7/20/03
Saw my brother yesterday, briefly. It seems that he will be getting his long-awaited settlement some time next week if all goes well. He says that he'll give me a healthy chunk of it, to go towards the money he owes me, and put the rest toward getting a regular monthly apartment and activate his cell-phone in order to get on track (rather than his current hostel/ floor space/ day labor situation. I want him to get some council on how to handle money, and I may help him to open an account, if only to keep him form pissing it away as soon as he gets it. We'll see where it goes.
I've been drinking a *lot* of water / iced tea these days. I keep a few liters nearby at almost all times. Freeze half a bottle the night before, and fill the rest to keep it cool all day long.
I'm enjoying playing with these weird Asian monkey mazes
Teen Titans last night wasn't bad, but I was braced for the anime nods and it skewing to a younger crowd. I'm not sure why it's on at 9pm... Perhaps 7 or so is a better slot. I think that they got the vibe right for the core characters, and the music was very appropriate. The Hive kids were good basic villains, too.
Happy 34th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and moon landing!
On researching with Google, I get so many crank sites that feel the landing was a hoax. NASA has a site to refute those claims. Badastronomy.com has a nice list, too.
Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said yesterday.
Cell phone ring tones will soon go ape
London: Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said here yesterday.
Among the sounds available are the thuds of the male gorilla beating its chest to impress females and scare off competitors, the grunting of various species of pig and raucous bird calls from the Amazon jungle.
The library claims to have the world's largest animal sound archive and is now making its 100 000 recordings available to two companies that will in turn put some of them on the internet by the end of the week.
Users can allocate different calls to different callers - perhaps the gentle cooing of a dove for calls from a girl- or boyfriend, the grunting of a pig from the bank manager and an outraged squawk from the wife or husband.
The global market in downloading ring tones is put at $4 billion a year.
Richard Ranft, the curator of the wildlife section at the British Library Sound Archive, is pushing British birdsong.
"Many bird sounds are proven to be relaxing - we provide a lot of doctors' surgeries with bird calls for their waiting rooms for exactly that reason," he said.
"They can also be very evocative: the fiery-necked nightjar song is tremendously beautiful and serene."
Not to be outdone, the Royal Opera House is making some of its recorded music available for the same purpose, and the National Gallery is making its paintings available for picture messaging. - Sapa-dpa
1 year ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg
2 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll
3 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake
His knowing brown eyes held her gaze for a seeming eternity, his powerful arms clasped her slim body in an irresistible embrace, and from his broad, hairy chest a primal smell of "male" tantalized her nostrils; "Looks like another long night in the ape house" thought veterinarian Abigail Brown as she gingerly reached for the constipated gorilla's suppository.
Ok, Snopes has revised the "Undecided" on Hunting for Bambi to a False. I'm very happy that it turned out to be a hoax, but I would like to see some accountability held to folks both failing to properly check facts and reporting outright lies to the news.
Wow... I must've needed a nap desperately, earlier. I nodded my head for a moment, and woke up like 2 hours later. It was like I had a total system shutdown. Newt woke me up with a couple of swabs and a desire to chase paper wads. There's something to be said to being awakened by a little furball that wants to just play.
Skimming around assorted communities and discovered consumer reports review on condoms.
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public.
The hungry tiger gave me a recipe for sort of a mock uttapam (Indian style pancakes).. Designed primarily as a method to get curry from your plate into your mouth. Claims are that they are "chewy, flavorful, plentiful, and excellent for transporting curry from plate to mouth. They would make a nice snack on their own, too, and I think they would even do well made ahead of time and reheated, so don't be afraid of leftovers."
The proportions below make about 10 pancakes if you make the batter on the thin side and the pancakes about the size of a saucer.
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon yeast
1 1/4 cup warm water
1 teaspoon salt
Pinch sugar
A teaspoon powdered buttermilk (optional)
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
Generous pinch ground fenugreek
Mix the yeast, warm water and sugar in a large mixing bowl and let rest for five minutes. Stir in the flour, salt, and buttermilk powder (if you have some around -- or you could substitute buttermilk for some of the water) until just mixed. Let rest 1 1/2 hours.
Heat the mustard seeds and fenugreek in the oil until the seeds begin to pop. I find it convenient to use a metal ladle for this purpose. The oil and spices go in the bowl of the ladle, and then I swirl them gently as they heat, holding them about two inches above the surface of my gas burner. Dump the hot oil and seeds into the batter, and stir in, being sure to stir up from the bottom of the bowl.
Let the batter sit another 15 minutes. Turn the oven to some low temperature, just enough to keep things warm, and put a plate inside. Heat a nonstick or well-seasoned cast iron griddle over medium-high heat, and then make the pancakes: Drop about 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle (which you can brush with oil first, if you like, and if you want crisper pancakes) and use the bottom of your ladle to spread it out thin, in a quick spiraling motion. You can thin the batter with more water if you want the pancakes to be more cakelike. When the entire top of the pancake has lost its wet sheen, turn it over. Cook, turning a couple of times, until both sides are speckled reddish brown. Transfer to the plate in the oven, and repeat until the batter is all gone.
