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Security Practices
The Easy Agile team takes security seriously. We know we're not infallible and we are always working to improve our security practices. Below we detail our current practices.
For context, Easy Agile User Story Maps and Easy Agile Roadmaps are delivered as 'static' add-ons for Jira. The entire product is written in Javascript and that file is delivered to the client and the product runs entirely on the client side. We chose this architecture to minimise our security footprint.
Jira Cloud
Our Jira Cloud versions require the following Atlassian Connect Permissions (Scopes): Read, Write, Delete and Project Administration. Project Administration is needed for the creation and updating of Versions.
As the product is delivered as a static, client-side add-on, the requests to read, create or update Jira data are made by the account of the person using the addon. When you install the add-on you will see a new user added automatically to the Jira Software projects (e.g. Easy Agile User Story Maps for Jira (addon_com.kretar.Jira.plugin.user-story-map)) under the role 'atlassian-addons-project-access'.
We follow the Atlassian guidelines for security:
- App Security Incident Management Guidelines for Atlassian Marketplace Vendors
- Atlassian Cloud Security Program
- Atlassian Cloud App Operations Guide
- Security Guidelines and Best Practices for Atlassian Marketplace Vendors
Analytics Data
Easy Agile captures analytics events from our products and stores these in a private analytics database hosted on Amazon Web Services in the United States of America.
No Personally Identifiable Information is included in the analytics events sent.
We do include the license Support Entitlement Number (SEN) to improve your customer support experience. For example, in the event you experience an error and raise a support request we are able to diagnose the problem quicker. We also collect an anonymous and random unique identifier for each browser session, this unique identifier (UUID) is not tied to, or seeded from, a user's personally identifiable information.
Example analytics event data we receive:
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|{"JiraVersion":"7.1.2", "eausmjsVersion":"3.0.18", "loadDuration":3447, "boardType":"scrum", "estimationType":"Story Points", "doneIssueCount":2, "issueCount":59, "epicCount":25}
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|2017-03-20 22:53:22.433+00
|{"epicCount":10, "loadDuration":570, "JiraVersion":"7.2.6", "readOnlyMode":true, "scheduledEpicCount":0, "selectedTimelineType":"month", "themeCount":1}
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Development Workflow
We have a backlog that is ordered in terms of our vision for the product coupled with key customer feature requests. Team members pull stories from the backlog as capacity allows. Typically their first step is to write tests to assert the behaviour we expect. From there they will write code to make tests pass, and then refactor as needed.
When a team member is ready for code review they add two of their colleagues to a pull request. Their colleagues review the code for consistency, sanity, and against the acceptance criteria of the user story. There are usually a few comments of things to consider, tidy up or change, and these are then incorporated.
During the code review we also begin user acceptance testing of the functionality in both Jira Cloud and Server. At this point we're trying to ensure that what we deliver makes sense from a customers perspective. This often turns up UI/UX improvements for the story which are then subsequently included in the pull request.
Once the pull request has been approved the development branch is merged into our staging branch where we do final user acceptance testing before release. Once we are happy with the results we merge into the master branch which always represents what is in production.
In the case of Jira Cloud the feature is then deployed automatically and customers begin to see the new version immediately. For Jira Server we select a commit on master that contains the desired functionality, we than tag that with a version number and perform a manual release to Atlassian Marketplace.
On every commit to the development branch unit and functional tests are automatically run. Pre-commit hooks exist on the master branch which prevent a merge in the event a pull request has not been approved or tests are not passing.
Bug Bounty
We do not offer a bug bounty today. If you find a bug please raise a support request.
If you find a security vulnerability please email email@example.com (Keybase/PGP) and email@example.com (PGP/Keybase) directly.
Infrastructure Access
Automation and monitoring means that team members do not require access to staging or production infrastructure.
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"I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device." — Nikola Tesla, Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931)
This is a "what if" story. But it's also based on decades of experience analyzing propaganda and cover stories.
