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Jay
6:06 PM
I think today has to be one of the deadest weekday since i joined the chatroom
probably almost as dead as friday nights
where you guys are pretending to have a life so you dont come here
oh hey, look someone
 
@Aaronut Well, if somehow, they can just import sciencebasedmedicine.org as health.SE then it could work :-P
Wow, I'm in the top 2% rep this week, all from telling someone how to temper cream :-P
 
Jay
@derobert Im sure @rumtscho's conversion algorithm can do that for us
@derobert you'd be on my top 2% if you tell me how to temper my cream ;)
 
@Jay O.O
 
Jay
lol i would have expected you to nonchalantly wave that off without batting an eye at this point
 
@Jay Huh? I'm shocked you don't know such basic cooking techniques.

Today, I'm going to do my best, absolute best, to interpret everything you say in a non-Jay manner. This should be an interesting challenge.
... by non-Jay manner, I suppose I mean non-dirty.
 
Jay
6:19 PM
LOL good luck :)
Have you ever done it in public?
I'll leave it to you to decide what "it" is
 
@Jay Cooking obviously.
 
Jay
@Sobachatina Of course, what else could i have meant
 
The most public I've cooked for is for my team at work. Only about 12 people at the time.
 
Jay
Has either of you ever gone camping before
 
Are there people who have never gone camping?
 
6:24 PM
Eww camping.
 
Jay
Aww why eww lol
 
I have done it at music festivals.
Otherwise I can't understand why people would do it.
 
Jay
not that sorto f camping
i mean like in the woods and stuff
 
for me camping is more about the fire than the tent.
 
uncomfortable look
 
Jay
6:24 PM
i dont considering sleeping in a tent as the only requirement to camping
 
But but...
 
Jay
im thinking about planning a camping trip
But i want to figure out food and stuff
 
Putting on underwear while lying in a tent? Waking up because sun is turning your tent into a oven at 6 am?
 
@Jay well, where do you think mushrooms live?
 
We go camping a few times a year- but it's been a while since we've done anything but car camping since the kids have been too little.
 
6:26 PM
And the rain, oh, the rain...
 
Jay
@Sobachatina What do you eat when you go camping
 
Everything wet, wet shoes, packing up the tent in the mud...
shudders
 
Jay
@Cerberus you sound like you are allergic to nature
 
@Cerberus Sounds like you need a real tent. That sheet and rope thing doesn't seem to be working for you.
@Jay I'm afraid my culinary hobbies have not overflowed into my camping yet.
 
@Jay I am indeed. I am a city dweller. I like walking around hills and forests for a few hours, then return home.
 
Jay
6:27 PM
I love getting wet
 
I keep my food simple so it stays out of the way.
 
@Sobachatina But that's the way the Indians did it!
 
Foil dinners or food that can be grilled or flame roasted.
 
@Jay Have you tried sleeping in a soaked sleeping bag?
 
Jay
@Sobachatina hmmm
 
6:27 PM
I've been meaning to get a dutch oven and start cooking for real but I haven't yet.
 
Jay
@Cerberus You obviously need a new tent
 
@rfusca would be the expert around here. He and his wife are very outdoorsy.
 
Fun fact: wood smoke contains a concentration of carcinogenic particles 30 times as high as cigarette smoke, I am told.
 
Jay
@Sobachatina I was thinking fire roasting cured sausages(so it doesnt go bad) as one of the things to bring
 
@Cerberus Bah! They keep making sleeping bags out of plastic. Polyester is not tasty. Please make soaked sleeping bags out of cotton, you'll make a fungus somewhere happy
 
6:28 PM
@Cerberus If you're breathing the smoke then you should move upwind.
 
@derobert Yay fungus!! I love the smell of spores at night.
 
@Jay Sounds good to me. Easy to transport and to cook.
If it is only for a day or two then you don't have to worry about people getting bored with the food.
 
@Sobachatina You always breathe in lots of smoke when you're near an open wood fire.
But why am I trying to spoil your funs?
Not nice.
slaps own paw
 
One thing I absolutely hate when camping is pancakes.
 
Jay
@Sobachatina i want to bring meat and stuff to roast like a kebab but im not sure i want to lugg around a actually cooler and i dont want to eat spoiled food lol
 
6:30 PM
They are always, always, always raw on one side and burnt on the other.
@Jay Are you hiking in?
 
