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I just came across that. It made me laugh out loud. :)
...?
wow. someone actually put that on a sign?
My guess is it's a compromise. Half the city council wanted a 10MPH limit, half wanted it to be 15.
Yeah, it's from readers digest, a slideshow of funny signs.
@Jolenealaska I think we have signs with 15 km/h!
Ow.
I thought the low number was funny, but, yes, the half is even funnier.
well... bye for now. gotta make dinner.
have fun!
Ha! My probation is up!
00:32
Bye Wordy!
Probation? What did you have to (ap)prove??
00:50
Not really probation. That was a little joke. Just that it's past midnight UCT, so I can earn rep again.
Ahhh that!
Yay!
> although government recommendations in that matter are often overly conservative, there is room there for assessing your own risk
01:27
:)
Aleutians just got hit again. That's an 8.0, a 6.0 and a 6.9 today.
Oh, dear, an 8.0?
> The earliest known evidence of human occupation in the Americas is much farther south; the early human sites in Alaska have probably been submerged by rising waters during the current interglacial period.
Does that mean that there may be ancient settlements hidden under the sea near Alaska?
I don't know about that, but entire villages were swept out to sea during the tsunamis following the 1964 9.2M quake, so the sea near Alaska holds signs of lives lived.
01:45
I see.
 
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05:14
I made another batch of whole wheat pasta dough and I made lasagna noodles. after a several hours they were dry and I made this recipe for lasagna: allrecipes.com/Recipe/Worlds-Best-Lasagna/…
06:05
I am starting to get the hand of making flat pastas from whole wheat flour.
 
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@Jolenealaska you're not in the danger zone are you?
almost, I'm dealing with Maida again. That shit is going to be the death of me. I'm posting yet another edit right now.
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Q: Substituting white flour for maida in making Indian samosas

dan12345Indian recipes call for using Maida or All-purpose flour in making samosa. Disregarding for a second the difference between the two (as discussed in here - Difference between Maida and All purpose flour), is it possible to use "regular" white refined flour instead of all-purpose one? To clarify...

