Frankie got served eviction notice on Saturday. 5 days from that point, he should be gone.
Landlord walked 2 potential building buyers through my apartment today right as I got back from the doc's... Sort of a peeve, but since he just sort of showed up and asked nicely, I let them take the tour. one of the potential buyers loves Newt to pieces. (He was doing his lawnmower purr and friendly hello swabbing.)
start palm updates
pointed me to this really keen pumpkin carved via a robot arm.
Other Linkies gleaned from all over -
"A model presents a creation of Portuguese designers 'Sangue Novo,' at the Lisbon Fashion show October 24, 2003. Younger fashion designers grouped on 'Sangue Novos' presentation worked on a collection with themes about soccer for the next Spring/Summer collection. Portuguese fashion designers present their creations this weekend at the Lisbon Fashion Show. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro "
Phonecam images of the California fires
The Camera Van - One night In the fall of 1993, Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras and then drove around and took pictures of people on the streets. The public, unaware that the cameras worked, reacted naturally. At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures taken with the van of faces frozen in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful that the next morning he decided to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality.
Dick, the Albino Bowler. (action Figure) ...and he's come to bowl.
Time for a hot shower.. got to enjoy them while I can. 8-10 days worth of birdbaths lie ahead. Be back after the steamer.
Holy cow.. a new game shop (Twistyland) opened up right across the street from the galleria. (via an ad on cartoon network.) Maybe I can swap out some of my redundant heroclix / mage knight for other goodies..Like the New Sandman series, perhaps.
So... I'm the most googlebotted guy in all of livejournal-land? (at least yesterday) I wonder what factors lead to that sort of thing? I also wonder what being listed on will do to my hits, for that matter. I'm very surprised that I'm more popular than . I've already gotten a few friendly hellos as a result.
Thought I'd see my brother yesterday with the Vitas, but it looks like that's not going to happen before I go in tomorrow.
eventual to do - Move the sound card down a slot, see if that helps IRQ-wise, and removes some of the contention there.
In honor of the Nov. 4 release of Robert Plant's Sixty Six to Timbuktu two-CD solo compilation, VH1 Classic will air a Plant special Nov 1 and 4.
Some questions I'd like to see answers to (maybe a new meme?) in comments, or LJs -
Clear Sky Clock's old webhost went weirdly, and as a result, the old bookmarks and links don't work. you can get revised links from the link listed at the front of this sentence.
Florida agribusiness develops a hollow celery you can drink through like a straw. The Bloody Mary has been revolutionized!
A hollow celery stalk you can drink through like a straw?
Well, yes.
And you can eat it after you're done imbibing.
A. Duda & Sons Inc., a leading U.S. vegetable grower with operations in Belle Glade, has spent 15 years developing a variety of celery that grows with hollow stalks. The tube-like celery can then be dropped into your favorite drink to help bring the liquid to your eager throat.
U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists say it's the only plant-breeding instance they know in which food has been grown to be used as a tool.
"The celery straw modernizes an old beverage, the Bloody Mary," said Larry Pierce, a Duda seed research manager in California who led the team that developed the product. "Some of our guys like to drink beer through the straw. The straw actually impacts the flavor of the drink tremendously."
Oviedo-based Duda introduced the celery straw this week at the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit 2003. The trade show, which about 16,000 people attended, ended Tuesday.
Duda employees dispensed drinks of Bloody Mary mix and juices so attendees could try the straws, which they could then eat if they chose. Even the product's marketers were surprised at the response.
"It was overwhelming for us," said Bill Munger, Duda's food service director in Salinas, Calif. "We had not anticipated it to be that strong. The cruise ship industry has shown a lot of interest."
Munger estimates the company's California celery fields have enough of the variety to make 5 million straws this season. Not including shipping costs, the straws will be sold wholesale for 10 cents apiece.
"We will roll it out to the food service trade with an eye on bars and also juice and smoothie locations," Munger said Friday. "We are test-marketing it in California, Denver and Vancouver. We expect to have it out for distribution by the first of December."
Michael Bausher, a USDA plant physiologist at the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, pointed out that the celery straw is also completely disposable and biodegradeable.
"They won't float off a ship onto the beaches," Bausher said. "They could even impregnate the straws with food coloring. Kool-Aid would be the one I'd like to try."