Jay
what do you make the pancakes on
 
@jay make a kebab with something cured like chorizo
Chorizo, mushroom and onion
 
Jay
@ElendilTheTall yea i am thinking about some sort of cured sausage
 
@Jay I don't. Other people use pans on the fire or on a camp stove- either way far too uneven.
 
Jay
@Sobachatina yea really hard to control the temperature
im sure the first 2-3 pancakes would be fine
but the ones after wards... lol
 
6:32 PM
For breakfast I like just breakfast tacos. It's easy to scramble eggs and throw them in tortillas.
 
Jay
hmmm bacon!
they are cured-ish
 
Bacon always works.
You can even just fry it on a skewer if you don't have a pan.
 
Get some unsliced and cut it into cubes yourself.
 
Jay
@Sobachatina thats true but then id be losing some of th bacon grease :(
@ElendilTheTall This is probably super american, but i have never had bacon that isn't presliced from a grocery store haha
 
Make your own with some pork belly
Maple cured bacon - mmmm
Or just find a decent butcher
 
Jay
6:35 PM
@ElendilTheTall thats true... but then i'd probably bbq the pork belly before i can even cure it
pork belly is just godly
 
Wow, five minutes here listening to talk of bacon, and now I'm hungry.
 
Well - don't.
 
Or just take a pig- live. It could carry your tent. Then you could pit roast it.
 
@jay my Heston book has a recipe for slow cooked pork belly that cooks for 18 hours
 
Jay
@Sobachatina how efficient!
@ElendilTheTall i dont even care how porl belly is cooked. i just want to eat it
im not sure if i can make myself wait 18 hours :/
 
6:37 PM
I like it, but it's weird when it comes with a nipple on it
 
Jay
hahahaha
 
There's a starrable comment if ever I saw one.
 
Astral prostitute.
 
Oh great. I was going to star it but now I can't since you pointed it out.
 
Jay
6:38 PM
@ElendilTheTall i would have starred it if you had given me a moment, but its stupid to star after you point it out to be starred ><
 
@Sobachatina I like your thinking. Need to bring a lot of friends camping with you to finish off a pig roast though. Good thing you've got the pig (or probably hog at this point) to carry all those tents.
 
Maybe I don't care about or want your stars
 
Jay
@ElendilTheTall Fine!
 
And thus deliberately sabotaged it
 
Maybe even switch to a boar...
 
6:40 PM
@derobert That would be at least a week long camping trip at this point. 2 days of cooking, 1 day of eating, and 4 days before you could drag your belly back home.
 
Camping is boaring enough.
 
Jay
@ElendilTheTall that pun made me gag
 
@Sobachatina The question is, how'd you get the gear back home, without the hog to carry it for you?
 
With laughter no doubt @jay
@derbert take two hogs
Derbert lol
Sorry, on my phone
 
Jay
@ElendilTheTall then the question is how to avoid slaughtering both of them for food because one pork belly doesnt seem enough
 
6:43 PM
@Jay bring a necromancer and cart your stuff back on an undead hog?
 
Jay
That is missing its belly? sounds feasible
done
 
@Jay Maybe you could surgically remove the belly. Sure, it'll starve to death eventually without that, but possibly it could still carry the tents?
 
Jay
now where to find a necromancer
 
But then you have to invite a necromancer and I've heard they are really downers.
 
Jay
darn it now i want to go out and buy a whole pig
 
6:44 PM
I can't imagine an upbeat necromancer.
 
@Sobachatina Just feed the necromancer enough pork, once he's had enough, he'll take a nap, then you can have your party
 
@Jay I've priced whole pigs- you get a fantastic price per pound- but you have to be able to deal with 300 pounds of pork. It's a good problem to have.
 
Jay
Why just because they deal with dead things? You guys need to stop stereotyping
@Sobachatina oh boy! what to do what to do with 300lb pork
i flagged this as a poll(not constructive) cooking.stackexchange.com/q/14912/8305
 
@Sobachatina Google to the rescue: princessanimeangel.deviantart.com/art/…
@Jay And see, that's why we don't want to bring an upbeat necromancer. Because we'll get that.
 
Jay
@derobert she doesnt look upbeat to me... the smile is barely there and totally forced
 
6:50 PM
Her description specifically says she is upbeat.
 
Jay
then the artist is bad
 
@Jay well, thats obvious
Just because she's upbeat, doesn't mean she always has to smile. Look at her weird outstretched arms. Clearly, that's a picture of her pretending to be a zombie. That'd explain the not-so-real smile. She's just a good actress.
 
