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Sometimes it snows in April.
D'Angelo with two excellent backing singers, last night on Fallon:
As predicted: More law enforcement overreach
The illegally collected NSA eavesdropping data will soon be used for normal policing despite earlier assurances that the information was being collected only for "national security" reasons in "terrorism" cases.
As wise people have been pointing out since, well, 12 September 2001:
It's all another sobering reminder that any powers we grant to the federal government for the purpose of national security will inevitably be used just about everywhere else. And extraordinary powers we grant government in wartime rarely go away once the war is over. And, of course, the nifty thing for government agencies about a "war on terrorism" is that it's a war that will never formally end.
What's a 100 Year Flood, anyway?
You probably don't know, so read this.
Here's an unusual sentence
"Hey, did you ever here that song Prince wrote for Kenny Rogers?
How to operate your frog.
HOWTO: Explain 1986 to Snake People
Well, I'd start with this set of photos in the Atlantic…
Forget EGOT. The new hotness is MacPEGOT.
What's EGOT? It's when you've won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. That's a rarefied group — think Richard Rodgers, or Rita Moreno, or Audrey Hepburn, or Mel Brooks.
What's a MacPEGOT? It's an EGOT winner who's also bagged the MacArthur and the Pulitzer, and Lin-Manuel Miranda is well on his way.
Miranda won two Tonys in 2008, for his first musical In the Heights.
He picked up his first Grammy the next year, for the show's soundtrack album, and then got another this year, for the soundtrack to Hamilton.
He wrote a song (with Tom Kitt) for the Tony Awards in 2014, and won an Emmy for it.
And, of course, this year he's picked up the MacArthur and the Pulitzer.
Turns out, the only one he doesn't have is an Oscar. But he's doing the music for an upcoming Disney animated feature ("Moana"), and a filmed adaptation of Hamilton seems inevitable, so…
Oh, we should probably mention that "MacPEGOT" isn't actually a thing yet, because no one's done it. (Only Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch have added the Pulitzer to their EGOT.)
(There's obviously a Wikipedia page about the EGOT, which helpfully includes lists of folks with 3 of the 4 EGOT awards.)
Dept. of Turnabout-Is-Fair-Play
You may or may not be aware of the fact that Antoine Fuqua is remaking the 1960 classic The Magnificient Seven; he's pulled together a hell of a cast for this retread — Denzel, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, D'Onofrio — but at the end of the day it still makes me ask "um, why?"
However, in discussion of this on Facebook, something actually interesting cropped up. I'm assuming anyone reading this is aware that the original Magnificent Seven was itself a US retelling of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. Remakes are one thing, but cross-cultural adaptations can actually be interesting.
Such adaptations are mostly east to west, at least heretofore, but turns out, Japanese cinema can do it, too. In 2013, they made an adaptation of Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner. Ken Watanabe stars; it's also called Unforgiven, at least in English (in Japan, it's apparently "Yurusarezaru Mono").
Here's the trailer:
I think I need to see this.
I feel kind bad for the robot.
So, I did a thing again.
In cycling, we talk about the "century" ride, which is 100 miles. The first day of the MS150 has three starting points, so you can choose your own level of difficulty. If you start in Waller, you do 75 miles. If you start in Katy, it's 85. And if you start at Tully Stadium on the west side of Houston proper, your first day is a century.
When I did my first MS150 in 2013, that's where I started, and on that day I notched my first century since the Reagan administration. I rode from there in 2014, too, on my second MS; here's the summary of that ride:
My time two years ago was better than my time in 2013, but not substantially so. After that ride, I got much more serious about cycling. I started going to regular rides with people who'd kick my ass, and I got strong enough to hang with them. I lost more weight. I even bought a fancy new bicycle to facilitate go-fast behavior. I averaged in excess of 100 miles per week for most of the year.
Then, of course, there was the crash. In November of 2014, I had a little mishap that resulted in pretty serious broken bone, surgery, two hospital stays, and the inability to walk for three months. I was off the bike for six months, and I was weak as hell when I got back on it.
But I kept at it.
And here we are. Yesterday, I rode my first century since day one of the 2014 MS150.
I'm still not a speed demon, but I'm pretty damn happy about turning in a post-injury time over an hour faster than my 2014 effort. I'm not super excited about yesterday's performance; I didn't feel particularly strong, and felt like I was capable of better — maybe it was nutrition, or a failure to taper properly; I dunno. But I'm happy about the trendline. And I couldn't possibly be more thankful for the people who helped me get here: Erin, first and foremost; my team at Karbach Brewing; and my friends from my Tuesday/Thursday rides.
Now: when's the next ride?
(PS: If you'd like, it's still possible to donate to the 2016 MS150; this is my fundraising link — I'd be much obliged!)
"You won't accept that Governor Bryant has signed into law something that privileges our insecurity and punishes your bodies. And that hurts our feelings."
Kiese Laymon is really, really, really on fire here.
Remember my post about Mississippi?
Well, Talking Points Memo has noticed the same thing:
The economy in Mississippi is different from those many other states that have recently addressed legislation impacting the LGBT community. The state, which has one of the lowest GDPs in the country, is not home to any Fortune 500 companies, lacks a significant tech sector, and has no major pro sports teams.
With relatively nascent LGBT movement, Mississippi was not ripe for the kind of backlash the country has seen recently in Georgia and North Carolina, where Atlanta and Charlotte house major national corporations, more established LGBT communities, and cosmopolitan attitudes. Mississippi has no major metropolitan area.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, the executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality, a LGBT advocacy group that does work in Mississippi and North Carolina, told TPM that Mississippi lacks the "nexus where the corporate world meets the political world meets the cultural world" that exists in states like Georgia and North Carolina.
"The political climate in Mississippi remains quite conservative on the whole. We are seeing increasing levels of support for LGBT issues around the kitchen table and anecdotally in families, but when you look at, say the public discourse say around the Confederate flag issue, I think that's a very accurate barometer of how conservative the rhetoric and discourse in the public square continues to be in Mississippi," Beach-Ferrara told TPM.
"The Irony and the Awfulness"
Josh Marshall has a really, really great piece with this title over at TPM about the cavalcade of sexual hypocrisy we've seen from the anti-(Bill) Clinton Republicans since his impeachment, culminating in Denny Hastert. Even if you lived through it, don't miss it.
In which I'm nerdy about keyboards
So I have a great keyboard, but it turns out one of the things that I really love about it — fantastic mechanical switches that feel really nice under my fingers — also makes it kind of loud, and even though I work at home, turns out I'm on the phone a LOT. And even though I use a headset most of the time, the Kinesis is clickyclacky enough that people ask me to mute ALL THE DAMN TIME.
Well, since the Kinesis — which was a gift from a pro bono client ten years ago, which shocks the hell out of me; who makes keyboards that last ten years? — really needs some TLC, I figured I'd try out one of the more well-reviewed other ergo keyboards in the interim: the Microsoft Sculpt.
Yeah, I know. But, turns out, lots of Mac nerds love it, and it's cheap (or, at least, it's cheap compared to the Kinesis, and so now I'm typing this on one.
It's true: key feel is, while inferior to the mechanicals on the Kinesis, still far better than I'd expected. But it's a different beast. All ergo keyboards have some idiosyncrasies; my Kinesis has for years been the functional equivalent of typing on an RPN calculator. Guests just can't use it. But it's not just the radical shape of the thing — even though the keys are essentially in a standard Qwerty layout, the modifiers are all over the place. I've been hitting enter with my right thumb for a decade.
