Sorry! Sorry sorry sorry. I've had plans brewing in my brain to write a post about our trip down to Florida, and the technological wonderment contained therein, and I just keep ... not having time.
In lieu of an actual post, though, I'm going to give you my recipe for french onion soup, which I've more or less adapted from America's Test Kitchen. If you know me, you know how much I adore that show, and while not EVERYTHING I've made from the show has been the absolute greatest, this pretty much is. You might punch someone, it's that good.
French Onion Soup
(I'd say it serves 6-8, but if you're greedy like we can be sometimes, this might serve 4)
-4lb yellow onions - you may be able to use white, but try to stick with yellow. Definitely don't use red.
-3 tbsp butter
-1 tsp salt
-water
-1/2 c dry sherry (I just use a cheap $10 bottle from Calvert Woodley, but it's definitely not their brand, heh)
-4c chicken broth
-2c beef broth
(You can most certainly use veggie broth - I have done so for veggie friends - but you get a much richer flavor with the meat stocks. Using a homemade veggie stock would probably give it some legs, though.)
-2c water
-A few sprigs fresh thyme
-Bay leaf
-1/2tsp salt
-Crusty bread/baguette and grated gruyere for garnish/making it right
*You'll want a heavy oven-safe pot with a lid in which you can make this; I love my Lodge dutch oven just for this soup.
Preheat oven to 400. Spray the inside of your pot/dutch oven with cooking spray, and then halve and thinly slice the onions and throw them into the pot. Add the 3 tbs butter, sliced into a few chunks, add the 1tsp salt, then put the lid on the pot and throw it in the oven for an hour. Stir after that hour, then put the covered pot back in the 400-degree oven for another hour and a half.
Remove the put from the oven (you can turn it off now; that easy part is done, ha), turn a burner on "medium" and stir the reduced onions for 15-20 min over the flame. You want the onions to turn a deep mahogany color, and be sure to scrape the sides of the pot while you do this in order to get all of that flavor off of the sides.
Add 1/4c water to the onions, then stir/deglaze for 6 minutes or so. Do that two more times (the Official Source for this recipe does it 4 times total for 6-8 minutes each time, but I've found that this doesn't make a HUGE difference - it's a matter of whether you want to go one more round with stirring onions, pretty much). After deglazing with water, deglaze with the 1/2c of dry sherry for 5 minutes.
Add the broths and 2c water, along with the sprigs of thyme and bay leaf. It's easier to fish the spices out if you tie them together in a little bundle, but I don't usually have string around the house. Add 1/2 tsp salt, and let that simmer for at least 30 min.
As the soup simmers, slice a few small pieces of baguette and throw them in a toaster oven or under a broiler until they get nice and crusty (ie, they'll be able to sit in the soup without turning to mush). Grate some gruyere, and once the soup is done simmering and you have seasoned it with salt and pepper and removed the thyme sprigs and bay leaf because DO NOT EAT A BAY LEAF IT IS POISONOUS PEOPLE, ladle it into individual OVEN-SAFE (seriously) bowls. Put one piece of bread atop the soup, throw some gruyere on there, and stick it under a broiler for 4-5 min.
Be careful when you're done making it - the dishes get unbelievably hot, so you'll be using your hot pad more than a little bit. Let it rest for a few minutes, and once you can't stand it any longer, attack that soup. Don't burn your tongue.
This stores great in the fridge for a few days, and the flavor gets better the next day. Enjoy!!
Monday, October 11, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
If you hear sneezing in the background of the boy's podcast? It's me.
We just got back in town after doing a marathon drive down to St. Petersburg, FL on Friday for a friend's wedding on Saturday. We then drove back up yesterday, spent the night in bumfuck, NC after almost being washed off of the road due to some east coast monsoon action (it truly was terrifying, and I'm glad we made it back safely), and finished the drive today. Upon our return, my scratchy throat from Sunday chose to manifest itself in the form of nonstop sneezing and my feeling like my sinuses want to implode. So, pretty much, this is going to be a very distracted post about ThEndUsr's live podcast. Here we go! Click through to read the excitement.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Not dead!! Just forgetful!!
I mean, I remembered that this site was HERE, I was just too lazy to sit and put my laptop on my lap and type ... stuff.
But yes. Chris is festooning himself with technology, as he just got a wireless mini-mouse for his netbook and a larger, pimpier wireless mouse for a giant deal, and I have to say as somewhat of a technophobe that IT IS AWESOME. I'm aware that it's a computer mouse. It's still awesome.
On the non-technology side of things, the new cat has adjusted marvelously to our apartment. The old cat, however, has taken this as an excuse to sit and hiss at nothing in particular. The air near her face might have had a slight breeze to it each time a hissing fit happens, but that's about it. They're doing MUCH better than they were for the first few days, but there's still nothing as exciting as having Monkey (old cat) sleep near my head every night and without question, in the morning, start hissing and growling like I'm yanking her tail out, courtesy of the fact that Tsavo (new cat) had the gall to walk into her line of sight.
