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I know I said I wouldn’t do these on Mondays but I have some free time and these are good and so here we go!

wordpress 2.9 podpress

I have yet to hear any whining from anyone about how the current version of wordpress breaks the current version of podpress, and the upgrade went smooth as silk for me. Give it time.

what’s living in old books?

Dreams. Stories. Fantasies. Information. Possibly silverfish or mice. Your mileage will vary.

boot screen when i’m 64

When I’m 64 years old, if computers haven’t finally evolved into Instant On type machines, Imma gunna run up a clock tower with a sniper rifle.

julia child’s creamed onions recipe

I don’t have a copy to share, but I’ll bet you a dollar that you need to make a bechamel sauce, season it with tarragon, sage and white pepper, and simmer your pearl onions in it for a minimum of 20 minutes after giving them a good stiff water boil for 5.

can you pre make lasagna with the no boiling

Sure can. Either you get yourself some “no boil” lasagna noodles, or just use regular noodles and add a little extra sauce. This is a great option if you make a homemade sauce based around stewed or canned tomatoes, since the sauce tends to be runnier. Then, you can stick the pan in the fridge for a few days or the freezer for a few weeks. Do note that when you’re done, your lasagna will be denser than it would if you’d boiled the noodles, and it’s normal.

“living behind the curve” chicken tomato

Up until very recently, I’ve been reluctant to cook much with tomato, mostly due to some very unfortunate decisions my mom made while I was growing up, involving scallops and a jar of Ragu. I’m learning, though, and I can heartily recommend Quick Tomato Chicken Curry and Tomato Chicken Rice. Edited to add: Dani also pointed out Tomato Poached Chicken, as well.

selling books for pulp recycling

In theory you can do that, but the scale is a little difficult for normal people to make any money on. Rates right now for scrap paper can run anywhere from $11 to $150 or more per ton, but these are industrial businesses dealing with many tons and many specifications for the paper composition. You’d do better to take an afternoon with your pulp books and run their ISBNs through Amazon and see if you have any winners you can sell, and offer the rest to your local Friends of Library sale, or just pitch them in the recycling bin. If you’re determined to scrap for profit, consider dumpster diving in business parks for old computers and office furniture –  the metals are far more profitable, pound for pound, and there are simply more publicly accessible scrap yards for metal.

lolcow

Ok.

rainbowistan

Srsly? Ok, fine. It’s where fundamentalist queer terrorists come from. Happy?

That’s enough for one day. Go do something productive now.