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Kathryn Huxtable

Kathryn Huxtable

Best Cocoa Brownies

Servings: 16 larger or 25 smaller brownies Source: Alice Mendrich’s Bittersweet Ingredients 10 tablespoons unsalted butter 1¼ cups sugar ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2 tablespoons ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs cold ½ cup all-purpose flour ⅔ cup walnut or pecan pieces optional Directions Position a rack in

About that Apple tablet

So they announced the “iPad” today. (Insert menstrual joke here.) It’s 10″ with a 9.7″ diagonal 1024×768 pixel 4×3 aspect ratio screen. They say it’s 1/2″ thick and about 1-1/2 pounds. The OS is basically a slight evolution of the iPhone/iPod Touch

Weather in Kansas

The snow we got Christmas Evening is finally beginning to melt. I can see grass in my back yard. My front yard (north side, sloping downhill) is still covered. Kittie TV is back on, and my two cats are excited. They’ve been bored not having the bird channel on

Sherried Sardine Toast

Sea Glass Look and Feel 0.1.3 is released

We’re still nowhere close to complete, thus the low version numbers, but this is the first version that looks decent on a non-Mac. The transparency doesn’t seem to work on Linux (at least not on my Ubuntu 9.10 system), but the window corners are rounded on Windows.

Time to profile engineers

So Spencer Ackerman has an amusing tongue in cheek post: http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/12/29/time-to-profile-engineers/ Most of the terrorists have been engineers. As a non-engineer, I have no problem. (First they came for the engineers…)

Christmas Duck

Servings: 4 Source: Alton Brown Ingredients 1 duck 1 tablespoon kosher salt per pound of duck Directions Turn wings under, and butterfly the duck. Rub one tablespoon of kosher salt per pound of duck into the duck on both sides. Place duck on oven broiler pan with paper toweling in

Maple Marbled Cornbread

I got this recipe from Vegetarian Times. It's vegan.

We are so cooked

So I’m reading James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren, which is about global warming. He’s an optimist and believes that people in power will eventually do the right thing, or that they care about billions of people that aren’t them. I used to be optimistic. I

Sea Glass Look and Feel

I’m currently working on getting JTextField to use the client property of “JTextField.variant” equals to “search” to print a rounded search field with an hourglass in it. My outer glow is messed up, but worse, my internal drop shadow is messed up. I’m using the Nimbus Effects