Reaction in the Senate: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/wp/2012/12/17/when-senators-learned-that-daniel-inouye-died/

I learned how difficult it is when we had a German exchange student who wanted to cook -using a recipe in German!

We went shopping, and he (a 16-year-old boy) needed an ingredient I'd never heard of. He described it as well as a teenage boy who doesn't cook much would, and his translation widget called it "Anorexia." I wasn't about to ask the Kroger staff for anorexia, but figured that nonfat yogurt was as close as we'd get. It worked, but I later found it was a kind of soft cheese only sold in Europe and parts of Canada. Cottage cheese would have worked better.

And he was stunned that I didn't have a kitchen scale. We did a lot of math, and the cake turned out fine.

Love the idea, but there's a reason we don't use glass containers on a porcelain sink. Especially where slippery soap is used.

Of course, Twitter has its place, but downloading all your tweets is akin to making a recording of everything you said out loud to anyone in the last few years. It might settle an argument or two, but the data would fill a library and who wants to sift through all that?

I saw the title come up as "Have a Meal with Your Cockatiel" and was ready to watch someone eat along with their bird!

I'm betting it's a promotional package for a new film or TV show. And so far, it's worked better than they could possibly have hoped for.