StillPaisleyCat

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[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (8 children)

We may be heathens but we always just hand washed ours with a good grease cutting liquid detergent to get the rancid oils and spices out.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Actually no. And it kind of would fly in the face of what I get out of the activity.

I don’t knit or crochet to any target, I just like the experience of the activity. It’s soothing. I have a few different projects on the go that give me different kinds of experiences.

When used to sew clothes for myself, I would parcel out the expected hours for the specific type of project if I needed to have something done for a particular event, but not with knitting, crochet or needlepoint.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Given the cost of the archival footage upgrades for the DS9 documentary ‘What we left behind’, it’s really surprising that they didn’t work from the LDs as one of their sources.

Good to know that the Voyager LDs exist even if compiling a complete set may be the challenge.

I’m very interested to see how they build out this species.

Given it’s so far in the franchise future, there was always the possibility he was another mixed species character, but having a connection with legacy species that’s been largely undeveloped, is a better choice.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@virtualbri@mastodon.online really needs to see this. I know he liked one of your other laserdisc captures.

This is truly awesome, and the raw, un-upscaled analogue image data seems like a far better point of departure to reconstruct higher resolution DS9.

I hope he can see this post and thread via my tag to his Mastadon ID.

I have to ask whether you have any Voyager on LD as well…

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m flabbergasted. There’s an astonishing amount of erasure in that panel.

How about ?

Actually, TrekMovie makes the case that the references in the reply to the need to ‘time things out’ for the franchise was the answer. I would parse that as their having other Star Trek franchise products ahead in the queue.

The person asking really let Cheeks off the hook though with their final question being, “Is Trek still a priority for the company?”.

No matter how specific the preceding preamble was to Legacy, the question they got to was super general and let Cheeks take it wherever he wanted.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From the webpage for King Arthur’s GF Bread Flour:

Description

Use our Gluten-free Bread Flour for your best breads and baked treats – completely gluten-free.

As if by magic, all your favorite breads can become gluten-free with this versatile gluten-free bread flour. Made with gluten-free wheat starch to give baked goods incredible taste and texture, it’s ideal for classic yeasted recipes like artisan boules, bagels, cinnamon rolls, and burger buns.

I’m not in the US, and hadn’t been aware of the distinction between their bread flour (which does have wheat starch) and their 1:1.

So agree on that, and appreciate the clarification.

I keep on getting social media recommendations for recipes made with King Arthur and for an EU analogue that uses ‘cleaned’ wheat starch. It makes me concerned that these are so heavily promoted without any cautions.

But the King Arthur 1:1 is a rice and starch mix, not ideal given the risks of a high rice diet (arsenic & aflatoxins) which we can’t mitigate as consumers when we have no idea where the rice is grown or how harvested, dried or processed. And rice heavy mixes produce dry baked goods as a rule, that go stale quickly. Can’t recommend it.

I’m going to respectfully argue back that it’s not helpful for the community when name brands with market power like King Arthur’s take up so much of the supermarket GF shelf space with problematic mixes. In doing so, they crowd out space that might let be given to newer GF producers with better products that eliminate gluten and other allergens for a larger group of consumers. I’ve been baking GF for about 25 years and have seen availability actually go down as some of the major brands have rolled into the segment. So, can’t really send kudos for that.

I feel strongly about Bob’s Red Mill in this regard as well by the way. We don’t know what the second generation management will do, but up to now Bob’s has dominated shelf space while refusing to separate its lines to eliminate other major allergens like milk, soy or tree nuts.

Prior to the FDA requirements on top allergen labeling going up in the US, we regularly saw our Canadian Food Inspection Agency pulling Bob’s products from shelves here based on lab findings of undeclared allergens. So, stores were wary to rely on Bob’s, but more recently Bob’s has displaced a number of better smaller mills on supermarket shelves.

As it happens, King Arthur’s flour isn’t available for sale in Canada while most other GF brands from the US are. King Arthur wheat flour was my favourite brand in the US when I was a student there many years ago, so I’ve been curious to see what they did for GF. Was pretty shocked when I looked it up to see a wheat-derived bread flour hitting the mass market under a GF label.

Sometimes, he delegates.

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You are so missing out on the wonder that is Sam Kirk.

SNW has a lot delightful surprises, but adding the insouciance of Sam Kirk, but having brothers Kirk spar when Jim shows up on occasion, is truly inspired writing.

Not to mention he really gets under Spock’s skin.

That’s a mostly rice and starch blend. Can work for pastry and cakes etc.