Jay
OK
I AM GOING TO EAT YOUR BRAINS
not sure why i said that
 
I AM A MUSHROOM. GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE, ZOMBIE.
I think, instead of brains, I should go eat some tacos.
 
Jay
Ah so you dont have a brain. that clears up sooo many question i had about you
 
6:55 PM
@Jay Yes, and I'm not telling what mushrooms use instead of soft-squishy-tasty brains. It's a secret.
$DEITY knows were I to tell, @Mein would start eating them.
 
Jay
seriously? $DEITY? Seriously?
you are such a nerd <3
 
@Jay No. $DEITY. The monospace font is important!
:-P
 
Jay
lol
[code: Is this right?]
how do you get that code text
 
you use backticks `code`: code
 
Jay
test
ah thanks
 
6:58 PM
yep
chat.stackexchange.com/faq#formatting says a bunch of them. No idea how many undocumented ones there are.
 
Jay
new bool isJayAwesome = true;
 
@Jay syntax error on line 1 near 'isJayAwesome'
 
Jay
the compiler is retarded then
 
bool *doesJayKnowCPP = new bool(false);
$doesJayKnowPerl = bool->new(false) # or new bool(false)
And Java, well, who cares about Java. You can't program a caffeinated beverage.
 
Jay
string whoIsAwesome(string name) { string s = "Jay"; return s}
im trying to figure how to force the text to go to the next line. is here a way?
 
7:06 PM
@Jay hopefully you remembered `using namespace std;`

Yes, hit shift-return for a newline.
 
Jay
i finished formatting and everything... right as i hit the 5 minute edit limit ><
 
std::string appropriate_fryingpan_topic(std::list<std::string> who_present) {
    return *(reinterpret_cast<std::string>rand());
}
I believe that behavior is undefined enough that it just might work.
 
Jay
@derobert heh
 
I think I may be missing a few ( and ) in there :-P
Must be lunch time.
 
Hey all. (pinging mods: @aaronut @hobodave @rumtscho @yossarian). Maybe you're familiar with our Crowdhacker column at Lifehacker: lifehacker.com/crowdhacker Perhaps you've seen some of your answers published there. Well, Lifehacker wants more of what you've done.
So check this out. I've set up a Trello board where you can submit Q&As that have been published at Seasoned Advice and that you think might be appropriate at Lifehacker
 
Jay
7:15 PM
`string whoShouldJayDate(Dictionary listOfRandomPeople)`
`{`
   ` string person = listofRandomPeople(rand());`
   ` return person;`
`}`
ummm
its not working lol
 
We're looking for Q&As that offer several practical solutions to real-life, almost-everyday problems encountered in the kitchen
 
@Jay well, you can use the normal four-space-ident to do code as well, works better for multi-line stuff.
 
@SamTheBrand very cool
 
Jay
@derobert ahh i think thats why its freaking up
ive been using the 4 space to indent
 
Did somebody need to know something "outdoorsy" earlier?
 
Jay
7:21 PM
@SamTheBrand I think this is a very interesting question and would go well with the crowd at lifehacker cooking.stackexchange.com/q/22405/8305
 
@jay - cool! i added it to the board
 
@rfusca @jay was asking about camping cooking.
 
ic
 
I suggested he talk to you as I don't even own a dutch oven yet.
 
that makes me cry @Sob
 
Jay
7:26 PM
@rfusca yea his heart is weeking tears of blood
 
@rfusca Me too. Turns out they're really expensive.
 
@Sobachatina "really expensive"....hardly :P
 
@Jay weeking tears of blood? Sounds like something Chaucer would write- vaguely poetic but still unintelligible.
 
Jay
weeping*
 
@rfusca They're like $70! That's kind of pricey for one pot. I'll get one eventually.
I've been watching craigslist for cast iron for months waiting for the perfect deal.
 
7:29 PM
@Sobachatina what kind of dutch oven you looking at for $70
 
oh, well 8 qt...
 
I actually want a cauldron but this is the next best thing.
I suppose I could start with a 5 quart for half the price...
 
seriously
 
Jay
@Sobachatina better price per unit quart ;)
 
7:32 PM
@Jay True.
I haven't actually researched this much- I just haven't bought one yet when I pass them in the store.
 
Stylish.
Actually- I have been looking at very large pots lately.
I want a very large cast iron pot for working around the "farm". Most of the cauldrons I have found are either for decoration or too small for aspiring witches.
For plucking chickens and rendering lard from whole pigs!
Well- maybe not the pig thing.
 