It's based on the knowledge that military and intelligence operatives are trained to lie, and they like to lie, and they get up in the morning, licking their chops, because they know they're going to lie during another day in paradise.
Is Tesla and his breakthrough science the hidden element in UFO research? Is he being buried under a welter of cover stories? In any event, cover stories ARE being floated in great numbers.
Nikola Tesla and other outlier scientists were researching anti-gravity in the 20th century. Upon his death, Tesla's research papers were stolen by the government and never released.
What has the US government been doing at secret research facilities since World War 2— such as the famed Lockheed Skunkworks in Palmdale, California—and whose technology have they been using?
Have they been advancing Tesla's (and other outlier scientists') work? They would certainly try.
Would this US research be pointed toward building military craft capable of extraordinary speeds and maneuverability? Certainly.
Could this technology, at the root, have other applications—such as new modes of energy production that would eliminate the need for an oil economy? Possibly.
That would be a key reason for secrecy. Absolute secrecy.

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Exclusive: 'Buffy' star Tom Lenk to make Broadway debut in 'Rock of Ages'
Tom Lenk, who starred as Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will make his Broadway debut as Franz in the Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages on Sept. 14. Lenk originated the supporting role, the son of a German developer who wants to demolish the Sunset Strip (including LA's favorite rock club), in Los Angeles and Las Vegas productions. He phoned EW to give us the scoop and the often hilarious backstory.
• A UCLA theater grad with formal voice training, Lenk went to college with Rock of Ages' Tony-nominated director Kristin Hanggi. They've worked together before — on a production of Ann E. Wrecksick, an Annie spoof about bulimic orphans, in the basement of a Mexican restaurant in Silver Lake, Calif. the summer after his first season on Buffy. She knew he was also friends with Rock of Ages writer Chris D'Arienzo, and phoned Lenk to tell him that D'Arienzo had a role that might suit him. "In Ann E. Wrecksick, I had done a character of a German fashion designer. I'd also been doing this sketch for years about a German character who's obsessed with Star Trek and Melrose Place, based on my time having been invited to appear as a random Buffy person at a Star Trek convention in Germany and a friend's Hungarian husband who was obsessed with Melrose Place," he says. "So they knew I did this German thing, and it happened to be perfect for the show."
• Franz's big moment, the song "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," comes when he starts a relationship with Regina, who works in the Mayor's office and protests his and his father's plans. "I'm a little nervous. The way I performed it in LA and Vegas is not nearly as exhaustive as the version that's happening now on stage. I would stand and sing, and then do some dancing. But now it's dancing while I'm singing, so I have two weeks to become Beyoncé," he says. (Thankfully, he'd already been taking dance classes at his gym and doing Silver Lake's Sweaty Sundays, "an all-level ironic jazz dance class.") He also has additional motivation: At the beginning of the song, he rips away his costume to reveal "a bedazzled onesie, so to speak." If memory serves him well, that was actually his idea back when the show was being workshopped. "I think offhandedly, I was like, 'Guys, this song is just missing something. What do you think if I ripped off my clothes to reveal a sparkling unitard?' And the director was like yes and yes.'" To prepare for that moment, he's hired a trainer, reinstating the "TWAT system" — "Tan it, Wax it, And Tone It " — which he and the other Ann E. Wrecksick actors developed when they had to appear on stage in their underwear. "Here's the thing: When we did Rock of Ages in LA [in 2006], I ripped off my clothes and it was funny and everyone had a good laugh," he says. "I went to see the show last month in New York, and the guy ripped his clothes off to reveal a totally rockin' bod. I was like,Ohmygod, you can be funny and arousing? If I'm gonna take my clothes off every day on stage for six months on Broadway, I might as well get a date out of it. So I'm gonna try to get some biceps and pectoral muscles by Sept. 14."