Would you read my answer please? I don't know if I'm making any sense.
08:11
<dons reading glasses>
seems alright to me
I put your quoted comment in a quote box to break up the wall of text a little
good call
The confusing nature of the flour terms made that answer ridiculously hard to write.
I'm sure
everyone should just use British terms and be done with it
You're slacking on your drone fired adrenaline boost. I'm actually tired...
I was just thinking that, but of course I substituted "US" for "British". Except for measurements.
That little math bit in that answer? I started with cups and tablespoons. Luckily, I saw the folly in that pretty quickly.
good
incidentally, I forgot to ask an important question: do you pronounce 'herb' 'erb'?
erb, but with the tiniest hint of an H.
08:25
hmmm
that's just barely a pass
<updates file>
carry on
:)
Being a Des Moines native, are you aware of Bill Bryson?
Herb with an H sound is a man's name.
@Jolenealaska nonsense
do you also say 'ave and 'old and 'oly?
Yep,I know of him.
Those all have complete H sounds
right
so why doesn't herb? :P
How do you pronounce hour?
08:29
hour
exhaust
don't get smart with me young lady, this pass can be reversed ;)
hehe :)
08:31
you do have some leeway thanks to your wholly sensible notions of the use of 'no end'
I'm a scrabble player. I can do puzzles like this all night.
but can you type pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
from memory, that is
No, but I can copy and past it.
08:34
cheat
I am more of a trivial pursuit man
That would be killer in scrabble if it could fit.
thus my energies go into memorising otherwise useless facts
I can never get the pink piece.
you would like a British show called Countdown
08:36
2 players, each take it in turns to pick 9 letters (they pick vowel or consonant, the letters are random)
then they have 30 seconds to come up with the longest word they can using those letters
you get the equivalent number of points
5 letter word, 5 points etc
Oh yeah, that's a scrabble players game all right.
the show has been running without a break since 1982
it's very popular
i should also mention that there are 2 number rounds
It sounds like something that begs for viewers to scream answers at the TV.
where random number cards are put up, and a random target number is generated, and you have to use the numbers on the cards to get to the target
@Jolenealaska yes!
Countdown is a British game show involving word and number puzzles. It is produced by ITV Studios and broadcast on Channel 4. It is presented by Nick Hewer, assisted by Rachel Riley, with regular lexicographer Susie Dent. It was the first programme to be aired on Channel 4, and 69 series have been broadcast since its debut on 2 November 1982. With over 5,000 episodes, Countdown is one of the longest-running game shows in the world, along with the original French version, Des chiffres et des lettres, which has been running on French television continuously since 1965. Countdown was initial...
Oh yeah, I would totally watch that. I thought I was pretty good to get petunias, but they all got it too :)
08:47
hehe
It shows on Channel 4 every day
they have an on-demand service
knock yourself out
it is required by international law that you have a cup of tea and a stack of biscuits (cookie biscuits, not US biscuits, naturally) to hand at all times while watching
preferably these:
conceivably these:
I can't remember the last time I drank a cup of tea.
it's odd - I am useless at anagrams when they're written out normally
however, the papers here often have a 'wordwheel' puzzle where 9 letters are arranged in a circle, with a guaranteed nine letter word, and I can get those in seconds sometimes
my brain apparently can't get around seeing random letters in a line as some kind of word, and refuses to pick out actual words
I just polished off the last of a box of these: amazon.com/Roland-Raspberry-Tartlettes-7-05-Ounce-Boxes/dp/… courtesy of the company that imports really, really hard wasabi peas.
I know what you mean about the letters. In Scrabble you get over that by rapid-fire shuffling. There comes a point that the shuffling isn't necessary anymore.
08:59
jam tarts eh
I am about to have a chocolate rice krispie square
Made in France.
ooh la la
'baked using an authentic European recipe'
For some reason I'm surprised that chocolate rice krispie squares are available outside of the US.
cos it's all the same, eh?
These actually are a product of France. The pasta they sent is from Italy, the wasabi peas were from China (there's a shocker). That's the company's schtick.
09:04
does 'European' carry more of cachet to you than 'American'?
Yes and no. There's a deeper culinary tradition just about everyplace else.
so it perhaps does in terms of food?
Yeah, unless it's something I think of as American, like Cheeseburgers or Tex-Mex.
or chocolate chip cookies.
interesting
perhaps I should move over and setup a 'European' restaurant
Like we were discussing cheese the other day. Maytag blue aside, American cheese sucks.
09:14
would you like to visit Europe?
well, don't go on about it!
:P
Not touristy places though.
well, that's fair enough
I mean I wouldn't turn it down, but I enjoy travel when I'm nowhere near anyone from home.
In Seoul I would I would stand at a subway map, close my eyes and point. That would be my next destination.
I wound up in places where I was a novelty.
I wouldn't recommend that in New York, but in Seoul it was a lot of fun.
09:29
I'm sure you're always a novelty
well, I've been all over Europe, but I would like to do a food tour of Italy
I'd like that too.
And Spain.
Yes, I like Spain
once you get away from the touristy areas on the coasts it's lovely
And Greece.
09:32
Greece is nice too, but tricky to find non-touristy areas
but man, the gyros!
Austria is well worth a visit, the scenery is stunning
and you can get schnitzel the size of a bed sheet
Germany, meh - it's like Britain with better parking standards
Well, my coffee is chilling for morning and I think I can fall asleep. So I'm going to give it a shot. I'd like to see Augsburg just because I was born there.
G'Night!
10:13
@ElendilTheTall I see you are fired for real
@Gigili totally
just packing the house up
Have a good one
your sympathy astounds me :P
 
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Soooo I've injured my toe >.>
 
