The bacon has been hanging in the corner of the living room for a week. Now it’s ready to slice.
Jonah got the following e-mail today: [removed, at least temporarily, thanks to an obnoxious e-mail virus scanner] I edited the link to take out the evil bits. Amusing things to note: it *looks* like, if you’re not paying attention, that the link is on nachzen.net, and it pretended to come from an administrator account on my server. In fact, for the first half-second I read it, I thought, “huh, what useful daemon sent an e-mail to my users?” before I realized it was malicious. This is a reasonably well-designed attack. I downloaded the file and let the internets analyze it…
So Berck came across this article on the Internet about how to make your own bacon. The first step is procuring some pork belly. He asked at Whole Foods, and they suggested he try Andy’s Meat Market. $22.13 later, we had ourselves some pork belly. Here’s Berck wiping it off with paper towels. Here he is adding a mixture of salt, sugar, and pink salt (sodium nitrite). Then it goes in a plastic 2 gallon “Ziploc.” Berck had to make a special trip to King Soopers to get some. Next he mixed up the spices. Chopped some garlic… Added some…