Grateful for all the support by the team that co-authored my first published work, “Sustainability for Business Growth – From Risk to ROI”
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Aurora from May 10th 2024
Had grabbed a Sony Alpha 7S and used the highest iso settings. Needed to do a noise reduction in Lightroom with the results below:
Learning how to code – Python
A great how-to book has recently been made free-to-use online, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. It assumes some familiarity with basics but allows new coders to learn basic building-blocks of code that allows them to create useful functions.
Updating Site
Went through a painful experience to update the stack. It went offline and took 4 weeks to troubleshoot. At the end, had a stale http address listed in the nu8m.com registry. Some items left to evaluate are:
- ways to keep the https address from changing with a reboot/restart of the web service
- automated backups to use if the website needs recovered
Happy New Year
Merry Christmas
Great Recipes for Christmas
These are a family favorite since 1994.
Chocolate Pancakes
| 1 1/2 cups | All-purpose Flour | Substitute cake/break flour for more cake-like texture |
| 1 teaspoon | Baking Soda | |
| 1/2 teaspoon | Salt | |
| 1/4 cup | Sugar | Substitute honey for a sweeter pancake, or maple syrup for fall flavor. |
| 1/4 cup | Cocoa | Substitute baking chocolate with butter to have lighter pancake |
| 2 | Eggs | Lightly beaten |
| 1 cup | Milk | Substitute skim milk or soy milk may require adjustment of liquid/flour ration for proper mixture flow on griddle |
| 1/4 cup | Butter | Substitute with margarine or vegetable oil will result in a smoother-texture pancake. Add vanilla for added flavor |
| 1/2 cup | Milk Chocolate Morsels | Fall mix with Dark-Chocolate and Butterscotch chips, for Christmas, use Christmas chips or M&M’s |
Shift together the first five ingredients in a large bowl. Combine eggs and milk; add to flour mixture, sitting just until dry ingredients are moistened. Add melted butter and chocolate morsels, stirring just until combined.
For each pancake, pour about 2 tablespoons batter onto a hot, lightly greased griddle. Turn pancakes when tops are covered with bubbles and edges look cooked. Yields: 18 (4-inc h) pancakes.
The Delaware Heritage Cookbook
The Deaware Heritage Commission
Wilmington, Delaware
The above instructions are as written in the source book. The personal substitutions are in the right-hand column.
I use a cast-iron griddle on a gas range. I set the temperature so the pancakes cook enough in three minutes per side.
I use either the 1/4 cup or 1/2 cup to dispense the batter onto the griddle.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Chewy Recipe | Alton Brown | Food Network
This is from an episode, Three Chips for Sister Marsha | Good Eats | Food Network.
For Christmas I would substitute either Christmas Chips or M&M’s in the recipes.
Christmas-time Beer
Old Fezziwig Clone All Grain Recipe (homebrewing.org)
For beer this year, I am trying the Old Fezziwig clone. I added extra Ginger and gave it a little-more kick. Over time the ginger will mellow, so after Christmas it should be a nice Winter beer.
Catching up on Photo Editing
These are images from a family visit to the DIA in 2017. Seem’s like a good time to review and publish visits to public places like Art Museeums.
John
Space Weekend
There were two space-related achievements this past weekend.
Comet Neowise
Captured a few good images of comet Neowise
Comet – one week later
First Satellite QSO – AO 91, Fox 1B
As the satellite moved north, soon to be out-of-range, I was able to snag one QSO
Creating a Privacy Policy
Just drafted a Privacy Policy.
Looking to implement something to facilitate learning what to consider when adding content to a website and how the impacts those that access the website.
Feedback is welcome.
Thanks…John