Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I've been on Mastodon a little over two years, but I've never done an Introduction, so in keeping with the tone of driveinsaturday.org, an intro:

#didntsayitwasmine #introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxDQ1g964U

You know you're making something good when you're done prepping the food and your fingers smell AMAZING.

Question for the Ancient among us on the Internet: Do you remember a text based program/app/website/gopher-thingy called "World Wide Window?" This would have been about 1993/1994 or so.

My college had it as what looked to be a text-only Web Browser, but it could have been gopher or a gopher front end. That's about all I remember about it. Any ideas what it was?

QOTD: "Wait! That's a loadbearing sandwich!"

I remember the golden age of the internet. When it was a wonderful place, full of love and joy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ELWKOkiW8

While my work doing movie archaeology is mostly centered around Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it actually wasn't my first real success. That was finding scripts and footage for Star Wars, pre-internet. Nowadays it's fairly simple to find cut footage, but back then, all we had were pics and scripts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXGNyF9fBc

::picard facepalm::

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/politics/supreme-court-migrants-south-sudan-turmoil-filled-countries

Suddenly feeling nostalgic for my time in State College, PA. Not sure why. For the most part, I wasn't very happy there. Not until just before we left. Maybe it's that part of me that misses it.

Quote of the day: "Yes, this is the best episode of the series, in the same way that liver is the best of the organ meats."

Music Before Bed

https://youtu.be/IJWlBfo5Oj0

Missing the early 90s.

This was the Beach Boys?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHyPG7zPIOY

Jenn is running on Safe Mode today.

Well. Shit.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-care-trump-79fc6f3bbdab2e92d6f0184201a468a9

I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED

It's funny how your tastes change. I used to put Ranch dresing on everything. Especially salads. Now a days I barely put it on anything (I prefer Italian dressing). Ranch just feels too...thick and heavy for my tastes.

So, I finally ate that "chili."

Something was very wrong with that recipe. When I was browning the meat, it said it shouldd take ten minutes. It took three. Not a problem, though, the meat was cooked...I continued.

At the end, it said to simmer for 45 minutes covered, and 45 minutes uncovered. So I left it for 45 minuters covered, and when I came back, it was a thick cake with no moisture left. And, it was already starting to burn along the bottom, so I called it finished.

The chili itself was super thick and not loose at all like a stew. It was very much a dry paste. I checked the recipe, and it said to start at medium-high heat and never said anything about lowering the heat...I'm assuming medium-high was a typo for medium low.

But here's the thing. Since it didn't burn? It's actually edible. And tastes fairly good. I might try it again and do medium-low for everything instead of medium-high. Or maybe just use a different recipe alltogether.

Wow. Massive recipe failure. The food isn't bad... it's just something was really wrong with the recipes listing for heat and times. What I got was WAY too thick to be chili.