• He begins rehearsals today, but he won't actually get to perform with the actors he'll share the stage with until the afternoon before his evening debut. "Which makes me want to have a complete heart attack/throw up," he admits. "I know I should be prepared for this. I do have a theater degree. I do theater all the time [at LA's Upright Cabaret]. I did a tour of Grease in Germany like 10 years ago, but I was an understudy for Doody and Eugene and I never went on. So I never got my big put-in rehearsal." Clarification: He could have gone on once as Doody, but he'd booked a German Audi commercial that was coincidentally shooting in Austria on that same evening. During that commercial audition, Lenk, who speaks passable German and will use a thick accent in Rock of Ages, was asked if he skied. He lied and said yes. "I get to the set, and I'd missed something in the translation — it was ski-jumping. They let me freak out for awhile until they revealed that I had a stunt double," he says. "I only booked the commercial because ski jumpers are like jockeys, they have to be tiny and lightweight. They already had the costume, and they needed somebody to fit it. I was too big even. It was crazy. I missed my big show, Grease das Musical, which is fine."
• Lenk, who made his "Broadway-adjacent debut" last month with a sold-out-thanks-to-Twitter performance at Don't Tell Mama, plans to do more solo shows while he's in town. (Dates and venues to be announced.) His typical show features original, belted comedy songs (like "The Master Cleanse"), mash-ups (sample: "Gimme More"), as well as sketches and stand-up comedy. One of his favorite things to do is read the responses to an old online article about "Your Next Crush: Tom Lenk": "It has the range of the most amazing to the most horrifying to the most sexually explicit comments that teenage girls wrote about me. I read them back-to-back, and I do all the voices of what I imagine them to be like. That makes me laugh, always." He also sings original song lyrics he wrote in junior high and intended to send to bands like the B-52's. "They'd never seen the light of day, until I did them at the show Mortified."
• We tried to seize the opportunity to get some details on The Cabin in the Woods, the Joss Whedon-Drew Goddard film in theaters Feb. 5, 2010, but all Lenk would say is that he has a small role, Ronald the Intern, and that the film is a combination of genres that he doesn't think anyone's seen before. Also, that he signed a confidentiality agreement.
• He's shot a role in the indie romantic comedy My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, starring Alyssa Milano and Christopher Gorham (who was a year ahead of Lenk at UCLA and whose wife, Anel Lopez Gorham, appeared in a midnight Scooby-Doo Live production with him in the theater department's sculpture garden). He plays Milano's brother/sidekick, "a guy who accidentally ends up in a gum commercial and becomes a local celebrity. He's famous, but he didn't get any of the good stuff, the money, that comes with the fame. Just the 'Hey, aren't you that guy from the commercial?' Not that I can relate: [Taco Bell] burrito commercial, Blockbuster Video commercial, iPhone commercial…"
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The best info on living with, or with someone else, with A.D.H.D.
So….. What brought you here? Curiosity about A.D.H.D.? Let me tell you, living with this has been both a blessing and a curse. I have driven myself and others crazy, but you will never meet anyone with a better personality or fun energy than an A.D.H.D. person.
The kind of person who is exciting and unpredictable…. The ones who usually have the foot in mouth disease… (ex. "Excuse me, are you a man or a woman?") Also the kind that would give you the shirt off their back if they remembered to wear one.
I joke around, and I have learned to be self deprecating about it. It is what it is. But what it Isn't is not always so bad. The creativity and genius and the life of the party personality that come with having A.D.H.D. is truly contagious. As aggravating as we can be sometimes, we can turn your frown upside down like no other. There are so many good and fun things that come with the territory of being an adult with A.D.H.D.
However, there is also the bad part… like……Have you ever found yourself walking to your car from a recent shopping spree and fought like hell to get in your car only to realize it is another car that happens to be red and looks just like yours but it's just not yours? People are staring at you as you curse and flail your arms everywhere and you get so upset with your emotions you almost want to hit the car but restrain yourself. Then, as soon as you realize your goof, that you didn't even park in this entrance anyway, you can't help but laugh. That is something minor that we A.D.H.D. people deal with on a daily basis. To us, this is normal. However, from an outsiders perception, we are one card shy of a full deck…
No one in my family truly understands me. That's OK. I am finally at piece with it. Maybe I can help you to be at piece with it too. I also have anxiety and OCD, so I am REALLY genetically blessed. But I joke….
