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	Welcome To My Home... April 23, 2003 What It All Boils Down To It's just not Easter without deviled eggs, so I decided to boil some eggs and devil 'em up. Since this was my first foray into the egg-boiling world, I wisely looked up some directions on the internet. The problem seems to be, however, that our society cannot agree on how to boil eggs. Every site says something very specific and very different from every other source. You'd think it'd be an easy enough thing. I mean, the recipes all start out with "Ingredients: Eggs." How far wrong can you go? But from there, everyone's got his own staunch opinion on how to do it right. And everybody's so darn certain that his exact method is the only one that will work. I was reading these sites, and they were telling me things like I had to leave the eggs in the water for precisely seventeen minutes and forty-two seconds - but not an instant longer or I'd risk triggering an atomic breakdown of the universe (or some equally horrible outcome, although usually involving some sort of God-feared green coloration of the egg yolks). Then another recipe amazingly let me leave the eggs in the water for up to an hour. And of course, each recipe proclaimed its own egg-boiling formula to produce "perfect" boiled eggs. So I took the main points from a bunch of them and came up with my own basic egg-boiling recipe. It's simple, really. First, you're going to put some eggs in water. At some point, that water needs to boil - that seems to be the only thing we can all agree on. From there, you can pretty much do whatever the heck you want with the whole mess over the course of the next 8 minutes to an hour, after which time you will have produced a batch of "perfect" boiled eggs. Comments April 23, 2003 When you said... When you said, "do whatever the heck you want with the whole mess", you pretty much defined my cooking style. If i ever wrote a cookbook, that would be the chapter right after "Toss all the ingredients into a pan and turn on the fire". -Mike April 23, 2003 I can relate Now you know why I like Noodle Cups so much. Sketchbook. There's a nice feeling of freedom that comes when working without reference. Today I started painting and came up with a snowscape scene. You may also notice the addition of thumbnail previews to the sketchbook. These may not last long if they prove too hard to maintain, but hopefully it won't cause that much trouble. I'll probably want to redo my entire art section eventually, although I'm not entirely sure how I want to organize it. Natural Phenomenon. Personally, I was completely unaware that artichokes had the potential to spontaneously explode on their own, but the investigators seem to have no problem passing it off as a "natural phenomenon." April 24, 2003 Keeping busy Let me know if the sketchbook index is loading too slowly for you now. I'm on a pretty good connection, so I can't tell. Eventually I'll probably need to separate the thumbnails onto separate pages, anyway. I just don't know if that time is now. Meanwhile... I've gone and painted another landscape. Terminator 3. There's a new trailer up at apple.com. It is no question the best T3 trailer yet. PETA. Now they're going too far. Go ahead and make all the human handbags you guys want, but for the love of Pete, leave Hamburg alone! April 26, 2003 Anger Management I hope whoever took my glass skull dies. That is all.		Quick Links - Fun 'n Folly - Juggling Club - RF Haunt - RF Gallery News/Updates HOME - Latest Post ARCHIVE - Full Archive <- PREV | NEXT -> 4/23 - What It All Boils Down To 4/21 - Eggs and Flashlights 4/14 - Problem Solving 4/7 - Make Like a Tree 4/1 - Brainstorming 3/28 - Time to Think 3/24 - Presenting the Future of Education 3/19 - Question of the Day 3/17 - Logistics 3/12 - The Element of Surprise Previous 10 shown Read More... 8/6/02 - First Post HOME - Latest Post ARCHIVE - Full Archive
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