I found Buzz’s photos of the spherification experiment. He didn’t do what I thought he did, and the results were not what was expected.
Attempt at apple caviar
I’m glad I ordered extra, this may take some luck.
Apr 282009
Spherification goodies ordered
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Apr 272009
It took a while to find a likely source for the spherification stuff. As much as I searched, I couldn’t find Buzz’s tweet or post on it. I’m pretty sure I’m not going to stick to just Cointreau when it comes time to spherify. I think Pomegranate Juice and Grand Marnier will also make an appearance.
The basic ingredients are fairly expensive, I ended up ordering from Willpowder and they shipped today. I’m hoping to NOT need mixing equipment ala the super-sexy-bartender-kit that I can’t get my hands on. We’ll see how it goes… this stuff isn’t flammable, is it?
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Damn google-bot! That was fast!
Apr 232009
This week started with me in a giant hole. The barracuda lost DNS and decided to stop delivering mail Monday morning. I have no idea why. Everything was configured correctly, but after an hour and a half, it decided it was OK to start delivering mail. I did update secondary DNS on it, but really have no idea if that had any impact, as primary was set correctly. That is not a good feeling on a Monday morning.
Later that day, a runaway snapshot on a VM took hold of a database server. Excellent, I thought, where’s the hemlock? That fixed, it decided to lose the NIC binds. All the while, requests for DB modifications are coming in, at least, coming in once the barracuda woke up.
Climbed out of the hole today. A Dundee Original Honey Brown as a reward. Now to Google for that Cointreau pearl thingy Buzz tweeted about.
Apr 192009
…I was staying away from Cycling News. Hamilton positive, Armstrong dodging testers. It’s become a sick, tired joke. There are only so many times you can listen to the same thing again and again without losing the capability to believe a word that’s said.
Apr 182009
The snow is coming down again, and my new Procurve decided I really, really needed to experience the weather. At least the texts and calls didn’t start until 8:00am, so I did get some good sleep. I waded through the dirty Slurpee conditions to reset it. Thanks HP. I was warm, now I’m freezing and I’m wet. That’s sure to improve my mood.
Apr 162009
…and it’s bust. A winter storm warning is in place and even with my new super snow machine, I don’t think the drive will be anywhere near reasonable enough to make it to the other side of the mountains. No Mike the Headless Chicken or ‘Tater this weekend.
It’s probably a good thing, I am really, really tired.