Category Archives: Life

Birch Beer Cupcakes

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I made cupcakes. Recipe adapted from this one.

1/4c butter
1c white sugar
2 eggs
2c flour
1tsp baking powder
1/4tsp baking soda
1 1/4c birch beer

Melt butter, mix in sugar. Beat in eggs. Combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder, then mix into butter/sugar mixture with the birch beer.

Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Makes 15 cupcakes.

I baked them in Pokemon cupcake liners, so I decorated them like Pokeballs with M&Ms as the centers.

Unrelatedly, Zeke linked me to this today. It’s SFW porn. It’s kind of amazing.
(Apparently the audio track is still present though, so mute your computer or something. I didn’t have sound on when I watched it.)

Life goes, still. Looking forward to the upcoming break. So much.

WordPress post format hackery

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So I’m in the process of converting Randomjunk over to a WordPress blog, since it seems the main thing I use it for nowadays is quotes (which used to be stored way down under my AIM subprofile that no one uses anymore).

After several hundred posts, I noticed that there was an option for post format, one of which was the “Quotes” type. Unfortunately, WordPress 3.2 mass edit does not include a way to mass update post formats. Therefore, to the SQL.

All of the posts I wanted to convert already had a tag called “Quotes”. Looking in the database in the wp_terms table told me the number of this tag.
SELECT term_id FROM `wp_terms` WHERE name='Quotes';
This ended up being 9.

I also got the term id for the post format I wanted.
SELECT term_id FROM `wp_terms` WHERE name='post-format-quote';
This ended up being 86.

Therefore, I just run this query on the relationships table:

INSERT INTO `wp_term_relationships`(object_id, term_taxonomy_id, term_order) SELECT object_id, 86, 0 FROM `wp_term_relationships` WHERE term_taxonomy_id=9;

I also needed to fix up the term_taxonomy table
SELECT count(1) FROM `wp_term_relationships` WHERE term_taxonomy_id=86;
gave me 337 rows, so
UPDATE `wp_term_taxonomy` SET count=337 WHERE term_taxonomy_id=86;

Done. Yay.

Apples and SF

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I am currently in San Francisco. If you want to do things with me, you should poke me soon, as I fly out on Saturday.

But that’s not what I want to talk about here. What I want to talk about here is apple picking this past Saturday with Ben, Simiao, and Greg at Simmons Farm (argh blargh where is the apostrophe?) followed by awesome dinner at Bado’s Cucina (yay apostrophe). And by “talk,” I mean “dump lots of photos of the awesomeness.”

Simmons Farm now has a $6-per-person-minimum for apple picking, which is crap. Perhaps that means I will not go next year. But it was good times anyway.






















Yay apples. Yay friends. Yay happiness.

Vacation

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So I took the week off for a (much needed) vacation to visit Tim in Connecticut.

The Amtrak trip over was really, really nice. Totally stress-free compared to airports. The views were amazing (although maybe I’m just jaded about airborne pictures since I fly so much), the seats had a ton of legroom (I could stretch out my legs horizontally!), there were power outlets, and I could use any electronic device (and my phone) at any time.

The only slightly stressful part was Penn Station in NYC, which is one of the busiest places I’ve ever been, but even that initial feeling of being overwhelmed turned into a sense of adventurism (that’s totally a word) once I left the arrivals floor and got to the main floor.

Time at Tim’s has been filled with lots of games and awesome. Ian is here now, and Keith will be joining us later this week.

Last night we went to Sushi Palace, an all-you-can-eat place that isn’t a traditional buffet… you put down orders for plates of food or sushi on slips of paper, and they bring them out to you, freshly made. I ate a ton of sushi (and a ton of eel), but it was so good.

Yay vacation.