Space is there, too. Backspace and delete are under your left thumb. Control, command, and alt are thumb keys on the Kinesis layout, too. That's not all, either; the arrow keys are split between left and right (below the bottom row on the left) and up and down (same position on the right). To describe the Kinesis as eccentric is to understate things rather dramatically, but holy hell is it comfortable once you get the hang of it. (Obviously, all this assumes a pretty complete committement to touch-typing; the last time I checked, I was somewhere north of 90 words per minute.)
Microsoft's entry here is almost quotidian compared to my Old Reliable. It's still goofy compared to a flat keyboard, but it's far closer to the norm than the Kinesis. It's got a normal (but split) spacebar. The arrows are in an inverted T on the right, as you'd expect. The biggest shocks for me, in terms of adaptation, are doubtless to be
- The placement of control/command/option on either side of the space bar, which isn't terribly comfortable, and is especially hostile to the motions I've learned on the Kinesis for Cmd-Tab and such; and
- The utterly baffling choice they've made with the number row.
Of the second point, let me explain. On the old keyboard the split was logical: 1-5 on the left and 6-0 on the right. This allows the keyboard to be used just as a traditional touch typist would, and it's a critical thing.
Microsoft has, once again, gone its own way for no discernible reasons (and have apparently been doing this since their first "Natural" keyboard back in the 1990s). The numbers are unbalanced; the left hand handles 1 through 6, with 7-0 on the right. This might seem like a minor change, but as I noted it's like nails on a chalkboard for anyone that actually knows how to type.
Plus, numbers aren't the end of it — obviously, if the number row is shifted left, so too are the shifted versions of those keys; shift-8 is asterisk on most any keyboard, but now the eight and the asterisk are in the wrong spot. Plus the keys to the right of zero are now in the wrong spot, too (hyphen/underscore and plus/equals).
It's a little thing, but it may well be enough to have me send this thing back. I can't even fix it with remapping software, because there aren't enough keys on the top row to shift things right (backspace is to the right of plus/equals).
The tl;dr here is that yeah, once again, I've run into a place where Microsoft subverts an agreed-upon standard for no good goddamn reason. What IS it with those guys?
No, YOU'RE a two-rotor wankel
Even people who aren't gearheads tend to be at least provisionally aware that the Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 used a very different sort of engine than pretty much every other car. While the rest of the auto world had long since settled on a piston-and-cylinder design, the RX cars used something else: the Rotary or Wankel engine.
I knew this, too, and even had a vague idea how it actually worked — just a lot MORE vague than my understanding of conventional cylinder engines. However, if you're curious, this excellent video runs down exactly how rotaries work by walking you through the actual parts involved (in this case, from a 1985 Rx-7). It's pretty awesome.
You may have also noticed that, well, not only were the Mazda RX cars the only cars to use these things, but not even Mazda makes them anymore. Why is that? Well, fortunately, the same guy also made a video about why the rotary engine is dead. Again, I knew some of this, but not the underlying causes for them. Great, very accessible work here.
The tl;dr here, though, is kind of simple: because of the way the engine works, there's an irregularly shaped combustion chamber, and that leads to inefficient combustion. A rotary is absolutely going to end up emitting unburnt fuel, which is terrible for fuel economy and terrible for emissions. The problem is exasperated by the fact that combustion only happens on one side of the chamber, which leads to enormous temperature differentials, which leads to problems in sealing, which means inefficient combustion, which means bad emissions and bad fuel economy again.
But watch the videos. He explains is really well.
Luke has a valid point.
Mississippi, Goddamn.
I grew up in Mississippi. It's not a secret; most people know this about me. It's also not a secret that I left as soon as I was able. I always knew that I would. I attended college out of state, and have made my home in Texas since soon after college. Mississippi was never an option for me.
I cannot say their governor's enthusiastic adoption of a discrimination bill surprises me at all; that ship has sailed. Once the issue was raised, there was never any doubt in my mind that Mississippi would lead the pack rushing to adopt such a measure. Sure, other states did it, too, but the Magnolia State was right in the thick of it.
Then some interesting things happened. In Georgia, the governor — realizing just exactly what a shitstorm their bill would produce in terms of litigation costs and lost revenue — vetoed the measure, and reasonable people in that state breathed a sigh of relief.
Not so in North Carolina, where the aggressively retrograde governor beat Mississippi to the punch by approving a law perhaps even worse than Mississippi's. As anyone with two brain cells could predict, the reactions were swift and furious. The law will absolutely not survive challenge on Constitutional grounds, but they're already losing millions in tax revenue. PayPal cancelled a planned office there. Film and television productions are relocating. More costs will follow. Eventually, those costs, together with the growing litigation bill, will force the law in North Carolina off the books — perhaps even sooner than later, and perhaps even without a Federal court ruling. There are enough people there who will stand against bigotry. There are enough business interests who realize that hate isn't a good business plan.
This is exactly why I find the Mississippi development more horrifying than the North Carolina one: North Carolina will reap the whirlwind and likely correct course. Mississippi will not, because they have very little to lose.
They do HAVE some industrial investment — Nissan has a factory north of Jackson, for example — but the kinds of investments that the tarheels are now losing really don't consider Mississippi very often, and the ones that do aren't the PayPals of the world because there's no tech corridor to join.
With no immediate and obvious financial repercussions, it'll stay on the books until it's litigated away, which will take years (and millions that state doesn't have). And when that inevitable happens and the law is struck down, the bigots there will moan and cry about "activist judges" or some shit, and the whole aggrieved idiot class will count themselves martyrs, and in the meantime more and more companies will have investigated Mississippi — land IS cheap, and cost of living IS low — and then passed them over because of the law, the workforce available, the lack of amenities in the metro areas, the more appealing locations in Alabama or Georgia or whatever, etc.
I've wondered, ever since I left, what it would take for Mississippi to make a real and substantive recovery, and leave the bottom of every list that matters. I even had hope about it at one point. Not any more, though; the leadership there is aggressively telling every smart kid with options that it is not the place for them, especially if they're gay or trans or even a little weird. (I mean, good CHRIST I was a white, straight, upper-middle class preppy kid BORN THERE, and I never felt especially welcome 30 years ago. And it's worse now.)
The Mississippi GOP has decided bigotry is a hill they're willing to die on — they're keeping the Treason Flag, and they want EVERYBODY to know how much they hate the queers, and that it's legally okay to do so. I have no fucking idea how they pull out of this. I really, really don't. It looks like a death spiral, which breaks my heart because I have family there, many of whom cannot leave for various reasons.
This just in: United now fucking us in ways unrelated to air travel
Or, at least, their (no doubt soon-to-be-former) pilot Bruce Wayne Wallis sure was giving it the ol' college try.
Bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon and bacon.
This excellent commercial for a British film download service stars Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Bacon, and Kevin Bacon. Enjoy:
(I think the best part is that the jerk — who turns 58 this summer — has aged so well he can plausibly reprise characters from 1980 (when he was 22), 1984, 1992, 1995, and 2000 in one commercial and have them all be immediately recognizable.)
Wow! This is almost cute.
