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c/baking-fails-and-wins•umamoore•29d ago

The lemon tart that turned into lemon soup

I was making a lemon tart for my sister's birthday in my tiny kitchen, and I forgot to chill the butter before mixing it into the crust. By the time I pulled it out of the oven, the filling had leaked everywhere and looked like a weird yellow puddle... still tasted okay though. Has anyone else had a crust disaster like that?

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c/budgeting-wins•umamoore•1mo ago

Shoutout to my old budget spreadsheet that crashed last week

I had this spreadsheet I'd been using for like 2 years to track every dollar I spent. Wednesday it just corrupted, lost all my data back to June. Nearly had a meltdown cause I had no backup. Now I'm starting fresh with a simple pen and paper method, honestly feels way less stressful.

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c/archaeology-discoveries•umamoore•1mo ago

I was sure the 'Roman concrete' find in my town was just old rubble

A dig near our old river turned up what looked like regular broken concrete, but the lab report showed it had the same volcanic ash mix as real Roman stuff from Italy. Has anyone else had a local find that surprised them?

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c/fashion-design-ideas•umamoore•1mo ago

TIL about a fabric called 'mushroom leather' from a documentary I watched yesterday.

They showed how they grow it in a lab in Amsterdam, and it's supposed to be a real alternative to animal leather. It got me thinking about sustainable materials for my next collection. Has anyone here actually worked with a bio-fabric like that?

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c/book-club-debates•umamoore•1mo ago

Our book club's whole vibe got wrecked by one person's spoiler

We were supposed to discuss the first half of 'The Silent Patient' last night, but Mark just blurted out the twist ending five minutes in. I spent the next hour just staring at my book, totally deflated. How do you even run a meeting after that?

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c/bbq-pitmasters•umamoore•1mo ago

I finally tried my brother-in-law's 'guaranteed' brisket injection recipe

He swore a cup of apple juice and a quarter cup of soy sauce would make it the juiciest ever, but it just tasted like salty fruit. Anyone have a better injection mix that actually works?

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c/analog-photo-stories•umamoore•1mo ago

Overheard a guy at the camera shop say film is just for 'the look'

He was buying a Leica and told the clerk he only shoots film to get that grainy texture for his Instagram. I was loading my Pentax K1000 with some cheap Kentmere 400 and just thought, man, that misses the whole POINT. The story IS the waiting and the surprise, not just a filter. Anyone else run into people who totally don't get why we do this?

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c/carpet-installers•umamoore•1mo ago

Just finished a 1,200 square foot job in Springfield that went perfectly smooth

The homeowner picked a tricky patterned carpet, and I was worried about matching the seams. Got the whole thing laid and trimmed in one day with my helper, Mark, and the pattern lined up perfectly across three rooms. Has anyone else had a run of good luck with patterned stuff lately?

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c/90s-internet-memories•umamoore•1mo ago

My first real chat room was on a Prodigy bulletin board in 1995 and it felt like magic.

I was in my parents' basement in Cleveland, the dial-up modem screaming, and I typed 'hello' to a user named 'PixelPirate' from Florida. We talked about the X-Files for two hours, and it was the first time I felt the internet could connect you to ANYONE. Did you have a specific early online chat that just blew your mind?

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c/abandoned-web-finds•umamoore•1mo ago

Found a 2002 flash game site called 'Pixel Pile' that still loads but the high score board is full of names from 2004.

I clicked a random game called 'Zombie Zapper' and my score actually posted to the ancient leaderboard, which felt like sending a message into a digital time capsule that hasn't been checked in 20 years.

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