Tomorrow I want to share more stories and thoughts and perhaps advice to Anyone struggling or having a hard time about it. It's really not so bad!!


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Rusko – Dial My Number (zshare)
Perhaps you drank a lot over the week end. Perhaps you are tired. Maybe you are not. Maybe you want to party still. Drugs would help you. Or you just need a coffee. Decisions. The best way to resolve this kind of problem is to ask yourself "What would Rusko do?". You can even get a bracelet with WWRD written on it. If you know Rusko like we don't, you would know that he would not go out on a Sunday even if it is a long weekend in Canada. Now this may be because he is a devout Christian but even less likely it is because he would know that the next day this is happening:


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Introduction: Perfect Little Sprinkle Necklace.
this a very cute sprinkle necklace that is made. i used an old pocket watch that was broken and just took the clock out of it and i was left with this unique and beautiful pendant! i was looking for something to put in it and i thought that sprinkles would look cute. this would make a great wedding gift or simply just a unique necklace for everyday wear.
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this is super cool!
can you do a step by step on how to make it?? id really like to try it :)
i just did! i would love to see a pic of it if you make it!
have fun!
woooot :)
thanks heaps <3
can u send me the link for it pleaseee ? :D
sure! here is the link!
you can also just look at my instructables!
Thank you sooo much! ill do it as soon as i have the materials and everything!
ill tell you how it goes ;)
sure! i will try do do it as soon as possible.
it is actually really easy. all you need is sprinkles and a old pocket watch!
Emergency sprinkle supply! The sprinkles look great, and I can envision some scenarios that would be BYOSprinkles. An extemporaneous cupcake decorating party, perhaps? Accidentally ordered the wrong donuts for the local precinct? Sure, it's cute. But it's also practical. :-D


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The homebrew scene on PS4 is about to get interesting, now that players are able to get classic generation games more easily.
Over the last few months, hackers and modders have managed to find vulnerabilities in PS4 firmware updates that allows them to run PS2 games with ease. This is down with the help of PS4HEN that lets the console read previously-backed-up games without checking.
The effect is small and Sony has been releasing new firmware updates to help plug these holes, however modders have potentially found a new, more interesting application than simply running pirated PS4 games.
Elotrolado is reporting that a new tool allows users to backup PS2 games and run them on PS4.
The tool, called PS2 Pub Gen, is capable of getting this job done. Modders have been able to use this exploit to load backed up PS4 games. This tool doesn't work for PS3, which means the PS4's PS2 emulator is superior, possibly due to its power advantage. Right now, the tech is still in its infancy, but the emulator should be theoretically be able to handle any PS2 game provided its back up.
Of course, it goes without saying that using exploits to load unsigned content is against the Terms of Service and should be done at your own risk; seeing users capable of running PS2 games on a PS4 shows promise to the future of backwards compatible for the console.


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Is Bondmageddon Coming?
Are rates going to rise, and if so, when?
Will bond market volatility lower my returns?
Is the bond market getting more illiquid?
All these questions can cause anxiety, as there is uncertainty. After last week's Fed minutes were released, the media is abuzz with predictions that the Fed will begin taking its massive foot off short-term interest rates perhaps after the FOMC meeting in June. No one knows what will happen next. Will rates rise dramatically or will the bond community respond with a yawn? What investment strategies might give investors the best chance to weather this uncertainty?
Investors already saw increased bond market volatility in 2014 created by diverging growth trajectories between the U.S. on one side and the Eurozone and Japan on the other. The divergence in the global growth uncertainty has left the U.S and the U.K among the few countries that are contemplating rate increases while most central banks are lowering theirs. What investment strategies might give investors the best chance to weather this volatility?