I just got an honest-to-goodness "Nigerian prince" spam:
Whatever else he is, J. J. Abrams is an enthusiastic nerd
He's been instrumental in getting Don Coscarelli's late-70s cult horror film Phantasm restored and released on Blu-Ray and DVD, on account of BIG FAN. Coscarelli:
It started a loooong long time ago in a graveyard far, far away. J.J. Abrams called up, oh, about 12 years ago, back when he still doing TV stuff. I didn't know who he was. He said "I'm a TV producer, and I love Phantasm." And we started talking about it. In fact, at the time, I think we were finishing up Bubba Ho-Tep. And I got a little trouble with the editing process, and I was having trouble making that movie come together. And I brought it over and showed it to him and we hung out and he was a real cool guy. And, over the years, from time to time we stayed in touch. I introduced him to Angus Scrimm [ed. note: the "Tall Man" villain in Phantasm], and he ended up putting Angus into a recurring role on his Alias TV series. Angus really appreciated that and really enjoyed it.
Flash-forward to about a year and a half ago, I got another call from J.J. and he wanted to screen Phantasm for his workers over at his company Bad Robot. And I told him that the only choice he really had was my scratched-up old 35mm print, or the standard-def DVD. Those weren't really great choices, so he said "Oh, we gotta fix that!" So he put [me] in touch with their head of post-production, a guy named Ben Rosenblatt, and he came up with this plan as to how to restore the movie efficiently. So that's how it started.
I'm not really a horror fan, and I'm no fan of Abrams, but this is a cool story.
Just how fucked up IS North Carolina?
The "small government" Republicans in the state legislature have passed an omnibus "hate bill" in response to a Charlotte ordinance protecting LGBT citizens from discrimination that produced whole host of horrors in addition to rolling back those protections:
But the legislation introduced and passed into law by the General Assembly yesterday didn't simply roll back that ordinance. It implemented a detailed state-wide regulation of public restrooms, and limited a person's use of those restrooms to only those restrooms that correspond with one's "biological sex," defined in the new state law as the sex identified on one's birth certificate. (So yes, by law in NC now, transgender porn star Buck Angel (look him up) will have to use the women's room…isn't that precisely what these lawmakers are actually wanting to prevent?).
But the legislation didn't stop there. It also expressly pre-empted all municipal and county ordinances or policies broader than the official state anti-discrimination statute, which does not include sexual orientation or gender identity among the list of prohibited bases of discrimination. So that effectively wipes out local LGBT anti-discrimination protections in numerous NC cities (and, ironically, wipes out the protection of discrimination based on "veterans status" in Greensboro and Orange County (Chapel Hill)).
But wait, there's more. The legislation also expressly states that there can be no statutory or common law private right of action to enforce the state's anti-discrimination statutes in the state courts. So if a NC resident is the victim of racial discrimination in housing or employment, for example, that person is now entirely barred from going to state court to get an injunction, or to get damages of any kind. The new law completely defangs the state's anti-discrimination statute, rendering it entirely unenforceable by the citizens of the state.
But wait, there's more! The legislation also prohibits municipalities and counties from passing a higher minimum wage than the State's. Not that any municipality or county had done that…but in case any of them were thinking about it, that's now prohibited, too.
The GOP is, absolutely, the party of discrimination and hate. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
As if you needed MORE proof that Jerry Jones is a shitstain of a human being
Jerry Jones: Link between CTE and football 'absurd'.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called the connections between CTE and football "absurd" on Tuesday.
Jones told reporters there was not enough data to establish a relationship between the degenerative brain disease, linked to repeated hits to the head, and the game of football.
Last week, NFL senior vice president for health and safety Jeff Miller said that there was "certainly" a link between football and CTE, which has been found in the brains of numerous former professional football players postmortem.
Look, if you're behind the fucking NFL on an issue like this, that ought to be a warning, you know?
And now, a pretty good lay description of Apple v. FBI
Also, its title is "Mr Fart's Favorite Colors", and how can you not read that?
More on FBI vs. Apple
Bruce Schneier has a nice rundown of recent events.
It's becoming increasingly clear that the FBI has seriously overstepped here, even to lay people.
"Chicken staff meetings, chicken progress reports, chicken analytics, chicken sprint review"
My Well-acquaintance Laura decided to try her hand at making real coq au vin, which, as you may or may not be aware, assumes a mature cock.
The one key thing that is generally understood about traditional Coq au Vin, however, was that it was supposed to be made with a farmyard rooster (hence the "coq" (cock) – and not "poulet" (chicken)).
The chickens we buy in parts in the supermarket today are no more than a couple months old, and they don't move much in their short lives. That's why they are so tender. They are still babies.
The traditional coq au vin recipe involves braising a rooster in wine and stock for a really long time to break down the tough meat and connective tissue and to soften it up. That long braising time is how you actually make an old rooster edible. The long braising time also reduces and enriches the wine sauce. The long time to cook is part of the entire point.
As it happened, though, Laura had a big ol' cock on hand, and so she was off to the races. This is a fun read, but it also makes me want to find a source for mature birds and try it myself.
Here's something interesting…
Well, to me, anyway.
You've all played pool on a coin-op table in a bar, obviously. Did you ever wonder how the table knows which ball is the cue ball? It has to be able to tell somehow, because after every scratch during play it returns the cue instead of trapping it with the object balls.
Turns out, there's two ways.
One method involves a big-ass magnet and requires the cue contain enough iron for the magnet to pull it to one side and change its pathway inside the table. That's pretty neat. (Click through; there's video.)
The other method involves a cue ball that is fractionally bigger (2 and 3/8 inches vs the standard 2 and 1/4) than the object balls, and uses a slightly different mechanism to do the segregation that's perhaps a bit easier to imagine since it's size based.
This information has implications, though.
First, it means that home or premium table cue balls won't work on coin-op tables, because in those sets (a) all the balls are the same size and (b) none of them contain iron.
Second, a bar owner who needs a new cue ball for his table will also need to know which kind of mechanism his table has, because there two types of cue balls and the iron one won't work on a table that expects an off-size cue, and vice versa.
Interestingly, the first several billiard supply shops I found online didn't even deal with coin-op cue balls; they were all about the home or premium market. I assume this is because a bar owner (or similar) is dealing with some local amusement vendor and not the Internet most of the time, whereas folks searching for "pool table supplies" online are looking to outfit their own billiard room.
No idea why this information charms me so much, but there it is. (Also: Magnets!)
Maybe you're confused. It's everywhere, but what IS it?
Hamilton is pretty much on fire, but I admit I wasn't really receptive until the JoCoCruise. I had apparently even skipped the New Yorker article last February about Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Off-Broadway production (which you should track down and read, because it's amazing, too.)
Anyway. That article mentioned the origin of the show: basically, Miranda got obsessed with Hamilton after reading Ron Chernow's biography, and started working on material. The first public airing of the work was the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word — in 2009.
Well, dear reader, you're in luck; the piece then called "The Hamilton Mixtape" was taped. Here you go. First taste is free.
Actually, it's the first TWO tastes, because for the Grammys they took a live feed from the theater to show the Grammy audience the first number of an actual performance of the show on Broadway. So here's what that song became five years later. The lyrics are mostly the same; the biggest difference is that instead of all being from Burr, it's split up between Burr, Laurens, Jefferson, Madison, Eliza, and Washington.
Make Time.
(Seriously, the embedded link is like watching that old footage of Prince playing "Purple Rain" for the first time. It's amazing.)
My favorite part is the reference to a "Writ of Duh"
Over at the Atlantic, Garrett Epps explains the metric smackdown the tantrum-throwing Alabama Supreme Court was just handed by a unanimous SCOTUS. It's a thing a beauty:
The Alabama Supreme Court has had a rough week. On Friday, the court issued a one-sentence order admitting that "Erm, um, well, urm, okay, fine! Whatever! We really don't have the authority to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's same-sex marriage opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. Are you people happy now?" The order came accompanied by 170 pages of bloviation, which read a bit as if Robert E. Lee had tried to spin General Orders No. 9 as a strategic victory.
