Brownies, but in cookie form. Bonus: no eggs, so even the squeamish can eat it raw!
INGREDIENTS:
A box of brownie mix
About a cup of apple sauce
A little bit of vanilla soy milk (you could use regular milk or even water, but I like this because it adds body and it's what I have on hand)
optional: extra flour
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 400.
Mix the apple sauce into the brownie mix. It will take a while before it starts looking wet. Add just enough soy milk to make a thick batter. (I added a bit too much at first, so I added some extra cake flour to thicken it back up a bit.) Chocolate chips or nuts would be tasty too.
Let it rest for a few minutes to thicken.
Dollop onto your favorite nonstick baking surface. Give 'em space because they want to spread. Bake 8-12 minutes (until no longer wet), then remove to cool. I recommend eating them as soon as possible without burning your mouth because that severely impedes enjoyment.
Make sure the pan cools completely before you put the next batch on, you don't want too much extra spreading.
(photos coming soon)
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
08 July 2012
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30 August 2010
What do you do with 11 pounds of tomatoes?
SAUCE, that's what.
4 smallish onions, coarsely chopped
A big old bag of dried basil, since I couldn't find fresh.
11 pounds of organic heirloom tomatoes ($10), coarsely chopped
This is what was left after I was done attacking them:
Stems and split parts
A few nasty ones
It all came together into this:
Added a few big glugs of balsamic vinegar, some white wine, and a whole bunch of spices that I thought went with it.
Simmered for h-o-u-r-s, stirring often. After a while I hit it with my stick blender, and let it keep going for a while. Lots of salt and pepper.
MMMMMMdelicious. Most of this is destined for the freezer.
4 smallish onions, coarsely chopped
A big old bag of dried basil, since I couldn't find fresh.
11 pounds of organic heirloom tomatoes ($10), coarsely chopped
This is what was left after I was done attacking them:
Stems and split parts
A few nasty ones
It all came together into this:
Added a few big glugs of balsamic vinegar, some white wine, and a whole bunch of spices that I thought went with it.
Simmered for h-o-u-r-s, stirring often. After a while I hit it with my stick blender, and let it keep going for a while. Lots of salt and pepper.
MMMMMMdelicious. Most of this is destined for the freezer.
22 June 2010
Cooking Adventures: Pesto Pasta with Beans
This is part of clearing out the food that we still have. Also, it's a tasty vegan meal! And easier than pie.
Step one: the beans. I have here 1/3 cup each of dried pinto, small red, and kidney beans. Sort to remove rocks, rinse well, cover with a few inches of water, bring to a boil, turn off the heat, and then let sit covered for an hour.
Cover with fresh cold water, and simmer for an hour. Drain.
While the beans are simmering, cook the pasta according to the package directions (I have fettucine, but something like rotini or medium/large shells would be better).
Drain the pasta. Combine beans and pasta and toss with one jar of pesto.
Serve hot, with parm if you want (but we don't have any). Delicious!
Step one: the beans. I have here 1/3 cup each of dried pinto, small red, and kidney beans. Sort to remove rocks, rinse well, cover with a few inches of water, bring to a boil, turn off the heat, and then let sit covered for an hour.
Cover with fresh cold water, and simmer for an hour. Drain.
While the beans are simmering, cook the pasta according to the package directions (I have fettucine, but something like rotini or medium/large shells would be better).
Drain the pasta. Combine beans and pasta and toss with one jar of pesto.
Serve hot, with parm if you want (but we don't have any). Delicious!