Liquidity in the bond market has been getting lower since 2008 due to new banking regulations that require bank balance sheets to be tighter and cleaner. Liquidity is defined as the degree to which an asset or security can be bought or sold without affecting the asset's price; fewer trades mean each purchase or sale can have a greater impact on price. With tighter balance sheets, banks have reduced their trading volume. What investment strategies might give investors the best chance to trade their bonds effectively?
At GV, we believe these are valid questions and there are risks in the bond market; however, we remain confident that these risks can be managed effectively through prudent investing.cIn the U.S., the biggest one-year drop in the Global Financial Data extension of Moody's monthly total return index for 30-year corporate bonds (going back to 1857) was 12.5% for the 12 months ending February 1980. If you compare that to the biggest drop in the stock market, the S&P 500 lost 67.8% in the 12 months ending May 1932; moreover, the S&P 500's one-year losses have exceeded the bond market's biggest single loss (12.5%) 23 times since 1900. Source: Robert Shiller, Project Syndicate.
While the above questions are just now becoming mainstream, we have been thinking about the possible impact of these questions on the bond market for some time. Here are few thoughts to consider:
- With attractive risk-adjusted return opportunities harder to find, investors need to have patience and discipline with a defined process to avoid taking on excessive risk even in bonds.
- We believe that investors should be aware of the bonds they own. If they bought long-term bonds in the last few years chasing yield, they should understand the implications of rising rates on long-term bonds which lengthens a portfolio's duration, or its price sensitivity to changes in rates.
- If investors believe in passive bond investing, they should be aware of the intricacies of trading the passive products in volatile bond markets. An example of this could be seen during the bouts of volatility in high yield credit last year – technical selling in September/October 2014 from outflows in passive strategies like high yield ETFs caused spreads to widen substantially in a short period.
- We generally believe that active management remains a prudent strategy for fixed income investors, especially in the current environment, and that active management has the potential to achieve higher returns and greater diversification while providing the desired level of liquidity.
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Math Club Debate
Posted: Oct 12, 2007 11:38 PM
Some high schools have math clubs, or used to. One topic of possible interest is the old TI versus HP battle of the titans, largely forgotten now. We're in the 1970s, and some kids are carrying around what's known in the trade as RPN calculators. No nested parentheses, order of operations handled using a stack model, similar to how many computer languages work (e.g. forth). OK, so like Wff 'n Proof.
What happens is HP gets beaten back by the nesters, and TI has had USA schools eating out of its hand ever since. Or that's what vengeful HP engineers might think. Actually, it's not an either/or situation. RPN is wherever you want it to be, on computers. Just download the relevant stuff and you're set.
Be that as it may, it's still fun to go back and debate, as if it mattered.
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You'll be part of the newly formed Cube Academy. Focused on developing products that have an impact on millions of people's lives. We're looking to build a team of designers, creatives, engineers and marketers, to build amazing products while they study at uni or college.
You'll be in education, be it uni, college or sixth-form and have more than eight hours a week available (the more the better). Cube Academy is about the most talented people working together to build real products. This means you are already highly skilled, but looking to gather more experience.
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PACE Invited To Join G&T Task Force
PACE is honored to have been asked to join an important task force initiated by Brooklyn Borough President Adams and Bronx Borough President Diaz. Please read more about the task force in this press release and plan on attending the public hearing on Monday, March 20 at 6pm at the Bronx High School of Science. This is an important opportunity to share your G&T experience and help our elected officials improve G&T options for current and future public school students! If you can't be there in person, email your comments/ideas to email@example.com
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The handouts from the event are available here:
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Tinned Food and TrenchesBayonet charges, tinned food and censorship was what awaited a Year 8 group at Reigate Fort.
As part of the Gatton Remembers project, which the Royal Alexandra and Albert School has launched to mark the Great War, Year 8 pupils had the opportunity to experience a number of aspects of trench life at Reigate Fort.
