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+Just a basic recipe for moderately spicy sauteed tofu, quick and easy
+and not too unhealthy. Goes well with steamed broccoli.
+
+* Ingredients
+
+ - 14oz (397g) Firm Tofu
+ - Oil for sauteeing (toasted sesame or olive)
+
+** Marinade
+
+ - 1/3 cup water
+ - 3 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
+ - 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
+ - 1.5 tbsp pomegranate molasses
+ - 3 cloves garlic, minced
+ - 1 small serrano or habanero pepper, minced
+ - 1 tsp corn starch
+
+* Directions
+
+ 1. Cut tofu into cubes of desired size (1/2 inch suggested)
+ 1. Combined marinade ingredients except for corn starch
+ 1. Cover tofu with marinade, marinate for ~30 minutes, refrigerated
+ 1. Strain tofu, retain marinade!
+ 1. Mix retained marinade and cornstarch well
+ 1. Preheat pan with oil over medium-high heat
+ 1. Sautee tofu for ~5 minutes, tossing every 30s
+ - Alternatively, sautee for 2-3 minutes per size, flip once with
+ tongs
+ 1. Pour marinade sauce into pan, stir around occasionally until sauce
+ thickens (~6 minutes).
+
+* TODO
+
+Not crispy enough, increase sauteeing time to 10-12 minutes
+
+Use extra firm tofu, maybe press? (signs point to pressing being a
+white people thing though).
+
+increase pomegranate molasses to 2tbsp I think
+
+i think it wouldn't be terrible with only 2tbsp of soy sauce to drop
+the salt content further
+
+bird's eye peppers instead of serrano/habanero
** Basic Bean Patty
- 850g black beans cooked (2x425g cans no salt added black beans),
- ??? g after dehydrating in oven
+ - 816g after draining/rinsing
+ - 689g after drying in oven
or
- - ??? cooked from dry beans
+ - 700g? cooked from dry beans
-About ??? patties.
+About eight patties.
** Binder
- - 2tbsp vital wheat gluten
+ - 1/4 cup vital wheat gluten
- 1/2 cup panko flakes
Mix panko flakes and vital wheat gluten together.
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+#title A Not So Fancy Listing of Books
+
+
+* Douglas Adams
+
+
+
+** Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (collected)
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•••• </class> (6) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Aeschylus
+
+
+
+** Oresteia
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Prometheus Bound
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Persians
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* John Allison
+
+The author of the rather amazing [[http://scarygoround.com][Scary Go Round]].
+I highly recommend procuring the printed collections; the printing
+quality is superb (full color on glossy paper), and the long story
+arcs are much easier to read.
+
+** Looks, Brains and Everything
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Blame the Sky
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Skellington
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Retribution Index
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Great Aches
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Ahoy Hoy!
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Ghosts
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Anonymous
+
+
+
+** Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Aristophanes
+
+
+
+** The Frogs
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Clouds
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Ecclesiazusae
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Aristotle
+
+
+
+** Ethics
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Categories
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Poetics
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Rhetoric
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Marcus Aurelius
+
+
+
+** Meditations
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•••••• </class> (4) / *Nonfiction*
+
+At the time, I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on
+Stoic philosophy, and it was a fairly quick read (fifteen minutes a
+day over the course of two weeks for me). Nowadays I've read
+Epictetus, and I suggest reading his *Discourses* instead.
+
+
+* William Blake
+
+Blake is my [[William Blake][favorite]] of the English poets. His
+unique use of relief etching and watercoloring makes for very
+interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality
+[[http://blakearchive.org][complete archive of Blake's works]] online
+with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other
+things.
+
+** The Four Zoas
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+The unfinished manuscript of Blake's longest apocalypse. The
+Four Zoas divide from Albion and rage through the ages of dismal woe
+to bring about the end of the cycle of Ulro and restore the cycle of
+Beulah.
+
+
+** Jerusalem
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+The finest of Blake's Illuminated works.
