Cooker

Modern economics is broken. The oven on my cooker has stopped working in a way which is probably a wiring problem. (The ovens and half the grill don't work, but the rest of the cooker is fine.) My landlord is therefore buying a new cooker. Since he has asked me to dispose of the old one, I thought I'd see if anyone wants a probably fixable electric cooker. The huge caveat is of course that you have to be willing to come and pick it up from my place on Friday.

For SCIENCE!

I have made what is possibly the most important discovery of our time, for which I expect to receive the Nobel Prize for Very Clever Science in short order.

If you thinly (~3-4mm) slice Haloumi cheese and grill it on both sides until it is dark brown, the resulting substance occupies a culinary niche not unadjacent to bacon. Specifically it manages to do that crunchy/chewy thing that no brand of facon I have ever come across has done. Long live the HLT!

Apple continue to underwhelm

Apple really seem to have lost the plot recently. The Ipad Mini continues this uninspiring trend. They have released a tablet too large to fit in a handbag or jeans pocket with a lower screen resolution, and costing 70 quid more than the equivalent Nexus 7. This is a product whose only market is people who only buy only Apple because it's Apple.

Now doubtless there are enough people who will buy an Apple tablet with no discernible use case because they still think of Apple as 'cool' that they are going to make money off the damn thing anyway, but gods I miss an Apple who were innovating, even when that innovation was basically prettifying and simplifying already awesome tech to the point where it could become mass market.