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Making decent pancakes

Submitted May 17th, 2008. Last changed August 15th, 2009

Recently my knack for making pancakes seemed to have faded beyond recognition. A few weeks ago I made a batch that turned out depressingly heavy despite the detectability of the baking powder in the flavour (tasting baking powder and baking soda is one of my pet recipe peeves). It's true that I'm used to winging it a bit when it comes to proportions and maybe I've veered far enough off course to warrant an informed correction.

Annoyance: name fields with insufficient character limits

Submitted February 16th, 2008. Last changed February 16th, 2008

This is just something that comes up once in a while. How is it that the name field on a payment form can ever be limited to fewer characters than I have on my card? Should there not be a standard maximum number of characters, agreed for practical purposes, by card issuers and entities wishing to take payments?

About chrisnicoll.net

I'm Chris Nicoll. This is my personal website. I work as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory, in Cambridge, UK, where my primary interests are Molecular Beam Epitaxy and the things we make with it, but I also like to think about "art," "computers," "consumerism," "travel," and of course, "other." I plan to include cycling as "travel," and music as "art," for the time being, at least. Some bonus information about me is contained in the fact that I hear Gordon Downie's voice every time I read that last phrase.