Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Frindis]

Had a weird experience with my computer after cleaning it. One of the fans in front started to make some loud noises and I noticed the fan spinning at a different speed than the others. I started the computer again, said a hail mary, and my fan worked normally after that. Wonder what could have happened. I hold the fans when air dusting them, but maybe this fan just got slightly out of rotation from it and then fixed itself when "jumping" back into the correct speed.

 

[ZedClampet]

Had a long and painful day except for talking to my daughter. She uploaded her first YouTube video this morning and as of around 4 it had 60,000 views. I did YouTube for about a year, and I didn't get 60,000 views combined

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@Brian Boru You're dead to me, putting ketchup on cheese.

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@Pifanjr We can pretty much get any general type of cheese that I'm aware of but I've yet to find good mozzarella in Knoxville that wasn't imported from Italy. Up near Wisconsin dairy farms you find a lot of good family cheese businesses. The closest place to me here is Sweetwater Valley Farms, but they don't have a huge variety of traditional cheeses, mostly just flavored cheeses. You can check out their cheeses here if you are curious. I've only tried their cheddar, and it was excellent, but I'm not driving 40 minutes into the country to get it when I can get English cheddar within 2 miles of my house.

 

[Frindis]

Took a picture of myself playing Doom.

 

[ZedClampet]

I just wanted to check what you would look like with my game library.

Also, does your PC always smoke like that or are you playing the new active ray tracing version of Doom?

 

[Zloth]

Had a long and painful day except for talking to my daughter. She uploaded her first YouTube video this morning and as of around 4 it had 60,000 views. I did YouTube for about a year, and I didn't get 60,000 views combined

I think she's got me beat, too.

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@Brian Boru You're dead to me, putting ketchup on cheese.

But... isn't that just a cheeseburger, hold the meat?

 

[ZedClampet]

But... isn't that just a cheeseburger, hold the meat?

Yes, which is awful. Plus I usually don't put ketchup on a cheeseburger.

The best cheeseburger:
Hamburger patty
Swiss cheese
Caramelized onions
Chipotle Aioli (olive oil mayo with pureed chipotle peppers)
Buttered and grilled potato bun

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Yes, which is awful. Plus I usually don't put ketchup on a cheeseburger.

The best cheeseburger:
Hamburger patty
Swiss cheese
Caramelized onions
Chipotle Aioli (olive oil mayo with pureed chipotle peppers)
Buttered and grilled potato bun

I'd try it.

A couple of local places have been using Japanese milk buns instead of brioche, which mostly gets used here. I'm still in the honeymoon with those, really soft and airy. Canät find them anywhere outside of a couple restaurants yet.

If I'm making the burgers recently its:

Toasted buttered brioche
2 smashed patties, just 20% fat beef salt+pepper
white smoked cheese
salted pickles
diced raw onion, shredded lettuce, tomato slice
Sauce (usually mayo, little ketchup, smoked paprika, chilli powder, white vinegar, cumin.)

You'll love this: Pineapple ring instead of the salted pickles is also great, my wife prefers both.

 

[Frindis]

Also, does your PC always smoke like that or are you playing the new active ray tracing version of Doom?

Nah, just really badly ventilated.

My perfect burger is:

Angus meat (not too expensive and tastes amazing), seasoned with salt/pepper and BBQ garlic oil.
Two slices of strong cheddar, a spoonful of smashed pickles, couple of onion rings.
A dash of hot sauce (habanero or stronger) that is enough to feel heat, but not enough to destroy other tastes.
Pineapple ring and a couple of mild jalapenos.
A couple of sliced roasted red paprika/tomato
Normal salad or even long spinach leaves for toppings.

 

[Brian Boru]

Are you guys on a diet, or something? The grandkid and I like to do it right if we're going to do it at all.

Me:

Grandkid:

 

[Zloth]

Cheeseburger:
hamburger, cooked over charcoal grill
`murican cheese, put on the burger a couple of minutes before it's done cooking
whatever bun (though lately I've used thin sliced bread, because: carbs <grumble grumble>)
ketchup

Owing to the thickness of the beef, I'll need a little extra ketchup on the side to dip into.

Why are you people putting your salads on your burger? Do you not want to wash the extra bowl??

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Cheeseburger:
hamburger, cooked over charcoal grill
`murican cheese, put on the burger a couple of minutes before it's done cooking
whatever bun (though lately I've used thin sliced bread, because: carbs <grumble grumble>)
ketchup

Owing to the thickness of the beef, I'll need a little extra ketchup on the side to dip into.

Why are you people putting your salads on your burger? Do you not want to wash the extra bowl??

If you want me to eat a green salad you'd better put a burger on it, or at least a ton of dressing and maybe some bacon.

 

[ZedClampet]

If you want me to eat a green salad you'd better put a burger on it, or at least a ton of dressing and maybe some bacon.

When I make a salad, I leave off the lettuce. I put tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, feta cheese, olives, olive oil and lemon.

 

[ZedClampet]

Went to my 87-year-old dad's wedding. It was actually quite casual and reserved thank god. Big weddings are for the young. The food was as Tennessee as you get, various types of BBQ, potato salad, etc. Very good.

My family has become a cluster f. My brothers and sister didn't show up. After everything he did for us, that's shameful.

