Winter is coming.
1/2 cabbage head chopped -- add to lightly salted water, bring to boil.
Add 3 celery sticks chopped.
Keep on medium heat for 20 min.
Sauté 1 carrot cut the way it makes you happy with 1 chopped onion in olive oil.
Add to boiling soup.
10 more min.
Serve with sour cream or Greek yogurt.
Good for 3 days in a row and better every day.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Me still into linen, long skirts, funky cardigans
How can I get this one -- Eleen Fisher
Handkerchief Linen Cinchable Long Skirt with "rushed" effect @ cheap?
For I am cheap though I have money.
I see no justification for spending 248$ on a skirt at Neuman Marcus vs. spending 50$ and using the rest for good cause.
Like buying a case of soft guns and distributing them among boy from the neighborhood so they can shoot woodpeckers (woodpecker being migrating birds and protected species, so adults can't shoot them from air guns).
Another idea -- to buy Singer sewing machine and put something together myself. Pays off long term for sure.
Handkerchief Linen Cinchable Long Skirt with "rushed" effect @ cheap?
For I am cheap though I have money.
I see no justification for spending 248$ on a skirt at Neuman Marcus vs. spending 50$ and using the rest for good cause.
Like buying a case of soft guns and distributing them among boy from the neighborhood so they can shoot woodpeckers (woodpecker being migrating birds and protected species, so adults can't shoot them from air guns).
Women's 360 Sweater Emmanuelle Cashmere Blend Cardigan is also of interest to me. Cute, cure design. British. Think All Saints.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
Quck meat pie
This particular one was cooked on the occasion of no food left, no time to go to the store... scraped whatever was available.
That is: 1 pound of ground beef (organic, and it probably it matters from taste perspective), 1 can of green peas, salt, black pepper, ground cloves, ground ginger - and no onions, though I would've added chopped onion and 1/2 can of cord with 1/ can of green peas if I had the luxury to choose my ingredients. Mix them all.
For pie crist -- 2 eggs, whatever flour was left, which was about 6 table spoons, ~ 1/2 cup of iced water. Mix and flatten in round with pin roll.
Make this dough soft but strong enough to hold on the the sides of a pot.
Yes, I used aluminum pot which is also used for making pilaf.
A medium size one.
So place the filling into the dough and cover with the dough from the sides . Your pie will be most likely not fully covered which some windows left for the filling. Which is good. It will breath, it will start producing right smell to invoke appetite at the right time.
Bake for about 18-24 minutes at about 450-500F.
That is: 1 pound of ground beef (organic, and it probably it matters from taste perspective), 1 can of green peas, salt, black pepper, ground cloves, ground ginger - and no onions, though I would've added chopped onion and 1/2 can of cord with 1/ can of green peas if I had the luxury to choose my ingredients. Mix them all.
For pie crist -- 2 eggs, whatever flour was left, which was about 6 table spoons, ~ 1/2 cup of iced water. Mix and flatten in round with pin roll.
Make this dough soft but strong enough to hold on the the sides of a pot.
Yes, I used aluminum pot which is also used for making pilaf.
A medium size one.
So place the filling into the dough and cover with the dough from the sides . Your pie will be most likely not fully covered which some windows left for the filling. Which is good. It will breath, it will start producing right smell to invoke appetite at the right time.
Bake for about 18-24 minutes at about 450-500F.
Material life in 3D -- and you are in control
3D is coming for us.
I personally own a ring printed by a friend, STL file courtesy of CAD business owner, design by serious jeweler from Spain who used 3D software for custom design of a fancy ring to be made of platinum, gold and a handful of diamonds.
My ring is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. It crumbles because it's just the base, awaiting for golden animals and diamonds to be inserted in assigned positions. Well, had the base been made out of platinum, it probably won't curmble at all.
Next question: could 3D printers use metal wire to print?
According to my superficial reading on the subject, the answer is positive.
This recent article in Daily Mail referes to control over shoes which are even more important objects in our daily life than rings:
shoes on a 3D printer (and this revolutionary shopping trend will change all our lives)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2342006/Move-Jimmy-Choo-How-I-shoes-3D-printer-revolutionary-shopping-trend-change-lives.html#ixzz2X0HKf100
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
My own post on Jimmy Choo's shoes was even more trivial. Something about wedges.
But let's compare the shoes, these high-heel sandals. Tell me whether it's Jimmi Choo on the left and 3D printed shoes on the rigjht or visa versa. For me it's all the same - I can wear neither of them for the reasons not related to dirty subject of money.
I personally own a ring printed by a friend, STL file courtesy of CAD business owner, design by serious jeweler from Spain who used 3D software for custom design of a fancy ring to be made of platinum, gold and a handful of diamonds.
My ring is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene. It crumbles because it's just the base, awaiting for golden animals and diamonds to be inserted in assigned positions. Well, had the base been made out of platinum, it probably won't curmble at all.
Next question: could 3D printers use metal wire to print?
According to my superficial reading on the subject, the answer is positive.
This recent article in Daily Mail referes to control over shoes which are even more important objects in our daily life than rings:
shoes on a 3D printer (and this revolutionary shopping trend will change all our lives)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2342006/Move-Jimmy-Choo-How-I-shoes-3D-printer-revolutionary-shopping-trend-change-lives.html#ixzz2X0HKf100
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
My own post on Jimmy Choo's shoes was even more trivial. Something about wedges.
But let's compare the shoes, these high-heel sandals. Tell me whether it's Jimmi Choo on the left and 3D printed shoes on the rigjht or visa versa. For me it's all the same - I can wear neither of them for the reasons not related to dirty subject of money.
But if you can -- wear them and enjoy!
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Beets and goat cheese arugula salad
Ingredients
Arugula 8 oz
Beets 1 medium
Goat cheeze 8 oz
Balsamic vinegar
Extra virgin olive oil
Preparation
Cook beets in microwave or boil on the stove unpeeled (same way you'll prepare a big potato -- just it will take 2.5 times longer).
Dress a generous pile of arugula salad with olive oil mixed with balsamic vinegar (hint: if you balsamic vinegar is cheap and watery, heat it and make it more condenced).
Top it with chunks of goat cheese and slices of peeled beets.
This salad is very elegant, pleasing for the eye and the palate.
Enjoy!
Arugula 8 oz
Beets 1 medium
Goat cheeze 8 oz
Balsamic vinegar
Extra virgin olive oil
Preparation
Cook beets in microwave or boil on the stove unpeeled (same way you'll prepare a big potato -- just it will take 2.5 times longer).
Dress a generous pile of arugula salad with olive oil mixed with balsamic vinegar (hint: if you balsamic vinegar is cheap and watery, heat it and make it more condenced).
Top it with chunks of goat cheese and slices of peeled beets.
This salad is very elegant, pleasing for the eye and the palate.
Enjoy!
Linux, bash tips
Capture output, linux, bash
# send standard output to file named out and error output to file named err
master.sh >out 2>err
# send all output to one file named allout
master.sh 2>&1>allout
equivalent to
master.sh &>allout
Copy shell script to another location from itself
cp $0 destination
# send standard output to file named out and error output to file named err
master.sh >out 2>err
# send all output to one file named allout
master.sh 2>&1>allout
equivalent to
master.sh &>allout
Copy shell script to another location from itself
cp $0 destination
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Linux scripts: we use grep, sed, awk, sort, uniq, pipe
Tab delimited file with 3d column consisting of comma-separated integers.
Goal: using bash script
pick all records matching pattern=PATTERN
count all occurrences of each integer in the file
sort desc by occurrences
Highlights:
>tr -s ',' '\n' ==or== sed 's/,/\n/g'
>sort -r -n -b ----- reverse, numeric, omit trailing blanks
>uniq ------- for counting pre-sorted records
> | -------- piping output from one process into another (all interim files are not necessary, everything could be piped through!
#!/bin/bash
grep PATTERN | sed 's/\t*PATTERN\t*,/\t/g' > matching_records.csv
cat matching_records.csv | awk -F '\t' '{print $2}' > csv_column.csv
cat csv_column.csv | tr -s ',' '\n' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -r -n -b
Goal: using bash script
pick all records matching pattern=PATTERN
count all occurrences of each integer in the file
sort desc by occurrences
Highlights:
>tr -s ',' '\n' ==or== sed 's/,/\n/g'
>sort -r -n -b ----- reverse, numeric, omit trailing blanks
>uniq ------- for counting pre-sorted records
> | -------- piping output from one process into another (all interim files are not necessary, everything could be piped through!
#!/bin/bash
grep PATTERN | sed 's/\t*PATTERN\t*,/\t/g' > matching_records.csv
cat matching_records.csv | awk -F '\t' '{print $2}' > csv_column.csv
cat csv_column.csv | tr -s ',' '\n' | sort -n | uniq -c | sort -r -n -b
Linux / unix tips: paste
>paste
[-s] [-d delim-list] [--serial] [--delimiters=delim-list] [--help] [--version]
[file...]
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl_paste.htm
paste prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each specified file. In the output the original lines are separated by TABs. The output line is terminated with a newline.
Example - convert tab-delimited file into csv:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/174008/write-bash-script-which-takes-input-from-pipe
http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl_paste.htm
paste prints lines consisting of sequentially corresponding lines of each specified file. In the output the original lines are separated by TABs. The output line is terminated with a newline.
Example - convert tab-delimited file into csv:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/174008/write-bash-script-which-takes-input-from-pipe
cat some_list_of_elements.txt | awk '{print "\047"$1"\047"}' | paste -d, -sThursday, April 4, 2013
Linux tips
Copy shell script from inside
cp $0 destination
Remove file with name starting with dash
rm -- -file-with-weird-prefix
cp $0 destination
Remove file with name starting with dash
rm -- -file-with-weird-prefix
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Lamb soup and more
This soup is a compilation of many traditional Uzbekistan soups.
Of course, you need lamb and some special sour plums. Cherry plums? When was the last time you've seen these plums? They are out of season in produce section of my supermarket for the past 20+ years.
Anyway, for best results do the following.
Buy a lamb rack - a smaller one is better, it will have less fat - Costco is your best bet price-wise.
You'll also need salt, water, 3 onions, 5 potatoes, 1 of cup rice. Garlic, black pepper and cilantro are optional.
Put lamb rack whole into wide pot, cover with enough water to make soup and bring to boil. Add salt and simmer at low. Cube 3 medium onions (I don't know exactly how to cube onions, but this is one of the lines from one of the recipes, so I followed this line literally). Add to soup. Add 3 medium-size tomatoes whole. Peel 5 small-to-medium size potatoes of perfect shape and similar size. Add them to soup, bring to boil. In 20 minutes take out the rack and cut along the ribs - you'll get 7-8 bones with meat on. Return them to pot. Take out tomatoes, squish in colander above the pot, remove skin and whatever else you don't like from colander and return the rest of tomatoes to the pot. Add 2-3 chopped garlic cloves and simmer for another few minutes.
To serve on Day One
Each portion will have 1 rib, 1 potato and broth.
Top with chopped cilantro or something else green if you can get this time of the year.
To serve on Day Two
Put generous amount of boiled rice into the soup plate. Add broth remaining from day 1 to the plate. Heat in micro.
If you are especially lucky, you'll get a bone too.
Tastes great.
It's a different dish with a different name tough, I am not even sure it's called soup.
Please note that you can feed a family of 5 for 2 days with 1 lamb rack.
Of course, you need lamb and some special sour plums. Cherry plums? When was the last time you've seen these plums? They are out of season in produce section of my supermarket for the past 20+ years.
Anyway, for best results do the following.
Buy a lamb rack - a smaller one is better, it will have less fat - Costco is your best bet price-wise.
You'll also need salt, water, 3 onions, 5 potatoes, 1 of cup rice. Garlic, black pepper and cilantro are optional.
