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communications from elsewhere home of rjl20 skip to content communications from elsewhere home of rjl20 menu home facebook mastodon masa para tamales i m writing it down this time because every time i make tamales it takes me a while to recreate the proportions and method and every time i have a few early batches which are gummy or sticky or what have you this is basically the recipe from the bag of masa harina which i should have trusted instead of going to youtube to watch hours of home and professional cooks in the mixer with the flat paddle put four cups of maseca for tamales the maseca brand in the brown bag with tamal in big letters on it not the white bag this time i m using three cups of the grind for tamales and one cup of the nixtamasa variety which is a finer grind but not as fine as the one for tortillas and which has some enzymes added to retain more of the corn flavor prepare three and a half cups of chicken or vegetable broth with hot but not boiling water and mix three of them at low speed into the masa harina in the bowl to reconstitute it this shouldn t take too long maybe a minute once the dough is coming together a bit scrape the paddle off form the dough into a ball in the bowl and let it sit for 10 15 minutes to continue hydrating meanwhile melt one cup of fat preferably good lard but crisco shortening works and i m going to try avocado oil next to see if room temperature solidity makes a difference on medium low heat in a small saucepan mix one tablespoon of baking powder and 1 5 to 2 teaspoons of salt in and take off the heat to cool a bit when the dough is hydrated and the fat is still warm switch to the dough hook on the mixer and incorporate the fat into the dough at low speed continue beating and scraping for 4 5 minutes now you can slowly incorporate the rest of the broth if the dough needs it it should be loose but not sticky if you slap it your hand should come away pretty clean if a bit oily and it should slowly drop off a spoon not run off it this is where the videos are helpful to see the right consistency now continue to make tamales as usual with corn husks and fillings and steaming and such this should make enough dough for about three dozen tamales so make two batches if you want to fill the big steamer i don t think the bowl of the mixer will fit a double batch though author josh posted on 2023 12 18 2023 12 18 categories general tags external brain recipe 3 comments on masa para tamales summer reading programs spl vs kcls it s just about summer which means that the libraries are doing their summer reading promotions there s an interesting difference between seattle s program and king county s program but there s also an interesting difference between seattle s program this year and its program for the previous five years continue reading summer reading programs spl vs kcls author josh posted on 2023 06 18 categories general leave a comment on summer reading programs spl vs kcls sharepoint wtf are you doing backgrond i m helping migrate a bunch of files from google drive into sharepoint because the licensing of google workspace for education changed and it s probably not going to be feasible for us to continue using google as our main email calendar storage solution at work in the process of setting up a tool rclone to perform these migrations i found that some files weren t being transferred properly with the rclone complaining that they d been corrupted in transit apparently this isn t a new problem there s a support forum post about it from 2019 the answer there was to use options in rclone to ignore the fact that the file has changed size in transit and just trust that it s doing the right thing continue reading sharepoint wtf are you doing author josh posted on 2023 03 14 2023 03 14 categories uhh tags technology 1 comment on sharepoint wtf are you doing squarch 2023 day 5 fine times at our house coming in just under the wire a fiddle tune not really suitable for a square dance since it s crooked in a way that would put the emphasis on a different foot the second time through the first part the mix here is terrible but the point isn t perfection it s doing something fine times at our house author josh posted on 2023 03 05 categories general tags fiddle tunes squarch leave a comment on squarch 2023 day 5 fine times at our house squarch 2023 day 4 meadowhawk i m participating in squarch again this year but i m not going to try to record a fiddle tune every day again that was hard also there will probably be some other projects which make that even more difficult but they will probably involve square things so i can take photos of them i am going to try to post something square or square related every day though i ll probably mostly be doing it over at my account on oulipo social the lipogrammatic mastodon instance which does not let its users post the letter e so far i ve got a couple photos of food and a square i constructed using a compass and straight edge and now this a fiddle tune that you might hear at a square dance in keeping with the something square theme or at least kind of in its spirit this is meadowhawk a somewhat recent composition by jim childress as is normal i m backed up by strum machine if you use strum machine you can get the chords as i heard them here meadowhawk author josh posted on 2023 03 04 categories general tags fiddle tunes squarch leave a comment on squarch 2023 day 4 meadowhawk streaming and fair pay everyone s arguing about streaming royalties again or still apparently i wrote about the disconnect between what people think artists should get and how much they re willing to pay for the streaming model a few months ago but i ve had another thought since then so i might as well write it down too flat rate streaming services are never going to be fair 10 month for all you can eat music is either going to overcharge you if you aren t using it much or underpay the artists if you are no matter what the split between the service and the artists is that model has to die here s what i think would be fair for an interactive service like spotify continue reading streaming and fair pay author josh posted on 2022 10 22 2022 10 22 categories copyright tags technology 7 comments on streaming and fair pay 3d printed coffee grinder funnel well this is very satisfying our motorized coffee grinder is broken right now so until i can take it apart and see what s going on cam s been grinding beans for her morning coffee with a hand crank model this one i think it s a great little grinder but the opening for getting beans into the hopper is small and getting beans in there without spilling any when you haven t had your morning coffee yet is tough so i was tasked with making a funnel which was something i was more likely to do successfully than fix the motorized grinder although that s still on the list and the task was at least partly driven by looking for something useful to do with the printer continue reading 