It isn't easy, by all accounts.
Ah, now I understand my confusion.
From How to replace Wheat Flour With Rice Flour:
"The simplest place to substitute rice flour for white flour is in cooking, where gluten isn't a factor. For thickening sauces, soups and gravies, you can simply replace regular all-purpose flour with white rice flour..."
"...How you substitute rice flour for wheat flour in baking depends on the type of baking you do and how gluten-dependent it is. In cookies, for example, where gluten is not a factor, you can simply replace all-purpose flour with rice flour and have an acceptable result..."
I'll give you two guesses as to the two ways *I* use flour when I cook...
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Nakedly, apparently.
Nakedly, apparently.
Well, how else are you going to work with flour?
Hopefully you will be baking and not frying...
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Sometimes I'm amused at how poorly well-intentioned targeted advertising can go:
The neighbors across the street apparently have a rat problem. It's really not uncommon around here ever since we put the cats on leashes so they can't go into other people's yards.
But of course the exterminator put his card in our mailbox. "Rat problems? Call me!"
Er... I have a 17-year-old cat with kidney problems who pees in almost every room of the house. Any rat with a sense of smell isn't coming within 50' of our house. Yeah, I don't need your extermination services, sir.
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Cleaner of a stinky fridge, du düt düt.
Even after a good old sluice-out, the refrigerator at work still honked like something had died behind it, and had done so for quite a while.
Why?
This mystery had baffled the greatest minds to inhabit Limey's office (a low bar, to be fair), but to Longears Investigations Bureau, the matter was a mere bagatelle.
Simply look around the back, find a drip tray filled with several month's worth of congealed milk (the 3-litre bottles we get in leak powerfully unless stored vertically, and, of course, they never are), then empty, with the aid of a screwdriver, a scrubbing brush, and large quantities of hot water and bleach, then behold! No more pong!
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According to Shiro, one of the great office pranks is to put a raw jumbo shrimp inside of someone's office chair. (Most office chairs don't seal the support post, so you can just tip the chair up and drop the shrimp right in, never to be found again.)
Apparently the smell is quite incredible and long-lasting, and unless you know the "prank", finding the shrimp itself is nigh-impossible.
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Probably on their face while they sleep.I always thought that the best office prank would be to draw a large salary while doing no work.Probably depends on where you draw it.
That's going to be a problem for me, I definitely don't sleep with my boss, and I'm definitely not a stalker so looks like I'll be drawing it on the wall.
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Who said anything about your boss? Find a sleeping coworker, draw your huge salary on their face. Easy.That's going to be a problem for me, I definitely don't sleep with my boss, and I'm definitely not a stalker so looks like I'll be drawing it on the wall.Probably on their face while they sleep.I always thought that the best office prank would be to draw a large salary while doing no work.Probably depends on where you draw it.
Then they'll know how much more money I make then they do.
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So I'll admit, I'm a reaction video junkie -- whether it's watching someone's jaw drop on their first viewing of Dana Dan and realizing just what the song is about, to a professional vocal analyst's first Floorgasm reacting to her unbelievable performance of Ghost Love Score Live at Wacken 2013, I love 'em.
So imagine my surprise when after at least two dozen viewings of Ghost Love Score, I was watching it with Younger Brother, who's been a "professional" musician for 30+ years now (read: He plays paid gigs, but keeps his day job), and he said, "Wow! The guitarist just signaled that they should go another round! That's a great read of the crowd!"
Not ONE reviewer ever noticed that, nor had we. But of course, being the guy whose job it is to keep up with the guitarist (he's a bassist), he notices those things.
Makes it awfully fun to watch videos of live performances with him.
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In other news, I swear that while I have great hopes for my kids' generation politically, frequently I despair about their technical abilities.
GothBard's manager at her new job just got his work computer delivered. It was a desktop rather than a laptop.
He didn't have a video cable to connect the desktop to the monitor. He only has wireless internet and didn't know where the hub was and the desktop is ethernet-only, so he couldn't get it online. I'm honestly surprised he figured out the wired keyboard and mouse, but apparently he managed those...
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*SIGH*. And here we go again.
