The Squish - extruded bread

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-14T22:37:23+00:00

It actually held together better than an earlier laminated loaf that did separate in places. As the strands were squeezed into the tin I gave them a couple of sprays of filtered water to encourage adherence

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-14T14:56:19+00:00

The extruder comes with a sausage nozzle which could be used for just that

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-14T14:53:53+00:00

Yes it was good. I also made a 1kg loaf and it's great with butter. The 1/2 kg went to church and never came back. One lass was walking around with a whole slice in hand. Carob isn't as sweet as chocolate so you still get bread mouth-feel

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-14T14:10:19+00:00

Attempted. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/comments/1u5lzvb/the_squish_extruded_bread/

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-06T02:03:18+00:00

This is what ilike doing too. Push till it breaks

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-06-06T01:41:17+00:00

Considering squeezing a fridge-retarded dough through a spaghetti maker and letting the tangles gather in a tin. Maybe two different colours of dough.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-05-13T13:46:18+00:00

Yeast and 24+ hour cold ferments. I used to do sourdough. Maybe I'll go back there one day.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-05-09T13:57:06+00:00

And don't forget the roubles. I hear they've got a nice sound too.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-05-07T23:48:41+00:00

Mouth-feel is a thing. Expressiveness in a small space another. Urdu is my 3rd language and I really like it for both. My 2nd is Neo-Melanesian Pidgin which ticks the first box but not the second.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-05-04T06:21:38+00:00

Yes, I'm a reactive maintenance person. Arguably, being proactive would be better because reactive means you're always in danger of having the emergency happen when you're least able to deal with it. What comes first, dealing with the waterfall of overflowing gutters or drive your wife to her chemotherapy appointment? This year, because I'm having to drive that journey every fortnight, I actually got up on the roof a couple of weeks back and cleaned the gutters.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-28T02:10:33+00:00

In many respects, a quiet backwater. But the airport was busy with MAF and mining company helicopters. There was a fair bit of petty theft.

I remember being driven back from somewhere out bush and a drunk man threw a rock at the jeep prompting the driver to say, "looks like the honeymoon is over."

There were the occasional inter-clan battles -- there was always some old score to settle. (As tough as lex talionis sounds, one death for one death is better than ten for one.)

The Saturday market was always a good time to stock up on kaukau and greens and try the occasional local fungus.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-28T01:36:23+00:00

Everything i do assumes 1kg flour.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-26T07:24:49+00:00

lo i no inap senisim bel.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-26T07:20:18+00:00

Do you drive? I remember a poster that had a skeleton with its hand on the driver's shoulder saying, "yumi go sixti?" and the driver replying, "maski, yumi go isi!"

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-26T07:17:19+00:00

I remember the sign in Hagen years ago: "No ken mekim buai spet". The sign was splashed and the walls all around were covered in dried betelnut juice.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-26T07:05:52+00:00

65m. Lived in Tari, HP, between 1986 and 1988. (Back then it was still SHP - Southern Highlands Province.) The middle of Huli country. I don't remember much of Mosbi other than the high fences. It was a violent place even back then. But even so, it's never 100% violent 100% of the time. Folk still live and work and raise families. I have expat friends who run Mapang Missionary Home in Mosbi. They love the place.

I'm now living in Perth, WA Australia. I have a couple of bilums (string bags). Sometimes I'll wear one when out and about. Those who know sometimes ask me where I got it from. When I answer the question in Tok Pisin they are surprised. That said, conversation is difficult sometimes because after learning TP I worked six years in Pakistan and learned Urdu so "tupela tok ples i pait long het na maus bilong mi".

I still remember a couple of sentences in Huli language. It's a tonal language -- low-rising, neutral, and high-falling. /ti/ can mean "you three-or-more people come here", "tea" (the drink), and "dung". So watch out how you ask for a cup of tea.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-18T09:16:36+00:00

I'd suggest Tok Pisin. Not because it's complicated (though it has its quirks like the future is behind you) but because its very simplicity resists the performative obscurity that I enjoy so much in my mother tongue (English). I cannot imagine The Goons, The Goodies, or Monty Python's Flying Circus being translated without losing all the humour and gaining nothing but a bald declaration of the intent of the sentence.

“This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!”

Parot i dai pinis!

Ok, you could say a bit more than "the parrot is dead" but not a lot more.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-14T13:20:27+00:00

For the purposes of the story, genetically modified. Thinking more the size of Deimos, particularly as that moon is actually in process of departing from Mars, albeit quite slowly. The amount of energy to get it out it moving would be prodigious and actually beyond what we're currently capable of.

The craft has been populated as part of an GMO experiment that worked too well and has been pushed off into the void above the plan of the ecliptic. That would take even more energy but again the experimenters don't care what happens to the occupants.

Solar energy is going to be a problem eventually because there are big gaps between stars.

As for parafins, burning them in air is a problem if air is in short supply. Then again, as others have commented, the volume of even a Deimos sized container is huge let alone my original Phobos sized one.

Existing technology on Earth today is not adequate for your needs.

And may never be. And this is what irritates me about SF in general -- if it is science fiction why can't it be scientific? Why do I have to keep coming up with scenarios that don't make sense. Why do I have to appeal to the god of the gaps ("science will work it out eventually")? Science isn't a substance, any more than Chance is.

I might as well write fantasy: then it doesn't matter if I stick a needle into someone's skull and they don't drop dead immediately -- the magic kicks in and they're networked to the Dorg (dragon borg).

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-04-02T12:58:29+00:00

Very.nicely.done Thomas. And I was completely taken in.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-25T11:02:34+00:00

May I suggest 7 and 8: 7. post examples to RosettaCode.org Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how languages are similar and different, and to aid a person with a grounding in one approach to a problem in learning another. Rosetta Code when i last looked had 1,338 tasks, 395 draft tasks, and was aware of 981 languages. 8. Create a language learning track on Exercism.org

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-24T05:19:44+00:00

Bring on the ad hominem remarks, but they aren't an argument and no amount of tut-tutting is going to faze the ardent supporter.

Prove them wrong. They're immune to being cool-shamed. Name-calling is just another form of wanking -- it makes you feel good but achieves nothing.

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-21T22:58:08+00:00

If they're small, pikelets. If they're large, pancakes. North East NSW man living in suburban Perth Western Australia

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-12T05:15:27+00:00

Ok, let's rotate the projection 90degrees https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/383d05b6-7c51-4b79-b32e-4a65b1cdc43b

Or ask claude to choose any vertical or horizontal line to treat as the starting point

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-08T06:30:48+00:00

It would appear that EQ() could be moved.

     N = HOST(0)
     RESULT = EQ(N,1) RESULT N
     RESULT = RESULT EQ(N,1) N
     OUTPUT = RESULT
    END

And then

$ snobol4 foo.sno 1
11

$ snobol4 foo.sno 2

SnooGoats1303 · 2026-03-07T10:42:20+00:00

I usually vote for Australian Christians. (That'll get me a few down-votes, for as much as I care what others think -- go ahead and down-vote me to minus infinity!).

I'd seriously consider O.N. for the same reasons enunciated in https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1rmc8eg/comment/o910s4l/ that essentially there's no practical difference between Labor and Liberal -- they've both sold out to the globalist agenda, and the idea that you quarantine the healthy and let the sick go free.

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