Steve Fischer's Random Blog

Author: fish1964

  • Traffic Report

    This amused me…

  • NFTs

    This is as good as explanation as any…

    Courtesy SMBC as usual.

  • Not Going Anywhere

    Day 3 of the Suez Canal being blocked by the Ever Given. This is totally crazy.

  • Spelling Bee Down?

    I started getting into crossword puzzles a few years back. I recall my grandmother doing them in pen with only a dictionary as a reference. I am not to that level, Google is still my friend, but I do enjoy them. So I use the NY Times crossword app because the NY Times puzzles are excellent.

    The app and the NY Times also have a puzzle called the Spelling Bee. Word nerds all know about this, it’s quite popular. And I, like many others apparently, typically start my day with coffee and the Spelling Bee. But this morning it’s down and people are sad…

    https://twitter.com/LouLavandou/status/1374665965468782594
    https://twitter.com/EdWindels/status/1374683588902457345

  • Fully Vaccinated Day 2

    No real side effects. My shoulder was sore overnight but today I feel totally normal. A beautiful 60 degree day doesn’t hurt…

  • Fully Vaccinated

    That’s it. That’s the post.

  • Embarrassed for my Country

    This was a terrible day for America.

    Note the date

  • For No Particular Reason

    History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

    Martin Luther King, Jr

  • Grill Your Pizza

    I like making pizza. It’s a bit silly given the incredible pizza options in Brooklyn, but it’s a fun family thing to do. My wife gave me a pizza stone for Fathers Day. The summer flew by, we were on vacation, etc. so I hadn’t tried it. Last week I finally gave it a shot. We typically make several small pizzas so we did one on the stone (on our grill) and the rest the conventional way in case it didn’t work well. I didn’t have a pizza peel to get it on/off the grill (didn’t even know it was called a peel) so I had no idea how it would work.

    It was yummy. Basically identical pizzas, but done on the grill at 600 degrees (the stone pre-heats on the grill) made the crust much better. You definitely need the pizza peel, so I ordered one from Amazon. My wife picked up a second pizza stone so we could make two at once. It only takes 5 minutes to cook at that temperature, so we can crank out 4 pizzas in 10 minutes.

    We will be grilling pizza from now on…

  • Never Forget

    Brooklyn. 9/11/2020