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robinsloan / gist:1974889
Created March 4, 2012 21:33
BBC scones
2 c flour
2 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
0.25 c butter (rubbed into dry ingredients above)
~1 c milk (add slowly)
400 F, ~10-15 minutes.
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robinsloan / gist:1938148
Created February 29, 2012 05:25
Robert Penn Warren on the West
For West is where we all plan to go some day.
It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach.
It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered.
It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it.
It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire.
It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills.
It is where you go to grow up with the country.
It is where you go to spend your old age.
Or it is just where you go.
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robinsloan / summerknowledge.txt
Last active September 26, 2015 17:57
Summer Knowledge, Delmore Schwartz
Summer knowledge is not the winter's truth, the truth of fall,
the autumn's fruition, vision and recognition:
It is not May knowledge, little and leafing and growing green,
blooming out and blossoming white,
It is not the knowing and the knowledge of the gold fall and
the ripened darkening vineyard,
Nor the black tormented, drenched and rainy knowledge of birth,
April, and travail,
The knowledge of the womb's convulsions, and the coiled cord's
ravelled artery, severed and cut open,
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robinsloan / smallscore.txt
Created August 10, 2011 03:16
A Small Score, Delmore Schwartz
Meek, sang the crickets, wheat, meet, creek,
And the birds sang tutti, all of them:
"Bubble, little,
Whistle, pretty,
Trickle, whittle,
Lipping and dripping
Sipping the well
Where the fawn dipped
Before dawn descended
And darkness surrendered
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robinsloan / wi.rb
Created August 4, 2011 05:49
Netflix Watch Instantly script for @queuenoodle
require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'date'
module WatchInstantly
NUM_DAYS = 13
# main method
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robinsloan / argh.rb
Created July 1, 2011 01:13
Arghhhh
# 4<w<8, 1<y<10, x and z are 6-sided dice.
HOW_MANY = 100000
def range_rand(min,max)
min + rand(max-min)
end
def test_it
w = range_rand(4,8)