Comments (0) Challenge: figure out Amazon’s crazy-ass “proprietary” MP3 tagging system – Boing Boing
Instead of trying to figure it out, we need to not buy their product until they change their ways. Money talks, both in sales due to a smart merchant and in lost sales due to merchant stupidity. Sounds like Amazon is in the latter category yet once again. 👿
Been a long cold day, even sitting close to the heater. Not much to relate other than Steve came by and we played with hard drives for a while before giving up with the pieces we had on hand. Hope you find a board close enough to work.
Made a stew out of the left over deer and gravy. Cut up some potatoes, carrots, celery, and half of an onion, put about 3 cups of water in a dutch oven and boiled them for an hour and a half until tender. Added some basil and parsley, salt and pepper early in the cooking. Once tender I dumped the gravy and meat in with the veggies and stirred till mixed. Added another cup of water and couple of cups of cooked rice. Stirred again till mixed and then added a can of whole kernel corn and about half a cup of ketchup and yet again mixed it all up good and heated it back to a boil and simmered for another half hour. Couple of large shots of hot sauce and that was some mighty good eaten fer supper. Couple of slices of bread and a glass of milk along side did it right.
Been looking at and thinking about mud ovens again and want to build another one, but portable. Gonna have to work out some details but have most of it in my head. Now to get my arse in gear and build it. Has got to have a opening big enough to take my 14 inch dutch oven! It’d be nice to be able to put both the 14″ and the 12″ in at the same time. Stacking is no problem so height of the opening would be the only problem. I been thinking about the door and I think that a brick or mud/cement door with a metal frame and pivot hinges would allow a large enough opening for both cookers and anything else I may want to cook in it.
Tis late and I am rambling. Will type more tomorrow.
Sitting, browsing and reloading the wood stove has taken up way too much of the day. Did get up and string a rope from the doorframe by my chair as I type this to the beam in the middle of the room and put up a blanket to keep some of the coldest air from the qhut from wafting past me. Not enough to be a breeze but more than enough cold air moving by my feet and legs to chill me to the bone in short order. Am MUCH better now! 😎
Cooked up some deer steaks for lunch. Had been run through a tenderizer so I soaked them in milk for a while and then dredged them in bisqik, salt and pepper. Put oil in a frying pan and cooked them on one side till blood was running out the other, then turned them over and cooked till the juices were clear. Moved them to a dutch oven with gravy, onions and bell peppers cooking in it and simmered while I put the next batch in the pan. Took out the two tenderest, via fork anyway, and served on rice with a potato, onion, carrot, celery bake on the side. What we ate was tough, so put the rest in the dutch oven with the gravy and cooked it (lid on) on low for 3-3.5 hours, stirring and turning often. Was falling apart when we were ready for supper. Again served over rice this time with a side of lima beans. I got seconds and wanted thirds but restrained myself. 😯 🙄 Good stuff!
As the rest of the day seems to have had a food theme guess I can recount the breakfast dish this am too. Was in the mood for a stick to the ribs and warm me up kind of meal so decide on oatmeal. I don’t do the wimpy instant oatmeal but rather a off brand cook 20 minutes rolled oat meal.
Cut up an apple after peeling and coring into chunks half an inch or smaller in any direction. Added it to the 1 3/4 cups of water heating on the stove. Put in a bit of salt and brought to a boil with lid on. Cooked that way for 5 minutes or so, just till the apples were about half translucent then added the cup of oats. Brought back to a boil and cooked till the apples were almost all translucent then turned to a simmer. Added a bit of cinnamon and a couple of heaping spoonfuls of brown sugar and cooked on low for about 20 minutes.
Good stuff and good for you… 😉
20.8 °F here at 7:11 pm cdt. That temp is taken on the north side of the building under the canopy over the new front door. Probe is duct taped to one of the conduit roof supports. 20 inches or so from anything but the conduit.
Angel community is currently reporting 27.3 °F and Weaver is reporting 25.3 °F so we are much colder than other places within a few miles both north and south.
20.5 °F at 7:19 pm so it’s dropping quite fast and I am typing and thinking slow… 🙄 😉
Think I am gonna check the feeds and email and reload and poke the fire and read a bit so will close this disjointed missive for the nonce… 😎
This is a cornbread recipe taken from a post on a private forum that I frequent. For my reference.
1 cup of flour
1 cup yellow corn grits
5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 and 3/4 cup chopped onion
1/8 cup of diced garlic
Optional: Chopped ham; grated cheese; grated jalapeño cheese
In a bowl: 1 egg, 1 cup milk, 1/4 cup of corn oil
Mix dry ingredients together, beat the stuff in the bowl. Add the stuff in the bowl to the dry ingredients, stir. When it’s mixed up, put it in a #5 cast iron skillet (he says it’s about 5″ at the bottom and 6″ at the top) that has been sprayed with nonstick stuff. Put in oven, bake for about 25 minutes at 425°F.
FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server – Home
And from the comments from the previous post we have another server that may be more what I am looking for.
Building a Home File Server | Linux Journal
Good article on setting up a basic file sharing server for home or small business use. Been meaning to do something along these lines for years. Guess it’s that time… 😎
takasugi-an, terunobu fujimori at materialicious
Way cool Tea/Tree house! Check out the links at the end of the article and in the comments too. Good stuff!
