CodeProject addiction will kill me one day
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Yesterday evening I was just about to continue writing an article for CP, when I thought: Let's cook something for supper, before diving into the code! Soup with noodles and amaranth, yes, that sounds simple and can nearly cook itself while I'm writing. So I filled water and amaranth into pot, put it onto the cooker and left the kitchen... About two hours later I had forgotten all about food. As I left my computer to go to the bathroom, a strange smell of smoke tickled my nose. I wondered where the strange smell came from and for a second I thought it might have come from the hall through the closed door. But then the harddisk in my head started to work ... SCREAM!!!! I took a deep breath, ran into the kitchen (which was a single grey cloud), turned off the cooker and opened the window. Then I ran back into the living room to continue breathing. the kitchen was nothing but smoke, the hall began to stink as well. Well, it's really not the first time I forget my food on the cooker. So I calmed down quickly and started coding again. When the smoke in the kitchen had cleared a little, I returned to check the smell. It didn't get any better. Again, the rarely used parts of my brain started working ... of course, there's more and more smell coming out of the pot! So I put the pot out onto the terrace. Out there in the night, in cool fresh air and this winter's first snow (yes, last night I saw the first snowflakes fall!), I could take a closer look at the thing. There were black marks all over the lid, the plastik knob on top of it had little blisters. Damn it, my only small pot had experienced some kind of meltdown! As I said before, it wasn't the first time my food burned whil I was writing or coding. I happend quite often since last year. Until a year ago, I hadn't had a kitchen and the cooker had been standing in my living room, together with the computer... Well, it was just another coding night without supper. But it was the first time there was thick smoke in my apartment and also the first time I destroyed the kitchen hardware. Someday I'll starve (in the morning my "body mass index" was 18.1, I can't afford getting any thinner) or I'll burn inside my apartment and my gravestone will say: Died of C# overdose and CodeProject addiction. Anyway, I think I'll finish the article next weekend. :) Have a nice day (and cold food) coco
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Amaranth is a grain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_grain ^ "Amaranth has been cultivated as a grain for 8,000 years. The yield of grain amaranth is comparable to rice or maize. It was a staple food of the Aztecs, and was used as an integral part of Aztec religious ceremonies. Its cultivation was banned by the conquistadores in 1516. Because the plant has continued to grow as a weed since that time, its genetic base has been largely maintained. Research on grain amaranth began in the US in the 1970s. By the end of the 1970s, a few thousand acres were being cultivated. Much of the grain currently grown is sold in health food shops." I tastes great with other grains or with noodles. The only thing I dislike about amaranth is that is has to soak in warm water for 30 minutes before you can cook the rest of the meal. -- modified at 5:05 Friday 16th November, 2007
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Oh, OK. I guess the grain comes from the flower then ? I'd not heard of it, but I'm more of a meat and potatoes guy, the only grain we eat here is rice. I haven't been to a health food shop since I flat shared with a vegan in the late 80s. Yeah, my cooking plans are sufficiently ad hoc that a 30 minute wait would be a deal breaker for me.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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You need a husband. ;P Marc
A second geek in my flat? The chaos is big enough with just me living here... :rose: ;)
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Quarks are part of the internal structure of neutrons. Neutrons are parts of atoms, atoms are parts of molecular structures. What the hell is the molecular structure of a Quark?! That sounds like "molucular" strings in ten-dimensional space... :-D
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Corinna John wrote:
That sounds like "molucular" strings in ten-dimensional space...