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@Yamikuronue is it still attached?
15:12
@rumtscho BTW: Your chance to stuff the ballot box on Unix.SE is almost over...
@AJHenderson It is :)
15:29
@Jolenealaska 986! It's getting really really close
15:50
You mean 9986? Yeah, I just got up and saw that. I need to look at old questions, maybe I can find two that have answers I can accept. Then I'll just be one upvote away. :)
16:04
;)
hmm, I've been pretty lax in upvoting things lately....
10000! WooHoo! I guess pizza is on me :)
Image Not Found is the best pizza topping
@Jolenealaska Is that your pizza? Do you pre-heat that pan before you add your dough?
ah, there the image goes
making me hungry XD
Yes, It's mine. and no I didn't preheat. I used the Serious Eats method here: slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2013/01/…
16:13
Ah yes, I've read that method and never tried it yet. It's moved to the top of the list now
I did put the whole thing on a burner for a couple of minutes after it was done as the bottom was still a bit blond. That made it just right
@SamBobb I wholeheatedly recommend it. I think it was the best pan pizza I had ever had.
I used tons of toppings, but I could have gotten away with more.
That's real exciting, I'd say I'll have to do that this week
My basil is starting to come in, maybe it's an excuse to use that
oh, that reminds me, I should make sure my flowering herbs aren't theo nes you're not supposed to let flower >.>
@Yamikuronue What herbs?
I'm having AR check which ones are flowering, but I'm growing a few potted herbs on my deck
off the top of my head I got a lemon something (lemon basil?), a cilantro, and I k now I got two berry plants just recently (raspberries and blackberries)
and one I'm forgetting
rosemary maybe?
16:26
I've been salivating for that 10000 mark for the last 1000 points. Now it's a bit anticlimactic.
ah, it was chives, not rosemary
Cilantro is definitely one you don't want to let flower.
the lemon basil and cilantro (unless it's somehow turned into thyme, which he thinks it is) are flowering
oops >.> can I just pinch off the flowers now?
That's a bit controversial. I raised cilantro 2 years ago and had the same issue.
ah, looks like I picked the worst time to grow cilantro
it's gotten hot all of a sudden recently
16:30
If I remember right (and I'm not sure that I do) pick off flowers if they've just started, otherwise let it go to seed and collect the coriander seeds.
AR says he likes coriander and I need to buy him a mortar and pestle :)
Well there ya go! :)
17:20
OMG you are our overlord!
@Cerberus Is that at me?
Yes, o exalted one.
heehee
I'm snooping around moderator tools now. It's interesting to see the board stats like that.
Apparently a certain Alaskan has been busy lately :) I'm all over the damn place!
I'm even maxxed out on rep again today, that's two days in a row and I've never done it before.
That one food safety answer just went nuts.
Haha.
You put so much stuff in it that nobody could disagree.
I tried! :)
I kind of feel for the dissenter. He got a bit steamrolled by the pack.
17:30
Yeah I never finished reading his answer.
I think it's fine for most healthy people to smell and taste, some foods excepted.
He makes one perfectly valid point.
Yes, we don't do ourselves any favors by trying to keep sterile.
I have a cast iron stomach. I'm convinced that my not-quite-always adherence to the rules is part of the reason. Particularly my liking of meat rare.
I could probably eat in most of the 3rd world with the natives without much problem.
I like my meat medium-rare and I have a super delicate stomach
@Yamikuronue Oh :( I wish you a quick healing.
My mom says my pediatrician said some bodies are better at "rolling with the punches" while others are highly sensitive to small changes (temperature, pollen count, sleep). Apparently it's detectable in early childhood so if it's not genetic it's linked to womb environment or some such
@rumtscho Thanks :) It doesn't hurt much, but it looks nasty and now I have to buy new shoes for work with an open toe
@derobert I take advantage of it back on the day i got the edit rep points. I only cast one vote (for you). I hope this also counts. I just didn't have enough info about the other guys to make a second and third choice, their little self-presentation boxes were inconclusive and I haven't seen their behavior on the site.
17:39
@rumtscho Yeah, I think casting only one vote still counts. Don't think you're required to make a full top 3 ranking
I tend to go beyond med-rare to wanting it to moo, plus I often eat food that has been left out overnight. My various "parents" were all that way too, so my immune system started working out at a young age.
I made another batch of whole wheat pasta dough and I made lasagna noodles. after a several hours they were dry and I made this recipe for lasagna: allrecipes.com/Recipe/Worlds-Best-Lasagna/…
@Jolenealaska congratulations!
I am starting to get the hang of making flat pastas from whole wheat flour.
Thanks rummy :)
17:41
@caters great. Homemade pastas are a treat.
I suspect people with genetically strong immune systems and "bounce-back" responses tend to get sloppier about food safety since they're not so afraid of getting sick, and then they teach those sloppy habits to their offspring with similar genes, and it just all goes together that way
@Yamikuronue,yeah, it's probably a combination of factors.
I doubt it had time to propagate genetically
I wouldn't advise someone like me eating a bunch of questionable meat to try and build tolerance :)
17:43
but what if their genetically strong immune system is not strong against the same thing as somebody elses genetically strong immune system
three generations ago, the average person couldn't afford a refrigerator, and public health wasn't so important or politically visible
people back then all had sloppy food habits.
I wish we could really know the food poisoning stats from then.
@caters Very good point. Immune systems cannot recognize their targets when a human is born. They learn it through exposure.
@Jolenealaska Look up "typhus epidemic" in a newspaper archive. These things are known. Not every single case, but the fact alone that newspapers write today if 5 people get salmonella as opposed to 500 having to get it back then for it to be news is telling.
Uff, community flag on our newest answer
@Jolenealaska I share the same impression.
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A: How to prevent cucumbers from tasting bitter?

