Ingredients (serves 5+) 50g butter 9-10 slices white bread (depending on arrangement, size of tray) 4 eggs plus 4 egg yolks 175g caster sugar 300ml thin cream 300ml thickened cream vanilla essence
Utensils: Egg beater/whisk saucepan baking dish roasting pan large mixing bowl
Directions: Lightly butter a 2-litre baking dish. Butter the bread, remove the crusts, then cut each slice into 2 triangles. Arrange triangles in layers in the dish. Whisk together the eggs, egg yolks and caster sugar. Place both creams in a saucepan with the vanilla and bring to scalding point. Pour cream over the egg mixture and whisk lightly to combine. Strain mixture over bread slices, making sure not to dislodge them. Set pudding aside for at least 30 minutes - this ensures that the pudding will be light and not stodgy. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Place the baking dish in a large roasting pan and pour enough boiling water into the pan to come halfway up the sides of the baking dish. Cover the dish loosely with foil, place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove the foil and bake the pudding uncovered for a further 15 minutes or until golden Serve immediately.
humble pi: now calculated to 25 trillion decimals! need to know: T2K Tuskuba does 95 trillion flops, calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes
most 'installations/visualisations' basically take an array of objects with flip-flop capability (on-off modes) and turn them into a 'screen'. I've seen similar large scale displays with fire, leds, shades of wood, etc.
another doomsday weapon/cheap energy source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/31/nif-scientists-set-the-controls-for-nuclear-fusion/ Didn't they learn anything from the Large Hadron Supercollider?
computers at work got upgraded. The downside being the system migration didn't go quite as planned and fluffed up my server/database settings. Add to that the new MACs don't have connectors for the older displays...pain in the a$$
fri: run, don't remember the specifics, but probably wasn't out of the ordinary sat: laze sun: had the moroccan spice chicken burger from Bitton's...man, my workmate waaaaaay overrated that. I thought it was ok...The only thing special it had going for it was the fresh ingredients, but otherwise not 'the best', as he put it...traffic was a nightmare to get thru! I hate King St!
went for a run later in the day, made 5.0km, but in 38'35" and 361KCALs, not my best, by far...my legs felt so locked up. I just think there's something really wrong with my lifestyle/diet which prevents me from running more than 2km continuously... visits since 21st sept '08: 22 #visits per mth: 14 | 8 3 mth ave: 7.33 ave cost per visit: $8.18
wednesday recap: recovering from yesterday's cold/flu work ate that enjoyo beef strog...not bad! left work early uni ceremony (amateur-like, poorly organised) received that award (dean's list for academic excellence) free food and beverages thai-riffic in newtown home
today, chronologically: 6-something: woke up, shower, breakfast (cereal, juice) 7-something: get dressed, get to PwC HQ 8-something: begin 'Insight & Conquest' session 12-ish: finish 'Insight & Conquest' session
2-ish: home with Pad Thai 3-ish: gymmed hard. 20' run, 20' bike, no swim (possibly too cold, risk to health). run til it REALLY hurt (not sick but health not 100%). totalled 300 KCALs Did 150+ reps of weights (min. 30 kg), which is alot for me 27 visits left
5-ish: home and finish off Pad Thai.
about the PwC thing-to all ppl in accounting/finance/commerce to applied: HA! In yo face! IN YO FACE! I've just proven what sham degrees you all got, cause I made it this far without having done maths or commerce for up to 9 years! Either that or I'm f#cken brilliant. Win-win for me!
But seriously, I think I'll keep my day job. I'm mostly happy where I am (socials suck, tho), but the work is ok, the pace is relaxing and the money's about the same-ish. It's more that I want to do it than anything else.
For the record: I'm applying to all these big corporate entities and such for one main reason: to prove that I'm not a loser (like you all thought I was just a few weeks ago--don't lie, I know you did!). If made an offer, I get to thumb my nose at them and reject their ass. Unless they offer me alot of moolah.
i gymmed until it hurt today. Literally. See I woke up sore, but the weather was so inviting, I had to go buff up. Getting there, I decided to reverse the exercise order and do the bike first, run second. BIG MISTAKE. Back and legs hurt during the run (but I did accomplish my targets, 20' on bike, 20' on treaddy).
Did some high-rep weights around it. Swim too. I'm finding that there exists a direct correlation between my state of physical wellbeing and my level of career advancement. True story.
Gym visits have been consistent, but my diet has not. These days, I'm sweating potato chips and sugar water. Must control my diet better. Resist temptations.
For the record, let it be known that Wellbeing town hall, a health food takeout chain near Town Hall station, was replaced by Krispy Kreme. Just goes to show, people really don't give a sh!t about the fast food they consume, as long as it's fast and satisfying.
the gore! the parmi! the chicken and salad spilling over! click to see full-size
->footlong chicken parmigiana on honey oat: -->with swiss cheese --->toasted ---->no cucumber ---->no spicy pepper ---->no carrot ----->no extra sauce ----->no salt and pepper ------>no plastic bags
I just figured out why the subway ppl cut their cheese (the slice, not the fart) the way they do: so they can tell it apart. Swiss is that golden, big mac-ish yellow, cut into rectangular halves; cheddar is the other white-yellow cheese which is also in rectangular halves; the other cheese (tasty?) is cut in triangular halves.
light upper body exercises today bench shoulders back total of 8 sets stretch
swim a bit...
went to driving range (Moore Park)--it's way expensive. Really bad at hitting the ball now, which is pretty much my whole game. It's been over a year since I've been to the driving range and I'm really rusty now. I tried improving my swing--the whole left arm straight thing and by the end of the day I got some improvement, i think. But the whole time (85 balls) I never managed more than 100m with either driver or iron (3-iron). I'm accustomed to hitting close to 200 with the driver, so that's a bummer.
Then had Lansdowne for dinner. Chicken burger as usual...not too bad...not the best ever but still pretty good.
the writing style has won me over: http://www.cracked.com/article_15819_5-movie-martial-artists-that-lost-deathmatch-dignity.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15679_5-upcoming-comic-book-movies-that-must-be-stopped.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15859_10-words-phrases-you-wont-believe-shakespeare-invented.html
Tyson, the skateboarding bulldog http://www.skateboardingbulldog.com/ when will my dog be this awesome?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins original 'the thing' script: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Highrise/3756/jc/who/bonusid.htm
superman III: the smallville cut here: http://fanedit.org/wpTF/?p=303
the truth behind chimps and dolphins: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0304/feature4/online_extra2.html http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/0999/199909outthere.html they have homicidal tendencies
i posit a theory about the recent spate of emptyness in my life: every day I go through the exact same motions as the day before and the day after--it's not that I want unpredictability, but I don't want to be grinding out an existence. Sure, not knowing what's around the corner is scary, but I'm barely alive as it is...
cranberry orange scones http://www.slashfood.com/2007/09/14/easy-cranberry-orange-scones/ http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/index.php?v=simfanart http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/index.php?v=simfanpapbks http://www.thesimpsonsshop.com/detail.php?p=22985&v=simfanpapbks http://www.mixtapetorrent.com/archive/2006/6/16 http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/17/weave-mirror-neglects-glass-stuns-onlookers/ HP launches new PCs--pretty but nothin new...
btw, the post? I feel like "i'm just goin through the..."
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