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Handy Milk Substitution Chart
For those times when you’ve got two milks and need something else…. Add the following to 1 cup of skim milk to approximate 1 cup of: 1% Milk: 1.5 tsp heavy cream 1 Tbsp light cream 2 Tbsp half & half 2% milk: 1 Tbsp heavy cream 1 Tbsp + 2 tsp light cream 3 Tbsp half & […]
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Emco Compact 5 Mill/Lathe
I have an Emco Compact 5 Mill and Lathe combo I purchased from a friend. However, I’m not sure what standard fittings it uses. So, I’m using this page to keep track of what they are as I find out. Mill Collets: ESX25 or ER25 More to come as I figure stuff out…
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Chicago Pizza Recipe
PrintChicago Pizza Recipe Prep Time: 6 hours, 30 minutesCook Time: 30 minutesTotal Time: 7 hours Serving Size: 9″ pan serves 2 people. 12″ pan serves 4. This Chicago deep dish recipe has proven to be surprisingly authentic and quite delicious. It has been compiled from notes found on various recipe sites and has been largely […]
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Getting closer to importing Emax disks into my ESI-32
For a while now I’ve been trying to find a way to recover my old Emax floppies. Here’s the deal: The ESI-32 can import Emax stuff but can only do so via the hateful SCSI. So, I have to take the floppies and import them via OmniFlop to an old computer and then transfer them […]
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Tom SwiftKeys (by Karen Brown Brown Brown Small Sauce Pan)
A while ago my friend John and I were playing with SwiftKey on our Android phones and made a game out of letting it finish our sentences for us. The rules were: You can start the sentence, but after that you can only select from SwiftKey’s three displayed choices. Some of them ended up insightful […]
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Think You Know What the ‘BA’ in BA Baracus Stands For, Fool?
Below is a Facebook exchange from yesterday that got a li’l silly. I first posted this: Then my friends and I kept this joke going (I’ve shortened their names and removed links to FB where desired): Geoff: “Did you say ‘no whip’ on that mocha?” – Bachelor of Arts Baracas MPH: “Please return your tray […]
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Kurzweil K2000 Service Manual and Other Data
I’ve started working on repairing the messed up K2000 I got for $25 from Guitar Center. There was a service manual available online, but it was just an image scan. Thus it was really a pain for searching through. This reminds me why I hated using print manuals back when I repaired synths. Not that […]
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Batch renaming files using Excel
Pardon the repost of the internet, but this is a handy trick that I occasionally forget. I’m putting it here to remind myself, really. Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs
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Print Directory Listing
Have you ever needed to print a list of all the files in a directory? Sure, we all have. But unless you’re a DOS kind of person it’s a real pain in Windows. Well, now with the new Print Directory Listing feature you can! Here’s a screenshot of the context menu in Windows Explorer with […]
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New Personal Jingle: Chris Schoen
This one’s going out to my friend, Chris Schoen. He’s a master of wearing cardigans, which, sadly, I couldn’t shoehorn into this track.