Very rarely am I at work late at night. Two days ago was one such time. Here’s some shots taken on campus when it was mostly deserted.
Category: Miscellaneous
Hands Of The Sun
I decided to bake something for a work Christmas party. It’d been decades since I’d done so and the world was full of anticipation!
As a red-blooded Ozling, the natural choice was of course: Rock cakes!
Start by mixing some self-raising flour, castor sugar and baking soda together. Exact values aren’t really important since as everyone knows baking is an inexact science.
More of an art actually…
Add some unsalted butter, and mix until it’s folded in. Then add sultanas…
A bit of milk, eggs and vanilla…
And mix it all up until it looks like this:
Next I shaped the dough into balls on a baking sheet:
And baked them for about 15 minutes:
Until they came out looking like this!
Wonderful! Who ever said I couldn’t cook!!? These were just like the ones I used to make as a babe.
Here’s me giving them a taste:
And here they are shortly afterwards once I hurled them into the garbage:
The less said about how inedible they were the better! It’ll be a while before I bake again 🙂
Pong
For my next electronics kit challenge, I made this:
Yes, a TV Pong kit, in component form. It was cheap (about ~$10) and looked easy to assemble. Could it be any good?
Here it is ready to be put together:
Not a bad amount of pieces. The PCB is very clean and easy to solder onto, and compared to some other kits I have made this one was extremely easy to assemble. All told, it only took about an hour. Here’s the finished product:
What you can’t see: my impressive soldering 🙂
But the true test was to come. Skeptically, I connected it to my ‘TV that exists just for old game consoles” and turned it on…
The ball moves so quickly it’s almost impossible to hit it, even in the 1P mode. But whether it is playable is immaterial: it worked first go!
Even if you’re not impressed by that, I was 🙂