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Who was too lazy today to get groceries cook and is now eating pizza?

You ate what?!

lisamarlene wrote:

Woohoo! Now I don't have to talk to strangers in the grocery store! FaWtL is back!

I wasn't that desperate. Yet.

*shrugs at the self-checkout machine*

An IT project finishing on time? Something is seriously amiss here...

There was schedule for reopening?!

Huh... We're back? Nothing broken? There is something weird about my account section...

The recipe for "Italian pasta a la Neapolitan" explicitly calls for breaking the pasta in half...

The first edition of this cookbook predates existence of Italy (as a state)... Checkmate Italians!

And now I have found a Polish cookbook from 1871 (first edition was 1860) that contains two kinds of tomato soup (now very popular in Poland), and at least one other dish with tomatoes in name (not counting any dishes that might contain tomatoes but not list them in the name of the dish.

It's something that would be directed at townsfolk and gentry, mainly, but still.

Qunnessaa wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

Making borscht for Impus Major today, and I'm convinced that the requirement to shred all the root vegetables was invented just to give the cooks something to do during those long, cold winter days. Pretty sure dicing would work just as well...

EDIT: Fortunately, I have a pre-ensh*ttification Cuisinart so the shredding is pretty darned quick.

Some of us just ... like knives, ok? ;)

But even so, borscht is a nuisance. I'm trying to plan ahead for an occasion in the next few weeks to motivate me, because it's a production and a half, as you're clearly all too aware.

I made "lazy varenyky" yesterday to use up some ingredients in the fridge yesterday, but, again, I'll have to make the real deal soon when I can find the energy.

What amuses me the most is that this is supposedly a "traditional" Ukrainian recipe from the late 1800s, and it all sounds perfectly legit: crumble a sausage, shred 3 beets, shred 3 carrots, shred half a head of cabbage, dice some potatoes and onions...

...all solid winter root vegetables or larder items that you'd expect to find in any Slavic peasant's winter store...
...then...
..."Dice 1 cup of fresh tomatoes."

Nope. You have broken immersion. -10 points.

Apparently tomatoes were slowly becoming popular in Poland and Ukraine during later parts of 19th century, so if the recipe is from late 1800s, then it is possible, though of course more likely it was a recipe for gentry/middle class than peasants. Coincidentally gentry and bourgeoise were more likely to be writing cookbooks than actual peasants...

"Winter" recipe more likely would be using tomato paste than fresh tomatoes, of course, but it is another matter.

Fantasy Monster: Words-In-Stone

The Words are set in stone! Obey the Words!

Fantasy Monster: Words-In-Stone

The Words are set in stone! Obey the Words!

Hasn't Nobody warned us years ago against downloading unknown videos from dubious websites?

So this was my halloween costume this year

Which lead to two people thinking I was NOT a person.

Does anyone else feels that looks like a classical stop motion puppet?

Also, did you go to Halloween dressed as your bigger brother?

It's not on a reasonable sale yet, so I will worry about it in the future.

*sigh* What are the chances that Wuchang: Fallen Feathers won't work in a level allowing for decent gameplay without a dedicated graphics card?

Steam showed me some very naughty game... And I mean very naughty...

Eh, it hits the level of naughtiness where I'd probably be better watching adult recordings on one of the free websites.

You know it works like that in every civilized country, right?

That's what is one of key differences between a democratic republic and an oligarchic one... *a political observation paragraph explodes after being hit with a barrage of flaming bikes*

So, weird thought popped into my head as I'm reading about all the flights being canceled and wondering whether Impus Minor is going to have to drive home from North Dakota: Why aren't airlines just paying air traffic controllers during the shutdown?

** spoiler omitted **

Doing the math, it seems like it would be much more profitable for them to step up and ensure full staffing at the airports than to stand around and say, "Not our problem."

My guess is that they don't want to make a precedent, because once they start paying the controllers, the government forever removes that part of funding and it will stick to airlines to pay for controllers...

And that's even without getting into possibility of bidding wars for preferential treatment for airline that pays more than other.

Anyway, likely there is no legal way for them to pay. If controllers are government employees they can't receive money for third parties and third parties can't legally give them money... At least until US Supreme Court guts the antibribery laws even further...

Sheesh, can't we check US election results without running into a Polish surname anymore? *rolls eyes*

This months Humble Choice collection is terribly unimpressive...

TriOmegaZero wrote:

We are delaying the apocalypse!

Oh, I'm starting in on it.

My "AI project" is to create an AI where I feed in documentation and out comes video storyboards so we can easily produce video training.

Got Phase I done (convert documentation to formatted numbered steps) and did Sanity Check I: "Does the original document work?"

It didn't. Manager and I spent hours debugging, and she finally got one record to work (out of thousands). So we met with the doc team. Their response, "Wow! You got one to work! We never did!"

SO HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY BE "DOCUMENTATION" IF YOU NEVER GOT IT WORKING!?!?!

Thus, this afternoon's work was, "Try feeding a different doc into the AI."

Yet again, passed Phase 1. Tested the original doc. It failed again.

So we are putting out documentation that fundamentally doesn't work.

Manager now has me testing two more docs at random and if they don't work we're immediately escalating to VP level. The idea that these people are putting out documentation that simply doesn't work as-written and they've never actually tested it is...
...mind-blowing is an understatement.

And then people are surprised that no-one (Nobody?) reads manuals...

The end was delayed an unspecified amount of time...

Bring out your dead! Bring our your dead! The end is nigh!

Fantasy Monster: Polyscorpion

Don't mind the multiple claws, it's the stingers that you should be worried of...

Fantasy Monster: Polyscorpion

Don't mind the multiple claws, it's the stingers that you should be worried of...

The end of the world is coming! The end is coming!