Rebecca searlesI buy pickling cucumbers I like then much better

I am a bit split on whether to delete it outright. Is this an answer or not?
I mean, if somebody doesn't like bitter cucumbers and this person means that pickling cucumbers are not bitter, then it is a valid strategy
17:48
@Jolenealaska Same.
@Jolenealaska can you see this flag in your new tools?
I'lllook
There are some kinds of flags 10Kers can see and handle, but I forget which are which.
@Yamikuronue Could be. But still, people in my social circle all pretty much do things the same way, even though there is no genetic connection.
@rumtscho And hello.
@rumtscho it shows up under "lowest voted" but that appears to be it. I'm still a bit lost though.
17:51
@Cerberus Hello ceerberus
@Jolenealaska There used to be a flag counter directly on the 10k bar. I don't know if it's still there, this was before the review queues existed.
This is what a mod bar looks like, the blue 1 is the flag counter.
@rumtscho I don't see it, but I do have a number in brown next to review that doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I have no blue number.
You mean like my number 16 next to reviews? (I call it orange, but I guess it can look brown on a different monitor)
9, not 16. I don't know where 16 came from.
@rumtscho on the cucumber answer, I'd leave it but maybe comment."Are you saying that pickling cucumbers are less bitter?"
This is the number of reviews in all queues. It leads me to the review queues. If you have already made a decision on each question available to you, maybe it leads you nowhere. It's a bit confusing, one can't handle each review in the queue. I don't know when it's impossible to handle some, maybe it is about questions where one has already been active in.
@rumtscho You just photoshopped that "mod" there. It's too obvious.
17:58
@rumtscho Yes. like your 9 (coincidentally the same number I have) I'm used to that, but it has always gone away after I have gone through review tasks. Now it seems to be asking me to do more, but I don't know what.
@Jolenealaska It is the same for me too, I can't get it to 0 either. As I said, I think that there is a difference between "all existing review tasks" and "review tasks you are allowed to handle", and for some infathomable reason, we get to see the first number, not the second one.
I am not even sure if this is really so, I don't remember whether I have read it somewhere or whether it's an explanation I have thought of and convinced myself that it must be true :( It happens to me sometimes.
But I have no better one.
Anyway, my dinner break is over. I have to work some time more tonight.
see you later.
Aww poor Rummy!
 
