Bartender GeekBartender Geek - LiveJournal.comSo. I've been working on my resume . . .- June 29, 2008 . . . and by "I've been working on my resume," I mean, "Lis has been working on my resume for me."I was out all day today with temima, and when Lis came home, she showed me what she'd come up with.She'd re-organized my resume into a tri-fold brochure, and showed me the mock-up. It's still got "Lorem ipsum" for some of the text and "Insert picture here" boxes and so forth . . . I looked at it, and I said, ". . . "Then I tried again and said ". . . g. . . g. . . "Then I tried once again to...http://xiphias.livejournal.com/479171.html A couple cool things I learned recently- June 28, 2008 From Harold McGee's book . . .I knew that Queen Anne's Lace was a wild relative of the carrot, and which has a root which is edible and carrot-like.What I didn't know was that it wasn't a precursor of the carrot -- but rather an escaped cultivar. It's a descendant of the carrot -- not an ancestor.Also, the raspberry is actually a stone fruit. Well, actually, a big clump of lots of tiny little stone fruits all stuck together.Also also, our raspberry bushes are now fruiting and yummy.http://xiphias.livejournal.com/478758.html So, how many of you were familiar with the song before- June 28, 2008 The "Boom de ada" song that the Discovery Channel ad uses -- how many of you sang it at camp and so forth, and how many of you never heard it before the Discovery Channel or xkcd versionI love the mountainsI love the rolling hillsI love the flowersEspecially the daffodilsI love the firesideWhen all the lights are lowBoom de ada boom de adaBoom de ada boom de adahttp://xiphias.livejournal.com/478609.html Hunh. I guess that means I really AM awesome.- June 28, 2008 You know, I don't think I actually DO put my pants on one leg at a time.http://xiphias.livejournal.com/478355.html Holy crap, the kashrut issues about gelatin are complicated. . . .- June 28, 2008 So, I've been wanting to do some stuff with molecular mixology that involves gelatin.But we keep kosher at home. So, if I'm going to experiment here at home, I'll have to do stuff using kosher gelatin. No problem, right I've seen KoJel in the stores.Um. No, KoJel is actually made of carrageenan, which, like agar, has somewhat different properties than gelatin. And slightly different properties than agar, although they're apparently close. But it's not gelatin.Gelatin is an animal-based...http://xiphias.livejournal.com/478028.html I'm a bad influence on my wife -- and it's not like she needs one. . . .- June 26, 2008 So, getting Lis out the door in the morning is always a challenge.Today, the specific distraction was my fault.Last night, I mentioned to her Willie Mays's famous 1954 World Series outfield catch. Where he made it from the close outfield to the wall fast enough to catch a ball that was obviously going to be an inside-the-park home run. And THEN managed to spin and throw it fast enough to make the double play (which is, frankly, just as impressive a feat as the original catch, given how long...http://xiphias.livejournal.com/477857.html All I'm saying is that it says Best by that date, not that you can't eat it after . . .- June 26, 2008 Look. Lots of foods really have indefinite shelf-lives. Plenty of stuff is good forever, as long as it doesn't get wet, and bugs don't get into it.Things in cans, for instance. If they were canned properly, they're good for CENTURIES. Pasta -- dried pasta doesn't age: it was developed to be a long-lasting food source. As was flour. People found honey that was buried with Pharaohs that was perfectly good.So, I don't see what's so weird about the box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese that said...http://xiphias.livejournal.com/477493.html And then things DON'T suck.- June 21, 2008 Not two minutes after I posted how we couldn't go out on the water, the phone rang, and it was my uncle saying that we should come over to go out on the boat.So we did, and we had a wonderful time.http://xiphias.livejournal.com/477202.html Well, this sucks.- June 21, 2008 Lis wanted one only thing for her birthday -- she wanted to spend the day on the water, somehow, doing some kind of boating.Which would be easy. My grandfather has a boat, my father has a boat, should be easy.And, when I called my uncle on Wednesday, he said that he was going to be taking Papa's sailboat out today, and that we should call in the morning to make plans.So I did, and never got a call back.So I've been calling my father and mother to see if we could borrow their boat. But they...http://xiphias.livejournal.com/477085.html The world is creepy and surreal.- June 19, 2008 Look -- any of you who write, or GM roleplaying games, or just in general need to jumpstart your creativity -- could you come up with some sort of explanation for thishttp:www.guardian.co.ukworld2008jun19canadahttp://xiphias.livejournal.com/476791.html |