Global Megacorporation has started awarding people digital badges and pins for even the most trivial accomplishments; for example, I have a badge for completing mandatory ethics training. It is very much the same as the "participation awards" of the 1980s. So I'm already a bit jaded against them.
Now they're letting teams design their own badges. Woo hoo? I'm not in kindergarten any more, thanks.
But of course one person posted a design and sent it in a blast email to our 800-person division, and it seems like every other person in the division feels duty bound to Reply All with, "That looks great!"
So...
...you're sending a "Reply All" that adds NO new information and that does little more than make you look like a sycophantic toadie, and I've received dozens of these emails already this morning.
Yet again, Reply All should be disabled in corporate settings.
After going through Wolfenstein: Youngbloods, I turned my attention to Shadow Warrior (2013, not classic from 90s), followed by Shadow Warrior 2.
It's been fun, mostly, though all those games have their share of issues.
Coincidentally, like Wolfenstein (The New Order, The Old Blood, and The New Colossus), the first game is traditional linear fps, while the second game, like Youngbloods is sort of open world-ish. Except instead of a permanent map, each mission generates procedurally its own randomized map.
The gameplay is sort of ok but it could have been much better. It is hurt by decision to make the game an obligatory two-player co-op. Playing alone means you are constantly accompanied by your sister which is somewhat useful, BUT, the enemies were scaled for coordinated damage from two moderately competent players, turning them into damage sponges. Forget taking out enemies with precise headshots - they can take two to three shots to the head, even with weapon customized for headshots... Which makes silenced weapons very weak. If you want to be stealthy, you need to focus on thrown hatchets and melee takedowns, which means getting close to enemies.
The game uses stupid auto-scaling mechanic - you go up a level, you get skill point to spend and small bonus to damage, but enemies increase their level and their health/resistances, making the damage increase meaningless...
Weapon customization allows you to add various features to weapons and then spoil the freedom of customization with set bonuses forcing you to pick parts aligned with each other instead of mix and matching.
In the end, the assault rifle was the king of the game being most reliable weapon almost from the start to the end. Even despite the fact the game failed to properly reward precision (because of the damage sponginess, weak headshots—still useful against some enemies, and enemies constantly moving preventing accurate fire against specific parts of bigger enemies) instead favoring spraying and praying. Assault rifle also seemed to deal with armor the best: some enemies had one of the two armors, soft or hard, with each weapon being nominally more effective against one of those types, but some weapons didin't seem to scratch much enemies it was supposed to work against. Except assault rifle. It chewed through both armors better than most other weapons.
Final boss fights was tedious, which seems to be new Wolfenstein's tradition, The New Order and the Old Blood suffered from that as well, while The New Colossus ended with sort of anticlimax crowd fight.
Wait... What was good about the game then?
The level design - particularly the tangle of occupied Paris streets, back alleys, short cuts, apartments, and houses, but also the Nazi bureaus in the fortified towers you have to raid in main quests. Here the hand of Arkane (makers of Dishonored and Deathloop, which I have to finish one day) was clearly seen with a lots of details, notes, papers, and diaries. It was gorgeous, even despite running at the lowest possible graphic settings.
It also had a rather well done parkour and platforming movement (Arkane again), and like the previous Wolfenstein games, the music was great.
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Yet again, Reply All should be disabled in corporate settings.I make ample use of the Ignore option in Outlook.
Woooow... you learn something new every day.
I thought that "Ignore" ignored the sender, which I can't do because they're my co-workers. But TOZ is right, there's an "Ignore Conversation" option which is exactly what I needed -- I'm just miffed there isn't a button for it. I had to use the search bar after TOZ's suggestion.
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Turns out I'm the only person in the household who has NOT licked the Himalayan salt lamp.
It's Friday and our first truly balmy afternoon of the Spring (72°F, or 22°C for you furriners).
Working is hard.
Turns out I'm the only personin the householdwho has NOT licked the Himalayan salt lamp.
Looks left. Looks right.
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An office prank where I work is, one crew goes on lunch, and Former Coworker and I finish digging their trench while they're gone and then act like nothing happened.
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Have you taken the opportunity to create the legend of the Trench Brownie?
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Have you taken the opportunity to create the legend of the Trench Brownie?
We did! More specifically, we told them it must have been trench fairies.
