Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Serial, concurrent, parallel Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:22:23 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: <1r660rb.tbsaft1k6es1mN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> <1r6653i.xiwnih1escaoN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 04:22:29 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0a4eab68ebd7a871ea53ca6a9357aa02"; logging-data="2956125"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX187y2LarAIQOwJ/gqg/P2bS" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cNWtQRKEeGU+Sy9H3ObnXPl1JYk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1r6653i.xiwnih1escaoN%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Bytes: 4471 On 1/14/2025 2:12 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote: > Don Y wrote: >> Imagine, instead, someone (sous chef?) running out to BUY some potatoes >> for the meal and: >> - coming home empty handed ("they ran out of potatoes") > > I have had a similar scenario when cooking for two of us in my van for > 12 days. My companion was in the early stages of dementia and things > kept going 'missing', only to turn up next day in the most unexpected > places. That included items of food, so changes to a planned meal had > to be improvised as I went along and I had to always bear in mind what > to do if something we had bought for supper just wasn't there when I > needed it. I've learned to double-check the ACTUAL availability of ingredients when baking. Here, "extracts" tend to be packaged in the same little 1 oz bottles. So, spying such a bottle in the cupboard SUGGESTS that I have said extract on hand. Unfortunately, I have taken to saving the empty (glass) bottles as convenient containers in which to mix extracts from concentrates (e.g., just add grain alcohol). So, there are times when I go to reach for a bottle and find it awfully *light* -- i.e., empty! And, manage the panic by reaching for ANOTHER... only to find it, also, empty! Yes, I can mix up some extract on-the-fly, but, usually, I am at a point where I need it *now*, not 3 minutes hence. Utensils *tend* to be better behaved -- unless SWMBO has taken it upon herself to make something. As I tend to (safely) assume *I* was the last person to use the kitchen, if something isn't where it SHOULD be, I will run through my most recent activities to recall when I last used it and what might have become of it. If, OTOH, *she* has intervened, then all bets are off! And, of course, rarely used items stress the memory: where the hell did I put the canoli forms? When did I last use them? (particularly difficult to recall as I don't eat the things) But, that makes it more of an adventure than a chore! :-/ > Although cooking on a one-burner diesel stove in the back of the van is > a serial affair, it mimics a parallel one when several different items > have to be heated up or kept hot at once. I sometimes found I was > literally operating my hands in parallel, getting ready to take > something off the stove with one hand whilst preparing the next item to > go on it with the other - then a quick swap-over. I'm that way when making pancakes (w/sausage links). Keeping the sausage links from burning (and/or splattering grease), the skillet greased (butter), the pancakes from burning all WHILE eating my share of them (while cooking SWMBO's) is a juggling act. And, like the mashed potatoes example, not something you want to let get cold as the appeal quickly fades with temperature. [But, as mentioned before, I will eat the pancakes, THEN the sausage links, then the second stack of pancakes, etc. while standing at the stove instead of sitting down to a regular "meal". I suspect trying to make pancakes for MANY people seated at the same time would be a bigger effort.]