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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    Pie.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,242
    Tjohn said:

    Pie.

    Pi

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    omgawwd  just saw a dforce ad on the u toobs

     

    will the rhino find luv

    was a Star Wars video ?

     

    may dforce be with yoo

    was from old John Cusack movie, fuzzie bunnies are meann, we can't let the fuzzie bunnies prevail

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

     

    CAKE!!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Tjohn said:

    Pie.

    Pi

    Pickles!

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:

    Big ol supermoon glowering from amongst storm tossed black clouds, tomorrow there will an eclipse around local midnight I think that makes it a blue moon, supermoon and at least partially eclipsed moon all at once - think anything after Jan 31 makes it not blue again :)

    It means that for the night puffins will fly backwards! :-P

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

    Sometimes true.  But I've watched high-end pro bakers produce cake so bad the judges spit it out!  BEWARD THE BAD CAKE!! :-O

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited January 2018

    If you tell me you've seen a Puffin flying backwards, I wonder what you've been puffin'. surprise  And ask if you have any more.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Tjohn said:

    Pie.

    A slice of Pi: 3.14159265358979323 ;-P

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    omgawwd  just saw a dforce ad on the u toobs

     

    will the rhino find luv

    was a Star Wars video ?

     

    may dforce be with yoo

    was from old John Cusack movie, fuzzie bunnies are meann, we can't let the fuzzie bunnies prevail

    Bunnies are deadly - there's a YouTube video of a rabbit chasing a snake up a tree! Poor snakey :-(

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    Tjohn said:

    Pie.

    Pi

    Pickles!

    Hot pickled okra, so good... :-O

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Tra-la tra-la, another day.  High's in the upper 50f's today, so window partly open.  Grocery delivery between Noon and 2pm, basics and Super Bowl food makings *chili dogs and pizza rolls).  Need to post stuff on Craigslist today or tomorrow, get rid of a pile of junque and get some ready cash.

    Now watching 'Ghost Adventures' - creepy!  Reminds me of when I was into paranormal research (yes, I've lived quite a varied life).  About 95% of hauntings are bunk, but there's 5% where there's just no explanation.  Some of the stuff I've seen.. no wonder my hair turned white before 30.. :-|

    Tater wedges cooking, then it's time to cook the chicken in Thai red curry and coconut milk! OMG YUM!!! :-)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    NVIATWAS said:
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

    Sometimes true.  But I've watched high-end pro bakers produce cake so bad the judges spit it out!  BEWARD THE BAD CAKE!! :-O

     

    you ever bake a cake, but forgot to whip the eggs first?  >.<  was my 16th birthday cake.  i put a lotta frosting, my friends ate it anyway.

    i found a cake recipe doesn't use eggs, uses a whole stick of butter. angel

    i logged into ssa.gov, according to them can't retire til 62. i'se gonna have to do a better job of saving, plan is to retire at 59.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

    Sometimes true.  But I've watched high-end pro bakers produce cake so bad the judges spit it out!  BEWARD THE BAD CAKE!! :-O

     

    you ever bake a cake, but forgot to whip the eggs first?  >.<  was my 16th birthday cake.  i put a lotta frosting, my friends ate it anyway.

    i found a cake recipe doesn't use eggs, uses a whole stick of butter. angel

    i logged into ssa.gov, according to them can't retire til 62. i'se gonna have to do a better job of saving, plan is to retire at 59.

    Y've seen eggless cake, looked pretty good.  I've also seen cake in a cup cooked in a microwave, the people eating it thought it was great.

    62?  I'm only 58.. dang!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited January 2018

    I retired at 53.  Wasn't my plan though and in the tech crash around 2001 I became just "semi-retired" (i.e. over 50 and unemployed) (old people and high priced consultants are the first to go, and I was both).  I scrimped along by fixing cheap computers for the computer illiterate, living like a sponge on relatives, and eating worms for 9 years hoping (not entirely successfully) that I didn't get really sick or break something.  But I finally took that gauze parachute called Social Security as soon as it was available. frown  And snatched at Medicare three years later when old enough (i.e. near dead enough).  Although I am happy to have them,  I do wish I had saved more when I was making more instead of spending it on My Precious (said in my best Gollum voice) things and adventures.  However, having made it this far, and shakily financially afloat I still have enough of My Precious things and have enough memories of my few maxi-adventures to keep me entertained in my fortress of solitude.  I keep threatening to write a book but I've forgotten too many names to make it a tell-all book that would actually sell. indecision