Have you taken the opportunity to create the legend of the Trench Brownie?
...that sounds like a sex move.
Have you taken the opportunity to create the legend of the Trench Brownie?...that sounds like a sex move.
Y'all have seen the College Humor video about the copyright/patent office for registering new moves, right?
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Fantasy NPC: Ferran Dahl, The Pain-Wrecked Patrician.
An old mean of means, living forever in pain.
Coulda said Trench Trolls to get the alliteration in there.Have you taken the opportunity to create the legend of the Trench Brownie?We did! More specifically, we told them it must have been trench fairies.
I assure you I barely even know what alliteration means.
But yes, that would have been much better. Next time!
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Also sounds like a mid-90s children's cartoon, with its own range of plastic action figures.
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Yesterday l was concerned a door was unlocked. I texted my wife: "Could you please check all the doors for me." This was her response.
Robbie Krieger: check
Ray Manzarek: deceased
John Densmore: check
Jim Morrison: deceased
This sounds like something lisamarlene would do.
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I swear...
As you may recall, when COVID shut everything down over the summer of 2020 I took the opportunity to purge my house. Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases. It was also the year that I asked everyone to please stop giving me anything physical as a present. Want to give me a present? Take me to dinner. Come watch a movie with me at my house. Bring over some cookies. But *DO NOT* give my anything physical that isn't edible.
So of course everyone ignored that because books are somehow OK.
It's only 3 years later and I'm purging the studio shed of books again. I bought 10 moving boxes, figuring that should be plenty.
Nope. In only 3 short years we have managed to accumulate roughly a dozen boxes' worth of books, all unasked for, unread, and unappreciated.
I knew gift-giving was out of hand. I had no realization as to the staggering scope of it...
I have to say you have well-to do friends and family.
I'd like to get that many books. Even if I had to get rid of them occasionally...
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I swear...
As you may recall, when COVID shut everything down over the summer of 2020 I took the opportunity to purge my house. Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases. It was also the year that I asked everyone to please stop giving me anything physical as a present. Want to give me a present? Take me to dinner. Come watch a movie with me at my house. Bring over some cookies. But *DO NOT* give my anything physical that isn't edible.
So of course everyone ignored that because books are somehow OK.
It's only 3 years later and I'm purging the studio shed of books again. I bought 10 moving boxes, figuring that should be plenty.
Nope. In only 3 short years we have managed to accumulate roughly a dozen boxes' worth of books, all unasked for, unread, and unappreciated.
I knew gift-giving was out of hand. I had no realization as to the staggering scope of it...
I have to say you have well-to do friends and family.
I'd like to get that many books. Even if I had to get rid of them occasionally...
Keep in mind that we're in the Bay Area. A paperback book is quite literally about the same price as a fast food restaurant's cheapest meal deal. So even if you're spending only $20 on a token gift for a friend (a fairly standard amount), that's 2-3 books. Put in 4 family members for birthdays and Christmas and each book-gifting friend might give us 16-24 books per year. At only 2-3 such friends, we're already looking at at least 50 books per year, which is more than enough to fill a moving box.
And yeah, it's MUCH worse because of exactly your point: We don't get just single paperbacks; we get entire series, or boxed sets of hardcovers, or coffee table books (when we have no coffee table), etc. A single Christmas can fill a moving box or two.
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I swear...
As you may recall, when COVID shut everything down over the summer of 2020 I took the opportunity to purge my house. Carload after carload of books went to either the library or the recycling center; I literally got rid of over a metric ton of books and reduced our total book count to 5 bookcases. It was also the year that I asked everyone to please stop giving me anything physical as a present. Want to give me a present? Take me to dinner. Come watch a movie with me at my house. Bring over some cookies. But *DO NOT* give my anything physical that isn't edible.
So of course everyone ignored that because books are somehow OK.
It's only 3 years later and I'm purging the studio shed of books again. I bought 10 moving boxes, figuring that should be plenty.
Nope. In only 3 short years we have managed to accumulate roughly a dozen boxes' worth of books, all unasked for, unread, and unappreciated.
I knew gift-giving was out of hand. I had no realization as to the staggering scope of it...
...
Stupid Atlantic!