Pad see ew for breakfast again today. It's a
dark dish, but unlike KL Hokkien mee it
doesn't look attractive. Here pad see ew on the left, KL Hokkien mee on the right:
Part of that comes from frying the meat over high heat right at the start. So: do the
Gai lan first. The result
didn't look different enough to take a photo, but it did seem better.
And the wok hei? I'm still not there. Put some more oil into the wok to prevent the
noodles sticking to it, with only limited success.
About the only real insight was the composition of the sauce. More fish sauce, more
vinegar, less soya sauce.
Mail from Michael Hughes this morning. He does something similar to check the integrity of
his photos, but he stores the results in a database. Is that worth it?
Shortly after my sha1 run completed. Compare the results:
Oh. Those are directories. Yes, of course they can be different. Repeat the runs looking
at only files? First, let's see what the rest looks like, removing some directories:
More stuff to think about. About the only thing that I won't need is on of Michael's
suggestions: write it a in C. The search is I/O
bound, so I wouldn't gain anything there.
I had some cabbage leaves left over. What do I do with them? Fry them and eat them with
noodles. How about a mee goreng mamak?
It doesn't have cabbage, but why not?
Oh. An issue that I continually have is that it wants 60 g of cooked potato. I don't very
often have cooked potato on hand, and it seems silly to cook 60 g of it. OK, that's what
the cabbage replaces.
And since it's such a mix of cultures, why use Hokkien mee? For the fun of it, used
spirali:
Jesse Walsh along today to tidy up the garden. I thought we might keep him busy for 2
hours, but in fact he did a good 5 hours and didn't quite get finished.
One thing of interest was the incredible dying Abutilon by the laundry door: Here photos
from last month:
I was expecting a parcel delivery today, so round 11:50 checked Australia Post tracking. It told me
that it spent the night in Delacombe, a new location for their tracking reports. And at 8:32 it was “Unable to
deliver - Item carded and transferred to post office for collection”.
I know that. Though it told me that “It's on its way”, it's really ready for collection.
So it might arrive yesterday? And now they say that it's at Lucas. Why?
Round 14:00 off to pick up the item without any problems. Back home and checked the
tracking information. Ah, it had been transferred to Lucas at 9:26 and had been waiting for
me in “NAPOLEON CPA”, Australia Post's inimitable way of spelling “Napoleons” since 11:08, nearly
an hour before I checked the tracking the first time. Clearly Australia Post has problems
keeping up to date.
But better late than never:
From: Australia Post <noreply@notifications.auspost.com.au>
Subject: Your parcel from Returns is ready to collect
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 01:51:21 -0600
And they still live somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Why? Converting
that to local time gives me 17:51:21, 4 hours after I picked it up. By the evening I had no
email confirmation that it had been collected, though I did get this one an hour later
referring to another package that I had picked up at the same time:
From: Australia Post <noreply@notifications.auspost.com.au>
Subject: Your parcel from McLaren Vale Cellars has been collected
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:57:21 -0600
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