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  1. my kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday

    so i searched for patterns and fell down a papercraft hole, do not recommend

    fiddly as shit i had to do all of the assembly myself

    he loves them though!

    also, cyberdrone’s deviantart is wild: https://www.deviantart.com/cyberdrone

    CyberDrone on DeviantArtCyberDrone is an artist on DeviantArt. · Artworks: 2887 · Followers: 5239 · Likes: 18919deviantart.com

    arcee, optimus prime, and soundwave transformers in robot mode, papercraft, colored by a 5y old, assembled poorly by mei made the first one correctly with slots and tabs, after that, fucking nope, used elmer's glue

    the optimus prime papercraft design we used, by "CyberDrone"

  2. i learned to make roux for gumbo from dad’s pal from boot camp, who was from louisiana, and he taught us the patient “stir, stir, stir, heat, stir, but whatever you do, don’t burn!” method.

    it stinks to stand over and mind and is apparently a recent trend. like, originally, people just didn’t make roux so dark that it was so much work

    but i do like my roux dark, so i start a few hours earlier and bake it at 350F, slight stir every half hour or so, easy mode

    a quarter sheet with a cup of oil in it, a cup of all purpose flour and roux spoon standing by, about to be addedmethod and recipe from serious eats, as per, which i use now instead of the old note card i used to dig out

    the raw roux, mixed, pale, in a quarter sheet, about to go into the oven, which i had just stirred with my roux spoon

    the roux in the quarter sheet in the oven

    stunt dark, labor free (free as in time)

    roux, baked 30 minutes, color: peanut butter

    roux, baked 60 minutes, color: chocolate

    roux, baked 90 minutes, color: darker chocolate

    roux, baked 240 minutes, poured and scraped onto on the aromatics, color: dark chocolate

  3. ✅ boosted, ✅ flu vaxed, ✅ guy giving me the shot asked if I was a swimmer on account of these deltoids

  4. incredibly neat to me, after having read it, to learn that Kohlhaas was a historical person ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhaas), that Marthin Luther actually did attempt to intercede, and even cooler, that Kohlhaas was out doing direction actions for 8 years to get justice before the state got him (and broke him on the wheel, yikes)

    Michael Kohlhaas - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

    also there’s of course a feature film which I’m probably not gonna bother with but what if it’s good idk https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2054790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

  5. The ebay search paid off and I was able to buy a pair of out-of-production pants identical to ones I already own (noticing as I post this that I’m wearing the original pair right now) for next to nothing because I like the pair I have and want them to live forever and this is one way to cheat commodity death. huzzah.

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