Monday, in a different but related matter, the U.S. Supreme Court piled on by in effect issuing what I'll call a Writ of Duh in a same-sex adoption case.
[I]n another case, the Alabama court on Friday took 170 pages to discuss the unremarkable proposition that a state court can't disobey, set aside, ignore, fold, bend, spindle, or mutilate a judgment of the United States Supreme Court. Here's the entire operative part of the order: "IT IS ORDERED that all pending motions and petitions are DISMISSED." Most of the other pages are occupied with sour grapes. Chief Justice Roy Moore (who lost his job once before when he defied an order of a federal court in a different case) was, as always, convinced that the world is eager to hear his views on a variety of subjects. He in his wisdom really thinks Justice Anthony Kennedy is a bad, bad judge for writing the Obergefell decision. Justice Tom Parker (founder of the conservative think-tank that brought the challenge) concurred specially to denounce the Supreme Court's "despotism and tyranny."
South of the Mason-Dixon Line, "tyranny" usually translates as "making me recognize the rights of people I don't like."
"This is the downside of building party identity around a package of calculated nonsense and comically unrealizable goals."
Josh Marshall at TPM explains the GOP's Trump problem in terms of the idea of technical debt, thereby endearing himself to many geeky Heathen.
The deeper causes of the recent trends in the GOP go deep into the society and culture of the American right and American society generally. But Republican elected officials have increasingly coddled, exploited and in some cases – yes – spurred their voters' penchant for resentment, perceived persecution, apocalyptic thinking and generic nonsense.
Last week, Mrs Heathen and I took a little cruise with 1,100 of our closest, nerdiest pals.
Ever wonder what it's like to work with Terrence Malick?
Thomas Lennon (The State, Reno 911) got hired as a partygoer in the new film Knight of Cups, and shared his recollections here.
"We're all standing there and Malick hands out these pieces of paper to all of us," Lennon said. "And the one he gave me said, 'There's no such thing as a fireproof wall.' And I ask, 'Is this something I'm supposed to say in the scene?' and he said, 'I don't know.'"
Lennon learned, after talking to the director, that there was no script, just a phrase that might inspire him when cameras started rolling.
"And then Malick goes, 'Would you like some more? Because I have a whole stack of these.' And I was like, 'I think I'm good,'" Lennon said.
Lennon later asked Bale while Malick was away:
Lennon: "Is this how it goes?
Bale: "Yeah."
Lennon: "Every day?"
Bale: "Yeah."
Lennon: "How long have you been doing this?"
Bale: "This is, like, day 25."
Yet Another Bizarre Aspect of Win 10
In addition to all sorts of "phone home" behavior that is, apparently, not something you can disable, it turns out that Windows 10 will delete apps it thinks are outdated without asking first.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
In which Erin is Awesome
So, last week we took a cruise, which was awesome.
On of the guests this year was fantasy author and awesome human N. K. Jemisin.
Erin and I attended her reading last Wednesday, which was a port day. During the reading, the crew had a drill that involved overhead announcements — which, unfortunately, also cut off the mic Ms Jemisin was using, interrupting the reading.
Over and over. It got comical, really, but Ms Jemisin persevered and finished the reading.
Well, Erin being Erin, she decided that Ms Jemisin should be rewarded for her grit here, and set about making some sort of trophy for her using materials she could find on the boat. That was somewhat limiting, but since one of the bits of swag for the cruise was a stuffed dolphin in a fez, and extras were available, an amusing and on-topic base was quickly identified. Erin festooned it with shiny things from the gaming room, and we gave it to her after dinner the next night. She was very pleased.
And, as it turns out, remains pleased about it now.
Dept. of Missed Opportunities
Given my well-documented affection for Infinite Jest, I'm more than a little irritated with myself to realize I completely missed my chance to make a copious number of jokes about Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents during my recovery last year. Why, I even spent a week IN A WHEELCHAIR.
Here's more on the Apple vs. FBI situation
Security expert Bruce Schneier weighs in. This is a guy who absolutely knows what he's talking about:
The FBI's demands are specific to one phone, which might make its request seem reasonable if you don't consider the technological implications: Authorities have the phone in their lawful possession, and they only need help seeing what's on it in case it can tell them something about how the San Bernardino shooters operated. But the hacked software the court and the FBI wants Apple to provide would be general. It would work on any phone of the same model. It has to.
Make no mistake; this is what a backdoor looks like. This is an existing vulnerability in iPhone security that could be exploited by anyone.
What the FBI wants to do would make us less secure, even though it's in the name of keeping us safe from harm. Powerful governments, democratic and totalitarian alike, want access to user data for both law enforcement and social control. We cannot build a backdoor that only works for a particular type of government, or only in the presence of a particular court order.
Either everyone gets security or no one does.
In case you weren't still gutted about Bowie
Over on Twitter, about a week ago:
My favorite video today
Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley decided to drop by Washington Square Park, and is unrecognized (obviously) until, well, the inevitable happens.
Make time. Stay with it through the end.
Stringer Bell vs. Robb Stark
I mean, COME ON how could this NOT be awesome?
Hey Chief Heathen: Apple, Encryption, and You
As you've probably heard, the FBI really, really wants Apple to help them unlock an iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernadino shooters. A court has actually ordered that Apple do so; in response, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a public reply (in addition to immediate appeals); you can (and should) read that letter in its entirety, because in it Cook lays out very clearly what's at stake here.
All this is very confusing to lay people, though, I'm sure. We nerds have been up to our asses in crypto for a long time, and understand how critical it is to modern life. You use strong crypto every day, even if you don't realize it — every time you see that little "lock" icon in your browser, you're using it, and (to a first approximation) your browser session is locked up tight — otherwise, online commerce wouldn't be possible, right?
Obviously, a phone is different from your shopping cart at Amazon, but there are lots of points here that are still being obscured by poor media coverage that has, in general, been entirely too deferential to law enforcement and the government. Let me lay out a few things for you, in simple terms, to help you make sense of it all, because whether you realize it or not this case affects you.
First, you need to understand something about encryption itself.
Properly implemented encryption is effectively unbreakable with current technology. (I could explain why, but it would make this post WAAAAY too long.) Not even the NSA can break it; the computing power doesn't exist yet. It might, in the future (google "quantum computing"), but right now it's safe and secure.
That's exactly why law enforcement is so up in arms about wanting back doors built into things: precisely because they can't break into some systems or data files if they've been properly encrypted. Think about it: the cops don't care how strong your locks are, because they can always break your door. They care about encryption because, done right, they have no recourse.
Second, you need to understand that encryption isn't the whole picture here.
There's also device security, and device security at Apple is in an ongoing improvement process. You have probably seen by now stories about how "well, they helped cops BEFORE, why won't they do it now?" These are wilfully misleading stories authored by deliberately ignorant people who are carrying water for the anti-crypto squad. Just because it was easy or trivial for Apple to unlock a phone in 2008 doesn't mean it's just as easy or just as trivial to do so now, because every new iPhone and new version of iOS improves the platform. It is accurate to say that Apple likely views the ease with which a non-owner (Apple) could unlock prior phones as a flaw to be fixed, and are behaving accordingly.
Good, because the only secure device is one that only its owner can unlock.
Third, Cook's assertion that the FBI's request would make all similar phones vulnerable is absolutely and unequivocally true.
