Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Rolan7]

I know about pouring some tasty beer into chili or something, but replacing all the water with beer just seems excessive   Like, I don't know if the alcohol would even all evaporate out at that level.

And I mostly tried mixing potatoes with noodles or rice.  I disliked the taste in both cases.

[Frumple]

Ah... unfortunate, heh. Those are actually two of my higher up combos. Bake a potato, cut it in half, crosshatch and drizzle a bit of teriyaki sauce, wait a few seconds for it to set in. Chop it up, add to the other dish, possibly with a bit of cheese (particularly for the rice -- cheese and rice go together amazingly, in my experience) and/or meat, season as desired with spices and whatnot. Also have found mashed potatoes make an excellent thickener for noodles and suchlike. Can make it easier to eat (less splatter) or add stuff that doesn't mix well with hot water (like cheese :V), heh.

Also occasionally mix noodles and rice, heh. The teriyaki beef bowls y'buy where'er go together wonderfully with rice, t'me. Tend to do that more for leftovers (say I'll have a bit of rice left from last meal, but not really enough for a full meal -- throw a bowl o'noodles in it!), but still. Also absolutely love the taste of mac & cheese and mashed potatoes, makes the meal a lot more heavy/fulfilling, yeah. Or rice instead*. Buncha' other stuff like that, really. My default low effort cooking is "Cook two things, put them in a bowl, stir."

Still, taste is taste, and if it doesn't work for yeh it doesn't work. Tis nothin' wrong with that.

*I actually have a breakfast rice mixture that's built around that. Take eggy rice (rice with an egg or two put in it in the last 3-5 minutes of cooking; easily the simplest way to add egg to rice and is friggin' glorious.) and mac & cheese, cook 'em up, stick 'em in a bowl with bacon or whatev', stir well. I likes it, and most of the family has given positive review. Can also leave out the M&C, but at that point it's really just eggy rice with breakfast meats. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as it's delicious, of course.

[Yoink]

Anyone wanna move in with me?
We have a pretty nice place, not too close to the city but not too far either; close to public transport, big backyard(which the room has a decent view into) generally comfortable. Also most of us are pretty cool.
Annnd it's really cheap.

...I don't know, I'm supposed to be writing an ad for it. Not really sure what to say.
Even if you don't want to move in with me, some ad-writing advice probably wouldn't go astray.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I mean, I would if I was in Australia... But I'm not. I'm as much not in Australia as it is possible to be.

[TheBiggerFish]

Totally would, but I'm kinda in the wrong country.

[Comrade P.]

...I don't know, I'm supposed to be writing an ad for it. Not really sure what to say.
Even if you don't want to move in with me, some ad-writing advice probably wouldn't go astray.

Well here's an advice.
Imagine a total douchebag. Sort of a cunt you wouldn't let near your place. Picture him nice and good, come up with his most distinctive character traits and habits that generally bugger you consistently in others.
Now, when writing an ad, mention these traits as intolerable qualities for potential tenant.

Again, not in Australia m'self.

[Sheb]

What are you looking for exactly? A flatmate? I mean, just present yourself, put a few pics of the place and it should be enough.

[smirk]

...I don't know, I'm supposed to be writing an ad for it. Not really sure what to say.
Even if you don't want to move in with me, some ad-writing advice probably wouldn't go astray.

Well here's an advice.
Imagine a total douchebag. Sort of a cunt you wouldn't let near your place. Picture him nice and good, come up with his most distinctive character traits and habits that generally bugger you consistently in others.
Now, when writing an ad, mention these traits as intolerable qualities for potential tenant.

"All bogans, chavs, gopniks, and/or nacos discouraged. If you consider a tracksuit to be formal wear, we have no place for you here." =P

You shouldn't need to go into any deep detail in the ad. Basic stuff like "should be fairly clean, should respect others' personal space", etc. are generally sufficient, along with any basic deal-breakers if they're unique to your place (i.e. "should be okay with me practicing drums at 3am" or "under no circumstances will you be allowed to use the indoor toilet"). Going into more detail generally happens when you meet potential housemates face-to-face.

[Comrade P.]

