Recipe: Quick Pasta Caprese

by

This is a fast recipe that lets you make a classy, tasty dish quickly – and you can do it with ingredients many of us keep around anyway.  This is for a single serving, so scale accordingly.  It also makes a decent meal without a side dish.

For the pasta:

2-3 oz dried pasta.

Sauce:

  • 1 medium tomato, diced
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tbsp dried basil (or about 1/2 of shredded basil)
  • 1/8 tbsp pepper
  • a few dashes salt (3-4)
  • 1 tsp crushed garlic
  • 1 slice mozzarella cheese (optional for vegans, but it’s not true caprese without cheese – that being said I don’t use the cheese much myself)

(note, you can leave out the tomato and have a rather tasty coating for 2 servings pasta)

  1. Mix olive oil, basil, pepper, salt, garlic, and cheese.
  2. Add tomato to mix, coat thoroughly.  Let sit at least 15 minutes in the fridge to allow flavors to blend)
  3. Cook pasta and drain thoroughly.
  4. Mix pasta with tomato mix, serve.

Adeptus Mechanicus Panicus Returnicus

by

Awhile ago I made a semi-humorous point that I was worried that people in technical fields (well, us) would end up a bit like the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Warhammer 40K universe.  The Adeptus of this somewhat-over-the-top dark future story are both technicians and a religious order, secretive, at times dogmatic, and culturally stagnant.  I think you can see the comparison and the concern.

It is some time later, and I wanted to repeat my observation and note . . . I think we’re closer than I thought.

Read more

Dead Blogs, Sadness, and Concepts

by

So I’ve been looking for information on estimating methods for SCRUM.  Yes, I’m sure that sounds unexciting to most people, but really this is something PM’s and SCRUM masters nearly get into fisticuff’s over.  Oh, you think hours are going to work, don’t bet on it . . .

So anyway, I dug up a blog that shall remain nameless, and it was filled with great stuff – and hadn’t been updated in 2 years, it’s creator’s twitter feed had posts every few months.  Yet it was filled with wisdom.

I guess I can consider it dead, but doesn’t that seem wrong?  I mean it has active, vital, useful information in it?

Somehow I think we need to rethink blogs.  Maybe they have to stop, and so be it, but is it really dead?  Is it dead if the information is good?  Is it dead if it has meaning?

Maybe we need to rethink blogs as part of something larger, of archiving, curating, creation.

Maybe we need to create metasites that archive old blog information for people.

Maybe we should “reincarnate content” as I mentioned earlier.

Blogs may be dead, but the information is alive.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.fantopro.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.