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by downut 3y ago
Anybody can cook the recipes in "Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook" and "The Food of Sichuan". I would caution people unfamiliar with authentic Chinese food that these are not the flavors of 99% of US Chinese restaurants.
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by downut 3y ago
Right. I've been eating tofu in the US all my adult life, since about 1983 or so. Everywhere I've lived (FL, GA, NC, AZ, CA) it's been available in standard grocery stores, generally with several varieties. Asian markets,
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by downut 3y ago
uhh, hmm. For thirty years or so I've lived by these two (shell immaterial): mv='mv -i' rm='rm -i' simple enough to add /bin/ to the command if I really mean it . That fixes the pipe issue too. I'
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by downut 3y ago
I spent the summer of '83 at the GE Wilmington, NC nuclear fuels plant as the sole user of an HP 9845C with the integrated full size plotter. My job as a GA Tech ChE co-op student was to go around the plant with a rather simple gradie
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by downut 3y ago
So it turns out in the last year I have sold a remodel problem house and bought another all the way across the country. We could drill down and ask why my sold house tilers were so awful. To the point I paid to have it all Boschhammered u
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by downut 3y ago
The last three vehicles I've bought, from three different Toyota dealerships, the options, color, etc. were negotiated completely over email, no phone calls or physical dealership visit. I always pay cash and I never trade in. At the
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by downut 3y ago
Her Coq au Vin is a bit of work but it still tastes fantastic. A lot of those variants are a bit weird today, but I like to see them as ideas. I could see them being standards in the post-war mileau. What I really don't care for are
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by downut 3y ago
That's... so French. Thanks for adding this bit. I'm always in need of culinary history ammo when I am confronted with having to feed people who only trust industrially processed food. Such as many of my relatives.
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by downut 3y ago
Hanging birds is a very old practice. Wait till you learn how long people hang pheasants. Brillat-Savarin: “the peak is reached when the pheasant begins to decompose; its aroma develops, and mixes with an oil which in order to form must un
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by downut 3y ago
When I started at GaTech in 1980 they still had card readers in the datacenter that nobody was using. I can't remember how we programmed (in Fortran 77) but it wasn't a whole lot more sophisticated than punchcards. Some sort of
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by downut 3y ago
New electric blower owner here, thanks for the additional detail. Mine has 2 batteries too and I don't come close to discharging them in 15 minutes, so a big win. I don't think I've had to use the maximum flow setting yet.
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by downut 3y ago
One year ago, in November, I bought a house in GA after 40 years in the West, and it's got a bunch of Ents on a 1/2 acre lot. Upon moving in I had no tools to deal with the leaves, and the house had been unmaintained all Fall, s
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by downut 3y ago
I had been admittedly a bit depressed before the big move across the country and the Tundra had been a bit neglected except for oil changes/tires etc. So after the life reset settled down Mr. Tundra got the full mechanics inspection w
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by downut 3y ago
20 years on the hard 4wd trails of AZ, CA, CO, NM and both MX BCN and Sonora. A couple of hundred miles on the Baja 1000 route with a bed full of camping gear did one suspension in. And there's a lift/helper leaf in there. Never
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by downut 3y ago
They can't pry my 2001 v8 4wd 14mpg[1] Tundra bought new for cash from my cold dead hands because I am seriously thinking of when I die I get laid out in the bed and the whole shebang put in an enormous hole and buried somewhere. I&
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by downut 3y ago
Here's another me too. When I turned 55 my GP started to nag me to get a colonoscopy, and my wife too. But in the small western town that we lived, there's only a very small number of specialists and for 1.5 years "they&quo
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by downut 3y ago
We spent 25 years out in the rural West, though we preferred to live in a town. We left because over the last 15 years the decay of uniform public law enforcement has essentially led to "norms" being enforced by the local landowni
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by downut 3y ago
So this is a late comment but I finally clicked the link because I am a DMT addict, and lordy that's a cool thing that looks like it will travel just fine. Which do you find best for traveling? I travel with one of the big DMT fine hon
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by downut 3y ago
I have been sharpening my own knives and tools for 45 years, and have been doing it in the same way since I was in my teens and my dad and I read some article (in Popular Science, maybe?) which Just Worked. My dad was a bit more patient th
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by downut 3y ago
"Self-checkout, when implemented in a sensible way, is fast, efficient, painless. and generally pleasant." As stated, the quoted sentence above says nothing; it has no content because of the caveat. Let's simplify on the way
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by downut 3y ago
I just went through a few prednisone for a case of bursitis, and it worked fantastic for that. Had no effect on the tinnitus though. Oh well.
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by downut 3y ago
Same for me, yup. Wasn't paying attention to it and... I did the dumb thing and read these comments. Oh well. As for the loud show thing I was already wearing ear plugs back in 1980, never got into the blasting the speakers/head
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by downut 3y ago
Uhh no don't oh dear I guess I must: Two lightly toasted slices of NOT white bread, lightly apply very good mayo 1/8 lb of good smoked ham sliced very thin 1 large dill pickle sliced fairly thin ...aaannnnddd a bunch of ruffles po
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by downut 3y ago
We spent 25 years in Prescott, which is 1.5 hrs NW of PHX, and is at 5000+ ft. Due N. a couple of hours, Flagstaff 7000ft. We thought that the weather in Prescott was fantastic: 4 seasons, half dozen 2 day blizzards that melted in 3 days
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by downut 3y ago
You might want to look up what happens in Yuma and the Imperial Valley, where it can be even hotter, because 1000ft lower elevation. People have been farming the Salt River and Gila River valleys for many centuries. I see that wikipedia
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by downut 3y ago
"As for medical, the only coverage I want is catastrophic, and if I could just just get that then health care would be way cheaper. Health care providers generally have much lower prices when you have no insurance and pay out of pocket
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by downut 3y ago
Jeebus every time I get attention grabbed into diving into redbean I end up just getting on my knees and putting my forehead to the floor. I would say game knows game but here barely game groks stratospheric game. I am again in awe.
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by downut 3y ago
Two short phrases seared into my brain almost 4 decades ago: "Et en Arcadia ego" and "Ruder forms survive". Different books.
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by downut 3y ago
I'm doing a complete tear down remodel of the kitchen so I bought some devices to make our 95% cooked from scratch meal lifestyle bearable through the awful times. A top of the line Breville toaster oven was the first, it's fantas
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by downut 3y ago
Lord gawd almighty. Let me tell you a story. If you go off road just about anywhere in Mexico that's dry enough and interesting enough, and it's possible to go slow enough to have enough clearance, you will find cheap 2WD rear dr

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