Extra Pasta Hacks

When making pasta I find that usually I end up overestimating and making too much noodles. Rather than ruining the pasta to sauce ratio an interesting trick is to fry extra pasta up in oil and toss with Parmesan cheese. Not going to go into recipe but just drain the pasta, add oil to a pan and toss it in.

The Manhattan

Nice quick simple cocktail. I am by no means an expert but I feel that it tastes better with rye. Also the Luxardo Maraschino cherry is a must.

Aquarium Thermostat Heaters

An interesting observation after setting up my aquarium monitoring system is that typical thermostat heaters actually show oscillatory behaviour. Since they startup based on a temperature threshold and stop based on a cut off they oscillate with varying periods based on external temperatures.

I was expecting large variance since this wasn’t an expensive heater but surprisingly all values were within 1°C. I would likely attribute this more to hysteresis rather than the heater.

Current Home Dashboard

This is a snapshot of my current dashboard I have mounted in my room. All the key stats for my server and network as well as weather details and time.