Randall Niedz, research leader at the horticultural lab, said Duda's straw breaks new ground.
"It's a nontraditional use for a traditional crop," he said.
Drew Duda, division vice president for the company's Belle Glade operation, one of its celery-growing areas along with California, Texas and Arizona, said the straw was inspired by some "off-types" of celery that were growing wild, and too tall, in their California fields.
The celery was hollow, but bitter.
"We all said, 'Wouldn't it be nice if could drink through this?' " Duda said.
Research manager Pierce's team crossbred the wild celery varieties with Duda's more conventional, sweet strains. Duda's fields produce a total of about 5 million 30-bunch cartons of celery a year.
Celery is a two-year crop from seed to seed, so selecting plants for traits such as hollowness, straightness and taste with an opening large enough to drink through took more than a decade, Pierce said. The variety is a foot taller than the usual 2-foot-high celery plant and has a thick canopy of leaves.
"It has hit like a barnstorm," Pierce said. "But it has been a slow process. We spent a year determining how to process, package and handle the straws."
The celery straw is a small part of the research that Duda scientists, working in the world's largest facility devoted completely to celery, conduct on about 1,200 new lines of celery each year, Pierce said.
Although Duda has spent millions of dollars on celery research over the years, it's not possible to determine how many dollars were poured into the project alone, he said. Much of the research is focused on developing celery that has improved flavor and color, reduced stringiness or is more resistant to disease.
Munger said the company also is working on a way to inject the celery straws with fillings such as cheese or peanut butter.
"In about six months, people can look for it at the supermarkets," Munger said. "There are some hurdles at retail with packaging and proper handling instructions. It's not a replacement for a plastic straw. It has to be refrigerated."
Ray Gilmer, spokesman for the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association in Orlando, said Friday that the celery straw is the type of value-added product the industry is always striving for. Most often, the innovation is in packaging, pre-slicing or added ingredients.
"This is a way of taking celery and putting a new spin on it," Gilmer said. "They have actually changed the food product. That's what makes it so cool."
A New Dawn of the Dead film
Interesting... but one of those ones I go "uh... why bother?"
I always have room for zombie pictures. But I have to wonder why they chose to remake Dawn of the Dead. I would even go so far as to say that there is room for more than one zombie-in-a-mall film so they could have even created another one. Why remake it? Just for the title, I guess. Though, it has Zombies... I'll probably see it. Plus, Ving Rhames... he's always good at what he does. Hopefully, it won't be stripped of a lot of the subtext that was in the original. (The mall as a comment about the stupidity of consumerism, for example.)
Speaking of commercialism... I'm looking forward to the original's multi-disc deluxe edition DVD early next year, too. I've heard that they are including three cuts of DOTD: The Argento Cut (which is the most popular cut of the film amongst fans), the Canne Workprint Cut (which is often mislabeled as being Romero's "Director's Cut" version of DOTD), and the George Romero/US Theatrical Cut (which Romero considers to be his definitive version of DOTD).
Other Classic Horror Movies that got remade and that I liked quite a lot both times- The Fly, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Random thought - I wonder if Zombies would prefer hydrocephalic victims?
Other movie thoughts - Jim Carrey as the Bionic Man? Um.. wasn't inspector gadget already made?
Very Nifty set of web-statistics / Hulk- Halloween lights webcam page. Measures local precipitation, outside activity and electrical draw, and you can pan / Zoom the camera around to get a better look at stuff.
It tells you all sorts of crazy statistics, and you can flick off and on the lights around the house.
Well,I'm off... until later, dear journal.
Landlord walked 2 potential building buyers through my apartment today right as I got back from the doc's... Sort of a peeve, but since he just sort of showed up and asked nicely, I let them take the tour. one of the potential buyers loves Newt to pieces. (He was doing his lawnmower purr and friendly hello swabbing.)
start palm updates
10/27/03 12:22 pmend palm updates
12:15 pm Dreams last night of an axe to the spine by way of an angry Indian..."chuk"-sound not unlike that I hear when a bite is taken out of a fresh, crisp apple. Not the best mental visual a day before surgery. Ride is due any minute.
