Happy new year all! I’m proud to be an understated member of this community, only commenting briefly but yet coming back here every day to see the some of the most inspiring and incredible comments. I hope 2024 is as good for you all as it can possibly be. Personally I’m looking forward to a new year that is as awesome for my family and myself as I hope for everyone else. Good luck everyone in 2024!
I’ve always admired Maddog and I was lucky enough to meet him when I was in my early twenties at a Linux conference in Birmingham, UK. I bought him a coffee and even though I earned a pittance and couldn’t afford my own coffee at the time, I felt it was a badge of honour and afforded me 5 minutes of chat with this giant of computing.
Thanks for positing this - it's a wonderful place and I haven't been for a while. I live in Leicester and I've been here a number of times with the family - it's a great activity. One of my favourite things to do here is browse the old manuals in the back room and tinker with the BBC Micro or the Acorn whilst My children love playing all the old and classic games. Wonderful!
We recently remodelled our kitchen and dining area, and I wanted some art piece on the wall but couldn’t decide what. For months the wall was a little bare and we were having a lot of dinner guests. I realised our WiFi password was too complicated to keep reading out to family and friends so I built a QR code in Lego that automatically connects you to our guest WiFi. It looks good, and it’s Lego so it was a fun project with the kids. It took about 4 hours to build. The only problem was having enough 1x1 tiles to put on a 37x37 matrix.
The best part is that you can generate the QR code from your phone. It's a button in the wifi settings. Really easy way to share it from one phone to another.
I love this, but I thought that the sprinkles need to be the same length in order for the calculation to work? Looking at the image in the article, the length of the sprinkles seem to vary with some being just dots and the others are of a similar length. I wonder if it would work if you discounted those smaller dot sprinkles?
I would love to get started with Smoking BBQ at home and I’ve been interested for some time. What type of BBQ would be good equipment to get me up and running from a beginner level? I’m in the UK if that helps.
Brisket is very forgiving and you can get greatness out of a range of styles.
If you want to get started tomorrow for like 100 pounds, search youtube for clay pot smoker.
If you want to get it right the first time and you don't want to work hard, just buy a good quality electric smoker. Like the large (22 inch) Weber Smokey Mountain. The others are too small for whole briskets.
If you want to earn your stripes as a pitmaster, buy an offset smoker. They're cheap, but don't cheap out. Get a heavy one. Someone else mentioned Oklahoma Joe's - that's my smoker. Prepare to spend a lot on charcoal and wood. If you want to throw huge bbq parties this is your best option because it's big enough for multiple briskets.
A great option is a Big Green Egg or a knockoff. Expensive to buy but cheap on charcoal and wood and holds temperature all day.
Salt and pepper rub. Oak or hickory or pecan wood. Get a good grilling thermometer.
I've had Franklin's. You can make it just as good with any of the above options.
Oaklahoma Joe's Highland BBQ. It's an offset smoker BBQ which can also be a grill. Got one a few weeks ago and it's incredible. Built like a tank. 3mm cold rolled steel.
You can get really awesome pork ribs by just baking them in a plastic baking bag in the oven at 250F for a few hours then finishing them on a charcoal grill with hickory chips on the coals and brushing on sauce. I’ve been eating bbq my entire life and all these people smoking for hours and hours generally end up with nasty tasting jerky. Its not hard to get incredible ribs, the meat itself is delicious.
I used to work as an Lecturer in the other University in Leicester and I have lots of friends and colleagues working in various departments at Leicester University. It looks like the financial situation at the University is quite bad, and this isn’t the first time the executive has threatened to close this department. I feel for the people working there at the moment. Sad times.
I created an account today to reply to this. Happy New Year, All. I’ve been a long time reader and have always enjoyed the comments and intelligent discussion on HN. I wish you all a warm and gentle 2021!
Ahh, I'm sorry you missed out on the tradition of creating an account to inform some that he is Wrong on the Internet and why. But there's always next year.
Happy New Year; may it be full of vigorous and rigorous argument!
That's the amazing thing about HN, it's so easy to create accounts that you can make one every time you need to tell someone they're wrong or pedantically correct a minor technical error, so you can experience this glorious feeling over and over again!
