Magic (Honey Soy Ginger Garlic) Marinade
I use this to marinade pretty much everything that is ‘general purpose’ before it goes on the grill. Use a quart slide-lock ziplock and chop/pour everything into that. I find it helps to sometimes roll the top of the bag down and place the bag into a large tupperware container. That way everything stays open-side up. a small handful of garlic, roughly chopped 2-3″ nub of fresh ginger, finely grated about 1 cup of soy sauce about 1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp honey a little squirt of Sriracha sauce Get as much air out of the bag as possible* before you seal it, shake it up, massage it, add your meat, massage it some more! Marinate for 30 mins to overnight. Enjoy. * My friend Buster taught me a neat trick for getting the air out of a marinade...
Super Southwest Salad with Cornbread Croutons and Chipotle Ranch Dressing
Well ladies and gentlemen, it has been a long time since I last posted. Our neighbor Rob sold us a delicious ‘variety pack’ of grass feed beef from his farm in Grandview, WA a couple of days ago, and the first order of business was burgers. More on that later, but I will tell you I had to make cornbread to complete these burgers. As usual, I made way too much and had to find something to do with a 12 x 12 x 2″ chunk of cornbread. A while back, I ate at a restaurant that served cornbread croutons on a club salad. They were delicious, but I never thought to make them on my own. Flash forward to a few nights ago, and I have eighty percent of my cornbread leftover and I’m craving a big salad. I’ve made this salad in the past, and gave it...
Mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13″ Hard Drive Cable
I am beginning to see a lot of failed hard drive/front IR cable assemblies in Mid-2009 MacBook Pro 13″ models. This can be hard to diagnose without a replacement cable, but if replacing the hard drive doesn’t resolve the problem replacing the cable might. I have cables available from $30 + shipping and complete repair service from $70 + shipping.
Got malware? How to find help recovering your website.
The dreaded Google Malware Warning, most amateur website operators have, or will have experience with it. When Google detects that your website has been compromised and is providing a channel for the distribution of malware, they show this warning for anyone referred from a Google property, including users of Google’s Chrome browser, who get the protection whether they click a Google search result or simply type the URL into the address bar. With the rise of lightweight, easy to administrate, CMS systems like WordPress, Joomla, etc. Google’s Safe Browsing program is great. The inner workings of these CMS are still pretty complicated, from the perspective of the average user. They are usually made up of (at least) a SQL database and some PHP, which most...
Optoma HD70 Color Wheel Update: It lives!
In light of the color wheel failure in my HD70 I was forced to find a replacement. I have to commend Optoma. Despite their somewhat snippy customer service rep, I am really impressed. I called them four days ago (Monday) after they had closed for the day (why answer the phone if you’re closed?) and ordered a replacement color wheel for my HD70, a projector they haven’t made for about four years. Not only did they have it in stock, and for a reasonable price, but they told me it would be 8 days to arrive and it arrived in less than four. Color me impressed. After I opened the projector up, pulled all the glass shards out, blew the dust out of it, and installed the new wheel I buttoned it back up, sure enough it fired right up. The only note I can...
Anthro 105: 01/23/11 – Class Notes
Read chapter 12 for Weds. X-Linked Hemophilia Gene is located on the X-chromosome, thus males and females are affected differently. Females = XX Males = XY Hemophiliac Male (XhY) – only 1 X-Chromesome with recessive gene causes disorder. Hemophiliac Female (XhXh) – both X’s must carry the recessive gene. A male hemophiliac cannot pass the gene to his son, only his daughter as he only passes on the Y to his sons. Polygenetic Inheritance Two or more genes contribute to the phenotypic expression of a single characteristic These traits show gradations, there is a series of measurable intermediate forms between two extremes. Hair, eye and skin color are polygenetic traits. Traits can be influenced by your environment. Regulatory genes: can...
Optoma HD70 Color Wheel Trouble
I was watching an old episode of Dexter the other day (I know, I’m late to the party) and my projector (an Optoma HD70) image became an off color for just a second, but most alarmingly started to make a terrible buzzing/whirring/grinding noise, almost like a bad computer fan. There are a couple of high volume brushless DC (computer) fans inside there, so I knew it was possible that one had thrown a vane. Since the HD-70 is a DLP projector it uses a complex set of mirrors to reflect the image through a color wheel in order to get the correct colors displayed in the image. The color wheel in the HD70 is seven segments. I believe that it is ordered red, green blue, white, red, grean, blue. When I heard the noise I shut the projector down as quickly as I could,...