Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating
Began as a fascinating exploration of the pulling of various strings to manipulate senses into contrarian experiences for people trying things, and somehow partway through turned into a love letter from the author to the Italian Futurists. Not helped by my continual confusing of Prof. Charles Spence with Prof. Richard Wiseman. I’m vaguely disgusted that…
The 8th instalment in our homebrew adventures – we call this one The Recipe. Its loosely based on a Coopers Sparkling Ale recipe, except we didn't actually have any of the ingredients mentioned. So, same proportions but different gear. Using a Kveik yeast. Verdict? Probably won't kill you.
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Raising one’s kitchen game – turns out the key is what you’re Wareing
I’ve always enjoyed cooking – it’s how I was able to negotiate my first tentative movement out of Mum & Dad’s house, through lodging at my cousin’s place in her spare room in exchange for being her live-in chef (primarily on the strength of the mashed potatoes I made during the “interview”). Exotic stirfries on…
Network? Simple!
Warning: extremely interesting and captivating blog post ahead. I posed a question to some nerdy computery mates about the use of Ethernet over Powerlines, and one of them made a comment “I’ve always been confused about the complexity of your home network setup”… to which I thought “It’s not THAT complicated?!”. My computer, the linux…
