Bread Update #2 - I checked on the bread in after 15 mintues with the poke test. It was already super spread out, and after poking it, none of the pokes sprang back. The instructions said an hour, this had overproofed in 15 minutes.
I was about to chuck the bread and call it "baking bread is not for me" when I figured, well, Why not just reshape it, and check on it every five minutes instead of 15.
So we'll see. I'm gonna really try with these loaves cause if they fail on me, they're likely the last homemade loaves of bread I'm gonna make.
Bread Update #1
So I got some really good advice my last time around, and it's looking more and more like it's super over proofing. So the first test of proofing is using some kind of measured bowl to determine if a loaf has doubled in size.
Instructions said "this should take an hour." Mine doubled in 35 minutes. So. Yeah. Might be overproofing.
I'm in the second stage of ignoring the instructions, which say "let the dough rise for an hour." Instead, I'm using the poke test to put the dough in for baking as soon as the dough springs back slowly.
STAY TUNED.
While Sisko, Bashir and Dax beam down to San Francisco on August 30th 2024 in #StarTrekDS9's "Past Tense I", the actual Bell Riots start on the night of September 1st 2024 at the end of part 1 ↖️ and the beginning of part 2 ↗️↙️↘️. Today, right now, Sunday September 1st 2024, is the day!
My fave map guys take on Gerrymandering. Includes my hometowns of San Antonio and Austin...in ONE district!
One detail that #StarTrekDS9's "Past Tense" predicted for the year 2024 is that men and women would wear dark eyeliner at formal events. You can see this during the cocktail party in part 1 where Chris Brynner (only here) and all the party guests wear dark eyeliner.
When I worked as research assistant on season 2 of #StarTrekPicard, I came up with some ideas for visual references to what California was like in the summer of 2024 in #StarTrekDS9's "Past Tense". None of it was used in the end but here are my suggestions.
TIL Diners Club still exists https://www.dinersclub.com/
@vkc - Up until about a decade ago I was really big on "It has to be readable in Lynx, or I won't use that design."
I've had a few folks ask me how I make https://www.thestopbits.net load so quickly.
It's a boring answer: it's tiny.
There's almost nothing you download when you visit. There's no JavaScript and we use whatever font you have as the default.
It's not a trick, it's just how things used to be. It has to load on a 28.8 modem, so on your modern machine it's going to feel zippy.
Modern websites can feel zippy too.
People like to think about racism as if it's full of malicious intent. But often it's much more banal. Most of the time it's nothing more than "if somebody has to get hurt, let it be them. Because who's gonna complain about that am I right?"
NEW: A federal judge in Texas issued a revised order on Friday significantly increasing the nationwide limits placed on the Biden administration in implementing its Affordable Care Act healthcare nondiscrimination rule.
This evening, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texas-judge-expands-nationwide-1557-rule-limits
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