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Updates: Grain Free Brioche Recipe
Over at the usual location... -
Hey Austin...
Or rather, "Hey Austinites"...
I'll be in town next week. We should absolutely get together for drinks and BBQ.
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Updates
A pair of posts on music and dogs up at the new digs... -
Javascript: The (Drinking) Game
Setup Rules:
Each player shall bring with them (or cause to have brought for them) a sufficiency of their alcoholic beverage of choice. Those with lesser experience with Javascript should limit themselves to less potent drinks, for fear of alcohol poisoning.
Players shall arrange themselves around a table (ideally circular) in a clockwise ascending ( Read more... ) -
In which weekend plans are changed…
First, Kismet is doing very well, and is expected to make a full recovery.
However, our already intricate plans for attending Foolscap, which revolved around making sure that we were not overly taxing a puppy’s ability to remain crated and avoid an accident, were altered significantly ( Read more... ) -
Moving Day
Well, I think I'm finally going to move this to a location I control.
This blog is moving to http://blog.belegaer.com (the link is to the real location, as the DNS change hasn't necessarily propogated everywhere yet).
I'm manually moving posts over, most of the private posts will likely not make the move. -
Ego through Eating
Adding a new puppy to the household has resulted in a jumbling of the canine behaviors. Kismet is still Alpha, but now she has to share a primary person. And Kenneth, all joking aside, has taken on a serious side as he does a lot of the training (and playing with, and checking in on) of a puppy ( Read more... ) -
Romeo's Rule
Back in the 1990s, kalluna and I founded and ran (out of a tiny house, on a tiny shoestring), Pomeranian Rescue in Denver.
And one December 24th, I got a call. Could I go look at a Pomeranian cross who had been in Denver Municipal Shelter for a month, because if I didn't take him, he'd be euthanized.
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Organizational Update
Kismet remains Senior Dog, reporting to me.
Kenneth continues to report to kalluna, but has been promoted to Lead Dachshund.
Our new hire, Babbage, will report to me, with a dotted line to Kenneth* for Dachshund specific training. As he is a puppy hire, Babbage comes to the household with no relevant industry experience, but the AsApp assured me that "he ( Read more... ) -
Pie: The three-letter four-letter word
Pie.
Or more specifically, pie crusts.
You know, souffle's more difficult cousin.
What you consider when Hollandaise sauces are down pat.
Or, if you consider most of the cookbooks (even the good ones), something so delicate and tricky that you will either turn it to leather, or possibly detonate your oven. Maybe both.
( How pie became as easy as itself, and why the cookbooks are wrong )