[brain log]

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[linkspam] closing a few tabs

• The Ballad of Joe Yogurtsack: A True Story of Fear, Friendship, Theft, and the Worst Roommate I Ever Had (content notes for boundary violation, domestic violence, abuse, etc)
  
• The True Purpose of Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts, and Freecell
  
• A review paper on privacy, data security and infrastructure, and care.data

[books] The Shepherd's Crown, Terry Pratchett

Overview of my emotional response to the book; no spoilers, I don't think.

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tada

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[food] Yotam Ottolenghi's cardamom rice pudding with rosewater and pistachios

Recipe in fact by John Meecham, one of his chefs; features in the book Jerusalem, which actually made me cry a bit when I read through it at aella_irene's earlier this week (because homefood, and because unity, and because all sorts of things).

I in fact had been craving rice pudding for a little while, long enough at least that I bought some pudding rice a few weeks ago and hadn't got around to doing anything with it; and we had some double cream in the fridge from my profiterfails a week or so ago, and a four-pint flagon of milk that needed using up. Ergo.

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