Rusks recipe

Taking a page from Amul, here's a recipe that I used the other night... (credits go to mom)

Ingredients:

• sugar
  
• cinnamon
  
• soft butter (or spread)
  
• hot dog buns

(no measurements needed, you just have to do it right :)

1. Separate the tops and bottoms of the hot dog buns
   
2. Spread a thin layer of butter on the sides that used to be the inside of the hot dog bun (it helps if the butter is soft)
   
3. Cut the buttered hot dog buns into one inch wide pieces
   
4. Mix cinnamon and sugar - there should be more sugar in the mix
   
5. Sprinkle the mix on the buttered part of the bun pieces, and shake off any excess that doesn't stick
   
6. Put the pieces on a pan, and stick it into the oven at room temperature
   
7. Turn the oven on at a low temperature - say 250-300 or so
   
8. Once it reaches that temperature, turn the oven off
   
9. Wait for the oven to cool down
   
10. Do the heating and cooling cycles at least two more times

The pieces should end up crispy throughout (not chewy on the inside), and are best enjoyed with milk (or coffee, etc)

They aren't difficult, but I like them :)

Rashomon - what other movies have multiple points of view?

We just got done watching Rashomon, which I didn't like as well as other Kurosawa films, but was still interesting. It was one of the earliest films to tell multiple points of view for a specific event (the DVD says it's the first, but Google claims otherwise). I think there have to be lots of more recent films that do this, but I can't think of many. Leave a comment and add more!

-Clue
-The Usual Suspects (sort of)
-Hero

Frozen Pizza

As far as I know, I'm the only person in the world that eats frozen pizza. Not the kind that you buy frozen, then bake, then eat - I'm talking about normal pizza from one of the standard places. I freeze the leftovers to keep them fresh, but at some point in my childhood I decided that the reheating step that follows for most sane people was taking too much time - so I eat it while it's still frozen.

I don't really think about this much anymore, since it's normal to me - but Lisa was laughing about it the other day, since she hasn't seen me eat frozen pizza all that much.

Cassini-Huygens Images

Cool pictures from places around Saturn - http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm

WWDC approaches

I was really tempted to put an exclamation point in that title... :)

Only 20 days left until WWDC! It's always a fun time - with the free Jamba Juice, interesting conversations, and more PowerPoint-style presentations than you can shake a stick at (I'd say Keynote presentations but it would just be confusing).

It's always great to meet up with old friends and meet new people - especially when you realize that you just sat through a session right next to someone that's worked on programs you have used for years. I'm going to try to make it to the weblogger dinner this year, which should be interesting as well.

Gmail now supports Safari?

As I logged in to my Gmail account using Safari today, I noticed that it didn't say the usual text: "this browser isn't supported, but try logging in anyway" (or something similar) - it just showed me the actual login screen. Safari still isn't listed as a supported browser on their information page though.

Aside from this Gmail has had a few minor annoyances with Safari - for one, it couldn't be used to create my account back in the day - I had to use Firefox. It still seems to randomly choose to not display the page - it will show a "loading" graphic, but it doesn't display anything new until I refresh the page manually.

Is anyone else seeing this behavior?

UPDATE: It looks like news sites are starting to report on it, so it's not just me.

Mountain 1, Corey 0

I went mountain biking with Daisie, Tom and Josh over the weekend, and managed to scrape up my knee pretty bad. I took the wrong part of a turn which put me off balance about a foot above the rest of the trail, and I came crashing down sideways. It could have been much worse though, and I'm pretty happy I got away with the scrape and some bruises.

Now I'm waiting for them to heal, which has stopped me from doing some of my usual things this week, like playing ultimate and riding my bike to work. I've taken up some of the slack by studying up on jazz theory, which I would have had a good chance to learn in high school, but I just wasn't interested back then (when it was all drums drums drums :) Dorian, dominant, diminished... we'll see how much of this stuff I can understand and remember... and then we'll see if I can teach any of it to high school kids :) Outside Shore seems to have a pretty good online reference for this stuff, fyi.