Quarter Life Crisis Comments

V on Egg in the basket

2012-01-31T21:07:55+01:00

I have my own, altered view on V’s Egg Toast from the movie. My view omits the hole in the bread, because in a dystopian, socialist country such as Norsefire-controlled Britain, no piece of food would be wasted. Whilst we never see V throw anything away like that, the recipe I made allows a similar preparation without the waste.

My Take on V’s Egg Toast 1: 1 tbsp butter, melt and coat bottom of pan LIBERALLY. Use a medium/small pan. 2: Add 1 slice of bread, let sit for about 30 seconds-1 minute. 3: Add a pat of butter to uncooked side. 4: Flip the bread so the toasted side faces up. 5: Crack 1 egg on top of the toasted side facing up. 6: Let sit for 1 minute. 7: Flip CAREFULLY, so the egg is on the bottom. 8: Allow to sit for 2 minutes. 9: Cool for 1+ minutes. Serve.

The warm side of the toast in Step 4 is warm enough to allow the egg to congeal to the toast.

Timm on Localised application names

Timm — 2012-01-18T00:20:08+01:00

OK, this is off-topic, but I just had to reply to the last comment by ssp. I just totally hate server scripts that highlight my search terms! I want to read your blog and the comments; what I get is a mosaic of blue words like “mac” “names” “in” “german”. That doesn’t help the user, only annoys them and makes your page look pretty much broken. Please consider a big “turn off keyword hilites” link at the top!!

jazz on Music Questionnaire

jazz — 2012-01-08T18:37:59+01:00

awsome questions

ssp on Strand Day 11

ssp — 2011-12-27T20:00:42+01:00

Glad to hear that, Gideon!

My parents will be visiting the Cape soon and I’ll let them know about your reopening.

Gideon Botha on Strand Day 11

Gideon Botha — 2011-12-27T10:21:10+01:00

Dear Sven, I am Gideon of the Famous Pancake House in Franschhoek, and am very glad to say that (against all odds) we have reopened our pancake house again. After an absence of 7 years we are back with all those wonderful fluffy pancakes! Please check us out on Trip Advisor and do tell your friends…

Justin on Encrypted Time Machine Backups

Justin — 2011-12-23T00:47:26+01:00

Brilliant. Brilliant! Thank you.

Dave2 on Day 1-3: Reykjavík

Dave2 — 2011-11-27T17:35:00+01:00

I also took advantage of a “free” Reykjavik stop-over on the way to Stockholm years ago and had a great time. I’ve wanted to go back for a longer visit every since, which makes this program a very smart move by Iceland’s tourism industry! Safe travels.

Lorenz W. on Wir sind Helden in English

Lorenz W. — 2011-11-14T19:31:35+01:00

Hello :) I am going to explain the phrase in “Nur ein Wort”, called “Wenn du schon auf den Mund fallen musst, warum dann nicht auf meinen”

A German proverb is “auf die Nase fallen” = to fall down If people kiss, their mouthes are touching. So, Judith sings the changed German proverb. There is a person who falls down, but not like in the proverb on his nose, but rather on his mouth. So, when he falls on his mouth anyway, he could kiss her.

xoxo Lorenz

jillo on Chili Oil

jillo — 2011-11-13T04:04:37+01:00

Using fresh chillies presents the issue of time you can keep it. 3 -4 weeks max, in the fridge or you risk botulism.

if you used dried chillies and keep the oil above the chillies you eliminate these risks.

hope that helps.

ssp on Oh my god we're back again

ssp — 2011-11-05T18:05:59+01:00

Yeah, I considered blogging as we went along but there was just so much to see and do that I would have considered that stressful.

Dave2 on Oh my god we're back again

Dave2 — 2011-11-05T16:33:36+01:00

Well, since you teased us with your holiday before you left… then didn’t blog a single word while you were away… I think you owe it to us to retro-blog your trip! :-) Happy you had a nice vacation.

Dave Abrahams on New hard drive vs Time Machine

Dave Abrahams — 2011-10-29T03:25:04+01:00

I’d have headed straight for tmutil if I was on Lion. Outlining the general principle is unfortunately not enough if you’re trying to be helpful. If, like me, you don’t have the foresight to do it for all backups the first time around, what happens is that the older backups become inaccessible after the first attempted backup, and the OS doesn’t seem to reclaim the space they used. Since my backup disk was full, I had to throw away the sparse bundle. The ultimate effect was losing all the old backups.

Cheers, Dave

ssp on New hard drive vs Time Machine

ssp — 2011-10-27T09:43:04+01:00

@Dave Abrahams: Just outlining the general principle here, of course try to adapt it as you need to.

In case you are using X.7, be sure to try out the tmutil command line tool, using its inheritbackup option. That will most likely provide a better solution for this problem.

Dave Abrahams on New hard drive vs Time Machine

Dave Abrahams — 2011-10-26T19:46:05+01:00

This is awesome! One little detail, though: it seems like I want to repeat this process for all the backups in the bundle, not just the latest. Otherwise, when I go to view my backup history I can only see the one that’s been xattr’d. A little shell script should handle this easily enough, and when my wife’s backup completes, I’m going to try it :-)

Older Hopefullywiser on I Wanna Die

Older Hopefullywiser — 2011-10-24T21:00:13+01:00

I was once told by a wiser man: Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Hope all of you get through your trials and tribulations. Good luck to all of you..