Voight-Kampff Test

In case anybody struggles with phone solicitiers and identity validation, I have taken the time to create a Voight-Kampff test to apply before continuing with the call.

This will be printed out, placed in a protective binder and hung by our phone so the entire Kostrzewa family can participate in the evaluation.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSYr6TcpA-RdjLbusNEy1YfM9MGN4S3VyXTcAYLLf_zDMwR0teck2EnWYzmqcFXtDpkMAG3VMxJgvkJ/pub

Spraaang Drink (lilac)

Fizzy lilac spring alcoholic beverage

(not pictured, actual drink made. ope.)

Prep time: 1-2 weeks, pref start in early/mid May for max fragrencey goodness.

Consumption time: asymptotically approaching 0

Directions

1. Buy 1 bottle of cheapest drinkable vodka. I've been liking Titos or (esp) Reyka. Don't spend much $ on this, but it must be drinkable (sorry popov).
2. Buy some distilled water & sugar.
3. Get a mason jar or three & a lid
4. Pick some lilacs & stuff them in the mason jar. And by "some" I mean "a bunch".
   
   Bonus street cred for lilacs from a graveyard, but follow the campsite rule & leave the space better for you being there.
5. Stuff the mason jars full of the fresh lilacs.
6. In one jar, fill full of vodka. This is the alcohol part (duh).
   
   Put a lid on it.
   
   WAIT 1-2 WEEKS, OR WHATEVER
   
   
7. In another jar, fill full of equal parts sugar & distilled water. This is the fizzy part. The lilacs will react with the distilled water & sugar to make tasty bubbles.
   
   I erred on the side of slightly more water than sugar. It's super important to use distilled water to get the bubbling process right.
   
   Also, lid the stuff.
8. Stir the lilac water 3x a day. They will look a little gross by the end. Grow up & realize that sometimes gross looking things are lovely.
   
   WAIT 3-4 DAYS
   
   
9. Th' drink: 
1. 1 shot lilac vodka, strain out the flowers.
2. half glass with lilac fizzy sugar water, strain out the fleurs.
3. finish glass with soda water. I don't like super sweet drinks for the pounding of the head the next day.
4. Squeeze bit of lemon & garnish with said lemon.
   
   
   

Don't lose your top. Or do, I'm not your mom.

PRETTY!

You can just use the fizzy part for a non-alcoholic drink, if you wish. Again, I'm not your mom, so do what you want.

Fiddler + EXE + localhost server

(a friend was asking about this one, so here's a repost / rewrite of a previous blog from 2014-12-03, back when Visual Studio 2012 was state of the art)

Capturing fiddler traffic between a local EXE and a web server running on localhost turned out to be a little more difficult than I originally imagined. I tried to set my server to localhost or 127.0.0.1 while my local EXE had a proxy through fiddler (localhost:8888), but some/most/many/mine web requests appear to skip proxies when going to a local address.

To get this done:

1. Run fiddler (Download Fiddler Web Debugging Tool for Free by Telerik), make sure "File / Capture Traffic" is checked.
2. Make sure fiddler's filters show traffic to localhost.fiddler
   
   I also like to Hide if URL contains /arterySignalR, which is a special endpoint that IIS express/Visual Studio will use on localhost for debugging. It can generate a lot of noise in fiddler.
   
   See below for a screen cap of my fiddler filter settings.
3. Start your web server on localhost
4. Reconfigure your EXE's target server to point to http://localhost.fiddler:>PORT< 
   This will be EXE specific.
   (note, >PORT< depends on the server you're running and what port it binds to)
5. Start your EXE
6. Make sure your EXE's proxy is pointing to localhost:8888, so all traffic goes through fiddler.

Visual Studio 2012, IIS Express, and Fiddler - Fiddler Web Debugger - Site Home - MSDN Blogs turned out to be really useful here

Here's my current fiddler filter settings

semver

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