The Worst Thing in the World ...worst practices...

Here's what you do with your extra pumpkin pie. Reposted from http://www.flickr.com/photos/djpiebob/5205303162/in/photostream/

I made a post over at Splunk about searching the SSA baby names database: http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/10/31/how-is-babby-named/

From Simply Recipes, but with a little less sugar.

When diluted 1:1 with water, this is 0.25 as sweet as coke (i,e, 7 g sugar/8 oz liquid) which is about as sweet as I like to go in a beverage.

"Adapted" from 101 cookbooks, which is to say I tripled the amount of tapioca, added coconut, and put the egg whites back in.

This is a pantry buster - you bought some tapioca for something and now you need to get rid of it. The coconut too - we bought it for carrot cake, but flake is not the best for cake, shredded is better.

Traditionally with Campari, but I always substitute Aperol for Campari always under all circumstances everywhere.

Similar I guess to the "MacArthur" in this suspicious list of whisky cocktails

Cherried brandy is the liquid from brandied cherries, of course!

I've been playing solitaire farkle on an app, and my goal is to get on the high score list, which means that I'm starting to aim for higher and higher scores. This has altered my heuristic a little bit. Here's the new one:

• Maximize the number of times you can roll for three of a kind each turn - this means scoring as few dice as possible on each roll as long as you'll still have at least 3 dice to roll on the next roll

I've been playing a lot of solitaire Farkle recently, having been introduced to it a few years ago by the Yun family.

I haven't started to grind out the probabilities for ideal play yet, but I'm thinking that I need to calculate the expected outcome for each possible throw (6 dice, 5 dice, etc.), and then determine if it makes sense to bank or roll based on the expected outcome and the probability of farkle for that roll.

Here's a heuristic for playing farkle, with some explanation of the assumptions it makes:

"Do you want to do X" is a surprisingly ambiguous question. Since people are hesitant to directly tell someone else what to do, or sometimes even to express their own opinion or desire, this kind of simple question can mean a lot of different things:

• I demand that we do X
• I think we should do X but I'm open to other suggestions
• I want you to decide what to do, but I'm including one option for rhetorical or predictive reasons.

Check back, this list is ongoing...

Reformulations

• Chicken bratwurst with Della Fattoria ciabatta
• Quinoa salad w/escarole, avocado, tomato, tahini dressing
• Stir-fried mixed meat/vegetable kebabs sliced thin with tomato relish
• Pita bread pizza with tahini, mixed meat/vegetable kebabs sliced thin, tomato relish