Prompt questions:
What do you do for work, or what are you studying towards
Musical recommendations (bonus points for metal)
Useless tidbit you know (bonus points for citing sources)
Best meal you’ve had
Best place you’ve visited
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I used to not cook at all. Then I realized I can’t go on like this and started a challenge: Eat a self cooked meal every single day for a month. It was super challenging but I learned a lot (and initially wasted a lot of food due to bad planning). Now I still cook almost every day.
When you wanna know if a hobby is for you, try doing it every day for a longer time and see if you still enjoy it.
may we get some pointers on what did you start with?
I don’t remember what meals I started with. Nothing too fancy but also not too basic. In Germany we have a cooking app called KptnCook that has very easy instructions with pictures and a shopping cart that’s integrated with major grocery chains to show the exact name and price of products. It was really helpful for the beginning and they have many recipes I still cook today. I’m sure something like that exists in other countries.
In the beginning it’s important to read the recipe first before you even begin to plan it. You might need some utensils that you don’t have or furiously need to search for during the cooking process. Later on when you’re more advanced you will probably have everything (or something similar) on hand. It also helps in the preparation. Sometimes there is a step to add multiple spices at once. You can pre-mix them in a small bowl.
Do the preparation first and have everything ready. American recipes already often list their ingredients pre-cut. But in Germany it will just say 1 onion, 3 tomatoes and so on and then in the recipe it will tell you how to prepare it.
Look up Youtube Videos. It will have techniques and cool recipes. Pick Up Limes, Yeung Man Cooking and The Nard Dog Cooks are my favorite channels.
I’m an Asian (Hongkonger to be exact) and I speak Cantonese. I love sharing about my culture, most of the time including language. They don’t quite like it tho.
Meanwhile I study CS, make vector arts, play piano, and stream.
A proper Chinese always knows how to piano
Of course I do, like half of my friends
Just out of curiosity, is your username your name in Chinese?
Nope, but it is in some way related
I really enjoy butterscotch and scotch
Work: Self-employed software developer, currently designing veterinary shop microservices. Still haven’t decided if I will use Java(spring) or Python(django-rest), (or none?) Insights will be highly appreciated ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Music: EDM, Robert miles ~ children . This song reminds me how we moved around a lot when i was 3-4 yo. (My father was a civil contractor on different companies, states apart) Finally, a song that sums up the confusions I had.
Tidbit: People highly underestimate their hearing capabilities. I mean, We’re not dogs, but our ears collect more information than we ever asked for. All you have to do is LISTEN.
Best Meal: My mom’s. And yes, I know I might be highly biased on this. I’ve tried pizzahut, KFC, and every premium buffet out here. But naaah. My mom hosts catering services, BTW.
Best place: to date? High school where I was studying. It’s at the foot of Mt meru, at the gates of Arusha national park. Almost every day, we wake up to the sound of zebras and giraffes grazing high trees, takes all the stress away.
Man. That HS experience. I would give a kidney to see Africa like that
Lol, you should have seen us the day buffalo herd grazed 50m away from school fence bruv, absolutely no one got out of the hostels (of which, as a high schooler, jumping and hanging all day in the rooms). One of the guards almost got horned.
Still, I wouldn’t trade anything with this experience. I’m highly thankful 😊
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Shit.
I’m really sorry, dude. I genuinely hope you get better.
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International buyer for performance exhaust system manufacturer.
My foster child is also my niece
LOVED Belgium. Visited St Truiden, Ghent and Brussels. I cried for a week when I left I missed it so much.
I have every album by Radiohead, Bela Fleck and Medeski Martin and Wood.
Part-time cashier at a big orange hardware store while trying to get my degree in horticulture.
Best cake I’ve ever had: Chocolate Chocolate Chip by Nothing Bundt Cakes. Seriously, if there’s a location near you that you’ve always passed by, stop by and try it. Their Carrot cake and Lemon cake are also amazing.
Omg the carrot cake is delicious. Everything I’ve tried has been on point.
I have a bachelors of science dual majored in microbiology and chemistry with a masters in education and I work in IT.
I got synaesthesia, and Track_Shovel is a red and yellow name.
I don’t have synaesthesia, and Track_Shovel is a name.
Fair enough, equally valid
That’s super cool! What colour is your name
Mothra is kinda brownish-mauve, but my irl name is orange
What colour is my name?
Pale orange
What about me?
Check out gnoosic.com they have a really strong algorithm that’s great for finding bands. It’s sent me shit with 27 monthly listeners.
I am a woman who prefers short men.
So you also like them short in bed?
Ah I like bald men, especially if they have some hair left. Issue is I don’t like insecure men
Shame society perpetuates certain things to be insecure about. Just makes it harder to love people with said insecurities.
Metal
One of my all time favorite bands/albums/songs https://youtu.be/m0xgh6VfpbQ?si=nuAfWdbpD3E0eEQX
Not as much of a metal head as I used to be, but these recent albums made me feel some of the magic of it again:
Civerous - Maze Envy Anti-God Hand - Blight Year
Have you listened to any Brothers of Metal?
Nope. That’s a new name to me. Where should I start?
2 albums, so start with the first one, named Brothers of Metal. Emblas Saga picks up from there.
They’re very fun Norse themed songs.
They recently toured with gloryhammer and beast in black… And I wish I’d seen it live :-D
I work as a Java programmer, which means that I spend about 50% of my day complaining about Java. Why doesn’t it have enums like Rust? Why are there no tuples? How many goat sacrifices do the Java gods require to support named optional arguments to functions like Python? In the remaining time I have meetings, write docs, write tests, and sometimes even code. Nothing to complain about though, seeing how we are treated compared to people I know who work as taxi drivers or in elderly care, we programmers are basically treated as gods.
As for music, I like Hardstyle and Drum and Bass primarily. Examples: “Phuture Noize & Devin Wild - Waves”, DnB: “Telomic & Susan H - Underwater”. I’ll be visiting the DnB festival “Liquicity festival” this weekend so I’m very hyped right now
I work in a makerspace, that’s in a public library.
What are your tips for a library opening a tiny maker space? Some libraries near me have been given grants to have a “tool library” section, with some work benches and basic hand tools, that can be borrowed.
I think my biggest suggestion might be to try to avoid the huge industry of companies selling “makerspace” stuff to libraries, i.e. GlowForge, etc. All of it is wildly overpriced and underpowered, at the supposed tradeoff of having a lot of support. It’s a bad trade, the support isn’t worth it.
Try to build your own open source equipment, like Voron for 3d printing, OpenFlexure for microscopes, all the Precious Plastics designs for plastic scrap processing, etc. Building these from scratch is ultimately cheaper. Also, it means you’ll know how to fix anything that could possibly go wrong, since you know it inside and out
Don’t worry about not having the necessary skills/experience. It’s all very learnable by anyone, and also there are definitely members of your community with those skills willing to help out. On that note, you really want the community running this thing more than the library admin. They know what they want/need.
Pay attention to the environmental and health consequences of this stuff EARLY ON, before you invest in something terrible. Use easily compostable materials like PHA and hempwood, or post-consumer recycled stuff like PETg from used soda bottles. Get into making/recycling your own materials if/when you can.
That’s what i can think of for now, hopefully that’s at all helpful.
