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  where's a good place to get your knives sharpened?

  0 0 As an owner of exactly three knives, I can't say I've much experience in this question, and so can't judge the relative merits of places, but last week I went to Vulcan Knife Works and this was a good place to get a knife sharpened. Pretty cheap, very convenient and fast as it actually has its own storefront, nice guy, and you get to stare at all sorts of cool cutting implements while you wait. Everything to love, nothing not to. Marm answered in Other-Food & Drink about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 4 more answers »

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  Does anyone know of a Seattle coffee shop that serves Cardamom coffee?

  0 0 I don't know about coffee shops, but gyro shops usually have it. Aladin Gyrocery and Cedar's in U-district for instance. Marm answered in Coffee & Tea about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

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  Other cocktails to drink?

  1 0 A very good internet resource is http://12bottlebar.com Now, you may be saying, I don't even care about cocktails that much, and this whole speakeasy thing is kind of ridiculous. Why would I want to read someone talking slightly snootily about something I don't even care a lot about. And, if you are saying this, I actually kind of agree with you on all counts. But, somehow, though I am not very interested in cocktails (and when I first started reading this site, was not at all interested - and had never ordered any cocktail but a gin and tonic or a bloody mary), the posts that go with each of the twelve bottles of liquor and the cocktails to be made from them are fantastic and fun to read. And they also get you excited about trying the given cocktails. Or at least they did me. And also, many of the drinks are pretty simple and follow the "alcohol+sour thing" model. There also isn't an overwhelming amount of drinks, and that's good, too. So, yeah. In fact, there is a specific post about Whiskey Sours and things similar to them: http://12bottlebar.com/2010/04/19/the-whiskey-sour-four-ways/ Marm answered in Alcohol about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 3 more answers »

• Follow Following 1 Is there a place I can drink tea from a tea glass with a glass holder? Marm asked in Coffee & Tea about 1 year ago by Amy W. & 1 other answer by keshmeshi…

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  Seeking general random advice about going to France.

  0 0 Sights that I enjoyed: The Musée d'Orsay. The Ste. Chapelle. The building of the Grande Arche de la Défense. The building of the Institut du Monde Arabe. The Bois de Vincennes. The Musée Georges Pompidou. The bottom of the Eiffel Tower. Sights that I didn't enjoy as much: Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, spending what felt like an entire day in the Louvre, Invalides, Panthéon, L'Opéra. Cheeses that are worth eating: brique de chêvre, roquefort papillon, St. Nectaire, Reblochon, any fresh goat cheese, herbed or not, Rocamadour... Things that are significantly more available at grocery stores there, which are also delicious: terrines of various kinds. Cider from Normandy. How to get your bread at the bakery: not too crispy. ("pas trop cuit" - [patʁoky'i]). Daytrips that are worth making: There are probably many. But, one that is both easy and worthwhile is going to Rheims. Easy because there is a hi-speed train that goes there. Worthwhile because of the Cathedral, the basilica, and the champagne. What everyone else said that is true: Dress nicely. Walk around. Watch people. Drink wine. Eat charcuterie. Marm answered in Long Distance Travel about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 11 more answers »

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  what are some awesome games for an older computer?

  0 0 There are many good answers that can be given here and many have been given (older Civs, older GTAs also get my votes). But let me just say that for the quality of "awesome", few games can compete with Little Big Adventure (works on a 486) and Little Big Adventure 2 (Works on the earliest Pentiums). Action-adventure, filled with bipedal elephant-like creatures with hilarious accents (grobos) among a bevy of super-imaginatively made creatures, aliens, car races, a few puzzles, bouncy balls that you shoot at people, sandbox-ness, awesome music ... everything to love and nothing not to. Marm answered in Games about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 9 more answers »

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  0 0 Let me just note my appreciation for the way you solved that dilemma! :) Marm commented about 1 year ago

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  What is your favorite Richard Dawkins book?

  2 2 My suggestion would be just to read Stephen Jay Gould instead*. *(Unless you just want to read a book about human evolution by someone who is both incredibly cocky and named Richard. In that case, no doubt about it, you should read Richard Leakey) Marm answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 7 more answers »

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  What is your favorite dedication in a book?

  1 0 I don't wanna become a one-trick pony here, but the dedication to 'The Abortion', while not as sincere or lofty as any of the ones mentioned so far, got me to read the book in the first place: Frank: come on in — read novel — it's on table in front room. I'll be back in about two hours. Richard And, yeah, the Little Prince. Marm answered in General Book Discussion about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 6 more answers »

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  Fiction set in Middle Ages?

  0 0 I just wanted to add to all the people saying Name of the Rose. And also to say that Umberto Eco's other book set in the Middle Ages that I've read, Baudolino, is also fantastic. It may not be as "involved" as Name of the Rose, but is full of little details about Medieval Europeans' views about the lands they didn't know about - y'know the places where cyclopes, bird-women, unicorns and headless one-footed men live... An excellent and very fun read. (Foucault's Pendulum - not so much). Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is not really a book that's in any way about the middle ages, but it is, at least technically, set there, and is totally great (His other medieval stuff - not so much). Dario Fo wrote a very thought-provoking, in my opinion, piece (officially a play, I guess?) about the Middle Ages called Mistero Buffo. More about Popes than you probably wanted to know! It's like half a day's reading, so it's all-encompassingly* worth your time. Also, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. It has this reputation of being impossible to read, so I was greatly surprised at how readable and funny it was. This isn't to say I anywhere near finished it or anything, but still... Gargantua is hilarious. And very medieval! Not fiction and might totally not be your thing, but I was recently reading a book about the Bayeux Tapestry called "A Needle in the Right Hand of God" that was unexpectedly awesome and have been itching to recommend it to somebody somewhere, so there. It is very good at portraying some of the medieval mindset... *I noticed I was using totally too much... Marm answered in Book Recommendations about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 6 more answers »

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