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NaNoWriMo update: failure!
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Cooking Experiment: Vegetable Gravies with Meatballs, Pan-Fried Noodles, and Chicken Katsu
I was browsing the web for substitutes that could be used to make tastier gravy and hit upon an interesting idea: blended vegetables. I'd seen vegetable purees before but they never seemed that relevant as side dishes. They had virtually no texture, making them boring to eat.
But... What if I used them as gravies?
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Happy Purrsday, Dracosphynx!
For Dracosphynx's purrsday (actually a bit later than that), I headed up to his apartment and we went to Chef Hung Taiwanese Beef Noodles for the noodles he had told me about!
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Requiescat, Jerry Pournelle
Sad to see one of the big-name science fiction authors of my youth pass. I may not agree with some of his conservative stances of the later years but I don't think many people will argue that he helped shape science fiction and its readers.
I took some pictures of his books:
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Mew Car!
After my air conditioning broke down, and my old car's air conditioning had also broken down, I determined I really needed... well, a new air conditioner, yes. But also, a new car. My 2004 Honda Accord was just about 14 years old after all!
So I went shopping.
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Food Experiment: Homemade Keema Chicken Curry
Here's a good experiment! You might recall I'm a fan of Curry House's "keema curry" which is a mix of ground beef with various vegetables, on rice and served with a soft-boiled egg or fried eggs on top. I decided to try making much the same, but this time with chicken thighs to make the recipe slightly healthier.
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Genies Reboot: Rocking the Cradle
Every now and then I get possessed by the odd urge to write something totally unsuitable. Around July 2014, after watching Star Trek: Enterprise, the Augment episodes specifically, I was annoyed that the writers had taken yet another short cut and turned supposedly "super-intelligent" humans into might-makes-right barbarians. "Surely, actually ( Read more... )