12:22 pm Uruguay picked me up just now... En route to confirmation at last. He is morbidly obese, with labored breathing and has a distinctive BO. What is that? Bacon and cheese? Armpits and feet? Something stinky this way comes. I feel bad for him, and wonder if he knows he's as smelly as he is.
1:21 pm forms filled out... I'm feeling tired. Frasier on TV whining about $2 parking fees. Lots of canned laughter. bleh.
1:23 I bet Newton would like one of those orange spider-rings the little girl next to me is wearing.
1:37 pm ride home comes at 2. Haven't seen the doc yet. King of the Hill on TV. Having a York Peppermint Patty, a baby bag of pretzels and diet coke for lunch. (Not good, but there isn't a Tofu vend-o-mat in the office, and I'm hungry.)
1:57 pm after being weighed for the first time since I started WWcalc, I have lost at the very least3 1 lbs. a more probable estimate is about 45. Not bad. I'll hit my goal in another 3-4 months if this continues at speed.
Other Linkies gleaned from all over -
"A model presents a creation of Portuguese designers 'Sangue Novo,' at the Lisbon Fashion show October 24, 2003. Younger fashion designers grouped on 'Sangue Novos' presentation worked on a collection with themes about soccer for the next Spring/Summer collection. Portuguese fashion designers present their creations this weekend at the Lisbon Fashion Show. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro "
Phonecam images of the California fires
The Camera Van - One night In the fall of 1993, Harrod Blank had a dream in which he covered his car with cameras and then drove around and took pictures of people on the streets. The public, unaware that the cameras worked, reacted naturally. At the end of the dream, Harrod looked at pictures taken with the van of faces frozen in the moment of awe, pictures so powerful that the next morning he decided to attempt to build such a vehicle in reality.
Dick, the Albino Bowler. (action Figure) ...and he's come to bowl.
Time for a hot shower.. got to enjoy them while I can. 8-10 days worth of birdbaths lie ahead. Be back after the steamer.
Holy cow.. a new game shop (Twistyland) opened up right across the street from the galleria. (via an ad on cartoon network.) Maybe I can swap out some of my redundant heroclix / mage knight for other goodies..Like the New Sandman series, perhaps.
So... I'm the most googlebotted guy in all of livejournal-land? (at least yesterday) I wonder what factors lead to that sort of thing? I also wonder what being listed on
Thought I'd see my brother yesterday with the Vitas, but it looks like that's not going to happen before I go in tomorrow.
eventual to do - Move the sound card down a slot, see if that helps IRQ-wise, and removes some of the contention there.
In honor of the Nov. 4 release of Robert Plant's Sixty Six to Timbuktu two-CD solo compilation, VH1 Classic will air a Plant special Nov 1 and 4.
Some questions I'd like to see answers to (maybe a new meme?) in comments, or LJs -
What was the last time you said something that you later (or immediately) regretted?
What was the last time you regretted *not* saying anything?
Clear Sky Clock's old webhost went weirdly, and as a result, the old bookmarks and links don't work. you can get revised links from the link listed at the front of this sentence.
Florida agribusiness develops a hollow celery you can drink through like a straw. The Bloody Mary has been revolutionized!
A hollow celery stalk you can drink through like a straw?
Well, yes.
And you can eat it after you're done imbibing.
A. Duda & Sons Inc., a leading U.S. vegetable grower with operations in Belle Glade, has spent 15 years developing a variety of celery that grows with hollow stalks. The tube-like celery can then be dropped into your favorite drink to help bring the liquid to your eager throat.
U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists say it's the only plant-breeding instance they know in which food has been grown to be used as a tool.
"The celery straw modernizes an old beverage, the Bloody Mary," said Larry Pierce, a Duda seed research manager in California who led the team that developed the product. "Some of our guys like to drink beer through the straw. The straw actually impacts the flavor of the drink tremendously."
Oviedo-based Duda introduced the celery straw this week at the Produce Marketing Association's Fresh Summit 2003. The trade show, which about 16,000 people attended, ended Tuesday.
Duda employees dispensed drinks of Bloody Mary mix and juices so attendees could try the straws, which they could then eat if they chose. Even the product's marketers were surprised at the response.
"It was overwhelming for us," said Bill Munger, Duda's food service director in Salinas, Calif. "We had not anticipated it to be that strong. The cruise ship industry has shown a lot of interest."
