cellio | short takes

Happy birthday

How not to manage a software project #173: (overheard and taken out of context) "...and if we assume that the tooth fairy knows Java...".)

I have this pasta salad that I wanted to use up, but in dinner-sized portions rather than side-dish-sized portions. The salad has assorted vegetables in it and an oil-based dressing, but no mayo. This worked: mix with grated cheese and sour cream, put in casserole, sprinkle top with more cheese, and bake. I guess it's sort of like lasagna and sort of like a kugel, but with (in this case) tri-color springs instead of conventional noodles. But hey, it worked!

From a local newspaper: An interview with the rat lady (a local SCA person who is well-known at Pennsic as a purveyor of plague rats). She's a neat person. It's a pity the article didn't quote her shpiel -- it changes over time, but tends to include things like "they work on your friends, they work on your enemies, they even work on the Board of Directors -- I'll bet you didn't know anything worked on the Board of Directors...".

Using discomfort as a social yardstick, from dmnsqrl.