Month: December 2011
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Traditional+ Pumpkin Pie
Ingredients 1 (9-inch) unbaked pastry shell 1 (15-ounce) can pumpkin (about 2 cups) 1 (14-ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk) 2 Eggs 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon ground cloves ½ teaspoon salt or try this alternate seasoning combination 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon…
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Simple is not easy
You don’t have to be an engineer to appreciate this story.A toothpaste factory had a problem: they sometimes shipped empty boxes, without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was set up, and people with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything…
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Cables
It continues to astound me that people will purchase cables from Best Buy at outrageous prices when they could get them at MonoPrice for 1/100th of what BBY charges.I went to help my buddy Charlie hook up some AV gear and he didn’t have all the HDMI cables he needed, so I pointed him to…
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Bad cat
After being gone for nearly a week, and just as the whole family is deciding that the Prince of Darkness would never return to our house, and what we would do with the bag of food… at 08:36 this morning, he returned. Much castigation and scolding ensued.Guess that three inches of snow we got yesterday…
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Oops
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.Vittorio Alfier