Porgs look pretty tasty, to be honest.
Archives for 2017 (Lifestream)
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Dec 11, 2017, 10:12 AM -05:00 I saw like one YouTube video on how to make the perfect omelette and now I'm obsessed with making the perfect omelette. The perfect omelette has Boursin in it, apparently. I can't say that I completely disagree.
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Nov 24, 2017, 8:11 AM -05:00 Is there a word for the suspicion a programmer feels when something they wrote works on the first try?
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Nov 5, 2017, 7:58 PM -05:00 Thoughts on Blade Runner 2049
I saw Blade Runner 2049 recently. I have some (not very original) thoughts to share. Spoilers ahead.
The original Blade Runner only really caught my attention in my adult years. Unlike, say, Back to the Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Superman, it was not one of my "childhood movies". I saw it once when I was very young, found it boring and weird, and then promptly forgot about it until I was made to watch it sometime in my 20's or 30's with my eyes fully open.
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Sep 13, 2017, 12:09 PM -04:00 Stuff Desmond learned: red vermouth is actually made (usually) from white wine and gets its color from other ingredients.
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Apr 22, 2017, 5:04 PM -04:00 St Germain and Suze make a good combination.
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Apr 22, 2017, 5:04 PM -04:00 Reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" feels like I'm reading, at time, a novelization of "The Revenge of the Sith"
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Apr 17, 2017, 9:04 PM -04:00 I still have EDO RAM in little static protector baggies in my office cabinet.
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Apr 7, 2017, 6:04 PM -04:00 Desmond's tasting notes for Strega: a less burny version of Chartreuse.
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Mar 27, 2017, 4:03 PM -04:00 God deliver me from Perl
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Mar 24, 2017, 11:03 AM -04:00 If you have functions with shared data, then what you have a class, whether or not you choose to use the word.
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Mar 19, 2017, 2:03 PM -04:00 Starting The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Wish me luck, everyone.
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Mar 15, 2017, 9:03 AM -04:00 I cannot use Regina Spektor as background music. Engages the brain way too much.
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Feb 27, 2017, 10:02 PM -05:00 "Sleeping in Light" is a lovely turn of phrase. And a lovely ending to Babylon 5.
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Feb 25, 2017, 9:35 PM -05:00 On the Irony of Using Static Site Generators
As I've mentioned before, I've recently switched to pelican as my blogging engine.
Pelican is a static site generator. This means that it generates static HTML files using templates and content as input, which can be then uploaded (via rsync, for example) to a plain vanilla web server (I use nginx).
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Feb 14, 2017, 9:02 AM -05:00 Yes, it's a bit irrational to be mad at people who are 2500 years dead, but now I want to read The Iliad just to piss off Plato and Socrates
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Feb 6, 2017, 8:02 PM -05:00 Surprise #1 while reading The Republic: Plato asserting, via Socrates, that the Iliad is unsuitable as literature in his ideal state.
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Jan 27, 2017, 9:01 AM -05:00 Lindor chocolates look like little brown Death Stars.
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Jan 13, 2017, 7:01 PM -05:00 ...but I've just discovered it hiding under all the bean sprouts, and now I feel guilty.
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Jan 13, 2017, 7:01 PM -05:00 I was bitterly complaining in my head about how this Ramen soup did not have any egg..
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Jan 7, 2017, 9:32 PM -05:00 Not Invented by Monks
Continuing in my attempt to document the mixers and liqueurs I've been sampling recently, I will now focus on Benedictine, a French, brandy-based, herbal liqueur.
The name conjures up images of secluded monks guarding secret recipes handed down for generations (see my article about Chartreuse, another monastically themed libation, for a similar background) but according to Wikipedia the real story is a bit more prosaic: it was apparently invented by wine merchant and industrialist Alexandre Le Grand who later tried to link his concoction with the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy to boost sales.