 

[Colif]

sitting here about an hour ago, heard planes flying around outside. Random airshow happening outside.

just these guys

It doesn't happen very often and no idea why they chose this weekend as nothing showing on events. I did see them asking permission to do it, but no idea why. I live close to Parliament house in Canberra so they had to get clearance to fly this close. Its the Royal Australian Air Force, I don't think we would have argued.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

When I make a salad, I leave off the lettuce. I put tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, feta cheese, olives, olive oil and lemon.

That sounds alright. Love Feta and olives, or whatever passes for olives in the UK and Finland. My go to everyday 'salad' is carrot, red pepper, and cucumber sticks and a pot of hummus. I treat lettuce like medicine, if its on the plate I know its good for me so I'll eat it but I've never enjoyed it. Good crunch in a burger though.

 

[Brian Boru]

Random airshow happening outside

When I lived in Indy, the Blue Angels used to do a show every couple of years at a nearby airport. We used to sit out on the deck and enjoy a couple of days of training as well as the show itself—they used to literally fly over our house. Cool stuff

 

[ZedClampet]

When I lived in Indy, the Blue Angels used to do a show every couple of years at a nearby airport. We used to sit out on the deck and enjoy a couple of days of training as well as the show itself—they used to literally fly over our house. Cool stuff

Air shows are really cool. Just a tad dangerous, but cool anyway. We spent most of a day at one, one time, and decided to leave right as the Thunderbirds (similar to the Blue Angels) fired up their engines not too far away from us. I've been to lots of airports, one with an outside viewing area we used to visit as a kid, and I've been to a bunch of NASCAR races, but nothing compared to the sound of those fighter planes firing up their engines.

 

[Zloth]

What did he call those airplanes? It sounded like he said DC-21, but I can't find any such plane. They look like British Spitfires from WW2.

I think those airshows are inspiring a lot of highway drivers - you see them driving at high speed in tight formations all the time now.

 

[Colif]

What did he call those airplanes? It sounded like he said DC-21, but I can't find any such plane. They look like British Spitfires from WW2.

I think those airshows are inspiring a lot of highway drivers - you see them driving at high speed in tight formations all the time now.

They are using these https://www.pilatus-aircraft.com/en/fly/pc-21

 

[Zloth]

*P* C 21, ahhhh! Thanks!

Yeah, nothing like a Spitfire from that angle.

 

[Colif]

i think in video I linked they might be also flying some older style planes, so that could be confusion. The PC21 are what they normally fly though, think it depends on the scale of the show.

Here they flew here, did a 30 minute acrobatics show and flew back home again... they may have made a few pit stops along way. We used to have a Air force base here and 40+ years ago they used to do air shows. I remember being buzzed by an F1-11. But now its relatively quiet all year except certain weeks.

 

[Brian Boru]

Man serving time 30s

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewe9yb9PT2Q

 

[Pifanjr]

Man serving time 30s

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewe9yb9PT2Q

The guy is not kidding when he says it's a 12 hour video of someone changing the clock's arms every single minute. It's from a Dutch artist called Maarten Baas and he has a whole series of 12 hour videos of just a person or multiple people updating the clock every minute.

 

[ZedClampet]

My wife's CEO came to town to visit, and they are eating at Ruth's Chris, which ticks me off, so I decided to cook something I love, Otik's Spiced Potatoes.

I got the name from the Dragonlance D&D novels back when I was in college. The real recipe from the book was, if I remember correctly, sliced potatoes and onions fried in butter with cayenne, salt and pepper, but here's what I do:

Slice and halve the potatoes and onions
Place in 9 x 13 baking pan
Drizzle oil over the top and toss the veggies in it to coat them
Sprinkle a dusting of the following over the vegetables:

Paprika
Cayenne
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper

Sorry, I'm a cook, not a chef, so I don't have measurements

Place into oven at 300 degrees and cook for 30 minutes, then remove and toss the potatoes and onions. Put another thin dusting of paprika over the top and cook for an additional 30 minutes.

I started cooking this in the oven when the kids were small and needed a lot of attention. This way you just toss it in and go. Tastes just as good to me, but I'm sure frying it in butter makes a difference. You could always put a few pats of butter across the top to melt into the mixture if you wanted to.

 

[Pifanjr]

My wife's CEO came to town to visit, and they are eating at Ruth's Chris, which ticks me off, so I decided to cook something I love, Otik's Spiced Potatoes.

I got the name from the Dragonlance D&D novels back when I was in college. The real recipe from the book was, if I remember correctly, sliced potatoes and onions fried in butter with cayenne, salt and pepper, but here's what I do:

Slice and halve the potatoes and onions
Place in 9 x 13 baking pan
Drizzle oil over the top and toss the veggies in it to coat them
Sprinkle a dusting of the following over the vegetables:

Paprika
Cayenne
Garlic Powder
Salt
Pepper

Sorry, I'm a cook, not a chef, so I don't have measurements

Place into oven at 300 degrees and cook for 30 minutes, then remove and toss the potatoes and onions. Put another thin dusting of paprika over the top and cook for an additional 30 minutes.

I started cooking this in the oven when the kids were small and needed a lot of attention. This way you just toss it in and go. Tastes just as good to me, but I'm sure frying it in butter makes a difference. You could always put a few pats of butter across the top to melt into the mixture if you wanted to.

I made something similar once with a bunch of root vegetables like parsnips, turnips and carrots in addition to potato and onion. I can recommend experimenting with using/adding other root veggies, as well as just adding whole cloves of garlic.