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I was skeptical when Jeff Jarvis had his much-discussed run-in with Dell.

At the time, I’d had my Dell desktop for a while with no problems. Little did I know…

Spent a couple of hours yesterday on the phone trying to get them to stop trying to make an incompatible part work! They said no fewer than three times it was the wrong part, why couldn’t they just go with that and let me go about my business? That would’ve been cheaper and less aggravating for both of us.

Well, in spite of Dell’s best efforts I’m back with the old part and hobbling along. Hopes this holds us until we get the new box — from Gateway!

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Things have been insanely moving at Chez Trudy. The kitchen at ELMChef has been subject to all kinds of changes. One day, media contacts, writing up proposals for stuff. YIKES!!!

Looks like I forgot to post! OMG!!!

Anyway, here’s one:

Alex at RDoctor Medical has been working hard to round up some healthy holiday recipes for us all to enjoy, and the Carnival of the Recipes is now up for your viewing pleasure: http://rdoctor.com/medical_link/?p=62. We are sorry for the delay this week, but our host had Internet problems this weekend. Be sure and leave him a comment to let him know his hard work is much appreciated.

Dr. Aleksandr Kavokin (aka Alex) earned degrees in medicine and immunology in Russia, then completed a surgery internship in the United States before heading off to work at a pharmaceutical company. With a lifelong interest in artificial intelligence, Dr. Kavokin, along with several mathematicians and cyberneticists, developed and launched “Doctor Robot”. The Web site provides an online questionnaire for patients to fill out, and it uses their answers to link their symptoms with diagnoses.

The site and the accompanying blog are a family affair. His brother, Oleg Kavokin, MD, a physician-cyberneticist, helps with the programming. My father, Alex Kavokin, PhD, also helps. He is a professor of mathematics and software engineering.

Next week’s Carnival will be hosted by Adam at Men in Aprons at www.meninaprons.net. The theme will be breakfast and brunch. Send your recipes or links to recipe.carnival@gmail.com by noon CST on Saturday. If you’re interested in hosting a future carnival send a message to the same address with the word host in the subject line. (Shameless begging: Please volunteer to host a future Carnival of the Recipes edition. After Adam, I don’t have any volunteers lined up, except for the Christmas edition on Dec. 23rd, which is taken. I know the holidays is a busy time for everyone, but y’all will get tired of me if I host every week until Christmas.)

For a line-up of future Carnivals , visit our Carnival of the Recipes page on Blog Carnival. You can also review all past Carnival of the Recipes there too.

Sincerely,
Shawn Lea
http://everythingandnothing.typepad.com
shawn.lea@gmail.

com

For those of you who like to read as well as cook, I’ve got a review of Stephen King’s latest, Lisey’s Story, over at The Book Stacks.

Is there something unusual and downright odd you love, but nobody else you know would even think of eating? My husband really enjoys peanut butter and onion sandwiches, for example.

My local newspaper, The Yuma Sun, is collecting strange recipes. The whole article is here.

Contribute your weird recipes here.

Here’s all the info on the Carnival:

Nerd Mom at Nerd Family has been rounding up great recipes for us all today, and the Carnival of the Recipes is now up for your viewing pleasure: http://blog.nerdfamily.com/2006/10/carnival-of-recipes-114.html. Be sure and leave her a comment to let her know her hard work is much appreciated.

Nerd Mom is a nerd and a mom (thus her Nerd Mom name). She’s a Virgo and was born in the year of the Rabbit. She and Nerd Dad and Nerd Family live in Fresno, California. Find out more about Nerd Mom here (or just read her blog).

Next week’s Carnival will be hosted by Morning Coffee and Afternoon Tea and will have a Halloween theme. Send your spookiest recipes or links to recipe.carnival@gmail.com by noon CST on Saturday. If you wish to host a future carnival send a message to the same address with the word host in the subject line. Thanks to all of you who have agreed to host in the coming months.

For a line-up of future Carnivals , visit our Carnival of the Recipes page on Blog Carnival. You can also review all past Carnival of the Recipes there too.
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_13.html
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Sincerely,
Shawn Lea
http://everythingandnothing.typepad.com

I misidentified our wine expert as he in yesterday’s post. This has been corrected. Sorry!

This reminds me of an e-mail discussion group I was in when I first went online in the 90s. One of our more active members in Europe was actually a girl and most of us thought otherwise. Until, that is, we got to know each other better. (Hard to get personal on some of those early lists, which often numbered their members in the thousands.) We spun off a smaller committee for one reason or another, and she was talking about her husband and kids one day. Roughly five years after the group started. There were a lot of red faces that day, I can tell you!

I used to have a blog about media, blogging, and a variety of other things. Most of my readers were writers, though, and on Wednesday I always had features for and about writers and writing.

I’m going to adapt this tradition for Basic Cooking. On Wednesdays, I’ll post a food story — something about a kitchen disaster, or maybe where stuff comes from, things like that. I’ll also point to good stories involving food, and blogs and websites I’ve discovered.

If you’ve got a food story or great website to share, please leave a note in the comments section or e-mail me here: twschuettATpeoplepcDOTcom