Define: gauche

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gauche adj \'gõsh\

Definition of gauche
1.
a : lacking social experience or grace; also : not tactful : crude
b : crudely made or done

Examples of gauche

-Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is?

-His loud talking at the opera marked him as gauche and uncultured.

-Among élite scientists, it was usually considered gauche to be obsessed with anything so tangible or immediate: brilliant discoveries were supposed to percolate. —Michael Specter, New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2007

-We were suburban housewives and mothers. As poets we took a respectful backseat to the male poets. We did not talk about our husbands and children in public; that would have been gauche indeed. —Maxine Kumin, In Deep, 1987

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iMac will not sleep

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I have had an issue with my iMac sleeping for the past few days and had to shut it down last night to keep it from waking up as the hum from the machine drives me crazy. My machine does not wake fully: There is no display but the fans turn back on and just run endlessly.

Here’s what I did to determine what is waking my machine.

In Lion (OS X 10.7) fire up terminal and type:

syslog |grep -i "Wake reason"

You will get something to the effect of this:

Jan 11 14:37:36 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 12 16:26:15 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 12 17:05:52 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 12 18:55:58 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 13 07:53:58 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 09:35:07 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 13:20:19 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 23:01:55 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 15 08:47:20 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 15 19:53:30 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 16 08:35:03 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 16 14:58:12 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 17 22:17:45 imac kernel[0] : Wake reason: UHC4

It would seem that UHC4 is our culprit but we don’t really have any information about what UHC4 is so we have to dig a little deeper.

In Console, check the kernel.log and filter using “wake”.

You will see something like this:

Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: The USB device BRCM2046 Hub (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: The USB device Bluetooth USB Host Controller (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)

UHC4 appears to be my BT Keyboard. Checking more, all the recorded times look legit and it would seem that this is not the rogue waking that I am researching but me manually bringing the machine out of sleep by tapping the spacebar. What’s stranger, it does not seem that my Macintosh is recording the other waking periods that I am complaining about.

To the web. After more research I came across this post and tried doing the steps here.
Ultimately, disabling all of my sharing preferences and enabling them fixed the problem.

So… if your Mac is waking randomly and you’re getting no display then try the “sharing fix” first. If your machine is waking fully, display and all, try some of the steps above to determine the cause and you should be a few steps closer to resolving the issue.

Robyn – SNL, Cover, Swoon Face

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Robyn was on SNL over the weekend and performed Call Your Girlfriend and Dancin on My Own from her 2010 Body Talk album. She killed it!

After checking that out see her do a cover of Alicia Keys’s (s’? ‘s? s’s?) Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart for an iheartradio performance.

And if that’s not enough, watch Who’s That Girl? over on YouTube. The feeling I get when I see the face she makes at :16-:17 confirms I have a crush on this girl. Swoon!

Melting Pot’s Curry Sauce Recipe

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I took Sprout to the Melting Pot for her birthday last night. We love to go there for the fun, the cheese, the food, and the chocolate. I go for the curry sauce. I put it on everything. Here’s the supposed recipe, from not one, but two locations. I need to make this now!

1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/2 cup real mayonnaise
1/2 cup mango chutney
2 teaspoons minced red onion
2 teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Combine all ingredients in a food processor, and pulse several times until desired consistency is reached. Chill, covered in a bowl, 2 hours before using, so flavors may meld. Can be stored up to three days in refrigerator.

Let’s Face the Music and Dance

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I am taking a course this semester, as an elective, about musicals. One might think that this is an easy A course. Truth be told, I signed up for it for this very reason. I was so wrong. Every week I have to watch 1 or 2 2-3 hr musicals, watch another 1 hour documentary, read at least 6 articles, and then write 800 words on the film(s). This course is time-consuming, but I am now obsessed with show tunes, Fred Astaire, Busby Berkeley, and with film noir.

Let’s Face the Music and Dance…

Jeopardy! “Threesome”

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I DVR Jeopardy! every day and it’s a rarity when people mess up, get their tongues tied, or give inappropriate answers. This is a clip from 11/4/11 in which Kara Spak, one of the contestants in Jeopardy!’s “Tournament of Champions,” gave a rather inappropriate answer to Alex Trebek. Quick-witted Trebek came up with a pretty great response. He would later tell her during a commercial break that she was “a saucy wench.”

An article from the Chicago Sun-Times, written by Spak, details her run on Jeopardy!’s “Tournament of Champions.” She ultimately lost the match, but will walk away with a story to tell.

On the stage, the 30-minute show went by in about 30 seconds, a complete blur of not being able to ring in and then finally getting in and answering with a wildly inappropriate answer (“What is a threesome?” to a question about a love triangle). During a commercial break that followed, Alex Trebek called me a “saucy wench.”