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Posts Tagged ‘Food’

Beercake! With Butter!

everybody likes sandwiches: life is better with cake & beer: red ale & chocolate cake This article+recipe was being passed around in IRC yesterday like something that gets passed around and used a lot by many people. Most of us were drooling from the picture down, but they had us for keeps at “melt the [...]

Pad Thai Disaster

(or “There’s a Coup in my Mouth and the President of Thailand is Invited”) Today, while trying to reheat some left-over pad thai (with some left-over bacon on it for good measure because, well, bacon tastes good), I had a bit of a problem. I had what I termed, “a catastrophic lid failure” on my [...]

and so it is

Pictures say it best. Here are pictures of my new xbox 360 hard-drive. The mysterious bits on the chrome outer layer are glue and paper-towel fragments. The sticky residue was left by the “protective tape” adhered to the chrome. You can see the solvent chosen to remove it but it was largely ineffective and I [...]

The loneliest sandwich

While I recover from a lunch-hour spent in the car weaving through retarded traffic, I’m munching a sad little chicken salad sandwich. The last of its kind from the deli downstairs. I also have a coffee, and though the warmth is soothing, the caffeine is probably not what I need. I am still a seething [...]

Amsterdam Travelog Day 2

11:32 Command Central … or the hotel room, if you prefer. It’s a beautiful day in Amsterdam, the sun is shining and it’s a bit windy. I just returned to the hotel after a small reconnaissance walk around the neighbourhood and a spot of breakfast. I ate at the Pannenkoeken Mosselhuis Petit Restaurant and tried [...]

Globe

No, not the one in Montreal. Not the one in New York either. This is the one on Bank Street in the Glebe. Dria and I went there for lunch today and it was quite decent. The location has gone through its fair share of businesses over the past few years. It was previously the [...]

Movies and Turkey

this holiday season was spent around the shaque in lovely, arctic Ottawa. There were turkey sandwiches for days without end. And the video games and films made me not want to go into the cold even a little bit. ok, a couple movies were worth venturing out for. I visited prod in the T-dot a [...]

keyboard restoration

It was a horrifying experience to dump half a beer (a black and tan, no less) into my Apple Bluetooth Keyboard a couple of weeks ago. Not only is it a great keyboard, but the sudden addition of flowing, sticky liquid to my desk which is covered in cables connected to expensive machinery caused me [...]

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