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#NameThatTune
Genre: 90's Girl Rock
Difficulty: You oughtta know
Artist/Song: 🤔

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#namethattunesolved
DING DING DING another pwnage for Chopin's "Raindrop Prelude" (opus something No. yadayada)

Solved by

@fredmbarros

The prize is a delicious plate of pierogi!

Well done!

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#thefutureofgo

The fun part to watch for me. Team go! Though I thought they were going to have teams of human+AI vs human+AI 😕

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Whaaaa?😕

#thefutureofgo https://octodon.social/media/oweFGt75BzJ7ZE87A4A

#Inkscape glitched on bitmap trace so I went with it

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DING DING DING we have a winner for the Joni Mitchell tune "Big Yellow Taxi". It is the close-enough

@tomstearns

Who was *not* a hippie as a kid!

Congrats! We've got a great prize for you. First, some clouds

☁ ☁ ☁

But also: an actual PARADISE:

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OMG I learned the location of the "worldwide" button and it's BEAUTIFUL

http://mastodon-instance.com/?country=0

Thanks to @mastodoninstance for the great work!

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Anemoji! The future is https://octodon.social/media/7QPXMlukVU3qZWQK-fc

#NameThatTune
Special #octodon edition
Artist/Song? 🤔

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Potato #pierogi experiment with a pinch of kraut. This here is actually too much for me, but my buds tell me that a smidge of sour makes the potato dance 💃💃

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#NameThatTune
Genre: Classical Opera
Difficulty: Easy if you dig it
Composer/Piece? 🤔

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Fooling with FM in #Csound

(warning: possibly loud sound)

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A potato #pierogi recipe I copied from the paper and have eaten a million times. It's the cream cheese that makes it special, IMO.

Sometimes I run out of dough and have to double for some reason 🤷 YMMV

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#NameThatTune
Genre: Electronic Swiss Cheese
Difficulty: Totes Googleable
Artist/Song? 🤔

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This is the control group (heh) beer that I obeyed the recipe on.

It's fruity (!) -- like a wine or a fizzy cider? -- and not nearly as sour as the Malta Goya. It has more fizz, too (see vid). I did not mind drinking this at all.

6/10, though I'm sure one star is bias because I made it from scratch 😎

#sourdough #beer

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Success! In fact, it tastes pretty good! Not "chewy," which is, well, the point.

It's hard to wrap my head around what went *right* this time, though. I'll say it's the smaller loaf size and the drier dough. I also think in the future I'll be laying off the bread flour -- it seemed to stay together anyway (nice!).

I could have cooked it longer for a crispy crust, but maybe it needs another taste... 😄

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#sourdough

Tried to reduce gumminess by:

* only 2 hour ferment (avoid over-proofing)
* less kneading
* drier dough
* less bread flour (all-purpose substituted for some)
* really bubbly starter
* no water spray when cooking
* smaller loaf

So I checked off all the boxes that the InterWebs suggest. Now I wait for cool, and will see if gumminess disappears.

(30 mins, 450°F. Final internal temperature: 202°F)

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Cracked it open.

This one has a lot of wheat and rye in it (I think almost 1/2), so it's pretty dense. The crumb is fine, the taste is *wheaty* (yet slightly gummy, whu?).

The super-long bake time toughened up the crust more than the previous Crisco experiment. This thick crust is not bad, it's just... "rustic."

My guess is that you need a dutch oven or bricks to get a nice dark crust without going super crusty.

#sourdough #bread

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70 minute bake at 425°F. More than twice the normal time.

A bit of singing around the middle, but if I had done it without the Crisco, the fire department would be over right now!

#sourdough

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