Sigh.
And in people news, we've been lucky to be able to hang out with many of our favorite people over the last few weeks. I had a good friend from Chicago visit and as the genius I am, managed to carve out only an hour in which I could see her, but it was lovely, and we've already started to make plans for July of '11!! (That timeline is 100% serious, by the way.)
But finally, and the main impetus for my actually sitting down and typing this out, is the crazy abundance of this week's farm box. We have more yellow squash than I've ever seen in one place (save the grocery store, but this is muuuuuuuuch better looking squash), four delicata squash (have not yet cooked with those), a small mountain of yukon gold potatoes, and the best thing, a giant bowl of pears (never in my life have I thought "You know what I need? To buy more pears so that I can have a fruit bowl." Ladies and gentlemen, that non-thought has turned into our current reality). We've also got some red chard, which I have also never cooked.
So while you, gentle reader, might not have read this when these fruits and vegetables were ripe and edible (I can't believe you. You ass.), recipe suggestions for any and all of these are welcome. I'm sure this won't be the last time we deal with this non-problem!
But yes. Chris is festooning himself with technology, as he just got a wireless mini-mouse for his netbook and a larger, pimpier wireless mouse for a giant deal, and I have to say as somewhat of a technophobe that IT IS AWESOME. I'm aware that it's a computer mouse. It's still awesome.
On the non-technology side of things, the new cat has adjusted marvelously to our apartment. The old cat, however, has taken this as an excuse to sit and hiss at nothing in particular. The air near her face might have had a slight breeze to it each time a hissing fit happens, but that's about it. They're doing MUCH better than they were for the first few days, but there's still nothing as exciting as having Monkey (old cat) sleep near my head every night and without question, in the morning, start hissing and growling like I'm yanking her tail out, courtesy of the fact that Tsavo (new cat) had the gall to walk into her line of sight.
Sigh.
And in people news, we've been lucky to be able to hang out with many of our favorite people over the last few weeks. I had a good friend from Chicago visit and as the genius I am, managed to carve out only an hour in which I could see her, but it was lovely, and we've already started to make plans for July of '11!! (That timeline is 100% serious, by the way.)
But finally, and the main impetus for my actually sitting down and typing this out, is the crazy abundance of this week's farm box. We have more yellow squash than I've ever seen in one place (save the grocery store, but this is muuuuuuuuch better looking squash), four delicata squash (have not yet cooked with those), a small mountain of yukon gold potatoes, and the best thing, a giant bowl of pears (never in my life have I thought "You know what I need? To buy more pears so that I can have a fruit bowl." Ladies and gentlemen, that non-thought has turned into our current reality). We've also got some red chard, which I have also never cooked.
So while you, gentle reader, might not have read this when these fruits and vegetables were ripe and edible (I can't believe you. You ass.), recipe suggestions for any and all of these are welcome. I'm sure this won't be the last time we deal with this non-problem!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
I ... love vegetables?
I signed us up for a farm-share like program about a month ago (at washingtonsgreengrocer.com) , and so far it's been smooth sailing. I do, however, have a major problem with not eating the produce as is and instead succumbing to my raging need to make stuff unhealthier than it is in its natural form. Obviously my dream of becoming a natural veggie and fruit-loving hippie didn't come true the moment I signed us up for this, which isn't what I was anticipating.
Having said that, there's no getting around the fact that I've got a crapload of zucchini staring me in the face and no desire to sit and eat raw or healthily-cooked pieces of said zucchini. Last time this happened I found a recipe for bread, but it was less than impressive (to me. My brother ate it all in two days, I think, and it made a LOT of bread/muffins). We also have plums, which I know my parents used to eat by the bushelful - this didn't rub off on me as a child, and now I view this fruit with a trepidation often reserved for something like an unfamiliar reptile (ie, a poisonous snake that will chase us and kill us all) in the wild.
I'm so glad we signed up for this one and not a legit farm share, though, because we have the option to choose when we get the deliveries and therefore not get buried under a pile of super-healthy food (a girl can only take so much, for real). We're able to substitute items in one week's list for other items in the list, which has let me avoid confronting my distaste for all things green pepper and mushroom related.
Loosely tying this into the theme of the blog, it's about as technological as a farm share can get, and the fact that we can shoot the owners/deliverers emails about what we've gotten makes my life a BAJILLION times easier. In fact, the zucchini in this week's order was originally left out, but I shot the owner an email and it was delivered the next day. The original omission is probably why they gave us so very, very much zucchini on Friday, so long story short, they rule.
Also, zucchini recipes needed. Seriously.
