I think Soylent dude has lost it; now with moar renewable energy inverter talk
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I LOVE cooking.
I actually generally like cooking, but I do it for the eating, not the cooking.
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I really learned to cook because then I could eat stuff that tastes the way I like it.
+1
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I learned to cook because I love to learn and I started watching Good Eats on Food Network back in the day. Alton Brown explained the science behind it, and that is what I really needed. All the other cooking shows told you what to do. He told you why you were doing it. I have always been a big advocate for "why". Teach a man what to do, and you create an automaton, teach him why he does something and he can make decisions for himself.
After I started learning the why, then I could start coming up with my own stuff and not just following recipes.
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Yeah, I've gotten a lot of good ideas and whatnot from watching him.
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I learned to cook because I love to learn and I started watching Good Eats on Food Network back in the day. Alton Brown explained the science behind it, and that is what I really needed. All the other cooking shows told you what to do. He told you why you were doing it. I have always been a big advocate for "why". Teach a man what to do, and you create an automaton, teach him why he does something and he can make decisions for himself.
After I started learning the why, then I could start coming up with my own stuff and not just following recipes.
Added to my Netflix queue.
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Added to my Netflix queue.
It is on Netflix?? Well, I can add that to my binge (re)watching schedule.
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@rad131304 said:
Added to my Netflix queue.
It is on Netflix?? Well, I can add that to my binge (re)watching schedule.
At least 1 season from 2008 is; how many were there?
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14-15?
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Season 13 is on Hulu.
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I started experimenting with ingredients after watching too many episodes of Iron Chef. At one point I was using yucca root as a substitute for potatoes when making pot roast. That actually came out pretty good.
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I liked that show also.
One thing that I came up with after watching Alton Brown was an improvement to my pasta sauces. No matter how much I would reduce the sauce, I always ended up with unappealing tomato water that would filter down through the pasta and pool on the plate.
Then I remembered in his pasta sauce episode he talked about it like it was gravy. So now, in the last few minutes it cooks I make a corn starch slurry with white wine and add it to the sauce. It thickens it right up, and no unappealing tomato water. Nice, thick sauce that stands up on the pasta.
He is also the one who got me to add a ladle of the pasta cooking water to my sauce. I am not sure what it does, but the salty, starchy water really adds something to the sauce. Good stuff.
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> Automation is woefully absent from the textile industry
It was just one of the very first industries to automate, so no.
Weaving and knitting, yes. Cutting and stitching clothing from the fabric, not so much.
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... required for making a place safely habitable. Not so much the ... microwave, or stove.
It could be argued that some sort food preparation facility is required for habitability. Very few people eat out for every meal, and even fewer subsist entirely on prepackaged food1 that requires neither refrigeration nor preparation.
1 Giving Soylent the benefit of the doubt that it qualifies as food.
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Still the idea of the people moving out taking the toilets with them is pretty funny.
The house next to mine (
, discourse; I'll post as many replies as I want) was vacant and condemned as uninhabitable most of the time I've lived here. I seems the previous owner removed all the plumbing and electrical fixtures when she1 left.1I think I remember my landlord telling me the previous owner was a woman, not that it really matters, but that's why I used the feminine pronoun, rather than some attempt at gender neutrality.
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soylent.me
How far do they have to push the allusion before people actually, seriously start wondering if Soylent is people?
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http://www.deviantart.com/
Go there, look at the need that was unmet and founded a business
It's entirely unclear to me exactly what, if anything, on the DeviantArt homepage is relevant to this topic. Did you by any chance paste the wrong link?
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It's entirely unclear to me exactly what, if anything, on the DeviantArt homepage is relevant to this topic. Did you by any chance paste the wrong link?
Did you by any chance read the thread?
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This thread? Yes, I did read it. I only skimmed the DeviantArt homepage, but didn't see anything obviously connected to Soylent or Soylent Dude.
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Blakey said the guy couldn't be considered batshit insane because he saw an unmet need and filled it. Someone saw an unmet need for DeviantArt and filled it, so my point was seeing an unmet need and starting a business means fuck-all to sanity.