Rice flour negatives:

  1. Tends to make things that go stale super quickly

  2. Depending on where grown, rice takes up arsenic from the soil which is a seriously toxic metal

  3. Depending where grown, under what conditions and how it’s stored and processed, rice can have a microorganism that produces a serious toxic chemical called aflatoxin which cannot be mitigated by cooking.

The EU is studying these risks in populations that eat diets high in rice. In the US, there have been academic studies. You can get a good lay summary of the issues on the Lundberg Farms website. They do their best to minimize these toxins in the rice products they sell but when you buy rice flour you have no idea of where or how that rice was grown or processed.

For bread you will need different recipes. Suggest looking for ones that don’t call for a commercial flour mix and that include psyllium.

 

The support vessel Polar Prince towed the Titan to its dive location and kept station through the search and rescue.

The TSB has opened an investigation. The crew and other members of the Mi’kmaq Miawkupek First Nation members that owns and operates the vessel are feeling the impact of the events and the investigation.

 

The end of June wave of legislative changes rolls on.

Today, an amendment to the Competition Act comes into force that may have significant implications for employers and employees.

Basically, wage-fixing and ‘no compete’ deals between employers will now be on the same criminal level as price-fixing rather than only being under the civil law provisions of the act.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but it does send a strong signal.

 

With Parliament passing The Online News Act, Royal Assent is imminent. Next will be a regulatory process that establishes that the largest companies must enter into agreements to pay news companies their content generates revenue.

This is a significant step forward. It also advances the bar beyond Australia’s approach because it will involve an ongoing regulatory test to determine which firms are large enough to need to pay rather than having them designated by the responsible Cabinet minister.

 

Who knew?

Poison ivy is a perennial that establishes itself on trees.

I guess we need to look up for ‘leaves of three’ too.

 

For those not already familiar, Simon & Schuster offers a monthly ebook promotion with an array of Treklit across shows and eras.

It’s a great way to dip your toe into the Litverse at modest cost.

Recommended price is $ 0.99 in the USA through the major ebook sellers, with similar pricing offers in Canada and some other countries.

This month’s selection includes the Destiny trilogy from the Relaunch novelverse. It’s David Mack’s excellent alpha to omega story of The Borg, featuring the Enterprise under Picard, the Titan under Riker, and the Aventine under newly promoted Captain Ezri Dax, with a Voyager cameo as well.

There’s also the Worlds of DS9 series, some favourites from the TOS and TNG eras from Greg Cox, Christopher L Bennett and Michael Jan Friedman as well as tie-in books to the new series.

This month’s offer is available until July 3rd

 

This is a very carrotty 70s health food version. It has a loose moist crumb, and uses a lot of oil (sunflower or safflower). Baked in an 8x8” or 9x9” square pan, it rises quite high. Still a family favourite though.

1 cup safflower oil 1 cup white sugar 3 large eggs

  1. Beat together, adding sugar into oil, then one egg at a time.

1 1/3 cup flour 1 1/3 tsp baking powder 1 1/3 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

  1. Sift the dry ingredients and add, in bit by bit to the rest. Beat.

1/2 cup chopped walnuts tossed in 1-2 tablespoons flour 2 cups finely grated carrots

  1. Add in the walnuts (if desired) and grated carrots.

  2. Beat well.

5). Bake approximately 1 hour at 300 degrees F.

Use cream cheese icing.

Cream Cheese Icing recipe

1 cup icing sugar* 1 tablespoon butter 1 tsp vanilla 4 oz cream cheese **

  • icing sugar is a powdered white sugar mixed with a small amount of finely ground starch, usually corn starch or potato starch. It’s just a few % by weight so that a teaspoon starch per cup of powdered sugar should do it.

**The cream cheese icing recipe states ‘Philadelphia’ brand, but it’s not what we’ve used since the firm began to add guar and other gums. We use an all natural cream cheese from a local dairy.

 

Sharing this new interview from a Toronto daily newspaper about the making of the upcoming time travel episode. (Contains light spoilers regarding the places in Toronto visited in the episode.)

https://www.thestar.com/amp/entertainment/television/2023/06/16/captain-kirk-visits-toronto-in-season-2-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds.html

The Toronto Star does have a paywall, but a few articles per month are free to view.

 

How are folks using the decidedly beta Mlem doing?

It’s not as fully built as the developer’s demo pages would suggest.

However, it can do more than some have criticized.

It’s definitely idiosyncratic at this point.

So, I’m curious, in the spirit of assisting in getting this community going, to share what people have figured out that works.

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