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Monday catch-up
Jul. 25th, 2011 01:42 pmThe possibly not interesting stuff:
Thanks to the matcha powder I got in Annapolis and a simple recipe (mix 1 tsp matcha + 1 tbsp warm water to form paste, + 1 cup milk + ½ tbsp sugar, or substitute flavored soy milk and nix the sugar), I can now make iced green tea lattes whenever I want. Take that, Starbucks! Now I never have to go there again. Matcha powder was one of the more expensive teas in the store, but it's far cheaper than buying the equivalent number of lattes. Not that I get more than a few each summer.
Ordered a new, non-broken laptop, which arrived last week. It's not perfect, but I like it overall. It's an ultraportable business model (that was on sale/rebate/employee discount for almost half off, hurrah, plus contributions from both parents as a birthday present), so it's light and should be stable with better tech support, although it also means there's no optical drive and the keyboard isn't very much fun to type on. To balance out the smaller screen, it has a webcam, six hours of battery life and several times more storage space than I was dealing with, which says more about the pitiful capacity of my old laptop than the moderate size of the new one. Anyway, I should now be able to do things like watch Netflix and save Word documents without having to worry about the system freezing.
Just in time to bring it with me on three weekend trips next month without feeling like there's a brick in my backpack. \o/
The possibly more interesting stuff:
Tried to finish the SGA tentacle dildo fic but am still stuck at ~800 words. Have no idea where the story goes after John and Rodney get on the bed. :/
Have seen some good movies lately:
( Sunshine (2007) with Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh )
( Beginners (2010) with Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor )
( Harry Potter 7.2 – with spoilers )
And in conclusion, your moment of Zen:
"If you come home and your parrot says 'Who's a pretty boy?' that's one thing. But if your monkey says it that's something else," said Christopher Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. (source)
(For a more interesting article from the same day that also centered on animals in research, try this one about a Project Nim documentary. The "hug hug hug" anecdote is pretty amazing.)
Thanks to the matcha powder I got in Annapolis and a simple recipe (mix 1 tsp matcha + 1 tbsp warm water to form paste, + 1 cup milk + ½ tbsp sugar, or substitute flavored soy milk and nix the sugar), I can now make iced green tea lattes whenever I want. Take that, Starbucks! Now I never have to go there again. Matcha powder was one of the more expensive teas in the store, but it's far cheaper than buying the equivalent number of lattes. Not that I get more than a few each summer.
Ordered a new, non-broken laptop, which arrived last week. It's not perfect, but I like it overall. It's an ultraportable business model (that was on sale/rebate/employee discount for almost half off, hurrah, plus contributions from both parents as a birthday present), so it's light and should be stable with better tech support, although it also means there's no optical drive and the keyboard isn't very much fun to type on. To balance out the smaller screen, it has a webcam, six hours of battery life and several times more storage space than I was dealing with, which says more about the pitiful capacity of my old laptop than the moderate size of the new one. Anyway, I should now be able to do things like watch Netflix and save Word documents without having to worry about the system freezing.
Just in time to bring it with me on three weekend trips next month without feeling like there's a brick in my backpack. \o/
The possibly more interesting stuff:
Tried to finish the SGA tentacle dildo fic but am still stuck at ~800 words. Have no idea where the story goes after John and Rodney get on the bed. :/
Have seen some good movies lately:
( Sunshine (2007) with Cillian Murphy and Michelle Yeoh )
( Beginners (2010) with Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor )
( Harry Potter 7.2 – with spoilers )
And in conclusion, your moment of Zen:
"If you come home and your parrot says 'Who's a pretty boy?' that's one thing. But if your monkey says it that's something else," said Christopher Shaw of the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. (source)
(For a more interesting article from the same day that also centered on animals in research, try this one about a Project Nim documentary. The "hug hug hug" anecdote is pretty amazing.)