Saw my brother yesterday, briefly. It seems that he will be getting his long-awaited settlement some time next week if all goes well. He says that he'll give me a healthy chunk of it, to go towards the money he owes me, and put the rest toward getting a regular monthly apartment and activate his cell-phone in order to get on track (rather than his current hostel/ floor space/ day labor situation. I want him to get some council on how to handle money, and I may help him to open an account, if only to keep him form pissing it away as soon as he gets it. We'll see where it goes.
I've been drinking a *lot* of water / iced tea these days. I keep a few liters nearby at almost all times. Freeze half a bottle the night before, and fill the rest to keep it cool all day long.
A 3,500-4,000-year old mummified monkey is seen on display in the Egyptian Museum's new section for ancient mummified pets July 6, 2003. Ancient Egyptians loved their pets so much they even wanted to take them into the after life. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby
I'm enjoying playing with these weird Asian monkey mazes
Teen Titans last night wasn't bad, but I was braced for the anime nods and it skewing to a younger crowd. I'm not sure why it's on at 9pm... Perhaps 7 or so is a better slot. I think that they got the vibe right for the core characters, and the music was very appropriate. The Hive kids were good basic villains, too.
Happy 34th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and moon landing!
On researching with Google, I get so many crank sites that feel the landing was a hoax. NASA has a site to refute those claims. Badastronomy.com has a nice list, too.
Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said yesterday.
London: Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said here yesterday.
Among the sounds available are the thuds of the male gorilla beating its chest to impress females and scare off competitors, the grunting of various species of pig and raucous bird calls from the Amazon jungle.
The library claims to have the world's largest animal sound archive and is now making its 100 000 recordings available to two companies that will in turn put some of them on the internet by the end of the week.
Users can allocate different calls to different callers - perhaps the gentle cooing of a dove for calls from a girl- or boyfriend, the grunting of a pig from the bank manager and an outraged squawk from the wife or husband.
The global market in downloading ring tones is put at $4 billion a year.
Richard Ranft, the curator of the wildlife section at the British Library Sound Archive, is pushing British birdsong.
"Many bird sounds are proven to be relaxing - we provide a lot of doctors' surgeries with bird calls for their waiting rooms for exactly that reason," he said.
"They can also be very evocative: the fiery-necked nightjar song is tremendously beautiful and serene."
Not to be outdone, the Royal Opera House is making some of its recorded music available for the same purpose, and the National Gallery is making its paintings available for picture messaging. - Sapa-dpa
1 year ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg
2 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll
3 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake
His knowing brown eyes held her gaze for a seeming eternity, his powerful arms clasped her slim body in an irresistible embrace, and from his broad, hairy chest a primal smell of "male" tantalized her nostrils; "Looks like another long night in the ape house" thought veterinarian Abigail Brown as she gingerly reached for the constipated gorilla's suppository.
Ok, Snopes has revised the "Undecided" on Hunting for Bambi to a False. I'm very happy that it turned out to be a hoax, but I would like to see some accountability held to folks both failing to properly check facts and reporting outright lies to the news.
Wow... I must've needed a nap desperately, earlier. I nodded my head for a moment, and woke up like 2 hours later. It was like I had a total system shutdown. Newt woke me up with a couple of swabs and a desire to chase paper wads. There's something to be said to being awakened by a little furball that wants to just play.
Skimming around assorted communities and discovered consumer reports review on condoms.
This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. These images are freely available to educators, scientists, museums, and the public.
The hungry tiger gave me a recipe for sort of a mock uttapam (Indian style pancakes).. Designed primarily as a method to get curry from your plate into your mouth. Claims are that they are "chewy, flavorful, plentiful, and excellent for transporting curry from plate to mouth. They would make a nice snack on their own, too, and I think they would even do well made ahead of time and reheated, so don't be afraid of leftovers."
The proportions below make about 10 pancakes if you make the batter on the thin side and the pancakes about the size of a saucer.
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon yeast
1 1/4 cup warm water
1 teaspoon salt
Pinch sugar
A teaspoon powdered buttermilk (optional)
1 tablespoon oil
1 tablespoon mustard seeds
Generous pinch ground fenugreek
Mix the yeast, warm water and sugar in a large mixing bowl and let rest for five minutes. Stir in the flour, salt, and buttermilk powder (if you have some around -- or you could substitute buttermilk for some of the water) until just mixed. Let rest 1 1/2 hours.
Heat the mustard seeds and fenugreek in the oil until the seeds begin to pop. I find it convenient to use a metal ladle for this purpose. The oil and spices go in the bowl of the ladle, and then I swirl them gently as they heat, holding them about two inches above the surface of my gas burner. Dump the hot oil and seeds into the batter, and stir in, being sure to stir up from the bottom of the bowl.
Let the batter sit another 15 minutes. Turn the oven to some low temperature, just enough to keep things warm, and put a plate inside. Heat a nonstick or well-seasoned cast iron griddle over medium-high heat, and then make the pancakes: Drop about 1/4 cup of batter onto the griddle (which you can brush with oil first, if you like, and if you want crisper pancakes) and use the bottom of your ladle to spread it out thin, in a quick spiraling motion. You can thin the batter with more water if you want the pancakes to be more cakelike. When the entire top of the pancake has lost its wet sheen, turn it over. Cook, turning a couple of times, until both sides are speckled reddish brown. Transfer to the plate in the oven, and repeat until the batter is all gone.
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