Chocolate Butterscotch Scotcheroos

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup corn syrup
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 pkg. chocolate chips
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 6 cups Rice Krispies
  • 1 pkg. butterscotch chips

Directions:

  1. In large saucepan, cook corn syrup and sugar over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture begins to boil.
  2. Remove from heat.
  3. Stir in peanut butter.
  4. Mix in cereal.
  5. Press in buttered 9×13 pan.
  6. Melt over hot (not boiling) water chocolate chips and butterscotch chips, stirring constantly until smooth.
  7. Spread over cereal mixture.
  8. Chill until firm, about 15 minutes.
A Childhood Friend
Your score was 38 in Unbelievability!
You are your author’s childhood friend, and a good example of a fun character for fiction writers everywhere. You’re a pretty neat person- but still very real. You are a person of few extremes, but you have your moments of glory. When you’re at your best, people can be wowed by you- but you’re not always at your best. And that’s OK. You’re only human. A novel with you as a character would sell quite well. It might not make the New York Times’ bestseller list, but then again, it might. Who knows? Most people would certainly buy a book with you as a character in it. Well, they might wait for it be available in paperback- but they’d buy it eventually.
A Childhood Friend

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 17% on Implausibility
Link: The Are You a Plausible Character? Test written by coldrose on OkCupid.com
Firefox Privacy Options

Have you been using Firefox for several months? And during that time noticed that it’s taking longer & longer for the Save File dialog box to come up? Then likely, you’ve got the same problem that I’ve had. Fortunately, there’s an easy (but slow) fix for this.

 

Instructions:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Go into Tools -> Options (or Edit -> Preferences).
  3. Click on the Privacy icon in the left-hand pane.
  4. In the right-hand pane, click on Download Manager History.
  5. Click the Clear button. At this point, Firefox may appear to have crashed but in reality it should be going through and clearing out all of the items from your download history. On my home machine, this took several minutes to complete but I’ve been running Firefox since v0.9 and have never cleared the download history before.
  6. Optionally, you may wish to change the “Remove files from the Download Manager:” from “Manually” to “When Firefox exits”. To help prevent this slow down from happening again.

This fix works on both the Linux & Windows versions of Firefox. I would presume it also works for the OS X version, but I (sadly enough) do not have a Mac to try it out on.

It’s been a good week for interesting links…
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