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When I was a kid my Mom made the same Thanksgiving dishes every year. One of them was green bean casserole. Probably like many of your Moms made too. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. Canned green beans, French's fried onions and cream of mushroom soup. Like many vegetables and other dishes of my childhood I didn't know that I liked them until I was living on my own and tasted the fresh version. So I thought the concept (Trump joke) of green bean casserole was good. But what if it was elevated to using fresh ingredients? So today I set out to test that theory. I trimmed and sautéed about 3 pounds of green beans. Then sliced and sautéed a large amount of mushrooms in butter and white wine. I decided that making my own fried onions might not be worth the extra effort, so French's fried onions it was. In place of cream of mushroom soup, I used cream of celery soup, as I like the flavor better and had already incorporated fresh mushrooms into the dish. I have enough for a small army, as I had planned to take this to Al's before catching a cold. How is it? Well it has about 15 more minutes to bake, so I'll let you know later. You can't tell, but there are two layers of everything in the dish.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-325-whos-the-boss/ Common Sense 325 – Who’s the Boss? The President is outraged at multiple Democratic lawmakers for reminding members of the military of their constitutional oaths and responsibilities. Dan points out that individual agency among soldiers is a societal firewall protecting all of us.

Fancy a Cuppa in a hurry?

Hope you feel better soon.

Bourbon pecan pie.

Well I definitely have something. Haven't tested for covid yet, but will later. No cough at all though. Just my usual cold symptoms, which means just a stuffy nose. Musinex is effectively handling that. I have several pounds of Green beans, a ton of mushrooms and fried onions that I was going to turn into an elevated version of Green bean casserole. Not quite sure what to do with it. I guess I'll make it up later and try freezing in portions. Sorry Al. As for myself, I'm going to start my Thanksgiving with biscuits and gravy. Not the traditional meal I had been looking forward to, but still a favorite of mine. Still, this far better than my worst Thanksgiving. In 1983 I had flown to Juneau, Alaska for a new job building a mall. I flew the evening before Thanksgiving. Got into my hotel and went to sleep. Thanksgiving day I woke up to find everything in walking distance completely closed up. Even to hotel Cafe was closed. I had candy bars from a vending machine for Thanksgiving dinner. Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

Indeed!! My mom said his kids took it hard when he left for the rocket but were excited to see him in the ISS itself.

Arrived

I saw the launch as well. Looked like a hell of a ride to be strapped to that thing. Glad he made it safe!

Thanks Ric! Something was meant to be, we had a power blip at ~3:45am EST and my alarm keypad beeping woke me up. Managed to watch the launch as well! Time for caffeine....a whole fucking bunch of it! 🤣 Have a 3.5-4 hour (if I'm lucky) drive in a bit.....

Congrats to Chris! Perfect launch.* *to time with my middle of the night switch from legs to breasts in the sous vide.

Anyone has some experience or tips simulating CFA3 SS mode in Ltspice? The transient analysis is barely moving for me, with or without servo, single ended or balanced input, not with arbitrarily large time step size neither, only way I tried to make run through is making open loop gain too low such that the close loop gain is no longer maintained by the ratio of the feedback resistors. I wonder if it's the cross feedback thing making it so slow. For reference CFA2 with current feedback runs fine; CFA3 open loop mode also runs fine, I'm getting gain of about 3.3 with gain resistors set to 10k || 1.9k, is this expected? (I use Jfet on the input) Thanks! Edit: Also attaching my ltspice sim file CFA3_ltspice.zip

Went to sleep last night with sniffles, woke up today with a cold or something. So much for Thanksgiving.

They have been officially released now: https://stax.co.jp/product/sr-009d/ List price is 385KYen with the 10% tax so likely in the 340kYen range for street price.

But hopefully not too far in the evening. https://theonion.com/astronaut-hates-long-nightly-spacewalk-to-iss-outhouse/

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oi-you-got-a-loicense-for-that-mate

I, ahem, like to sing sea shanties, so I cheerfully pay for Proton VPN. Don't let the UK government back you into a corner!

My anti virus subscription includes a VPN. Never needed (or used it) until the UK did the online "safety" act. access via VPN with IP location set to USA works fine for me in the UK... I'm just waiting for the UK to ban VPNs, strong encryption and storing anything locally - after all if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be worried about the security forces, AI or anything looking at everything all the time... Of course politicians, Royalty, celebrities and rich people will exempt from the this.

Imgur are still blocking content to UK viewers. All I see is a blue box with "CONTENT NOT VIEWABLE IN YOUR REGION". Their caps, not mine Because our on-line regulator Ofcom has decided to sue them under the UK Online Safety Act. Imgur has responded by blocking all Imgur content to people from the UK. Ho hum. This is the BBC's article on the Imgur blue screen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

That's awesome! Congrats to him on being the furthest from Trump one can get.

For those of you so inclined.....my nephew (niece's husband) Chris is in Russia (Kazakhstan) now, and he will be launching EARLY local time on a Soyuz rocket to go to the ISS!!! Streaming is available at https://plus.nasa.gov/ 3 highlights (times are EST):

Happy belated birthday!

Thanks for that. And this! This is really well shot/directed. Almost gives me a Jonathan Demme vibe (yes, I realize the chronology is reversed). Von Karajan is of course a favourite, but my first was this one: I grew to a big appreciation for Concertgebouw Orchestra, not just from this recording, but multiple recordings across multiple conductors. And since you're a Rick Wakeman fan, I will also recommend his soundtrack for Crimes of Passion. I know that seems like a non-sequitur, but it's not, trust me.

Happy belated birthday! (party favour noise)