News You Can Bruise for 2005 November 24

Happy Thanksgiving!

Usually every year my grandmother makes peanut brittle for Christmas. This year she is passing on that because she's not been well, so when my mother came up for Thanksgiving she foisted a big bag of raw peanuts on me. I don't know if I'm supposed to make peanut brittle for everyone or if I'm the kind of person who people want to give raw peanuts to (Sumana's mother also foisted raw peanuts upon me when she came to visit). The bag weights about 2.5 pounds, which seems to make between 3 and 6 pounds of brittle. That seems like less than what my grandmother usually makes. I think she might use two or three of these bags. Anyway, I'll try a little batch and see how it goes.

Here are a couple more things I thought of to put on my Christmas wish list:

• I need a new pair of pajama pants because one of my old pairs got all ripped up.
• It would be awesome to get a robotfindskitten T-shirt, but it doesn't even exist yet.
• I was going to ask for a pseudoscope, because it sounds like you can use it to look at ordinary things and see horrifying Lovecraftian vistas, but then I noticed that they cost close to a thousand dollars. Not worth it. But maybe there are just some cheap glasses with prisms or mirrors that will let me perform my inverted sight experiment.

More as I think of them.