Duolingo and stuff

[stormdog]

I learned important things like "Is het een leuke hond" (is it a nice dog) and "je bent interessant net zoals een goed boek" (you are interesting just like a good book) from Duolingo today. Good stuff! I especially need a diverse vocabulary for approaching people with dogs so I can pet them...

I realized, as I cooked a pizza I assembled for dinner earlier this week, that we have a stove with gas burners and an electric oven. I didn't know that was a thing.

As I read arguments recently about the appropriateness of Nancy Pelosi tearing up her copy of the SotU address, I merely admire her restraint at not braining him with a gavel.

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[cmcmck]

Our stove is a hybrid range cooker- it has gas burners and both a gas and an electric oven. It also has a professional style wok burner which I love.

They are popular in Europe.

[stormdog]

Nifty!

[anais_pf]

My Aunt Hannie taught me Dutch slang for ATM: I cannot find it anywhere online (so I can't spell it for you) but it's floppentopper, which sort of means floppy (for paper bills) topper (for getting out). People were very startled to hear me use that term when I was in the Netherlands. Duolingo will probably teach you the very proper geldautomaat.

[stormdog]

That's great! I'll remember that.