+
+
+* Mike Carey
+
+
+
+** Lucifer (series)
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•••• </class> (6) / *Fiction*
+
+Of the *Sandman* spinoffs, *Lucifer* stands out as the best for
+the first half, but then the writer appears to take on far too great a
+task, and, with the introduction of some disagreeable character
+relations, fails to execute the story as well as it could have
+been. Still, it was worth reading to the end even though most of the
+stories after issue 35 or so were merely ok. If you like Kierkegaard I
+suggest issues 2, 3, and 62--they show the form of the incommensurable
+relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly.
+
+
+* Confucius
+
+
+
+** Analects
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Neil Gaiman
+
+
+
+** The Sandman (series)
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say *The
+Sandman* as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has
+written.
+
+
+** Good Omens
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read
+so-called *normal people books*, and so she lent me *Good Omens*. It
+was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book
+magazines I read when I was small and the name *Sandman*; thus through
+one book I found something far greater.
+
+
+* John Taylor Gatto
+
+Former teacher and now author-activist.
+
+** Underground History of American Education
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Nonfiction*
+
+An interesting *underground* history of the American education
+system. Available
+[[http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/][online for free]].
+
+
+* Kahlil Gibran
+
+Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not
+agree with my æsthetic sense (blah blah), but *The Madman* onward are
+all rather nice. A few of his works are
+[[http://leb.net/~mira/][online]], but I recommend scouting used book
+stores for old hardcover editions. The (late 90s onward at least)
+*hardcover* versions from *Alfred A. Knopf* are in fact permabound
+paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to
+the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more,
+naturally).
+
+** A Tear and a Smile
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••</class><class name="rating-bad">••••••• </class> (3) / *Fiction*
+
+One of Kahlil Gibran's earlier works, I did not much like *A
+Tear and a Smile* excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice").
+
+
+** The Prophet
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Sand and Foam
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+An interesting little book of aphorisms.
+
+
+** The Madman
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Homer
+
+
+
+** The Odyssey
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Aldous Huxley
+
+Perhaps the most overrated modern writer. Other people have written
+everything he has to write better and many years before he got around
+to it.
+
+** The Doors of Perception
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> </class><class name="rating-bad">•••••••••• </class> (0) / *Nonfiction*
+
+Huxley stains the name of Blake by naming this horrible
+pseudo-scientific and pseudo-poetic essay after a line from *The
+Marriage of Heaven and Hell*. Subjectivity and objectivity are
+incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is
+utterly worthless.
+
+
+** Heaven and Hell
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> </class><class name="rating-bad">•••••••••• </class> (0) / *Nonfiction*
+
+Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm
+Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.
+
+
+* William James
+
+
+
+** The Varieties of Religious Experience
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Nonfiction*
+
+[[William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience][A partially finished extended summary]]
+
+
+** The PhD Octopus
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+<quote>
+America is thus as a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things
+in which no man of science or letters will be accounted respectable
+unless some kind of badge or diploma is stamped upon him, and in which
+bare personality will be a mark of outcast estate. It seems to me high
+time to rouse ourselves to consciousness, and to cast a critical eye
+upon this decidedly grotesque tendency. Other nations suffer terribly
+from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest?
+</quote>
+
+[[William James - The PhD Octopus][Full Text]]
+
+
+* Henry James
+
+The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read:
+one) of his books, but what I did was decent.
+
+** The Altar of the Dead
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+A short novella about a man who maintained an altar in a church
+for all of his lost loved ones on the surface, but something a bit
+more beneath.
+
+
+* Gregor Kiczales
+
+
+
+** The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Nonfiction*
+
+AMOP is useful as a reference to the CLOS MOP (although less so with
+the online MOP spec), but the true value of the book lies in the first
+half of the book. It presents the design of the CLOS MOP through a
+series of revisions that fix limitations of earlier implementations
+and gradually work toward a generic and well designed MOP for
+CLOS. Through that process one is made more aware of a few general
+object protocol design skills, and gains insight into how to cleanly
+make mapping decisions customizable.
