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Sheryl's Blog · 1Y ago

Kindle 3 Tips and Tricks

td {vertical-align:top} I resisted the Kindle for a long time. I read a lot and I’m headache-prone, and those low-contrast early Kindles were not going to work for me. Also, I saw in reviews that Kindle books often lacked the footnotes and indexes of the paper versions. When I had occasion to crea

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Sheryl's Blog · 1Y ago

Book Review: Cooking for Geeks

I was attracted to the basic concept of this book: an analytic approach to cooking that includes the whys and wherefores, not just the whats. But, for the record, I would like to clarify that as a software engineer I would call myself a “nerd” rather than a “geek”. The word “nerd” derives from the [

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Sheryl's Blog · 1Y ago

Movie Review: “The Kids Are All Right”

I didn’t like this movie half as much as I thought I would, for two reasons: (1) The trailer gives away too much. (2) The part the trailer doesn’t give away is the worst part of the movie. I actually liked the trailer more than the movie. What follows is a [...]

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Recipe for Authentic English Muffins with Natural Nooks and Crannies

I was surfing around the Web last week and came across a picture of English muffins cooking in a cast iron skillet. I’m always interested in recipes that make special use of cast iron, and I didn’t realize until I saw this picture that English muffins were made in a skillet. I like English muffins [

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

“Black Rust” and Cast Iron Seasoning

My previous post on the chemistry of cast iron seasoning focused on fat polymerization – the transformation of an oil into a hard, slick glaze. After I posted that, someone sent me some links that talked about two other elements in cast iron seasoning: carbon and magnetite. Carbon is the black stuff

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning: A Science-Based How-To

The post after this one on “black rust” describes why you should heat the pan before applying oil for seasoning. This helps the seasoning to adhere and makes the pan pleasantly black. http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/02/black-rust-and-cast-iron-seasoning/ In a previous post, I illustrated how

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Universal Remote Control Fine Points

In a previous post, I wrote about how I was able to use a learning remote from Universal Remote Control (the URC-WR7) to set up a Bose Wave Radio as the audio for my TV, cable box, and Blu-ray player. At the time I hadn’t fully configured everything. Now that I have, I want to [...]

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Bluetooth Mouse Losing Connection No More!

I have a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 that I bought when I bought my new Thinkpad with built-in Bluetooth. At the time I was running 64-bit Vista and all was well. Then I upgraded to 64-bit Windows 7, and suddenly the mouse started constantly losing connection. There was no detectable pat

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Control a Bose Wave Radio with a Universal Remote

The picture on my new 40″ Samsung LCD HDTV is amazing, but the sound, not so much. So I plugged the audio output of the television into the auxilliary jack for my Bose Wave Radio. Much better! But then I encountered a new problem. When the TV audio is external, the TV remote can’t control [...]

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Sheryl's Blog · 2Y ago

Recipe for Cast Iron: German Pancake with Apples

As part of my recent purge of nonstick cookware, I acquired my very first cast iron skillet – a vintage large-logo Griswold. I removed all the old crud with oven cleaner and then reseasoned it. Rust was minimal, so I was able to scrub it off with steel wool. (For more on cleaning and seasoning [...]

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