| Cooking, for a change... |
[Apr. 23rd, 2011|01:32 pm] |
I made an interesting discovery last night. While trying to reconstruct something my mom used to make for dinner, sometimes, I stumbled across something that's better than I remember the thing I was aiming for ever being.
It's really easy, too:
- Slice an onion
- Fry onion in frying pan. (I used a bit of olive oil.)
- Add leaf spinach.
- When cooked, add soy sauce.
I was lazy and used frozen spinach, but I expect it'd work as well with fresh spinach. I'd fry the onions a bit before adding the spinach anyway. Another convenient thing is, it seems to me, the spinach itself seems to control how much soy sauce is soaked up. Somehow, it slides down really easily, too, which was good last night.
It was a good time, and easy, so I figured I'd share. :) |
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| Report on peanut butter-banana-bacon sandwiches |
[Feb. 22nd, 2010|10:57 pm] |
Pursuant to http://www.viruscomix.com/page500.html, which was in the #cslounge topic recently:
Having bacon in the fridge, peanut butter, and one banana which needed eating, I decided to make the sandwich named in one of the panels of the comic. I have come to the conclusion that, while it does not take anything away, bacon adds far less to the sandwich than to the effort to produce the sandwich. On the other hand, since our bacon is mostly fat and I burned half of it, this may be because I also fried the (rather sad) banana in the bacon grease, because I couldn't let it go to waste. Additionally, I found that the part of the bacon which was not burned did, in fact, add a noticeable difference in taste, whereas the burned part did not. I suspect the real problem is that banana and peanut butter are both relatively strong flavors, especially when the latter has been fried, so they simply smothered the bacon taste.
My final appraisal is that it was delicious, I would eat it again, and I think it is generally too much work for the result.
However, it was most certainly delicious, and anyone who thinks otherwise is weird. ;-) |
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| I didn't know this was mechanically possible... |
[Feb. 17th, 2010|09:46 pm] |
Today, when I arrived home, I had a surprise waiting for me: the kitchen was darker than usual.
Now, that doesn't sound that bad... until I add that the reason the kitchen was darker than usual was that the windows were all being covered by the roof of the back porch. ... The top of the roof of the back porch.
Yeah, our back porch completely fell apart sometime earlier today, and none of us have any idea how it could have even gotten that way in the first place. Pictures are here: http://www.vaniea.com/gallery/v/aij/snow/porch/ |
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| Just good news, this time... |
[Nov. 23rd, 2009|11:20 pm] |
So, it turns out I fail at reading the rules considering my master's degree. I get credit for Cs, after all, which means, just so long as I don't screw up my GPA (a safe bet), I will finish my degree on time. This means I can take that job offer...
Yay! |
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| schedule... |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|06:37 pm] |
It looks like this is my schedule, unless something strange happens:
https://scheduleman.org/schedules/lnOxAhotXm
I'm waitlisted for 549... apparently there were 30 people on the list by 12:00 noon on Monday.
I will also admit that I have Information Theory on the list largely because, if I happen to pass all my classes this semester, which is, unfortunately, looking highly unlikely, passing 4 classes next semester will actually get me a master's in the time frame I originally intended. One of that or 549 will get dropped otherwise, because it will increase the odds of not failing other classes.
Incidentally, I dropped Security this semester. I ... failed to turn in the second homework because I was screwing up my MEMS homework that I kept thinking I'd be almost done with. There's some irony to this, in my opinion, as MEMS was there at the last minute "because it fit my schedule", and frankly, I'm really bad at it. (On the other hand, Security is all vocabulary, which was obnoxious and had something to do with failing the exam, as opposed to messing up homework the way I did in MEMS...)
Hopefully, sometime this week I'll have some good news from Qualcomm (I'm not feeling too hopeful about Green Hills Software) that will make failing my classes because I was interviewing two weeks in a row worthwhile. |
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[Aug. 16th, 2009|03:20 pm] |
I'm going to take this as a sign that I'm bouncing back from my previous mood:
(Otherwise, it means I'm insane because I'm trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.)
I now have a copy of the A Game of Thrones board game, and I have to admit I'm itching to play it. It's sort of like Risk or Diplomacy except that it gets over in a sane (1-2 hours) amount of time. Who would be up for playing? Alternately, who's up for [board] games sometime soon (this week?) in general? |
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[Jun. 29th, 2009|10:11 am] |
I thought the guy directing the project I'm working on would be back from his family emergency today... I'm pretty sure I heard he'd be back this week. Unfortunately, it seems I'm still lacking a good idea of how to go about stuff after the last checkpoint, which I reached a day or two after he left, over a week ago.
I suppose I could obsessively document my code doxygen style to keep myself busy. c.c |
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| borken phone... |
[May. 8th, 2009|11:08 am] |
This is a bit of a public service announcement. I will not be carrying my phone around for the near future, because currently its buttons are a bit haywire. I left it on my desk and it regularly took pictures of the aforementioned desk without moving anything. Also, now, if I press, say, "1", it dials "*71" and tries to load it as a contact. (2 doesn't dial anything funny...) Finally, it keeps trying to get on the internet, which I'm pretty sure is not an included part of my cell phone plan, and I certainly don't use. There are more of these problems but I can't enumerate them...
Anyway, I won't be answering my phone while this is the case because I don't want to deal with the phone. It just started doing this after I left it plugged in and fully charged for about a day. |
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