If Only…
Homemade Microwave Popcorn
Found while scouring the WayBack Machine for the old VoenixRising…
From November 2007:
Anyone who knows me will tell you that left to my own devices I’m a popcorn fiend. Unfortunately, over the past few years I’ve discovered that there’s something in commercially available microwave popcorn that causes me to break out in small pimples that waste no time turning into really ugly, open sores that take weeks to heal. Once I made the connection, I went cold turkey, only indulging in the salty, buttery goodness when I went to the movies.
Well, a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a recipe for home made microwave popcorn. I’d often wondered why you couldn’t just throw a bunch of popping corn into a paper bag and nuke it for a few minutes. Turns out that the process is almost that simple, and infinitely healthier for you than buying that commercial crap.
And guess what…no more breaking out!
Today, you will learn that which the huge food companies don’t want you to know. You will learn how simple and cheap it is to make your own microwave popcorn. Lets get started.
First you will need the following ingredients:
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- 1/4 cup of popping corn (generally $0.99 for a pound bag. This is enough to make at least 50 bags of microwave corn)
- 1 Teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
- Popcorn salt to taste (it has finer granules than table salt with the same taste)
And the following tools:
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- A stapler
- A teaspoon
- A measuring cup
- A brown paper bag, and—of course
- A microwave
Step One:
Measure out the popcorn and dump it into the paper bag. Carefully add salt and any additional seasonings you might want. Shake gently. Now add the teaspoon of olive oil.
Step Two:
Close the bag, folding it over twice. Secure with one stable in the middle of the fold. (Contrary to popular belief, staples will not arc in the microwave.) Shake the bag to evenly distribute the corn/oil/salt mixture. Place the bag, side down, in your microwave and nuke it until you hear the popping occurring at roughly 3-5 second intervals. (My microwave has a “popcorn” setting on the control panel. I find that is about fifteen seconds too long.) You might want to put a folded paper towel under the bag to soak up the oil that will seep through the bag.
Step Three:
Open the bag with care because steam will escape and you can get scalded. Pour into a bowl, serve and enjoy the taste and the knowledge that this heaping bag of microwave popcorn cost less than ten cents and isn’t full of unnecessary added chemicals and preservatives!
Oh, That I Could…
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Oopsie!
Things Queer Culture Teaches That Straight Culture Doesn’t
This Seems Kind Of Outdated
I Asked ChatGPT To Generate A Report on the Current State of the USA from an Alien Anthropoligist
And I can’t say I disagree with a single word of it.
Field Report: Sociocultural Assessment of the United States (Terran Subregion)
Observer: T’lenn 47-A, Anthropology Unit, Galactic Survey Corps
Planet: Earth (Sol III)
Region Focus: United States of America
Date of Observation: Terran Year 2025
I. Political Structure and Stability
The subject entity exhibits a constitutional-democratic framework in form, though in practice it is experiencing elevated internal discord. Two dominant political factions—nominally committed to representative governance—display increasingly oppositional behavior. Legislative gridlock and erosion of trust in electoral integrity are prominent.
Assessment: Fragmented political identity. Signs of institutional fatigue. Tribal allegiance superseding collective governance.
II. Economic Conditions
Economic indicators suggest extreme productive capacity and technological sophistication. However, wealth stratification is acute. Despite an abundance of resources, substantial populations experience housing insecurity, inadequate medical care, and food instability.
Assessment: Advanced technocapitalist system with malfunctioning redistributive mechanisms. Resource surplus coexists with systemic deprivation.
III. Technosocial Dynamics
Civilians possess high-access to digital systems, artificial intelligence, and near-instant global communication. Yet social cohesion is in decline. Widespread misinformation, addictive interfaces, and algorithmic echo chambers contribute to psychological distress and civic fragmentation.
Assessment: Neural overload from information ecosystems. Adaptation lag between cognitive architecture and technological environment.
IV. Cultural Output and Influence
Despite domestic turbulence, the entity remains a prolific generator of cultural content—music, cinema, fashion, digital media—consumed globally. Narrative control and emotional resonance through storytelling remain potent instruments of influence.
Assessment: Cultural hegemon. Exports identity-forming content at scale. Myth and media deeply intertwined.
V. Ecological Behavior
Empirical evidence of ecological decline (climate variation, biosphere stress) is broadly available. Responses are fragmented. Resistance to mitigation stems from industrial interests and short-horizon political calculations.
Assessment: Cognitive dissonance between awareness and action. Evolutionarily maladaptive prioritization of immediate economic benefit.
VI. Ideological Constructs
The region is structured around self-perpetuating ideals: individual freedom, exceptionalism, meritocracy. However, operational reality increasingly diverges from foundational mythologies. Internal debates over identity, history, and justice intensify.
Assessment: Mythic dissonance. Foundational narratives both unify and destabilize.
Conclusion
The United States represents a paradox: a civilization at the apex of capability yet mired in internal contradiction. It is uncertain whether the entity will stabilize, bifurcate, or collapse under the weight of its own complexity.
Projected Trajectory:
Outcome indeterminate. Requires continued observation.
Recommendation:
Reassess in 5–10 orbital cycles or upon evidence of major systemic shift.
It’s That Time Again
Hmmm…
I think I know what the video’s creator is trying to say, but I keep tripping over the verbiage.
A Question for ChatGPT
Top 20 Rarely Used English Words:
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- Zugzwang – A situation in chess where any move worsens your position. (Rare outside chess contexts)
- Agelast – A person who never laughs.
- Nidificate – To build a nest (used in zoology).
- Cymotrichous – Having wavy hair.
- Wamble – Stomach rumbling or queasiness.
- Yclept – Archaic word meaning “named” or “called.”
- Epizeuxis – A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word for emphasis.
- Cacodemonomania – The delusion that one is possessed by an evil spirit.
- Xylophilous – Attracted to or living on wood (used in biology).
- Brontide – A low rumbling sound like distant thunder, sometimes attributed to seismic activity.
- Quockerwodger – A wooden puppet controlled by strings; slang for a politician controlled by others.
- Limerence – The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person.
- Fugleman – A leader or ringleader, especially in military drill.
- Acnestis – The part of the back between the shoulder blades that one cannot reach to scratch.
- Greeble – A small, meaningless detail added to a model or design to make it appear more complex.
- Crapulous – Suffering from excessive eating or drinking.
- Zabernism – The misuse of military authority; bullying.
- Snollygoster – A shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician.
- JIRBLE – To spill (a liquid) by shaking or unsteady handling.
- Tyrotoxism – Poisoning by cheese or other dairy products.
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I hate to be that guy, but why aren’t we using these words speicifially invented for politicians a lot more often?? should we change this?
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I Saw This…
S’il Te Plaît, Ne Le Fais Pas ????
Always Nice To See Actors Finding Work After Star Trek
Submitted Without Comment
I’m Not Saying It’s True. Then Again, I’m Not Saying It Isn’t…
Caption This
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Who Knew?
Be Careful Where You Do Your Dark Arts, Will Ya?
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Do I Really Need To Name Names?
ChatGPT
Food For Thought
A thought-provoking and terrifying answer to the question “Where is everybody,” i.e. why is the universe is so incredibly silent when it should be teeming with life?
Karma Sometimes Takes A While To Get There, But When It Does…
So the Nottoway Plantation caught fire.
Fire fighters contained the blaze, but then the fire reignited to the point that the firefighters said, “It can no longer be contained.”
The ancestors have spoken.
May all those who were enslaved on that land and experienced violence and trauma there finally find rest.
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Aren’t You?
Cheeto Satan
If It’s Like That…
…I think I have undiagnosed ADHD. Seriously.






