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Ah, yes, point taken, although not necessarily agreed. I don't think there is necessarily anything not-sane about DeviantArt, itself. The artists who post there, rather more dubious, but not all of them. My daughter is an Art major at uni; she has a portfolio of her work there, but she's not crazy.
Filed under: Or maybe she is, but I don't notice because I'm crazy, too.
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My daughter is an Art major at uni; she has a portfolio of her work there, but she's not crazy.
There is good art on there. But there is also a large amount of stuff that is just batshit insane.
Or maybe she is, but I don't notice because I'm crazy, too.
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There is good art on there. But there is also a large amount of stuff that is just batshit insane.
Just like any other platform for user-generated content then?
Filed under: Don't tell me there's no crap movies on youtube
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Just like any other platform for user-generated content then?
Platforms like ... Discourse?
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Well, the question now becomes, is it heavy metal poisoning, or was he batshit insane before coming up with Soylent?
Admittedly, the Prop 65 rules are pretty batshit crazy themselves (as in, the max levels are below what can be found in almost any food not grown hydroponically) - unlike As You Sow, who are simply a bunch of greedy regulation trolls more interested in getting a legal settlement than in protecting anyone.
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heavy metal poisoning
It's not that bad actually
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Hmmn, haven't thought of that album (well, except the 'Mr. Roboto' song, which pops up in odd places from time to time) in decades. I was a huge Styx fan at one point.
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I thought that I heard 'heavy metal poisoning' as a song title, so I searched for it on yt and pasted result here.
I don't know Styx at all :)
But it seems nice, I'll give them a listen.
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problem that causes him to get overstimulated by what are normal, everyday occurrences for people.
Is the answer "What is autism?"?
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Yeah, though that particular song may need some hysterical context to understand it...
Basically, there was a 'backward masked Satanic messages' scare in the early 1980s (that is, people thought that some LPs had Satanic messages in them that could only be heard if the record was played backwards on the phonograph, which supposedly could be picked up subliminally by listeners when played normally and cause them to do Bad Things™). Backwards masking was, indeed, a thing, and a number of bands played around with it (including the Beatles, though not on The White Album - that was just Charlie Manson being a nutjob), but AFAIK no one caught any bands putting 'Love the Devil' or some crap like that in them, not even Black Sabbath (like they needed to say anything backwards that they weren't saying already...).
Anyway, one of the songs accused of having this sort of malfeasance was 'Snowblind' by Styx. This was pure BS, but it led to their shows getting picketed by religious wingnuts, so they came up with a whole album - Kilroy Was Here - as a middle finger aimed at the Religious Right. It even had an actual backward masked message - 'E Pluribus Unum', how shocking! - that they made a point of telling everyone about. There was a lot of weird stuff about this rock opera and the performance-art tour that went with it, and the relationships within the band hit a sour note that eventually led to it breaking up shortly after the end of said tour, but the main thing was that this song was a parody of the people making these claims.
The More you Know™
(watch to the end for the relevance)
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I feel like Randall has been watching Good Eats recently ... (today's XKCD)
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https://m.xkcd.com/1567/
MTLFYFiled under: Personally i find randals mobile site to be much mroe usable than the non mobile site, even for desktop
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Mobile sites are the devil.
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not Randal's
he actually did it right.
no, seriously. give it a try.
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I feel like Randall has been watching Good Eats recently
I thought of typical infomercial incompetence designed to make their product look like magic, but now that you say it, I could imagine Alton saying those things. And I guess some of his schtick seems inspired from infomercial stuff like that.
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I kind of want to try the hose water into the freezer one.
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When it passes the XHTML validator.
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When it passes the XHTML validator.
Womp Womp
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typical infomercial incompetence designed to make their product look like magic
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Basically, there was a 'backward masked Satanic messages' scare in the early 1980s
This reminds me of a guy I first heard of in the 90's, who (after just checking) I see is still in business. His shtick is that when we speak, our true feelings/meaning is revealed when our speech is played backwards.
And some examples:
Gerbil in a Light Socket
