Total naan sense

Accidentally mixed up some naan dough today with twice the water required; decided to double down on my mistake and double up the recipe.

I don't usually care for making naan at work, mostly because it involves even more rolling out of dough than you'd think. What with one thing and another (the one thing being the batch size and the other being tag teaming with one of my coworkers on the dirty dishes), this batch ended up sitting a lot longer than usual, which made for much easier rolling as a result. So the longer resting period I think I may keep going forward.

The batch size in general? Not so sure about. The first pieces of naan I'd rolled out had easily doubled in thickness, if not more than, by the time I finished rolling all of the dough and was ready to grill it. It was suuuuper over-proofed. I don't think it had a particularly negative effect on the overall product, but given the choice, I think I'd probably prefer to do two regular sized batches of naan rather than a single double sized batch in the future.

On the plus side, even if we do rule a few of the naan pieces to be unfit to serve, I made 113 total, so we should still have plenty; possibly even enough to get us through Thanksgiving (touch wood)...

...though the head chef for the restaurant has also been talking about shaking up the menu, which may mean naan will get eliminated from it in favor of some other flatbread. If this ends up being the case, I'm calling dibs on at least two dozen pieces! I feel fully entitled after the work I put in on them today. (Er, yesterday. Dratted past-midnight blogging...)

Kinda wanna call it "Prounoun Trouble" as an in-joke with myself

Apparently my new special skill is coming up with good video game ideas 😂

Today's entry:

New super simple computer game or phone app idea:

- It’s like whack-a-mole, except it's for practicing your friends'/loved ones' pronouns.

- Representations of people pop up in designated spaces with randomized sets of pronouns. You click on/tap the ones that are correct, and avoid the ones that are incorrect.

- The game includes some customizable data where you can basically make "characters" who look like the people whose pronouns you want to practice, BUT you can also upload your own pictures/photos/drawings/whatever images to represent them as well/instead.

- Regular mode is just one person and the pronouns they use; in challenge mode, you can have multiple people pop up in a single game and practice all of them at the same time. Maybe up to five people?

- Prizes for winning are, like. Collectable stickers or something, IDK. Maybe you can put that person’s avatar into cute frames that get fancier as you win more? Bronze, silver, gold, platinum?

- No penalties for losing, you just get to try again.

- If someone’s pronouns change, you can "retire" their old pronoun set and start fresh with a new one, keeping your old prizes in a special imaginary cabinet for inactive pronouns or something, or you can delete the old one entirely.

- Some sort of option for people whose pronouns depend on circumstances; maybe tied to an accessory or specific photo? Not sure how it would relate to Challenge Mode, though.

- Maybe some stock characters to practice on?

Added since my initial post:

- For people whose pronouns are "Any/all", incorrect answers will be a set of random nouns. Like "chair" or "staircase" or "tree" or something.

- You can take profiles back out of the "retired" cabinet if someone decides to go back to a previous set of pronouns.

- If someone whose pronouns have changed once wants to go to a previous set of pronouns and also keep their new pronouns and you have a previous profile in the "retired" cabinet, you can add new pronouns to their current and/or you can merge their current profile with their retired profile.


And that's all I have right now. A coder who's working with me on Language Town has expressed interest in making the game, and I've given them my blessing, so maybe it'll even happen!

(I swear I haven't given up on Language Town, executive dysfunction is just a terrible beast.)