+
+
+* Søren Kierkegaard
+
+Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is
+interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused
+disagreeable.
+
+** Sickness Unto Death
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Nonfiction*
+
+I purchased this when I was looking through books at a store after
+being unable to find the book I really wanted, and I must say that it
+was better for me to have found this one.
+
+Contained within is a beautiful analysis of despair in the context of
+Christianity (really theism in general). Even if the argument offends,
+the presentation cannot. The dialectical nature of despair is
+reflected in every aspect of the work, and the method of presentation
+forces reflection.
+
+
+** Either/Or
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Nonfiction*
+
+Composed of two portions, *Either/Or* is a rather lengthy but
+rewarding read. The first book is a series of essays and a diary of a
+young esthetician; the second is a pair of long letters from an older
+ethicist friend to this esthetician. You are then left to resolve the
+conflict between the views.
+
+
+** Fear and Trembling
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+An interesting dialectical lyric contrasting Despair and Faith.
+
+
+** Repetition
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Nonfiction*
+
+He who despairs of esthetic repetition gets none; he who despairs
+of ethical repetition receieves the esthetic. Is it true then that no
+repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for?
+
+
+* Alisa Kwitney
+
+
+
+** Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* David Lamkins
+
+
+
+** Successful Lisp
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Nonfiction*
+
+After learning Scheme, I read *Successful Lisp* and was able to
+pick up Common Lisp fairly easily.
+
+
+* Mencius
+
+
+
+** Mencius
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Walter Miller
+
+
+
+** A Canticle for Leibowitz
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Alan Moore
+
+
+
+** Watchmen
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** V for Vendetta
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Thomas More
+
+
+
+** Utopia
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+I read most of Utopia in high school with the TI-89 ebook reader, but
+the way the book was split up made it a bit difficult to grasp the
+overall structure. I found a copy at a used book store one day, and so
+I read it again, and found it much more comprehensible. It is a quick
+read, and decent piece of literature. The interesting social system
+espoused resembles resembles state communism (even if perhaps as a
+negative ideal), but with an strange blend of 14th century European
+social customs.
+
+
+* Friedrich Nietzsche
+
+A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good *secular*
+counterpart to Kierkegaard's theistic philosophy. Nietzsche's
+polemical works raise important questions for anyone who reads works
+on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation
+by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay)
+only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
+polemic.
+
+** Beyond Good and Evil
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Nonfiction*
+
+A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
+pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in *Thus Spoke
+Zarathustra* in the negative form. The final chapters are very
+important (not to detract from the value of the rest of the work) if
+one wishes to understand *On the Genealogy of Morals*.
+
+
+** On the Geneaology of Morals
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Nonfiction*
+
+*On the Geneaology of Morals* is a wonderful book of three
+polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethical valuations, and the
+blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
+these valuations unknowingly.
+
+
+** Ecce Homo
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Nonfiction*
+
+*Ecce Homo* is Nietzsche's very strange autobiography and
+explanation of his own works. At points it is clear that it could have
+used a bit more editing (prevented by Nietzsche ... falling into a
+catatonic state and all), but is still a very useful book to read as
+Nietzsche explains the overall structure of his works.
+
+
+* George Orwell
+
+
+
+** 1984
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Animal Farm
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Plato
+
+
+
+** Symposium
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Euthyphro
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Apology
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Crito
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Phaedo
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Nonfiction*
+
+
+
+
+** Protagoras
+
+*Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* Luke Rhinehardt
+
+
+
+** The Dice Man
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+<quote>
+And it's his illusions about what
+constitutes the real world which are
+inhibiting him...