Throughout the day pupils were taught about the small, everyday details of life at the Front, including what types of foods soldiers ate, what uniforms they wore, and what weapons they used. The first activity of the day was a drill practice, followed by a session on protective gear used by British soldiers in the war. Pupils were also taught about the differences in the lives of privates and officers in the trenches.
Pupils were then able to delve deeper into the lives of soldiers by learning about the popular slang terms they used and the censorship they experienced when sending letters home. Pupils read letters and removed pieces of information from them that could possibly be used against the Allies.
Jonathan Self, a Year 8 pupil, enjoyed stepping back in time. It was fun taking part in all the activities. We learnt so much about trench life during WW1, and in a fun way. If we had to sit in a classroom and learn what we did, it wouldnt have been as interesting.
Head of History, Mark Loveday, agreed, The Reigate World War One activities day was very beneficial to pupils. The living historians from 10th Essex brought trench warfare to life.


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You may have been in a Bridal Boutique and seen a sign stating no cameras. I know this can leave you puzzled as you stand there asking yourself why not? It makes common sense to be able to try own wedding gowns, and take pictures to either show someone who was not bale to attend and you value their opinion, to be able to do a comparison of yourself in other dresses but having pictures side by side, having it to show your florist, hairdresser, or make-up artist. all of these reasons and more are valid and sincere reasons. The reason for no cameras is to avoid copyright issues. You may tryon this fabolus designer gown that cost, $5,000 and can take a picture of that same gown to a talented and gifted seamstress, who can re-create the gown for almost 75% less. Where is the first place a bride usually see the gown of her dreams?...... "In a magazine" which is a picture (Duh) and the magazine pictures have more of a close-up, detailed, different angle, perfect lighting of the gown, than you ever would have taken with your Kodak. If you wanted to have the dress recreated, and nI am not promoting this.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Wedding Planner or Wedding Director? (what's the difference)
There is a big difference between a Wedding Director and a Wedding Planner. A Wedding Director is usually the church lady (smile), a close friend or a family member who orchestrates your wedding rehearsal and ceremony only. Some churches will allow you to use only their Director for your ceremony. The Director key job is to make sure that everyone knows when and how to walk down the aisle, nothing more and nothing less. It is not a very hard task and this is why a lot of people, or so quick to raise their hands and say that they are a Wedding Planner, when in reality they are not! A Wedding Planner does the job of a Director and a lot more. A Wedding Planner is there at the very begining of the entire process. A Planner key jobs are being creative, providing you with vendors, decorating ideas and suggestions, knowledge of the wedding lingo and trends, relieve you of stress, spearheading meetings and events, keeping you on budget, problem solving, being dependable, and just putting your dreams into a reality.
A Wedding Director will usually cost you nothing, because it's a friend or family member, a Wedding Planner will cost you a fee, but you know what they say "you pay for what you get" so if you pay nothing you just might get nothing! Hopefully this information should help guide you in the right direction.
SincerelySavonia R. Adams (Wedding Planner)
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Oh My Wal-Mart!!!
I just thought I would share this with you, so just in case you find yourself on a rainy, boring, cold, night as myself on many occasion and tonight being one of them....now you don't have to go to your local Wal-Mart anymore to be amused, shocked and gasping for air, by some of the weird, wild, obscence things that you see people, wearing, saying or even doing inside of your local Wal-Mart. Now you can just sit back and realax in the comfort of your own home and watch these folks online at http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ I am going to start upoading my own Hot Mess that I have witnessed in Wal-Mart. Enjoy!!
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Top of Wedding Cake!
The questions is do you serve it to your guest, or keep it for your first anniversary? Preserving your top layer for your first anniversary is a deep rooted tradition, and is considered as good luck, this tradition will continue until the end of time. Some couples now are opting for serving their top layer of the wedding cake to their guest, or at the next day farewell brunc, and just order a fresh relica from the same cake decorater for their first anniverary. If you do decide to keep the top layer, here is how you preserve it to make sure that it stays fresh, and just as tasty as the day it was baked...
