Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabridged (18)

Jay, you might look at Velocity Micro. I bought one of their machines at the exchange and it's a screamer. You can customize machines on their site...

www.velocitymicro.com

I'm looking to upgrade my PC too. My son works in the PC industry (power supplies and cases) and his latest suggestion looks to run about $1500. He's a serious gaming and graphics guy and he recommends running 2 mid range graphics cards rather than 1 expensive top of the line card. According to him it's less expensive and works better. He also uses an SSID as the boot drive.

For image processing though, unlike gaming, graphics cards are overkill.

I agree with Jon, the 2 card systems are wonderful for heavy GPU intensive first person shooters but do nothing for image processing. A mid-tier card will do just fine.

My current machine I adopted a "look for the price/performance knee" philosophy especially for processors and memory and graphic cards. The new i7 Sandies are nice, but they don't improve PS times all that much and are expensive.

I didn't kill the thread -- where's Harm?

Whoa.. I did. *blush*

Thread resurrection time...... I hope.

Thinking of making a slow cooked Chicken Jambalaya for dinner tonight and I have a question for you folks. My old recipe (never used a slow cooker for it) had rice being added at the start and cooked along with the chicken etc. I've been looking up some recipes and most serve with separately cooked rice. What do you think?

Greg_C wrote in post #12103267
...Thinking of making a slow cooked Chicken Jambalaya for dinner tonight and I have a question for you folks. My old recipe (never used a slow cooker for it) had rice being added at the start and cooked along with the chicken etc. I've been looking up some recipes and most serve with separately cooked rice. What do you think?

Wow. It's amazing that you ask this question. Just this week I made chicken and shrimp Paella, sort of a Jambalaya, sort of. Anyway, the recipe had me adding the rice in at the start and cook it along with the other ingredients. In retrospect it was not the thing o do. The rice turned all mushy and pasty. I think it would have been much better if i had pre-cooked the rice separately and added it in towards the end. However, the flavor was not affected at all. it tasted great. It was only the texture that was affected.

gjl711 wrote in post #12103464
Wow. It's amazing that you ask this question. Just this week I made chicken and shrimp Paella, sort of a Jambalaya, sort of. Anyway, the recipe had me adding the rice in at the start and cook it along with the other ingredients. In retrospect it was not the thing o do. The rice turned all mushy and pasty. I think it would have been much better if i had pre-cooked the rice separately and added it in towards the end. However, the flavor was not affected at all. it tasted great. It was only the texture that was affected.

The recipe I've used for years had me do this also and I've always had a hard time from burning the bottom of the pot on the stove top even with it as low as possible. Cast Iron pot retails too much heat and the rice absorbs all the liquid. Too bad that Cajun recipe book caught a big splash and was ruined.

Well, I'll admit a secret -- I grew up eating peanut butter and mayonaise sandwiches. Then, I found out that a lot of people had never had one, and more, that the idea sounded "nuts" to them.

Well, an hour or so ago guess what I had for lunch?

tonylong wrote in post #12103689
Well, I'll admit a secret -- I grew up eating peanut butter and mayonaise sandwiches. Then, I found out that a lot of people had never had one, and more, that the idea sounded "nuts" to them.

Well, an hour or so ago guess what I had for lunch?

Never heard of that one but sounds ok too me. Just finished watching a show where they ground up some peanuts, added some liquid oxygen and set it alight. Wow, what a flame. The oils in the nuts burnt big time.

Greg_C wrote in post #12103854
...they ground up some peanuts, added some liquid oxygen and set it alight. Wow, what a flame. The oils in the nuts burnt big time.

That sort of sounds like a Mythbusters episode where they make a salami rocket. Salami makes a really good fuel and the nitrous oxide a great oxidizer. Liquid O2 of course would be way better. Anything will burn when oxidized by liquid O2.

tonylong wrote in post #12103689
Well, I'll admit a secret -- I grew up eating peanut butter and mayonaise sandwiches. Then, I found out that a lot of people had never had one, and more, that the idea sounded "nuts" to them.

Well, an hour or so ago guess what I had for lunch?

Did you have french fries with mayo on the side?

Timphoto wrote in post #12104694
Did you have french fries with mayo on the side?

Heh! Nope!

I had business downtown both yesterday and today. Yesterday I knew I would have some free time so I packed some camera gear. I stopped at a local wetlands and was scouting out critters when I say a train coming by. I just had time to grab what was closest, my 1D3, and I realized that in the middle of a lens swap I had put the 85L on it instead of it being on my 5DC as usual. Well some of you may be glad to know that I actually shot with that setup (Julian). Anyway, I'm just now loading those shots in my laptop so we will see how the combo handled the job in AI Servo.

And, speaking of trains, in all the years I've lived here (over 20) I've never actually visited the local train station. So, I had an unexpected free hour and decided to find the dang train station. It so happened to be quite close to where I was, right in the middle of the industrial section.

Vancouver/Portland has Amtrak lines that go north to Seattle then on to Vancouver BC, South to LA California and east to Chicago, and they offer some nice packages for places like Glacier National Monument in Montana and the Grand Canyon, so it was interesting browsing there and seeing a couple trains come and go. But, I had no camera, I was planning on just a quick there and back trip, dang!

But I did find out that you can catch a trip from here to Seattle for a little as $26, which is pretty impressive since that trip by car costs close to a whole 16-gallon tank of gas for each way -- at the present cost of gas, well, thinking about $100 round trip drive!

^^Hehe! Cool! How did the 85 L perform on the 1D MK III? I bet it was nice with the AF.