My most recent blather that I don't want to show up on my main blog.
I happened to be wearing my old LinuxCabal T-shirt when I ran across this video.
Wow, memories.
of the season..
First try at learning blues harmonica. So far I'm concentrating on learning to play single holes. Hard enough for now, although I think I managed to bend a note once.
I have found my happy sound though. Just draw through hole #1 on my C harp and I get that nice lonesome train sound. This is the easiest hole to draw, too.
Weird popcorn experience. I screwed up the first pan, burnt and mispopped everything. So I cleaned it out and put it back on the stove, still quite wet, tossed in a small amount of (olive) oil and popcorn (no test kernels, just all at once), and tried again. This time the corn took quite a while to start to pop, I could hear the water/oil mixture sizzling and splattering the inside of the pan. When it started to pop, it was all over in under 5 seconds, no trail off of slow to pop kernels like I typically get. And only 2 kernels didn't pop. Perfect.
Something went on with that water/oil mixture. My guess is that the water regulated the temperature, as long as the water was in there everything was kept right around the boiling point. When the last water evaporated, the temperature must have shot up to popping point very uniformly and quickly.
With a full moon behind the blue clouds. Gorgeous tonight! And windy, and brr..
Black bean soup and garlic shrimp home cookin'.
Driving up Diablo, we're always in awe of the bikers going up it. When we're not thinking they're insane. :-)
Seth biked up. Awesome, and happy b-day!
Funny, I use vimoutliner just like Matther Palmer, and like him I also think that everyone should learn to program. If you don't know how to program, you can't truely use a computer. You can only fiddle with constructs someone else has made for you on a computer.
Somehow I doubt either of these ideas will catch on, but it's nice that I'm not alone in my heresies.