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@jefromi If you want to see another instance of faulty Verbatim: google.com/…
I want to search for "China president".
Let me Bing it...
See, Bing works perfectly.
@Cerberus I wasn't in on the initial conversation, but I'm curious. What makes the Bing output better than Google's?
@Jolenealaska Well, Google shows me results like "China's president" and even "Chinese president" when I search for "China president" verbatim.
Verbatim does not work well.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
evening all
Bing, on the other hand, gives me consistent results.
Evening.
Ah. Usually when I search, I'm not actually looking for verbatim results (although occasionally I am).
Hi Tall!
19:52
hey jojo
sappening
@Jolenealaska Right. So that is what Verbatim is supposed to be for.
@ElendilTheTall I have entered the inner sanctum of 10K+ users. That's my big news for the day (and that's a pretty good indication of the excitement of my life)
Yay!
@Jolenealaska that's nice. talk to me when you enter the Xanadu of 20k+ ;)
Yeah, yeah. Give me a month :)
19:56
Saj takes the prize for rate of rep gain
@ElendilTheTall Haha you meanie.
"That's nice".
53.5k in 1 year 7 months
Probably to never be stripped of the title.
@Cerberus jojo knows I love her
the sky writing was plain enough
;)
He's the only 10K+ user other than me that has been a member for lessthan 3 years.
@logophobe is next if he doesn't burn out.
19:58
@ElendilTheTall You show her your love with your belt well enough!
Tall is usually the last man I "speak" to every night before I go to bed.
I mean, with your sarcastic wit.
@Jolenealaska Ohhh...
How about CN?
@Jolenealaska man?!
20:00
haha, I thought I might warp your mind there for a second
did we get an answer out of gigili?
I sometimes go days without speaking to CN. Plus he's an early to bed, early to rise type.
Ah, of course. That figures.
Sort of. She's a she, and I'm 90% sure that her "hints" imply that she is pregnant.
But she hasn't said so explicitly.
fair enough
I always assumed female
She has hinted strongly enough that I'm comfortable with the fact that she will probably read this as she does seem to look up in chat.
20:08
hello gigili <waves>
I thought rummi was a guy for months.
rummi transcends gender
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gender merely reduces efficiency
i am learning Python
it's actually going surprisingly well
I need a project - perhaps I can program a Scrabble cheat app for you @Jolenealaska :)
not that you need it of course
There are already so many good cheat programs for Scrabble that I have given up on playing online except with friends. It seems that everyone uses them. I use them sometimes when I'm playing against the computer because it helps me learn new, obscure words.
What would be good is an AI that is scalable in ways other than just limiting it's vocabulary.
Like - Don't be an idiot and waste a blank on a word that isn't a bingo
yeah... I'm just struggling to program hangman
:)
give me 6 or 7 decades
I hate the time limit on edits here. Stupid things like that damn apostrophe in my last message bug the hell out of me.
20:22
Become a real moderator.
It would almost be worth it just for that.
Heh.
elections must be coming up
you would probably be the only one running
I don't know if I'd run or not. I'm pretty new, I'm still unsure about a lot of things and I don't know if I would want the sense of obligation.
new, pfff
10k rep
20:26
And, I hate being the bad guy.
you take the time to research answers
pah, bad guy
most of it is de-duping
JOLENEALASKA: YES WE CAN!
I was just contemplating how much I have learned in my 284 (consecutive) days here. I am truly a much more knowledgeable cook than I was a year ago. Partly because I've read answers here, partly because I've written (and researched) answers. It's pretty cool.
@ElendilTheTall wow, I totally misread that as rummi transgender at first
Nah, I'm not at all concerned about that. I'm that many days consecutive just because I'm always curious about what's going on. It wouldn't bother me one bit to see that number reset.
Once you've got the 100 day badge it's pretty meaningless.
oh is it 100 days?
I forget
I got it on the sites I care about and stopped caring
20:46
In moderator tools, does the font size of question titles mean anything?
Here's another newbie question. Why did Community protect this? cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/22309/…
21:01
@Jolenealaska >This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users.
Pfft. That much I could figure out.
What is it about that question that singled it out for the treatment?
Is it just because it has three deleted answers?
It seems a bit arbitrary, especially since one of the deleted answers was deleted by the owner.
perhaps you need to be a mod to find out... ;)
Oh stop it
:D
you know you want it...
the power
the little diamond next to your name
you're here 98% of the time anyway, you might as well rule with an iron fist while you're here ;)
I think that since I am getting the hang of making flat pastas with whole wheat flour that I might want to try straight extruded pastas.
21:14
Yeah, I'm here all the time, but I'm fickle. I could easily get distracted by a shiny new bauble just like how SA lured me from IMDb.
@caters Sure, I'd like to hear how it goes.
@Jolenealaska but... but... you wouldn't leave, would you?
deleted to avoid massive annoyance
ha!
I pop in once and a while to my old rooms at IMDb. They seem to do just fine without me :)
Good call on the deletion.
:)
right, I must retire
thank you and good night
Have a great night! Cya tomorrow!
if you stick around...
:P
21:20
:)
21:31
It turns out that when I let 1 batch of pasta dough rest for 30 minutes and another overnight and cooked some pappardelle from both batches that the taste was almost exactly the same.
Good to know.
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