Food for Thought

Via The Dream Cafe, author Steven K. Brust's blog:


First of all, here is why it is impossible to correctly hard boil an egg. Do a search on “perfect hard-boiled eggs” and you will find several (mostly similar) approaches. What they all have in common is knowing when the water boils. To know when the water boils, you have to watch it. But a watched pot never boils. Thus the eggs will never cook. QED.

White Collar Ficlet - Gonna Make You Sweat - A Wonder(ful) Years Timestamp (MMOM Day 9)

Title: Gonna Make You Sweat – A Wonder(ful) Years Timestamp
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Written For: MMOM 2013
Prompt: Hot
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, (Peter/Neal)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~500
Summary: A temporary separation can't keep Peter and Neal from enjoying themselves, even on one of the hottest nights of the year. Set in the Wonder(ful) Years ‘Verse, sometime after Something We Never Dreamt We Could Have

A/N: This one almost didn’t happen. Please thank the ever-wonderful sinfulslasher for her unwitting inspiration.

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( Peter knew that these separations were inevitable. Just because they were both SAICs in a busy FBI field office didn’t mean that they were immune to the occasional overnight field assignments. )