The cops are demanding, basically, that Apple create a tool that will circumvent the security of the iPhone in question. Such a tool, once created, will almost certainly get leaked and used by other parties — like foreign intelligence people, or criminals, or repressive regimes.
Law enforcement loves to suggest that such bypass tools or (worse) built-in back doors will only ever be used by the "good guys," but that doesn't even pass the risibility test. Even supposed "good guys" overstep their authority with astonishing regularity, and law enforcement in the US is absolutely no exception. "Trust us!" is a bullshit argument.
Fourth, don't give this mouse a cookie.
Iif Apple is forced to do this, now, to this particular generation of iOS and iPhone, then you can be sure that law enforcement will insist they do so (or attempt to do so) for later iterations of the platform. (This is one reason Apple is working so hard to make the devices secure and private, even against attacks from Apple itself.) We cannot let cops — who, let's be honest, would be happier with a master key to all locks, all phones, all safety deposit boxes, etc., because what do you have to hide? — dictate privacy and security for the rest of us, and Apple realizes this.
Fifth, there is no ticking-time-bomb situation here.
Thus far, terrorist tradecraft is best described as "epically shitty." The Paris attackers used normal SMS, which is incredibly insecure. They used regular tappable phones. But even if they started using secure methods, signals intelligence isn't how you track these people. You need to chase them and catch them and prevent attacks through normal police work; you can't expect an online dragnet of messaging traffic to do much for you (and, indeed, it clearly doesn't work, even putting aside the privacy concerns). The FBI know who did this. They have reams of other evidence. They're using this case, and the spectre of TERRORISM TERRORISM TERRORISM, to try and stifle real security for ordinary Americans. There's no reason to do that.
Stand with Apple, even if you prefer Android. Stand with Apple, even if you hate the walled garden. Stand with Apple, because they are absolutely the only player in this market who have absolutely no interest in analyzing what you do online and selling it to other people. They've been increasingly verbal in their commitment to user privacy, and have proved it with the ongoing security improvements in the iPhone. Now they're putting their money where their mouth is in a big way, on a big stage, in this particular case. Good for Tim Cook, and good for them, and good for US, because it's a certainty that the Feds would much rather have us insecure.
As security expert Bruce Schneier puts it:
Today I walked by a television showing CNN. The sound was off, but I saw an aerial scene which I presume was from San Bernardino, and the words "Apple privacy vs. national security." If that's the framing, we lose. I would have preferred to see "National security vs. FBI access."
He's right.
More from Rep. Ted Lieu, and more background on why Apple is so pro-crypto (that bit's long, but you should read it).
Even LESS Specialized!
Apparently, someone has found and restored an original 35mm print of Star Wars. It's online. Somewhere.
Aaaah, so THAT'S why this week's X-Files was so much better
The writer and director, Darin Morgan, also wrote for the original series, and was responsible for two of the very best episodes of the show: Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space' and the Emmy-winning Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, both of which are brilliant.
In particular, note that both "Chung" and this week's episode feature retelling of events from multiple perspectives as well as a certain over-arching sardonic and self-aware humor. (Did you notice Mulder's ringtone is the X-Files' theme music?)
Wikipedia link; more over at IO9, which also notes a few Easter eggs — the biggest of which is actually in the comments: the character Guy Mann is dressed exactly like Carl Kolchak, from the show that inspired Chris Cater in the 1970s.
Strictly for Old, Nerdy Heathen
Song Exploder's Bowie Playlist
First, Song Exploder is brilliant, and you should be paying attention to it.
Second, this feature has a number of musicians discussing particular Bowie songs, and includes John Roderick on Space Oddity (reproduced below). This is awesome because, of course, Roderick has a lost-astronaut song of his own that I've seen him play live.
Space Oddity is the original and still the best lost astronaut song, released only a few days before the Apollo 11 launch in 1969. It was originally a current events song! Maybe even a novelty song, if the events in question weren't so solemn. All the more of an accomplishment, then, that it still sounds futuristic and provokes anxiety 47 years later. In 1969 space travel seemed poised to become mundane–we would soon all be living on space stations, wearing jumpsuits and enjoying science drinks–but Bowie sided with Kubrick that, in addition to metaphysical magic, suburbia, celebrity, and product placement and malfunction would follow us to the stars. Like so much of Bowie's music, Space Oddity has themes and sounds that in less adroit hands would be corny. The countdown at the top of the song and the horn swell "rocket ship taking off" are so literal you almost roll your eyes, but Bowie's voice is so urgent you lose all desire for detachment. It's hard for us now to imagine the emotional moment of 1969, with all the war, violence, unrest and upheaval taking place. The world-historical venture into space, armed with science and human confidence, wasn't yet a fait accompli. We still could have fucked it up, left dead astronauts on the lunar surface, surrendered to the impossibility of Kennedy's hubristic challenge and Vietnammed ourselves into a death throe. Instead, we succeeded, and Bowie more than any other artist made outer space the dominant theme of his work for many years after. His persona allowed him to comment on contemporary events from a place that felt like objectivity. Bowie saw us like an alien might, but he loved us and got bloody with us because he was trapped here, or emigrated here on his own, so he took our side. Bowie screeched and squawked and filled his music with unearthly noises and we accepted it because we were so flattered that this metallic space Phoenix was interested in talking to us. The appeal of the Rolling Stones was that you were supposed to feel lucky some cool junkies invited you to listen to their sex party through a keyhole, but Bowie had a message about the salvation of humanity. He seemed to be telling us that the looming apocalypse was survivable? Escapable, maybe? Maybe not, though. Maybe we should just quit fighting and have sex a lot until the fire tornados come? Maybe Major Tom experienced a malfunction and his spacecraft was lost, but more likely Major Tom severed his own tether for reasons known only to him. Maybe he saw something, or someone was waiting out there for him, or he realized the futility of our seeking, or he found what we're all seeking in the eternal quiet.
How we are failing our dogs
The History of American Comedy in 100 Jokes
This feature at Vulture is really great. Absolutely make time.
If nothing else, it may refresh your appreciation for a number of these giants, especially Jonathan Winters, whose improvised, rapid-fire routine with a stick on the Jack Paar show (in 1964!) makes clear what a defining influence he was on Robin Williams.
Seriously, don't miss this.
Required Reading
You really should make time for this in-depth bit over at the Atlantic: What ISIS Really Wants.
More Bowie bits you shouldn't miss
From the RS tribute issue:
Trent Reznor's comments include Bowie helping him get sober: "I knew. I knew you'd do that. I knew you'd come out of that.". You should absolutely click through to the 1994 tour performance wherein he and Bowie do "Hurt" together. (How the fuck did I miss that tour?)
Longtime Bowie bassist Gail Ann Dorsey — who also became his "Under Pressure" duet partner — was more or less plucked from near-obscurity to tour with him; her memories of him are here. On this one, don't miss the video of "Under Pressure."
I can't tell if this is an example of genius or an abomination
Here we see an entire IBM PC (model 5150, running at 4.77 Mhz) emulated in Javascript. Enjoy.
(Scroll down; if you want, you can play Zork.)


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Alley Oop by Jack and Carole Bender
- October 27, 2012
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Panel One
As their eyes adjusted they could see some artifacts. Two of them seemed to have their own faint glow about them. A greenish one from their strange aquatic outlines. (Alley had moved the PNG out of the way so Dr. Avril could pick up one of them.)
