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Sleeping, or not. (from Blog )
Apr 24, 2021
I have not been sleeping as well as I’d like. I realize some of it has to do with my mind actively thinking about everything I have to get done and with the cross country journey coming up, “how am I going to get it all done?” I recognize what my mind is doing. It’s a distraction. It’s irrational. It’s my inner critic out to get me again. What it says is reasonable. [Read More...]

Crustless Mini Cheesecakes (from Recipes )
Apr 24, 2021
Given the fun I had with cream custards, I started thinking about cheese cake. Specifically if I could make cheesecake in individual ramekins. I’ve been playing with this for a while now and the short answer is yes. The thing is I have not yet been able to get the texture how I like. It comes out too firm. So having made about 5 batches over a couple months, I’m going to move on but I wanted to write down what I’m doing: [Read More...]

Snowy Driveways (from Blog )
Jan 25, 2021
We got about 5 inches of fresh powder over the weekend. This is a low view down the driveway Sunday morning. The lip of snow is what was up against the garage door I just opened. The snowblower made quick work of the bulk of it and then I worked on leftover sticky patches with the shovels. When it was sunny later in the day, some of the ice that was stuck to the driveway came loose and I was able to shovel that away. [Read More...]

Snowpiercer? (from Blog )
Jan 25, 2021
This post feels a tad more self-indulgent than most. I saw a banner ad for a tv show called SnowPiercer. There might have been sone video to go with it. It looked ridiculous. I looked further. According to Wikipedia the premise is thus: Snowpiercer is set in 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland, and follows the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a perpetually moving train consisting of 1001 carriages that circles the globe 2. [Read More...]

Parler: Only the best people… (from Articles )
Jan 20, 2021
I was intrigued by some of the stories around the shutdown of right-wing nazi friendly social media site Parler. Not so much the cascading shutdown of access to the Internet. Similar fates happened to sites like The Daily Stormer and others. There’s no “free speech” issue here, of course. Private internet providers can have whatever customers they want. What was intriguing was the effort by 3rd parties to exfiltrate ALL of the data on Parler. [Read More...]