Words of Infinite Wisdom

Early is on time, on time is late, late is unacceptable. Righty tighty, lefty loosey. No caffeine without water on standby. Don’t start drinking until you know where the bathroom is. It is always better to under-promise and over-deliver, than to over-promise and under-deliver.

May 20, 2025 · 1 min · 44 words · Lachie

Cheesymite Scrolls Recipe

Info: Yield: 48 Scrolls Prep time 20 minutes Cook time (pressing dough and cooking) 20-25 minutes Equipment Required: Oven several chopping boards / large plates Ingredients: 6 sheets of puff pastry 600g grated tasty cheese half a jar of vegemite 2 egg yolks Method preheat oven to 240 degrees Celsius take pastry out of the freezer about 5 minutes before use to allow the sheets to thaw a little. lay the sheets out across cutting boards / plates. if the sheets are still frozen together, use the edge of a sharp knife to leverage them apart. coat each sheet in a thin layer of vegemite, remember that each scroll will end up with several layers of this coating, so don’t put it on too strong. sprinkle cheese over each covered sheet of pastry. roll into logs, using the egg yolk to seal them together. cover each log in the remaining egg yolk cut each log into 8 slices. place slices on their side on a baking tray/s bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown Allow to rest and firm up outside of the oven for about 5 minutes before transferring to plates for serving

March 23, 2025 · 1 min · 195 words · Lachie

My home PC setup

Intro And Disclaimer Disclaimer: This is my personal setup for game development and 3D art, I obtained parts of it over a long period of time including before attending college, during my studies, and after I started working professionally. I point this out as it is important to me that anyone reading this who is interested in getting into game dev understands that they Do not need to obtain this kind of equipment to get started, I started 3D modelling on an old Toshiba laptop with no graphics card and 4gb of DDR3 RAM, and later built a simple PC with an i5-7500 processor and a GTX 1050 graphics card which actually did quite well for a long time, so please do not let a lack of equipment prevent you from getting started. ...

March 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1078 words · Lachie

Pizza Dough Recipie

Info: Yield: 3 pizza bases Cook time (dough making and rising) 90 minutes Cook time (pressing dough and cooking) 30 minutes Equipment Required: Mixer with dough hooks 3 stainless steel or ceramic bowls plastic wrap Ingredients: 1 cup of warm water (about 40 degrees Celsius) 8 grams of dry yeast 2 teaspoons of sugar 1/2 teaspoon of salt 3 1/2 cups of plain flour 5 tablespoons of olive oil for cooking Method - creating the dough Place water, yeast, sugar, salt, and 1 cup of flour in mixing bowl, mix on lowest setting until just combined. add 3 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 cup of flour, mix on medium/high for 30 seconds add 1 cup of flour, mix on medium/high for 8 minutes (giving your mixer breaks based on your instruction manual). During or after kneading your dough in the mixer, line up 3 bowls and use the remaining olive oil to oil up the inside of the bowls (the measurement does not need to be exact! just get a light coating on everything). take your finished large ball of dough and weight on digital scale, divide into 3 roughly even portions (a few grams of is fine). the easiest way to separate the dough is to grab 2 sections with your hands and twist, you can also cut it with a knife. it is okay if you end up needing to tear some more dough of a ball to get it to get all your portions to the right weight, you can lightly knead this back together before the dough rises. place the 3 divided dough balls into the 3 oiled bowls, use the ball to rub the outside of the bowl, try to get the entire ball covered in oil, cover the bowls snugly with plastic wrap. leave to rest for ATLEAST 1 hours. if you like, you can put it in the fridge for 24 hours for a slow rise, the resulting dough is a bit nicer- but not by a huge amount. Method - working with the dough preheat oven to 230 degrees Celsius. line a pizza tray with baking paper. take large cutting board and lightly coat with some of the remaining flour. take a single ball of dough out of a bowl and place on the cutting board, sprinkle with some flour. if you find the dough hard to work with, you can dust your hands with flour as well to make the slippery dough easier to handle. press the dough down into a disc shape, adding more flour if needed. transfer the dough disc from the cutting board to the lined pizza tray, continue to press down until reaching desired size (I like a thin crust and often push mine right to the edges of a large tray to achieve this). add your pizza sauce, toppings, and cheese. repeat for remaining dough balls. cook time varies based on pizza toppings, but typically a cook time of 12-20 minutes results in a beautiful crust and a light fluffy base. Notes: for an extra crunchy crust, you can add a light brushing of olive oil to the outer rim of your pizza

March 12, 2025 · 3 min · 528 words · Lachie

Formatting test

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March 11, 2025 · 1 min · 21 words · Lachie

Making paper minis

Back Story I’ve been playing TTRPGs (specifically D&D 5e) for quite a while now, both as a player and as a DM, and combat naturally is a large part of those games, up until recently all combat I have ever played has been “theatre of the mind” and while there is nothing wrong with that (in fact in certain cases it is likely superior) I had always wanted to do tactical combat on a battle map, however as I spent many of my early D&D playing years as a teenager with no disposable income – the cost for minis and maps was just too much to justify when I would often only play a few sessions a year. What is to follow is the journey of learning to make cheap paper minis (about $0.12 AUD per mini), some workflows and materials I have tried and would recommend, and some places to find resources, all things I wish I had known about back then. ...

March 11, 2025 · 5 min · 877 words · Lachie

My First Post

What I wrote before I got it working: This is my second attempt at following the network chuck video on creating a blog using obsidian, I will this time be doing more of a hybrid between what he has created, and what I want, using bits and bobs I fill out along the way. I am writing this in obsidian before I attempt to push it over to hugo and then to github sites, we shall see how it goes. ...

March 10, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Lachie

My D&D House Rules

These are the house rules I use when I run D&D, intended for use with D&D 5e (2014) Critical hit and failure In Combat Rolling a natural 20 will automatically hit whatever you were attacking, you double the amount of dice you would normally roll for damage (for example, if attacking with a dagger which does 1d4+2 damage normally, a natural 20 will do 2d4 + 2 damage). Rolling a natural 1 in combat will prevent the attack from hitting it’s target, depending on the circumstances the attack may simply miss, or it may backfire in a more spectacular way. ...

3 min · 629 words · Lachie