21 June 2010
Moving is hard pt. 1: food
What we have:
Monday: dinner: mashed potatoes, carrots, blueberries, apple pie
Tuesday: breakfast: waffles, blueberries
lunch:
dinner: pasta, beans, pesto
Wednesday: breakfast: cereal
lunch: peanut butter sandwiches
dinner: Tuesday leftovers
Thursday: breakfast:
lunch: Sai Ram or India Dabar
Dinner: Tuesday leftovers
Friday: breakfast:
lunch: peanut butter sandwiches
dinner: Zatarain's with fried tofu
Saturday: brunch:
dinner: tailgate party
Sunday: breakfast:
lunch:
dinner: pizza with friends, lots of liquor, give away some stuff
Monday: breakfast: dry cereal
lunch: pb
dinner: on road
- pasta
- pesto
- beans
- tofu
- Zat rice and a can of tomatoes
- a chicken breast
- apple pie
- granola bars (good for travel)
- craisins (travel)
- sunflower seeds (travel)
- cereal
- pancake mix
- syrup
- chicken stock
- carrots
- blueberries
- liquor
- cooking oils
- balsamic vinegar
Monday: dinner: mashed potatoes, carrots, blueberries, apple pie
Tuesday: breakfast: waffles, blueberries
lunch:
dinner: pasta, beans, pesto
Wednesday: breakfast: cereal
lunch: peanut butter sandwiches
dinner: Tuesday leftovers
Thursday: breakfast:
lunch: Sai Ram or India Dabar
Dinner: Tuesday leftovers
Friday: breakfast:
lunch: peanut butter sandwiches
dinner: Zatarain's with fried tofu
Saturday: brunch:
dinner: tailgate party
Sunday: breakfast:
lunch:
dinner: pizza with friends, lots of liquor, give away some stuff
Monday: breakfast: dry cereal
lunch: pb
dinner: on road
13 July 2009
Pizza so good, the smoke alarm went off
SO GOOD.
Jiffy crust, Contadina sauce, mozzarella cheese, chopped onion, diced green pepper, a few olives, and Copp's pork pizza sausage.
Jiffy crust, Contadina sauce, mozzarella cheese, chopped onion, diced green pepper, a few olives, and Copp's pork pizza sausage.
16 August 2008
Festival Fussili
First, I want everyone to appreciate that typing is hard right now: I changed my keyboard to Dvorak last week (after many years of QWERTY mastery), and I'm super-caffeinated right now!! So I'm typing the wrong letters really fast.
Yesterday was my first Friday in my new (and completely awesome!) room -- no more dorm!! To celebrate, I got out the wine and headed down to my fantastic small-house kitchen (for those who don't know, it's essentially a frat house, just without the frat). I call my creation Festival Fussili because I was celebrating the weekend and most of the ingredients came from Festival Foods (my favorite grocery store). This is an easy and delicious half-hour meal! Impress your friends!
You will need:
1 lb box whole wheat fussili (or other bite-size pasta, like rotini or penne)
1 bottle white wine (I used a Pinot Grigio)
3/4 to 1 lb whole shrimp, peeled (mine had tails)
2 medium onions, coarsely chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
3 green peppers, chopped into bite-size pieces
5 roma tomatoes
olive oil
parsley, oregano, rosemary, black pepper, salt
grated cheese (parmesan, romano, etc.)
Put the pasta water on to boil (salted, naturally). Heat a few tbsp of oil in a big frying pan (mine's ~14"), then add the shrimp and cook gently until they're fully pink. Remove to a plate, and take any stray bits of shells or tails out of the pan.
By now the water should be boiling; add the pasta and set the timer. Open the wine and pour yourself a glass, but don't drink too much yet!
Add a few more tbsp of oil to the pan, and saute the onions and garlic until the onions start to soften (1-2 minutes). Then stir in the peppers, half a glass of wine, and a cup or so of water (so it's about halfway submerged -- this will cook off).
Get your tomatoes, slice them in half on the equator, and squeeze the guts into your other veggies. Yum! Give that a good stir and make sure it's simmering happily. Then dice what's left of your tomatoes and toss them in along with the parsley, oregano, rosemary, black pepper, and salt to taste (don't over-salt! you can always add more at the table).
Let that cook, stirring occasionally (add more water if it gets dry), until the pasta's done. Drain, and add it and the shrimp to the veggies. Mix it all together, and take it off the heat when most of the liquid is gone (which shouldn't take more than a minute).
Serve sprinkled with cheese and a glass of wine.
(Picture coming soon!)
