tabacco

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  1. As odd and funny as it is to talk about lines of code, some points of reference, in school for CS we got an assignment to program tetris.  Myself and a few friends compared our (relatively) working assignments.

    My program: ~2000 lines of code

    Classmate 1: under 1000 lines of code

     

    Classmate 2: 10,000+ lines of code

     

    People who care about lines of code as a metric are hilarious to me. It's basically the worst way to measure performance. Fun fact: My net LoC at my actual job is negative.


  2. Several people reported this thread, and normally I'd agree and shut it down, but it looks like we've come to a point of civility again, so I'll leave it open. But seriously, yikes. What a garbage thread in the middle. Be adults, please.


  3. This Scoot thing looks interesting; not because I am anywhere near San Francisco, but because it looks like it might be a consumer-cooperative. I wonder if it is a co-op. These sharing-economy jobs could benefit greatly from being run by a worker owned co-op imo.

     

    It's not a co-op, sorry :)


  4. Where's the wedding? Up north?

     

    If you'll have a rental car and are interested in redwoods, I'd strongly encourage you to check out the Armstrong state reserve. It's at least as majestic as muir woods, but is infinitely less crowded. It's further away, but you can have a nice drive home down highway 1 south and do some other cool stuff along the way:

    http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=450

     

    If you want a nice photo-friendly view of the golden gate, I'd suggest hitting up Crissy Field. It's easy to walk to (or otherwise get to) and isn't as crowded as the official bridge overlooks:

    http://www.parksconservancy.org/visit/park-sites/crissy-field.html

     

    For real, please don't bother with Fisherman's Wharf.


  5. I made a pretty basic lasagne, with hot Italian sausage and spinach:

     

    First I stripped the sausage from its casings, broke it apart, and browned it up in a dutch oven:

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    Then I added a diced onion, some oregano, a bit of thyme, and let it go for a bit until the onion softened up. Then I added a large can of crushed tomatoes:

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    I let it simmer for about 10-15 minutes until it lost that raw tomato taste, then added salt and pepper and put it aside:

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    In the meantime, I sautéed some spinach with a bit of nutmeg (a quality secret ingredient for greens in cream sauces like creamed spinach):

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    Also in the meantime, I mixed ricotta cheese with some shredded parmesan cheese and an egg, and my girlfriend shredded a pile of mozzarella cheese. Behold the mise en place:

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    Once the spinach cooled enough to be touchable, I chopped it up and pressed most of the water out with paper towels, then added it to the ricotta mixture:

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    Then begins the layering. Basic order is sauce, noodle, ricotta, sauce + mozzarella (sauzzarella), noodle, ricotta, sauzzarella. I used oven-ready noodles, because although I mistrust them it's what was in stock and I didn't care to make another stop for groceries:

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    Here's a side view of the final stack before going in the oven:

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    Baked it covered with foil for about 45 minutes, then uncovered for about 10 more to brown the cheese a bit. Here's a side view coming out of the oven:

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    And sliced up:

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    Also a photo of the negative lasagna space (NLS) because it looks nice:

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