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mfg — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:32:56 +0000

Make yourself seasick watching this carousel, or go here to view the pictures in a gallery.

Dough recipe used for all of these was Stephanie Wise's beer dough recipe from Girl Versus Dough (with a modification to use 1 cup semolina flour, 3 cups APF).

Enchilada Tuesday

mfg — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:31:55 +0000

It's January and we can all use a pick me up for the middle of the month. Maybe your Christmas spending took you over the top as well and you are looking for something inexpensive and yet you don't have anything in your cupboards because its been too cold to go out and get that kind of thing taken care of. Or maybe your material needs are actually not that bad and you just want a casserole dish full of yummy, tummy-filling goodness. In any scenario, my answer is enchiladas.

Now, before we get too far in I want to start off with a warning. These are not authentic. In fact, this was a quickly pulled together, not exactly from scratch meal. Nonetheless, eating them, you wouldn't have been able to tell.

Operational Destabilization - You have a consultant in every end user

mfg — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:55 +0000

Today is my first work day after resigning as an Executive Secretary. There are a lot of things in a job title, and most of my job duties were not among them. In all honesty, I would not have enjoyed doing my job half so much if they were it had not been a challenge to get assigned to the kind of projects that I completed.

Draft controls in @Squarespace, dustbinning posts

mfg — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:27:53 +0000

Dear Squarespace, it would be ideal to have on-page, direct control of the draft items that collect in the dustbin of a blog. I just noticed I had a pending post from months ago going through the comments section. I have a problem with having thoughts sometimes, which is to say I have the thought, I commit it to a draft post, then I forget about it and it gets folded into the default post order (in order of publication date). For instance, I have been meaning to post about that Bullshit Bulletproof Coffee propaganda (and how not factually based it is, going into the actual brew-chemistry, etc) for awhile but totally forgot about that draft item.

Adobo Pumpkin and Collards Soup Recipe, Food that Loves you Back

mfg — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:38:00 +0000

Sleeping at friends' for the night - I will be staying with my friends John and Kristin for the rest of the week. Beth moved out to Chicago and I am currently in-between housing. I knew that I wanted to write something about all of this but I'm not sure what. Instead of that I will post about food, since this is something of a food blog and all or something.

In anticipation of cooking for Beth soon, and with notes of admiration and appreciation of her love for many things pumpkin, I decided to kick out a pumpkin soup. Now this isn't a straight copy cat or even an iteration of the Chilitoaxilitlo Vegan Pumpkin Chili Recipe , but I would utterly be remiss if I didn't say they were siblings and cut from the same cloth or [insert other cliche]. That is, this is the healthier sibling.

Instant Upload is just something I'm into

mfg — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:33:00 +0000

Yes. Saying that out loud sounds insane. Yes, I could probably just say "instant upload is a helluva product."

I have been excited to see some incremental adjustments to instant upload (really, the whole Google platform over the past forty-eight hours). Still, there remain some serious usability items that are on my radar that I would love to see worked out to turn this from a simple back-up utility/feature of the Google toolkit into a multi-functional platform for storing, retrieving, and sharing images. You guys can totally finish this, in addition to the awesomesauce you're already dousing this thing with so far today. Nailing these five suggestions wouldn't be a bunch of banners and crap-ads, but rather would amount to adding some decent code that will result in features that not only accomplish a task but make for a more informed user base, inculcates coherent expectations of usability, and pushes this software towards being a platform and not just an insular tool.

This gallon jug and flashlight may help you see in the dark.

mfg — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Looks effective as all who's-whats. Still, it totally looks like a heavenly gag.

Chilitoaxilitlo - Vegan Pumpkin Chili Recipe

mfg — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:00:18 +0000

A recent request was put to get my Pumpkin Chili recipe out there, so here it is in two parts (details on cooking in the first):

Part 1: Vegan Curried Pumpkin Chili, aka el Chilitoaxilitlo

Part 2: Huffman's Chili and the Upper Arlington Fall Fest

To really get part one knocked out of the park, follow the advice from part two;

add refried beans with 45 minutes to go
add pinto beans with 25 minutes to go

I truly hope you enjoy. The Lady Beth and I just hit our one year mark and this is the chili that bound us. I wanted to share on behalf of all for whom pumpkin is some kind of love-potion.

Tig Notaro

mfg — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:53:00 +0000

Honesty never hurt so purely.

If the basis for Right View is sustainable relation to one's suffering, this discussion, in each word and pause, is hope for even the most self-deceiving, shenpa-addled of us out there.

I had never really thought about talking about my life-issues to a bunch of people. Not that I have a some problem with telling random people all about things they don't care about.

I just mean that I don't think I'm very interesting, my way of seeing things isn't necessarily too universally interesting, my sense of humor sufficiently flat and dry to appear non-existent. There is no unique virtue in my story to validate its expression. But I guess that's what makes Tig Notaro's story so accessible; we all think that, it helps us distance ourselves from the pain of sharing and being vulnerable. She got up and got honest anyway and in every breath drawn each feeling of shock and hurt is right there.

