He is a nerd, but he like cars too. :)

I would have loved computers at that age but the only computers when I was that age were at NASA and had WAY less power than my iPhone G1.

This class looks fun... I'm ready to get to the hands on stuff...

Oh and there is a super linux nerd in the class.... He is overly cocky too.. I may have to punch him...

Don't punch him Sid, you may be working for him one day.... :)

morning guys.

Morning, boys!

Linux rawks, just sayin

We didn't have computer classes when I was in HS but I was one of the 3 students in the Oklahoma City public school system with login access to the school system main frame. Used a IBM typewriter terminal and an audio phone coupling. No CRT, just reams of paper. They gave us a whole 2K of memory space for our Basic programs and it was plenty. Yep, super nerd. Only instead of a slide rule I carried an HP programable calculator.

Even in college we HAD to use punch cards and I had a Apple II with a disk drive at home. That really sucked, they were soo behind the times.

The cool thing to do was to try to make your printer print like a typewriter, otherwise professors knew you used a word processor and didn't give as good a grade as if they thought you handed in a perfectly typewritten paper from a manual typewriter. The non-dot matrix, ball and ribbon printers like okidata were to die for.

Hi'ya Markus. So, how was the vacation?

Don't punch him get him into Porsches. I need some tutoring in Ubuntu. I have severa little things I can't figure out. We need a Linux geek in the local club :)

I used to have an interface box that I made for my Commodore 64 that hooked it to a Brother daisy wheel typewriter. It was a real kludge but I could use the word processor of the C-64 to type up a letter and then have the typewriter output it. I even had a couple of daisy wheel fonts.

I figured out how to make it do columns so I ended up doing the War Whoop with it. That was real work! No page layout software, no spell check, just a C-64 and a typewriter, page flats and a waxer. It was great when I moved up to a real powerhouse 4.77 MHz Compaq, DOS 2.1 with dual floppies 256 K of RAM and a 5 inch green text on black background screen. No graphics at all, just text. I got a pirated version of Ventura Publisher 1.0 and bought the original Microsoft mouse with a steel roller ball and two big green buttons. It has “patent pending” on the bottom of the mouse. I still have the mouse and the 2.1 DOS floppies.

I am a geek too. :D

Morning gents... Out of class and off to work...

good afternoon. i am re-seasoning my dutch oven and cast iron skillet, after about 5 years of neglect and disuse.

You skillet abuser you!

At least you are trying to mend your abusing ways.

What's a Dutch oven?? Is it loud and obnoxious?? :D:D

Nope, just CHEAP! :D

Here in the states when you take a girl on a date and make her pay for her own meal you are "going Dutch"

I have a Dutch oven that I got from my grandmother. It is a large heavy cast iron pot with a lid. It is great for cooking pot roast on top of the stove.

A few years back I was in a bar on the top floor of a hotel in Qatar, a few colleagues were with me. One was a Dutch guy.
He asked a girl (air hostess from the Phillipenes (?) if she wanted a drink.
She ordered a coctail.
He said, without blinking or showing any sign of embarassement, "that's kinda expensive, can't you order a beer or something??" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

We laughed for the rest of the night with him, he did not understand why and was not amused....

And that's a true story!

:D:D

the hard part, for me is getting the old stuff burnt off of the cooking surface. there was no rust, that's ok.

Evening slackers!

good evening.

so, i've found that my skills at seasoning a dutch oven simply suck. i am on my third attempt.

Alright....

Build BIG fire... Get some coals built up and pack the dutch oven with coals... and then place it inside said Mondo fire... Let it get glowing red and then pull it out and let it cool.

It should be CLEAN now.

Now you liberally coat it with CRISCO and put it in a HOT oven and keep it liberally coated... When it won't soak anymore up... Its done.

got it.

i chicken out with getting it that hot. then i get overzealous when adding the oil/lard. this means that the dutch oven never gets truly burnt clean, but then gets the oil that i put in charred.

bollocks!