Andy Affleck

Cook from your Mac

Published on October 8, 2007November 19, 2009 by Andy Affleck

My latest article for TidBITS is now live. “Cook from your Mac: 10 Recipe Tools Compared” has been many months in the making. It took more work, more testing, and a lot more time than I thought it would but I am very pleased with the results. And I found a program, MacGourmet, I love using and have been moving all of those recipes lying around the kitchen on little pieces of paper into it. Now I just need to stop playing with it so I can actually get back to cooking! Update: The article finally went out in an issue of TidBITS and I’m starting to get some email feedback. I’ll respond to the more interesting comments in this blog in a day or three. Thanks for the comments!

Can I build it? Yes I can!!

Published on September 20, 2007 by Andy Affleck

I am feeling all handy-man right now. Our kitchen sink disposal tried to eat a tchotchke Google LED pen and choked on one of the batteries and was summarily destoyed. Water leaked out of the bottom of it and it shorted out.

So, I went out and bought a new one and… I installed it all by myself. And nothing leaked. And it works. I know, I know… many of you out there are thinking, “So what? Big deal,” in your best Buckaroo Banzai quoting voices but this is a big deal to me. To date, where I am proficient at all things computer, my skills with the more mechanical have not been tested. I usually avoid dealing with anything plumbing or electric related and call in the experts.

I’m very happy at the few hundred dollars I just saved by doing it myself.