Closing in

[hrj]

A few more tweaks on the Surviving Garments site -- the more powerful/elegant search function is installed. It turns out that I can't run the demo off my laptop as a server unless I have OS X Server installed. It's not quite important enough to drop the money on it. Chances are I can access the WMU wireless network for the presentation, but I'm setting up a version of the presentation with screen shots on the assumption that something will go wrong. I'm definitely on the belt-and-suspenders side. I have my presentation all written out and am in the process of putting together the Power Point slides. Tomorrow evening I test-run it, complete with projector for timing and flow purposes. That leaves Tuesday evening for packing. Whew. Tonight the plan is to go to sleep early. It'll be interesting to see what the database does for my website stats. (Godaddy does a nice statistics presentation. I was poking around today and was somewhat surprised to find that my dissertation has had over 5000 hits. Not just views of the "about" page with the abstract -- 5000 people have downloaded the pdf of the dissertation itself! Weird.)

SK came over to help massage the site and try to get the server function to work. (We ended up going to the local Apple Store genius bar for the answer.) We've been experimenting with trying to recreate the hot chocolate she had recently in Paris -- something very thick and fudgy. I found a product called "drinking chocolate" that sounded like it might be close and, with some experimentation, it seems to be an approximation. You basically take a quarter cup of the functional equivalent of dark chocolate chips, mix in an equal amount of milk (or, in one experiment, half-and-half) and heat until the chocolate is melted and blended. Mmmm. It went well with the french bread, goat cheese, and quince paste. I believe in bribing my programming consultants with good stuff.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I think recreating perfect hot chocolate is a wonderful experiment to perform. Mmmmm.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

But do they stay bribed? Or do you have to keep coming up with even better bribes?

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[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

You could try this (I recommend the Wicked :-D). Or this. Or you could look at some of our experiments for a reduced-carb version of the same here and here.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I'll check out the hot chocolate suggestions after Kalamazoo when I have a brain again. (Hmm, maybe better make that after Collegium.)