Yesterday was my first Friday in my new (and completely awesome!) room -- no more dorm!! To celebrate, I got out the wine and headed down to my fantastic small-house kitchen (for those who don't know, it's essentially a frat house, just without the frat). I call my creation Festival Fussili because I was celebrating the weekend and most of the ingredients came from Festival Foods (my favorite grocery store). This is an easy and delicious half-hour meal! Impress your friends!
You will need:
1 lb box whole wheat fussili (or other bite-size pasta, like rotini or penne)
1 bottle white wine (I used a Pinot Grigio)
3/4 to 1 lb whole shrimp, peeled (mine had tails)
2 medium onions, coarsely chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
3 green peppers, chopped into bite-size pieces
5 roma tomatoes
olive oil
parsley, oregano, rosemary, black pepper, salt
grated cheese (parmesan, romano, etc.)
Put the pasta water on to boil (salted, naturally). Heat a few tbsp of oil in a big frying pan (mine's ~14"), then add the shrimp and cook gently until they're fully pink. Remove to a plate, and take any stray bits of shells or tails out of the pan.
By now the water should be boiling; add the pasta and set the timer. Open the wine and pour yourself a glass, but don't drink too much yet!
Add a few more tbsp of oil to the pan, and saute the onions and garlic until the onions start to soften (1-2 minutes). Then stir in the peppers, half a glass of wine, and a cup or so of water (so it's about halfway submerged -- this will cook off).
Get your tomatoes, slice them in half on the equator, and squeeze the guts into your other veggies. Yum! Give that a good stir and make sure it's simmering happily. Then dice what's left of your tomatoes and toss them in along with the parsley, oregano, rosemary, black pepper, and salt to taste (don't over-salt! you can always add more at the table).
Let that cook, stirring occasionally (add more water if it gets dry), until the pasta's done. Drain, and add it and the shrimp to the veggies. Mix it all together, and take it off the heat when most of the liquid is gone (which shouldn't take more than a minute).
Serve sprinkled with cheese and a glass of wine.
(Picture coming soon!)
14 September 2007
Choclava
Ingredients:
24 sheets phyllo dough
1 jar Nutella, warmed slightly in microwave (3-5 seconds)
1 cup finely-chopped almonds, toasted
cinnamon sugar
cooking spray (e.g. Pam; butter flavored is best)
1 tbsp butter, melted
Equipment:
damp towel
cutting or pastry board
two spoons
baking pan covered with silicone baking sheet or parchment paper
pastry brush
Keep phyllo dough covered with a damp towel when not in use so it doesn't dry out.
To make Choclava:
Place one sheet of dough the wide way on board. Spray lightly with Pam.
Using two spoons, scoop about a tablespoon of Nutella and carefully drop it in a "slug" approximately 2 inches long, centered on the leftmost short edge. Be careful not to touch the phyllo, since it will stick to the Nutella and tear.
Sprinkle Nutella with almonds, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar down the length of the dough.
Fold the top third of the sheet down and the bottom third up, then, starting at the Nutella end, roll gently but somewhat tightly. Place on your baking sheet with the open end down.
Make 24 (or however many sheets you have).
Brush with melted butter, and sprinkle again with cinnamon sugar.
Bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 8-10 minutes, until browned.
Let cool, serve with chocolate sauce if desired. Great with really strong coffee!
24 sheets phyllo dough
1 jar Nutella, warmed slightly in microwave (3-5 seconds)
1 cup finely-chopped almonds, toasted
cinnamon sugar
cooking spray (e.g. Pam; butter flavored is best)
1 tbsp butter, melted
Equipment:
damp towel
cutting or pastry board
two spoons
baking pan covered with silicone baking sheet or parchment paper
pastry brush
Keep phyllo dough covered with a damp towel when not in use so it doesn't dry out.
To make Choclava:
Place one sheet of dough the wide way on board. Spray lightly with Pam.
Using two spoons, scoop about a tablespoon of Nutella and carefully drop it in a "slug" approximately 2 inches long, centered on the leftmost short edge. Be careful not to touch the phyllo, since it will stick to the Nutella and tear.