I have finished Sniper Elite 5 and now I am back to Silksong...

I was so fed up with one of the bosses that I downloaded earlier version of the game, before the devs patched a way to skip that stupid bug to not have to run back to him and keep repeating the fight against minions every time you die...

Speaking of cats, this is our life.

GothBard: Hey, can I borrow Mephisto for a minute? There's a fly in the studio.
(We put him in. He objects. We close the door. He notices the fly. 30 seconds later he's happily outside again)
GothBard: His ability to kill flies is really starting to scare me.

Don't put him in one room with Jeff Goldblum...

OK. Somehow I trust FaWtLers more than Google. SNAP benefits run out November 1. I want to help. News and Google both say, "Donate to your local food banks." So, I can do that, but I'd really like my donation to be focused on single mothers with kids. I'm pretty sure that would be the lion's share of a food bank's business, but with other people on this board far more familiar with such things:

(1) Where's the best place to donate?
(2) Is cash or cans better? I assume cash, but then you have to worry about corruption and choosing the right place.

Appreciate your help.

My first guess would be some kind of women's shelter?

I assume that a lot of women with kid(s) fleeing abusive partners might end there.

Drejk wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

S-stop make chaotic evil characters I like...

Have you tried to stop liking chaotic evil character I make?

Or at least...

** spoiler omitted **

Wait... That's wrong. You are supposed to like things I make. ALL THE THINGS!

Now try this fish stew containing mangled pieces of fish (I never buy anything fish that isn't explicitly a fillet again), onions, tomato, apple, potato, and sweet potato, seasoned with garlic, paprika, stock cube, and soy sauce...

Sounds good. Was something off in the ratio?

Oh, it ended being quite good. It was just that the piece of fish I bought wasn't a fillet, and trying to cut it, remove fins, and spine was annoying as hell.

Drejk wrote:

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

S-stop make chaotic evil characters I like...

Have you tried to stop liking chaotic evil character I make?

Or at least...

** spoiler omitted **

** spoiler omitted **

*chuckles*

Coincidentally, I dreamt of my past love today (or was that yesterday)...

Freehold DM wrote:

Drejk wrote:

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

S-stop make chaotic evil characters I like...

Have you tried to stop liking chaotic evil character I make?

Or at least...

** spoiler omitted **

Wait... That's wrong. You are supposed to like things I make. ALL THE THINGS!

Now try this fish stew containing mangled pieces of fish (I never buy anything fish that isn't explicitly a fillet again), onions, tomato, apple, potato, and sweet potato, seasoned with garlic, paprika, stock cube, and soy sauce...

Drejk wrote:

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

S-stop make chaotic evil characters I like...

Have you tried to stop liking chaotic evil character I make?

Or at least...

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

Fantasy Monster: Blood Red Riding Hood

When you thought that Red Riding Hood might be a werewolf...

"The thing that most non-Americans don't realize, is that the US is (at least) 50 small countries in a trench coat pretending to be one large country."

This is a more tactful version than the one I know...

I have finished Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

A beautiful game, beautiful music, beautiful movement, better progression than the Blind Forest, with much less frustrating moments (though not without them, especially chase sequences). I enjoyed it more than Silksong (I paused for now at Groal, who knows, knows).

The ending is... Happy-sad, to keep it spoiler free. I will miss that little spirit.

I think it's sad that even Linux proves that growth = ensh*ttification. Remember when Ubuntu was the de-facto standard for all Linux installations because it was so easy, so similar to Windows that even noobs could use it, and it could run most Windows execuatables?

And so big money moved in and even in 2018 when I installed Ubuntu it had 30-40 pieces of crapware already installed; the likes of Adobe, Spotify, Netflix, and so forth all came pre-installed on your Linux machine. Just like a store-bought Windows machine that made you decide to switch to Linux in the first place.

And now Impus Minor tells me that Ubuntu is so bloated as to be unusable.

I hate growth.

Have I dodged a bullet picking Linux Mint?

(images of Mint's Cinnamon interface won me over Ubuntu's GNOME)

It works. That's about that.

Linux installed on laptop...

It was tedious - I need to get a table lamp for the desk for the bedroom. Here I have a stronger LED bulb than there, but I already had laptop moved there earlier.

It also seems that Linux booted from pendrive does see the other HDD put inside the laptop...

So tomorrow I can actually try to install Linux there.

I managed to exchange HDDs and access it externally from the desktop...

Wheee!

[Clippy voice]

Have you tried control-alt-delete?

[/clippy voice]

I did, actually.

Apparently, it opened* some kind of Linux console that I had no idea how to turn off and get back to GUI, so I turned the laptop off.

*or it could have been Alt+F4, not sure.

More seriously, check your BIOS for boot-level security and turn that s*** off. It's used by Windows for BitLocker and to prevent people from installing Linux on modern machines unless they know what they're doing.

Yeah, it's BIOS level security, but it can't be turned off (Secure Boot: Enabled, grayed out and not selectable) - not easily, at least.

It's possible that I will go for a nuclear option when I will find some time to sit on it more: remove the HDD – insert a smaller (in capacity) laptop HDD I should have somewhere here, which is currently in external sleeve enclosure and try to install Linux on that – put the removed laptop HDD in the sleeve enclosure and check if I can access remaining things on it and move it on desktop.

Oh, great, now Linux installer freezes on steps that were relatively quick... Have I really messed up the HDD?

*sigh* Windows on laptop might be toast - attempts to recreate EFI keep failing...

Two hours later...

I might end getting that SSD for laptop while taking out the HDD, install Linux on SSD, while using external HDD pocket to get to the HDD and pull the files out of it.

Linux Mint's Boot Repair function/program failed to solve the problem.

Trying to repair system using Windows 11 recovery disk Pendrive...

"Could not repair your system"