@sob its apparently also tough to find one used that isn't decorated for witchcraft...
 
Jay
hah
 
If I do find one it will probably be around $300.
Maybe an old cast iron bathtub- there's plenty of those on Craigslist. That would be an awesome pot over a campfire.
My next question "How do I tackle the logistical difficulties of seasoning a cast iron bathtub for culinary applications?"
 
7:43 PM
blow torch?
oh oh oh
 
Apply lard with broom and season in a bon fire?
 
Jay
@Sobachatina honestly, that's not a bad question
 
use the ovens they cremate in
 
@rfusca Used?
I suppose it's sterile but still a little creepy.
 
@Sobachatina well...
 
Jay
7:45 PM
but really the most important question is how transport/move the damn thing
 
Yeah- it would be a permanent fixture on firebricks somewhere if I did this. I'd build the fire under it.
A bathtub might be a little too large though. :)
 
'Ello @Jay, how long did LoL take to download?
 
how about just a grill?
like a cast iron barrel style grill
 
Jay
@Gigili it didnt take long to download. nor did it take long to install but the patches took a good hour or so
they update with new content and rebalance at least once a week so there are a lot of patches to catch up on when you first install
 
Jay
7:48 PM
@Gigili Have you played LoL in the past or any type of DoTA style games?
 
seal it up and lower it
 
Aha, it's about 8 hours it is downloading for me
 
Jay
@Gigili just downloading? or do you mean installing
 
@Jay No, haven't played LoL. But I've played SK for a long time ..
@Jay Just downloading, it says
 
Jay
Ummm im not sure what to say... do you have extremely slow internet?
 
7:50 PM
@rfusca That's an interesting idea. You can find plenty of metal shops around here that will modify a barrel for a grill.
 
Jay
if its been 8 hours i would just try to redo it
@ElendilTheTall League of Legends
 
My requirements are changing in my head- definitely towards the hypothetical.
 
@Sobachatina lol
 
@Jay Um, not extremely slow! Maybe because I paused it a lot or something. =\
 
Jay
7:51 PM
@Gigili btw i dont know what SK is actually
 
@Jay Spiral Knight
 
Jay
@Gigili o ok
 
Thank you anyway.
People in the bridge told me it will take a long time but I've no idea how long
 
Jay
its a different genre of game. I guess i automatically assume you named a different DoTA genre game
@Gigili its a lot of fun
 
@Gigili You mean spiral knights?
 
Jay
7:53 PM
@Mien lol stop nitpicking at one letter ><
 
@sob you could also try a jambalaya pot
 
Jay
@Gigili it didnt take me 8 hours i can tell you. At most 2 hours total. But Im thinking closer to 1 hour
@rfusca downloaded/installed LoL just a couple weeks ago. How long did it take you?
 
It could be another game...
 
@Jay total, start to playing the game, couple of hours
 
Well, I'll be patient and wait a few more hours to see what will happen.
 
Jay
7:55 PM
@rfusca so about 2 hours?
some people use the term couple pretty liberally
 
@Jay sure, 2-3
 
Jay
@Gigili good luck
 
well, ik'm off
 
Jay
@rfusca bye
 
@mien i'm watching a show about baking. They're in Belgium today!
 
8:04 PM
@ElendilTheTall Cool :) What are they making/showing?
 
8:41 PM
Chocolate in Bruges :)
 
Jay
whats a bruges
 
A city in Belgium.
 
Jay
oh i thought it was a type of baked good with chocolate
 
9:08 PM
That's because you're a fool. A fool!
;)
 
I pity the fool.
 
hmm that focaccia link that @Sob posted awhile back is pretty good
 
I pity the fool who's ignorant of Belgian geography!
 
@rfusca I like how typing @Sob links to me. :)
 
It does? That's awesome
 
9:12 PM
@rfusca better than BBA?
 
That is an unfortunate abbreviation.
 
@ElendilTheTall i don't think i did BBA
 
@rfusca Did you use as much salt and yeast? :s
 
@SOB is better
 
@mien @elendil works for me too
 
9:13 PM
@Mien i reduced the yeast and did an all day rise because of the timing I required
 
I think only mien works for me.
 
@Mie hmmm
 
:p
ah
 
:D
 
Mie!
I'm a chinese noodle? :p
3
 
9:14 PM
well, there ya go, welcome to the club
 
Easily slurped?
 