Sprinkle Nutella with almonds, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar down the length of the dough.
Fold the top third of the sheet down and the bottom third up, then, starting at the Nutella end, roll gently but somewhat tightly. Place on your baking sheet with the open end down.
Make 24 (or however many sheets you have).
Brush with melted butter, and sprinkle again with cinnamon sugar.
Bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 8-10 minutes, until browned.
Let cool, serve with chocolate sauce if desired. Great with really strong coffee!
08 August 2007
oh man, guys!!
I just finished my paper!! Well, a preliminary sort of "finished," at any rate. Dr. Rumstay will look it over when his email decides to start working again. The pictures aren't working right, but we can leave that to Matt to figure out when I send it to him.
In other news, the space shuttle Endeavor launches this evening from KSC at about 6:30 EDT. We're 200 miles away and it's daytime so we probably won't see anything, but I intend to find it on TV and watch that. As of this writing, you've got 2 hours to find it; I'm pretty sure all the major news networks will be covering it.
I've got one more day in Valdosta, which means I'm going to spend tonight and most of tomorrow trying to pack, and going to the post office to ship some things home (for example, my 20# of pots and pans). Got some food to finish, too... two more containers of pasta leftovers, leftovers from the place we went for lunch yesterday, half a pizza, and a whole bunch of ingredients that I don't care enough about to bring back (though I think my spices will be making the trip).
Friday's going to be a busy day... I get up at 4AM to catch my 6:30 flight, and then I have a 2-hour layover in Atlanta and get into Milwaukee at 11. Though if I'm lucky there'll be an earlier flight that I can get on; I'll call if that's the case! After that I'm heading to Appleton -- the plan is that Erik will make sandwiches for lunch, and we'll head to the Fashion in Film exhibit in Oshkosh right away since it closes at 4. Then we'll be back in 'Tosa for dinner.
Saturday we're going to the Simpsons movie with Katy and Amanda (and anyone else who wants to come, time TBA but as early as possible), then stopping by Mayfair so Erik can see the Apple store and play with an iPhone (I promised him) and so I can see about buying some bleach and purple (note to self: call Hot Topic to make sure it's in stock). Then we'll head to Sendik's and Indian Groceries & Spices to buy the ingredients with which we will make dinner (expect something containing curry and perhaps saffron).
Sunday is State Fair with Katy's family!! When we get back from that we'll start heading up to Appleton again -- the plan is we'll have dinner there, and then I'll help Erik move into Swing House (and, I suppose, Jason and Corey into Hiett and everyone/everywhere) and bring my bike home.
Right now, Georgia is in the grips of a huuuge heat wave. Yahoo says it's 96, Google says it's 36, and Martha says places up north (well, "up north" for Georgia) are having record highs. I spent the day in the office writing my paper while I hid from the Sun and waves of incoming freshmen.
And apparently I've become a windbag. I'll leave it at that.
In other news, the space shuttle Endeavor launches this evening from KSC at about 6:30 EDT. We're 200 miles away and it's daytime so we probably won't see anything, but I intend to find it on TV and watch that. As of this writing, you've got 2 hours to find it; I'm pretty sure all the major news networks will be covering it.
I've got one more day in Valdosta, which means I'm going to spend tonight and most of tomorrow trying to pack, and going to the post office to ship some things home (for example, my 20# of pots and pans). Got some food to finish, too... two more containers of pasta leftovers, leftovers from the place we went for lunch yesterday, half a pizza, and a whole bunch of ingredients that I don't care enough about to bring back (though I think my spices will be making the trip).
Friday's going to be a busy day... I get up at 4AM to catch my 6:30 flight, and then I have a 2-hour layover in Atlanta and get into Milwaukee at 11. Though if I'm lucky there'll be an earlier flight that I can get on; I'll call if that's the case! After that I'm heading to Appleton -- the plan is that Erik will make sandwiches for lunch, and we'll head to the Fashion in Film exhibit in Oshkosh right away since it closes at 4. Then we'll be back in 'Tosa for dinner.
