Pancakes!

I couldn’t find this, even though I was sure I’d typed it in before. This recipe is adapted from the 1958 Auburn cookbook, when my dad went to college. I have fond memories of him cooking these to the tune of the Johnny Cash prison albums before we ate them and I watched Saturday Morning cartoons afterward.

How I make them:

1 3/4 Cup Self-Rising Flour
(If you use All-Purpose Flour, you must add Salt and Baking Soda. I’m unsure of the amounts, though.)
1 Tablespoon Sugar.
(or Splenda)
1 Cup Milk.
2 Tablespoons Canola oil.
(Or Butter. Or Margarine.)
1 egg, beaten well.

Mix the dry ingredients together.

Beat the egg using a whisk or a fork, pour the milk in, then add the Oil.

Make a “well” in the center of the dry ingredients. Slowly add the wet ingredients into the well as you mix them into the dry ingredients.

Stir well until there are no clumps.

Heat a griddle up to Medium High or 375 Fahrenheit degrees. Use a drop of water to test the sizzle.

Using a large spoon, dip out a circle of the pancake batter you just made. Wait until the top stop bubbling and the edge look a little dry, then flip over. I usually make about 2 at a time.

When cooked, put on plate and put pads of butter or margarine between the pancakes.

Add your favorite syrup and enjoy.

You could also include your favorite fruit as well, or instead of the syrup.

This recipe is perfect for about four people, or two very hungry ones.

They’re light and fluffy and I love them better than any I’ve ever gotten from a restaurant.

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Fantastic and Informative Interview about how copyright is broken.

How Copyright Restrictions Suppress Art: An Interview With Nina Paley About “Sita Sings The Blues”

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Goodbye Bettie Page

I found out about her through Dave Stevens’ beautiful Rocketeer comicbook work, and loved her style since.

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OCLC trying to use its EULA to hold freely given catolog data hostage.

I see this as a real problem.

OCLC shouldn’t own or license public documents.

Provide a service, but a not a service with a horrible EULA.

“As one AUTOCAT poster wrote:
“I find it hard to believe OCLC would attempt to assert an intellectual property right over things such as LC cataloging, which by statute is in the public domain.”

Unfortunately, this conception confuses two areas of law. By crafting the Policy as a license, which is perpetual, retroactive and viral, OCLC can effect a sort of ownership–US citizens still own it, but the don’t have a right to get it (except, if the qualify, with an OCLC license around it).

Thus, OCLC transforms an expensive service–access to a repository of data that, even OCLC employees admit, would fit on an iPod, with room for 5,000 songs!–into effective ownership. This state of affairs obtains even when all the cataloging and editing was done by other Federal agencies and employees. It is only broken when the library in question itself did the original cataloging. As we shall see, that doesn’t help much.”

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