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Trash Can Omlette

 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:38:26 GMT
I decided that since it is Christmas Eve, and I'm going to be all over the place for the next week or so, it would be prudent to go ahead and use up some leftovers that were lingering in the fridge. I wanted an omlette. Usually, a key ingredient of my omlettes is onion. I didn't have any onion. I do have onion powder. It sits in my spice cabinet and compacts into a solid, and whenever I want to use it I have to bang the jar on the counter until I can get it to return into powder form. Since I was in the spice cabinet anyway, I decided just stopping at onion powder would not make up for the lack of onion, so I included a lot of other stuff, as well.

Here is everything I put in:

  • Tofurkey italian sausage. I'm never buying these again. They are expensive and remind me of chef boyardee meatballs, except worse.

  • Some leftover Archer Farms whole wheat shells with gouda, cheddar, and porcini mushrooms. This was pretty good, but like Rita said, it still tasted like it came out of a box. Adding some water with this and the spices actually made a fairly nice sauce.

  • Mushrooms. I imagine they would have gone bad if not eaten within the next week.

  • Publix Thin Sliced Honey Ham. I had gotten it to go on sandwiches with some deli mustard, but the ham is so tasteless that the mustard completely overshadows it. No, I didn't put any of the mustard in the omlette.

  • Pepperoni. It was there. I wasn't trying to use it up or anything. It crisped up nice and provided a little bit of animal fat that the tofurkey sausage was lacking.

  • Spinach. Lots of spinach. It was also for the deli mustard sandwiches with hint of ham.

  • Raisins. I have two giant tubs of them because they were on special at Publix a couple months ago. My misgivings about raisins and cheese were allayed after this adventure.

  • Spices: onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, crushed red pepper, coarsely ground black pepper, thyme, rosemary, basil, parsley, ginger, red curry powder. Why not?



Since the filling had its own sauce and was a little too big to actually put inside of an omlette, I decided to put it on top and to the side instead. The omlette itself was made of two eggs, cheddar, swiss, parmesan, and a grated Italian cheese mix.

Despite the all the disparate ingredients, it actually tasted pretty good.

Giant Tea

 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:16:15 GMT
This is slightly amusing and not very newsworthy. I bought a giant latte mug from which to eat soup at work, and then I decided to make a cup of tea. I have a picture of it beside a Mac keyboard. Yeah, I told you it wasn't very interesting.

Giant Mug

The Best Yukos Review Ever

 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:26:29 GMT
Yes.
There's a drum roll. There's another one. There's a stop-start kind of verse. There's an interesting arrangement of unusual instruments. There's a melodramatic, almost musical-theatre vocal delivery. There's high drama. There's a trumpet. There are voices and voices. There's a sudden funky work out. There's hand claps. There's a dancing horse. There's a fly past. There's applause. There's a huge distorted guitar outro. There is everything a person could possibly want in three and a half minutes.

I could criticise. The vocals are a bit low in the mix. The whole sound is a little muddy. The bit where the death metal singer joins Beirut and gets into a heated Deerhoof jam is traumatic for the indie kids. But there's no point in criticising really because here is a band that's way past all that. Way past.

I like this very very very much.

Annoying Maintenance People

 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:31:56 GMT
There is an access door to the utility hallway thing in the back of the office, and maintenance people have been coming in and out of here to get to it today. Now, there's some old guy with a beard just sitting in a chair in the back and staring. It's pretty damned unnerving.

They've been about this floor all week, it seems. Yesterday, they were demolishing something in one of the rooms and it seemed like they were purposely making as much noise as they could. My boss said that one of the guys had a couple of hammers and was walking up and down the hallway clanging them together, apparently completely oblivious to the fact that people were actually working.

Testing!

 Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:43:50 GMT
It's time to find out if this new journaling thing works. My paid livejournal account expired, and I don't feel like shelling out $20 per year to be able to embed my journal into my website when I don't post but once every couple of months or so.

My solution: I found myself a php script that parses RSS feeds. It's supposed to be able to read rss feeds from remote urls, but phpwebhosting.com has turned that option off in their php options. So, I have a cron job that downloads the rss feed from livejournal every 15 minutes.

EDIT: Well, there's no accounting for annoying "features" in livejournal's editing page, but it worked.

I don't know what license the script was released with, if any, but in the spirit of open source, I'm including a link to my modified version in case someone else wants to use this to embed their livejournal into their website. Thanks Richard James Kendall!

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