Saturday we're going to the Simpsons movie with Katy and Amanda (and anyone else who wants to come, time TBA but as early as possible), then stopping by Mayfair so Erik can see the Apple store and play with an iPhone (I promised him) and so I can see about buying some bleach and purple (note to self: call Hot Topic to make sure it's in stock). Then we'll head to Sendik's and Indian Groceries & Spices to buy the ingredients with which we will make dinner (expect something containing curry and perhaps saffron).
Sunday is State Fair with Katy's family!! When we get back from that we'll start heading up to Appleton again -- the plan is we'll have dinner there, and then I'll help Erik move into Swing House (and, I suppose, Jason and Corey into Hiett and everyone/everywhere) and bring my bike home.
Right now, Georgia is in the grips of a huuuge heat wave. Yahoo says it's 96, Google says it's 36, and Martha says places up north (well, "up north" for Georgia) are having record highs. I spent the day in the office writing my paper while I hid from the Sun and waves of incoming freshmen.
And apparently I've become a windbag. I'll leave it at that.
24 July 2007
post #42
Hi evrybody!! Not much to say... still making progress on the number-crunching front, and I've started work on my talk and paper (finally!).
Mostly, I wanted to post pictures of the sushi (not real pictures, just from the internet) I had yesterday. It was awesome! So here goes.
Nigiri ikura: salmon eggs, rice, and nori (seaweed). VERY strange (they pop in your mouth), but now I've tried it.
Nigiri unagi: barbecued eel on rice, with a little strip of nori. Always a favorite!
Nigiri sake (foreground): raw salmon on rice. Mine was a little paler than this and absolutely delicious. Also this restaurant doesn't put the wasabi under the fish for you, so I didn't have to take it off!! :)
House specialty roll: This picture isn't actually it, but it looks sort of the same. The one I had had four different fish and avocado! Unfortunately, there wasn't much of it (only half of what's in the picture there) and it was expensive. But it was still tasty.
Finally, edamame!!! Soooooo good! But they take a long time to eat them one by one with chopsticks :) Mine didn't have quite this much salt on them..
Anyway, that's it, and I'm hungry now. See you all soon!
Mostly, I wanted to post pictures of the sushi (not real pictures, just from the internet) I had yesterday. It was awesome! So here goes.
Nigiri ikura: salmon eggs, rice, and nori (seaweed). VERY strange (they pop in your mouth), but now I've tried it.
Nigiri unagi: barbecued eel on rice, with a little strip of nori. Always a favorite!
Nigiri sake (foreground): raw salmon on rice. Mine was a little paler than this and absolutely delicious. Also this restaurant doesn't put the wasabi under the fish for you, so I didn't have to take it off!! :)
House specialty roll: This picture isn't actually it, but it looks sort of the same. The one I had had four different fish and avocado! Unfortunately, there wasn't much of it (only half of what's in the picture there) and it was expensive. But it was still tasty.
Finally, edamame!!! Soooooo good! But they take a long time to eat them one by one with chopsticks :) Mine didn't have quite this much salt on them..Anyway, that's it, and I'm hungry now. See you all soon!
11 July 2007
COOKIESCOOKIESCOOKIES!!!!
Hello, gentle readers! Recent developments in the life of Sarah are, most notably, that I will be able to swim for legitimately soon (just need to pay $25 and have the secretary set up my card), and that I have baked cookies!! The first ones out of the oven were sort of weird, but after that they started looking more normal.. perhaps they need more molasses. Either way, I don't think I have enough peanut butter to have another go. Also, on Saturday I'm going to see Frog and Toad with Rachel (Ken's daughter) and one of her friends. It should be a good time :)
That's it for now, further updates as events warrant.
That's it for now, further updates as events warrant.
06 July 2007
weekend haps
Hello, readers! Work is as unexciting as ever, hence the update here. Martha and I are going to First Friday this evening -- it's a mini-festival that Valdosta has downtown on the first Friday of each month, and there's food and music and so forth. It should be a good time! At some point I will get to a grocery store and buy some strawberries and eggs so I can make Kaiserschmarren.. I probably need milk, too.
