"Milk noodles" are comfort food

When we were shopping the other day, I saw some packets of mix for "milk noodles" (noodles in a kind of vanilla sauce) and thought, wow, I haven't had those since I was a kid. So I bought a packet.

Today, I had it for dinner, and oh, was it delicious. And it made me think of the term comfort food, which I had only learned not that long ago: it truly was comfort food. It tasted yummy and made me feel warm and safe and snug inside, and it reminded me of my childhood. Great stuff.

About the only gripe I had was that the noodles inside were not "the right kind"; when I was a child, I remember the dish prepared with elbow maccaroni or similar small, round noodles; these were flat ones. Perhaps better suited for "instant" cooking, or perhaps what the person who prepared the mix was familiar with, but not what I was accustomed to.

I wonder whether I can find a recipe for "milk noodles" that will taste like what I had as a child. Ireen, do you have one?

Using advertisements as a CAPTCHA

Apparently, Microsoft wants to patent a method to use advertisements as CAPTCHAs (article in German).

Meaning that in order to post an anonyous comment or create an email account or whatever is now guarded by a "type the distorted letters" barrier, you might have to look at an advertisement and answer, "Name the product advertised here". Meaning that you can no longer adblock the advertisement, whether through technical means or through "banner blindness", since you'll need to read the ad in order to pass the CAPTCHA.

My first reaction was "evil", but I suppose it's not really evil per se, though annoying for a fair number of web users.