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Recipe Manager of my Dreams

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

There’s got to be a million crappy software recipe managers out there. My major concern is that each website now has it’s own version (from foodnetwork & epicurious to kraft!) –how UNinteroperable are these?! The best I get is to physically print-out the recipies. How helpful / futuristic is that? Not at all.

Gourmet to the rescue! This wonderful piece of software is only available for Linux right now, but with a little linux server in the house, what’s the problem?! :) Somewhere between running VNC to running an X-windows app over ssh (yes, in Mac!) I aim to have this app at the heart of my kitchen-future.. especially with this years promise of cheap android tablets!), as well as Gourmet’s ability to IMPORT webpages (with images!) and export them to a standard format, be it PDF to recipe-XML. (XML would then allow a web-app to be built, btw!)

Today, there’s a happy Mark.

Stoichiometry meets Proverbs 27

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Ok, so I forgot to turn off the faucet to the shower all the way today & every second there was a big sploosh. I’d say 10millilitres. So, I was wondering just how much water I’d have to pay for were it not turned off. This is a all for STOICH! It’s really easy: put everything in 2 rows. Make sure the qualifiers match top & bottom, multiply the quantities in-row & divide the top & bottom. Since the “ml, sec, hr” cancel out, that left me with Litres on the top & days on the bottom.

10 ml 3600 sec 1 L 24 hr =864000 =864 L/
1 sec 1 hr 1000 ml 1 day =1000 day

But seriously? 864? That’s a LOT! (To put in perspective, it’s .864 cubic meters too) And since I’m being charged by the 1000 gallons, after 4 straight days, I’m in the next higher payment bracket. Something to check for on vacations certainly!