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From mom. 2 bags pretzels 1t. seasoning salt 1 t. onion powder 1t. ground mustard 1t. paprika 1t. garlic powder 1t. lemon pepper 1t. dill weed 1t. homemade worchestershire sauce (from the garden of vegan) 1/4 – 1t. cayenne pepper 1 C olive oil Mix all ingredients together pour over pretzels and stir.  Put in [...]

There are some interesting backup tools for system backups (Time Machine) but I want to just be able to copy and verify a directory (and its children).  I’ve heard that the commercial product Retrospect provides copy and verify functionality, but I’m cheap. This is the method that I used.  I’d be interested on hearing feedback [...]

This is the command that I used to make a 4up (that would be four equally sized images on one page) layout on letter sized paper of a tabloid sized poster. I used the excellent Multivalent tool’s Impose feature. C:\Documents and Settings\surplus\Desktop>java -Xms32m -Xmx256m -classpath “C:\Documents and Settings\surplus\Desktop\Multivalent20060102.jar” tool.pdf.Impose -nup 4 -dim 2×2 -paper letter [...]

Justin and Derek (and others?) have made this awesome Bloomington-produced DIY YouTube vegan cooking show.  In the first episode, they show you how to make vegan dorittos. Link

So I had this external firewire drive that I use both on my Linux box and my OS X box.  When I try to mount it under linux, I get an error saying “HFS-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only”.  However, the drive works fine under OS X, and [...]