Happy Fat Thursday Everyone! By the by, Fat Thursday is a Polish holiday devoted to eating deep fried doughy goodness. Yes, i waited for this day to do this. Do what? Why release the new: BC's No. 1 monthly buncha letters arranged into words that we read as a series of inane sounds that only have a meaning in our human concept of language. Lets see what new: So in this month, trails were fixed, the joining message for penguins and the somewhat annoying joining firework were added, and made toggle-able. Some maps in DTC were added, some removed, some had stuff fixed with them. DTC's all fun now, and you should try it if you havent yet. There's also the matter of the awards show this year, which we know that it wont be solved by Kash, and Epik had a thread for a little while (It is deleted now). But John has a possible stand-in! Because settling for something is better than not having anything at all, John made the Dibble Awards! They ironically highlight the baddest player suggested things on BC, from worst username to warp. Give it a gander: https://forum.bcsn.us/index.php?threads/dibble-awards-2017.4286/ Also, rebember to vote! Makes the server fancy and popular trough a means which John has yet to comprehend. Hand Drawn Humour "Under the Polish weather" To help friends on the other side of the pond celebrate Fat Thursday, John will teach you a Pączki recipe! Now in US units! Ingriedients needed: -12 egg yolks/6 whole eggs (depending on flavour preference) -1 Teaspoon of salt -2 packages of dry yeast (1/4 ounce packages) -1/4 cup of warm water -1/3 cup of room temperature butter -1/2 cup of sugar -4 1/2 cup of flour -1/3 cup rum or brandy (optional?) -1 cup of scalded whipping cream -1 1/2 cup of desired filling -oil for deep frying -something for deep frying -kitchen utensils -a kitchen How to do: Beat the yolks/eggs with the salt in a small bowl using a mixer until its all thick and piles softly. About 7 minutes should do it Then, soften the yeast in warm water. Now, cream butter, adding sugar to it gradually, beating until fluffiness. Then slowly beat in the yeast. Stir 1/4 of the flour into the yeast mix thing. Add the alcohol of choice and half the cream. Beat in another 1/4th of the flour and stir in the remaining cream. Afterwards, beat in half of the remaining flour and the eggy mixture. Beat the devil out of it for two minutes. Beat in the remaining flour untill the dough blisters, and cover the big bowl in plastic wrap, and put it in a warm place to rise. When doubles in bulk, punch it down. Come on. Dough it now. Cover is and let it rise again, untill doubled. Punch again. Polish cooking is violent. Next roll dough on a flat surface untill 3/4 of an inch thick. Cut 3 inch rounds using cookie cutter or glass, or if youre an engineer, attach a knife to a compass and just use that. Put a tablespoon of the filling on half the rounds, and brush their edges with water, then top them off with the other half. Seal them together very well, we dont want any deep fried jam, do we? Now cover them on a flour covered surface, let them rise again for about 20 mins, no punching this time. Deep fry untill tasty golden on both side, then sprinkle them with powder sugar or icing or whatever you want. Bon appetit. Lets see here... Its the Bruno Aroma Lamp. Oh boy, another steampunky vacuum processor lamp. First off, lets check the price. Well its a not-as-ludicrous 92$. Its a fancy lamp thing, you drip some aromatic oil on top, the warmth makes the aroma spread around. If you think about it, its just a fancy, pricy electric candle. Looks cool though. Guess itll make a splendid smelly paperweigh. Available here: http://www.japantrendshop.com/bruno-nostalgic-aroma-lamp-p-3788.html Finally: Todays specimen isnt quite a mineral, as something made up of many minerals. What we professional amateurs call a concretion. The less known cousins of the beautiful geode. Septaria They are concretions containing angular cavities or cracks. The name comes from the Latin word septum (partition), and refers to the cracks/separations in this kind of rock. The process that created the septaria, which characterize septarian concretions, remains a mystery. A number of mechanisms, e.g. the dehydration of clay-rich, gel-rich, or organic-rich cores; shrinkage of the concretion's center; expansion of gases produced by the decay of organic matter; brittle fracturing or shrinkage of the concretion interior by either earthquakes or compaction; and others, have been proposed for the formation of septaria. Septaria usually contain crystals precipitated from circulating solutions, usually of calcite. Siderite or pyrite coatings are also occasionally observed on the wall of the cavities present in the septaria, giving rise respectively to a panoply of bright reddish and golden colors. Some septaria may also contain small calcite stalactites and well-shaped millimetric pyrite single crystals. A spectacular example of septarian concretions, which are as much as 3 meters (9.8 feet) in diameter, are the Moeraki Boulders. These concretions are found eroding out of Paleocene mudstone of the Moeraki Formation exposed along the coast near Moeraki. South Island, New Zealand. They are composed of calcite-cemented mud with septarian veins of calcite and rare late-stage quartz and ferrous dolomite Thank you for reading February's issue! Rebember to stay springy for March's Issue! -John Co Publishings
