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• Whew, day’s finally done. Waiting for wifey to check into motel so she can haz internets. #
• Best Buy has no name-brand mouse for under 30 bucks, and even the generic is 20. Had to go to Wal-Mart for my needs. Bleh. #
• Kids woke up at 7:45, but it’s more sleep than I’ve had all week #

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• Mmm, Young’s Oatmeal Stout…so tasty… #
• Truncated day today, as wifey is leaving town at noon to go hang with the Fugakukai people up in Oklahoma for the weekend. #
• @vdglenn Yeah, “no photos” means camera phones too Shame. #
• @cindylocks Hey, lots of other people say truncated….like…uh…mathemeticians? #

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• @vphill dunno, I’ll time it next batch I run #
• @vphill So…why’d you buy a house in Denton? With the amount of time you spend here, you could just rent a storage unit for your stuff. #
• @frspike Let’s see how adorable you find ‘em when they keep you on the phone for 3 hours cuz the internet broke. #
• @strawfoot my brand of tech support is ‘go away and let me fix it’, so phone support is really hard on me. My wife is better at it than I #
• @pwinn I don’t think they make laptop batteries like they “used to” these days. #
• @pwinn Just make sure you only use it on the tabletop. Don’t let it get anywhere near crotch-vicinity. That’s when they getcha. #
• Gotta admit, I have to appreciate David Bowie’s treatment of “Nature Boy” for Moulin Rouge. #
• Okay, this is one of the coolest vids I’ve seen in a while. http://tinyurl.com/5f4q3o Thanks iMonk. #
• @johnhalton Haha, something about kids and TP. Our daughter used to love flushing mass quantities of it. BTW the term “loo roll” rocks. #
• @pwinn Least you know they have to fix it for you. Too bad they won’t buy you a latte while you wait. #
• So…CGI actor replacement isn’t quite there yet, but boy is it getting close: http://tinyurl.com/6azu2b #
• News headline says that the COBOL job market is heating up. That’s straight up depressing. #

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So…I found a recipe for naan and modified it a bit. I think it turned out pretty good, so I’m sharing it here. I’m not experienced enough to really judge how authentic this is, but I like it.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour (I use home-ground whole wheat, but white should be fine)
• 3/4 cup very warm (not too hot!) water
• 1 package yeast
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup softened butter or shortening (I actually use country crock…basically, you need some fat in there — for real authenticity, use ghee)
• 3 tablespoons plain yogurt

Plan of Attack:

• Get a mixing bowl. Add 2 cups of your flour. Add your salt. Mix it up. Put the rest of the flour aside.
• Combine the warm water, the sugar and the yeast in a glass. Mix it up. Cover it with flour or a towel and let it proof for 10 minutes. Make sure the container is tall enough to accommodate all of the yeast foam that’s gonna form here.
• Add the yeast/sugar/water mixture to the flour, add the shortening, add the yogurt. Mix it up and add the rest of the flour slowly until you have a good dough consistency. Get your hands in there and start kneading. Knead for about 10 minutes or so. Add more flour if it is too sticky. Work it until you have a nice, resilient ball of dough.
• Take the dough ball out of the mixing bowl, lightly oil the bowl and roll the dough ball around in there to coat it. Then cover it with a towel or something and put it someplace warm for an hour. I like to put a cup of water in the microwave for about 3 minutes, and the set the dough in the warmed microwave.
• Let the dough rise for about an hour or until doubled in size. Standard bread stuff here.
• Take it out, punch it down and knead a few more times. Break off golf ball sized pieces and roll them flat on a floured surface. You can cook them in a skillet, on a baking stone, or over a grill. Just do it till they’re browned and puffy. Make sure you cook ‘em on both sides. Takes maybe 3-4 minutes a side.
• They’re really really good if devoured immediately, but I will make a few in the morning and take ‘em to work with me for lunch and they’re still good. It’s awesome with a little butter, or some hummus.

