Shorts

No Casual Frogday today. Still need to find the frog and start taking pictures with it.

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No peach update yet. I’ll probably cut into it this afternoon.

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Former Notre Dame wide receiver Jeff Samardzija made is Major League debut as a pitcher for the Cubs today! He struck out the first batter he faced! Then allowed the Marlins to score the tying run. He’ll fit right in.

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Did you know the “secret” to making great chocolate chip cookies is letting the dough age for 36 hours before baking? The original Tollhouse recipe called for chilling the dough over night, but Nestle never included that part in the recipe on the bag of chips. Sprinkling sea salt on the cookies before baking is supposed to make them better too.

This is all according to this article in the New York Times, which published this recipe earlier this month.

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The band Rush playing it's own song Tom Sawyer on the video game Rock Band as part of it's first U.S. TV appearance in 30 years on the Colbert Report:



According to Laughing Squid they failed to complete the song after 30 seconds, scoring 31% on “expert mode”.