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Originally Posted by vomit
I always felt, schools should just offer rooms with hammocks. They are clean, convenient, dont need to be washed really and fairly cheap. Really useful when you live like an hour away and have a 3 hour break or something. It would stop people from sleeping on desks in the library/free up space.
I wonder what would happen to a school in a big city. I have to imagine a hammock room at Georgia Tech would end up a homeless hotel.
I've been thinking a lot about recipes lately. Not so much the aggregation of them since there are about a billion sites that do that (search sites like MyRecipes, AllRecipes, Epicurious, etc; and "Recipe Box" sites like onetsp, 7courses, blah blah blah), but displaying them.
I do think there's room for a little more innovation in recipe sites for recipes sake because trying to find a new one is waaaaaay too tough when all the sites have the same few ideas cooked 100 slightly-different ways with 300 different names. But I'll look past that for now and focus on the displaying:
Recipes always look like this
Code:
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients: 2 lb chicken
1 medium onion
2 cans of black beans
2 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions: Heat olive oil over high-medium heat in a dutch over, and add cut up chicken for 5 minutes, stirring often.
Add diced onion and cook for 3 minutes
Lower heat to low, add drained black beans, salt and pepper, cover and cook for 8 minutes.
There are about a metric ****ton of things wrong with this formatting. It's not clear what items are used in what steps, it's not clear what steps can be done simultaneously, you can't see the upcoming steps from the one your on, etc etc.
I've been sketching out a few things here and there around what I would like a recipe to look like in a way that could really take advantage of tablets given their screen space and growing popularity. I mean, what the hell are the benefits of an app like this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-re...375811859?mt=8 over a standard recipe book other than the number of recipes you can keep in a given footprint?