3d printed coffee grinder funnel author josh posted on 2022 09 20 2022 09 20 categories 3d printing tags coffee funnel parametric 1 comment on 3d printed coffee grinder funnel streaming and corporate greed let s say i listen to music three hours per day five days per week fifteen hours a song is maybe three and a half minutes long so let s say that s 257 tracks per week i listen to in a month that d be around 1 029 tracks even if i m paying 10 month for the service and the service passes 100 of my subscription fee to the artists that s less than a penny per stream and that s with me listening a little less than average the average spotify user listens to 148 minutes of music per day or around 1 269 tracks per month that s 787 cents per stream spotify apparently pays royalties of 318 cents per stream which means that they re paying 40 of what they take in as royalties there s certainly an argument to be made that they could be taking less but even if they were taking nothing artists woudn t be making much more than twice what they do now what would be a fair price i don t even really know how to calculate that but i buy cds so let s say those are priced fairly and work from there beyonce s latest album has 16 tracks and a retail price of 13 how many times will i listen to that album before i get sick of it lose it buy it in a new format or whatever else makes me stop using the physical object i bought fifty a hundred let s say fifty 13 50 16 1 625 cents per play so around five times what they re currently getting at 1 625 cents per stream the average spotify user should be paying artists 20 62 per month plus a reasonable fee to spotify for the service is 30 month a reasonable subscription price for spotify corporate greed is part of the problem here but the bigger problem is that the service shouldn t exist at that price level at all maybe at 30 to 40 per month but i don t think anybody wants to pay that not even the people who argue that spotify should pay artists more nb i m not arguing that artists should take the crappy pay they re getting here i will argue that spotify and other streaming services shouldn t exist at all neither should radio though if we re going down that line of thinking author josh posted on 2022 08 07 categories copyright 6 comments on streaming and corporate greed multi zoom multi obs virtual jam i gave the laptop a workout with the slower than dirt jam today i was curious to see if i could run everything off it and not have to involve multiple devices and it turns out i can the setup this is insane install the virtual camera pluigin for obs yes i know that s built in now but the plugin version provides multiple virtual cameras and allows you to pick which one you re sending to while the built in version only has one now launch obs twice using the argument multi warn each time not sure how to do this on a mac but window capture is so laggy on a mac that i don t think i d want to run it from one anyway in one of the instances make a scene capturing the window of a browser with strum machine loaded and in the other have a scene capturing a pdf reader with the tunes loaded up open the virtual camera plugin in each and send one to camera 1 and the other to camera 2 all of these windows can be safely put in the background but don t minimize the browser or pdf reader or put them on a different workspace because that interferes with the capture open your audio settings and change the sytem audio to something that doesn t make any noise i ve got voicemeeter installed here so i m using one of its virtual inputs open the per application audio settings and change the output for the strum machine browser to the cheaper of your two usb audio interfaces i m using a 15ish usb headphone dongle for this connect the headphone out of that to one of the inputs of your better audio interface a behringer umc204hd in my case make sure that you re monitoring a mix of direct input and return from the computer on the headphones plugged into that interface plug your mic into the other input now go into the directory where zoom is installed it s in c users myuser appdata roaming zoom on this machine and make two copies of the zoom exe naming them zoom2 exe and zoom3 exe launch all three in one of them log in to the account thamt the jam session is running under and start the session set your good audio interface as the audio in out and use your real camera in the other two connect as guests to your session and use the two virtual cameras with no audio connection et voila there are now three participants in your jam one is you with audio from your microphone mixed with audio from strum machine that s who other participants will see as the active speaker during tunes don t forget to enable original audio the other is a live view of strum machine and the third is the sheet music for the tune you re playing make sure to pop over to your pdf reader and load that up before each tune you hear strum machine through direct monitoring on your good interface so you re playing in time with it and everyone else in the session hears the combination they can choose to pin the sheet music or strum machine participants videos if they want to make those bigger or they can stay in gallery view and see everyone i ll upload the recording of today s jam to youtube soon so you can see a demo if you re interested unfortunately i had not set the cloud recording options on my account correctly so today s recording is just of me not the gallery view i thought it would be i could have sworn the recording used to be whatever view the person who hit record was seeing but apparently it s a setting in your profile not editable from the zoom app itself now the main benefit here is that people can choose to view the chords or sheet music if they want but don t have to previous configurations i d tried either made it difficult to lay out the music chords and me on the same screen or used screen sharing mode to make it higher resolution at the expense of much higher bandwidth and people reporting stutters and lags so i m pretty happy with this overkill that it is author josh posted on 2022 07 30 2022 07 31 categories general 5 comments on multi zoom multi obs virtual jam squarch 25 old time billy in the lowground old time billy in the lowground i played this in my jam with dave and paul on wednesday and it s been popping back into my head occasionally ever since i m not sure i ve played it before although i picked it up pretty quickly on wednesday so maybe i have it s funny how listening to what i just played a few minutes ago i m hearing myself doing something i didn t think i was doing while playing it a particular rhythmic pattern in a couple of places that i m pretty sure isn t in the recording of the canotes i listened to to refresh my memory right before recording this i guess if your mistakes are your style that thing is part of mine author josh posted on 2022 03 27 categories general tags 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