Painless upgrade
I just upgraded the site to WordPress 3.0. It was totally painless! :-D
Salty Sticks (a recipe)
Sorting out stuff I had in my old office at the Uni (essentially piles of papers and old computer pieces) I found this recipe for something I remember fondly from some party:
Serbian Salty Sticks
Ingredients:
- 250g butter
- 1 egg + 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. sugar
- 1 yeast bag
- 1 shot glass of milk
- 2 spoonfulls of sunflower oil
- 8-14 spoonfulls of flour — enough to make it not sticky
Mix milk, yeast and sugar, let it sit.
Mix butter, yeast mix, eggs, salt and oil, add flour 2 spoons at a time, mix well.
When it looks firm enough to knead, do so.
Don’t let it become too hard from too much flour.
Spread flat, 1 cm thick, beat another whole egg, spread over the whole thing.
Cut in strips (2×8 cm approx.), put on a baking tray, bake at 250º C for a few minutes (before they get brown on top).
Must say I haven’t tried myself, but these things were yummy when I tried them!
Maravillas de la tecnología
Hoy empieza oficialmente el plazo para solicitar la admisión en los programas de Master de la UNED. Esta admisión sólo se puede solicitar online. Me he quedado atónito cuando he visto que no han tocado la página desde hace varios días (como mínimo), y la pestaña de “Admisión” sigue considerando hoy como una fecha futura, fuera de plazo.
¿Tan difícil es hacer bien las cosas?
Slowly dwindling from facebook
My privacy concerns about the way facebook treats the information I posted there are leading me to decide that very little of it shall remain in a near future. To begin with, I have taken advantage of the changes in the way personal interests and such are treated to delete all information on that. I have also removed most of my contact information, and will be taking down the photos very soon. At least many of them.
Probably the only thing worth saving from those lists are these quotations I posted there because I found them funny and/or inspiring:
Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked. — Three Men in a Boat, J. K. Jerome.
Señor, dame serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, valor para cambiar las que sí puedo, y sabiduría para distinguir las unas de las otras. — Popular, through K. V.
Prefiero morir dormido como mi abuelo que no gritando acojonado como sus pasajeros. — Vuelo 023, Luis Montero.
Most visitors to the North Pole head south next. — On the “Get out” Section of the “North Pole” entry in wikitravel
De piratas intelectuales
El problema con el follón sobre los derechos de autor es que las empresas que viven de timar a los autores y a los consumidores han hecho creer a los primeros que es una cuestión de derechos de autor, de una guerra contra los segundos. La cuestión no es propiedad intelectual vs. descargas en el emule, la cuestión es lo que las discográficas y editoriales quieren (autores que trabajen gratis y sin derechos) vs. los derechos de las personas (de los autores a hacer lo que quieran con su trabajo y de los ciudadanos a no ser considerados delincuentes salvo prueba en contra).
Link.
Naughty Xmas
Fetlife is giving away some gifts once more. If you’ve been naughty this year, go ask Santa!!
Personal growth, sleep control, and all that
Reading about Polyphasic Sleep I get tempted to try it for a while… of course, that leads to wondering how I’m going to manage, since I can’t get myself to wake up most of the time. In the same blog I happen to stumble upon a solution to that problem, which I shall try.
Polyphasic sleep seems a bit radical for me right now, for one, I feel lacking goals at the moment, and I’m not very motivated, in general, to do many things or entertain myself other than reading on the computer. So the thought of having five extra hours a day to browse the internet is definitely not appealing. I hope it will be as soon as I start doing something about my life.
In the course of this long web browsing session I’ve also found out about segmented sleep, which probably was the way humankind slept all the way up to the Industrial Age and artificial lighting.
Red tuna
—It tasted like nothing you’ve ever tasted. Imagine all the flavours of the ocean flowing through the most exquisite texture in your mouth, evolving in a whirpool of colors and music. It is the most delicious thing I’ve ever tasted—I said, remembering my happy old times.
—So, what happened to it?—they asked, eyes wide open.
—We never knew whether that’d be the last time we would ever eat it. And we fished them to extinction. Nobody will ever be able to see them again.
Mundo real
¿Ir al mundo real? ¿Qué hacer? No me apetece estar en París, pero tengo sueldo hasta Febrero sin apenas responsabilidades. Si luego quiero un post-doc, debería ponerme las pilas, acabar la tesis *ya* e intentar publicar algo con alguien de aquí. Si quiero irme al mundo real, empezar a mandar CVs y conseguir entrevistas lo antes posible. Bu! Mundo complicado.