Having said that, there's no getting around the fact that I've got a crapload of zucchini staring me in the face and no desire to sit and eat raw or healthily-cooked pieces of said zucchini. Last time this happened I found a recipe for bread, but it was less than impressive (to me. My brother ate it all in two days, I think, and it made a LOT of bread/muffins). We also have plums, which I know my parents used to eat by the bushelful - this didn't rub off on me as a child, and now I view this fruit with a trepidation often reserved for something like an unfamiliar reptile (ie, a poisonous snake that will chase us and kill us all) in the wild.
I'm so glad we signed up for this one and not a legit farm share, though, because we have the option to choose when we get the deliveries and therefore not get buried under a pile of super-healthy food (a girl can only take so much, for real). We're able to substitute items in one week's list for other items in the list, which has let me avoid confronting my distaste for all things green pepper and mushroom related.
Loosely tying this into the theme of the blog, it's about as technological as a farm share can get, and the fact that we can shoot the owners/deliverers emails about what we've gotten makes my life a BAJILLION times easier. In fact, the zucchini in this week's order was originally left out, but I shot the owner an email and it was delivered the next day. The original omission is probably why they gave us so very, very much zucchini on Friday, so long story short, they rule.
Also, zucchini recipes needed. Seriously.
Monday, August 30, 2010
"'Batman's Daughter' is not a good nickname."
It's time for this again. The live podcast (found here: http://bit.ly/thEndUsrLive )!! However, I'm eating dinner (and for shame, it's Kraft mac & cheese, but it's that fancy newfangled "you can BAKE IT" kind. But I did not bake it, for if I was actually going to bake something, it damn well wouldn't have been this mac & cheese).
ANYWAY. The fact that I'm eating dinner and watching some janky-receptioned close-captioned television means that I won't be on my game. But my brother is in the house, so any time he snorts at something Chris says, I'll probably type it. Here we go.
-Nobody's listening, according to the site data. Step it up bitches!
-Wow, the reception on CBS tonight is *abysmal.* This could be a very long hour indeed.
-Chris has a case of "Extreme Radio Voice" tonight.
-Aaaaaand the upstairs neighbors are moving a small village into their apartment. It's not fair - ours resembles a small village, but I KNOW we didn't make that much noise.
-Is anyone else a wee bit concerned about this Hurricane Earl thing?
-CBS froze. What the hell!?! Thankfully, "America's Test Kitchen" is here to make things better.
-Brother Metal (the cohost) is on a roll.
-I am playing some terrible Scrabble on facebook right now.
-Someone's buying someone. Wait, no; Chris just wants someone to buy them out.
-They've come up with some kind of narrative involving Taylor, Snooki, and Taylor's subsequent absence from this evening's podcast. This probably relates back to when Brother Metal was on a roll with whatever he was talking about.
-Oh my god, so many letters and numbers being bandied about right now. I have no clue whatsoever.
-Something free - that's good!!! Whatever's free is something I am unable to comprehend - that's bad.
-Some license good until 2015 - Flash? I'm not sure. If the Mayan calendar ends up killing us all in 2012, this conversation will be moot anyway, so it's okay that I'm not following.
-Michael (brother) is terrified that his opening a beer will be too loud for the recording. Clearly, he hasn't been here for too long.
-Mac & cheese + broccoli + water = bloaty mcbloaterson
-SERIOUSLY WTF CBS?!!?!
-Apple with Safari sounds like a delicious type of vacation, but I know that's not what they're talking about. *sigh*
-He sounds so earnest about the podcast! It's hard to poke fun. And yet ...
-Chris talking about the ability to make calls over Google, which in my opinion will lead to the day robots will figure out how to successfully crack open our skulls and feast on the goo inside.
-Some host of a cooking show on tv now talking about "If you happen to have wild rabbit." Right, lady. That happens.
-"News in Fail." Now that sounds like something I'd tune into on this little tech news show here.
-(I don't know what the actual "Fail News" is, and I kind of wish I did, but I realize that I may not even comprehend the fail, or if I did, I might have to start wearing a pocket protector and nerd glasses (they do not do this).)
-Paul Allen: Internet Overlord?
-I keep thinking about the mirror I should have gotten at IKEA, even though I think it was out of stock. May still get it!! I know you're all duly impressed.
-"Patent Troll." Hee.
-Holy crap, didn't notice that Chris had not been speaking for at least the last five minutes. I hope it was a good diatribe on the other end!!
-Wow. Silence. Very curious about what's being said on the other end (well, not VERY curious. You know what I mean.)
-Paul Allen: Jerkass Extraordinaire?
-My brother just commented on how much wine I poured for myself. Boy needs to learn sometime, amiright?
-Chris is clearly not the main talker on this podcast tonight.
-Like, at all.
-Ah, Windows Phone 7, that old chestnut. Something about syncing email. This could be interesting, seeing as how I still haven't made a decision to move on to a new phone, and if I do, whether I should stick with AT&T or move to another provider, and THEN I'd have to decide what phone to get. It's enough to make a girl relax with her glass of wine and forget the entire problem even existed. Ahem.
