zero_spelled_with_an_ecks

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 1 points 10 hours ago

Realized I need to spend more time reviewing. I'm very eager to learn more but lots of it isn't sticking, so I need to find a better balance. And it's always a lot easier to read than to listen than to produce the language, but I'm enjoying recognizing more things when I scan websites and such.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Hello, I'm from the Church of Hiroshima-fuu Okonomiyaki. Do you have a moment to talk about the One True Okonomiyaki?

But seriously, what do you use for a dashi replacement? I've tried kelp dashi with mixed results among other weirder attempts to add depth to the batter.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Some good days and some bad days brain- and body-wise. Doing some coverage for classes at the dojo and had two good classes where I had people work on some bad habits I've noticed creeping into the movement of most of the students and one bad class where I couldn't remember a kata. Sleep and work exhaustion make a big difference day to day. My arms have been aching for two week due to an unrelated reason so I haven't been able to do much more than teach until yesterday as I was letting them do some healing. It was good to see progress there. Plus all the normal dread regarding the future of the US.

Also, three geese. One for each arm and the leg I'm not using to stand on.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Single day. It was work mixing cement with what was in a chemical lagoon for an ink factory. Basically the liquid would get pumped into a mixing machine and then piped over to a nearby site to make a more inert giant puck. Whoever was in charge of ratios was mixing things too thick and caused something to explode in a guy's face. It wasn't a big explosion, just enough to get the mixture all over him and into his eyes. I wasn't really dealing with any of that yet, just starting on tarball duty where anything remotely black in the area around the lagoon was considered escaped contamination and got dug up with a shovel and tossed back in the designated area. This was in summer and we had to be in tyvek suits and rubber boots which both had to get taken off and thrown out in a special way every time you left the area. But seeing what happened to that guy just made me think all this wasn't worth the risk and I didn't come back the next day.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You smell wonderful.

Giant sloth, we're in the pleistocene.

You smell wonderful in this pleistocene.

(Caption mentions Witcher et al and this is the best I can come up with.)

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 0 points 1 day ago

As an awkward fellow, having made hiring decisions twice in my life from a vast pool of three candidates each time, I hate sending rejection emails and it's legally dangerous to engage in any sort of explanation if they ask for one. Mostly I do it so they don't continue to follow up. At a larger company, I don't see a way to have the time to do it unless it's an automated system, in which case I'd advise not applying.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 5 points 2 days ago

Actually making progress on getting some minis painted. I had an unsuccessful attempt at making a pearlescent insect wing and got glitter everywhere. Going to try a different method this week. Otherwise, the sword bandits, burning undead, and hives are ready for varnishing and the komuso monks and fire wizards are coming along. My painting is adequate, so they're nothing that's going to win contests, but I'm glad to have more things painted when my friends gather to play.picture of some painted miniatures

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 2 points 3 days ago

Can't tell if it's old Anakin or new Anakin in the bottom right one...

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 22 points 3 days ago

Many criteria are used to pick best in breed for the cyberdog category including traction, the total length of wiring, and quality of audio equipment (especially the subwoofers).

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 3 points 5 days ago

For some reason when you say colorful dos games, my mind immediately went to some of the Commander Keen games. Doom also has a Commander Keen as an Easter egg in it. And Quake has a dopefish in it. So any of those if Easter egg isn't too much of a stretch.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 3 points 6 days ago

It's Elon's hero's birthday (and his last day on the surface according to Wikipedia). And the anniversary of the Columbine shooting. And the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I'm very glad that pot takes top billing.

 

When she finally came to bed to spoon and apologize, again, we fit together oddly because she was now a foot too long.

 

By the time it was too much, I didn't have the ability to do anything about it but scream.

 

Mod [email protected] posted a really creepy and pro-pedophilia post at https://lemmy.cafe/post/11105990

Mod immediately bans the two people that call it out as trolls.

Update: post is locked after two more bans

 

I didn't want her taking my other eye, too.

 

I recognized my children.

 

They had torn her apart just for fun.

 

I'm not talking about the consumption of animals here, to be clear. What I'm talking about is spending days and a bunch of money planning to kill something, doing the killing, and skinning/eviscerating what was killed, and often displaying the stuffed corpse. Hunters and fishers refuse to admit they're obsessed with taking pleasure in killing something.

Miss me with the "tradition" stuff, it's just peer pressure from the dead and a fallacious argument. Don't tell me it's to eat, like I said, I'm not talking about the consumption here, so please prove to me you are literate by not bringing up that point. And don't tell me you're respectful to the animals you kill; I don't believe the planning, stalking, and killing is a good way to show respect.

 

Looks like the hasn't made any crosswords for a while but the old ones are still available. Link goes to the themed ones and there's links to online versions in each post. Enjoy!

 

My tools serve me, not the other way around. It's not worth the time and effort to wash by hand or sharpen on a whetstone. I don't need an expensive knife to cook at home. A pull through sharpener and honing steel are adequate. Get the right material and you don't have to worry about the metal in the dishwasher.

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