Subj : Sourdough Whole-Wheat Biscuits To : Ben Collver From : Ruth Haffly Date : Tue Jun 24 2025 15:20:53 Hi Ben, RH> As for dessert at home, it's usually fruit or a cookie but sometimes RH> I'll get ambitious and make a pie or cobbler. Those are usually made for RH> pot lucks tho, and if we have left overs, we'll take them home and RH> finish. BC> Potlucks can be weird. I went to one where someone made a classic BC> pear crisp using home grown pears, and they made it with love. Not Sounds yummy, makes you wonder why it was ignored. BC> one other person took any besides me and the baker. I suppose the BC> others considered it unattractive because it was not what they would BC> normally eat. I asked the baker if i could finish it off, and she BC> told me i was welcome to have as much as i wanted. We didn't remain BC> single for long, and eventually BC> ended up dating each other. :> Interesting way to meet. I don't know if you were on here when Nancy Backus was but she was allergic to apples. She hosted a picnic (sadly no longer a Fido event) about 8 years ago; part of it included service at her church followed by a pot luck lunch. I made a waldorf salad subbing out pears for apples, thought I'd be bringing some back. When I went to get the dish, it was empty--guess I ought to do that again. I'm glad Nancy got some of it, (G) RH> No, but back in the mid 70s I used key punch cards to enter survey data RH> into a computer. My Population Problems class (sociology) had done a RH> survery of about 1/4 of the campus population and we co-olated the data RH> that way. I used some of the data for a paper for my Social Psychology RH> (psychology) class. (I was a sociology major, psychology and art RH> minors.) BC> Interesting that you were a sociology major, and that you got to BC> experience using punch cards. I read that paper tape and punch cards BC> were in use way past their "expiration date" because the equipment was BC> so inexpensive. It was the fastest way to quickly get the data in useable form as the end of the semester was coming up. There were about 8 of us, each with about 25-30 copies of the survey. BC> I recently went down a rabbithole on a rainy day. A friend sent me a BC> video of someone creating art on an oldschool mechanical typewriter. BC> I found books about typewriter art on archive.org, one of which was BC> published in 1936. I sent it to another friend and called it 1936 BC> ASCII art. This BC> friend reminded me that ASCII didn't exist in 1936. I found that what BC> DID exist in 1936 was ITS-2, a 5-bit encoding that was often punched BC> on 5-hole paper tape. I wrote a script to convert between ASCII and BC> ITS-2, and BC> another script to convert between ITS-2 and a plaintext representation BC> to simulate paper tape. That must have been an interesting rabbit hole for you. The typewriter art must have been fun; I remember seeing some of it decades ago. BC> What inspired you to pursue a sociology major? The first thing that BC> popped into my mind was "I wonder what the difference is between BC> sociology and anthropology?" A cynical answer could be that sociology BC> is about us and anthropology is about them. As part of the general ed requirements I took an introductory course taught by J.Whitney Shea, brother of George Beverly Shea, and found it fascinating. It inter relates with anthropology; it would have been interesting to do a major combining the 2 but anthropology was not offered at the (small) college I went to. I originally had just an art minor but after taking enough psychology classes, I realised I was close to a minor in it so declared and finished it. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Our necessities are few but our wants are endless... --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .