Category: Skills
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The Weekly Feast – Orange Cake
I wanted to make a birthday cake for my vegan friend, and that meant no milk, no butter, and no eggs. I decided to search for vegan alternatives, and came up with several awesome looking ones. As a side note, chocolate is easy to make vegan. However, I didn’t have the ingredients for most of…
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Prepping – Food Security
We are a rich people, here in America. Even our poorest has enough food (or could if they applied). We just don’t see people in the US starving. It doesn’t happen. There are no swollen bellies here. That doesn’t mean people aren’t hungry. As someone who’s lived on food stamps and charity at one point,…
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The Weekly Feast – Drinks!
I haven’t touched on the topic of what to drink when you’re enjoying your post-apocalyptic spam, so I think today I’ll go there. 😉 There are several really tasty, easy to make drinks for when you’re doing a lot of labor or it’s extremely hot, but you don’t have access to Gatorade or its equivalents.…
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Coding Styles and Methods
My formal education is as a computer scientist. I was lucky enough to get this education at one of the cusps of computer development. My Mentor went through a computer science program just 4 years earlier. There were classes he took that were not even offered in my program. The change was in moving from…
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Prepping – Making Do
There’s a mindset, these days, that everything is disposable. If something breaks, just get another one. Toss the old one in land fill and ignore it. This is not a sustainable practice. Why did we become the strongest country in the world? We made do. We took everyone else’s outcasts, people who wanted to work…
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The Weekly Feast – A Sallet for Fish Daies
Each summer, I spend an inordinate amount of time dressed up as a medieval kitchen drudge, cooking feast foods over an open fire in a cow field. Beside me, knights and dames fight with sword, pole arm, axe, and shield to display their prowess to huge crowds. I’m not much noticed during the fights, but…
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The Weekly Feast – Chicken Shawarma
I have been a fan of shawarma since I tried it back after the first Avengers movie. I wanted to see what it was like because I knew the scene of them all eating shawarma at the end of the movie was actually them eating, and it sparked my interest. I totally fell in love.…
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How Many Mallets Do I Need?
These things round between $40 and $90. They weigh about a pound. This is in Rock Maple. I have one in some exotic wood I purchased years ago. Yesterday I started my third. Why three? Well, it is much more likely that I will have more than three. This simple wood turning is a great…
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The Weekly Feast – Cheshire Pie from 1747
I went to the Fort last weekend and I made an amazing pie. Cheshire Pie is one of the recipes shared by Hannah Glasse in her cookbook The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. The original recipe: As you can see, it’s fairly sparse with its directions, which is a common theme among…
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Would It Hurt To Document The Device You Sent Me?
I am actually good at this computer stuff. It is what I do. So I get frustrated when I order hardware and it doesn’t work. A month ago, I ordered a Mini-ITX board. It was cheap, and it wasn’t 17×17 cm, it was 17x19cm. Which didn’t fit in the case. The low profile CPU cooler/fan…