Hahaha
that's not for me to determine
 
we've got a citrus, robot, mushroom, and a noodle
 
Oooo, what am I?
 
@Elend
You're the end?
 
9:16 PM
The Spanish End
 
Eland is dutch for moose.
How's that?
 
El End
 
So a Spanish butt?
 
Depends on the Spaniard
 
It's settled, he's a moose
 
9:19 PM
ElendilTheMoose? Catchy.
3
 
It so happens I'm wearing a tshirt with a moose on it right now
I also have long legs and a more or less permanently dopey expression
 
@ElendilTheTall And if you get hit by a car you take the car out with you.
 
@ElendilTheTall least surprising description of the day ;)
 
I haven't, in the past, imagined moose with English accents but I will in the future.
 
And a monocle
 
9:23 PM
you're not mr. peanut
 
I say old chap, awfully sorry to have jiggers your car
Jiggered!
Damn iphone
@rfusca all Englishmen are issued with a monocle at 16
Scots get a kilt
 
@ElendilTheTall And the Irish are taught RIVERDANCE!!
 
Welshmen get a sheep
 
I'm trying to decide whether I would prefer a kilt or a sheep.
 
@rfusca those rune way too hot to season in, I think.
 
9:27 PM
Sheep would be more useful but you don't have to feed a kilt.
 
@ElendilTheTall do you have a red nose?
 
@Mien Moose are not reindeer.
 
They look alike.
 
No they don't.
 
@Sobachatina well, actually, I think if you can get your bathtub to heat evenly enough over the fire, it wouldn't be that hard. You just need a long stick of some sort to hold the oily towel to wipe the oil on.
 
9:29 PM
@sob you don't know what Welshmen stereotypically do to their sheep ;)
 
@ElendilTheTall Very true. I don't mind it staying that way. :)
@derobert I wonder if you could season it well enough to protect it from rain?
 
@Sobachatina Hmmm, could be somewhat problematic, if you can't keep it dry. Keep it damp long enough, and seasoning will degrade. And grow mold, probably.
 
Indeed. An interesting problem. I suppose it could be covered with a tarp or such when not in use.
 
@derobert we'll pretend that you think I was serious about that ;)
 
It seems like you wouldn't want to be moving it around very much.
 
9:33 PM
whats the existing solution for this problem?
 
You could definitely get seasoning on it—assuming, of course, you can actually heat a bathtub to seasoning temperatures. It may just warp, or crack...
 
@rfusca Care for massive cauldrons? I don't know.
 
@Sobachatina Well, if you put wheels on your tub, you could move it into a shed when not in use.
 
sadly...my half sister is a member of a coven...*sigh* I could ask
 
I mean, they move entire football fields. A tub should be child's play.
I guess it it were covered, to keep any water from collecting in it, it'll probably be OK.
 
9:35 PM
@rfusca I think it would be difficult to talk to someone about this if they were actually taking it seriously.
 
@Sobachatina Oh. But around here we take everything seriously. Very seriously. Always.
 
guess so
 
@rfusca You don't have your own backyard crematorium for disposing of inconvenient restaurant inspectors?
 
@derobert not that I would publicize :)
 
@derobert I feed them to the rats.
 
9:38 PM
@rfusca well, of course not. You keep it for seasoning cast iron tubs.
@Sobachatina Rats? Wow, that's high-class! We use roaches around here.
 
I'm afraid I only have normal, prosaic, non-flesh-eating, roaches.
Useless.
 
@Sobachatina Ah, well, I keep flesh-eating ones around. Much less scary when you're a shroom.
"Is that roach going to try and eat me? No, of course not, its a carnivore."
 
I don't think I've ever seen a cockroach outside of a zoo
 
@ElendilTheTall Zoos around there exhibit roaches? Odd.
 
Well, giant, exotic ones in the insect house
Not your common or garden ones
 
9:48 PM
The vermin house where they show roaches, rats, lice, and weevils. You have to be sprayed upon leaving.
 
Whatever dude, you're the one with them in your house :P
 
10:20 PM
No, its best not to keep the flesh-eating roaches in your house, they might consume any guests you're expecting. Or, even worse, any steaks you were planning on eating. Its best to keep them in a secret, undisclosed location. Next to Dick Cheney. They won't touch him, for some reason.
 
11:19 PM
hi guys
left a question on health-salt-channel. would be grateful if someone answers when you get a moment. cheers.
 
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