+His reality, his reason, his society
+...these are what must be destroyed
+</quote>
+
+A quotation from one of my [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter_of_the_Soul][favorite metal songs]] inspired me to grab
+this book; at worst it would be a waste of time. Much reward was found
+in this random stab in the dark. The book is framed as an
+autobiography of the author as a psychoanalyst, and his progression
+through life as a Dice Man after deciding to live his life through
+random chance.
+
+The style, plot, and content are equally neurotic; part comedy, part
+attack on psychoanalysis, and part deep philosophy. It was often
+difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time.
+
+
+* Neal Stephenson
+
+
+
+** Snow Crash
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Fiction*
+
+As one must read the *Bible* to understand English literature, so one
+must read *Snow Crash* today to be a nerd. In the realm of modern pop
+fiction this is one of the better books I've read; it was devoured in
+a mere four nights. Neal Stepheson may not be Milton, but he does come
+up with enganging tales. *Snow Crash* has a nice undertone of (quite
+accurate) political and social commentary that makes it worth reading
+as more than mere cyberpunk fiction.
+
+
+** Cryptonomicon
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">•• </class> (8) / *Fiction*
+
+I read *Cryptonomicon* when it was new, and at the time I thought it was
+good. It could have lost a hundred or so pages without detracting from
+the plot, but it was easy reading and didn't take very long to
+finish. The story was enganging, and the continual switching between
+the 1940s and present day slowly unravelled the tale in a nice way.
+
+I'd still have to recommend *Snow Crash* if one wished to read only one
+Stephenson novel.
+
+
+* Bjarne Stroustrup
+
+
+
+** The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition)
+
+*Nonfiction*
+
+Once upon a time I was fifteen and I read this book. It was more
+or less what taught me how to write programs just large enough to do
+useful things, and so shall forever be remembered by me. A year and a
+half later I stumbled upon a little language called Scheme and fell
+down the rabbit hole.
+
+
+* JRR Tolkien
+
+
+
+** The Lord of the Rings
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">• </class> (9) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Silmarillion
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> ••••••••••</class><class name="rating-bad"> </class> (10) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+** The Lost Tales
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
+
+* H.G. Wells
+
+
+
+** The Island of Dr Moreau
+
+*Rating:* <class name="rating-good"> •••••••</class><class name="rating-bad">••• </class> (7) / *Fiction*
+
+
+
#title Programming Projects
-All of my current, and some not so current, projects are browsable via
-[[http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse][my darcsweb]]. You might want to take a look at my [[Lisp][Lisp related projects]]
-page. I have a few things available on [[http://git.hcoop.net/][HCoop's gitweb]] prefixed with
-=clinton/=.
+All of my current, and mostly not so current, projects are browsable in
+a few places:
+
+ - [[http://unknownlamer.org/darcsweb/browse][my darcsweb]]
+ - [[http://git.hcoop.net/?a=project_list;pf=clinton][my gitweb]], and the [[http://git.hcoop.net/?a=project_list;o=age;pf=hcoop][HCoop projects gitweb]]
+
+You might want to take a look at my [[Lisp][Lisp related projects]] page too.
* Common Lisp
-#title Sometimes I Get Bored
+#title Guess You Gotta Eat
* Bread
- [[http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/pilaf_chelou.html][Chelou]] (I usually add barberries)
- [[http://www.turkishcookbook.com/2005/08/bulgur-pilaf.php][Bulgar Pilaf]]
+* Roasted Plant Matter
+
+ - [[Black Bean Burgers]]
+ - [[Basic Sauteed Tofu]]
+
* Roasted Animal Flesh
- Basic [[Beef and Lamb Kebabs]]
- 7 or 8 fresh habaneros
- Deseed and remove the inner flesh
- - Equivalent mass of fresh red bell pepper ([[http://www.ochef.com/158.htm][roasted]]).
