Author: Anna
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 4
We hit the beach first thing in the morning again today, only this time we rented paddle boards! We played with those all morning, until the wind started picking up and a slight rain started. Then we went in for lunch. We dropped my brother off at the airport after lunch, since he has to…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 3
We didn’t have anything planned for this morning, so I let myself sleep in … until 5:30. I’m still waking up with the sun, even when I’m on vacation. We spent the morning swimming at a couple of beaches that had been recommended to us. Then we got ready for today’s main event: the Grand…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 2
It’s a good thing we haven’t adjusted to the Hawaii timezone yet, because today we got up early to go snorkeling! We went on a tour guided by the Pacific Whale Foundation, an organization dedicated to saving endangered species of whales from extinction. Our first stop was at Molokini, a volcanic crater formed around 230,000…
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Anna’s Hawaiian Vacation: Day 1
I’m in Hawaii this week for a family vacation! We flew in late last night, and checked into a hotel near the airport to get some sleep. Today we moved on to the timeshare unit we’re staying in for the rest of the week. We had a bit of time to wander around the hotel…
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Asiago Pepato
Asiago cheese with peppercorns in the middle. I’ll probably only age it for 2 months because I’m curious how it tastes!…
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Ocarina 6.4.3
I just released Ocarina 6.4.3! My main project over the last several months has been converting Ocarina over to C, and as of this release one quarter of my Ocarina codebase has been converted. I have several reasons for this conversion, the first being that my natural coding style tends towards writing very C-ish code. …
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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
I’ve been wanting to post about cheesecake for several months now, and what better time than just after Thanksgiving? Rather than just posting pictures with a brief description, this post will walk you through my cheesecake recipe step-by-step. It takes several days to make a cheesecake, so I recommend planning ahead.…
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IT Department Woes
Certain on-line tools at work will greet me with a friendly “Welcome, Bryan” when I log in. This has bothered me for a while, but updating my name in the system would involve talking to our IT department. I do not like talking to Corporate IT. I have filed support tickets in the past, and…
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Ruby and I went camping!
I went camping with several of my friends last weekend. Ruby came along too, and we had quite the adventure! You can click on the pictures below to see a larger version and to read captions.…
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Shaping Gouda
If you have ever purchased a wedge of Gouda, then you may have noticed that the cheese tends to have a smooth, round curve on one end. Standard cheese molds make flat, pill-tablet shaped cheeses with a corner and not a round edge. I’ve heard there are tricks you can use to simulate a bowl-shaped…