When Alice Met Bob

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The night before last, I had a dream that O’Reilly Media were making a Hollywood film — a romantic comedy, to be exact — about public key cryptography. The lead characters were called Alice and Bob, and they met cute by bumping into each other on the street and dropping the USB thumbdrives that had their private keys on them.

I’m suspect you could actually make a good story out of this, albeit a bit of an over-didactic Doctorow/Stephenson-esque one, since you’d have to ram in quite a lot of techno-cultural exposition along the way if you wanted it to make any sense at all.

Citrus coleslaw

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Tonight we had this sweet potato and black bean chili, which was amazing, and I made a coleslaw to go with it that I wanted to record. Sorry, no pix, because I wasn’t organised enough before we ate and then shoved the leftovers in the fridge. ETA: I took a photo of leftovers the next day. Not bad looking for leftovers, huh?

• 1/4 cabbage, shredded
• 1 green bell pepper, cut into thin slivers
• 1/2 red bell pepper, cut into thin slivers
• 1/4 red onion, finely diced
• 1/2 to 1 hottish green pepper (jalapeno or similar), finely diced
• 1.5 oranges, peel removed and diced into 1/2″ chunks
• juice of remaining 1/2 orange
• 2-3 tblsp lime juice (I used bottled, but you could juice 2 limes if you preferred)
• salt and pepper

Throw it all together, mix, and leave to stand for about 10 minutes before serving. Give it another mix before you serve, and adjust flavours (most likely salt, pepper, or lime juice) as you see fit.

The sweet/sour crunchiness went really well with the smoky, dark flavours of the chilli and the red rice we served it with.

Citrus coleslaw

Tonight we had this sweet potato and black bean chili, which was amazing, and I made a coleslaw to go with it that I wanted to record. Sorry, no pix, because I wasn’t organised enough before we ate and then shoved the leftovers in the fridge. ETA: I took a photo of leftovers the next day. Not bad looking for leftovers, huh?

• 1/4 cabbage, shredded
• 1 green bell pepper, cut into thin slivers
• 1/2 red bell pepper, cut into thin slivers
• 1/4 red onion, finely diced
• 1/2 to 1 hottish green pepper (jalapeno or similar), finely diced
• 1.5 oranges, peel removed and diced into 1/2″ chunks
• juice of remaining 1/2 orange
• 2-3 tblsp lime juice (I used bottled, but you could juice 2 limes if you preferred)
• salt and pepper

Throw it all together, mix, and leave to stand for about 10 minutes before serving. Give it another mix before you serve, and adjust flavours (most likely salt, pepper, or lime juice) as you see fit.

The sweet/sour crunchiness went really well with the smoky, dark flavours of the chilli and the red rice we served it with.

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