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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My small pizza oven goes to 400C. Everything else is not enough for good pizza. Cooking time for a pizza is 2 to 3 minutes. With that I’ll get a nice leopard pattern on the dough.

    My household oven goes up to 300C but just because it supports pyrolysis. (Best thing, I bought it used from Kleinanzeigen for Eur 50 after about a year of searching for a pyrolysis oven that was sold for cheap). Running Pyrolysis about 4 times a year, so the cost is reasonable but the oven still is CLEAN.



  • The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
    He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
    “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
    In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
    “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
    From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
    “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
    Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

    Philip K. Dick, Ubik


  • I just remember the one epsiode where Heifer had to sleep in a barn. Next morning he woke up when someone came in to milk the cows, you just saw heifers upper torso, heard a “plop” and then he started looking weirdly and fell over backwards.

    I saw that on a weekend on TV during the time when children watch and was wtf did they really just make a heifer had an orgasm because he was milked joke?









  • Depends very much on the car. My car has auto off and starts up the engine as soon as the car in front of me starts moving (it detects that with the parking and radar sensors).

    Or if I just move the foot off the braking pedal the engine will be fully running as soon as my foot reaches the gas pedal.

    It’s at 2017 Mercedes, at the time they already spent some effort into that tech, for example I have an electrical water pump that keeps up the circulation even during auto off and the starter is different so it can start the car even while starting to move.

    The only moment I turn it off (ok switch to sport mode which turns autostop off) is when I want to race someone at the light in order to change lanes in front of them later.

    I normal operation you don’t notice.

    Ah and last year autostop did not work for a few months as my battery was old, the car noticed and refrained from stopping the engine until I got a new battery (It will also do if I need aircon or the motor is too cold or a number of other conditions)