Amusing and Interesting

I had an interesting learning experience today.  I went to work to do some architecting (ooooooo…) and oddly my car wouldn’t lock using the remote.  So I locked via key and thought little of it, figuring the battery in the remote was dead.  Turns out not so much… for the car itself wouldn’t start when I returned.  All the lights would come on, but the engine wouldn’t even pretend to turn over.  As I awaited my housemate to pick me up I checked the fuses and lo and behold a fuse was burned out.  What I therefore learned was that the fuse that regulates the key beeper alarm thingee also controls/interrupts the whole ignition.

Thankfully a new fuse bought and installed and I was off.

The whole of the Robotech series is now available for viewing in its entirety, legally and for free on Hulu and Youtube.  Woo!  Alas it seems to be some version that was remastered or something, and as part of that they chose to dub in new sound effects, such that now there are a whack tonne of sound effects for every.single.little.thing, often loudly (plus they removed some of what I considered ‘classic’ sound effects).  I’m not thrilled with the result of that dubbing, cool as it remains to have the episodes available as they are.

Picture if you will… Kannik, kitchen towel over his shoulder, pot rack overhead, pound iron wok on the gas stove, cutting away with fresh produce… yea, tonight was the night to initiate my long-unused wok on the gas stove.  It’s been ages since I made a stir fry, and the first I’ve made on a gas stove.  It went pretty swimmingly, I learned pretty quickly how much ingredient wise I can put in the wok before it cools down too much (our stove doesn’t get uber hot).  I’m hooked again though, I’ll definitively be woking more often once again.