Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 14

Eddie Doucette recipe sampler

Despite their occasional weirdness, I’ve yet to try a recipe that didn’t turn out at least pretty good. Some are amazing.

In Defense of the One-Minute Round

The six-second combat round de-emphasizes role-playing and problem solving in favor of brute force and pre-defined from-the-sheet actions.

A HyperCard Time Machine

Use AppleScript and HyperCardPreview to archive a screenshot of every card in a HyperCard stack.

Tempt Them with Tastier Foods: An Eddie Doucette Recipe Collection

When I get locked into a serious recipe collection, the tendency is to take it as far as I can. You can benefit from my obsession with this collection of wonderful recipes from the fifties and sixties “files of Eddie Doucette”, television personality and IGA chef.

Quick-and-dirty old-school island script

Here’s a Python-based island generator using the tables from the Judges Guild Island Book 1.

A Bicentennial Meal for the Sestercentennial

Four community cookbooks celebrating the bicentennial. As we approach our sestercentennial in 2026, what makes a meal from 1976?

Ice creamy: more no-churn ice cream recipes

If eight ice cream recipes isn’t enough, how about six more? Try ice cream with evaporated milk, condensed milk, and with nothing but cream.

Creating searchable PDFs in Ventura

My searchablePDF script’s behavior changed strangely after upgrading to Ventura. All of the pages are generated at extremely low quality. This can be fixed by generating a JPEG representation before generating the PDF pages.

A golden harvest of sunflower seeds

Golden Harvest Sunflower Seed Recipes is a fascinating bit of ephemera from the seventies and the tail end of the era of regional whole grain mills.

Kolchak: The Big Creep (a Daredevils adventure)

Inspired by The Powers of Dr. Remoux, The Big Creep is a Daredevils adventure for The Night Stalker set in the autumn of 1976.