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[Thunder Chicken]

The kiddo is approaching a point where she just wants it walked through a warm room. That's a bit much even for me. But eh, I raised a carnivore.

I have just flame kissed them to seal in the flavor and tossed them on a plate. It really depends on which cut I'm dealing with. You can't cook fillet mignon like a New York strip. Entirely different methodologies.

A quick sear on a hot cast iron pan does nice things with some cuts of beef if you don't have a flame grill.

I do something similar with thick tuna steaks, but I first rub them with salt and peppercorns and a little olive oil, then sear them, butterfly them and stuff with feta cheese and dried tomatoes. So good.

 

[Andy44]

You guys are killing me with all this food talk. Thursday can't come fast enough!

 

[Thunder Chicken]

You guys are killing me with all this food talk. Thursday can't come fast enough!

Patience is a virtue when cooking meat. My wife has no patience - she cooks beef on max heat until the smoke alarm goes off which yields something between the consistency of shoe leather and a burned log. Poultry is another matter - she thought it only took 2 hrs to cook a 12 lb turkey. When I sliced into it I was half expecting to see a beating heart. Crisp on the outside, cold and raw on the inside.

She's an incredible pastry and bread maker, but I do the meat. Always.

 

[jedidia]

Patience is a virtue when cooking meat. My wife has no patience - she cooks beef on max heat until the smoke alarm goes off

Actually, I like my steaks pittsburgh style. But since we don't have anything capable of producing enough heat for that at home, I settle for "brings its own sauce when cut"

 

[Linguofreak]

Well done? You mean ruined? Such heresy!
I cannot allow myself to make hockey pucks. If you want one like that you'll have to make it yourself.

You're sounding rather like my uncle.

Seriously though, if you cook it that done you've cooked all the flavor out.

Nonsense, well done beef of any kind has plenty of flavor. Even plain old low quality hamburger.

A well cooked steak needs no sauces (A1, Heinz 57 or whatever)./

A well done steak doesn't need sauces either. Even hamburger doesn't need sauces (though in that case I tend to be a huge fan of mustard).

 

[Koloss]

Guys, stop. It's 11:20 a.m. here in Germany. One hour to go until lunch break. I'm starving. Stop talking about meat! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Guys, stop. It's 11:20 a.m. here in Germany. One hour to go until lunch break. I'm starving. Stop talking about meat! :lol:

I feel terribly annoyed by fate...

Sunday, I wanted to make some tortellini (baked, with ham and lots of cheese). My old small baking dish was destroyed, so I decided to take the larger new one. In the new one, had so much volume, I decided to double the ingredients. Luckily I had enough stored in my fridge......

Now, after nearly only eating tortellini for two and a half days, what is available in the company canteen? Tortellini. :facepalm:

 

[Koloss]

Nothing beats these:

Perfect festival food :headbang:

EDIT: Well... not the ones with vegetables. No. No, no, no.

 

[jedidia]

That point where you start thinking about individual webservices as classes in a larger application superstructure, and start thinking of ways to apply inheritance concepts to them... :facepalm:

 

[Urwumpe]

That point where you start thinking about individual webservices as classes in a larger application superstructure, and start thinking of ways to apply inheritance concepts to them... :facepalm:

Welcome to my world of madness. :lol: Luckily, I decided to leave this for smarter people and apply inheritance concepts to the following layers in the domain specific language used to describe the logic of the remote methods.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Had my 2005 Honda Civic engine cleaned today so I could find and fix an oil leak (cam shaft plug seal). It was all nice and clean and shiny, looks new! I showed my wife how good it looked - she thinks I'm weird.

