Mike

@snowcrashmike
24 Followers
37 Following
377 Posts
Cats. Information security. Maybe hockey. #nobots Handsome boy.
Migrating from this profile to the one I've had on toot.cat since forever.
I'm thinking that the word "just," as it seems to be most commonly used ("just do this", "why can't you just") has got to be one of the more insulting words in the English language. I can't think of many sentences I've seen or used it in that were improved by its presence.

ALL OF THIS.

GREAT POINT.

It's really weird looking at the old stereo system my family had back in the 80's, with the speaker hookups that were just bare wires we had to jam into holes, and also they didn't even have always on microphones with permanent connections back to entirely unaccountable multinational corporations who don't pay their fucking taxes. Primitive AF.

OK, I'm legit a bit freaked out. My desk and computers are in the basement, and there's a bathroom down here. It doesn't get used much, but, well, I had to go, so I went in, did my thing, and looked over and HOLY SHIT GEORGE IS IN THE BATHTUB STARING AT ME. Not expected, but fine. Leave. Go back a minute later to see if HOLY SHIT NOW HE'S SITTING ON THE TOILET (right across from the door). OKOK. Sit down at desk. Turn around a minute laOH GODDAMNIT HE'S RIGHT. THERE. STARING. AGAIN.

Cats!

2012: low powered netbooks for internet browsing
2018: browsing the internet is one of the most resource intensive tasks you can do on a computer
I talked to my parents while I was pondering evening nomz, and my mother, perhaps remembering years of trying to find something I would eat more than half of for school lunch: "Wow, you've gone from eating nothing to just... making meals up as you go." I didn't tell her about the booze components though, I expect she wouldn't have approved and my father has... issues, ones I should probably be more mindful of.
Proportions: a heavy dose of S&P on chops + a light coating of RP. 2cups H2O for 1cup rice, ~1.5 tsp bouillon with the rice. 1tbs or so of the mustard, large shallot and 3 small cloves garlic. 1 cup Northern Harvest rye. The chef got 2 bottles of Hacker Pschorr Hefeweizen whilst prepping, about 2/3 bottle of a forgettable 2017 Wayne Gretzky cab-sauv during cooking+nomming. End result has lots of sweet from maple mustard, spice from rye+pepper, salt from bouillon.
Avocado oil in a warm pan, S&P + red pepper flakes on pork chops. Saute pork, set aside on warm. While pork cooking, boil water with some chicken bouillon, add rice, simmer 15-20m. Add a bit more oil to pan, some crushed garlic and a rough chopped shallot. Brown the shallots, deglaze with 1c rye. Scrape up the delicious fond. Reduce, add a bit of water if nescessary, also add some maple dijon mustard. Let it thicken a bit, then dump everything together. Enjoy with red wine.
TFW you have your suspicions about a non-promotion recommendation confirmed, but the person's still around and still has at least a mildly toxic attitude.