Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

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This Week's Meals BONUS: Nanos (Sponge Bread)

So, that Roman cookbook I have that I have no real faith in anymore? I don't put a lot of faith in the recipes anymore, but what it IS is a list of foods that I can look up online to try.

It has a recipe for Nanos, which is a cheese bread. Sounds good, but, again, no faith in the recipe (Especially as it calls for cheddar cheese, which we've previously determined is...not right). But I didn't see any other recipes for Nanos anywhere online. I found just one entry that mentioned it was a cheese bread, but no recipe. Just an entry of that it was a bread. I decided to go with the book's recipe. It actually has two different recipes, so I decided to try the first and it wasn't bad!

The crust with the cheese has got a nice bite to it, neither too crunchy, but not soft. The crumb is good, and the cheese layers give a nice taste to the bread. My only complaint was that I forgot the only bread pan I had was from IKEA, who make theirs super long and thin. So my loaf looks really long and really flat.

Also, I finally finished that bag of shredded cheddar cheese. I don't know if there was something wrong with it, but my goodness, it was the smelliest cheddar I've ever had. It was pungent.

This Week's Meals (2/3): Wild Rice Soup.

Big ole dumb me forgot to cook the rice first, so I put the soup on low heat and just let it simmer hoping to rice would soften. It did, but not much.

#thisweeksmeals

This Week's Meals (1/3): Fettuccini with Cream Sauce. Oddly, no cream in the cream sauce.

#thisweeksmeals

Ate the first MRE for the (apparently pictorial) write up. Now if you'll excuse me...I gotta go lie down. ::urp::

So, this tape has The Rock hosting Saturday Night Live.

Man hasn't aged a day

Today's "War of the Worlds" is the final episode, The Obelisk. Actually I'm really surprised at how far this show as come. From one that was obviously not taking itself seriously, goofy as hell, and not being able to determine if it's comedy, drama or horror, it goes into Season 2 as a straight up Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Drama. It's tone become super serious, and the writing goes through the roof.

I know they were cancelled early, but they did have enough lead time to actually make a last episode, which ends very hopefully, and with a tenuous peace between humans and aliens, and does it well.

I'm sad it ended, but I think the rough first season really hurt the great second season.

Now, what should I put in its place? The previous shows in this slot were the 1978 Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Space: 1999, and now War of the Worlds. What do you think? Should I go more Cyberpunk with Max Headroom? Or maybe a bit of wierd with Space Precinct? Any other suggestions?

Tonight's ST:TNG is "The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2."

FINALLY, Season 4. I personally think Season 4 if TNG is its best. It's got a nice, if unintendtion, arc about family runing through the first quarter or so of the season, and has most of my favorite episodes.

It's here I thought TNG became was finally able to stand on its own feet.

I haven't deep cleaned the house since my parents were here. The price of a clean house is eternal vigilance and an aching back.

Been feeling very homesick of late, despite the news about the worsening situation in Texas for trans folk. Be it ever so fucked up, it's home.

Was doing some map road-tripping and came across Click, TX. The town my car is named after (I promised I'd name her after the next ghost town we got to, if she could make it to Bluffton, TX...no easy feat as Bluffton hadn't been above Lake Buchanan for 100 some years.

There used to be a few buildings here, in really good condition. Someone either had them demolished, or moved. I hope moved. Now all that's left of Click is a lonely windmill.

We can't go back, but we can go on.

Sure, I'll give it a try. I like wierd foods. Why not?

Someone posted the trailer to Phase IV (one of my fave movies) and it got me thinking, with a lot of the video editing I've done lately, could I tack on the full deleted Saul Bass ending to the DVD? Turns out: Yes.

Needs some work on getting the brightness and contrast to match, but I'll wait on that for when I re-encode the DVD, whenever that is.

I fucking hate Fox News.

You've seen my "The Brunette" avatar from Second Life, which is the main one I use, but I do have another one I use that I designed to look like I likely would have had I not had the (literal) testosterone poisoning in my youth. It's rare I use it, but she's kinda cute.

This Week's Meals (4/3): Breakfast Tacos!

I just happened to have everything I needed for these and decided to bless my tortillas with Austiny goodness.

I've known people who work on TV shows and movies for a while now, but more so in the last couple of years. Actors, writers, producers, artists.

It feels wierd, cause (1) I LOVE MOVIES and often talk about them, both in what I like, and what I don't like and (2) I often share screenshots of the movies, which means I have them on my hard drive and implies I got them nefariously.

It's led me to kinda curb some of the talk I do about them, mainly because, maybe one of the folks who worked on it is reading it and I've just hurt their feelings, or given how "legal" the business is, could be on the hook for a story premise I just legally made difficult.

The second one is at least easier to explain - I pull all my VHSes, DVDs and Blu-Ray to files to reduce wear on the hardware and the media. In fact, I'm in the process of re-encoding a ton of my movies as some of these old encodes are 20 year old 320x240 Mpeg files that don't play well with today's HD TVs (Such as "Doctor Who: The Smeary Macroblocking of the Daleks").

But it doesn't mean that the first knee-jerk reaction MIGHT be "Did you pirate my movie?" I remember discussing a "blip" in a movie with one of its producers almost a year ago and they asked for a screenshot, and I literally for seveal seconds thought "Oh, crap, are they gonna think I pirated/am pirating the movie if I send them a screenshot from AVIDemux?"

The top window has the volume up, and the bottom has closed captioning, and if that doesn't show the world that my priorities in life are messed up, nothing does.

So I have six MREs from different companies just waiting to be compared. So questions for you, the viewer at home:

Would you rather have pictorial review? Like just pics with text over it? Or a video? Which would be something akin to a slide show with voice over, cause I have no camera stand for nice full video and I'm about as photogenic as a tire fire.

Also, there are a ton of MRE tasting videos out there. What's something you'd want to see out of these videos that you don't get from other folks?