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And back in the ancient days of the web I used a website call webtender, according to the copyright line it's been around since 95 =)

I'm pretty sure I had a DOS app for this that not only came up with drinks you could mix with what you had on hand but also more general recipes, too. It sounded really good until I started to try to keep a kitchen inventory on my PC -- I abandoned that after about a week.

And back in the ancient days of the web I used a website call webtender, according to the copyright line it's been around since 95 =)

This was our game of choice at school (engineering) http://www.webtender.com/handbook/games/whalestales.game we often threw in "mod" tails where you were allowed to say call 6 mod 4 instead of just saying 2. We'd also let in negative numbers. If you weren't lightning fast in deciphering the number you got called out. Pairing weird math for the numbers with "jet" tails (most of the annoying words gone, just calling out numbers) was always good for fun.

This game, can be used to just destroy someone pretty damn fast. The newbie never knew what hit him...

Sadly girls almost never played this game...not even the ones that liked math...

Ah, I'd forgotten Adams' often-tragic fascination with multimedia projects. Novels were always his best form.

Dammit...now I wish you hadn't reminded me. I need a drink.

Beer Chess

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Indeed, it'd be nice to have this for spices.

Management by itself seems like a why-bother issue to me. What I'd like is to have integration between this little ingredient database- including dry spices, perishables, frozen stuff, canned goods and everthing else- and a recipesdatabase, whether it's my personal list of recipes or something like the awesome allrecipes.com and webtender.com. I'd love to be able to go onto allrecipes and click a button labelled "give me a 5-course meal with what i have!" and have it generate those 5 courses based on my taste (derived from my ratings of other recipes on allrecipes.com, perhaps), and ratings other folks have given it, all using the materials i have already. Or perhaps, leave me only buying fresh rosemary and chicken breasts, etc. Having all this data is next to worthless for me... But *using* this data would be great.

Everclear. 190 proof. 95% alcohol. yeah, full of warnings. but then again, anything that tells you not to drink it unless it is mixed with non-alcoholic beverages is just way to scary for me to open up and chug down. just bring jello shooters. Can be lethal if everclear is substituted for the water, says Webtender

Insanely rich universities offering bursaries for foreign graduate students made me move to Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK.

But for me the problem is reverse: These universities get their money by imposing (huge) fees on students, something that I could simply not accept in my country. In France money comes from the government, and it's allocated to the best students according to their rank at the end of their undergraduate studies (the good old French meritocracy). So when you're the 6th on the list, and only the 5 best get a grant, you're, well, stuck.

So I must admit I feel a bit guilty - but then again, Britain being a democracy, those people actually chose to pay for higher education so that their universities can hire lazy foreign students like me :-)

> and cute girls with British accents

Now I'd really like to know where you find those ("In a bar at 3am after 5 pints of Snakebite and Black" does not count).

Thomas Miconi
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Oddly enough I was just trying to access /. through a wireless card in my iPaq. Although in the FAQ, CmdrTaco claims that if I visit the site in a WAP compliant browser, I should see a WAP version of the page, it just doesn't happen. And the regular page is too busy to read on a small screen (in fact, scrolling is extremely slow). Instead of the auto-detect feature, I like what WebTender is doing...they have a seperate URL for WAP browsers, wap.webtender.com. Using a seperate URL in conjunction with an "autodetect" feature seems to be the best way for a site to go.

Oddly enough I was just trying to access /. through a wireless card in my iPaq. Although in the FAQ, CmdrTaco claims that if I visit the site in a WAP compliant browser, I should see a WAP version of the page, it just doesn't happen. And the regular page is too busy to read on a small screen (in fact, scrolling is extremely slow). Instead of the auto-detect feature, I like what WebTender is doing...they have a seperate URL for WAP browsers, wap.webtender.com. Using a seperate URL in conjunction with an "autodetect" feature seems to be the best way for a site to go.