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I retired at 53.  Wasn't my plan though and in the tech crash around 2001 I became just "semi-retired" (i.e. over 50 and unemployed).  I scrimped along by fixing cheap computers for the computer illiterate, living like a sponge on relatives, and eating worms for 9 years hoping (not entirely successfully) that I didn't get really sick or break something.  But I finally took that gauze parachute called Social Security as soon as it was available. frown  And snatched at Medicare three years later when old (i.e. near dead) enough.  Although I am happy to have them,  I do wish I had saved more when I was making more instead of spending it on My Precious (said in my best Gollum voice) things and adventures.  However, having made it this far, and shakily financially afloat I still have enough of My Precious things and have enough memories of my few maxi-adventures to keep me entertained in my fortress of solitude.  I keep threatening to write a book but I've forgotten too many names to make it a tell-all book that would actually sell. indecision

    Getting old in the tech industry is pretty much the kiss of death, in my experience.  I'm going to try to freelance but I habe no illusions that I'll make it.  If I could afford a lawyer I'd file for disability but who has money? Medical bills have drained me dry.  Too bad none of my issues will just make me keel over, dang it!

    It's been one Hell of a ride, though, and who knows what the future might bring?

    I've been working on an industrial espionage novel set in Silicon Valley. Might as well get some mileage out of the 10 years I spent working for tech giants and startups... :-|

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242

    Back to watching 'Cake Wars' for a bit.  Was getting creeped out by 'Ghost Adventures', too many weird experiences in my life. :-|

    Emoji cakes this episode, huge edible smilies and such.  Eat a happy face! :-)

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,242

    I wonder if baking a cake and putting the face of someone you do not like would actually be a good idea?   But then you would have to explain why you want a photo of their smug face?

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I wonder if baking a cake and putting the face of someone you do not like would actually be a good idea?   But then you would have to explain why you want a photo of their smug face?

    It would be fun to slice it up but I'd spit it out and throw up! :-O

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,242

    I am trying out SuperFly.  it does not seem to fly super fast?

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am trying out SuperFly.  it does not seem to fly super fast?

    I thought SuperFly was a movie? I'm confused now...

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,242
    NVIATWAS said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am trying out SuperFly.  it does not seem to fly super fast?

    I thought SuperFly was a movie? I'm confused now...

    I was not thinking of a movie.  trying to get a screen shot to show what I mean.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    NVIATWAS said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I wonder if baking a cake and putting the face of someone you do not like would actually be a good idea?   But then you would have to explain why you want a photo of their smug face?

    It would be fun to slice it up but I'd spit it out and throw up! :-O

    Much more fun to put the photo on the Dart board.  When we were doing one reenactment show,  a boiling hot dry summer day, the so called "star guest" who only had to sit their and sign autographs was a bit sarcastic about our display. I think the actual words were "Have the children stopped playing now" My brother's then girl friend went and lined up and paid to get a signed photo for us to put on the dart borad on the next practice evening.  

    No names no pack drill but the so called star ended up arrested, tried, convicted and put in jail during the big scandal we had over here sparked by the revelations about Jimmy Saville.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,242
    edited January 2018
    Miss Bad Wolf said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am trying out SuperFly.  it does not seem to fly super fast?

    I thought SuperFly was a movie? I'm confused now...

    I was not thinking of a movie.  trying to get a screen shot to show what I mean.

    SuperFly is to FireFly I think as iray is to 3delight, right?

    edit to remove extra renders.

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    Post edited by TSasha Smith on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    reading the Darwin awards,  :facepalm:

    imageLawn Chair Larryimage  
    1982 At-Risk Survivor
    Confirmed True by Darwin

    (1982, California) Larry Walters of Los Angeles is one of the few to contend for the Darwin Awards and live to tell the tale. "I have fulfilled my 20-year dream," said Walters, a former truck driver for a company that makes TV commercials. "I'm staying on the ground. I've proved the thing works."

     

    Larry's boyhood dream was to fly. But fates conspired to keep him from his dream. He joined the Air Force, but his poor eyesight disqualified him from the job of pilot. After he was discharged from the military, he sat in his backyard watching jets fly overhead.

    He hatched his weather balloon scheme while sitting outside in his "extremely comfortable" Sears lawnchair. He purchased 45 weather balloons from an Army-Navy surplus store, tied them to his tethered lawnchair (dubbed the Inspiration I) and filled the four-foot diameter balloons with helium. Then, armed with some sandwiches, Miller Lite, and a pellet gun, he strapped himself into his lawnchair. He figured he would shoot to pop a few of the many balloons when it was time to descend.

    Larry planned to sever the anchor and lazily float to a height of about 30 feet above the backyard, where he would enjoy a few hours of flight before coming back down. But things didn't work out quite as Larry planned.

    When his friends cut the cord anchoring the lawnchair to his Jeep, he did not float lazily up to 30 feet. Instead he streaked into the LA sky as if shot from a cannon, pulled by the lift of 45 helium balloons, holding 33 cubic feet of helium each.