-Someone from Milwaukee just called Chris. God knows who that was, but I'll be doing some googling soon!
-Well that ended quickly - or, at least, it sounds like they're wrapping it up. I haven't even made it through one glass of wine!!!
-Ah wait - Chris has to shut up Brother Metal before they're done, but I think he's succeeded. And, victory. Fin.
ANYWAY. The fact that I'm eating dinner and watching some janky-receptioned close-captioned television means that I won't be on my game. But my brother is in the house, so any time he snorts at something Chris says, I'll probably type it. Here we go.
-Nobody's listening, according to the site data. Step it up bitches!
-Wow, the reception on CBS tonight is *abysmal.* This could be a very long hour indeed.
-Chris has a case of "Extreme Radio Voice" tonight.
-Aaaaaand the upstairs neighbors are moving a small village into their apartment. It's not fair - ours resembles a small village, but I KNOW we didn't make that much noise.
-Is anyone else a wee bit concerned about this Hurricane Earl thing?
-CBS froze. What the hell!?! Thankfully, "America's Test Kitchen" is here to make things better.
-Brother Metal (the cohost) is on a roll.
-I am playing some terrible Scrabble on facebook right now.
-Someone's buying someone. Wait, no; Chris just wants someone to buy them out.
-They've come up with some kind of narrative involving Taylor, Snooki, and Taylor's subsequent absence from this evening's podcast. This probably relates back to when Brother Metal was on a roll with whatever he was talking about.
-Oh my god, so many letters and numbers being bandied about right now. I have no clue whatsoever.
-Something free - that's good!!! Whatever's free is something I am unable to comprehend - that's bad.
-Some license good until 2015 - Flash? I'm not sure. If the Mayan calendar ends up killing us all in 2012, this conversation will be moot anyway, so it's okay that I'm not following.
-Michael (brother) is terrified that his opening a beer will be too loud for the recording. Clearly, he hasn't been here for too long.
-Mac & cheese + broccoli + water = bloaty mcbloaterson
-SERIOUSLY WTF CBS?!!?!
-Apple with Safari sounds like a delicious type of vacation, but I know that's not what they're talking about. *sigh*
-He sounds so earnest about the podcast! It's hard to poke fun. And yet ...
-Chris talking about the ability to make calls over Google, which in my opinion will lead to the day robots will figure out how to successfully crack open our skulls and feast on the goo inside.
-Some host of a cooking show on tv now talking about "If you happen to have wild rabbit." Right, lady. That happens.
-"News in Fail." Now that sounds like something I'd tune into on this little tech news show here.
-(I don't know what the actual "Fail News" is, and I kind of wish I did, but I realize that I may not even comprehend the fail, or if I did, I might have to start wearing a pocket protector and nerd glasses (they do not do this).)
-Paul Allen: Internet Overlord?
-I keep thinking about the mirror I should have gotten at IKEA, even though I think it was out of stock. May still get it!! I know you're all duly impressed.
-"Patent Troll." Hee.
-Holy crap, didn't notice that Chris had not been speaking for at least the last five minutes. I hope it was a good diatribe on the other end!!
-Wow. Silence. Very curious about what's being said on the other end (well, not VERY curious. You know what I mean.)
-Paul Allen: Jerkass Extraordinaire?
-My brother just commented on how much wine I poured for myself. Boy needs to learn sometime, amiright?
-Chris is clearly not the main talker on this podcast tonight.
-Like, at all.
-Ah, Windows Phone 7, that old chestnut. Something about syncing email. This could be interesting, seeing as how I still haven't made a decision to move on to a new phone, and if I do, whether I should stick with AT&T or move to another provider, and THEN I'd have to decide what phone to get. It's enough to make a girl relax with her glass of wine and forget the entire problem even existed. Ahem.
-Someone from Milwaukee just called Chris. God knows who that was, but I'll be doing some googling soon!
-Well that ended quickly - or, at least, it sounds like they're wrapping it up. I haven't even made it through one glass of wine!!!
-Ah wait - Chris has to shut up Brother Metal before they're done, but I think he's succeeded. And, victory. Fin.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Warning: this is somewhat nerdy.
The brother is crashing at our place until he can move into his own, the parents have come and gone, and it now looks like a small village lives in our one-bedroom apartment. He loves our tv.
I always forget the extent of how cool our television setup really is until someone who doesn't live in the area, or frequently visit our apartment, stops over. It's all courtesy of Chris, obviously, but we've been running an HTPC (home theater PC) with Windows 7 since this spring (courtesy of a lovely Christmas gift from my parents, along with a little bit of tax refund help, heh). I truly would have had no idea how to even get started on a project like this, but Chris had previously built his desktop computer, and knows more than any mortal should about getting stuff like that off the ground.
