The Mind Of OverlordTomala
Food/Drink

Mediterranean Tostadas?

I’ve been experimenting with Mediterranean breakfasts for a couple of weekends now. Last week I made Mediterranean egg sandwiches, and for this weekend I’ve been enjoying some Mediterranean taste on top of a freshly fried tortilla or two. You can use premade tostadas, but I prefer frying my own in the pan in some olive oil, and some lime & chile seasoning. I also wanted a “dessert” for breakfast and opted to include some strawberry greek yogurt topped with granola and clementines. If you want to make your own you’ll need:

  • Small Corn Tortillas
  • Roasted Bell Pepper Hummus
  • Eggs
  • Deli Meat or Bacon (optional)
  • Halved Cherry/Grape Tomatoes (or Tomato Slices)
  • Diced Cucumber
  • Jarred Roasted Bell Pepper
  • Kalamata Olives
  • Feta Cheese

Take a small pan and pour a thin layer of olive oil and place over medium heat, add tortilla and let fry until it starts to puff up. Flip tortilla over and season the fried side with salt, pepper, and any other seasoning you’d want to add (like cayenne, or lime chile seasoning). Finish frying 2nd side of tortilla and flip over again. Place tortilla on paper towel lined plate and let rest for a minute or two, or until the tortilla is cool enough to handle.

In the same pan, crack an egg open and fry it in the same oil, if you don’t have any oil leftover add a little more in the pan. Season eggs with salt and pepper. Cover pan and cook to desired consistency. I prefer my egg to be runny, but fully cooked works too. You can also make a scramble or mini omelet to fit over the tostada, but runny egg and tortillas just tasted too good together for me to pass up. 😛

Spread Hummus on tostada; Top with deli meat (if using), egg, cherry/grape tomatoes, veggies and feta cheese. I could have easily gotten away with eating one with some yogurt, but my eyes were bigger than my stomach when I made it. I was full for pretty much 99% of the day though, so there is that. It was delicious as it was colourful, and packed with flavour and protein. This might be one that I’ll have to include in my rotation of weekend breakfasts!

Gaming2

The Yakuza Is Linux Friendly?

I can say quite happily that Yakuza Kiwami seems to be passing the Linux test so far, well… kinda. Other than not being able to close the game properly, and having to spam the save button in order for it to generate a save for some reason, it’s pretty much the same performance that I get under Windows, framerate is pretty much the same and I haven’t run across any graphical glitches. I even got a few achievements! They were all centered around Majima but… meh.

Perhaps a few Proton versions from now it’ll work like a native game! One can hope anyway.

Open Threads

Saturday Evening Open Thread

I broke my cardinal rule of just chillin’ at the end of my final work day, and continued to play about in SFM with the Portal 2 project instead. I also began preparations on what will eventually be my new channel art for Twitch/YouTube; they’re in dire need of a new coat of paint.But now… I’ve become comfortably numb.

Open Thread!

Hobbies

Typical Day Under Linux

I’ve been chatting here and there about my Linux adventures at work, especially to those who aren’t aware of how much it’s evolved over the years. One of my co-workers was even inquiring about good video/paint/audio software, and I named my current favourites (audacity, shotcut, krita, etc), he was quite happy to see all the alternatives we have nowadays. We both agreed that it was nice to finally live in a digital age where Adobe is no longer the king. We even talked Linux distros for a few, apparently he’s a Mint user. I’ve surprisingly met quite a few old guys that are also Mint users, which is kinda funny and cool at the same time. They have a minty taste for distros. 😛

Gaming / Open Threads

Sunday Evening Open Thread

Did a small bit of clean up today, mainly brushing the floor and some pick up. It inspired me to also clean off my desk, at least to make room to charge the laptop. 😛 I drained half the battery playing DMC5, not bad for about 45 mins of gameplay!

Proton Powered Yakuza

Speaking of gameplay, that was pretty much how I decompressed for the rest of the day. Under Linux I played a bit of AMID EVIL, then I experimented with Yakuza Kiwami. I’m happy to report that Yakuza didn’t crash once, and it also had no problem pulling up my Windows save from the cloud. In fact, from what I’ve gathered so far, the performance was pretty much on par with Windows. I’ll need to analyze it further, and see if Yakuza 0 works properly now. 😛

The last bit of the evening was spent in Borderlands 3, ending my week long vacation away from Windows just so I could slay some creeps with a good buddy and one final London Fog Latte. It’s gonna be fun trying to nod off tonight…

Artsy Fartsy / Hardware / Hobbies / Nerding it up! / Technology

My Wacom Works Out Of The Box Under Linux!

I got that creative itch recently to revisit drawing, and I also wanted to see how easy it was to get it running under Manjaro. So today I killed two birds with one stone, and surprisingly it’s quite a lot easier to setup compared to Windows. The drivers were installed by default, and it was practically working right from the get go! The only “difficult” thing I really had to do was configure it to run on one monitor with an easy shell script:

Now I can shitscribble to my hearts content! I played around under Krita for a bit, just doing different doodles and playing with different brush settings. I’m waaaay out of practice, my drawing hand is kinda shaky, and it gets tired after about an hour. I really need to build up my drawing muscles again. 😛 I’ve been meaning to get back into drawing, but the time was never there. That’s the problem with having too many hobbies, but hey! you’re never bored.

Gaming / Hobbies

Have Some More Science

Got more animation done tonight. It feels like I’m breezing through this fairly quickly. I’m almost done with the rough stage . Once I finish that I can begin on smoothing things out. Probably get around to that sometime next week. I’ve got other plans this weekend that may or may not involve photos of the reality kind.