Voder-Vocoder

I’m setting cooking goals for myself. One thing I want to do is perfect my chili recipe.

I also want to learn to prepare more Japanese food.

Because I’m geek, AND I’m lazy.

echo 'Mom, what recipe do you use for chili?' \
 | mutt mom -s chili

I just made chili for the first time in my life. I didn’t even try to follow a recipe, I just started with a canonical chili sin carne, but I couldn’t help but make changes to the recipe as I went along. I added an extra bell pepper, because I like them a lot, and I added a bit of tofu, but not enought that you notice it. And I increased the amount of chili powder until I could taste it; then I added some more.
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English is so versatile, no wonder it will replace all other languages within a century. Yeah, English!

Because of its profane status and versatility, the word “fuck” can be used many times in an English sentence. For example,

• “Fucking fuck those fucking fuckers!” (”Forget about those very disliked people.”)
• “Fucking fucker’s fucking fucked!” (”It is broken.”)

The latter example excellently demonstrates the versitility of the word fuck, as each instance represents a different syntactical usage: an article, a noun, a present participle (to is), and an adjective.

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http://www.pаypal.com/ vs. http://www.paypal.com/

If a single piece of legelation passes in the next two years, let this be it. (via)

I have a case of 23 empty returnable beer bottles. They are of no use to me. Anyone want them?

I love the simple things, like the feel of a new toothbrush.

Google Movie Showtimes

Which term is better? Cory Doctrow’s “hand-to-hand piracy” or “sneakernet”, which I first heard from Chris Wilson?

For those who know Noble, he can be found
here

I’ve used itunes at my parents house to burn audio CDs. It works nicely. At home, I use Rhythmbox, which has no such ability. Here’s how I do it.

Create a nice 80-minute playlist. SAve it to /home/hal/tmp/x.

Run this script:

#!/bin/sh
# $HOME/bin/make-audio-cd-from-playlist.sh
grep  '=file://' $1 | awk -F '//' '{print $2}' > tmp-file
i=1
for LINE in $(cat tmp-file) ; do
    if [ "$i" -lt 10 ] ; then
	FILENAME="track_0${i}.wav"
    else
	FILENAME="track_${i}.wav"
    fi
    lame --decode "$LINE" $FILENAME
    i=$(($i+1))
done
cdrecord dev=/dev/cdwriter -pad -v -audio track_??.wav

And then:

$ cd  /home/hal/tmp/
$ make-audio-cd-from-playlist.sh x

UPDATE: Recent versions of Rhythmbox have the ability to burn audio CDs.