We don't have cable and probably won't ever make that jump (it's so expensive and I'm so cheap!), but I have to say, this is definitely the solution. I've more than sated my super-mature craving for South Park, and we can stream Netflix through the app in Windows Media Center. Chris built a blu-ray player into the computer. We are obviously watching the two blu-ray discs we have repeatedly, haha. Just last week, Chris got a tv tuner for the computer so that we don't have to use eighty bajillion remotes to switch the input every time we want to watch actual network television - the tv now comes straight through the computer. Unfortunately, the guide has a bunch of foreign channels that are just too weak/far away for our dumb rabbit-ear antenna to receive, but it's the height of lazy awesomeness, if there are even degrees of that when it comes to watching tv.
When Chris explained the idea of an HTPC, it sounded parallel to cotton candy-pooping bunnies hopping giddily through a field of rainbows while singing the songs of sirens who don't want to lure you to your death, but instead want to gently toss gold coins in your direction. That wasn't too far off, actually. I approve of this nerd corner quite a bit.
I always forget the extent of how cool our television setup really is until someone who doesn't live in the area, or frequently visit our apartment, stops over. It's all courtesy of Chris, obviously, but we've been running an HTPC (home theater PC) with Windows 7 since this spring (courtesy of a lovely Christmas gift from my parents, along with a little bit of tax refund help, heh). I truly would have had no idea how to even get started on a project like this, but Chris had previously built his desktop computer, and knows more than any mortal should about getting stuff like that off the ground.
We don't have cable and probably won't ever make that jump (it's so expensive and I'm so cheap!), but I have to say, this is definitely the solution. I've more than sated my super-mature craving for South Park, and we can stream Netflix through the app in Windows Media Center. Chris built a blu-ray player into the computer. We are obviously watching the two blu-ray discs we have repeatedly, haha. Just last week, Chris got a tv tuner for the computer so that we don't have to use eighty bajillion remotes to switch the input every time we want to watch actual network television - the tv now comes straight through the computer. Unfortunately, the guide has a bunch of foreign channels that are just too weak/far away for our dumb rabbit-ear antenna to receive, but it's the height of lazy awesomeness, if there are even degrees of that when it comes to watching tv.
When Chris explained the idea of an HTPC, it sounded parallel to cotton candy-pooping bunnies hopping giddily through a field of rainbows while singing the songs of sirens who don't want to lure you to your death, but instead want to gently toss gold coins in your direction. That wasn't too far off, actually. I approve of this nerd corner quite a bit.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
I'm easily distracted?
It's been a few days since I've written anything, and while it's not like I've got a pulitzer-worthy tome happening here or anything, I figured I'd just write and say that my family is in town for the next few days, and my opportunities to ogle technology/live in nerd corner are going to be GREATLY reduced.
However, one kind of technology I got to experience today was the self-checkout line at Giant. There are a LOT of idiots who use that line. That is all.
However, one kind of technology I got to experience today was the self-checkout line at Giant. There are a LOT of idiots who use that line. That is all.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
My kind of technology.
It's called "the Griddler," and it is MAGIC. And magical. Use as many modifiers as you'd like about this one, people!
I grabbed it on Woot, and goddamn am I glad I did that. You see, I have a somewhat unnatural weakness for grilled cheese, but my weakness for that is almost completely balanced by my hatred for washing a frying pan post-sandwich making.
But no more.
This thing is so easy to work it's stupid. And thanks to Chris's magical kitchen cleaning/rearranging skills, we have room for this beast to work its appropriate powers so that I may sustain myself upon its cheesy melty goodness.
I realize that this is getting a little bit hero-worshippy (spelled it "whorshippy" the first time, hee), but you guys ohmygooooooooooooood. It's amazing. I'm hoping I don't gain 10 pounds due to the sheer accessibility of unhealthy food. And I've only used it twice so far. You can see where this may be a problem come the colder months, when I can justify the eating of melty sandwiches with abandon.
So yes. It's not technology in the "Nerd Corner" sense, but it's MY technology. And lo, it is good.
I grabbed it on Woot, and goddamn am I glad I did that. You see, I have a somewhat unnatural weakness for grilled cheese, but my weakness for that is almost completely balanced by my hatred for washing a frying pan post-sandwich making.
But no more.
This thing is so easy to work it's stupid. And thanks to Chris's magical kitchen cleaning/rearranging skills, we have room for this beast to work its appropriate powers so that I may sustain myself upon its cheesy melty goodness.
I realize that this is getting a little bit hero-worshippy (spelled it "whorshippy" the first time, hee), but you guys ohmygooooooooooooood. It's amazing. I'm hoping I don't gain 10 pounds due to the sheer accessibility of unhealthy food. And I've only used it twice so far. You can see where this may be a problem come the colder months, when I can justify the eating of melty sandwiches with abandon.
So yes. It's not technology in the "Nerd Corner" sense, but it's MY technology. And lo, it is good.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Ritalin, take me away.