I called the Rec center about swimming.. left a message, haven't heard back yet. I'll stop by on Tuesday morning if I don't hear anything by then, since I want to swim!
Had a nice, relaxing 4th.. saw Ratatoullie, and had some blue crab sushi for lunch :) Yummy! Then Martha and I went to the fireworks, which we ended up watching from the parking lot behind Sear's because it wasn't as congested as everywhere else, and had some ice cream.. all in all, it was a good day.
That's all for now!
I called the Rec center about swimming.. left a message, haven't heard back yet. I'll stop by on Tuesday morning if I don't hear anything by then, since I want to swim!
Had a nice, relaxing 4th.. saw Ratatoullie, and had some blue crab sushi for lunch :) Yummy! Then Martha and I went to the fireworks, which we ended up watching from the parking lot behind Sear's because it wasn't as congested as everywhere else, and had some ice cream.. all in all, it was a good day.
That's all for now!
03 July 2007
what a girl wants
I'm excited.. I got new shoes today!! They're pink wedge-heeled sandals, and they're so comfy and excellent!
Last night I made a key lime pie that I'm taking to the Rumstays' tonight.. I'll post a picture and tell how it was when I have internet access again on Thursday ;)
Last night I made a key lime pie that I'm taking to the Rumstays' tonight.. I'll post a picture and tell how it was when I have internet access again on Thursday ;)
02 July 2007
photometry
I guess I haven't posted anything since I finished what I was doing before.. I'm done removing noise from images (until the CD of new data from Dr. Perlman shows up), so now I'm finding the brightnesses of galaxies by comparing them to the stars around them in the images (aperture photometry). We expect the galaxies' brightnesses to vary with time, so I have to do this for every image we have since 2001, which takes a while, but isn't hard.
For some other objects, though, we don't know the magnitudes of the stars around the galaxy, so we have to do "Absolute Wide-Band Photometric Reduction", which Ken is working on because I have no idea how that goes.. it's considerably more complicated.
We had a public observing session on Saturday night because Venus and Saturn were less than a degree apart, but it was too cloudy to see anything. I did meet a family there, though, and I went to the Methodist Church with them on Sunday. I liked it a lot, and will probably go back next week. After church, they invited me for lunch and we had vegetable soup with ham.. it was delicious! They have a daughter in High School (Molly) who wants to be a physicist, and a son (Sean) who's my age (more or less). They decided they want to take me to see the attractions around here, namely the swamps and the beach in Jacksonville, so I'll probably be seeing them on several Saturdays in the coming weeks.
The Rumstays are leaving for the holiday to visit their oldest daughter, Roseanne, but I'm having dinner with them tomorrow night, and I think I'm going to bake a Key Lime Pie for that :) I got a recipe emailed to me from something or other I signed up for, and it looks like a good thing to do tonight. On the 4th, I might go see a movie .. Ocean's 13 if the major cinema is open, or 300 at the budget. Also I plan to sleep a lot :) And hopefully we'll get some rain soon!
For some other objects, though, we don't know the magnitudes of the stars around the galaxy, so we have to do "Absolute Wide-Band Photometric Reduction", which Ken is working on because I have no idea how that goes.. it's considerably more complicated.
We had a public observing session on Saturday night because Venus and Saturn were less than a degree apart, but it was too cloudy to see anything. I did meet a family there, though, and I went to the Methodist Church with them on Sunday. I liked it a lot, and will probably go back next week. After church, they invited me for lunch and we had vegetable soup with ham.. it was delicious! They have a daughter in High School (Molly) who wants to be a physicist, and a son (Sean) who's my age (more or less). They decided they want to take me to see the attractions around here, namely the swamps and the beach in Jacksonville, so I'll probably be seeing them on several Saturdays in the coming weeks.
