College Football 2014: week 1

My teams went 2-1, with the Ags winning the first big game of the season on the live football debut of the SEC Network, Stanford pitched a shutout and ran up the score on a cupcake, and the Badgers dropping an extremely frustrating game against LSU.  I don’t have anything to say about Stanford, since I […]

Mail in Mavericks is screwed up

Around the same time that I got this new laptop, TAMU switched from hosting its own mail to a Google Apps-based system. As part of the changeover, you can import your mailboxes from the old system to the new system. After hooking up the new account in Mail.app as an IMAP account, there are messages […]

New laptop

I’ve been working on a 2011 MacBook Air since Spring of 2012. A&M is really nice in having a program to subsidize computer purchases for faculty, but unfortunately I had do spend my faculty workstation funds a month or so before Apple updated the Airs, which meant that I got the version where 250G was […]

Char Siu/Cha Shao Sous Vide

Note: this post was started over a week ago, but I didn’t get around to finishing it because I was having trouble uploading the final image from the WordPress App on my iPhone… The experiments with ribs made me think about trying one of my other favorite forms of BBQ pork: Char Siu, aka Cha Shao. […]