Panel Two
"It is so light, and it tingles!" She said. She could feel it is of some kind of metal with a mild electric charge, but solid yet nearly weightless. Barrel shaped the five flat triangular star fish arms radiated from the flattened top and larger bunch on what must be the bottom. Five thin arms coil out, some are broken off. There is more in the chest.
Panel Three
"I think we take the chest back up stairs and look over it, it is the find of a life time!" Baroness gleefully said, with some subtle aid of her dead grand father playing off of her normal excitement.
Panel Four
It is at that time that Alley sees what has been missing, what irked him when he first detected the Outsider. He thought at first it was connected to the Baroness in some way. But he was wrong. She has two personalities in her! But is it just one of those psychological things he has heard of or something more.
He needs to tell the others away from her when the first chance presents itself.
Panel Five
Dr. Tucker was ready to leave this and continue but he couldn't. This find alone could change important facts in several whole sciences! With some trepidation he tells them, "alright, lets take it back up." Alley takes the chest in one hand as he hefts the PNG in the other and begins the climb which will take them from this subterranean burrow to the basement and up to the first floor.
Well Ooola's going to stick to Alley like glue.
That's telling him, Ooola!
Yeah, she remembers what happened the last time she went looking for Oop. lol
Nice story, Night-Gaunt! The Baroness is getting to be an interesting character.
@Tundrasea (from yesterday) –
I respect your opinion and your willingness to share, and I agree with you about the possibility of having too much background, and that sometimes it's better to throw in a panel or two of talking heads to help the reader focus on a certain aspect of a conversation. But what many of us readers are dissatisfied with, in regard to the Bender's performance, is that they have shown a tendency over the last several years to get by with less and less artwork and seem to be getting lazier and lazier. Today's strip illustrates this point. Although there are three panels instead of the typical two, there is no background in any of them. Instead the Benders are back to using the "creepy leaves" for window dressing. That, plus the inconsistency in the characters, the unresolved loose ends, and the silly plot ideas, just show that it's time for the Benders to retire and turn this strip over to some artist or artists who will give this great old strip the care and attention it deserves.
It's a smart man who knows when to agree with the woman.
Does this mean no more time travel for Oop and Oola?
Grab her by the hair and drag to cave….
Thank you, glad you are enjoying it.
My suggestion to all of you who are complaining about this strip. Just stop reading it. For God's sake it's only a comic strip. Get a life.
Ooola's rage is just a symptom of chococholism! She became so strung out during her stay in the Jaguar Pyramid that she is now exhibiting signs of withdrawal! Have a choco drink Oool babe and chill!
Listen. It is also literature. We like it to remain with the high standards it originally had. You obviously don't know swill when you read it. This is a low standard. It could easily be higher. Art does mean something to is.
Sorry Sneaky Bucher, Gocomics won't allow drawings here. And can't you imagine it in your mind yet? And no I won't quit. So read it and enjoy it for what it is. I'm not quitting. And others like it and they read it.
@ blemley & Sneaky Bucher – I happen to be in full support of davidf42. He stated the case for us who complain clearly and politely. For the most part we are loyal readers who have followed this strip for many years. We have no intention of leaving. When the strip returns to its former quality we will cease to complain. We're all aware that, "it is just a cartoon strip". It happens to be one we are very fond of. You suggest we just leave if we don't like it, well then why don't you just skip the comments you don't like.
Good Morning Benders and all First off if Ooola had taken her own advice this last adventure would have never
happened. Also Alley needs to learn some phrases to throw Ooola off when she is angry, like Your eyes are beautiful when you are angry. At least in Alley and Ooola's ongoing
relationship, they are thinking about each other now. That's
a positive.
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Fresh and Local: Tempe Farmers Market
- Location: Tempe, AZ
- Website: tempefarmersmarket.com
While he's passionate about minimizing carbon footprints and supporting Arizona food producers, Dutton is equally concerned with meeting the needs of everyone in neighborhood, not just die-hard locavores or gourmands. With this in mind, he stocks a range of local and non-local items at various price levels, ingredients for the area's Asian and Middle Eastern communities (his Chinese father-in-law curates a shelf called the "Asian Zone"), and enough variety that people can make this their regular grocery store. Alongside the artisanal pasta is Kraft macaroni and cheese, making the store feel accessible and inclusive.
We really appreciate this approach and recommend a stop by Tempe Farmers Market if you're in the Tempe or Phoenix area. It's also a great place for food-loving tourists to find souvenirs like salsas, spices, and relish. And horse rides are free!
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Services for Dennis Deloyce Cowart will be held Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Raymon Leake, Dr. Carl White, and Reverend Jon Martin officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Cowart, age 89, of Meridian, died Friday, February 24, 2012 at Regency Hospital. Mr. Cowart was a resident of Meridian since 1989, when he and his wife, Leola, moved from Jackson, MS. Dennis was born August 15, 1922 near Phil Campbell, AL. He served in the U.S. Army, 199th Field Artillery, European Theatre, in W.W.II. After discharge from the military service, he moved to Jackson where he met and married Lela Knight of Tremont, MS. He attended Hinds Junior College. He was a cattle and tree farmer, and was employed for 28 years with the USDA Soil Conservation Service. He was a faithful child of God, lifelong deacon, and was a member of First Baptist Church and Highland Baptist Church of Meridian. He loved his Lord, his family, his country, and the land. He enjoyed gardening and all things outdoors. His genuineness as a Christian and a friend was apparent to all who knew him.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Leola Knight Cowart of Meridian; daughter, Mary Ann Cowart Wilkerson and husband, Joe of Meridian; two grandchildren, Ben Wilkerson and wife, Kelly of Covington, LA, and Shelley Wilkerson Ellis and husband, Todd of Meridian; sisters, Edith Kincaid and husband, Dave of Valparaiso, IN, Genettie Ray of Dyersburg, TN Ollie Hopkins of Newbern, TN and Shirley Autry and husband, Tommy of Newbern, TN; brother George Cowart of Springville, TN; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Jessie Cowart; sisters Estelle Griffin and Mozelle Pope; and brothers Charles Cowart and Bill Cowart. Pallbearers will be Todd Ellis, David Autry, Wayne Nail, Chuck Burk, Mark Pope, James Pope, Greg Donaldson, and Tilton Prater. Honorary pallbearers will be Lamar Smith Sunday School Class of Highland Baptist Church.
Family and friends may sign online guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com
Visitation will be held Saturday, February 28, 2012, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home.
Eloise Parr was born June 27, 1921 to Horace and Stella Holt Carson in Paducah, Ky. She departed this life on Feb. 24, 2012. Eloise was affectionately known to the family as "Wezee."
