Hulver's site || Steak done right:

Steak done right:

Burnt	1 vote - 8 %
Well-done	0 votes - 0 %
Medium-well	1 vote - 8 %
Medium	0 votes - 0 %
Medium-rare	2 votes - 16 %
Rare	3 votes - 25 %
Bloody	4 votes - 33 %
Raw	0 votes - 0 %
Still mooing	0 votes - 0 %
Tofu/Seitan you murderer!	1 vote - 8 %

12 Total Votes

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Heh. When I ask my Indian cow-orkers by greyrat (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:11:58 AM EST

to run a query and save the result to send to me, I often get a file like your illustration #2 -- except with a SQLPlus command instead of a DOS command.

I. Feel. Your. Pain.
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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
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unnecessary hoops by Merekat (4.00 / 2) #10 Wed May 23, 2007 at 01:13:02 PM EST

A co-worker once received a screen shot by fax. There was nothing wrong with the user's e-mail.

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: My best two by Cloaked User (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu May 24, 2007 at 02:36:03 PM EST

I once got a list of category names in an Excel spreadsheet. The guy had listed them all out in cells one below the other, then removed the cell borders from that area to make a nice, plain white rectangle.
On a different project, formal project documentation that was signed off by the client (eg the spec, change requests, etc) was printed out, sent to the client to be signed, returned to us, scanned in, and turned into a PDF. We then often worked from that, the original having been archived away Bog-only knows where. Quite often one or both of the "sending over" phases was by fax. It's the first time I've seen barely legible, crooked electronic documents...

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Meat Is Murder! by wiredog (4.00 / 2) #2 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:34:00 AM EST

Yummy, yummy, murder. Mmmmm. Steak.

To properly cook a steak:
1) First, get a good cut. Nicely marbled. At least 2 CM thick. 3 or 4 is better.
2) The only treatment it needs is a bit of pepper, a dash of salt. Marinate in olive oil if it's a lower grade cut.
3) Bring it to room temperature.
4) Put it on the grill. Sear it on one side, flip it, sear it on the other. It should be heavily cooked on the outside, raw in the middle.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

IAWTP by Herring (4.00 / 1) #4 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:47:45 AM EST

Sadly, many establishments seem to think "rare" means "a little pink right in the middle".

There's a good butcher near here (I've seen Jimmy White in there). Last time I got some fillet steak from him, Mrs. H. thought I was gross tasting it raw. It was bloody lovely though. And lovely bloody.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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: That's called 'English' in Germany by ReallyEvilCanine (4.00 / 1) #6 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:54:35 AM EST

Meat in Germany usually comes "well-done", "extra well-done", "super extra well-done" and "burnt into fucking charcoal". If you want a steak rare here you have to specify "English". You also have to specify the cooking times on each side and make sure you get the waiter to repeat them back to you.

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Oh Bog! I love you and want to have your children. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #9 Wed May 23, 2007 at 12:22:49 PM EST

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There is absolutely no correlation or causation amongst intelligence, power, talent and wealth.
Kha-Nyou
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Your fault. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #3 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:45:00 AM EST

Surely you should have had a rundll32.exe command in the command line to send you the file by email after the file had been created.

So tempting. by ReallyEvilCanine (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed May 23, 2007 at 08:51:04 AM EST

I've actually considered writing some automated task to do all the basic info-grabbing but I don't know how to get screenshots of the damned MSINFO start-up screens (which need to be widened in order to show the full fucking path and switches) since I don't know any way to export that info.

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: Yeah, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed May 23, 2007 at 09:05:37 AM EST

but as if their admins would let them run that software.

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that is surreal by R343L (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed May 23, 2007 at 10:44:07 AM EST

I mean it somewhat makes me feel better about some of the questions I've been asked (but at least they asked a question), but wow.

Rachael

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot

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