Starting the Job Hunt and Moving to Git

evan — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:37:49 +0000

So maybe it’s a little late in the game, but this marks my official start to what I hope to be my regular blogging habit. Oddly enough, today also is the beginning of the Great Job Hunt of ’11. As you may suspect, it’s not purely coincidental that these two landmarks happen to fall on the same day. As the first step in my post-graduation job search I’m properly building myself a web presence. I’ll be fleshing out this site a little, building my profiles on google+ and linkedin, and uploading some of my personal projects to github to show off what I’ve learned.

My main change to evanbrynne.com will be a new potential-employer landing page, linked to from my resume, which will give a bit more of a professional bio and link to my git pages and projects. If anyone ever reads this, particularly a prospective employer, any feedback would definitely be appreciated. Although I’ve done well with co-op placements and research groups at UVic, presenting myself in a professional and flattering manner is still something I’m struggling with, so for the moment I’m going for candid and honest. Finishing university (for now) and going out into the real world scares the pants off me, but it’s also one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done. I really love what I do, and the thought of getting to code, work, and learn every day of the week and really feel like I’m contributing to something sounds incredible. I hope I can put myself out there successfully and end up with a job that really challenges me; nothing would make me happier.

Anyhow, this post took somewhat of a different direction than I intended. I think I’ll try planning out my next posts a little more thoroughly ahead of time and see if that works better. Either way, thanks for reading. From here on in I promise to be a little less self involved. If I’m feeling genuinely ambitious I might even aim for witty. I’m sure that’ll go well.

Sweet and Delicious Pancakes

evan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:15:06 +0000

I’ve never been a huge pancake fan. I mean I like them, they’re alright, but they’re nothing to write home about. They’re never quite how I’d like them. So once I started cooking more often I set about trying to tweak a pancake recipe into something that was more catered to my tastes. I found a few recipes to bastardize online, and after a few iterations I think I’ve done it.

What follows is the recipe for, what I consider to be, the Ultimate Pancake. Enjoy.

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
2 Handfulls of frozen mixed berries OR 1 well ripened banana.
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted

Mix together the dry ingredients in a bowl while your butter melts. Add either the banana or berries (or both I suppose), though if you’re using a banana, make sure that it’s a little more ripe that how you would eat it. If they’re nice and firm and fresh, just starting to brown, it’ll add an unpleasant green flavour. Next pour in the milk, egg, butter, and vanilla and mix until you’ve got most of the lumps out.

Heat a pan at medium and add a gratuitous amount of butter (trust me on this one). 1/4 or 1/3 cup scoops of batter produce nicely sized pancakes, let them cook on one side until bubble are breaking the top surface, then flip and cook on the other side until it too is lightly browned. Repeat for 6-10 pancakes, replenishing the butter after each set.

Okay, so the butter really isn’t essential, but it makes them damn tasty.

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Starting the Job Hunt and Moving to Git

Sweet and Delicious Pancakes