Free as in Time

I’m reconnecting with the internet today. Not on purpose, really, but I’m not really focused on any particular task or line of thought. Not catching up on TheMyFace, or email, or searching for the next way to code the next thing. Just doing what we used to call surfing. It’s been a while. I guess I’d been missing this.

Today, I read some Tim Bray, which led me madly off in a number of directions. One of those took me to Chad Fowler, whom I’d never read online. Turns out he [...]

CBC has cancelled one of my favourite shows, jPod. So, we at Resonant Studios have started an online petition at savejpod.ca to try to convince CBC to put the show back on the air. Head on over there and show your support for a quality product.

This recipe also comes to me by way of Shauna’s mom:

• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1 beaten egg
• 3/4 cup milk
• 3/4 cup rolled oats
• 1 tbsp. instant onion flakes (or mince fresh onion)
• 1 tsp. parsley flakes
• 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 1/2 tsp. salt (I usually don’t add)
• 1/4 tsp. pepper
• 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
• 4 tbsp. ketchup (or tomato relish/chili sauce)

This is Grandma Clazie’s recipe for Baked Cheese and Macaroni, which came to me by way of Shauna’s mom. Comments are hers:

(I usually double this recipe.)

Cook 1 cup macaroni in boiling water with 1/2 tsp. salt

Mix the following:

• 1 cup grated cheese
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of bread broken in small pieces
• 1 cup of milk
• 1/2 tsp. of salt and pepper (I usually omit the salt)

I’m mostly posting this so that I don’t lose track of the recipe for this very simple cheese sauce:

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1 cup grated cheese

Melt butter in sauce pan. Stir in flour, salt, and pepper. Stir in milk gradually. I think at this point you bring it to a boil so that it thickens, although I really can’t remember. It needs to get nice and hot, anyway, if you’re going to melt the cheese in. So, we’ll say once it’s good and [...]

Shauna and Sean, take note:

Over the past two years, the Institute for the Future of the Book has run a series of “networked book” experiments exploring the potential of blogs and other popular web apps to stimulate meaningful social interaction around and inside of long texts.

Based on this success, and in order to make this functionality more widely available, the Institute developed CommentPress as an extension to the popular blogging software WordPress. Now anyone with a blog can set up a social reading environment with paragraph-level commenting around a text [...]

Came across a cute page today. It’s a prenup for people considering marrying a programmer:
The Programmer’s Prenup