interesting links to fascinate people!
I made "chaiscream" this morning, i.e. chai ice cream, which is B's favorite of the ice creams I make. (I like it a lot, too.) It's a combination of this SimplyRecipes recipe and the Ben and Jerry's sweet cream base; I prefer using whole eggs to all egg yolks because I think it improves the texture and makes the ice cream less likely to freeze into a hard mass.
I made ice cream because my (new!) oven is broken and I had to channel my baking urges into something else. (This is apparently a known issue with this GE double oven; the internal fan that is supposed to come on during the preheat doesn't, and the oven's failsafe turns off the heat.) I have been advised by the appliance repair guy (it's under warranty, of course, phew) that I shouldn't try to bake until it's fixed, so we will have ice cream instead of cake. Also, it is hot (for values of hot that we get in the Colorado mountains, that is, the mid-to-upper-80s). Fortunately our new house cools off better at night than our old one (partly because the stucco of the old house retained heat way too well, partly because having an upstairs bedroom meant that heat rose right into it and wouldn't go away) and we haven't had to use the little a/c we put in our bedroom yet.
Things that have entertained me on the internet lately:
petra wrote a Hercules Mulligan double dactyl at my request, and it's brilliant! (Also check out her other fannish insta-poems at that post, which are mostly limericks.)
yhlee finished the Twine game I requested/commissioned for a charity donation a while back: from every spark a fire, a Hexarchate CYOA in which you are Cheris at Kel Academy. (It probably won't have the same resonance if you haven't read the Machineries of Empires books, but you don't have to have read them for the story to make sense.)
Janelle Shane's latest AiWeirdness post is AI names generated with a seeding of Culture ship names from the novels by Iain M. Banks. They are especially entertaining if you've read the Culture books but I think they're funny all on their own.
Eat your megetables - in a response to plant-based proteins, Arby's makes meat vegetables.
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I made ice cream because my (new!) oven is broken and I had to channel my baking urges into something else. (This is apparently a known issue with this GE double oven; the internal fan that is supposed to come on during the preheat doesn't, and the oven's failsafe turns off the heat.) I have been advised by the appliance repair guy (it's under warranty, of course, phew) that I shouldn't try to bake until it's fixed, so we will have ice cream instead of cake. Also, it is hot (for values of hot that we get in the Colorado mountains, that is, the mid-to-upper-80s). Fortunately our new house cools off better at night than our old one (partly because the stucco of the old house retained heat way too well, partly because having an upstairs bedroom meant that heat rose right into it and wouldn't go away) and we haven't had to use the little a/c we put in our bedroom yet.
Things that have entertained me on the internet lately:
petra wrote a Hercules Mulligan double dactyl at my request, and it's brilliant! (Also check out her other fannish insta-poems at that post, which are mostly limericks.)
yhlee finished the Twine game I requested/commissioned for a charity donation a while back: from every spark a fire, a Hexarchate CYOA in which you are Cheris at Kel Academy. (It probably won't have the same resonance if you haven't read the Machineries of Empires books, but you don't have to have read them for the story to make sense.)
Janelle Shane's latest AiWeirdness post is AI names generated with a seeding of Culture ship names from the novels by Iain M. Banks. They are especially entertaining if you've read the Culture books but I think they're funny all on their own.
Eat your megetables - in a response to plant-based proteins, Arby's makes meat vegetables.
Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth