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I think I found a spruce! In the nearby community garden there's a very small Christmas tree, very triangular, very dense, and spiky with short stiff needles.
Fish balls survive being boiled in soup just fine, or if they don't then I don't what they should taste like to know better. Shrimp and scallops do not; I added some frozen ones late to tonight's soup, and they still came out rubbery.
I've never cooked with ginger much; was always put off by the fibrous-seeming mass or something. I did have ginger powder for a while, I'm not sure I noticed much. Recently I'd bought a little jar of minced ginger and used it in stir-fries; I've since moved on to actual root. A lot easier that I thought! The ugly grey skin hides a softer and somewhat juicy interior. It doesn't grate all that well, though I've tried; I get better results (and more ginger) from slicing.
Python is a very nice language to write code in but maintenance looks like it'd be a real pain. Possibly worse than Perl; less line noise, but also less checking of basic lexical errors. I don't know how people do it... though from what I hear, PHP's even worse, and it still spread like weeds.
Job hunt still continues, depressingly. But at the last interview I was told that people are jumping away from Ruby on Rails, just as Ruby itself finally starts to get faster. Sort of amusing.
Fish balls survive being boiled in soup just fine, or if they don't then I don't what they should taste like to know better. Shrimp and scallops do not; I added some frozen ones late to tonight's soup, and they still came out rubbery.
I've never cooked with ginger much; was always put off by the fibrous-seeming mass or something. I did have ginger powder for a while, I'm not sure I noticed much. Recently I'd bought a little jar of minced ginger and used it in stir-fries; I've since moved on to actual root. A lot easier that I thought! The ugly grey skin hides a softer and somewhat juicy interior. It doesn't grate all that well, though I've tried; I get better results (and more ginger) from slicing.
Python is a very nice language to write code in but maintenance looks like it'd be a real pain. Possibly worse than Perl; less line noise, but also less checking of basic lexical errors. I don't know how people do it... though from what I hear, PHP's even worse, and it still spread like weeds.
Job hunt still continues, depressingly. But at the last interview I was told that people are jumping away from Ruby on Rails, just as Ruby itself finally starts to get faster. Sort of amusing.