saulrosenbaum.com / 2008 / July

This week I stopped at the farmers market and bought a bag of fresh ginger (7 hands) it’s probably more ginger than I’ve consumed in my entire life - It’ll keep for a few weeks in the veggie crisper - but I’m going to put the bulk of it to good use in the form of gingersnaps, they’re dead simple to make:

• 3/4 cup butter flavored Crisco
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup mosasses
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

1. Melt shortening in a 3-4 quart saucepan over LOW heat
2. Remove from heat, let cool.
3. Add sugar, molasses and egg, beat well
4. Sift together flour, soda, cloves, ginger, cinnimon and salt.
5. Add to first mixture, mix well and chill.
6. Form into 1 inch balls, roll in granulated sugar and place on a greased cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
7. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
8. Let Cool, eat and enjoy!

I’ll probably iced some of them with a lemony sugar glaze, you’ll have to figure out your own icing - hmm, maybe chocolate would be good. Be creative, have fun, don’t eat them all in one sitting!

Mothers Day was months ago, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy your mom a totally typographic tee Shirt one in a series of typographic shirts - this one is mostly just because the image of your mom walking down the street wearing this shirt amuses me.

Tagged: merch

I have two TIVO’s, one upstairs, one downstairs - I can easily move recorded shows between the two (pull, not push) - and recently I’ve discovered how easy it is to move recorded shows to my mac, so I can watch it while I pound away at work. I know there are lots of ways of doing this - and that’s fine - but hardly qualifies as FUN, my way requires a browser.

1. I’m assuming your TIVO is on your network, if it’s not it should be.
2. First login to your TIVO account on tivo.com and make sure you’ve allowed media transfers - and grab your ‘media access key’ while you’re there.
3. Open any browser and key in your TIVO’s IP address - mine is https://192.168.55.12 - note that you’re doing this under a secure connection ‘https’.
4. When challenged - your username is ‘tivo’ and your password is your media access key

Bam!, you should now be looking at a web interface that show you all your recorded shows - complete with links to download shows to your desktop. The files themselves are in ‘.tivo’ format - which is essentially a MPEG2 variant - playing it has it’s own challenges, it’s one of the few formats that VLC doesn’t play out-of-the-box, I’m sure there’s an easier way buy I toss them into VisualHub, and that seems to work nicely.

Of course the hidden gem in this is that although the files are pretty big (1GB+) if I opened up my router JUST right - my friends could access my TIVO’d content - and vice versa, just a thought - would seem to be a very sketchy use for VPN software too - but that remains to be seen, for right now it’s a curious example of poking at an local network IP while on the phone - which is exactly how I found this.

I’m whipping up a geektoolscript to keep me posted as to what’s ‘playing’ on my tivo, because I can, and because that’s the way I roll.

There are plenty of apps that will let you do this - most notably TivoButler, and Roxio’s TIVO Transfer (which is really excellent).

Yesterday was a rough day, ‘T’ and I had to say goodbye to our dear friend ‘Cleo’ who at 18 years old, was miserable, and constantly uncomfortable - I’m happy that she’s now free of pain, but sad because Cleo still had so much love to give. Rest Well ‘Patent-leather cat’ play with your sister, enjoy your freedom. We love you.

Tagged: cats, cleo