danceswithcrows

Went to an El Salvadoran restaurant a few days ago, and a thing that the menu didn't advertise was that every dish came with salad: tastesbetterfromscratch.com/curtido/ , mostly made of cabbage, totally delicious. The pupusas and empanadas were also great. I'd eat there all the time if I could.

I made beans and rice for dinner, but the rice hadn't absorbed all the boiling water after 5 minutes. "Oh well, we're having beans and rice in a bowl," I said, and did that. The rice in the pot had absorbed a lot more water after I'd finished eating. I guess it can take longer sometimes.

everything2.com/node/e2node/... is probably the most depressing thing you'll read today. tl;dr: Being in love with someone who's mentally ill is extremely hard, and several people shared their experiences with that on that page.

everything2.com/node/2118436 tl;dr: Having a bad childhood can really mess people up, and lead to all sorts of problems in adult life. This is from 2005, yet I don't know how or whether the info's being used to help people. The cdc.gov page has suffered link rot or deliberate removal though.

OK, I mistakenly bought paté canned food for Mystic. I thought she'd hate it as she's always never eaten much of it when I served it, but she ate 100% of both servings. If she keeps eating it, her options for food are about double what they used to be.

I wonder whether Google's decision to go all in on their AI slop will affect traffic to their search engine. I've already removed Google as an option in the menu for this firefox installation, and recommend that you do the same. (Edit->Settings, search tab.)

A Ramen Slinger, heated up in the microwave for leftovers. The recipe ( crow202.com/recipes.txt , search for "Ramen Slinger") is adaptable/easy in most cases. I need to go find the hot sauce though.

Food prices have gotten so high that I can afford to make enchiladas roughly once a year. In 1996, I could do that once a month. WTF? I guess I'll just enjoy them while I still have a few left to eat, and regroup next year.

This was from 2002: crow202.com/2026/qtutori... . It, of course, would not compile any more as it was written when KDE 2 was a thing. I updated the C++ file with a comment saying how to compile/link the silly thing. crow202.com/2026/qtutori... for a pretty-printed version.

Patagonian cavys are the masters of disapproval.

Blep sighted.

Enchiladas, on Friday. I will post the next 2 pictures in about an hour. They were pretty tasty, but the price of ground beef means these will be a very infrequent meal. 20 years ago, I could eat these every month; now, it's a once-a-year treat.

sddm, by default, starts X on tty0. That's the current virtual console. It then starts user sessions on the next available tty. So to get kmscon running on tty1 through tty5, I had to patch sddm to start X on vt7, and change /etc/inittab to start "/usr/local/bin/kmscon --vt tty1" through tty5.

Lunch. There's something satisfying in a ham and cheese sandwich. Also it was a good thing I opened the jar of kimchi yesterday, as it was under active fermentation pressure and spilled cabbage juice when I opened it over the sink. It was impossible to close the jar either; had to eat some.

Apparently San Tan Brewing is discontinuing this beer. So a 6-pack is available for $2. What's not to like?

OK, this is kind of a weird thing. I took my old PS1 game "The Raiden Project" and ripped it to a .bin file in the early 2000s. No PS1 emulator that I have tried has been able to run it. Except epsxe_x64, and AFAICT it works perfectly. I wonder what the secret was?

Chicken and rice! crow202.com/recipes.txt , search for "chicken/rice" or line 652. First time I've made this in a year or so.

I think the /etc/mke2fs.conf default settings in Linux really don't fit with modern disk sizes. A 600G /home gets 39 million inodes created, while I'm actually using 411624, 2% of that. Reducing the number of inodes to 3 million would save 8G of disk space for files. Note that YMMV and EPID.

Software archaeology? It's more likely than you think, as the state of PS1 emulation on modern Linux is a bit wonky. crow202.com/2026/epsxe_h... details how to get the epsxe_x64 binary working, since it's linked against a (very) old openssl. crow202.com/2026/libssl-... for the library.

A thing I remembered recently: When people in the USA suffer the death penalty, they usually order something from McDonald's as their last meal. And they usually don't eat it. What would you choose as your last meal? I'd go for Zzeek's Pizza, Azusa Ramen, or Culver's, but YMMV on that.

Neverness by David Zindell (sci-fi, published 1988, read 1999) made me realize that no matter how much our technology advances or how long our history is, we will still do dumb things, behave stupidly, and make bad choices. And we will continue to do so.

This is not as good as the alternative ramen sources.

Good grief. Last time I bought instant coffee, it was $1.25 for 6 packets. Same thing today is $1.59. Guess it's a good thing I've cut way back on coffee; the policies of that fat orange idiot have materially hurt people in many ways. Bread that was $4 is now $5, ramen that was $1 is now $1.19.