Got up and checked the state of the world outside several times during the night but no snow. Bit of sleet here and there but snow didn’t start till about 9:30 am. Had posted there was to be no game today but 3 of the guys hadn’t gotten the message and showed anyway. Tom was working on a building and we walked up to see his latest building and were looking at it when the snow started. They all left as it was coming down pretty hard.
I stopped on the way back and checked batteries and turned the one in the barn off. The one in the Honda was finally starting to take a charge so left it going. Battery is nearly 8 years old. Never used but a month or so after purchase then just sat in a car out in the elements. Charged it for a couple of days a couple of months ago and again now. By 4:30 this afternoon it was holding a fair charge so cut it off. Will see if it holds it or quickly looses it.
Came on in and fixed breakfast, fed fire, sat and fiddled with the computer until lunch, heated and ate lunch and browsed and read feeds for most of the afternoon. Got out for a bit and cut the charger off on the honda battery. Got the extension cords up and tried the starter. Nothing. Got a piece of metal and shorted the solenoid to the battery line and the starter seems to be locked up. Will pull it and see what gives. Back to the house and got some wood inside and fed the fire and heated supper then back at the computer again this evening. So the day has gone. Got stuff to do but just ain’t had the energy. Will see what the morrow brings. Think I will call it an early night, the days excitement has exhausted me. 😉
Neat stuff but makes me COLD just looking at it. Course some of my cold may be cause there is snow on the ground here and it IS cold in here but not near as cold as there. 😯 😉
Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing for Linux, Mac OS® X and Windows®
Other than a bug that causes a crash on closing in OS X 10.3.9 (which is the one I run) seems to be a good program. Not doing much (or any right now) DTP any more but if I do this is the program I’d use. Love the Linux, Mac, Winblows cross platform.
Welcome to our Gypsy Caravan, Romany Vardo Project
Another very well done Vardo. Beautiful woodwork and stained glass. Love the copper sheeting in the stove alcove!
And yes I am cleaning out the buildup of tabs from the last couple of weeks… 🙄 😉
Dorset Shepherd’s Hut Restoration and Sales by Plankbridge Shepherd Huts
And a shepherds hut by any other name could be a vardo… Cool stuff. Wish there were more pix of the details but I always wish for that… 😎
Zippy The Pinhead: “Priced To Move”
Even the comics keep throwing Vardo’s in my face… 🙄 😎
Below The Clouds » Trappa av TAF Arkitektkontor
Interesting out of the box stair tread design. Cool stuff! 😎
Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » New YouTube video is up: “In The Soup”
Andy is just SOOOO laid back (in the tub actually but also quite safe for work 😆 ) after his hard drive craps out with all his backups 3000 miles away. Funny stuff (as long as it’s happening to someone else that is)…
Easy? So where is the recipe? Don’t tease us and not follow through there, Steve! 😉
Made it though another one. After a early night last night got up and felt better, not good, not great, but better than yesterday. Fixed breakfast, read email and checked feeds and comics and got a shower. Went to the camp where Tim and I talked about business type things for a while.
Ate lunch and we dealt with some more. He went to deal with the post office and I cranked off the compressor, filled an air tank, got a battery, some tools, the battery charger, and the truck. Took the plunder to the 76 Honda accord and proceeded to get it ready to try to crank off. Battery was dead so is still on charge. And have another one on charge in the barn just in case this one is well and truly dead. As of dark the one in the Honda is still being deadish. Will do the lights and basic stuff but the starter is doing nothing and the in tank pump is not making it’s accustomed noises. If the pump is bad suspect I will put a boat tank in the back with a electric pump hooked to it. Only gonna use the car on the farm at present. Just need another cheap runaround and this one fits the bill. I hope. 🙄
Got the tractor out and did a bit of maintenance to it just in case it has to be used to extract us from the snow. 😎 Then cleared some briars and brush and pushed some stuff around. Put it up for the night.
Tim came back from the post office and we put up his new mail box out by the YST. Guess it will become the Airsoft Alabama trailer instead. Had to get the tractor back out to clear a bunch of crap out of the way to put the mail box up. Got that area cleared and the box installed. And the day was called by all.
Came in and fixed a big pot of hamburger and baked beans kinda using the recipe in the linked article. No vinegar or lemon juice or hot sauce. Most of the rest as called for and added a quarter cup of salsa, and some frozen bell peppers along with some dried flaked chili peppers. Made a nice spicy change from the standard version.
Just put it in the oven when Mihel called to see if he could get to his generator (cause his wife was driving him crazy about the coming blizzard and them freezing to death 😆 ) so I got back in outside clothes and went and helped him get to it and get it out. He and his son loaded it the propane radiant and headed back home. I came back to the house and to food.
Ate, and sat down to check email, feeds and get this down.
Game tomorrow has been put off until next Saturday due to the weather. So sitting here waiting for the snow. 🙄 😉
Think I am gonna do a bit of browsing and then call it a night. Looks like most if not all of the snow is to be in the morning so may as well get sleep while I can.
Has been a real down and out day. Got up and fixed breakfast, hit the feeds and by 11 was back in bed. Sore throat, sneezing, sore muscles and aching joints and other fun stuff. I am not a happy camper. So far appetite is still ok so am eating and taking in plenty of liquids. House is as warm as it’s gonna get for this time of year till I get the bathroom area finished. Plastic just don’t hold in the heat that well. 🙁
So that’s about it for the day. Have some stuff in the tabs that I may or may not get to looking at/posting about later, just depends on if I stay up much longer. That’s about it until I type again…
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