+ - Equivalent mass of fresh red bell pepper ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527144021/http://www.ochef.com/158.htm][roasted]])
* Directions
-* Ingredients
-
- - 1 cup dried chick peas
- - 1/4 cup liquid from chick peas
- - 6 cloves of [[Roasted Garlic]]
- - 2 sun dried tomatoes (dry; not stored in oil)
- - 2 tsp smoked paprika
- - 5 tbsp lemon juice (fresh if possible)
- - 2 tbsp olive oil (middle eastern if possible; the cultivars taste
- different!)
- - 4 tbsp tahini
- - 1/2 tsp kosher salt
-
-* Directions
-
-** Preparing the Beans
-
-Just soak a cup of dried beans at least overnight in a couple of cups
-of water. Drain them and throw them into a pot with a dash of salt and
-enough water to just more than cover them (an extra half an inch or so
-seems to be good). Bring everything to a boil uncovered, and then cut
-the heat back to simmer for about an hour or an hour and a half (when
-the skins split easily they have a good texture).
-
-When you drain them save the liquid and use that when blending the
-hummus.
-
-** Tomatoes
-
-Boil the sun dried tomatoes in one cup of water with a dash of salt
-for ten minutes, drain, and cut into a few pieces to make it blend
-more easily. It adds an interesting flavor if you use a bit of the
-leftover water instead of chickpea water (I just do a 50/50 split
-usually).
-
-** And Now for the Actual Hummus
-
- 1. Prepare the beans (or be lame and use canned beans)
- 2. Throw everything together in a blender or food processor and blend
- until it is smooth
- 3. Put whatever frilly garnish to make it look better on it if you must
- 4. Take to a gathering of some sort
- 5. Goodbye hummus
-
-* Notes
-
-One time I decided to make hummus for folks and alas! I forgot to soak
-beans the night before. My strange friend came to the rescue with the
-equivalent amount of home prepared white beans and it was a good
-substitute (slightly different flavor, but the spices here really
-dominate). I used the water from boiling the dried tomatoes as there
-was no fresh chickpea water on hand and it was delightful.
-
-I just use a blender to mix everything (use what you have eh). There's
-no real need to use a fancy food processor if you don't have one;
-anyone who thinks the texture is better from that is dumb and probably
-just sucks at cooking the beans or is a pretentious jerk. Obviously if
-you have a food processor you may as well use it because it's a bit
-less annoying I'm told.
-
-When using a blender you have to use a spoon to mix it manually
-occasionally whenever an air pocket forms over the blades. At least in
-my blender getting everything into the initial paste requires blending
-for a second, mixing the solid beans into the bean paste below it, and
-repeating until it is all paste. Then I just blend it on a fairly low
-speed stopping and popping air pockets whenever they form until
-everything is consistent, and then throwing the blender up to full
-throttle for a little bit to blend out the chunks.
+* Ingredients
+
+ - 1 cup dried chick peas (or two cans)
+ - 1/4 cup liquid from chick peas (or vegetable stock)
+ - 8 cloves of [[Roasted Garlic]]
+ - Medium red bell pepper
+ - 2 tsp paprika
+ - 5 tbsp lemon juice (fresh if possible)
+ - 2 tbsp olive oil (middle eastern if possible; the cultivars taste
+ different!)
+ - 5 tbsp tahini
+ - 1/2 tsp kosher salt
+
+* Directions
+
+** Preparing the Beans
+
+Just soak a cup of dried beans at least overnight in a couple of cups
+of water. Drain them and throw them into a pot with enough water to
+just more than cover them (an extra inch or so seems to be
+good). Bring everything to a boil uncovered, and then cut the heat
+back to simmer partially covered for about an hour or an hour and a
+half (when the skins split easily they have a good texture).
+
+When you drain them save the liquid and use that when blending the
+hummus.
+
+** Bell Pepper
+
+Scorch the skin off of the bell pepper over flame or under a broiler,
+and then [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130527144021/http://www.ochef.com/158.htm][roast the pepper]]:
+
+ To roast the pepper, put the cut pieces in a baking dish with a
+ little oil and pop it into a 400°F (205°C) oven, until the pieces
+ are tender and slightly browned, about 25 to 30 minutes.
