou wrote:
No, there's no point rinsing brown rice because it still has the husk so rinsing it won't do anything. Rinsing white rice grown in America and packaged for American consumers will wash away added nutrients (which are just the nutrients lost from converting it from brown to white rice). Rice imported from Asian countries does not have those added nutrients, and should be washed until water is clear due to the extra starch, dust, and possible contaminants.
Washing American rice actually just makes it equivalent to Asian imported rice in terms of nutrients and both are inferior to brown rice, but if you want those extra nutrients that are added back in to make it nutritionally equivalent to brown rice, then you shouldn't wash it.
Thanks. Very informative. This rice is asian, so w/e
But yeah, anybody have ideas for gifts?
Also any advice on those games? :/
@Franz: I'll try it!!
Translation is great except for Hammock Hammock Baudet
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Baudet isn't translated, it means donkey. The name of the sandwich really is Hammock Hammock Donkey in French.
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