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No, I don’t want to touch it. I know where it’s been and it wasn’t consensual.
For the final time, Donald, yes, your hands seem normal sized.
Month: February 2017
Ahhhhhh, romance
Fixed it!
A former colleague sent me a slide he saw on LinkedIn that he thought might interest me, but there was a mistake in it. I fixed it for him.
[recipe] Ramen eggs
2 large eggs
2 Tbsp. soy sauce
2 Tbsp. mirin
Combine soy sauce, mirin and water in a plastic bag. Set aside.
Bring water to a boil in a medium saucepan. There should be enough water to cover the eggs.
When boiling, carefully submerge the eggs into water with a ladle.
Immediately reduce heat to maintain a simmer and cook the eggs for exactly 7 minutes. Make sure the water is simmering, but not so hot that the eggs bounce around.
After 7 minutes, immediately take out the eggs and soak in ice bath to stop them from cooking further. Let them cool for 3 minutes.
The soft boiled eggs are not completely hardened so gently peel the eggs. Put the eggs in the sauce bag and close tightly. The eggs should be submerged in the marinade. Let them marinate for at least 3-4 hours in the refrigerator (up to overnight).
Take out the eggs and discard the marinade. Cut in halves to serve. Enjoy the eggs by themselves or use
them as ramen topping.
[recipe] How to build a good cheese board
Personally, my go-to cheeses are:
Epoisse de Bourgogne: a pungent soft-paste cows-milk cheese, smear-ripened, ‘washed rind’ (washed in brine and marc de Bourgogne). Another excellent washed rind cheese is Vacherin Mont D’or.
Brie de meaux: a raw, soft unpasteurised cow’s milk cheese covered with a bloomy rind.
Vacherin Fribourgeois: a nutty semi-soft Swiss cheese.
For blue cheeses, you can’t really go wrong with a good Stilton, though Roquefort and Cambozola are also quite good.
Finally, I’m not a big fan of overly firm cheese, but I do like a nice mature cheddar or some comté.
This picture made me realize
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As thought it was talking about me
When I finished my lab work back in 2000, I just had to write and submit my thesis to get my M.Sc. It was January and the deadline was 9 months away. I took a full month just to do nothing, mainly because I was exhausted. Then I took a month to organize my background reading material, format my document, write a ToC and then… fuck all. In the interim, I started a full-time job. I’d occasionally glance at the box with all my thesis and lab shit, but mostly I avoided it. The months passed, as they are wont to do. Then it was to the point where I had a week left. I told my boss not to fire me, but not pay me, and that he wouldn’t see me for a week. I bought a carton of cigarettes, moved my coffee maker on to my desk, and went to work. I’d work non-stop from 10am to 6am. I chain smoked. I lived on Salonica take-out (this was prior to my allergies breaking out, so I could still do shit like that). I had a 20-hour WinAmp (it really kicks the llama’s ass) playlist. Every time I heard a Britney Spears song, it was my cue to get up and move around a bit.
After a couple of days, I gave my intro, background and methods to my thesis supervisor for him to review while I started working on my results and discussion. A couple of more days and I swapped the first set of corrections with the latest material. I still remember that on the Friday morning when it was due, at around 6am, I was in my office at work printing out my first full copy of my thesis. I had to stop by a copy center to have it copied and bound, then stop by the thesis office to hand it in – at around 3pm. I’d done it. That night, on the terrace roof of the building I was living in, I drank a couple of bottles of bubbly with some friends, got drunk and went to bed. I woke up some time on Sunday with the mother of all headaches.
Might need to dial it up a bit
This!
Android Escher
A vision for the next 4 years
… or until his Orangeness gets his ass impeached.