Linda and Graeme Swift along this morning for breakfast. They have bought a new “smart” TV,
with which they are well pleased. It's interesting to hear the opinions of normal users.
They agree that the thing is far too complicated, and that it would be nice to single step
images. But what choice do they have?
They also tell me that they have free access to Prime Video. That sounded unlikely, and later I tried it out on hires, my “smart” TV. No
access. Do they maybe have an Amazon Prime account? But looking at what was on offer, I didn't find anything to
interest me further.
One of the rugs in our lounge room is looking the worse for wear:
Yvonne has been looking for a replacement for some time.
They're not cheap. She tells me they sell for upwards of $800. But she has seen a number
of second-hand rugs round the $100 mark.
We have the money. Why should we buy a second-hand rug? The obvious reason is because it's
cheaper, and if it does the job, why pay more? Today she found one in Canadian, 2×2.9 m in size, for
$120. Off to take a look. Yes, it didn't look bad, and we got it for $100. Back home with
it, arousing the interest of the dogs:
And what is it? A Turkish Kashgar, not a name greatly associated with rugs. The ones I have seen look very different.
It wasn't until later that I realized how well Bruno blends in:
That's not all good. At one point I trod on him because he had blended in so well.
Once again I'm behind on daily things. My mail queue, an indication of my overload, is up
to over 80 messages. Spent some time today trying to tidy things up, and managed to get my
mail queue down to 13. Some of those are particularly important ones that I have let drag
for months.
Yvonne's machine, lagoon.lemis.com, is seriously
down-rev:
=== grog@lagoon (/dev/pts/9) ~ 2 -> uname -a
FreeBSD lagoon.lemis.com 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r355358 GENERIC amd64
=== grog@lagoon (/dev/pts/9) ~ 3 -> l /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 31,364,536 12 Dec 2020 /boot/kernel/kernel
I had started to upgrade it over two years ago, but somehow didn't finish. But now I have a new machine, the one
I bought for running Microsoft Windows 11 a few months back, but which proved to be only
marginally faster than distress. So I ordered a new SSD, found I had the wrong kind, returned it
and finally got a functional one.
What a pain these Lenovo motherboards are! I've already been through all that when I got it, but I had to go through it all over again today.
Finally it was in place, and I was able to establish that the “BIOS” setup doesn't report it, at least not in
any form that I can see. But FreeBSD finds
it and was able to install on it. It also enabled me to check the speed of the “disk”.
It's no speed demon: dd reported read speeds round 700 MB/s. To be checked again
when the system is up and running.
Now to configure the beast. But where are my notes? They're not in my HOWTO page. Did a bit of obvious configuration to bring it into my
network, but it looks like I'm in for another search for the notes that I know I made.
Seen in the New York Times today: a recipe for Gochujang
Burger With Spicy Slaw. “Slaw" indeed! But the Gochujang proved to be a sauce very
similar to my chili sauce.
How do I compare them? With difficulty. The ingredient table mixes the sauce with the
“Burger”. Here's my best attempt to extract the sauce ingredients and compare with mine
(first two columns):
| Ingredient |
|
my quantity |
|
NYT quantity |
|
| Gochujang |
|
100 g |
|
3 Tsp |
| vinegar |
|
15 g |
|
3 Tsp |
| sugar |
|
20 g |
|
1 Tsp |
| garlic |
|
25 g |
|
4 cloves |
| olive oil |
|
|
|
3 Tsp |
| sesame oil, toasted |
|
|
|
1 Tsp |
|
How does that compare? The olive oil looks wrong to me. The sesame oil is one of the
ingredients in bibimjang that I
deliberately omitted from the recipe when I derived this one.
And the quantities? Who can tell. How much does a clove of garlic weigh? I've established that it could be between 1.2 and 32 g.
An average might be 7.5 g. And even the relatively straightforward ratios of 1 or 3
tablespoons say nothing about the weights. So if I do try it, I'll probably guess.
Certainly the 1:1 ratio of gochujang and vinegar seems very acid, and surprisingly for a US
recipe the sugar might be on the low side.
