May 2006

don't forget your maple syrup

May 8 2006

food
recipe

All stories aside from this past week (a massive website upgrade, a pulled hamstring, and How I Got Out Of Jury Duty) here’s what’s on my mind: breakfast at the geekfarm a week from today.There will be a few stragglers staying on past Sunday. I feel this growing urge to stage a geek feeding. Jody was kind enough to point me to this recipe from epicurious.com. I am rapidly beginning to suspect that while this bread is neither French nor toast, it is nevertheless a moral imperative that I make it.

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church of the bytecode god

May 8 2006

I won’t even bother telling you about the chunk of code that provoked this entry, but I will tell you that it’s only 14 lines long. I’ve known since last night that it was the source of the truly evil and cyclical timezone-related bug in the new check-in system for techops, but I didn’t know how to fix it. Not without hard-coding in dates, anyway (a massive no-no since the dates for dragon*con change every year).A friend, who shall remain nameless, was a generally cheerful IM companion all through my attempts to sort out the mess.

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elixir of the bytecode god

May 10 2006

I've held off posting this recipe because it's reverse-engineered from a non-public recipe either created or modified by someone I know. However, since I can restrict access to this post, it seems silly not to post it, because I'm getting tired of periodically searching my email for it.

This is how I make the drink tech staffers know as 'apple pie.'

Ingredients

cheesecloth
2 sticks cinnamon
20 cloves
20 allspice berries
2T lemon juice (~1 lemon)
2 cups sugar
2tsp vanilla extract
1½-2 cups everclear
1 gallon apple juice, not from concentrate

Directions

Put spices in cheesecloth. Bash until cracked a bit. Put cheesecloth hunk in pot.

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what remains is code

May 22 2006

Just a quick note since I’ve started getting query emails:I’m alive. Just really busy. The French toast recipe is nothing short of stupendous (I believe the quote was “All other French toast recipes are dead to me now”) albeit I think it needs a little bit of cinnamon and maybe some pecans … all the chicks have flown or driven back off to their respective nests, and what remains is code.

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class 4 slope

May 29 2006

[me resting at the top of Licklog Mountain (peak #2 of the day)]

From wikipedia:

Class 1: Hiking.
Class 2: Simple scrambling, with possible occasional use of the hands.
Class 3: Scrambling, a rope can be carried but is usually not required.
Class 4: Simple climbing, with exposure. A rope is often used. Natural protection can be easily found. Falls may well be fatal.
Class 5: Technical free climbing. Climbing involves rope, belaying, and other protection hardware for safety.

I asked myself on the way home: would I have done this if I had known what I know now?

Yes, yes, absolutely yes.

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