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Crispy Baked Chicken Wings
Gluten Free and Kosher (Meat)
These wings complement each other well, the buffalo sauce is VERY spicy and the Ginger soy sauce is sweet. I have a slight preference for the spicier buffalo sauce, but it probably benefits from having a contrast. Continue reading “Crispy Baked Chicken Wings”
Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken Wings
This is an easy to cook, delicious use of chicken wings that’s both sweet and a little spicy.
Ingredients:
- 4 Pounds Pastured Raised Chicken Wings (from Grow and Behold)
Spam Eliminator Setup
This is a companion to the blog post, the Spam Eliminator Telephone System.
To set up this system, first get a raspberry pi with at least 8GB SD card, you’ll also need a monitor and a keyboard to set it up with a hardwired ethernet connection to the internet. Continue reading “Spam Eliminator Setup”
Spam Eliminator Telephone System
Curried Chicken Loaf (Gluten Free)
This is gluten free.
Ingredients:
- 2 pounds ground chicken breast (from Grow and Behold)
- 2 raw eggs
- 1 diced large onion
- ¾ cup almond flour
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 1.5 Tablespoons ground turmeric
- 1.5 Tablespoons ground cumin
- 1.5 Tablespoons garam masala
When nanoseconds count….
I finished reading Michael Lewis’ book Flashboys, and it really motivated me to think about ‘fairness’. What Lewis’ book reveals is the advantage High Frequency Traders who invest BILLIONS in technology have over average investors. By investing heavily in technology these firms have been able to exploit the nanoseconds between when a stock order is placed and how it is executed. Continue reading “When nanoseconds count….”
Gluten-Free and Servers/Chefs
There is a war occurring between the people trying to avoid gluten and the people serving them in restaurants. This posting is in response to the online post: tickld.com/funny/t/775109. I’d like to propose a truce that will probably satisfy neither side: Continue reading “Gluten-Free and Servers/Chefs”
The Future of TV Viewing: Sell your DVDs on eBay!
How is the value of your VHS tape collection holding up over the last 10 years? That’s a question you may well ask about your DVD collection in a few years. With the advent of the ROKU, and services like Netflix streaming and Amazon Prime streaming, and renting movies on Amazon, we’ve entered a new world of ‘on demand movies’ and only those old trusty DVDs that you re-watch a lot (see Band of Brothers) are worth keeping. Unlike CDs, where you can hold on to them and allow others, to rip the content, DVDs are not so easy. At this moment they have value; as more people enter the movie streaming universe they will lose value.
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Sleep Tight: Unexpected upside of FreePBX
After I nerded out and installed a Raspberry Pi with FreePBX, I’ve recently found an unexpected upside. As an iPhone user, I’ve grown used to leaving my iPhone charging away from my bedroom at night. When our parents recently had bouts in the hospital, this became problematic to have the iPhones next to us while we slept. With children in several timezones around the world, text messages can often arrive in the middle of the night, either dinging because I forgot to turn the ringer off, or lighting up the bedroom and buzzing; either way it’s a sleep killer.
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