Just rolled past 300,000 miles and I am proud and attached to this car. I am now thinking of its mileage in terms of Apollo 13's trip around the moon - just did my TEI burn and am on the way home...wonder if I can make it to entry interface without too much stuff failing.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

If it's built like they used to build 'em, expect to have to an engine rebuild a there between now and 500k miles. Generally it's due to worn out rings needing to be replaced, but that's the ti.e to fix all the other major or minor issues that have accrued over time. It'll cost far less than a new car, and less than most used ones, if you do the assembly work yourself.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

If it's built like they used to build 'em, expect to have to an engine rebuild a there between now and 500k miles. Generally it's due to worn out rings needing to be replaced, but that's the ti.e to fix all the other major or minor issues that have accrued over time. It'll cost far less than a new car, and less than most used ones, if you do the assembly work yourself.

I've been keeping up on the maintenance and I am definitely thinking about doing a rebuild when the time comes. I change the oil religiously and it's not burning oil yet (the cam seal leak just happened within the last few weeks). I'm pretty impressed; it's a good little engine.

I'd love to do an engine rebuild when the time comes but I don't have a garage or shop. I work with a bunch of gear heads who might be willing to help me with this.

 

[orb]

It looks like Valve is doing "The Steam Awards" for the first time this year in December. People can nominate games is 9 categories:

http://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwardNominations/

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I've been keeping up on the maintenance and I am definitely thinking about doing a rebuild when the time comes. I change the oil religiously and it's not burning oil yet (the cam seal leak just happened within the last few weeks). I'm pretty impressed; it's a good little engine.

I'd love to do an engine rebuild when the time comes but I don't have a garage or shop. I work with a bunch of gear heads who might be willing to help me with this.

My dad and I sent the head and cylinders out to be machined, but did the assembly work ourselves, largely on the driveway and using tools from Harbor Freight (torque wrenches being among the biggest exceptions...). Not too hard, especially with the tuner community in the mix.

 

[Koloss]

It looks like Valve is doing "The Steam Awards" for the first time this year in December. People can nominate games is 9 categories:

http://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwardNominations/

Check out the subreddit for No Man's Sky. The guys over there are thinking of giving a "bad" award to Hello Games because of all the lies :lol:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

My dad and I sent the head and cylinders out to be machined, but did the assembly work ourselves, largely on the driveway and using tools from Harbor Freight (torque wrenches being among the biggest exceptions...). Not too hard, especially with the tuner community in the mix.

Many auto stores lend (not rent) specialty tools (torque wrenches, pullers, etc..). You basically get charged the full value of the tool onto your credit card, but you can use it and return it and get a full refund. If you don't ever return it, they consider it bought. Some let you keep it 90 days, some don't have any deadline to return at all.

The only problem I really have is logistical - I need two cars for me and my wife to get to work. Having my car tied up in a rebuild for a significant period of time would suck. Buying a new car to keep two operational cars in the fleet defeats the purpose. Maybe the thing to do is to preemptively buy a used engine/transmission, rebuild that, then swap it in. I would have another engine kicking around, and I don't have much space to keep it in.

Plus I need to worry that as a rookie I'd eff up something in the rebuild and have to do it all over again, maybe having a car out of commission when I can't afford it.

 

[Urwumpe]

Some fun fact:

26 people died in Germany of microgravity since 1980.



Nobody really knows why microgravity is even listed as cause of death, but the best theory around: Microgravity had the ICD-9 code E928.0 ... when you swap the final digits, you get E982.0 "car exhaust". Since switching to ICD-10 in 1998, only one person died of microgravity (X52) .... X25 is "Contact with other venomous arthropods", X51 is travel and motion, X53 is lack of food.

 

[Andy44]

It's not microgravity that kills you, it's the sudden onset of acceleration at the end of the microgravitic period. AKA "deceleration sickness", also known in NYC as "concrete poisoning".

 

[Thunder Chicken]

It's not microgravity that kills you, it's the sudden onset of acceleration at the end of the microgravitic period. AKA "deceleration sickness", also known in NYC as "concrete poisoning".

Sounds like an obituary:

"Thunder Chicken passed away last Tuesday from the sudden onset of acceleration after an extended bout of microgravity. The funeral will be closed-casket. Donations in lieu of flowers can be made to the Orbiter-Forum."