+
+** And Now for the Actual Hummus
+
+ 1. Prepare the beans (or be lame and use canned beans)
+ 2. Throw everything together in a blender or food processor and blend
+ until it is smooth
+ 3. Put whatever frilly garnish to make it look better on it if you must
+ 4. Take to a gathering of some sort
+ 5. Goodbye hummus
+
+* Notes
+
+One time I decided to make hummus for folks and alas! I forgot to soak
+beans the night before. My strange friend came to the rescue with the
+equivalent amount of home prepared white beans and it was a good
+substitute (slightly different flavor, but the spices here really
+dominate). I used the water from boiling the dried tomatoes as there
+was no fresh chickpea water on hand and it was delightful.
+
+I've used cheap blenders, decent food processors, and a
+super-expensive blender to make this. It comes out about the same each
+time. Just blend everything together at a moderate speed until it is
+whatever you consider reasonable smooth.
--- /dev/null
+* Definition
+
+Term logic is the classical form of logic used by the followers of
+Aristotle (i.e. all of Europe) prior to the advent of modern predicate
+logic. A basic knowledge of it is fundamental to understanding
+European and Greek philosophical texts written prior to around the
+mid-1800s. I have written this page as a set of notes for myself to
+assist with formulating the structure of the enthymemes presented in
+*Rhetoric*.
+
+
+* Propositions
+
+There are four categories of propositions in term logic
+
+ - A: Universal affirmative <math inline>\forall P \exists Q P
+ \rightarrow Q</math>
+ - E: Universal negative <math inline>\forall P \exists Q P
+ \rightarrow \neg Q</math>
+ - I: Particular affirmative <math inline>\exists P \exists Q P
+ \rightarrow Q</math>
+ - O: Particular negative <math inline>\exists P \exists Q P
+ \rightarrow \neg Q</math>
+
+** Relations of Propositional Categories
+
+*** A to E -- Negation
+
+Universal affirmatives and universal negatives stand in the most
+important dialectical relationship: they cannot both be true.
+
+*** I to O -- Subcontradiction
+
+Particular affirmatives and particular negatives *may* simultaneously be
+true, but they cannot simultaneously be false.
+
+*** A to I / E to O-- Implication
+
+The universal affirmative implies the particular affirmative; likewise
+for the universal and particular negative.
+
+
+ <math>\forall P \exists Q P \rightarrow Q \vdash \exists P
+ \exists Q P \rightarrow Q</math>
+
+ <math>\forall P \exists Q P \rightarrow \neg Q) \vdash \exists P
+ \exists Q P \rightarrow \neg Q</math>
+
+*** A to O / E to I -- Contradiction
+
+The universal affirmative contradicts the particular negative;
+likewise for the universal negative and the particular positive.
+
+; fix notation? -- is \not \vdash proper ... I don't think so
+ <math>\forall P \exists Q P \rightarrow Q \not \vdash \exists P
+ \exists Q P \rightarrow \neg Q</math>
+
+ <math>\forall P \exists Q P \rightarrow \neg Q \not \vdash
+ \exists P \exists Q P \rightarrow Q</math>
+
+* Syllogistic Dialectic
+
+ <math>
+ \begin{array}{lcl}
+ A & \text{R} & B \\
+ C & \text{R} & A \\
+ C & \text{R} & B
+ \end{array}
+ </math>
+
+Where **R** is one of the aforementioned relations.
