I am having fun here at the Linux Symposium with my dad. Plenty of interesting people who are behind things I depend on daily.
I went to an embedded systems tutorial, my dad came too. We each got a single board computer to learn how such a device could be hacked. My dad, being light years ahead of the rest of the room managed to brick the test device before anyone else knew what to do with it.
For my own and for other people’s benefit, here is my recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 kilo garbanzo beans
- 1 kilo Tahini
- 1 garlic
- 2 large lemons
- 4 tablespoons of crushed cumin seeds
- Salt to tase
Garbanzo beans should soak overnight in water with a tablespoon of baking soda. Make sure the water is about four fingers higher than the beans, they expand.
Put the beans in a pot with fresh water and cook for about 2 hours, or 1 if it is a pressure pot. Make sure the beans are easily crushed between two fingers. The softer they are the smoother the hummus will be. Don’t throw out the water, you will be using it.
Put the beans in a food processor (they probably won’t all fit, you’ll have to do a few loads). When the food processor starts choking add water from the cooking pot.
When the beans are smoothly processed add the tahini, lemons, garlic, cumin and salt to the mix. Liberally add water from the cooking pot, get the consistency to be more watery than you would like, when it will all cool down it will solidify.
That’s it!
We had a flash anti-DRM protest in front of the Seattle convention center. Bill Gates was giving a talk about Vista’s DRM features, so we showed up. This protest luanched the FSF‘s campaign called Defective By Design. I’m glad I took part in it, even if it meant showing up in downtown at 7:30 AM.