    He didn't level off at 100 feet, nor did he level off at 1000 feet. After climbing and climbing, he leveled off at 16,000 feet.

    At that height he felt he couldn't risk shooting any of the balloons, lest he unbalance the load and really find himself in trouble. So he stayed there, drifting cold and frightened with his beer and sandwiches, for more than 14 hours. He crossed the primary approach corridor of LAX, where startled Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines pilots radioed in reports of the strange sight.

    Eventually he gathered the nerve to shoot a few balloons, and slowly descended. The hanging tethers tangled and caught in a power line, blacking out a Long Beach neighborhood for 20 minutes. Larry climbed to safety, where he was arrested by waiting members of the LAPD. As he was led away in handcuffs, a reporter dispatched to cover the daring rescue asked him why he had done it. Larry replied nonchalantly, "A man can't just sit around."

    The Federal Aviation Administration was not amused. Safety Inspector Neal Savoy said, "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, a charge will be filed."

    DarwinAwards.com © 1994 - 2012
    Submitted by: Ed Greany, Douglas Walker, Walter Hecht
    Reference: UPI, Stabbed with a Wedge of Cheese by Charles Downey

    image

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I wonder if baking a cake and putting the face of someone you do not like would actually be a good idea?   But then you would have to explain why you want a photo of their smug face?

     

    ixnay muggysay acesfay no

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    ps1borg said:

    Big ol supermoon glowering from amongst storm tossed black clouds, tomorrow there will an eclipse around local midnight I think that makes it a blue moon, supermoon and at least partially eclipsed moon all at once - think anything after Jan 31 makes it not blue again :)

    ...sadly won't be visible here.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    Chohole said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I wonder if baking a cake and putting the face of someone you do not like would actually be a good idea?   But then you would have to explain why you want a photo of their smug face?

    It would be fun to slice it up but I'd spit it out and throw up! :-O

    Much more fun to put the photo on the Dart board.  When we were doing one reenactment show,  a boiling hot dry summer day, the so called "star guest" who only had to sit their and sign autographs was a bit sarcastic about our display. I think the actual words were "Have the children stopped playing now" My brother's then girl friend went and lined up and paid to get a signed photo for us to put on the dart borad on the next practice evening.  

    No names no pack drill but the so called star ended up arrested, tried, convicted and put in jail during the big scandal we had over here sparked by the revelations about Jimmy Saville.

    Snotty people suck.  But sometimes a little fame can ruin a person, this sounds like the perfect example.

    There's some first-person shotter game that lets you use a photo as a face on one or more of the bots.  Imagine shooting your least favorite persoon in the butt with a rocket launcher and watching them explode!!! Big fun!!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited January 2018
    NVIATWAS said:
    Mistara said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    ps1borg said:
    NVIATWAS said:

    Watching 'Cake Wars', a cake cooking competition.  Wow, have I learned a lot!  First, baking is all about chemistry - things have to be accurately measured or you don't get the right reaction and end up with flat cake, dy cake, cardboard cake, lumpy cake, and generally inedible cake.  There is such a thing as modeling chocolate that you can sculpt like clay, only you can eat the darn thing afterwards.  There's edible paper, edible glue, edible photo printers, and of course fondant - which is like sheets of edible firm frosting used to make smooth surfaces.  Now I know how they make all those super fancy cakes with insane details!

    I also learned I never want to bake.  So many things to go wrong and you can't bake by the seat of your pants like you can do with regular cooking...

    Also, cakes taller than four foot tend to fall on the floor.  Just a warning, I've seen some five foot tall cakes weighing over 200lbs nosedive on to the floor after 3 people worked on it for 4 hours.  Truly heartbreaking.  You need to be part architect and know strength of materials to pull off a tall, gravity-defying cake!  But when it works, it's amazing and beutiful... :-)

    Eating cake is the best part of cake making :)

    Sometimes true.  But I've watched high-end pro bakers produce cake so bad the judges spit it out!  BEWARD THE BAD CAKE!! :-O

     

    you ever bake a cake, but forgot to whip the eggs first?  >.<  was my 16th birthday cake.  i put a lotta frosting, my friends ate it anyway.

    i found a cake recipe doesn't use eggs, uses a whole stick of butter. angel

    i logged into ssa.gov, according to them can't retire til 62. i'se gonna have to do a better job of saving, plan is to retire at 59.

    Y've seen eggless cake, looked pretty good.  I've also seen cake in a cup cooked in a microwave, the people eating it thought it was great.

    62?  I'm only 58.. dang!

    ...however you only get about 72 - 75% of the benefits you'd receive waiting until the designated retirement age.  Was hoping to stick it out that long (if you don't retire until 71 you get a pretty decent amount).  However my bones, joints, and circulation system said otherwise.

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