+
+** Modus Ponens (Affirming the Antecedent)
+
+ <math>P \rightarrow Q, Q \vdash P</math>
+
+** Modus Tollens (Denying the Consequent)
+
+ <math>P \rightarrow Q, \neg Q \vdash \neg P</math>
+
+* Sources
+
+** *Prior Analytics*
+
+ - [[http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/aristotle/a8pra/index.html][HTML]] -- [[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/][CC by-nc-sa]] licensed translation
--- /dev/null
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--BeerXML generated by qbrew 0.4.1-->
+<RECIPES>
+ <RECIPE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Thoth</NAME>
+ <TYPE>Extract</TYPE>
+ <BREWER>Clinton Ebadi</BREWER>
+ <BATCH_SIZE>18.92705900</BATCH_SIZE>
+ <EFFICIENCY>75.0</EFFICIENCY>
+ <STYLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Foreign Extra Stout</NAME>
+ <OG_MIN>1.0560</OG_MIN>
+ <OG_MAX>1.0750</OG_MAX>
+ <FG_MIN>1.0100</FG_MIN>
+ <FG_MAX>1.0180</FG_MAX>
+ <IBU_MIN>30.00</IBU_MIN>
+ <IBU_MAX>70.00</IBU_MAX>
+ <COLOR_MIN>30.00</COLOR_MIN>
+ <COLOR_MAX>40.00</COLOR_MAX>
+ </STYLE>
+ <FERMENTABLES>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>British black patent</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.45359237</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>525.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>58.42</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Grain</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>British chocolate malt</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.22679619</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>475.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>73.57</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Grain</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Crystal 80L</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.45359237</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>80.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>73.57</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Grain</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Light malt extract</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>2.04116569</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>5.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>80.06</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Extract</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Molasses</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.68038856</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>200.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>56.26</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Sugar</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ <FERMENTABLE>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Munich Malt Extract</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>1.49685484</AMOUNT>
+ <COLOR>10.00</COLOR>
+ <YIELD>80.06</YIELD>
+ <TYPE>Extract</TYPE>
+ </FERMENTABLE>
+ </FERMENTABLES>
+ <HOPS>
+ <HOP>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Styrian Golding</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.02834952</AMOUNT>
+ <ALPHA>3.50</ALPHA>
+ <USE>Boil</USE>
+ <TIME>30</TIME>
+ <FORM>Pellet</FORM>
+ </HOP>
+ <HOP>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Willamette</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.02834952</AMOUNT>
+ <ALPHA>4.70</ALPHA>
+ <USE>Boil</USE>
+ <TIME>45</TIME>
+ <FORM>Pellet</FORM>
+ </HOP>
+ <HOP>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Willamette</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.04252429</AMOUNT>
+ <ALPHA>4.70</ALPHA>
+ <USE>Boil</USE>
+ <TIME>60</TIME>
+ <FORM>Pellet</FORM>
+ </HOP>
+ </HOPS>
+ <YEASTS>
+ <YEAST>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Ringwood Ale yeast</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.00</AMOUNT>
+ <TYPE>Yeast</TYPE>
+ <NOTES>Reusing cake from brown ale</NOTES>
+ </YEAST>
+ </YEASTS>
+ <MISCS>
+ <MISC>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Irish Moss</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.00</AMOUNT>
+ <TYPE>Fining</TYPE>
+ <NOTES>one teaspoon</NOTES>
+ </MISC>
+ <MISC>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Star Anise</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.00</AMOUNT>
+ <TYPE>Spice</TYPE>
+ <NOTES>grams</NOTES>
+ </MISC>
+ <MISC>
+ <VERSION>1</VERSION>
+ <NAME>Yeast Nutrient</NAME>
+ <AMOUNT>0.00</AMOUNT>
+ <TYPE>Other</TYPE>
+ <NOTES>2.2g wyeast nutrient</NOTES>
+ </MISC>
+ </MISCS>
+ <WATERS/>
+ <NOTES>Treat water with 1/4 campden tablet
+
+Steep grains for 30 minutes in 2 quarts water (strike 170F). Rinse with 1qt distilled water @ 170F.