I have the "Macarena" in my head and it's far too late for me to be awake but what else am I supposed to do when Chris has to work an overnight shift and there's nobody to distract me and I can't stop eating panzanella because I made WAY too much food with all of the stuff we got from our farm share box over the weekend?!?!
This is what happens when the soup you ate for dinner last night tries to kill you and you're trapped at home all day.
This is what happens when the soup you ate for dinner last night tries to kill you and you're trapped at home all day.
Monday, August 16, 2010
This IS live blogging, because I typed it out live and in person!
So. TheEndUsr podcast. Hello again, "friend." I'm going to sit here and type how I feel throughout the duration, unbeknownst to Chris. I'm sure it'll be as thrilling as I anticipate. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
-They've been discussing/arguing over pre-show topics for, like, an hour. In the time that they called each other over Skype and started talking, I've made soup, eaten soup, regretted putting parsley in the soup (even though it was called for), and tried to figure out what else I should eat that isn't cheese or potato chips.
-Wine!
-Oh man, I thought they had started. They have not. They're discussing beer, which is why I get along with all of them so well.
-Shit. I just remembered that I wanted to do laundry, but that is so not happening tonight.
-Our friend "Brother Metal" wants everyone else to have an acronym and tried to bestow "Batman's Daughter" on Chris. Strange (but funny).
-Watching closed-captioned tv is not nearly as exciting as hearing the actual audio.
-Huh. They're using some colorful, long-worded phrases so far! But the podcast is only a minute or two in, so I hope they can keep this up.
-One of the other guys is rambling. Dead silence here.
-From what I can gather, Google is a rather saucy minx.
-I get very paranoid when I'm in the kitchen during a podcast and I can hear Chris's chair moving around, because then I worry that he's trying to flail and silently get my attention in order to mouth "YOU ARE BEING TOO LOUD YOU FREAK OF NATURE ." That wasn't the case just now, though - overactive imagination strikes again!!
-Exactly one year ago, I was in New York. I wonder if I can get Chris to skip a podcast so that we can do a long weekend there. Proooooooobably not ...
-!!!!! I just remembered that my 2-year AT&T contract ends today!!!! Now I have to figure out how much (um, little) I want to spend on a new phone and whether to stick with AT&T or move to another carrier. This will help my inability to make decisions GREATLY.
-I just accidentally hit one of the F buttons and all of my windows disappeared for a second. I smushed them all until the windows reappeared. This is why I'm not a podcast participant.
-Wireless something or other being discussed. Rabble rabble rabble!
-I feel like I lose a little something by only hearing 1/3 of the conversation as it's recorded.
-Google: still, apparently, a saucy minx. I have no idea what they're talking about.
-Chatting with a friend. Radio silence on Chris's end. God knows what the topic is.
-Chris shouting "FACT!" repeatedly. Apparently Samsung is doing something well.
-Now something is epic AND epically expensive. Well played, sir.
-Talking about coding on multiple platforms. I feel like I've broken down a wall simply by interpreting that much, and this is reaching the limit of my abilities. Time for more wine!!
-Wow. According to Craigslist, there's a house for rent in VA on "Tally Ho Lane." AWESOME.
-Oh my lord. There's a commercial on the tv I can't hear with no closed captioning that's somehow talking about football while some guys are shoveling snow outdoors. You are killing me, advertisers.
-Hey! The iphone may or may not be coming to Verizon!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
-Ugh, something about that soup is not sitting well. It might be the gallons (not really) of lemon juice used during its creation.
-Oh, they've figuratively put their tinfoil hats on. I feel that this has happened several times during past podcasts, and I never know why this is. (I suppose if I listened to the entire thing this would probably solve itself, but whatever.)
-OH GOD THEY'RE UPDATING SCRABBLE ON FACEBOOK AND I CAN'T ACCESS IT MY LIFE IS OVER OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD they had BETTER have this fixed by the time I go to work tomorrow. I swear to god.
-Apologies for the number of times I used the lord's name in vain in that last bullet point, if that riles you. If not, consider this bullet point more "Weird silence from Chris. Oh wait - rabble rabble rabble!"
-Someone's talking a LOT, and it ain't Chris.
-This is boring. Time for mochi.
-There's a "Tip of the Week" tab on their site now. That's actually pretty useful. Well done gentlemen!
-Saw Chris silently flailing out of the corner of my eye; he quietly requested a beer. I went and got him one and even opened it for him. I'll be expecting my "Humanitarian of the Year" award any day now.
-I don't know why they're comparing the beers they drink now; this is usually what occurs within the first five minutes of a podcast. I'm ashamed for knowing that.
-I think they're talking about the girl who "quit with the whiteboard and the photos" which turned out to be a joke. Oh, if only something like that happened to such an inept and lecherous boss.
-Oh good god, they're finally done. Wait, no. Someone's talking.
