food of the gods (and the benefits of working from home)

A few nice i need to work from home images I found:

food of the gods (and the benefits of working from home)


Image by gin soak
i woke up this morning yearning for a big old pile of yorkshire puddings. now unfortunately i had to go into the office this morning so there was no time for a yorkshire pudding breakfast. however, rather luckily, i’d decided to work from home this afternoon and discovered half a dozen eggs that needed using up – so before you could say ‘make the gravy’, i was sat at home working my way through some hefty academic tomes [erm...ok, more like lightweight articles] and munching my way happily through a big plate full of yorkshires. mmmm, mmmm!

nb: i should also give credit to seven hills beer monster for helping to eat them

EDIT: recipe copied in from comments below:

there are a few variations on the yorkshire pudding recipe. the one i use involves a lot of eggs – you can make it with fewer eggs and more milk, but lots of eggs = lighter puddings you can either make them into one big pudding (in a roasting tin) or into small puddings by using a bun tin or yorkshire pudding tin, if you can get hold of one. anyway, here goes:

6 oz plain flour (all purpose flour?)
a little salt and pepper
6 eggs
approx. 1/3 pint of milk
either a few ounces of lard/dripping, or a few fluid ounces of vegetable or corn oil

1) put the flour and seasoning together in a large bowl.
2) add the eggs one at a time, and whisk together.
3) add the milk and continue whisking – you want quite a loose batter.
4) leave to stand for 1 hour.
5) heat the oven so that it’s nice and hot – about 220 degrees C/425 farenheit.
6) place the oil or lard into the tin, and put it in the oven until it’s *really* hot – about 10 minutes usually. you want it to have startedto ‘smoke’ a little – the trick is that the batter will sizzle when you add it.
7) remove the tin from the oven and quickly pour in the batter – if you’re making one big pudding, just pour it in; if you’re making smaller ones, ladle batter into each compartment so that each one is full. put them back in the oven for approx. 10-15 minutes – don’t open the oven during this time, or they’ll sink!
9) reduce the temperature to about 200C/400F and leave them in for a further 5-10 minutes till they’re nice and crispy.
10) eat! lots and lots

Brooklyn Home Office, Minimized, At Night


Image by mkosut
I’ve spent the past few months figuring out how to scale down many of the things i don’t need and keeping my home office very minimal. That included ditching the large 30" apple cinema display (it blocked my view out the windows!) and going back to a simple laptop with two headless servers (on old G5 osx server pictured, and one ubuntu dual core 2.8ghz hp proliant server hidden behind the desk)

I’ve hidden my speakers behind the desk and stream via an airport express station to minimize cord plugins. The two cables visible below the desk have been hidden (ethernet for the osx server and some other cable) didn’t see them in the photo til it was too late.

I’ve purchased an all-in-one scanner/printer that fits comfortably in the sliding glass door cabinet for easy access.

My old and faithful aeron chair finally made it’s return home from vermont. Thank you for the gift adam, it’s lasted me years!

For white board drawings, i use dry erase markers on the glass windows. I make sure i don’t write any sensitive data on them as they’re clearly visible from the street

This provides maximum desk space to work with while not being distracted. i work from home occasionally (i’m a senior linux systems engineer for mtv networks/viacom) so i wanted someplace enjoyable to work without losing focus on my tasks.

I didn’t have any stones to put in the vase for the flower, so i ended up using all the silver change i could find. This works great because it looks interesting, but also makes it easy to ditch extra pocket change into it conveniently. No pennies allowed!

Pre-cleaning: www.flickr.com/photos/mkosut/2583927058/in/set-7215759430…

how i spent my spring break


Image by JKönig
the top two panels show our upstairs office, as it looked wednesday morning; the bottom two, last night (well, i reshot the one on the right this morning, to be fair). the office had become our collective respository for junk, bills, photography equipment, wrapping paper, books, junk and more junk. and i realized that if i’m going to work from home, i need a place to work, you know? now it’s my favorite room in the house, even moreso than the guest room. cos when i sit at the table (on the right), i turn my head to the left and watch the nuthatches and the goldfinches and the chickadees and the sparrows and the cardinals and the titmice and the wrens and the house finches frolic in our backyard pine tree. though sometimes my view is slightly blocked by a cat curled up on the scratching post (strategically placed right next to me, for utterly selfish reasons). isabel’s there now, as i write this.

*smiles big*

*smiles bigger*

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