2861

Protip: Toss the block of cheese into the freezer for 10 minutes. It sets up and won’t smear, bend or break while grating. A decent food processor with a grating disk is wonderful. But a box grater and some elbow grease works fine.

2862

I like the grating/slicing attachment for our KitchenAid for grating lots of block cheese. Got it brand new for like $2 at a garage sale a few years ago (probably an unused wedding gift or something).

2863

People on message boards who read a rant about ambiguous vs unambiguous measures in recipes and somehow manage to interpret it as a rant against grating your own cheese.

2864

I can totally relate! I hate grating the fucking cheese. Fuck that shit. If God had intended cheese to be grated, God would have – Well, I don’t know how God would have handled that one. But I do know that I hate grating the effin’ cheese! Especially when it gets down to a cheese nubbin and you end up grating your fingertips and knuckles a little too. Man, that sucks!

2865

Your original rant was about the impossibility of buying cheese by volume. Personally, I am almost never concerned about buying precisely the right amount of cheese. I’ll buy more cheese that I absolutely need for what I’m going to cook, and I’ll use the rest later. Either by cooking it in something else, or just eating it as part of lunch. Hell, that’s true of most ingredients I purchase. I don’t sweat buying precisely the right number of onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, or jalapeno peppers, just that I buy enough.

That said, recipes really should measure almost everything by weight. Weight’s consistent, volume rarely is. Unless it’s water or milk. There’s a lot of resistance to the idea. When I talked to my mother-in-law about the virtues of a kitchen scale, she didn’t understand it, and she’s been cooking for 60 years.

I also hate grating cheese by hand. It’s not so bad with a food processor, but by hand you end up with the issues Tim mentioned.

2866

Starcraft 2 regularly gets my nerd rage going. Had a game tonight where I had a definitely lead and sent my army to finish off a Protoss base only to get slaughtered because he had an army of Dark Templars and I wasn’t quick enough with the scan before they got creamed. Kills me.

2867

I have started a weekly snooker session with my dad and brother, anyways last night i got pissed at their constant talking during play, problem was it just made things worse still i won 3-2-1 so that shut them up.

2868

Why aren’t they allowed to talk while playing? I play Pool once in a while, and its just cozy smalltalk all the while.

2869

Well you need to be there, but here are a few examples, i lean down to take a shot and you get , he’s gonna miss this to the left, better put more side on that shot, or just as you are about to play a shot on a colour of your choice they say, what colour are you going for again. After 2 hours it gets a bit tedious.

To add there is always plenty of chat in the pool room but snooker in the hall is generally pretty quiet, I don’t mind a bit of pointless chit chat but wind ups, piss takes and general annoyances generate some rage.

2870

The new formatting of Google’s search results is giving me Web 1.0 flashbacks, back to the days when everyone’s first instinct was to wrap anything important in H1 tags.

They’ve also been doing this idiotic thing lately where the search categories (Web, Images, Video, etc.) dynamically reshuffle themselves according to what you’ve typed. Apparently muscle memory isn’t a concern for their interface designers.

Dear Google, please stop fixing things until they’re broken.

2871

Ha, I thought I was going slightly insane…glad it’s not just me who noticed that.

2872

And once more, I turn to Stylish to save me from Google’s latest “idea”.

edit: Nope, apparently Google have already skilfully broken said script.

Anyone have a stylish / greasemonkey script for this?

2873

1 in 10 in a survey think HTML is an STD

GAAHHHHHH

2874

I’m more scared 23% of people knew what SEO is.

2875

When people refer to all MMA as UFC. >:(

2876

Suck it. :P

2877

It was multiple choice.

And apparently only 3 choices.

1 Safe Energy Optimisation 41%
2 Standard Engine Output 36%
3 Search Engine Optimisation 23%

So the SEO was picked less than you’d expect in random picks.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9HJeR-F9NIeczNDb2hVb2p6UTQ/edit

Looking at the questions it seems pretty clear a third of the people were just clicking randomly.

29% of people said migraine was a type of rice.

2878

Aha. Well, crisis over.

Also, NERD RAGE.

Because, you know…okay, windows is not booting. Don’t panic, even if it’s nuked everything I did my data backup literally yesterday, and boot drive is not data drive. Right.
Gparted. Okay, partition looks fine.
Windows recovery disk. Crap, scratched.
Okay, download ISO on the laptop, and win 7 USB/DVD tool. Right…annnd I can’t make it bootable because the laptop runs Vista 32 (driver reasons) and my main PC runs Win7 64
Fine, I’ll burn a CD. Done.
Recovery…oh hey, let’s sit there for 15 mins before you find the windows install. Right…repair…no errors?!
Reboot.

Windows now loads fine.
What the ****** **** *****…gah! (edit: and now my mirrored hard disks are resynching. Kinda expected, but sigh)

2879

This is probably a result of expressing your fears around the SEO voting. You have earned the ire of the nerd gods.

2880

I Honestly think part of this is the “Duck Dynasty”, “Larry the Cable Guy”, “Reality TV” affirmation that being stupid is just fine - if not empowering… instead of being pretty awful. What would those stats be in Germany or Denmark? My guess is a +15% intelligence modifier to each category. Honestly how in the world could anyone think html is an STD? Maybe most of those are in the South where they refuse to teach proper sex education?

Don’t have sex cause you might catch HIV, Syphilis, or HTML!