Ok Sci-Fi TV/Movie folks, there's a quote for your next show! [Captain of space craft] Lieutenant, get us out of here! Fast! [Lieutenant] Captain! I can't engage the Wormhole Generation Drive!!! [Captain of space craft] You have 2 seconds Lieutenant, before we're vapor! [Lieutenant] Maybe if I modify the Molecular strings in ten-dimensional space, I can reactivate the drive!?!? I just don't know Captain!!! [Captain of space craft] FOR GOD SAKES MAN! WE HAVE ONLY MOMENTS TO SPAR... *** We interrupt this broadcast to inform you that due to the writer's strike, this program can no longer continue. Thank you. :-> -- modified at 15:20 Thursday 15th November, 2007
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Oh, OK. I guess the grain comes from the flower then ? I'd not heard of it, but I'm more of a meat and potatoes guy, the only grain we eat here is rice. I haven't been to a health food shop since I flat shared with a vegan in the late 80s. Yeah, my cooking plans are sufficiently ad hoc that a 30 minute wait would be a deal breaker for me.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Only potatoes and rice would become a little boring over the years. I tried several exotic grains I could find at our three local health shops. My first favorite is amaranth, my second favorite is quinoa ^. I also tried millet ^, but it tastes like wet sand and I can't understand why my birds like it.
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Corinna John wrote:
That sounds like "molucular" strings in ten-dimensional space...
Ok Sci-Fi TV/Movie folks, there's a quote for your next show! [Captain of space craft] Lieutenant, get us out of here! Fast! [Lieutenant] Captain! I can't engage the Wormhole Generation Drive!!! [Captain of space craft] You have 2 seconds Lieutenant, before we're vapor! [Lieutenant] Maybe if I modify the Molecular strings in ten-dimensional space, I can reactivate the drive!?!? I just don't know Captain!!! [Captain of space craft] FOR GOD SAKES MAN! WE HAVE ONLY MOMENTS TO SPAR... *** We interrupt this broadcast to inform you that due to the writer's strike, this program can no longer continue. Thank you. :-> -- modified at 15:20 Thursday 15th November, 2007
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL*** Due to the writer's strike, we handed over the writing to CodeProject. The writers can stay at home, because CP shows are better and don't cost us anything. *** [Captain of space craft] FOR GOD SAKES MAN! WE HAVE ONLY MOMENTS TO SPAR... [Lieutenant] Aaaargh... Wait! It works... [Captain of space craft] What do you mean ... oh, I can see the stars again! [Lieutenant] The trick was to create a knot of all string in a Quark, twist the lower five dimensions of another Quark's strings... [Captain of space craft] You formed the worm hole manually? [Lieutenant] The intelligent engine concatenated a group of atoms on Gluon plasma level. [Captain of space craft] When the hackers told me, it'd program itself, I told them not to make jokes. [Lieutenant] Well, I guess it didn't write the program itself. There has been a subatomic string plasma generator mentioned in last week's CP newsletter. [Captain of space craft] But that one supported only seven dimensions. [Lieutenant] It's a GPL project. The computer changed it to save us all. [Captain of space craft] Was it really the space craft's computer? Come on, I know how you spend your nights. You've been hacking again!
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*** Due to the writer's strike, we handed over the writing to CodeProject. The writers can stay at home, because CP shows are better and don't cost us anything. *** [Captain of space craft] FOR GOD SAKES MAN! WE HAVE ONLY MOMENTS TO SPAR... [Lieutenant] Aaaargh... Wait! It works... [Captain of space craft] What do you mean ... oh, I can see the stars again! [Lieutenant] The trick was to create a knot of all string in a Quark, twist the lower five dimensions of another Quark's strings... [Captain of space craft] You formed the worm hole manually? [Lieutenant] The intelligent engine concatenated a group of atoms on Gluon plasma level. [Captain of space craft] When the hackers told me, it'd program itself, I told them not to make jokes. [Lieutenant] Well, I guess it didn't write the program itself. There has been a subatomic string plasma generator mentioned in last week's CP newsletter. [Captain of space craft] But that one supported only seven dimensions. [Lieutenant] It's a GPL project. The computer changed it to save us all. [Captain of space craft] Was it really the space craft's computer? Come on, I know how you spend your nights. You've been hacking again!
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Corinna John wrote:
[Lieutenant] Well, I guess it didn't write the program itself. There has been a subatomic string plasma generator mentioned in last week's CP newsletter.