She leaves to mourn 13 children, Aubrey (Sandra) Roberson of Moreno Valley, Calif.; Bobby (Joyce) Parr of Memphis; Tommy Parr of Nashville; Ronald (Arlene) Parr of Memphis; Michael (Margaret) Parr of Dyersburg; Tyrone Parr of Nashville; Rickey Vincent Parr of Alexandria, Va.; Gregory Parr of Dyersburg; Vanessa K. Blackwell of Dyersburg; Marty Parr of Dyersburg; Kenneth Parr of Alexandria, Va.; Mitzi (Jesse) Davis of Dyersburg; and Jennifer (Roderick) Caldwell of Nashville. She also leaves behind one sister, Malisa Greer of Dyersburg; 32 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church located at 539 Court St. East in Dyersburg. Visitation will be Wednesday, Feb. 29 from 6-8 p.m. at Salter's Chapel AME Church located at 1016 Scott St. in Dyersburg, the Rev. George Turks, pastor; the Rev. Cecil Maddox eulogizing. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery in Dyersburg. The family will receive friends Thursday, March 1 from 9-11 a.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Ernest (Joe) Pointer age 72 of Tiptonville, TN died Friday, February 24, 2012 at Reelfoot Manor. Cosmopolitan Funeral Services is in charge. Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 1 p.m. at Rock of Ages C.M.E. church in Tiptonville, TN. Visitation will be held at the church Thursday, March 1, 2012 at noon until time of service. Officiating Rev. Edward Harville. Burial will be held in the Citizens Cemetery in Tiptonville, TN. Survivors include his wife Johnnie Fingers Pointer, Tiptonville, TN. Daughters, Vivian Robb, Leslie Carballo, Valerie Johnson, Atlanta, GA., Patricia Davdison, Tiptonville, TN. Sons, Joseph Fingers, Tiptonville, TN., William Hockett, Benton Harbor, MI., Freddrick Fingers, Colorado Springs, CO.; 28 grandchildren 47 great-grandchildren, 5 great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers, Christopher Hockett, William Hockett, Steve Avery, Willie Avery, Timothy Hockett, Shelby Smith. You may give online condolences at www.cosmopolitanfuneralservices.net
Horace Eugene Gray, 78, of Obion, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Union City.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today at Dyer County Memorial Gardens. Dyersburg Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Barbara Herring, 63, of Ripley, died Friday, Feb. 24, 2012.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. today in the Gates Cemetery in Gates. Halls Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Glendel Scott Page, 76, of Ridgely, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 at his residence.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Dyersburg Funeral Home.
Mary Hand Puffenbarger, 87, of Halls, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.
Graveside services will be held on Saturday, March 3 at 10 a.m. at Archer's Chapel Cemetery. Halls Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Roberson of Dyersburg died Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 at his residence.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by H.H. Hudson Funeral Home.


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March 27, 2012 § Leave a comment
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A simple chicken dinner- Kuku Wet Fry
March 19, 2012 § Leave a comment
We, Kenyans, love our chicken; for many of us, chicken being bought and slaughtered was a sign that holiday seasons were about to begin and we could indulge in delicious treats! Yum! Yum! Seeing as we're moving close to the April holiday season, I know some of y'all may not be able to make it back home for some good Mama cooking so I'm going to help you out with this simple, but absolutely flavorful dish, that is my take on the popular 'Kuku Wet Fry'.
First off, soak a whole chopped chicken (bones on) in brine- a solution of equal parts salt and sugar with lots of water- this keeps the chicken soft, juicy and tender during the cooking process. Make sure the solution covers all the pieces and let it sit for half an hour.
While this is going on, chop up 5 medium tomatoes in quarters, lengthwise. In a large pot, put in some fresh rosemary on the stem (we want to retain as much of the woody flavor as possible), add in 3 tablespoons vegetable oil and the tomatoes, cook over a low heat and let it sweat good, until the tomatoes reduce and release their sweetness.
After half an hour, drain the chicken and dry it with a clean dishcloth or using paper napkins. Heat up some oil till hot and fry the chicken skin side down until it's crispy and golden brown, don't let it cook through.
During the frying process, season the chicken with black pepper and dried mixed herbs. Once done, drain out the excess fat by sitting the fried pieces on paper towels.
Toss in 3 chopped onions and a full garlic bundle (chopped) into the pan with the tomatoes. Let it cook for 5 minutes then add in more black pepper and mixed herbs, mix and add a tablespoon of Royco and one Maggi cube. Throw in the chicken and add in a cup and a half of water. Allow to cook for 25 minutes and turn off the cooker, and let it rest for 15 minutes.
Serve with courgette and rice, with some avocado drizzled with lemon juice on the side.
This meal is just a treat. However, as delicious as it is, it is fattening so don't make it a regular menu appearance if you're trying to maintain the figure.
A Sushi Journey
March 19, 2012 § 1 Comment
Once upon a time, there was a fair lass who traveled to far-away lands, seeking wisdom from the Sensei of the kitchen.
She crossed great lands and oceans, to the coastal city that is currently know of Los Angeles, in the great land of California. Her search led her through wide streets, and narrow alleys, into the hot desert, and strangely, to a lonely cold mountain in this hot land.
And while she searched, her Sensei was perfecting his skills, knowing that one day a little grasshopper would come searching for him. He needed to pass on the knowledge to someone who would take the skills to a great people from the cradle of mankind. He knew he could trust his student to learn fast, and learn well, since she only had limited time with him. And so he sharpened his knives, laid out his bamboo mats, and prepared his chopsticks to the finest sheen.
Little grasshopper was almost ending her journey, and she might have had to go back home, had she not wandered into a little back street. As she walked down the street, everyone seemed to look at her like they recognized her. She simply nodded and walked on, as if sensing this was her destiny. At the end of the street was a little door, not too small for one to walk through, but not too big to be noticeable from a far. And on the door was a sign that said, simply, "welcome".
Grasshopper pushed the door open, and she was almost overwhelmed by the smells that wafted through the house. The delightful smells coming from what seemed to be a kitchen in the middle of the room filled her whole body, infusing her every pore with delightful tingles. In the midst of this all, stood a man, slightly taller than her, slender in body, who with a smile, beckoned her to come closer.
She walked fast towards the table, almost running, but tried to restrain herself as she knew she had arrived at the end of her quest. Sensei simply handed her an apron and a knife, and everything seemed to fall into place. Chopping and dicing, slicing and arranging, Sensei showed her what she had come to do: learn how to make sushi. They cooked sticky rice, laughing as it covered Grasshopper's fingers until she learned to dip her hands in warm water first before handling it. The thin slices of red tuna sliced so well, you could almost hear the swipe of the knife as it went through the meat.
In no time, Grasshopper had mastered the age old art of making sushi, with the wonderful and kind Sensei at her side, and she knew she was ready to share it with the world. Packing a bag of tools in a basket, Sensei made sure she had the essentials before she left, as well as a carefully wrapped dish of sushi rolls that he had specially made for her. She was ready for the world!
Grasshopper traveled back to her land, over oceans and vast lands, to the little city of Nairobi. The sushi rolls that Sensei had made for her were nourishment for the journey on that magical dragon machine that took only two days to bring her back home. Her family received her back in jubilation, delighting and awed by the skills she had acquired.
Soon enough, it was my turn to become the grasshopper. The original grasshopper, Suzzi, was ready to teach me as her Sensei had, a few years ago. She carefully taught me step by step: what to do, what to improvise with, and what new ways to make Sushi rolls and California rolls.
Who will be the next grasshopper?
- ½ Kilo Sticky rice
- Sea weed wrapping
- Crab sticks/Tuna/Salmon
- Bell pepper (red, green and yellow)
- Cucumber
- Soy sauce to serve
You will need a bamboo mat to roll the sushi, and some cling wrap
- Boil the rice until cooked. Remember that it's sticky rice, so it won't come out in single grains.
- Julienne the bell pepper and cucumber, and also cut the tuna or crab into thin slices. Crab sticks can be used as a whole.
- Lay the bamboo mat on a flat surface, and cover with cling wrap to avoid the food sticking onto the mat.
- Lay one wrapping of sea weed onto the mat, and cover 2/3rds of it with about ½ inch of sticky rice, leaving one edge uncovered. Handle the sticky rice with wet hands, to avoid it sticking to you.
- In the middle of the rice, lay the cucumber, pepper and fish/crab slices.
