Package directions call for 2 cups water, bring to a boil, stir in 1 cup dry rice, and optionally a tbsp of oil or butter and a tsp of salt. Simmer covered 45 minutes until rice is tender and water is absorbed. I wanted to make 2 meals worth, so I went with 2+2/3 cups water to 1+1/3 cup rice. I ran through a whole bottle of olive oil since I moved here, which should tell you something about just how much bean stew and scrambled eggs I've been living on. So I decided to try something a shelf up from m... (...more)

I've been chipping away, between distractions, at my second "real" web application. To do the UI "right" I wrapped my mind around jQuery, which in turn forced me to approach data-retrieval (the "R" in CRUD) a certain way. Not a bad way, mind you, just a specific "adapter-oriented" way, one which will require some further stretching of my design skills to incorporate user authentication. Now I'm on the create/update part of the design. In Phosphoros, I got by with PHP's mysql_* functions for data access,... (...more)

Expanding on, contextually linking and offering my refinements on lyrics via LyricsTime: a bunch of bigoted jerks, who have no idea what it is to be other than White, and that's the whole truth! [Sherburne:] Welcome to the hate that Gates made new definition in scope for the term "police state" Pinochet coup American style ricochet hit another innocent child Crowd of marchers stacked up against a weak police line calling for backup Turn our anger into love when we defend ourselves when Bush ... (...more)

Final dream of the night was long and meandered lazily. I had a room like this one but across an unpaved alley, the landlord had another trailer, mostly empty. So I took another dry empty room to store my old dragon magazines and one with the leaky roof as my gamer den. This arc'ed into a CFRPG, which started out something to do with CA's Land of Mist graphics but zoomed in on an intricate sort of MM2/HMM crawl. I forget what happened in between, perhaps my brain closer to waking retrofit some storyline... (...more)

Needed quarters for laundry, so I visited the bank. While I was there the teller suggested that maybe a banker could jiggle my products to reduce or eliminate monthly fees. The problem there is I'd basically have to re-apply for a biz account, and I can't be arsed to dig up the paperwork to do that. In fact, consolidation and retirement of the biz account is rather long overdue. So I set those gears in motion instead. Decided to make rice to stretch yesterday's chili. I had one last bag of Success insta... (...more)