-Yes!! Done!! Go visit thendusr.com if you want to see what all this nerdiness is about.
-Uh oh. Not done. Chris forgot to do something. I don't know what. This is like a game of Clue for a very very dumb person! "It was Chris, on the internet ... with the podcast ..."
-Gah. Finally. This has been real. I doubt I have the fortitude to do this next week; also, I like getting things accomplished and this did absolutely nothing to further that desire.
And now Chris edits the podcast for an hour or however long it takes, but at least I get to turn the tv volume on. This is quite thrilling. Until next time!!
-They've been discussing/arguing over pre-show topics for, like, an hour. In the time that they called each other over Skype and started talking, I've made soup, eaten soup, regretted putting parsley in the soup (even though it was called for), and tried to figure out what else I should eat that isn't cheese or potato chips.
-Wine!
-Oh man, I thought they had started. They have not. They're discussing beer, which is why I get along with all of them so well.
-Shit. I just remembered that I wanted to do laundry, but that is so not happening tonight.
-Our friend "Brother Metal" wants everyone else to have an acronym and tried to bestow "Batman's Daughter" on Chris. Strange (but funny).
-Watching closed-captioned tv is not nearly as exciting as hearing the actual audio.
-Huh. They're using some colorful, long-worded phrases so far! But the podcast is only a minute or two in, so I hope they can keep this up.
-One of the other guys is rambling. Dead silence here.
-From what I can gather, Google is a rather saucy minx.
-I get very paranoid when I'm in the kitchen during a podcast and I can hear Chris's chair moving around, because then I worry that he's trying to flail and silently get my attention in order to mouth "YOU ARE BEING TOO LOUD YOU FREAK OF NATURE ." That wasn't the case just now, though - overactive imagination strikes again!!
-Exactly one year ago, I was in New York. I wonder if I can get Chris to skip a podcast so that we can do a long weekend there. Proooooooobably not ...
-!!!!! I just remembered that my 2-year AT&T contract ends today!!!! Now I have to figure out how much (um, little) I want to spend on a new phone and whether to stick with AT&T or move to another carrier. This will help my inability to make decisions GREATLY.
-I just accidentally hit one of the F buttons and all of my windows disappeared for a second. I smushed them all until the windows reappeared. This is why I'm not a podcast participant.
-Wireless something or other being discussed. Rabble rabble rabble!
-I feel like I lose a little something by only hearing 1/3 of the conversation as it's recorded.
-Google: still, apparently, a saucy minx. I have no idea what they're talking about.
-Chatting with a friend. Radio silence on Chris's end. God knows what the topic is.
-Chris shouting "FACT!" repeatedly. Apparently Samsung is doing something well.
-Now something is epic AND epically expensive. Well played, sir.
-Talking about coding on multiple platforms. I feel like I've broken down a wall simply by interpreting that much, and this is reaching the limit of my abilities. Time for more wine!!
-Wow. According to Craigslist, there's a house for rent in VA on "Tally Ho Lane." AWESOME.
-Oh my lord. There's a commercial on the tv I can't hear with no closed captioning that's somehow talking about football while some guys are shoveling snow outdoors. You are killing me, advertisers.
-Hey! The iphone may or may not be coming to Verizon!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
-Ugh, something about that soup is not sitting well. It might be the gallons (not really) of lemon juice used during its creation.
-Oh, they've figuratively put their tinfoil hats on. I feel that this has happened several times during past podcasts, and I never know why this is. (I suppose if I listened to the entire thing this would probably solve itself, but whatever.)
-OH GOD THEY'RE UPDATING SCRABBLE ON FACEBOOK AND I CAN'T ACCESS IT MY LIFE IS OVER OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD they had BETTER have this fixed by the time I go to work tomorrow. I swear to god.
-Apologies for the number of times I used the lord's name in vain in that last bullet point, if that riles you. If not, consider this bullet point more "Weird silence from Chris. Oh wait - rabble rabble rabble!"
-Someone's talking a LOT, and it ain't Chris.
-This is boring. Time for mochi.
-There's a "Tip of the Week" tab on their site now. That's actually pretty useful. Well done gentlemen!
-Saw Chris silently flailing out of the corner of my eye; he quietly requested a beer. I went and got him one and even opened it for him. I'll be expecting my "Humanitarian of the Year" award any day now.
-I don't know why they're comparing the beers they drink now; this is usually what occurs within the first five minutes of a podcast. I'm ashamed for knowing that.
-I think they're talking about the girl who "quit with the whiteboard and the photos" which turned out to be a joke. Oh, if only something like that happened to such an inept and lecherous boss.
-Oh good god, they're finally done. Wait, no. Someone's talking.
-Yes!! Done!! Go visit thendusr.com if you want to see what all this nerdiness is about.