:laugh:
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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Amaranth is a grain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_grain ^ "Amaranth has been cultivated as a grain for 8,000 years. The yield of grain amaranth is comparable to rice or maize. It was a staple food of the Aztecs, and was used as an integral part of Aztec religious ceremonies. Its cultivation was banned by the conquistadores in 1516. Because the plant has continued to grow as a weed since that time, its genetic base has been largely maintained. Research on grain amaranth began in the US in the 1970s. By the end of the 1970s, a few thousand acres were being cultivated. Much of the grain currently grown is sold in health food shops." I tastes great with other grains or with noodles. The only thing I dislike about amaranth is that is has to soak in warm water for 30 minutes before you can cook the rest of the meal. -- modified at 5:05 Friday 16th November, 2007
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Corinna John wrote:
has to lie in warm water for 30 minutes before you can cook the rest of the meal.
I like to do that, too.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Only potatoes and rice would become a little boring over the years. I tried several exotic grains I could find at our three local health shops. My first favorite is amaranth, my second favorite is quinoa ^. I also tried millet ^, but it tastes like wet sand and I can't understand why my birds like it.
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Corinna John wrote:
but it tastes like wet sand
LOL - that sums up my experience of health food. We don't eat much potatoes or rice, excepting that I *love* curries. We only eat potatoes a lot in the summer, when I cook them on the BBQ, and when we are growing our own. I grow my own veggies, so we eat a lot of different veggies. By 'meat and potatoes' I more meant that I'm not that adventurous with the ingredients I cook with.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Only potatoes and rice would become a little boring over the years. I tried several exotic grains I could find at our three local health shops. My first favorite is amaranth, my second favorite is quinoa ^. I also tried millet ^, but it tastes like wet sand and I can't understand why my birds like it.
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Yesterday evening I was just about to continue writing an article for CP, when I thought: Let's cook something for supper, before diving into the code! Soup with noodles and amaranth, yes, that sounds simple and can nearly cook itself while I'm writing. So I filled water and amaranth into pot, put it onto the cooker and left the kitchen... About two hours later I had forgotten all about food. As I left my computer to go to the bathroom, a strange smell of smoke tickled my nose. I wondered where the strange smell came from and for a second I thought it might have come from the hall through the closed door. But then the harddisk in my head started to work ... SCREAM!!!! I took a deep breath, ran into the kitchen (which was a single grey cloud), turned off the cooker and opened the window. Then I ran back into the living room to continue breathing. the kitchen was nothing but smoke, the hall began to stink as well. Well, it's really not the first time I forget my food on the cooker. So I calmed down quickly and started coding again. When the smoke in the kitchen had cleared a little, I returned to check the smell. It didn't get any better. Again, the rarely used parts of my brain started working ... of course, there's more and more smell coming out of the pot! So I put the pot out onto the terrace. Out there in the night, in cool fresh air and this winter's first snow (yes, last night I saw the first snowflakes fall!), I could take a closer look at the thing. There were black marks all over the lid, the plastik knob on top of it had little blisters. Damn it, my only small pot had experienced some kind of meltdown! As I said before, it wasn't the first time my food burned whil I was writing or coding. I happend quite often since last year. Until a year ago, I hadn't had a kitchen and the cooker had been standing in my living room, together with the computer... Well, it was just another coding night without supper. But it was the first time there was thick smoke in my apartment and also the first time I destroyed the kitchen hardware. Someday I'll starve (in the morning my "body mass index" was 18.1, I can't afford getting any thinner) or I'll burn inside my apartment and my gravestone will say: Died of C# overdose and CodeProject addiction. Anyway, I think I'll finish the article next weekend. :) Have a nice day (and cold food) coco
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So your motto can be "Death before Disconnection".:-D
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code-frog wrote:
But now we have some real concerns about your cooking.
