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06/30/2011 23:29 #54608

Easiest way to Caramelize Onions
Category: eating in
If you don't have much time to stand around stirring the onions and want to caramelize onions perfectly with the least amount of work...

3 minutes prep:
1. Peel and chop red onions lengthwise. Turn the chopping board and chop the lengthwise chopped onions into three.

2. Toss in olive oil, salt and spices

40 minutes cooking time (unattended).
3. Spread on a stainless-steel cookie sheet in an even uniform layer. Roast at 375 deg F for 40 minutes.

Perfectly caramelized onions ready to go into whatever you are cooking... or maybe even as a fun dinner with a little lime juice and chopped apples.

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PS: The method doesn't work so well without
a) salt (because then, the onions become very dry and may burn/char instead of caramelizing).

b) stainless-steel cookie sheets. The non-stick varieties are just awfully non-uniform when it comes to heat conductance. I have always had partially charred results with those.

tinypliny - 07/01/11 23:31
Everyone liked it so much. It was WAAAAAAY better than traditional caramelized onions! :)))) Thinking of making this every week now. The only drawback is the flat smells like caramelized onions a complete DAY after I made them...
paul - 07/01/11 09:38
That sounds way easier than the on the stove method.

06/30/2011 14:30 #54602

Some more e:strip decisions...
Category: e:strip
A while back, I wrote about how I was under-utilizing (e:strip). (e:tinypliny,54394). I am constantly making notes all over the internet and it becomes so crazy to keep track of everything. So I have decided never to log out of here and make all those notes here (except work) - which is still at citeulike.

I can't transfer all work here because then (e:strip) would also have to be my reference manager and store my million pdfs... Yeah, not very practical.

The thing is the search function of (e:strip) sometimes does not play well with my blogs. I don't know what to do about that. My one big request/feature-suggestion for (e:strip) would be to make search results somehow more accessible and context-sensitive along with the ability to use more search-modifiers... maybe.

And while we are on the subject of search, one more suggestion would be to turn up blog-numbers, or cite-able referral links along with the blog titles and excerpts in the search results. For example

Using (E:strip) To Its Potential...
06/01/11 @ 11:20 (e:tinypliny,54394)
excerpt with keyword visible here



Cross-referencing would become so much easier. Currently, I hover my mouse over every post to find out the number and then string it to the name of the (e:peep) who wrote it. Makes for a longer workflow.

06/30/2011 13:14 #54601

Googlism
Category: i-tech
(or how Google is everyone's mother(tm) (e:Paul), 2011)

I think (e:mrdeadlier) did this once but there is now a site for finding out what Google thinks of you.

Let's see: Who is tinypliny?

tinypliny is the network based installer
tinypliny is the minimalistic one that does not even
tinypliny is the
tinypliny is an unknown quantity at this point
tinypliny is offline
tinypliny is that a sweater with the shorts?

Who are you according to Google? Find out at this


PS: Who or what is Binky?

06/30/2011 11:04 #54600

Random Linux Thought
Category: i-tech
I kind of like being on Linux, now that my wireless is functioning. It's a lot of heartache but somehow it gives you more power over what's going on in the recesses of your computer. It's as if you have found that you can split open a blackbox and are able to look at the virtual software connections and wires that make your computer tick.

Linux = 85% pain + 5% revelations + 10% knowledge everyday.

I just have to decide if the 15% of useful stuff is worth the 85% pain...
uncutsaniflush - 07/01/11 20:15
My comment was finished. I accidentially clicked "save comment" whilst cleaning up the dregs of extra wordage.
tinypliny - 06/30/11 23:04
You didn't quite finish your comment there... What were you going to say?

And yes, bootstrap procedures run miserably and crash often on Windose and McMacs.
uncutsaniflush - 06/30/11 21:38
I guess I was lucky when I switched over to Linux in 2001, when I first installed Mandrake 8.1 everything worked on my compaq box. Believe it or not, everything didn't work in Windows even though it came installed with Windows. That's why I tried Linux to begin with.

My assumption is that you couldn't do what you wanted in osX or Windows at all or you would have used one or both of them instead. So riddle me this, how much pain would you have to go through to do what you wanted in osX or Windows?

Linux lets you do stuff that the creators of other operating systems don't want you to. Sometimes that freedom comes at a painful price.

I'm with (e:paul), I do think that you have already gone through the most painful part. And I don't even like koolaid cyanide or no cyanide. Btw, I think Jim Jones was cheap and used flavor-aid instead.

I think that the
tinypliny - 06/30/11 14:39
You sound like a cult-leader who has just administered cyanide-laced kool-aid to his followers.

Gasp. was the quiche poisoned?!
paul - 06/30/11 13:50
I think the pain part is really going to be mostly over now.

06/29/2011 17:17 #54598

Slicker Google Interface
Category: i-tech
Google search... evolving right under your noses (or in front of your noses, as the case may be).
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And (e:Paul). Hee Hee. Someone was spying on i2. ;-)
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heidi - 07/02/11 17:41
The favicon for gcal is now the date. I like that :-) I don't like how the "other calendars" box is now just about one line with a scroll bar. I have a lot of people's calendars in that list and now the usability of the toggle is very poor. I provided feedback.
tinypliny - 07/01/11 23:35
They are gradually changing everything to look uniform. I am in double minds if I like the washed-out look for gmail or not. I am going with a mild-"not" for now. I like my saturated colours. I made my own super saturated spring theme for gmail. Its a pity I can't find a way to share or save that theme outside of gmail... I like the "Android" theme the best. Its the most well-designed and put together.
metalpeter - 06/29/11 19:37
someone I know on facebook posted a link to it....
:::link:::
metalpeter - 06/29/11 19:12
I only saw the headline and didn't have time to read the entire thing.... It said something about things being grouped by some term I had never heard of.......
tinypliny - 06/29/11 18:02
I hope not. It already has several failed social networking stuff. I guess gmail is the biggest networking thing ever.
metalpeter - 06/29/11 17:45
Don't know the details but I guess google is is coming out with some social networking site......