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A photo of a raw 3kg pork collar butt wrapped in netting and covered in coarse pepper and salt, sitting on the grille of a smoker. There's two temperature probes going into the meat and a third measuring the ambient temperature of the smoker itself, all three of which are going into a little box with an LCD (a Thermoworks "Signals") that shows the temperature of each probe. The wood has started smoking already and there's lots of it coming up from underneath the grille.

Starting off 2023 right: doing a pulled pork.

Related: every part of me smells like wood smoke right now.

our house darkroom food barbecue

Posted on 1 January 2023, 12:22

A photo of a bunch of kids plus some adults playing in an in-ground pool in a backyard.

Excellent NYE thus far, good weather for a pool party and throwing water balloons.

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Posted on 31 December 2022, 16:10

Beanie's favourite thing to do is to paw at his blanket across basically the entire room and back again. Occasionally he'll manage to get it out of the door and into the hallway.

I stopped this video when he looked up at me after I creaked the chair, but it went on for another like two minutes afterwards.

beanie our house darkroom video

Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:31

A photo of the seven armoured goblins from the Warhammer Underworlds warband Grinkrak's Looncourt. They're all very characterful, the highlights are one wielding a squig that's been attached to a stick, another hiding behind a wooden door while a second one is on his shoulders and pulling back another squig that's about to be launched catapult-style, and a third riding a very large and angry-looking squig and has a large mallet head attached to the pole he's holding. The others just have mostly regular weapons and Grinkrak himself has what looks like a jester's hat on.

(A squid is a small angry creature that consists of mostly teeth.)

A photo of the four shamanistic-looking warriors of the Warhammer Underworlds warband the Gnarlspirit Pack. They're all dressed in leathers and furs and the leader has a large animal skull on his head. His left arm is too slightly larger than normal and looks like something out of the movie Aliens, and is wielding/has growing out of the hand a blade that looks like it may be bone.

And that's the Looncourt assembled and undercoated!

I did the Gnarlspirit Pack from the Gnarlwood core box as well, and the keen-eyed (and/or Warhammer 40,000 nerds) amongst you will notice that the leader's arm doesn't quite look right. That's because it's the arm of a Tyranid Genestealer that I put on because the thumb on his regular arm had broken off in the box, so I just chopped the whole arm off and replaced it with this one. Annoyingly I had a similar issue with the head of the leader of the other warbands from that same box, the Sons of Velmorn, the box must have been REALLY banged up in transit. 😕 I'm undecided whether I'm going to actually spend the time to paint up the leader with the replacement arm, haha.

(I contacted the place I bought them from and it's no hassle to get new sprues sent out, just annoying.)

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Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:05

The box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Grinkrak's Looncourt". The art on the box has black-clad goblins wielding various weapons. There's also the box for a deck called "Fearsome Fortress," the art on that has stairs up the side of a ziggurat and the field of view towards it is being encroached on by brown vines.

Miniatures for the miniatures god!

Plus one of the new Rivals decks, which are a great idea to simplify things because it means you don't have to screw about with deck building.

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Posted on 30 December 2022, 12:36

A photo of a horizontal speaker with a grey mesh grille on it, sitting on top of two vertical pieces of wood that have a 90-degree section cut out of them such that the speaker is angled up at 45 degrees. The whole setup is at the base of my electronic drum kit and so the speaker is angled to aim right at me when I'm sitting on the stool.

I bought an Audioengine speaker around this time last year to use with my drums but it was always just sitting on the floor pointing at my feet so today I decided to build a little stand for it so it'd be angled up at me! I can definitely notice the difference, everything sounds a lot crisper.

our house diy music darkroom drums speaker

Posted on 29 December 2022, 16:16

A photo of a roti canai (a flatbread thing except it's all bunched up here) on a metal plate with two different types of curry sauce to dip it into.

A photo of a plate of mee goreng, a noodle dish, that has a fried egg mixed into it.

A photo of a roti tisu, which is an enormous conical-shaped crispy sweet thing, sitting on a plate and absolutely dwarfing the scoop of ice cream that's next to it.

A photo of six people, three men and three women, sitting around a table that's covered with empty plates. Everyone is smiling.

Dinner at Mamak with friends! Always so damn good.

In related news, I am VERY full right now.

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Posted on 28 December 2022, 21:44

A photo of three people sitting at a park bench in the shade. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short hair wearing sunglasses, Andrew, also a white man but without a beard, and Kristina, a white woman (also no beard) with short hair wearing sunglasses. We're all smiling at the camera.

We went to Fagan Park this morning to catch up with @ausfestivus! The sun was brutal but we got a spot in the shade and there was a GLORIOUS breeze. It was surprisingly empty as well, I was expecting more people.

A++ would hang out again.

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Posted on 27 December 2022, 12:40

A big batch of vegetable bolognese sauce simmering in a large frying pan. There's diced onion, corn, peas, beans, and carrots in it as well as the Quorn (which looks pretty much just like beef mince).

Made a huge batch of Quorn-based bolognese sauce with a bunch of veggies in it and hot damn is it good!

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Posted on 26 December 2022, 15:06

A screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, it's a sunny day with cobblestone streets and obviously-Mexican buildings, and there's a massive Christmas tree in the middle the section where a road is splitting apart. On the other side of the road is a huge yellow building that I think is a church.

Another screenshot from Forza Horizon 5, showing my red Datsun 510 with big rims zooming along the road in the middle of the desert, there's lots of cactii and scrubby bushes on the side of the road.

Haha, Forza Horizon 5 is getting into the Christmas spirit as well: there's a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the city, and various other places have big candy canes lining the side of the road.

In related news, still having a ton of fun in my hotted-up Datsun 510.

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Posted on 25 December 2022, 22:34