How about this simple analysis: All engineering is geek, but not all geek is engineering. That is, engineering is a subset of geek. Kind of like all rocknroll is music, but not all music is rocknroll. Too simplistic? Or am I making much ado about nothing?

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
Hey Oxi,
So I just sent a reply to the Cap about the Geek and Engineering channels and their respective domains. I don't really see it as a problem but perhaps a clarification of the video types we look for in our channels would be welcome if there is confusion. I'll draw the Venn diagram! Cheers!

To Cap:
Well the supreme authority of what Geek means (Miriam Webster dictionary:) 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity". There is quite an overlap between the two channels.

engineering covers a wide range (computers, mechanics, architecture.) And Geek covers many overlapping fields (computers, mechanics, LARP fest.) I'll talk to the pastry looking owner of sifts newest channel.

Regards!

I sent him a response too. I suspect he still has it up. Forgive errors: am on bus and latency too great for tolerable error correction. Cheers!

In reply to this comment by gorgonheap:
Hey Oxi,
So I just sent a reply to the Cap about the Geek and Engineering channels and their respective domains. I don't really see it as a problem but perhaps a clarification of the video types we look for in our channels would be welcome if there is confusion. I'll draw the Venn diagram! Cheers!

To Cap:
Well the supreme authority of what Geek means (Miriam Webster dictionary:) 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity". There is quite an overlap between the two channels.

engineering covers a wide range (computers, mechanics, architecture.) And Geek covers many overlapping fields (computers, mechanics, LARP fest.) I'll talk to the pastry looking owner of sifts newest channel.

Regards!

Hey Oxi,
So I just sent a reply to the Cap about the Geek and Engineering channels and their respective domains. I don't really see it as a problem but perhaps a clarification of the video types we look for in our channels would be welcome if there is confusion. I'll draw the Venn diagram! Cheers!

To Cap:
Well the supreme authority of what Geek means (Miriam Webster dictionary:) 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity". There is quite an overlap between the two channels.

engineering covers a wide range (computers, mechanics, architecture.) And Geek covers many overlapping fields (computers, mechanics, LARP fest.) I'll talk to the pastry looking owner of sifts newest channel.

Regards!

Well the supreme authority of what Geek means (Miriam Webster dictionary: 1: a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat or snake 2: a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3: an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity". There is quite an overlap between the two channels.

engineering covers a wide range (computers, mechanics, architecture.) And Geek covers many overlapping fields (computers, mechanics, LARP fest.) I'll talk to the pastry looking owner of sifts newest channel.

Regards!

In reply to this comment by CaptWillard:
I just sent this message to oxdottir, and I feel it's appropriate for you to know too. Nothing controversial, mind you. I only want some clarification.

Wow, in a couple of short days the Engineering channel has over 16 pages of videos. Of course I realize that many people, just like me, reviewed all their videos and retroactively applied the Engineering tag, but that's still very impressive. I've always thought that the "Geek" channel was too broad. However, could you tell me when something is Geek and NOT Engineering, or the other way around, or both? To me, "Geek" ALWAYS means enthusiast of some sort or another. For example, there are comic book "geeks", but that has nothing to do with engineering. However computer design is both geek AND engineering. Can you name examples of anything that is Engineering but NOT Geek, besides what I already mentioned?

In other words, I'm a little confused. Maybe a Venn diagram would help. Gorgonheap is the maestro of the Geek channel; maybe you and he need to draw up a Sift Talk post that clearly defines what both defines and delineates your channels. I would appreciate it.

I hope I'm not coming across as an anal-retentive anus. I only want to be precise in my channel assignments.

Thanks in advance.

>> ^calvados:
@Raigen: methinks your cakey afterlife will make for a very obèse Heaven.


Oh, but in this particular pastry-heaven everyone always maintains their appropriate BMI regardless of how many sweets they ingest.

mmmm nice article man I was vegan for about 3 months before I gave in to the cheese. Especially in an omelette.

For those of you watching in Lithuanian:

Rokiškio
Džukijos
Medžiotojų

and the brie is nice too.

But my real addiction is the "varškė"... basically curds / cottage cheese but in many many variations... it's niiice, you can put it with absolutely anything, sweet or savoury. It's everywhere.

You can even get it in a lump covered in chocolate called "Surelis". This is so rich I can't really eat a whole one, but it's everywhere. People are addicted. A friend once shouted in a 24/7: "WHAT KIND OF SHOP DOESN'T HAVE SURELIS???" and wouldn't leave until we dragged him out.

lithuanian pastries filled with varškė:
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/litauiskt-galleri/mat/konditori.jpg

I miss McKenzie's cake doughnuts so much. But for King Cakes, it's almost always been Haydel's. I haven't had Randazzo's since I was a kid and never tried the other two - which is weird since I grew up pretty close to Maurice French Pastries.

I was pretty resistant to fillings at first, but I gotta say, Haydel's cream cheese king cake is pretty damn good.

"Stossel" reminds me of "strudel"

mmmm...pastries.

That was officially the most expensive pastry treat ever.

And he dropped half of it. Awww...

Man, he looked so young back then, though!

watch it in the original version: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/pastry

The weed used here is home grown sensi: Designer buds have a better finnish than the equatorial varieties...Also, when the butter is done like this, with the amount of canninbis they used, a litle, goes a long way....the high from eating is more hallucinogenic, the plateau is hash-like high which lasts a loooooooong time.
If you grow it, it is cost effective, if you have to buy it, yer screwed unless wealthy.
Baking in pastries is not the way to mask the flavour....do that with sauces or with onions and garlic in a soup or caserole......omlet?

It looks as if Chris was still doing well as of last year:

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:74b8wSvGZ74J:www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/health/13207483.htm+%22christopher+wall%22+heart+1975&hl=en&ct=cln
k&cd=6

"Teresa Wall, who owns a pastry shop called Tartes in Old City, said her son has some noticeable effects from years of surgery and hospital stays. Wall, who is 5- foot-1, has hearing loss and some speech impediments, and had developmental delays, she said.
Wall works in the mailroom of a tubing company in New Jersey. Because he does not have a normal chest wall, he wears a chest protector to keep his heart from being injured. But for the most part, Teresa Wall said, her son is healthy and enjoying life.
'I am very happy,' Christopher Wall said yesterday before greeting some staff members who remembered him from the hospital.
'My mom took care of me really good, and she's real happy also.'"

There's a Lincoln Park Pastry shop in my hometown...great cannolis!

I celebrate our President's free and easy use of a barnyard epithet. I do not, however, condone his cursing with a mouth full of breakfast pastry. He could choke (again)!