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Andy's no-bean bean soup

Nov
16

Andy's no-bean bean soup

1 ham hock with meat or ham bone plus 1 lb. ham scraps
3 qts. water
4 med. potatoes, cut in cubes
3 onions, chopped
vegetables to preference (carrots, celery, corn)
salt to taste
1/4 tsp. black pepper (to taste)

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Pickled Eggs - the recipes I'm experimenting with

Aug
25

After (re)discovering the joys of pickled eggs, I've decided to try my hand at making my own. I've found two recipes that sounds like what I'll like as well as being simple and straight-forward. Over the course of my experimentation, I'll likely settle on a combination of these two.

-=One=-
3 parts vinegar
1 part water
3 bay leaves
salt (1 tsp. per dozen eggs)
eggs

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The field of purpose-built Samba PDC replacement Linux distros

Jun
30

http://www.clearfoundation.com/ (Based on RHEL... Yay!!)
http://www.zentyal.org/
http://www.resara.org/

One of these will be a component of the new Linux home VM cluster.... but which?

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Happy World IPv6 Day!

Jun
08

Companies all over teh internets are testing their IPv6 deployments as we speak (http://www.worldipv6day.org/). In general this is a good thing, but one of the many changes in the Internet Protocol destroys something near and deer to my geeky child hood. Let me explain with the following IRC re-enactment that played out over and over in my youth.

Some_D-Bag: You're such a n00b, you suxor!
Me: Whatever, go away.
Some_D-Bag: I'll show you, I'm 1337!
Me: I told you, go away.

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Facebook is EVIL! Enter Diaspora?

May
12

Over the past two years (its gotten really bad in the past 6 months) Facebook has steadily altered the default privacy settings to allow more and more of your personal data to be available to more and more people.

Currently, if you have never changed your privacy settings, the vast majority of the information you put on Facebook is fully viewable to the *ENTIRE* Internet*.

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I used to be an Owl, and a good ol' Owl too....

May
07
Here's my ASCII Owl, complete with Woodbadge Beads.

Andy
Owls, C-17-07
  __________
 / ___  ___ \
/ / @ \/ @ \ \
\ \___/\___/ /\
 \____\/____/||
 /  \  /\\\\\//
 |   \/|\\\\\\
 \   >< \\\\\\
  \______/\\\\
   _||_||_
    -- --
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Another awesome XKCD

Apr
20

Another awesome XKCD... I wonder if our cats dream this dream....

Get it straight from the source at: http://xkcd.com/729/

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Mirkwoodrom.org

Feb
15
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                  ,\'/\                     |    /    \ \   \   \ ( : M : )/   \
                ,\' /  \    /\ ,------------+------S  ====       \)  :i:  (  O
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