The Whirly Pop

Every Sunday night we have popcorn for dinner -- it's become a tradition. We use the Whirly Pop (a bridal shower gift from one R.T.L.) and I love it!

1. The Whirly Pop makes healthy popcorn -- just 1 tsp of oil and you can pop as much corn as you like. (Then, of course we add butter and salt.)
2. Cheap popcorn. We have this bag of popcorn in the fridge that's been there since we moved. We use a quarter of a cup each time we pop. That bag (a year's supply) cost about as much as a 3-pack of microwave popcorn.
3. No unpopped kernels! Or at least very few. In tonight's batch -- just six left unpopped! And the rest was perfect. Yummy. What a great dinner.
   

What I've been reading: One of my professors has recommended several books that I've tried. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson was an awesome sci-fi flavored novel about a marketing consultant obsessed with tracking down the story behind some "footage" released on the web. The other novel by Gibson that the professor recommended, Neuromancer, I couldn't get into at all and quit after the first 60 pages -- too sci-fi techie for me. Also, The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century -- kind of a dry read. Now I'm finishing Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, a cultural biography of Mormonism's founder and a very interesting read, and I just started on Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy and I'm very enthused by the first bit of The Golden Compass, which I started last night.