- Roll the mat to the edge of the seaweed, pressing firmly as you go to get the rice to stick together in a roll. The sea weed should be on the outer side when the mat is unrolled.
- Gently slice off pieces of the roll into bite sizes, using a sharp knife for a clean cut.
- Repeat the process until you have enough rolls and pieces of sushi to serve.
- Pour soy sauce into a side bowl, and serve alongside the sushi.
*Vegetarian rolls, are simply made by omitting the fish from the sushi.
You can refrigerate any extra slices left, since they are served cold, but being careful not to serve them too many days later, as fish spoils very fast.
#ConserveNNP picnic and awesome company
March 18, 2012 § 4 Comments
Nairobi National park has always been, and is a little gem in the city. I, however, have to confess that I only went there once or twice in my childhood when I was around 12 years old. It was without a doubt a real pleasure to be re-acquainted with this timeless beauty, courtesy of the Kenya Wildlife Service while on a tour for bloggers. We used the hashtag #ConserveNNP (which stands for Conserve Nairobi National Park), throughout the whole trip to collectively document it. The experience as shown to us by Kevin, Mercy and Kama (a hilarious game driver), was one that I am absolutely grateful for. Typically, a picnic experience will cut you back just 500Ksh and you get on the KWS bus into the park. After that, the 7 picnic sites are free to frequent just carry your own food. We met an amazing array of animals as you will see below and had a delicious stop over tea and lunch that was provided to us by KWS. We also planted tree seedlings with a park warden.
Enjoy the shots below!
Lamb Curry and Basmati Rice with Salad
February 27, 2012 § 10 Comments
Today I present to you Lamb Curry. I am a spice girl! My siblings keep asking me why I stock up lots of spices and I tell them, "I enjoy spicy food more than anything." I traveled to DRC last year and the one thing I enjoyed is the piment (hot sauce). I remember the grilled chicken served with that flavored sauce was an unforgettable experience.
Lamb is another of my favorite meats that I enjoy cooking because it has it's own flavor and is tender so it does not require too much heat. Again it is an under-an-hour recipe with simple ingredients.
I first browned the lamb in a hot pot then threw in the garlic, ginger and onion. I added a little oil to the lamb as that was going on, then added the secret formula: the curry powder, a mix of cumin, turmeric, garam masala. This was one of the ingredients that my mom and dad taught me to cook with because I remember her many meals just came to life whenever she used it. It adds good color to the meal as well. Once the spices are cooked I added chunky tomatoes, coconut milk and yoghurt. I sprinkled black pepper and turned the heat down to allow it to simmer. Then I used coriander (dhania) to add to the color and let it cook lightly and turned it off.
I then simple fried the basmati rice and added salt to taste. On the side I made a salad with lettuce, chopped olives, cherry tomatoes and balsamic vinegar. Do a little mix and prepare this before everything else so that is chills a little in the fridge. Something tangy to start the meal and just keep the flavors coming with the main course.
I hope you enjoy making this one too. More coming…
~Bisous Bisous~
Pan Fried Oxtail with Peanut Butter Fried Spinach and Ugali
February 25, 2012 § 2 Comments
DISCLAIMER: If you have never used a pressure cooker please ensure you read the instructions before using one or use the traditional jiko and pot to cook. You will achieve the same if not better results.
Whenever I cook oxtail it usually reminds me of the days that my mom would prepare it the night before on a jiko in a pot. She would throw in all the elements necessary to make the food tasty and the one thing that I remember of the final output of that cooking was the soup. That is a recipe for another day.
Today I decided to cook a simple meal because I miss my mom. She is everything to me, something many of you would say about your mothers. She taught me how to cook, not because she was following customs but because she did not know how to cook when she met my dad. What that meant was that my dad had to teach her how to cook. So my mom wanted to change the script for her children and it resulted in us learning how to cook at an early age. I remember having a timetable that my siblings and I would use to guide us on the meals for the day that ensured we all got a chance to cook. During our family gatherings everyone is in the kitchen cooking something.
This meal can take long hours to cook if you go the traditional route of cooking in a pot and slow simmers. The final meal is too tasty and the way the meat falls off the bone leaves you so close to even chewing the bone. I used a pressure cooker that allowed me to prepare this meal in under an hour; I love simple meals. So for ingredients for the pan fried oxtail I used 1KG of oxtail, onions, tomatoes and salt for taste. For the spinach a few leaves, onions and peanut butter. 2 Cups of maize flour to deliver ugali for 2 people.
I put a cup of water in the pressure cooker and salt for taste. After 10minutes reduce the heat and release the pressure so that you do not over cook the meat. You still want the meat on bone as much as possible but achieve a tenderness. I then pan-fried the oxtail with onions and tomatoes until browned. Afterwards, I prepared the peanut butter using medium heat to achieve consistency then threw in the onions and then the spinach. As that was going I prepared the ugali and we were ready to eat: my housemate and I. I topped this up with the oxtail soup with chilli and it felt like I was back home with mom.
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He came to one event and interviewed my Father and another survivor who had been in 17 engagements aboard ship and was convinced to speak about it for the first time ever. Those were the only 2 interviews given. Mr. Campbell was supposed to come back Dec. 7th 2010 to conduct more interviews but never showed. I contacted Mr. Campbel after several months to let him know that 3 of the survivors from chapter 7 had passed away and those stories were gone forever. I ask him to just forget about the project and requested to purchase the footage he had on the 2 survivors. He responded very angrily "I'll decide whether or not this project goes forward." I told him we no longer needed his services and asked one more time to purchase the footage. He replied, "No, And don't ever contact me again" and hung up.
In the year and a half thats past several more survivors have passed including the gentleman who was in 17 engagements. i don't know if Mr. Campbell knew what he had his hands on. An opportunity to record living history. As for my father, we contacted a professional videographer and had his story recorded. He has recently recieved medals for his heroics on Dec. 7th, 1941 and was flown to Hawaii all expenses paid to be honored this past summer.
The teaser is on Mr. Campbell's website called "TEARS OVER THE PACIFIC" It never happened. I feel that its deceiving to have this in his portfolio when it never came to fruition. There were only 2 survivors who attended this year and so many more who have passed or have some form of dementia. Those stories are lost, gone for ever.
This wasn't a concert where the sound was missing from the footage. It wasn't a videographer who's wages weren't paid. It wasn't businesses who were taken by phony promisses as stated by the previous complaints above. It was America's greatest generation ignored. The title Mr. Campbell came up with was due to the many tears the individual cried while trying to get his story out for the first, and according to his family, the only time. Mr. Campbell's visit and the promises made are all clearly documented in the Chapters Secretaries minutes and was also mentioned in the following news letter.
I hope Mr. Campbell can find it in his heart to get the footage of the deceased survivor to his remaining family. If so, I would be happy to update that information on this post. Until then, I remain disappointed.
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On October 10, I viewed my bank statement and realized that Covad had used my same checking account and charged it $29.95 again. I called and spoke to 3 different associates that explained that they could see the service was not used since September, but they have no notes in there system stating I wanted to cancel. I asked, how the notes are entered and the Manager on Duty-said by hand. I said so, even though you can see the service was not used for 2 months--you won't help me, because you don't see any notes from the associates.
My word against the company. How is anyone going to beable to prove they called to cancel--If the proof of me not using the service was not enough and that the company even called back for my buisness was still not enough. The fact that they feel there associates make no mistakes and the biggest problem of all is that this company now has 60 dollars of my money--which is not a big deal to them, but it sure is to me and my family.
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