2:32PM

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Dough recipe used for all of these was Stephanie Wise's beer dough recipe from Girl Versus Dough (with a modification to use 1 cup semolina flour, 3 cups APF).

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1:31PM

Enchilada Tuesday

It's January and we can all use a pick me up for the middle of the month. Maybe your Christmas spending took you over the top as well and you are looking for something inexpensive and yet you don't have anything in your cupboards because its been too cold to go out and get that kind of thing taken care of. Or maybe your material needs are actually not that bad and you just want a casserole dish full of yummy, tummy-filling goodness. In any scenario, my answer is enchiladas.

Now, before we get too far in I want to start off with a warning. These are not authentic. In fact, this was a quickly pulled together, not exactly from scratch meal. Nonetheless, eating them, you wouldn't have been able to tell.

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10:23AM

Operational Destabilization - You have a consultant in every end user

Today is my first work day after resigning as an Executive Secretary. There are a lot of things in a job title, and most of my job duties were not among them. In all honesty, I would not have enjoyed doing my job half so much if they were it had not been a challenge to get assigned to the kind of projects that I completed.

 

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6:27PM

Draft controls in @Squarespace, dustbinning posts

 Dear Squarespace, it would be ideal to have on-page, direct control of the draft items that collect in the dustbin of a blog. I just noticed I had a pending post from months ago going through the comments section. I have a problem with having thoughts sometimes, which is to say I have the thought, I commit it to a draft post, then I forget about it and it gets folded into the default post order (in order of publication date). For instance, I have been meaning to post about that Bullshit Bulletproof Coffee propaganda (and how not factually based it is, going into the actual brew-chemistry, etc) for awhile but totally forgot about that draft item.

 

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6:38AM

Adobo Pumpkin and Collards Soup Recipe, Food that Loves you Back

Sleeping at friends' for the night - I will be staying with my friends John and Kristin for the rest of the week. Beth moved out to Chicago and I am currently in-between housing. I knew that I wanted to write something about all of this but I'm not sure what. Instead of that I will post about food, since this is something of a food blog and all or something.

In anticipation of cooking for Beth soon, and with notes of admiration and appreciation of her love for many things pumpkin, I decided to kick out a pumpkin soup. Now this isn't a straight copy cat or even an iteration of the Chilitoaxilitlo Vegan Pumpkin Chili Recipe , but I would utterly be remiss if I didn't say they were siblings and cut from the same cloth or [insert other cliche]. That is, this is the healthier sibling. 

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5:33PM

Instant Upload is just something I'm into

Yes. Saying that out loud sounds insane. Yes, I could probably just say "instant upload is a helluva product."

I have been excited to see some incremental adjustments to instant upload (really, the whole Google platform over the past forty-eight hours). Still, there remain some serious usability items that are on my radar that I would love to see worked out to turn this from a simple back-up utility/feature of the Google toolkit into a multi-functional platform for storing, retrieving, and sharing images. You guys can totally finish this, in addition to the awesomesauce you're already dousing this thing with so far today. Nailing these five suggestions wouldn't be a bunch of banners and crap-ads, but rather would amount to adding some decent code that will result in features that not only accomplish a task but make for a more informed user base, inculcates coherent expectations of usability, and pushes this software towards being a platform and not just an insular tool.

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11:14AM

This gallon jug and flashlight may help you see in the dark.

Looks effective as all who's-whats. Still, it totally looks like a heavenly gag.