Today i suddenely found myself with relatively little to do. I decided to do what any
red blooded male geek would do on a
lazy Sunday. I built a
computer from the carcases of two dormant
pentium systems and installed
Linux on the resulting frankenputer. While that was copying
system files and the such, I decided to
bake a multi-layered cake.
The Machine
The machine was made from the desolate corpses of two systems that have been sitting in my
garage since I moved in. It ended up being a P166 with 64MB of mem and a 6 Gig hard drive. I had some trouble finding a
cd-drive that would operate reliably, but eventually one was uncovered in a
file cabinet drawer. After the
hardware was assembled it was treated to my brand new copy of
Mandrake 7.0 that came courtesy of
Maximum Linux yesterday. I'm about eight minutes from the end of the second install. The first install
crapped out due to cd-drive
failure. So far the neat features include a snappy looking and simple
GUI install.
The Cake
I began the
cake by making a batch of
banana pudding. After pouring the pudding out of the mixing bowl to set I added the
butter and
sugar for the cake
batter into the bowl without rinsing it out. (I left some of the pudding in). I mixed up a regular ol butter cake, but left out the almond and lemon extract and added an 1/8 tsp of
ginger and
nutmeg. After cooking in two rounds I let them cool and cut them to stack a four layer cake. I slathered the banana pudding between the layers and after an additional cooling down in the fridge, I iced the whole thing with
cream cheese icing. The results were delectable. I even had time to play a random map on
Age of Empires II.
Lazy lazy Sundays.