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• Feelin’ ’bout half past dead this morning. Oi. #
• @vphill First one must make said java… #
• @nfhall Well, I made a selfish single cup with my little pour-over filter…but I think Anne made a pot later #
• @strawfoot pessimistic much? #
• If you go visit the site for Nutch (open source web search software), the site search is done by Google. Wait, what? #
• Ate way too much lunch. Body wants to shift into nappytime now. #
• Just for the record…calculating md5 sums for 250 gigs of data…takes a little while. #

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• Roffle: http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp267/aubiered19/butterfinger.gif #
• Mmm, hot naan bread w/ homemade hummus…I could eat a lot of this #
• Well, coffee’s imbibed. Time to go hunt some bugs. *ch-chak* #
• @culturalsavage Hey, whatever gets you going, don’t knock it… #
• @revmhj @culturalsavage Wow, that’s one heckuva household they got going on there. It’s like a mini compound or something. Power to ‘em. #
• Ahahahahahaha. If you don’t know what this is, don’t ask me to explain it. (Mildly offensive) http://tinyurl.com/579zas #
• @revmhj Never been a Cowboys (or NFL) fan, but I find Cowboys fan angst highly amusing. I enjoy mocking the pain of others. #
• Went from Jon Spencer “Talk about the Blues” to “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas. Transition FAIL. #
• With @vphill out of the office, the coffee sure goes a lot more slowly… #
• New development on Wings3d. Makes me wish I had time/talent to pursue 3d modelling again: http://www.wings3d.com/ #
• @aikoheiwa Dunno about you, but I’d settle for more naan and hummus. #
• @vphill What kind of lameitude is that? If it was a lot of work, he should be proud to display it. #

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• First attempt at naan was not too bad. Tomorrow I’ll make some more…with some hummus. #
• KVM is wonky this morning, so we must have had one of our regular, planned power outages over the weekend here at work. #
• @culturalsavage Ha…the gods drank that ambrosia crap. If they had coffee, they’d wake up and realize they were a buncha chumps in togas. #
• Ugh, new age hippie whale song stuff is not the way to start Monday… #
• Yeah boyeee, who remembers back when we wrote our algos by hand…and we liked it that way! http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook.pdf #
• @vphill No, it isn’t…I try to only keep the CPUs on the UPS. All that’s required to correct the KVM is to unplug/replug my USB cables. #
• I love stuff like this…and I’ll always cheer for the hackers: http://tinyurl.com/4myaxg #
• @vphill Went looking for my red stapler and found it, mysteriously, on your desk. You trying to get me to burn this mutha down? #
• Every time this LOTR theme plays, I have the desire to lead a bunch of armored warriors into battle. For Gondor! #
• @strawfoot Greedy, fat, hobbitses #
• @johnhalton British Lutheran says “Amen!” to Christopher Hitchens. Story at 11. #
• @frspike Ugh ugh ugh…I hate wasps. They make me crazy with terror. #
• Looking at Jython, out of curiousity. It’s got me kinda interested, I have to say. ‘Specially with version 2.5 on the horizon. #
• Cartoons have ruined culture. I hear “Hungarian Rhasody #2″ and I immediately think Looney Tunes. #

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• Thinking about trying to make some naan bread today. To go with some hummus, of course. #
• Completely unrelated to naan or hummus, tonight’s dinner is hoppin’ john. Hope the kids eat it. #

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• I need to procure slippers, ASAP. It’s getting chilly at night now. #
• @culturalsavage Drop ‘em into a dir in your home folder, called .fonts and then run “sudo fc-cache”? #
• @culturalsavage yup…go ahead and make it if it doesn’t exist #

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• Home with the kiddoes today. Trying to think of some stuff to do with ‘em outside of the normal routine. Might try making turtle bread. #
• Unsatisfied with all the Twitter clients for Linux. Thinking making one would be a good way to finally learn wxPython. Hrm. #
• @culturalsavage gtwitter, gtk-twitter and twitux so far. Twitux is almost what I want, but not quite. #
• @johnhalton Piddly things…like no ‘always on’ entry field, and it hides the actual twitter names of people, so I have to look them up to @ #
• @culturalsavage text-stuff is tricky…if you post some screenies somewhere, maybe I can offer thoughts #
• @johnhalton Looks like that from the official screenshot…but not on mine. Course, mine is .60, and the latest is .62…dunno #
• @culturalsavage I’ll be here ALL DAY LONG. Yeah, it’s rockin’ being home with the kids #
• I was thinkin’ hummus today, but I’m out of tahini…wonder if wifey can find some when she hits up walmart today. #
• @vphill Yeah, I’ve heard mixed results about that. I really don’t want peanut butter tastin’ hummus. #
• I think it is time to relegate the bread machine to storage. That automated square-loaf just can’t compete with the hand-kneaded goodness. #
• Since more than one person asked about the turtle bread: http://tinyurl.com/6jhkpu #
• @culturalsavage yes…my AIM handle is the same as my twitter. My attention is rather scattered, but I’m here. #

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