Cooking for Engineers

gbjbaanb writes "It's not often I post about a website, but this one is different. It is Cooking For Engineers. No big deal, you'd think - a web site about recipes and cooking. But go look at how he's presented it. Most recipes are designed for women, and their funny way of looking at the world. These are very different and instantly understandable for tech geeks like us. Oh yes, although he's been affected by firefox, he blames Microsoft. :)"

Poor guy...

[ack154]

Kind of ironic that todays post was about traffic:

All I can say now is: WOW!

On Wednesday, my readership started to increase from 20-40 hits per day to over 150 hits. I was starting to approach 1000 total hits and was pretty excited about that, when on Thursday I received almost 2000 hits. Right now, (a little past 2:30pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time) I have received almost 6000 hits for Friday.

Yesterday, with less than 2000 hits I exceeded by bandwidth traffic limitations for the MONTH. Thursday's transfers were in excess of 1 GB. I immediately upgraded the service from doteasy.com's free service to the highest tiered pay service, but that only gives me 20 GB per month. So, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I'm guessing the 20 GB will last only through the weekend.

So, I need suggestions on low cost HIGH traffic (I guess I'll need about 10 GB per day) servers that I can move my website to. I don't need too much space (100 MB will last a long time) because the site is currently only 8 MB.

As a warning this website might go down, but I'll do everything I can to keep it up and running.

I'm also thinking about putting up a paypal donation thing, but that isn't going to help unless I can find a host that will be able to allow enough monthly traffic for the website to survive.

You can post comments here or e-mail me at [e-mail].

Poor guy... already having bandwidth troubles and then someone slashdots him...

Alton Brown... Is that you?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought there was already a Patron Saint chef of geeks... Alton Brown!

My favorite engineer recipe.

[Daleks]

1. Find a woman who can tolerate you.
2. Enter the kitchen with her.
3. Do whatever she says.

Actually, if you leave out step 2 the other steps nearly always apply.

Tiramisu: "whisk to stiff peaks,"

[Anonymous Coward]

"layer and spread twice." I don't know whether to be hungry or horny!

~~~

Re:Charts

[Anonymous Monkey]

As a food geek, I'm impresed. If more recepis were written out like that I know more people who would relise that they didn't need to be slaves to processed food.....your right, who am I kidding?

What is a cup?

[hattig]

Come on ... "cooking for engineers" ... use Metric for chrissakes.

I once read a recipe : "1 cup banana" ... no kidding.

Americans ...

Cooking v1.0 for nerds

[GillBates0]

1. Goto store
2. Insert 12, eggs, cart
3. Insert 1lb, butter, cart
4. Mov $5.00, wallet, store_clerk
5. Goto home
6. Mov pan, grill
7. heating = 05
8. Mov 1oz, butter, pan
9. Mov 2, eggs, pan
10. sleep (1000)
11. Mov product, oral_cavity
12. end

Re:It's a forgery

[El]

Yeah, but where do I find an oven that's calibrated in degrees Kelvin?

Here's Mine

[superid]

"Microwave Until Hot"

yep, and I'm an engineer too

Phewww!!

[ImTwoSlick]

For a second there, I thought the title said:

Cooking Foreigners

Needs more salt.

Re:It's a forgery

[base3]

<nerd>It's just "Kelvin," not "degrees Kelvin," damn it :).</nerd>

Hmm...

[ral315]

What's a woman?

The secret to getting a story posted on /.

[bunnyman]

1) Point out that IE is not standards compliant.
2) Submit story.
3) Allow web server to bake until golden brown.
4) Enjoy!

Re:It's a forgery

[frantzdb]

Bah! Unlike scientists, engineers are bilingual. Just remember, there are about 0.1554slugs of flour in a five-pound bag.

Hmm...

[conebrid]

I always thought that cooking involved various types of physical/chemical reactions taking place within organic substances that, when combined properly, stimulated human tastebuds in a pleasurable manner (with some deviation among test subjects -- I don't like mustard, myself).

Why can't cooking be a combination of art and science?

Re:Phewww!!

[Avumede]

No thanks. I had Indian for lunch.

Re:Poor guy...

[loid_void]

Just think, when Martha Stewart is back from jail, a sexy convict, and she has him on her show, he'll really have the bandwidth blues. I'll cc her now.

Re:What is a cup?

[Anonymous Coward]

I simply have no /concept/ of what a cup of beef chunks is.
Get a blender.

Re:Huh?

[Moses Lawn]

You know, you can replace references to 'cooking' and 'programming' with 'sex' in the second paragraph, and it still holds true.

Not that you're not absolutely right about cooking, though.

Is it for cannibals?

[DarkMantle]

Sorry... but the first recipie I saw has the first ingredient of "about 20 lady's fingers" for those bi-atches that really pi$$ you off. :D

Re:What is a cup?

[Man of E]

... use Metric for chrissakes... I once read a recipe : "1 cup banana" ... no kidding.

Would you have preferred: 20cm of banana?

Re:It's a forgery

[E-Rock]

I think NASA tried using both and it didn't work out so well.

Re:And people wonder...

[Anonymous Coward]

"People wonder why we can't get laid?"

1) Turn the box off.
2) Open the blinds, curtains, shades, etc. and check to see if it is day or night.
3) Clean up the old pizza boxes, dirty dishes, and other assorted junk around the box.
4) Clean and bleach the kitchen and bathroom, and change the sheets on the bed.
5) Shower, brush your teeth, slath on some deoderant, and dress in clean street clothes. (Put the the old plaid bathrobe you have been wearing for the past 3 months in a strong plastic bag. Or better yet burn it.)
6) Walk out the door.

This method isn't foolproof, but with the simple act of getting the hell out of the house you will increase your odds of getting laid by 100%.

Oh yes......if you do find yourself in the company of an interesting female you may further increase your odds by asking for what you want. We can't read your minds.

Just a thought from a female...

Re:Cooking v1.0 for nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't work. The eggs are crunchy. After careful debugging, I found out what the problem was: step 8.5 is missing: Delete shell, egg

So that means ...

[I don't want to spen]

... It must be open sauce ...

Re:Cooking v1.0 for nerds

[Iffy Bonzoolie]

Ahh, so you really wanted to be a Product Manager, you just got the job title wrong...

-If

Re:Sorry, I don't see what's so special

[TomV]

The standard Recipe isn't even primarily meant to be a set of instructions at all. It's there so that the cook can explain to the employer (you *surely* aren't one of those common riff-raff who have no staff and have to cook their own food?) why they've bought 18 eggs this week, and what happened to the 2 lbs of butter you've paid for, and why on earth they spent your money on this 'coriander' stuff.

After a while, this Itemised Invoice From the Kitchen evolved into a set of instructions, but at heart, it's just an Invoice.

Re:Cooking v1.0 for nerds

[jrumney]

Thats some expensive eggs and butter! Wouldn't it be easier to:

1. Goto Greasy Spoon (cheap cafe selling fried stuff for you Americans)
2. Push order eggs
3. Push type fried
4. Call Waitress
5. Sleep 1000
6. Mov fried_eggs, oral_cavity
7. Push order bill
8. Call Waitress
9. Mov $5.00, wallet, waitress
10. Goto home
11. Sleep off rest of hangover
12. Goto pub
13. ...
14. Loop