My apologies for the noise posting. The web version of Outlook that is the standard client for Hotmail has been acting very flaky lately and changed the addressee list with no input from me. This was supposed to go to my friends Ellen and Paul, but Outlook changed Pau's address to that of the framers list.
-FR > Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:12:55 -0700 > From: generic...@yahoo.ca > Subject: Re: Follow up on a few items > To: docu...@hotmail.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; ellen...@yahoo.com > > Huh? Did we miss something? > > *blink* > > Nadine > > > > >I really had a good time last evening and I just wanted to say thank you > >again for the thoughtful gifts. I just hope you weren't all bored to tears > >by the Doctor Who episode, which probably gave David Tennant the least > >screen time of any episode he did, and that I didn't oversell the episode as > >one of my all-time favorites. My only complaint is that I feel more than a > >bit wasted from not enough sleep this morning because I *had* to get up by > >7:30 to watch both the German Formula 1 Grand Prix race and today's Tour de > >France stage in the Pyrenees; many yawns this morning. > > > >But I wanted to follow up on a couple of things that came up in conversation. > > > >There are several brands of evaporative cooling cloth products (scarves, > >towels, head bands, hat and helmet liners), but the two leading brands seem > >to be Chill-Its (from a company called Ergodyne) and Frog Toggs, both of > >which are available from Amazon. Some customer reviews for each product do > >have some issues, but most reviewers seem to love the products (assuming > >that they are real customers and not shills). > > > >The beef rancher I was trying to think of is Simply Grazin, who actually > >raise certified organic pork, veal, and poultry in addition to beef > >(http://www.simplygrazin.com/about/). The 220 acre farm they lease is right > >on Rt. 206 and Opossum Rd. in Skillman, just south of the Montgomery Blooms > >nursery. They used to sell their products at the farm, but a couple of years > >ago opened a retail shop on Rt 518 in Blawenburg under the name Mallery's > >Grazin Meats (http://www.mallerysgrazinmeats.com/). Then they opened a > >second shop in the Knightsbridge Center in Hillsborough (that office/shop > >complex cattycorner from the Hillsborough Municipal Center and Library at > >South Branch Rd. and Beeckman Rd.) where they also operate Mallery's Eatery > >(http://eatery.mallerysgrazinmeats.com/), which serves breakfast and lunch > >daily. The news item I saw was apparently they they are now expanding to > >serve dinner one night a month with seating by reservation only--not too > practical for a no-advanced-planning type like me. I first became aware of > their beef when they were serving samples at a specialty foods festival that > McCaffery's put on under a tent in the P'ton shopping center courtyard a > couple of years ago, which Paul and Sara also went to. I've bought their meat > at McCaffery's a couple of times since then--good, but not really > exceptional, and pretty pricey. Maybe their retail meat shop might be a > source for cooking suet (or pork fat to render into fresh lard), since they > get all their cuts directly from the south Jersey organic meat > processor/butcher they work with (Bringhurst's in Berlin)? > > > >Regarding Roku boxes for Ellen to stream video content from the Web to the > >TV, there are a couple of options depending on how high the HD needs to be > >(I'm not sure whether the TV is a 720p or 1080p). If the TV is only 720p, > >the most cost-effective model is the $50 Roku LT > >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-2450D-LT-Streaming-Player/dp/B008R7EVE4/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-2&keywords=roku > >which is even purple instead of black. > >Or for $10 more, you can get the Roku HD, which adds an instant replay > >feature on the remote and but has only purple highlights on a mostly black > >box > >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-2500R-HD-Streaming-Player/dp/B007KEZMX4/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-4&keywords=roku > >If the TV is a 1080p screen, the same models will provide better-than-DVD > >quality, but to get full HD one would need to move up to the $80 Roku 2 XD > >http://www.amazon.com/Roku-XD-Streaming-Player-1080p/dp/B005CLPP8E/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1373207796&sr=1-3&keywords=roku > >If the TV doesn't have an available HDMI connector (I should have looked...) > >only the two lower cost, 720p models are relevant because they have RCA-type > >video and stereo audio connectors (the 2 XD has only HDMI).
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