Out of the Blue

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It took a while to act on the inspiration the change of seasons brought, but last night I fired up the first batch of chili of the autumn, and it's currently finishing on the stove after about 15 hours of cooking. After several batches in a row that were on the milder side (only by comparison, as they were still very hot), this time around it is positively nuclear. The path to this outcome started when I had a conversation with the farmer at the farm stand about his habaneros that I was buying, where he explained that they were not as hot as you'd expect because of the colder weather they were exposed to before being picked. This helped my decision to include some of the dried ghost peppers we have on hand, and since the batch of wings I made with one of them was edible, I decided I could use three of them in seven pounds of meat, since they are hardly larger than raisins. So a dozen "mild" habaneros and three "tiny" dried ghost peppers (okay, and a can of chipotles) have resulted in an extremely hot chili, which looking back over this sentence, should not be as surprising as all that.

Spicy Links:	Thanks Ant and Acleacius.
Play:	Cloud Wars.
Links:	Tracing the Influence - Stolen images in games. Hello Kitty AR-15 - evil black rifle meets cute and cuddly. Thanks ^Drag0n^.
Stories:	"Skyfall" Scores Early Rave Reviews. Andes survivors mark 40th anniversary of crash.
Images:	The Pen is a Tattoo.
Media:	Dogs in Slow Motion - Fun In The Water. Drunk Panda does Salvador Dali limp watch imitation.
The Funnies:	Brevity. Dilbert. FoxTrot.
Follow-up:	Daredevil Skydiver to Attempt 23-Mile Supersonic Jump Sunday.

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Hello kitty CPR

Oct 15, 2012, 07:08

Steelcamp

Mrs. Steelcamp and my daughter should have these... I may even test fire it...




------------------------------------------- 3 billion+ men in the world and my sisters keep going back to the idiots...

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Re: Daredevil Skydiver

Oct 15, 2012, 05:30

eRe4s3r

He was talking nearly delirious right before he jumped too, slurred speech and slow reaction time... we may never know. And given that he fell 20 seconds less in freefall than Kittinger something must have definitely been wrong in a major way, the tumble after the jump was also pretty weird... I am actually a bit surprised at the complete lack of technical post coverage, yeah he landed, but that jump was not proper for some reason. He should have been flying a good 20 seconds LONGER than Kittinger, not less. Just by height difference alone. And he never tumbled before in the test jumps.

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No subject

Oct 15, 2012, 02:18

bfg9000

I come for the news I stay for the chilli stories

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Re: 666,666,666

Oct 15, 2012, 01:01

Ant

Sepharo wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 00:37:
Quboid wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 22:36:
Bluesnews has now had over two thirds of a billion visitors! Congratulations on another not-actually-important-but-kinda-cool milestone!

Haha please tell me you didn't see that exactly.

666714127

Highlight/select at the bottom of the front page Ant.

Wow, I never knew THAT existed! Nice Easter Egg. What else is hidden? Hmm!




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Re: 666,666,666

Oct 15, 2012, 00:37

Sepharo

Quboid wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 22:36:
Bluesnews has now had over two thirds of a billion visitors! Congratulations on another not-actually-important-but-kinda-cool milestone!

Haha please tell me you didn't see that exactly.

666714127

Highlight/select at the bottom of the front page Ant.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

Re: 666,666,666

Oct 14, 2012, 22:43

Ant

Quboid wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 22:36:
Bluesnews has now had over two thirds of a billion visitors! Congratulations on another not-actually-important-but-kinda-cool milestone!

Where you see that number?




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666,666,666

Oct 14, 2012, 22:36

Quboid

Bluesnews has now had over two thirds of a billion visitors! Congratulations on another not-actually-important-but-kinda-cool milestone!




- Quboid

Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 14, 2012, 21:39

flechett3

This may be my favorite Out of the Blue ever.

Re: Daredevil Skydiver

Oct 14, 2012, 20:11

RailWizard

nin wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 19:04: jdreyer wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 18:45: SPOILER ALERT: Felix made it. Pretty damn cool! Was going to be a bummer if something happened to him. Saw Argo today, and it was decent, even though I think they hollywooded up the story a bit. On my way out, I saw two young kids playing dig dug. Brought back a lot of memories (of me playing it) and it was cool to see a new generation interested it. He came pretty close I think. He was spinning out of control at one point, then a bit later he said he felt like he was passing out. He also seemed to acting a bit weird during the pre-jump checks. Something was definitely going on.

Re: Daredevil Skydiver

Oct 14, 2012, 19:57

Ant

jdreyer wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 18:45:
SPOILER ALERT:

Felix made it.

Your spoiler failed!




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Re: Daredevil Skydiver

Oct 14, 2012, 19:04

nin

jdreyer wrote on Oct 14, 2012, 18:45:
SPOILER ALERT:

Felix made it.

Pretty damn cool! Was going to be a bummer if something happened to him.

Saw Argo today, and it was decent, even though I think they hollywooded up the story a bit. On my way out, I saw two young kids playing dig dug. Brought back a lot of memories (of me playing it) and it was cool to see a new generation interested it.




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

Daredevil Skydiver

Oct 14, 2012, 18:45

jdreyer

SPOILER ALERT:

Felix made it.




Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 14, 2012, 17:05

eDave

Fun to be a Chiefs fan!

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