Ask a responsible person to take the top layer home, who will be able to complete these task immediately. First the layer should be placed into the freezer immediately to harden the icing for one to two hours, then the cake should be frozen. The cake should then be loosely wrapped in plastic several times and then wrapped in aluminum foil, if you like you can place it into a cake box, but then wrap even the box in plastic, or just wrap the outside of the aluminum foil again in plastic. This protection will preserve the taste and texture of the cake. **never keep the cake in a frost-free freezer, because the constant defrosting will draw the moisture out of the cake. A deep freezer is the best. If you are moving within the year, leave the cake with a family member or friends freezer after the wedding to avoid moving the cake before your anniversary.When you are prepared to eat your cake on your anniversary, remove the cake from the freezer and thaw in the refrigerator for 48 hours, then place at room temperature for 2 to 3 hours. Your cake will be as beautiful (and tasty) as the day of your wedding!
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Christmas Humor
Don't know if any of you got a chance to see the man who decorated his house for Christmas along with a sense of humor, in which cause so much of an uproar that the police made him remove it. In the picture he had a "dummy" hanging from the second story of his house, as if he fell off the ladder with Christmas lights hanging, and the ladder lying in the bushes, in which people thought someone was in need of help, here is the man statement....
"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as people almost wrecked when they drove by.Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Bridal Shower or Bachelorette Party
A Bridal Shower is a party where you invite female friends, grandma and other family (that are invited to the wedding) to an afternoon party, sometimes it has a unique theme, like a monogram shower in which guest bring items with the couple's monogram, a tea party that all the ladies show off their best hats and white gloves, "what's for dinner" theme in which guest bring their favorite recipes for a meal and the ingredients in a gift basket, and the list goes on. Normally the bridesmaids and possibly the mother of the bride and or the mother of the groom pays for the shower. This event is rated PG
A Bachelorette Party is where you invite female friends and family out to a wild evening of fun , drinking, games, bar hopping, naughty gag gifts and oh yes strippers!! Normally you don't invite your Grandma or Mom, although I've seen both of them attend. Everyone usually pays for themselves and chip in for the stripper at a bachelortette party, although the bride really shouldn't have to buy her own drinks or anything! This event is rated XXX
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Color Combo for December
My color combo pick for this month is yellow, and purple. Both colors seperate has a diffrent meaning in my eyes. Of course yellow express, happy, joyful, carefree, fun and free spirit. The purple execute the boldnees of royal elegance, and more so an auora of mystery. When these two combined together they fuse into a firm sense of calmness, as a combo the purple stands firm and bold, and which it then brings peaceful calmness to the yellow.
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"Marijuana prohibition is just the stupidest law possible… Just legalize it and tax it like we do liquor." - Morgan Freeman
Hey, you gotta listen to God, right? Anyway... For those of you who love Satan's salad, this story is for you. For those of you who are scared of the Devil's lettuce, this story is for you too. Coz hey, this huge insane place called the internet could definitely use some more laughter.
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I read an incredible poem written by TS Eliot (1888-1965) entitled "The Hollow Men" this semester, and it echoes an idea that I found in other important literary figures, specifically Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and C.S. Lewis (1898-1963). The idea points out that modern man is weak. That he lacks substance and does not fight for the what is good and true and beautiful. That he does not search for meaning, but floats along the tide of the masses. He attaches to the popular idea, never questioning the times or trends. However, these powerful figures recognized the degeneration of modern man and cried out to warn humanity. To warn us.
These men yelled "fish out of water" as if they were playing Marco Polo and modern man began to escape from the pool. They opened their eyes and tried to alert the world of the injustice they perceived. I find it fascinating that these three men with enormously different views on life shared similar insights. I think their genius and prophetic voices must be read and thought about today. I will share a few of their thoughts and writings, as I think it is easy to see the parallel and importance between each of them.
