gregory also has a lifetime warranty. i've lived a cumulative few weeks out of their Border 30 and Border 18 bags, with no complaints (ok onetime i got caught in a massive downpour and umbrella priorities went to a girl i was with and not my bag and my computer took one for the team, but that's on me) never had a backpacking bag from them though. i have a newer rei trail 40 and it's fine but i'm a pretty casual backpacker. last trip was a 1 nighter in Point Reyes and it was great. also only worth it if you find it on sale. the older version was better and i regret returning it.
My neck of the woods may have changed by the end of this year, perhaps, to some place with lots of wine and cheese. But that's still TBD. Keep me posted!
I knock on wood. and I don't pin a mission patch on anything until after first contact.
this is terrifying
Simone is a gem. Her Truckla project is awesome. Would much rather this than a door wedge.
I was watching this launch livestream with intense interest, although the volume was down for most of the last 20 minutes of the countdown because I was the flight director for one of our satellites at the time and we had to take a manual pass... what a wild few years it's been. I remember one of the more senior engineers on my team telling me to go follow them without really explaining what we were doing, and we suited up, and walked into the cleanroom where Crew Dragon Demo 1 (uncrewed test) and Crew Dragon Demo 2 (Hurley/Behnken) were being assembled. that really put a point on all the work I'd been doing there...
Man, seeing leapsecond.com as the URL brought me straight back. Did I ever tell the story about the time I convinced a company to let me borrow a $50k cesium clock?
330 grams water, lukewarm (1.4 cups) 450 grams unbleached all-purpose flour (3.735 cups) 50 grams whole wheat flour (whatever that is in cups--it's like 2 heaping tablespoons?) (idk, i use weight when baking) 6 grams salt (1 teaspoon) - Weigh your flour; or measure it by gently spooning it into a cup, then sweeping off any excess. - Combine all the dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl, mixing so that it's even. Combine water and sourdough starter. Gently stir so the starter and the water become one. Add water-starter mixture to the dry ingredients. - Mix and stir everything together (by hand or stand mixer, whatever you got) to make a sticky, rough dough (just until well-combined and no clumps of flour remain). - Leave the dough in the bowl, cover it with a piece of plastic wrap or damp kitchen towel, and let it rise for 1 hour. - Gently pick up the dough and fold it over on itself several times, cover it again, and let it rise for another hour. - Repeat once more--fold again and rise for an hour. At the end of the hour, fold and then place in the refrigerator. Let dough rest for at least 8 hours (up to 48). - When you're ready to make bread, turn the dough out onto a well-floured work surface, and shape it into a rough ball. Leave the dough seam-side up, cover it, and let it rest on a floured surface for 15 minutes. - Shape the boule and place into a parchment-paper lined Dutch oven. Let the boule come up to room temperature and rise (approx. 3 hours). - Towards the end of the rise, depending on how fast your oven heats up, preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. - Dust with flour, and use a sharp knife to make one 1/2" deep slash through the top surface. Cover with the Dutch oven lid and insert into oven. - Immediately (!) reduce oven temperature to 450 degrees F, bake for 45 minutes. - Remove the lid and bake for 10-15 minutes more, depending on your oven, until the bread is deeply golden brown (the very edge where you sliced the top may be a bit burned but that's ok! a crunchy crust is more important). - Remove the bread from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool completely. Basically a mix between this King Arthur recipe and my old recipe. This recipe's text is adapted from KA. PS: If your oven has a "convection bake" setting, I recommend it. Keeps the heat even. 189 grams ripe (fed) sourdough starter
I would like to appeal this decision on the basis of2355 CST - am_Unition and the wife of am_Unition realize that they have the only good bird bath in an area undergoing rapid urban growth, with wilderness being bulldozed in many nearby areas
i, for one, would like to see a bonsai midway gardens
I'm so glad to hear that. Hope your old regulars come back and you gain some new ones!
Started a new internship yesterday, working remote. A small satellite startup doing really, really, interesting stuff. Closed series A, the people are brilliant, and it seems like there's a good roadmap for the future. Also had a little watch party (at least until the scrub) with my new coworkers (over videochat) for the SpaceX launch this afternoon. Looking forward to Saturday. Stuff I worked on is finally sending people to space!
or saves 2.4 billion birds? (no, I don't think we should actually kill all the cats. but those are some staggering estimates. more generally avifauna aren't doing great.)
beanworld is so much simpler.
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scones are bread-like enough for me! They look tasty! A local bakery makes killer corn-cherry scones, but they're closed right now. I miss them. Maybe I'll have to give scone-baking a try soon. also, as far as I know, heavy cream is the same as 'heavy whipping cream', but has like double the milk fats compared to half-and-half (hence the name, I think...)
Do you want to keep the tag #breadwatch for Q's baking adventures or can we make that a bread bonanza?
!! how long are you here?
I loved Blob Castle. Streaming this now! Will update with thoughts in a bit.
I ran my first half marathon (ever) on Sunday! It was grand. A flat course (650 ft over 13 miles--flat enough) and coastal weather made for a wonderful run. The weather was good--low 60s the entire time, with the sun peeking through the clouds towards the last third. Since it was in a coastal town, the air was nice and refreshing as well. Decent number of water stations, fairly well marked course (although I was disappointed to learn that they didn't close the roads and we ran in the bike lane as a few folks occasionally drove by). While my Fitbit didn't start capturing GPS data right away (grr) at least I have Strava data (GPS, sans heartrate) for the run. I ran a 1:56:16, which more than met my target of 1:59:59. Very pleased.
The 1.0 burger was the same price as a beef burger at the SpaceX grill. I liked the taste enough to consistently order the Impossible Burger.
This is wonderful.
Voted via mail-in! The do-your-civic-duty atmosphere is strong here, which is awesome.
Nothing fancy, barkeep. Just stopping in for a minute. It's slowly dawning on me that a problem that I have at work is NP-hard. Fun fun. Vancouver this weekend, Orcas Island next.
Just got a new-to-me Fuji X100s. Been toying with it over the past few days. Definitely missing my piano a whole lot recently. Trying to learn a new piece is not impossible, but made rather more difficult without being able to play. Just gotta stretch my brain around it some more. In short: trying to keep the creative mind busy away from my day gig, which requires a whole different kind of creativity. Work is good. Nearly done with a preliminary design!
Dude I've never been! SpaceX food is cheap and (fairly) tasty
Not lucky enough to be in Florida but I think I'll have a decent view :)