Naw, I would have just cooked some chili for her. "Don't worry, Hon, finish your article, I'll have dinner on the table in another hour and everything cleaned up and defumigated. You just finish up and I'll knock gently at the door and remind you dinner is ready." After all, any excuse is a good reason for chili. Global Warming? lets eat some chili. Ice Age coming? lets eat some chili. Recession? Depression? Lets eat some chili. Earthquake? Plague? Flaming Hail? Seventh Seal is opened? time for Chili!! But I am taken.... hmmmm by someone who thinks pepper is hot.... hmmmm.... oh well, it happens. :-D At least she encourages me to have some chili from time to time, this is a very good thing. Life without chili is very cold....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
But now that the pan is already melted, how can you tell when it's done?
This blanket smells like ham
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Reminds me of the time my mother was steaming some vegetable and the steamer pot exploded! Good thing is she was away from the explosion and the force of, bad thing was it cracked our stove's top, and the kitchen walls, roof and cupboards were covered with vegetables! The ironic thing was the pot was clean however... Anyways the above probably tells you I'm living with my parents (when I get an actual secure job that doesn't bore me I'll move), but when I think of it my diet will be just BREAD. Bread and butter for bfast, bread and peanut butter for lunch and dinner. I should thank you actually, I've now realized all I need in my kitchen is a toaster, and a fridge for the butter :laugh:
My brother left a glass baking dish setting on an electric burner that wasn't quite off. After a day it exploded showering the kitchen with glass. Good thing nobody was there at the time.
This blanket smells like ham
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Only potatoes and rice would become a little boring over the years. I tried several exotic grains I could find at our three local health shops. My first favorite is amaranth, my second favorite is quinoa ^. I also tried millet ^, but it tastes like wet sand and I can't understand why my birds like it.
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I need to try some amaranth, since I really like quinoa. At least you only have to rinse that not soak it. I make these quinoa stuffed peppers topped with feta or goat cheese.
This blanket smells like ham
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{HUMOR}This whole post is me having fun with the statement, "If she could cook I'd marry her."{/HUMOR}{SEXIST}Potentially Sexist and I want that to be funny. Women are not expected to cook in my house. I do 50% of the cooking or more if I have the time.{/SEXIST} So you are attractive and smart. Your articles here are a great read. I think a lot of guys might have been interested. But now we have some real concerns about your cooking. You've really thrown some unhandled exceptions for those of us who are male and single. I think you need to absolve yourself by writing a good article based upon timers and reminders that way your computer can prompt you to provide proper care for your meals in preparation while you work on CP content. Maybe even a cooking class would be appropriate I mean... every recipe I've ever made did convey some responsibility to the preparer for time management. You really need to get a handle on this before it gets out of hand. You could be single forever!:laugh: DISCLAIMER: This entire post was tinged with bits of sexism, male stupidness and general stereotypes. The author of this post readily admits the problem but begs forgiveness as he meant the whole to be innocently funny and hopes he offended nobody with his blatant acts of stupid humor.:rose: Carry on!:-D
Rex, Rex, Rex. You do know that you and I will have to fight while humming West Side Story don't you. She's mine, all mine. Buwahahahah. Tell you what - you can have Vikram in return.;P
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So your motto can be "Death before Disconnection".:-D
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Where can I get a shirt with those words on it?
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I need to try some amaranth, since I really like quinoa. At least you only have to rinse that not soak it. I make these quinoa stuffed peppers topped with feta or goat cheese.
This blanket smells like ham
Quinoa with feta - I have to try that! :) But not before the project is finished, because, you know...
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Where can I get a shirt with those words on it?
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If you want to invest some cash you can. Just get a shirt without any text and go to these shops (no idea how is it called) where they can paint on it whatever you want.
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Pawel Krakowiak wrote:
I mostly forget about my tea
Usually I mix such tea with cold water. Tastes like iced tea.
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Corinna John wrote:
Usually I mix such tea with cold water. Tastes like iced tea.
It doesn't taste good with gassed water, though. :P And of course I prefer hot tea. I even prefer hot tea in summer (at home!) - it still helps with thirst.
Kind regards, Pawel Krakowiak Miraculum Software[^]
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Where can I get a shirt with those words on it?
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If you just want simple text you can open your own cafepress store, upload the image with text you made by screen shotting word and then buy it.
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