A friend requested something with chocolate and mint, so I figured I’d brush off my ganache-manship skills and try making chocolate mint truffles. Truffles are crazy straight forward and only involve making a ganache of dark chocolate and cream, dipping a spoonful in tempered chocolate, and dusting with cocoa powder but to this I added a vial of mint extract. The product of this mixture can be described as Whitman’s Sampler piece filled with mouthwash or a chocolate treat made with Hall’s throat lozenges. Only then did I look up a recipe for mint chocolate truffles where I learned I used a mere three times the amount of mint extract that one normally uses. Next time, I go for four.
Tag: fail
Crop Fails
The title bar at the OSR webpage changes randomly with each page load with a new 150×1300 image. This is a very odd aspect ratio but sometimes photos turn out well in this very horizontal focus.
Original before crop.
Then:
Cropped version of the above.
I this works pretty well. Other times, it fails spectacularly and in a way I don’t know until after I do the upload.
Good left-to-right focus across the kids, extraneous stuff at the top and bottom, what's the worst that could happen?
This:
Big Brother is Watching You
For about 4 hours the above image could have possibly greeted anyone going to the OSR page until I nearly shat myself on experiencing it.
Trojan Horse Gifts
Team Interrobang has had a spate of people (we think) using wall hacks (ways to see through things you’re not supposed to, like concrete) to cheat in Team Fortress 2. I talked to a high school friend about what he did to track cheaters when he ran a server he said he’d use a coordinate tracker to help make demos showing impossible shots and such. I follow his instructions, jump into a game, he tells me the start command and suddenly I can see through everything. His solution to dealing with wallhacks, was to run a better wallhack. Shit. Team Fortress has built in software that generates hashes of game files to find cheaters, I think I could hear his hack humping and ravashing the EXEs and DLLs that Valve monitors so, knowing I couldn’t wait for a normal shut down before I received the irrevocable title of “cheater”. I ripped the power cord out of the wall.
Guess who’s got two thumbs and is going to spent Turkey Day scrubbing his hard drive with a rare-earth magnet? This guy!
If the above was a little too technical for your taste, here’s a video of a warthog running into a lion.
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