+
+Treat boil water with 1g Water Crystals, 2g NaCl ("balance between malt and bitterness")
+
+Boil as per usual
+
+Add star anise 20 minutes before end of boil (whole, 2 of them or ~10-14g)
+Add molasses 10 minutes before end of boil
+
+
+* Brew Day Notes
+
+Batch was a bit screwed up ... Steve milled the grains for me, but he did not quite get the instructions and *only* milled the leftover ingredients, and for the chocolate malt which he did weigh he used the scale in ounces mode and misread 5oz as 0.5lbs. I almost gave up, but Rebecca suggested that I use a coffee grinder... I tried a bit, and it seemed OK (at least for flavor grains that don't need to be mashed...) and the following were ground that way:
+
+ - 3oz chocolate malt (weighed with my digital tea scale)
+ - 1/2lbs black patent (american six row instead of british as well)
+ - 3/4lbs 80⁰L Crystal
+
+The amounts of steeping grains are as a result of this pretty inexact--the amounts we had leftover were not recorded quite exactly, and my kitchen scale is only really accurate to 1/8-1/4lbs.
+
+The steeping process was not ideal, I used a bit less water than I should have (2quarts), struck at 170⁰F, but the oven was broken and I used a crock pot (which was able to hold the temperature of water fairly well, I think the water needed to strike at a higher temperature for that much grain but I have to calculate that... and should have used more water anyway). The final temperature was 158⁰F.
+
+After this debacle, however, brewing went smoothly. No boilovers, everything was added on time. The new wort chilling setup worked remarkably well--using ice water in a tub and a pump the wort was at 74⁰F in 18 minutes.
+
+Two star anise pods were used, and these weighed 2.7g. The recipe notes call for 10-14g because I am an idiot and have no idea how much they actually weighed :).
+
+OG = 1.072 @ 74F (1.074 corrected). I feared the ibeer would have a husky astringent flavor from the makeshift grind, but it was not. There was a strong nose of molasses and anise, with a mellow anise flavor at the end.
+
+* Fermentation Notes
+
+Fermentation did not take off for 36 hours. At the 30 hour mark I sanitized the wort stirring spoon with rubbing alcohol and agitated the yeast cake; this resulted in the fermentation starting farily quickly. I assume the yeast were compacted enough and old (the previous beer had sat on the cake for around six weeks due to unexpected scheduling problems and a member of the brewing team being sick for over a week). After it started, however, it was quite vigorous (over 4 bubbles per second from the airlock, and more wort churning than I've seen before).
+
+2011-01-16
+19:30 @ 72⁰F: Racked onto brown ale ringwood cake
+
+2011-01-17
+... @ 68⁰F No activity to report
+
+2011-01-18
+00:30 @ 68⁰F: Still no activity, sanitized wort spoon with rubbing alcohol and agitated the yeast cake to suspend compacted yeast
+13:49 @ 68⁰F: Finally active. 1" krausen, airlock bubbling 2/s
+14:35 @ 70⁰F: 3/s, 2" Krausen. Turning fan on 1/3 and adding water to tray
+22:00 @ 68⁰F: 4/s
+
+2011-01-19
+02:00 @ 67⁰F: 5/s
+13:07 @ 67⁰F: 3/s
+23:30 @ 66⁰F: 1/2, krausen receding. Fast and furious fermentation!
+
+2011-01-20
+03:00 @ 64⁰F: 1/[2s]. Replacing wet tshirt with a dry one, and removing water from tray. Krausen almost entirely gone.
+20:00 @ 67⁰F: 1.[5s]. Krausen is gone
+
+... no readings, average temp 68⁰F ...
+
+2011-01-26 @ 68⁰F: Racking to secondary to free up the main fermenter. SG = @ 68⁰F = 1.016 (1.018 adjusted, on target).
+
+* Bottling
+
+2011-03-09 -- Yeah, that sat in secondary for a while... at least it wasn't on the yeast cake.
+
+Primed with 4.3oz corn sugar in 1qt distilled water
+
+Yield: 38 x12oz bottles + 5x22oz bottles
+
+SG @ 68⁰F = 1.016 (1.018 adjusted, on target)</NOTES>
+ </RECIPE>
+</RECIPES>
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