Put lamb rack whole into wide pot, cover with enough water to make soup and bring to boil. Add salt and simmer at low. Cube 3 medium onions (I don't know exactly how to cube onions, but this is one of the lines from one of the recipes, so I followed this line literally). Add to soup. Add 3 medium-size tomatoes whole. Peel 5 small-to-medium size potatoes of perfect shape and similar size. Add them to soup, bring to boil. In 20 minutes take out the rack and cut along the ribs - you'll get 7-8 bones with meat on. Return them to pot. Take out tomatoes, squish in colander above the pot, remove skin and whatever else you don't like from colander and return the rest of tomatoes to the pot. Add 2-3 chopped garlic cloves and simmer for another few minutes.
To serve on Day One
Each portion will have 1 rib, 1 potato and broth.
Top with chopped cilantro or something else green if you can get this time of the year.
To serve on Day Two
Put generous amount of boiled rice into the soup plate. Add broth remaining from day 1 to the plate. Heat in micro.
If you are especially lucky, you'll get a bone too.
Tastes great.
It's a different dish with a different name tough, I am not even sure it's called soup.
Please note that you can feed a family of 5 for 2 days with 1 lamb rack.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Resolving to port 80 instead of 8080 (AWS, Linux, Tomcat)
Launch AWS EC2 instance with Linux, securely connect to it
>yum -y install tomcat7
....
Compile and deploy your webapp / mobile app
Let's make it simple - for example, deploy helloworld.jsp
....
>service tomcat7 status
tomcat7 (pid <...>) is running...
....
Go to web browser / g.g. Google Chrome
http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp
For example
http://hastasiempre-ismyfavourite.com
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to <...>
My humble contribution in the form of sed script to switch from port 8080 to 80:
#!/bin/bash
tomcat=tomcat7
tomcat_conf=/usr/share/$tomcat/conf
cd $tomcat_conf
sed -e 's/="8080/="80/g' -e 's/="8443/="443/g' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed '/Connector port="80"/i\<!-- change user tomcat to root in tomcat7.conf, change ports 8080 and 8443 to 80 and 443 respectively -->/' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed -e '/TOMCAT_USER=/i\# Switch user from tomcat to root' -e 's/TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"/TOMCAT_USER="root"/' -e 's/="8080/="80/' -i $tomcat_conf/$tomcat.conf
>yum -y install tomcat7
....
Compile and deploy your webapp / mobile app
Let's make it simple - for example, deploy helloworld.jsp
....
>service tomcat7 status
tomcat7 (pid <...>) is running...
....
Go to web browser / g.g. Google Chrome
http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp
For example
http://hastasiempre-ismyfavourite.com
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to <...>
Darn! I mean, WTF?
Browse some forums. Figure that default port for Tomcat7 to listen on is 8080.
http://<IP address or domain name>:8080/helloworld.jsp
Hell of a world!
Go to .../tomcat7/conf. Edit server.xml with your editor of choice to change ports 8080 and 8443 to 80 and 443 respectively.
http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to <...>
Browse even more forums. Figure out that you need to run tomcat as root to be allowed to use port under 1024. Edit tomcat7.conf with your editor of choice to change TOMCAT_USER="tomcat" to TOMCAT_USER="root".
http://<IP address or domain name>/helloworld.jsp
Hell of a world!
Bingo!
My humble contribution in the form of sed script to switch from port 8080 to 80:
#!/bin/bash
tomcat=tomcat7
tomcat_conf=/usr/share/$tomcat/conf
cd $tomcat_conf
sed -e 's/="8080/="80/g' -e 's/="8443/="443/g' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed '/Connector port="80"/i\<!-- change user tomcat to root in tomcat7.conf, change ports 8080 and 8443 to 80 and 443 respectively -->/' -i $tomcat_conf/server.xml
sed -e '/TOMCAT_USER=/i\# Switch user from tomcat to root' -e 's/TOMCAT_USER="tomcat"/TOMCAT_USER="root"/' -e 's/="8080/="80/' -i $tomcat_conf/$tomcat.conf
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