"All bogans, chavs, gopniks, and/or nacos discouraged. If you consider a tracksuit to be formal wear, we have no place for you here." =P

I keep hearing about gopniks from people from (presumably) outside of former USSR and nearby Eastern European countries. Are they out there? Are they everywhere? Please tell me, I'm concerned.

[smirk]

Yea, where-so-ever there be name-brand clothing with large logos, and flashy gold chains, and Tall Boys of crappy lager, then there too shall be gopniks  O_O

(I dunno; I'm mostly just being classist and abusing this list)

[Yoink]

Well here's an advice.
Imagine a total douchebag. Sort of a cunt you wouldn't let near your place. Picture him nice and good, come up with his most distinctive character traits and habits that generally bugger you consistently in others.
Now, when writing an ad, mention these traits as intolerable qualities for potential tenant.

I suppose one could do that, but that runs the risk of sounding quite rude.
Also it would probably be a rather broad spectrum of people, especially within the category of folks who might be looking for a place around here... in fact, almost all of the ones who showed up today probably fell into the 'intolerable' category, haha. I think we might have one good candidate, though.
Still, it feels kind of disappointing to only have one person to choose from. I think it needed to be advertised better, we should have been flooded with enquiries.

What are you looking for exactly? A flatmate? I mean, just present yourself, put a few pics of the place and it should be enough.

The main problem is trying to illustrate the level of PARTY they would need to be okay with, without being too gauche and vulgar (not to mention incriminating!) about it.
Also: no neat freaks.
Unless you're the kind of neat freak that's okay with tirelessly cleaning things up and isn't eventually going to go berserk.
We aren't even that messy, really.   

A lot of our candidates so far asked how much noise they could expect, and said they would need peace and quiet in order to study hard.
Also one religious guy got all passive-aggressively disapproving of our liquor cabinet. I don't think my friend did a particularly great job of writing the ad...

[LARD]

I don't mean to interrupt greatorder like this, so don't forget about his post, but I had an idea for a perpetual motion machine and I can't find the problem with it.  I know that there is one because perpetual motion is impossible, but it's been bugging me. 

So you set up a U tube with water in it and a water permeable membrane in the bottom.  Dump a bunch of solute (glucose) in one side and watch the water rise on that side according to the laws of osmosis. Then have a pipe with another semipermeable membrane that flows at an angle to the other side of the tube so that water can flow back in accordance with the laws of gravity. This creates circular flow that can be used to generate power.  Where is the issue?  A quick MSP image can be seen here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://imgur.com/wxElXL7

So what's the problem with this?

[Frumple]

@ GO: ... try taking the image out of the text box? Text wrapping like you're talking about shifts the normal text around an image shoved in the middle of it. Don't recall if it works for individual text boxes, and I don't have a fully functioning word to double check. You should be able to manage something if you don't try to couple the box and image together, though.

Also, the problem looks like it'd be either friction or state change of the solute/water or somethin'. Maybe it'd work with a frictionless surface or a perfectly closed system, but s'far as I'm aware we don't really have either of those, heh.

[Frumple]

Ah. That... sounds like you would have been a lot better off using publisher instead of word, if you've got it.

Though yeah, send to back should have dealt with the image, and then you could have put the text box over in the lower right. Something along those lines, anyway. Would have been able to give better directions if I actually had word sitting beside me, but I've never bothered to activate (and I don't think I have the key, regardless) the one on this computer, heh.

Still, if you've got it working, good. Sorry I couldn't help y'more

[Putnam]

I don't mean to interrupt greatorder like this, so don't forget about his post, but I had an idea for a perpetual motion machine and I can't find the problem with it.  I know that there is one because perpetual motion is impossible, but it's been bugging me. 

So you set up a U tube with water in it and a water permeable membrane in the bottom.  Dump a bunch of solute (glucose) in one side and watch the water rise on that side according to the laws of osmosis. Then have a pipe with another semipermeable membrane that flows at an angle to the other side of the tube so that water can flow back in accordance with the laws of gravity. This creates circular flow that can be used to generate power.  Where is the issue?  A quick MSP image can be seen here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://imgur.com/wxElXL7

So what's the problem with this?

Wouldn't it stop flowing and reach equilibrium after a fairly short time after adding the solute?