-Uh oh. Not done. Chris forgot to do something. I don't know what. This is like a game of Clue for a very very dumb person! "It was Chris, on the internet ... with the podcast ..."
-Gah. Finally. This has been real. I doubt I have the fortitude to do this next week; also, I like getting things accomplished and this did absolutely nothing to further that desire.
And now Chris edits the podcast for an hour or however long it takes, but at least I get to turn the tv volume on. This is quite thrilling. Until next time!!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Ode (?) to a Silkworm.
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?! I was all set to shuck a little bit off of the lovely corn that was delivered yesterday, and YOU CRAWL OUT ALL "Haaaaaaaaay gurl haaaaaaaaaay!! Surprise!! Aaaaahm wigglin'!!!"
NO. NOT OKAY. THE CAPS DON'T LIE.
I assumed some of the veggies were organic. This doesn't make it better. However, I understand why you were there. The other, untainted cobs were good. (At least the two I managed to shove down my gullet after the ... the incident - they were delicious.)
But COME ON. NOT COOL.
NO. NOT OKAY. THE CAPS DON'T LIE.
I assumed some of the veggies were organic. This doesn't make it better. However, I understand why you were there. The other, untainted cobs were good. (At least the two I managed to shove down my gullet after the ... the incident - they were delicious.)
But COME ON. NOT COOL.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Noms.
As some of you might have noticed, the word "dinner" is oh-so-magically apparent in the title of the blog in web address form. I like to consider that a happy accident, since I love food like Chris loves tech/geeky stuff/quoting "Star Wars" when it might not be the best time to do so (but it's always funny. The boy's got timing).
I've noticed lots of sites where comments on food articles range from "This is a wonderful way to make delicious food!" to "You are trying to put women back in the kitchen FOR SHAME SIR!!" I consider myself a feminist, but I also consider it a boneheaded notion that I'm not about to cook something ass-kicking after a day of work. Said work might have been ass-kicking in a totally different way, but tough shit. I don't want a dinner of potato chips.
I'm definitely trying to rein in the spending when it comes to food, but then I enter the store. And there are piles of cheese. And olives. And other things. As you might guess, this financial restraint is really really hard for me to do. An easy way to do this, though, is to not order delivery, which leaves me with the antiquated task of (gasp!) cooking.
I love it. I really do. About the only thing I don't love is when Chris is podcasting and you can hear the oven squeaking in the background whenever I open the door; the reminder of our non-cutting edge appliances gets a little old. I also do not love green peppers, which shall never cross the threshold of our abode.
Last week I let Chris know that if there's a point in time wherein he becomes the major breadwinner, I'm totally quitting whatever painfully non-lucrative job I have and will become a cheesemonger/bread maker/something of that ilk. I don't know if he necessarily believed me, so I bet he'll be surprised when I start smelling like a bakery or something awesome after he locks up his awesome hypothetical job.
Now if he could just build me some sort of fancy robot to clean up after my kitchen mess, we would be gold, baby.
I've noticed lots of sites where comments on food articles range from "This is a wonderful way to make delicious food!" to "You are trying to put women back in the kitchen FOR SHAME SIR!!" I consider myself a feminist, but I also consider it a boneheaded notion that I'm not about to cook something ass-kicking after a day of work. Said work might have been ass-kicking in a totally different way, but tough shit. I don't want a dinner of potato chips.
I'm definitely trying to rein in the spending when it comes to food, but then I enter the store. And there are piles of cheese. And olives. And other things. As you might guess, this financial restraint is really really hard for me to do. An easy way to do this, though, is to not order delivery, which leaves me with the antiquated task of (gasp!) cooking.
I love it. I really do. About the only thing I don't love is when Chris is podcasting and you can hear the oven squeaking in the background whenever I open the door; the reminder of our non-cutting edge appliances gets a little old. I also do not love green peppers, which shall never cross the threshold of our abode.
Last week I let Chris know that if there's a point in time wherein he becomes the major breadwinner, I'm totally quitting whatever painfully non-lucrative job I have and will become a cheesemonger/bread maker/something of that ilk. I don't know if he necessarily believed me, so I bet he'll be surprised when I start smelling like a bakery or something awesome after he locks up his awesome hypothetical job.
Now if he could just build me some sort of fancy robot to clean up after my kitchen mess, we would be gold, baby.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Hello, world.
So ... this is what Chris just showed me.
And I hope that gives you a glimpse into the exciting world I live in!!
Also, yesterday I left the house and inadvertently shut the cat inside my closet. Granted, it's a LARGE closet, but she still wasn't pleased. Chris learned as much when she began throwing herself against the door at 9am, waking him up. Sorry honey!
Tonight, the fact that I audibly gasped when there was no wine bottle full of wine where one is supposed to be proves what a totally wholesome person I am. I had left it on another table, but my god, the heart attack that nearly ensued would have been epic.
That pretty much sums up the kind of drivel that I'll be typing about here.
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