Yesterday, we had family over to eat “chicken vindaloo”:http://www.stardel.com/cao/archives/recipe_chicken_vindaloo.htm and play “Settlers of Catan.”:http://www.universityofcatan.com/soc-games/ckofce.html I was dubious when Jack volunteered me to make Chicken Vindaloo. One, it is a lot of work. Two, I wasn’t sure people would like it, since it is highly seasoned. After a little discussion, Jack volunteered
to make the paste, which is most of the work. After making it Friday night, he mentioned that the recipe should add two hours to the preparation time of 20 minutes. As a nice bonus, I woke up to a clean kitchen. Generally, when Jack cooks, it looks as though he managed to find and use every pot and pan we possess. (I just recently learned the difference between pans and pots. Pans have one handle. Pots have two.)
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Testing Your Browser’s Java
Ever wonder if Java is working on your browser? Sun provides a Test for Java Virtual Machine
Fedora Core 2 Release 2
This week, I upgrade my Linux box to Fedora Core 2 Test Release 2. This is a beta release, and the attitude in the documentaton at the website is definitely one of “don’t try this at home, kids.”
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Rain
We’ve been getting some much needed moisture, mainly in the form of rain, though snow is predicted for tonight. Unfotunately, with the rain, came a cold front. The horses have had enough warm weather to thoroughly deacclimate, and Lily got cold and started acting colicky yesterday morning. She was fine by the time I got to the boarding barn, where she was standing blanketed in her (comparatively) warm stall.
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Texas
This weekend, Jack and I took a quick trip to the area in Texas where we used to live. We drove down via Kansas and Oklahoma, and drove back through Texas and New Mexico. Despite the Kansas route being completely interstate, the Texas route is much faster.
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Best Year of my Life
No photo today. You might want to check out the photoblog at bestyearofmylife.com instead.
Faux Postage
I used “The Gimp”:http://gimp.org to make this example of Faux Postage from yesterday’s photo.
Windflower
I took a walk with my trainer and her dogs yesterday. We saw some small white flowers and I mentioned I had never, to my knowledge, seen an anemone growing wild. Five minutes later, we found this little beauty. This seems to be the prairie anemone, also known as the “pasque flower”:http://www.und.edu/org/soaringeagleprairie/pasqueflower/, also known as the windflower.
Rags
Baconizer
The Baconizer is a cool tool that uses data from “amazon.com”:http://www.amazon.com to list the connections between two items. The connections are done by looking at “people who bought item A also bought item B.”