The Rumstays are leaving for the holiday to visit their oldest daughter, Roseanne, but I'm having dinner with them tomorrow night, and I think I'm going to bake a Key Lime Pie for that :) I got a recipe emailed to me from something or other I signed up for, and it looks like a good thing to do tonight. On the 4th, I might go see a movie .. Ocean's 13 if the major cinema is open, or 300 at the budget. Also I plan to sleep a lot :) And hopefully we'll get some rain soon!
13 June 2007
2007!
Hey everybody. Just finished for the day, which involves finishing all the preliminary processing on the images from 2007 -- hopefully I can finish 2006 before I leave for Kitt Peak on Saturday morning!
What I'm doing (so far) is essentially removing all the noise from the telescope images. There are 3 kinds of noise (two from the chip and one from everything else) that I have to take out using MIRA, which is tedious work, especially when there's 240 images of one thing!
That's about all for work... I met Dr Leake yesterday, and she's giving me a big trash can and a brush and dustpan that her student left last year. Dinner tonight will be rotini with spinach and fish, and maybe some carrots. Haven't decided yet if I want to put pasta sauce on that... maybe. It sounds good, but then I'd have to use all the sauce before I leave. And it's a lot of sauce.
Also, I just bought a (really!) cheap DVD player on eBay, since the computers in here don't have DVD drives and I have no other way to watch Batman Begins! But I have to buy the cables too.. eh. This won't be more than $20 total, which makes me happy. Works-great DVD player for $0.01, anyone? Yeah, I thought so. But shipping was $13.50. Whatever. Hopefully it'll work for 9 weeks.
Oh man, I'm hungry. Time to go make dinner!!
What I'm doing (so far) is essentially removing all the noise from the telescope images. There are 3 kinds of noise (two from the chip and one from everything else) that I have to take out using MIRA, which is tedious work, especially when there's 240 images of one thing!
That's about all for work... I met Dr Leake yesterday, and she's giving me a big trash can and a brush and dustpan that her student left last year. Dinner tonight will be rotini with spinach and fish, and maybe some carrots. Haven't decided yet if I want to put pasta sauce on that... maybe. It sounds good, but then I'd have to use all the sauce before I leave. And it's a lot of sauce.
Also, I just bought a (really!) cheap DVD player on eBay, since the computers in here don't have DVD drives and I have no other way to watch Batman Begins! But I have to buy the cables too.. eh. This won't be more than $20 total, which makes me happy. Works-great DVD player for $0.01, anyone? Yeah, I thought so. But shipping was $13.50. Whatever. Hopefully it'll work for 9 weeks.
Oh man, I'm hungry. Time to go make dinner!!
12 June 2007
work!!
Great news, everybody!! ("What is it, Dr. Nick?")
So I finally now how to reduce data!! Whoop-de-do! So now I have actual work to do instead of just reading things. Only problems I've encountered so far are when some runs are missing sets of exposures, and another one had such a large image set that it crashed the program. Lots of times. But I'm familiar with Windoze so I persuaded it into submission and have conquered the problem by doing it in pieces.
The cable went out sometime yesterday, and I don't know if it's fixed yet. Another girl came through looking for someone else to call the front desk, because they didn't believe her. So I read a book and listened to the faux-pod instead :)
Uh... that's about all for now. Ken's wife invited me to dinner again, so I'm having "string pie" tonight!! Yummy spaghetti. Also yay playing with the kitties again!
So I finally now how to reduce data!! Whoop-de-do! So now I have actual work to do instead of just reading things. Only problems I've encountered so far are when some runs are missing sets of exposures, and another one had such a large image set that it crashed the program. Lots of times. But I'm familiar with Windoze so I persuaded it into submission and have conquered the problem by doing it in pieces.
The cable went out sometime yesterday, and I don't know if it's fixed yet. Another girl came through looking for someone else to call the front desk, because they didn't believe her. So I read a book and listened to the faux-pod instead :)
Uh... that's about all for now. Ken's wife invited me to dinner again, so I'm having "string pie" tonight!! Yummy spaghetti. Also yay playing with the kitties again!
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