R. Andrews
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11:07 pm
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Heh
Cassie's new tea bags came in interesting boxes.
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10:01 pm
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I just wanted to make a post on February 29th
And now I have.
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09:28 am
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A book
If you combine this with this, you get this. It's quite good.
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03:09 pm
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Whitelists
I made a post here that some people reading this may be interested in. It's not a SOPA rant.
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02:17 pm
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Short one, mouse
I got my laptop last night, I spent most of the evening messing with it and finally got Skyrim installed and running around 10. It performs beautifully. I want to make a longer post all about it, but just a small bit:
Microsoft makes a mouse called the Arc Touch Mouse. It's a flexible curve-shaped thing, it folds flat to carry around, and you can bend it back curved to use it. And the mouse wheel isn't actually a wheel, but a touch strip.
On the Apple equivalent (which I also have; the Magic Mouse) the touch stuff is annoying to use because you can't tell when it actually moves like with a physical wheel. But Microsoft (this is so weird to say) has made a much better interface: the mouse somehow physically clicks when the wheel moves one notch. Like there's a little thing inside it that taps the mouse a tiny bit, like a little force-feedback motor. It is the first touch-sensitive device that's as comfortable to use as a physical device.
So I guess, buy one of these mice .
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07:30 pm
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More 99%
lol.
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11:32 pm
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Trains
Here's some game art I drew this weekend. I think trains may be a better game theme than Extruded Fantasy Product, even.
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02:22 pm
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Game?
I want to buy a board game but I can't decide. Help, friends list?
Arkham Horror maybe, or First Train to Nuremberg. Or maybe Troyes or Rune Age or Earth Reborn?
Edit: First Train to Nuremberg will be here on Friday. Trains are more fun than elder gods.
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03:43 am
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How to cook chicken and rice
This is an easy recipe. You can cook it.
You will need:
- One package of chicken breasts. Usually about a pound. A big bag of frozen breasts (like from Wal-Mart) works too, if you want to buy all your ingredients for the month at once. Either way you'll want about two breasts.
- A cup of white rice and an apparatus to cook it. I use a steamer. They're about $30 if you don't already have one.
- A packet of seasonings. These are about a dollar each, and they come in all sorts of flavors. They're used to make marinades for grilling things, which is more or less what we're about to do. They'll each have instructions an the back about how to make them; ignore these.
- A couple of clementines or one orange. I guess you could use about 1/4 cup of orange juice too, but I always have clementines around so I just use those.
Pro tip: buy three or four seasoning packets and a big bag of rice all at once; then the only thing you need to get fresh is a package of chicken. Also, shoot for variety in the seasoning packets. It'll keep you from getting sick of chicken and rice if it's all you eat for months.
What you do:
- First, set up the rice in the steamer, but don't start it yet.
- Then, get a mixing bowl and put in the seasoning packet, 1/4 cup of water, and the orange juice. Lime juice works too.
- Now, cut the chicken into cubes, putting the cubes in the bowl as you cut them. This part is sort of annoying but it's over quickly if you have a sharp knife.
- Mix up the bowl some to make sure the chicken is covered in goo, then cover the bowl and put it in the refrigerator. Start the rice and go do something else until it finishes (usually about half an hour).
- When the rice maker dings, don't open it yet. Instead, get a frying pan and put the whole contents of the chicken bowl into it. Stir it around until it's done (this will take maybe ten minutes).
- When that's done, open up the rice cooker (it usually turns out better if you let it rest for a few minutes in the cooker after it's finished) and fill a cereal bowl about halfway with rice. Then put some chicken on top of it and eat it.
Common failure modes:
- Double-check that you plugged in the steamer. Mine is all mechanical, so the timer will still go without being plugged in; it just won't steam anything.
- You have to cook it within a day or so of buying the chicken or you will get sick.
- Some marinade packets contain dairy. I don't even...
There are a couple great parts about this: Over half the prep time, you don't have to actually do anything, for one. Also, it reheats well, and you can use any sort of spices you can think of; it tastes different each time so it's really hard to get sick of it. You can stockpile all but one ingredient (and you can even stockpile that one if you don't mind dealing with frozen chicken). The cost hovers around $3 / meal, depending on how much the chicken costs. And it scales well: doubling the amount of chicken doesn't really affect the recipe at all, you just get more leftovers.
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10:40 pm
[Link] | mcp@blackdesk.encom.com ~/ $ git log
commit 2c4842e0ebc10153e3efb4d26e56eb2638c502a8
Author: Kevin Flynn <flynn@spaceparanoid.flynnsarcade.net>
Committer: Alan Bradley <abradley@laser.encom.com>
Date: Fri Jul 9 19:03:16 1982 -0500
Fixed a bug in Tron; under certain conditions he would
fight for your right to party instead of for the users.
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