August 22, 2008
After the July of Doom, I have been more active than before about trying to pare down my spending, especially in the realm of food. My parents gave me a rice cooker a while back, and rice as most of the world knows is a really good basis (or entirety) of an inexpensive meal. Also well known is the wonderful pairing of beans with said rice, a pairing with which I have been experimenting. At the moment I’ve only messed with white rice, but I hope to change that soonish. I have tried variations with black beans, charro beans (pinto + seasonings), refried, and various spices and salsas thrown around, including bacon in a couple notable meals, but I have found the winner:
This beast of a meal, provides 2 solid meals:
- 2/3 cup of rice: $0.10 (bought a 25lb bag of rice for $7, a while back)
- Can of black beans: $0.45
- 1/3 of jar of HEB medium salsa: ~$0.95
- 3 or 4 Tortillas: ~$0.20 (I actually don’t know how much I paid for this)
- Total cost: ~$1.70; Average meal cost: $0.85
Crap, I just blogged about a meal.
August 21, 2008
The decision to use caffeine for me feels like the decision to use steroids or not, if I ever did anything more physical than sailing in my life. If I drink coffee I will inevitably be twice as productive as I would have been without it (for the math inclined in the room, yes 2*0=0, but that never seems to happen) but I sleep horribly the next night, which makes the next day awful (unless i juice again).
This morning I woke up feeling awful. Not sick, not tired just a general feeling of gross. Now i’m nearing the end of my chaipuccino (oh dear God, what have I become) and dreading the consequences, btu knowing that there’s a good chance I create something pretty awesome today. If only it weren’t in Objective C.
NSBlogPost* post = [[post alloc] init];
post.title = @”Caffeine”;
post.text = theCrapAbove;
[blog addSubview:post];
[post release];
August 17, 2008
After a long summer of no internet in the house, I’m finally waiting for the Time-Warner cable guy to get here. I started setting up the network so that I can pretty much just plug it in and have it be just like home again. Here’s a diagram of how i’m actually posting this. (yay, Visio)
I’m NAT’d at least three times between the cable box and my laptop. The packet passes through whatever proprietary OS the neighbor’s wireless is running, OSX (Internet Sharing, ftw), Linux/iptables, Libux/whatever DD-WRT uses, and finally through the WinXP network stack. I’m not sure whether my living room is an abomination or a miracle.
