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Easy Good Fake Custard

A favorite snack of mine—feels like junk food, but not too bad, filling, and super-easy.

Take about 12oz vanilla yogurt. I use cream-top full-fat yogurt.

Add a couple of splashes chocolate extract. You have to be careful, unlike real chocolate, more chocolate extract is not better... it's a little tart. Ideally I suppose you could just use unsweetened cocoa powder, I'm particular to the Hershey's unsweetened dark cocoa, but the store over here has been out lately.

Two reasonably heaping teaspoons of coconut flour.

Mix it all together really well.

And that's it! The coconut flour gives it rich texture and a nice flavor, which combines well with the chocolate and vanilla. I like to eat it with a very small spoon, so I can savor it. It's not that much like custard, but, it manages to hit enough of the same notes that it's a pretty…

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Posted inI Can't Believe It's Not Poetry! Posted in genresWork-In-ProgressHaikuTomfoolery

Haikus

Haikuity

This would be haiku,
But it only has two lines.
Oh, wait — nevermind.

This is a haiku.
You can tell because it's, uh,
not everything else?

This, too, is a hai
ku, even though it's labored
I still got it right.

Someday maybe this,
too, will be a haiku, dude,
but it just ain't now, man.

Ere, now I follow
the plain footsteps of Basho
but without his skill.

Indieweb Haikus

Occasionally I visit the Indieweb Chatroom when nobody is there and leave haikus.

the lone web dev sighs
soft, in the empty chat room
indieweb haiku
  8/9/2025

The empty chat room.
The placid textarea
bears no hacker wit.
  11/20/2025

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Laws Of The Land

This is my placeholder scratchpad for what will be my page of rules of thumb, natural laws, and other such handy guidelines.

1. Child rearing

Keep a parent's vigilant eye, and keep the kid away from high stuff and sharp stuff and hot stuff and anything with teeth and no training. You'll do fine.

2. Kupietz's Henriksen Conjecture

As described on my movie reviews page: Lance Henriksen will be the last to die in any horror movie he is in.

I'll be adding to this as I remember these, until it grows into an article.

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Ketoriffic Tuna Pig Salad au Gratin (with non-keto variation)

This is a regular snack around my place.

Ingredients:
1 large (7oz unopened) can tuna, drained
2 thin slices ham
healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise
red Tabasco sauce
black pepper
optional: lemon pepper
powedered garlic
shredded cheese of your preference

1. Put tuna in a large bowl
2. shred ham slices and add
3. add healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise
4. Several dashes of Tabasco sauce. This is one of the exceedingly rare instances where you don't want to overdo it with Tabasco sauce... just a dash or two. This is because we're about to overdo it with the black pepper, and surprisingly, they don't mix.
5. Add garlic to taste... I like a lot.
6. Add pepper. Now, I have a standard rule of them for how much black pepper you need to add…

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Posted inWriting Posted in genresHow Mike DoRecipes

Oatmeal á la K

Written by request from espresso martini influencer

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Posted inWriting Posted in genresMisc. Hobbies & Interests

Go

Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn.

I get the sense that Go is not a game but a field of study.

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Posted inWriting Posted in genresWork-In-ProgressLanguage & Vocabulary

Vocabulary

[could probably have a whole website section on words & language]

This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing : "Writing challenge for anyone interested: write about a word or words that you use but may not be widely known." Agita, vehagedah, sennsucht, and I'm sure I have a bunch of English ones

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Posted inWriting Posted in genresWork-In-ProgressArtificial IntelligenceTechnosociology

Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references

I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and saved references for that.

  • On Emergence and actual intelligence: People are talking about current technology, which relies on matching statistical profiles of strings of words, like true intelligence could emerge from it.I look at it this way: AI video generation is getting really impressive. You could feed it tons of video of basketballs bouncing, and pretty soon it would be able to generate videos of basketballs bouncing realistically through all kinds of extraordinary scenarios, because it had seen enough visual, external data to create incredible simulations of how a basketball bounces. It would truly, profoundly have a grasp on how basketballs appear to bounce.And never, in any of that, would it have even a glimmer of a clue as…
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I AM DA CHEF OF DA FUTURE
Posted inWriting Posted in genresWork-In-ProgressBachelor Survival 'n' Style

Dinner For Schmucks: The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes

Mostly sticking this placeholder into the "works in progress" section to remind me to pull all my recipies together and work on my cookbook.

At a certain point in my bachelorhood, I realized I was subsisting, in my home-cooked meals, on almost the same 5 ingredients. Tough to recall at this late date what those ingredients were... I think there was tuna fish in there, mayonnaise, ramen, I can't remember the other two. I had this idea at the time that it would be fun to put together a bachelor's cookbook of all the different things I made out of those few ingredients.

Over time my culinary palette grew, horizontally if not in terms of sophistication, but the idea never left me. Now there's an air fryer on my counter (or, as I call it, the "meat microwave"), probably more than 5 things I use regularly on my spice shelf…

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