Bye-bye BY-NC; hello BY

mfg — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:00:00 +0000

For you copy geeks out there, I'm switching to a CC-BY license...I'm not sure it means much to many, but the -NC has been a bee in my bonnet for awhile. Granted, having the CC-BY- preceeding it kept it pollinated and relaxed. Still, that restriction seems so petty and limiting; seriously, if it is possible for someone to make money off my stuff, by all means, go on with your commercial self. Anyway, I'm very excited about this and should have done it sooner and I'm totally aware of the fact I may be the only person who cares about this.

May have been a tough run, but EMusic slid me one last winner

mfg — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:52:00 +0000

Woods' new album, Bend Beyond, has already garnered some 248 plays in my last thirty-six hours. From the first listen to the first track it tears into you. A sparse album, it still has the jangly pop feel from the last few albums and the engineering of the first two. If anything, this album feels more like the first two albums in a way.

So long emusic, its been a blast (since 2004)

mfg — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 01:25:24 +0000

Just cancelled me emusic account. I've been a member since 2004. For a while I had parallel accounts and dropped $40 a month on music. Now, not so much.

Here was my open-ended reply to their exit survey:

Your pricing really went to hell.
Not supporting Linux out of the box with your downloader is another sad thing.
You guys seem to push crap box sets too much any more.
You used to deliver an amazing quality for the price paid; the deal where the big five labels or whatever really crushed your competitive edge in terms of pricing.
I stuck with you for eight years, countless overdrafts when my account renewed but the value was there so I stuck with it anyway.

Of some sort

mfg — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Man, I should start a blog about not blogging.

Here's some pics I liked a bunch recently. Enjoy

The Bacon that Wasn't - @ActiveChild and cooking

mfg — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:17:00 +0000

When Your Love is Safe by Active Child was a bit more bittersweet last year for Bacon Camp. It had a nice big messy complicated bundle of feelings I only this morning remembered.

I didn't participate in this years BaconCamp. At first I couldn't at all explain why. I love competitive cooking, and pushing myself, but it hasn't been coming to me as readily lately. My posts are fewer, and (I would imagine) less helpful to the world at large.

Up time and creative blocks

mfg — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:00:48 +0000

Lately you may have noticed a dearth of posting.

Well, there's a new niece and a bunch of other stuff all just flying everywhere in a not bad way.

Yesterday I had an opportunity to finally force idle my processor.

Lifehacker has an article on creativity blocks. I don't think it has any particularly good advice for me today. Not because my creativity isn't blocked up. But because summoning it through reptitive and otherwise dolorous tedium isn't my baall of wax.

Do you prefer doing nothing? Like tuning into your internal clock? Tuning out everything else. Detaching all other dependencies. Reducing to only lowest level hum. Eliminating the abstractions.

Need fiber, sugar, and to feel good about frivolous health claims?

mfg — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:01:39 +0000

Still, coffee only gets you everywhere, and every now and then it gets you some low blood sugar. What then? Trapped in a twenty story building with three hours left in the day, crappy Starbucks and uninteresting salads in the lobby, no likely vegan snacks in the vending machine a few floors up. How about some ramshackle shed-looking storefront with a thrown together coffee dive look?

Soy & Seizures

mfg — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:58:00 +0000

Glutamic Acid, it's coming to get you... or not? All I can say is I love my tofu

Seriously, who's going to just walk away from that? That new restaurant Skillet can suck itTuesday I got a call regarding soy products causing seizures. Granted it was offered though wary in no small part to my general unwillingness to pay attention to criticism regarding diet choices. Additionally she was cautious, as evidenced by the dubious, utterly-qualified way in which the potential issue was brought up. This is not a post about people in general or the specific thoughtfulness behind the concern. I am already difficult to talk to sometimes, so maybe an account of why is called for from time to time.

@Wild_Goose BaconCamp 2012

mfg — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:46:00 +0000

So perhaps you may remember my BV post on the Holy Hog's Hell Chili; I made about five gallons of pulled pork and bacon chili.

I spent some thirty or so hours, a sleepless night, and about two hundred dollars chasing down some thing in my head. The result tasted great, but the work was better.

This year I hope to put forward a solid effort. I would love to do an excessive amount of lab work to get this done, but I am just plum out of time.

don't make me rake your bacon

@drewtoothpaste has a following on amazon

mfg — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:48:00 +0000

check out http://theworstthingsforsale.com , and if you go through to amazon it is amazing that there is obviously some drewtoothpaste algorithm at work because no matter what worstthingforsale you are thinking about buying yourself in some "ha-ha what-a-gas gag gift for me" way because I am sad and the internet hates me and tells me sad shit all day, Amazon knows who referred you. I am worried for my pristine search history.

But I am glad people are making sure that the indelible print is being left behind.

I'm following up on Lifehacker advice

mfg — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:37:00 +0000

How amusing. And I have a warm butt.How drole.

