VEGAN SPAGHETTI WITH MEAT SAUCE
A dish we normally eat once a week is spaghetti and meat sauce; however, since we have been eating vegan we needed to substitute the meat sauce, as well as egg pasta.
The pasta wasn’t difficult at all, our local grocery store carried a brand right next to all the other pasta noodles.
As for the meat sauce, we decided to try Seitan (a wheat product).
The ground Seitan cooked up quite nicely, and even resembled the ground beef we were accustomed to.
STILL HAVE PIZZA AND BEER FOR DINNER!
Day 3 of eating vegan and we still have Pizza and Beer, eating vegan isn’t as hard as you may think!
VEGAN WAFFLE BREAKFAST
We are now on the third day of our vegan lifestyle change, and this morning we decided to give vegan waffles a try.
We’ve always made our waffles from scratch, but up till this point have used cows milk and eggs. This morning we tweaked that with almond milk to replace the cows milk, and apple sauce to replace the egg.
After a few minutes in the waffle iron our breakfast was ready, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the vegan and the non-vegan waffles by look.
1984 BY GEORGE ORWELL
I did not get a chance to read George Orwell’s 1984 while in high school, but have heard many times how great a book it is.It has always been on my list of to read books, but never got around to doing so until recently.
At time of this writing I’ve finished, and I have to say the book was fantastic!
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading fiction or dystopian style novels. It isn’t to long of a read, around 300 pages.
READING YUM REPOSITORY DATA
I’ve spent a lot of time working with RPM in the last couple years, and have had the pleasure of maintaining the IUS Community .
I wanted to share a small utility we use quite often called repodataParser , repodataParser is a Python class for working with RPM repositories, and used in a few of our Django applications .
The idea is all RPM repositories contain a XML file containing details about the package it contains. Lets take CentOS’s Vault for example:
RANDOM BOARD GAME SELECTION USING BOARD GAME GEEK
Using Board Game Geek’s API I wanted to create a simple Python tool for randomly picking a game to play. Below is some quick Python code to achieve my goal:
from urllib2 import urlopen
from lxml import etree
from random import choice
def get_xml():
req = urlopen('http://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi/collection/flip387')
return req
def get_items():
xml = etree.parse(get_xml())
return xml.xpath('//item')
def get_thumbnail(item):
t = item.xpath('thumbnail')
if len(t) == 1:
return t[0].text
def get_name(item):
t = item.xpath('name')
if len(t) == 1:
return t[0].text
def get_stats(item):
t = item.xpath('stats')
if len(t) == 1:
return dict(t[0].items())
def get_minplayers(item):
return get_stats(item).get('minplayers')
def get_maxplayers(item):
return get_stats(item).get('maxplayers')
def get_playingtime(item):
return get_stats(item).get('playingtime')
def get_as_dict(item):
return dict(
name=get_name(item),
thumbnail=get_thumbnail(item),
minplayers=get_minplayers(item),
maxplayers=get_maxplayers(item),
playingtime=get_playingtime(item)
)
def get_games():
items = get_items()
return [get_as_dict(i) for i in items]
def get_random_game():
games = get_games()
return choice(games)
And using this would work like so:
USING GPG TO SIGN AND VERIFY A MESSAGE
First off GPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard , and is a open source implementation of PGP.
So what can you do with GPG , and why should we care?
One common use of is to sign your messages, this way the receiver can verify it did in fact come from you, and that it hasn’t been altered.
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Version: SKS 1.1.4
Comment: Hostname: keyserver.ubuntu.com
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Using the above public key we can verify a signed message I wrote.
ANDROID DICE ROLLER
Found an old Android App I wrote about a year back, this was the first and last Android App I wrote.
Android Installable Package for Dice Roller
- md5 => 49e138fc4b2cf8b83bc28e780ff2411b
Source Code can be viewed at Github 4.0 Holo theme on the left and 2.1 default theme on the right
BOARDGAME GEEK API
Today I learned
Boardgamegeek.com
provides a XML API which appears to be pretty well documented.
For example if I wanted to list all the Board Games I own I could do something like this in python:
In [1]: from urllib2 import urlopen
In [2]: from lxml import etree
In [3]: req = urlopen('http://www.boardgamegeek.com/xmlapi/collection/flip387')
In [4]: xml = etree.parse(req)
In [5]: sorted([ i.text for i in xml.xpath('//name') ])
Out[5]:
['Arkham Horror',
'Bears!',
'Castle Panic',
'Clue',
'Cranium',
'Dominion',
'Dungeon!',
'Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of Ashardalon Board Game',
'Elder Sign',
'Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game',
'Legendary: Dark City',
'Monopoly',
'Munchkin',
'Munchkin Pathfinder',
'Once Upon a Time: The Storytelling Card Game',
'Pandemic',
'Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Rise of the Runelords - Base Set',
'Risk',
'Scrabble',
'Small World',
'Star Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game',
'Talisman (Revised 4th Edition)',
'The Settlers of Catan',
'Ticket to Ride',
'Zombie Dice']