reverse september
The computer started out attracting the most introverted of outcasts. Then it became a stage for extroverts to broadcast their lives. Now it's swinging back...
corpus christi
corpus christi Lemme spoil the lede: I've been running a language model over years of chat logs with my wife. No, not to generate fake apologies this time (...
no look bread
- 4 parts flour
- 3 parts water
- 1 tsp yeast
- 1 tbl salt per 4 cups flour
First there was no-knead bread, now for … well, not really no look. But no stress at least. I’ve used the no-knead approach, a …
curtido
Seems like every culture has it own spin on fermented cabbage. Sauerkraut, kimchee and, obviously, curtido? On a recent trip to Central America we were fascinated by cabbage relish served with regional pupusas. Every restaurant and food stall had a …
make beer cheap
Now that I have your attention … time for the bait and switch. It very much depends on how much you budget for beer. Lemmee spoil the lede, I got my costs down to one dollar per 22oz beer. The …
homemade vinegar
Bottle ends are a problem that plagues casual and, ahem, more serious wine drinkers alike. The remnants of that bottle of wine that, though good enough at the time, is honestly not improving with age. Rather than drain it down …
bacon popcorn
Maybe this is obvious but it was enough of a revelation that I thought I’d document it. After flirtations with curry flavored coconut oil popped popcorn (excellent), I cast around for other ways to impart a unique flavor to popcorn.…
markov boyfriend
Reading about artificially generated tweets from a certain (in)famous twit got me thinking about an idea I had for a plug-in to my chat app.
There was a time, before I implemented the chat app, when I was not the …
smoked pork butt
After reading through “Franklin Barbecue, a Meat Smoking Manifesto,” I was inspired to knock the dust off of my Bradley smoker. The results were impressive enough that my resident food critic/wife requested that I write down the recipe.
So without …
skinner whole house
After experimenting with house automation, I arrived at the inevitable point when I needed something to do with all this cool stuff that nearly worked. Having devoted entirely too much time to the process of raising and training a miniature …
couples therapy chat
As part of a more general initiative to take ownership of my data by hosting it myself, I cobbled together a chat app. My target audience is limited to me and my wife mostly discussing logistics. A fancy way of …
J.A.Y.N.E
Jayne was an automated yelling and nagging entity. She was my early attempt at a whole house AI before that was a thing. She was definitely artificial but not particularly intelligent. She ruled our house from my daughter’s kindergarten until …