Munger estimates the company's California celery fields have enough of the variety to make 5 million straws this season. Not including shipping costs, the straws will be sold wholesale for 10 cents apiece.
"We will roll it out to the food service trade with an eye on bars and also juice and smoothie locations," Munger said Friday. "We are test-marketing it in California, Denver and Vancouver. We expect to have it out for distribution by the first of December."
Michael Bausher, a USDA plant physiologist at the U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory in Fort Pierce, pointed out that the celery straw is also completely disposable and biodegradeable.
"They won't float off a ship onto the beaches," Bausher said. "They could even impregnate the straws with food coloring. Kool-Aid would be the one I'd like to try."
Randall Niedz, research leader at the horticultural lab, said Duda's straw breaks new ground.
"It's a nontraditional use for a traditional crop," he said.
Drew Duda, division vice president for the company's Belle Glade operation, one of its celery-growing areas along with California, Texas and Arizona, said the straw was inspired by some "off-types" of celery that were growing wild, and too tall, in their California fields.
The celery was hollow, but bitter.
"We all said, 'Wouldn't it be nice if could drink through this?' " Duda said.
Research manager Pierce's team crossbred the wild celery varieties with Duda's more conventional, sweet strains. Duda's fields produce a total of about 5 million 30-bunch cartons of celery a year.
Celery is a two-year crop from seed to seed, so selecting plants for traits such as hollowness, straightness and taste with an opening large enough to drink through took more than a decade, Pierce said. The variety is a foot taller than the usual 2-foot-high celery plant and has a thick canopy of leaves.
"It has hit like a barnstorm," Pierce said. "But it has been a slow process. We spent a year determining how to process, package and handle the straws."
The celery straw is a small part of the research that Duda scientists, working in the world's largest facility devoted completely to celery, conduct on about 1,200 new lines of celery each year, Pierce said.
Although Duda has spent millions of dollars on celery research over the years, it's not possible to determine how many dollars were poured into the project alone, he said. Much of the research is focused on developing celery that has improved flavor and color, reduced stringiness or is more resistant to disease.
Munger said the company also is working on a way to inject the celery straws with fillings such as cheese or peanut butter.
"In about six months, people can look for it at the supermarkets," Munger said. "There are some hurdles at retail with packaging and proper handling instructions. It's not a replacement for a plastic straw. It has to be refrigerated."
Ray Gilmer, spokesman for the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association in Orlando, said Friday that the celery straw is the type of value-added product the industry is always striving for. Most often, the innovation is in packaging, pre-slicing or added ingredients.
"This is a way of taking celery and putting a new spin on it," Gilmer said. "They have actually changed the food product. That's what makes it so cool."
A New Dawn of the Dead film
Interesting... but one of those ones I go "uh... why bother?"
I always have room for zombie pictures. But I have to wonder why they chose to remake Dawn of the Dead. I would even go so far as to say that there is room for more than one zombie-in-a-mall film so they could have even created another one. Why remake it? Just for the title, I guess. Though, it has Zombies... I'll probably see it. Plus, Ving Rhames... he's always good at what he does. Hopefully, it won't be stripped of a lot of the subtext that was in the original. (The mall as a comment about the stupidity of consumerism, for example.)
Speaking of commercialism... I'm looking forward to the original's multi-disc deluxe edition DVD early next year, too. I've heard that they are including three cuts of DOTD: The Argento Cut (which is the most popular cut of the film amongst fans), the Canne Workprint Cut (which is often mislabeled as being Romero's "Director's Cut" version of DOTD), and the George Romero/US Theatrical Cut (which Romero considers to be his definitive version of DOTD).
Other Classic Horror Movies that got remade and that I liked quite a lot both times- The Fly, The Thing, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Random thought - I wonder if Zombies would prefer hydrocephalic victims?
Other movie thoughts - Jim Carrey as the Bionic Man? Um.. wasn't inspector gadget already made?
Very Nifty set of web-statistics / Hulk- Halloween lights webcam page. Measures local precipitation, outside activity and electrical draw, and you can pan / Zoom the camera around to get a better look at stuff.
It tells you all sorts of crazy statistics, and you can flick off and on the lights around the house.
Well,I'm off... until later, dear journal.
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