The Frying Pan

My gut feeling would be long grain rice and two pots.

I always add rice into the soup at the very end

which works fine for eating at the time the soup is made

but i always make extra

@Stephie Ditto. It works.

and its always too thick after its been sitting around with the rice

How do you do the box thing?

7:04 PM

box thing?

@Cindy But ist sounds too simple for an answer...

@Stephie Sometimes the simplest things are the best.

@Jay Like how you put the question. Or how you put wiki stuff.

oh its automatic

I think I've done it before but I can't remember how.

just put the link

7:09 PM

cedarpoint.com

doesnt work for all links

try going to one of the questions and posting the url in here

Q: Should dry salami develop green mould?

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I recently (5 weeks ago), purchased a set of dry salami from a food festival. I kept them in the plastic bag that they came in; however, when I recently checked them, they were completely covered with furry-looking green mould. My understanding of dry salami is that it is supposed to be able to...

Yay you did it :D

usually works for wiki, amazon stuff and question/answers from SO

pictures urls usually work

Thanks! I thought I was missing something but I didn't know that it didn't work for everything.

Cerberus

XKCD

How's the new job?

7:13 PM

The carrier pidgeon with her laptop is lost

so she cant officially start yet

@Jay Actually my official start date was Monday. >.<

@Cindy haha yea i know. but since no laptop you cant really start doing anything :P

i cant vpn into the comcast network unless im on my work laptop also

@Cerberus Well, so far it's been pretty stress free. I've answered two e-mails and sent a couple of forms in.

Not sure when the carrier pigeon us coming. And go figure, I haven't even gotten a welcome e-mail! And no phone calls.

Cerberus

Ah OK.

No welcome of any kind? That's weird.

They just told you, you're hired, and that's it?

So this job is all done from home?

@Cerberus No, after the verbal offer, they sent a formal offer and I accepted it and then did all of the new hire paperwork and turned it in.

@Cerberus The office part is from home as it is field based. Other than that I will be in the field working with my reps or heading up projects.

@Cerberus Way weird. Kind of like the hiring process.

7:22 PM

Is there a number you can call or email you can send to just to let them know heads up that the latop is late?

@Jay They know it. Otherwise I would have some direction as to how to proceed.

do you have access to your work email already?

@Jay Nope.

im just afraid they might have sent you stuff on the work email and not realize that you dont have your laptop

because you are basing the fact that they havent contacted you as your basis that they know you dont have your laptop

The couple of e-mails I've received have come to my personal e-mail.

7:26 PM

when i started at comcast, i got emails both to my personal email and to my work email

@Jay Yeah, I've had that happen, too.

Cerberus

@Cindy Ah, I see.

But things will become clearer as you get to work with your colleagues, right?

i do hope the laptop get there soon though

im not a particularly patient person so i would be going bananas by now waiting for a package

@Jay, would you appreciate an answer as in my comment above, or ist this too simple for you?

(Only if nobody writes one, as I won't have time until tomorrow.)

@Stephie Simple answers aren't always bad ;)

7:29 PM

@Jay Normally I would be. But when you look back at the hiring process, this follows due course.

@Cindy haha if anything, this whole process has helped you develop this absurd thing called "patience"

@Jay Hey - as long as they pay me I can have patience!

@Cindy haha thats true

@Cerberus One can only hope!

I can see where this could become a nightmare if the job gets intense or super fast-paced, though.

And it's bound to at some point.

@FaheemMitha, re. sandwich bread: I don't really do that, those fluffy softish breads are just weird to my German palate. I'm used to breads that would often be described as "artisan" or "rustic", have a crust and need chewing.

One anecdote: We had an English teacher at our school (exchange program) and she was desperate. She described proper sandwich bread as: "You take the whole pack, squish it together, put it in your backpack and after the ride home take it out again. Where it will instantly expand to back to it's original form." But why not let us know what your definition of a "good bread" is?

7:38 PM

@Stephie that sounds like a sponge, not bread lol

@Cindy hopefully never too busy to visit us :D

@Jay true...

but it honestly depends on what im using the bread for

But she really had trouble chewing an ordinary bread crust.