Recent weather
Posted by Keilaron on Saturday, December 23. 2006 in News & Events
The weather this month has been craptastic. A lot of people seem to be unconcerned, though, which makes the whole situation worse. I'm sorry, the fact that it's bright, sunny, and warm in December is not a good thing any way to slice it.
We're heading towards something bad, I'm sure of it. Just like I predicted last year (or the year before, I forget), the weather is shifting about. Perhaps not quite in the way I imagined it (wintertime shifting to summertime and summertime shifting to wintertime), but I was at least partially right.
And I predict, this time, that the next summer is going to be one of two things: Either it's going to be similar unstable weather as we are having now, or it's going to be a dangerously boiling-hot summer.
It's no longer I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
, but rather, "I'm having nightmares of a green Christmas." ;_;
Yup, that's the worth of a PS3.
Posted by Keilaron on Sunday, December 10. 2006 in Games, int(ernet) OMG;
Yes.
Three dollars.
I kid you not: This is the worth of a PlayStation 3, or any Sony product for that matter.
I've decided to change my blog theme again
Posted by Keilaron on Friday, December 1. 2006 in Server
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How poetic: Snow and rain on the 1st of December.
Posted by Keilaron on Friday, December 1. 2006 in News & Events
On the very first of December, we had what would have been our first permanent snow. It wasn't very much, but it would have been enough to stay, and lightly coat everything as though flour in a cake pan (Grr...). And yet, hours later came what most feared would come instead of the snow: Freezing rain.
And lots of it.
Thing is, the rain wasn't content with washing away the snow. Oh no. The snow stayed, indeed, and became slush. Frozen slush. Thankfully, I had brought my (totally awesome) umbrella today, which was completely unfazed by the heavy wind and rain...
[It was a dark, rainy day, and all about was frozen slush, and I hoped, hoped, that there would be no accidents.]
Actually, that reminds me that I'm glad I take the bus.
So yeah, how poetic. The first of December sees the first snow. Snow and rain, on the same day.
I kinda liked it.
Chocolate chalk cake, or why to be careful with substitutes...
Posted by Keilaron on Friday, December 1. 2006 in Food
But you see, though it was a cake mix, I was in need of a small amount of flour. Really, all I needed was probably less than a quarter cup, and yet we had none. Zip, zilch, zero, nada, null, none. And all I needed it for was to flour the cake pans. Annoyed (as I'd already begun and the oven was already heating up), I quickly googled "flour substitute". The sites that came up had several suggestions, but I misread one of the lines with "corn(something)" as corn starch.
This is what I used.
While the cake parts themselves were okay, they ended up with some of it still on them, and well... they taste a little chalky. And to add to the goofs, when I icing the cake, I forgot to ice the center - so when I cut myself a piece, the top portion fell off (into my plate, thankfully), and realised why I had more icing spare than usual (i.e., about a third of the container left instead of about a spoonful). I ended up having to lift the top portion of the cake off redo the icing after having iced the center.
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