Limelife

Jul. 13th, 2006 11:08 pm
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (Default)


The dippy grin is because I get to sleep on a bed now.



I'm still kind of pathetic for not doing this two or three months ago, but eh. I work on my own schedule.
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (Default)
I am REALLY not fond of the modifications to tab behavior that rolled in on two nights ago's Bon Echo build. Sideways scrolling with no relative position feedback using two buttons located on opposite sides of the tab bar? Are you smoking the crack?

When for one reason or another I had to wrangle a whole pile of tabs at once, shrinky tabs worked. This doesn't. Hope they've got a vision for how to make this non-painful before B1 hits.

Also, I cleaned the bathroom last night! (Speaking of usability.)

Riceburner

Jun. 23rd, 2006 12:51 pm
roadrunnertwice: Me looking up at the camera, wearing big headphones and a striped shirt. (Mischief brewin'!)

So you might remember that I bought a ricemaker a little while back. It was one of these--I chose it because I'd had good luck with that cylindrical, latching-lid type in the past, and expected that this one would be pretty much the same as the Zojirushi one they had at 1373. In point of fact, it turned out to be complete ass. I must have tried like eight different ways of cooking brown rice in that thing, and every single time, it burned half of my rice onto the bottom of the pan. And the rest of the rice was usually pretty chewy and inedible, too, but let's not get off track, here--I was throwing away half of every single batch of rice.

So I took it back, and bought this instead:

Red Rival ricemaker

It was half the price, it cooked this afternoon's rice perfectly on the first try, and it's totally frikkin' adorable. I reckon that as a clear win.

Now if only I could get that popcorn popper to not make a mess all over the kitchen...

Here's the bitchy Amazon review I wrote. )