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LN2 Ice Cream
Okay, so Baitcon it was not. But I finally did a batch of Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream for the friends.
Quimby Welding is quite friendly, and sold me the LN2. On the expensive side ($2 per liter) but since I am not a university buying in bulk, I guess I'll have to live with retail rates. (Yes, if you have the right connections, the stuff is less ( Read more... ) -
Big Piece of Glass
Several years ago, I was dumpster diving at the Princeton Engineering school, and came home with a large ball jar. Some 50-60cm diameter with similar height. Nice heavy ground flange at the bottom, etc. Presumably a serious bit of vacuum hardware ( Read more... ) -
My wife is marinating me
End of last week I picked up a cold, probably from one of the kids. Just a standard 'walking dead' sort of thing, were I was almost functional most of the time ( Read more... ) -
Sick
Blerg ( Read more... ) -
Bike log: a small dream achieved
My in-laws live about 18 miles outside of Portland, at the top of a hill. We are talking small winding rural road, out in the middle of nowhere. When I lived there a dozen years ago, I always felt tremendously trapped by the location. I owned a bicycle, but could not conceive of actually being able to ride my bicycle to or from there ( Read more... ) -
Happy Solar Circuit to cmshaw
May your celebrations be the inspiration for a new fandom..... -
Recipe Post: Vegan Challah
I needed to make a Challah for dinner last night, and found out that one of the guests was vegan. I decided to wing it and got very lucky. I was expecting a reasonable bread that I could braid to make look nice, but what I got was just perfect ( Read more... ) -
Thought of the morning
It is quite a struggle when the brain figures out that it is only meat, and that the meat has its own agenda. -
bike log: get lost
Thursday was a day with family and no time for biking :(
Friday was spent running errands and prepping for dinner and enjoying the company of magid. Heading on toward evening my head was just about to explode, so I decided to go for a ride.
I rode from home down to Tyron Creek State Park intending to simply turn around and head home. But instead ( Read more... ) -
truffle shipping boxes
N and I found some cardboard boxes that hold about a pound of truffles, and are small enough to fit a USPS flat rate priority mail envelope. *whoot*