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I'm still not in the hashtag habit. I suppose that should have been #books and maybe #dragons

I have finally gotten around to reading Aliette de Bodard's "House of Binding Thorns" and am really liking how it came together! Interesting, differently-strong characters, and a more tangled (but still nicely coherent) plot than its predecessor. Also, as before, fallen angels, Vietnamese dragons, and a gothic ruined Paris. Good stuff.

Too real.

https://xkcd.com/1987/
https://m.xkcd.com/1987/

#Python

In honor of 2018.π day, mini steak and ale pies (canapies!)

I might be a little out of practice making rolled omelets, when cleanup includes two pairs of cooking chopsticks and a spatula.

THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE IS SO GOOD!

(Novella by Aliette de Bodard, just out in paper and ebook in North America.)

Seriously. It's a thoroughly satisfying Sherlock Holmes homage, with great characters and fascinating context, beautifully put together. My only complaint is that there aren't (yet?) more stories with these characters.

https://twitter.com/aliettedb/status/970762953036390401?s=21

Last night's recipe experiment: converting a 5 hour beef/barley/mushroom dish into a 1 hour lamb Instant Pot dish.

Calling it a success, with room for tweaking. Being able to eat the food the same evening I start cooking is a definite plus.

A day after watching My Neighbor Totoro:

"The catbus is really weird because it's a really big bus but only one or two people go on it at a time. Isn't that weird?"

Yes, child, that's what's odd about the catbus.

No, automatically typing fingers, I don't go to "mastodon..." to log in, I go to "wandering.shop". "Mastodon" is the monster; "wandering.shop" is the instance.

I have absolutely no objection–two great tastes, and all that–but we've had distinct variants at multiple local restaurants recently, and also tried @chuckwendig‘s recipe, so it suddenly seems to be everywhere.

In the "I can't be the first person to think of this" file: has anyone done a nice sketch of a rose, a fin, a raven†, a ray, and, optionally, a wren?

🌹🦈⚰️ 🌞🐦

†Alternately, I suppose, a cask.

And by a miracle, the oily food that should have lasted eight days instead lasted only one!

Just misread "info dumping", and now I'm ready for an info dumpling🥟. I assume this is similar to a fortune cookie, but with a thicker wrapper and more information.

Now, where are the rest of our half-gallon mason jars...

(For the unwary, a lesson we learned a few years ago: quart and half-gallon mason jars are great for cooling down stocks overnight, but generally not designed for freezing liquids. Ask us and our somewhat depleted stock of jars how we know.)