Google: "Matthew Gilboy"

Matthew Gilboy: is that a real person?

SEO vis a vis search engine engineering your name services are fun every now and then, and a few new ones are rattling around and making noise. Lifehacker Recommendations include Zerply and BrandYourself.com. The whole point of this page is to boost rankings or some something.

Anyway. Think about branding yourself, or don't. I didn't put much consideration into it, and I will probably have data hounds and peeple sharks climbing up my basket with lotion.

If you're a tool to doing things on Lifehacker, what's the dumbest thing they have ever told you to do, that you went ahead and did without really thinking about it?

The Past Week in Pics

mfg — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Just cold posting some pics. No slideshow. No glitz. Love it.

Steampunk Satellite Dish is not Steam Punk

Scary Day for Tires

Zon, a unit of measurementHip baby with voice recorder/modulator freaking out the oldsGood Day for the End of the WorldWe like alot

Computer Workshops for #OSS

mfg — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:48:00 +0000

Actually, not quite

So I am particularly looking for intermediate-level databse creation, management, and user deployment trainings, as well as trainings that lay out options for front-end creation. Obviously I would want to start with open source, but...

First 50k on my bike!

mfg — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:48:54 +0000

Rode 42 miles in 3 hours yesterday! Super-psyched about this, if just as a follow up to the post wherein I say I can't get anywhere.

Very happy to get my legs-were-pumping-battery-acid moment today, and to keep going right on through and chaining three of those push-throughs..

Went from Clintonville to South of 270, then to North of 270, and back home.

Can't believe I was able to get at all below 4 minutes after mile 35. They were barely sprints, but still. Got my first less-than-three minute mile today.Totally impressed that I held fourteen mph for three hours.

There were a handful of pauses and sit-downs and a stretch session at the northernmost point. The stretch session totally got me a fifth or sixth wind.

The southern stretch /while heading south/ was nice. Good back wind, decent traffic/light flow. The ride North on High from wherever the hell I was at was awful and grueling. Head wind, up hill, antagonistic cars who must never drive around bikes.

This ride was all about coconut water (Vita-Coco) and a Larabar (Carrot). I started off with zero food, and a pot of coffee in my belly. Had minimal food prior night (chips and nuts).

Weigh-in after was low, not good. Ate three-quarters of a pizza, ate some calcium-magnesium pills and went to bed after watching some Independence Day.

The Scope of my life is very small, but feature-rich

mfg — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:45:10 +0000

Chicken Shit Bingo Grifter

My world is very small; i have very limited control over the scope of my life; i have created and curated a very small, densely populated life; when i cannot wholly respond to the variables within that environment i over-react to anyone looking in; rather, to anyone looking in, i appear to overreact - but in a densely populated world, you need to pivot to stay alive; cba's are helpful to me because they help me to retain perspective in the midst of constant pivot-points and revaluations

I won't hire people who use poo

mfg — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:51:00 +0000

Chat with Ms. Beth;

(Don't bother clicking link, it's uninteresting outside of its URL; also, chat, like verbal communication is not subject to the full force of Grammar)

me: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html?goback=%2Egde_3720787_member_137697411

http - ..."i_wont_hire_people_who use poo"... - .html

so subversive

Beth: haha

me: anyway, i left a bit of snarkery in the comments

ctrl+f "ellipsis"

Beth: hah. i snarked too.

i'm so mean.

I just can't appreciate a top-talent rock star ninja, probably because of my grammar, or maybe my boobs.

me: ha

after hes like "Name says it all. lolololol. I'm more about getting the job done and making money" i imagine him riffing on a double necked electric guitar, throwing his hair back over his shoulder and riding off on a black and electric blue dragon

Beth: Haha.

Blasting off from his mom's basement window into an Iron Maiden video.

me: sheets of lightning and choirs of big-boobed Daniel Craigs singing Cher's "Believe"

Man, I realized that snarky comments have a very short lifespan on HBR. I simply pointed out to the person who was criticizing the article that he used poor grammar. me: "An ellipsis is not an excuse for run-on sentences." Apparently, lame attempts to criticize an uninteresting article are considered constructive and on-topic (sad but usual), and deconstructing what commenters say through a reply that notes the critic's self-admitted bias is not.

Someone else was whining about grammar on the teevee news. Items like "me and Bob" (presumably, rather than "Bob & I/me"). I stepped in to inform them that citing examples in the form "[I don't like when they mess up] names such as; me and Bob..." is in poor grammar. I'm guessing my comment will be flagged and deleted here as well; it was "'such as' is replaced by a colon (':') to indicate a list".

I support all Grammar Police efforts on the world web internets. Even when they're uncalled-for, unfunny, not very bright, inconsistent, and when the policing effort is riddled with grammatical errors.

Perhaps it tastes like trolling to Harvard Business Review. But when someone gets up to (thinly conceal an attempt to publicise his company and) attest to having standards in hiring that revolve around not looking like a slob or making his company look unprofessional, I can get behind that.