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+Three attempts + +![Potato soup with mushrooms](img/f23_winter_break/mushroom_soup.jpg) + +▲ First attempt with mushrooms + +![Gooey mixture of potato and +broccoli](img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_goo.jpg) + +▲ This hardly looks like soup + +![Potato soup with broccoli](img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_soup.jpg) + +▲ Refined attempt +
+ +Note: I imitated the "cream of mushroom/broccoli soup" in dining halls but +mine was less creamy, probably because I used milk instead of cream. +I made it like four times in giant portions until I got sick of it and +just cooked pasta. + +- Tried mixing corn with flour and frying a crispy "corn cake" but just + resulted in very greasy corn (also caused kitchen sewage pipe to break + because I poured hot oil down there) + +![PVC pipe under garbage disposal breaking at a 90 degree +connector](img/f23_winter_break/broken_pipe.jpg) + +- Roasted tomatoes, carrots, and bell pepper, as well as leftover potatoes + and mushrooms I couldn't cook because the pipe broke + +## Things I learned + +- How to ice skate +- Rust +- How the `fork` and `dup2` syscalls work +- How to open a pipe (POSIX, not physical) + +## Things I saw + +- A bunny + +![Grey bunny chilling in the grass](img/f23_winter_break/bunny.jpg) + +- Steamboat Willie +- Tom Scott's goodbye video + +## Things I gained + +- FCC ham radio license + +I talked with a person over the W8UM repeater and later participated in +the net. I was nervous as fuck but handled just fine + +- A free eggs coupon, when I came back home with a carton of eggs I just + bought at full price +- A jug of tea for $1 despite the $3 price because the barcode was missing + +## Things I lost + +None to my knowledge so far. + +## Things I played + +- [Shenzhen I/O](../random/shenzhen_io_review.md) +- Bass + +## Things I read + +- Lakoff, George. _Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories + Reveal about the Mind._ U of Chicago Press, 1987. Probably chapter 8-14 + +## Things I wrote + +- [hamrs](https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/hamrs) +- [shenzhen_solitaire](https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/shenzhen_solitaire) +- A couple blogposts (one) + +## Conclusion + +I fulfilled a few life goals this winter (e.g. ham radio license). While +some friends did, I never went out of town. Mostly I stayed at home and +only took the bus to the supermarket or to the ice rink. I did absolutely +nothing festive on Christmas or the new year. However, when winter break +began, I cracked open a soda because I am not yet at drinking age. + +__Overall rating: 75/100__ diff --git a/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_goo.jpg b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_goo.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f416c4 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_goo.jpg differ diff --git a/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_soup.jpg b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_soup.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1138210 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broccoli_soup.jpg differ diff --git a/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broken_pipe.jpg b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broken_pipe.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02d6499 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/broken_pipe.jpg differ diff --git a/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/bunny.jpg b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/bunny.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..924d303 Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/bunny.jpg differ diff --git a/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/mushroom_soup.jpg b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/mushroom_soup.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4cc48ac Binary files /dev/null and b/docs/umich/img/f23_winter_break/mushroom_soup.jpg differ -- cgit v1.2.3