The entire poem is incredible so please read it, but I specifically want to share the concluding stanzas. It is entitled "The Hollow Men" because it illustrates modern man as a scarecrow, which is stuffed with hay and lacks substance, and therefore will go anywhere the wind blows. This last part shares how the end of times is marked by modern man's loss of vitality.
TS Eliot "The Hollow Men"
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a whimper.
Friedrich Nietzsche talked about the same phenomenon but used the title "The Last Man" which is seen in his novel, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The website, The Academy of Ideas, sums up this idea of Nietzsche brilliantly so I'll just share what they say:
"The Last Man is the individual who specializes not in creation, but in consumption. In the midst of satiating base pleasures, he claims to have "discovered happiness" by virtue of the fact that he lives in the most technologically advanced and materially luxurious era in human history.
On some level, the Last Man knows that despite his pleasures and comforts, he is empty and miserable. With no aspiration and no meaningful goals to pursue, he has nothing he can use to justify the pain and struggle needed to overcome himself and transform himself into something better. He is stagnant in his nest of comfort, and miserable because of it. This misery does not render him inactive, but on the contrary, it compels him to seek victims in the world. He cannot bear to see those who are flourishing and embodying higher values, and so he innocuously supports the complete de-individualization of every person in the name of equality. The Last Man's utopia is one in which total equality is maintained not from without, by an oppressive ruling class, but from within, through the "evil-eye" of envy and ridicule."
Here is a quote from the novel:
"No herdsman and one herd. Everyone wants the same thing, everyone is the same: whoever thinks otherwise goes voluntarily into the madhouse."
C.S. Lewis talked about the same phenomenon but used the title "Men Without Chests", which pointed to the fact that modern man lost his heart and substance. His source of life. The ability to integrate his passions and intellect into action. The cultivation of his desires to seek something greater. The ability for man to be magnanimous. This idea is explained in his book, The Abolition of Man.
Here are two quotes from the book:
"The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment- these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man. It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man; for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal."
"In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."


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A Trip to Metrograph
To finish up the month of May, alongside a Marlene Dietrich marathon, Metrograph was host to the 2017 film ICAROS : A Vision, based on the true accounts of one woman's experience in the Peruvian amazon at an ayahuasca retreat. The weeklong run of the film was accompanied by lectures from the director, writer, and various professionals who have studied the psychoactive plant.
The screening and lectures included talks from the director Matteo Norzi, writer/producer Abou Farman, and Ivy league professors, as well as doctors who study psychoactive drugs and sound therapy, and notorious philosophers, sociologists and ecologists.
Somehow the film was surprisingly subtle and beautifully restrained in any sort of 'trippy' overkill— I was not reminded of 'Yellow Submarine' even once, and even for a skeptic of the entire concept, the film and overall experience was astonishingly mind-altering in itself. With zero personal experience and/or interest in ayahuasca, I left feeling open and curious.
You can expect that here, the lectures that Metrograph sets up are consistently dynamic and deepen the experience of whatever film you might catch, as was proven true with their curation of the ICAROS screenings.
Not only can I now always seem like the cool friend with the ultimate date night suggestion (Metrograph has a killer restaurant and bar, because who really wants to watch Freaky Friday sober and/or without a stomach full of fancy cheese), but I have a movie to tell you to watch, after which I will sound very intelligent as I lecture you with big words like anthro-philosophy.


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The bits and pieces, pain and joy that we call Life. And books. Lots of books. And movies. And this chair. That's all I need. Oh, I need this desk lamp.
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
i'm hungry
who's killing the great chefs of europe was a movie that impressed me muchly when i was young. it was about food, it featured several beautiful european cities, and best of all it had jacqueline bisset* in it.
bits that I remember:
* the bombe alaska that exploded
* the pressed duck
that's it. and the chefs were being assassinated one by one, dispatched in the manner of their signature dish. hence, whichever chef it was who did the pressed duck had his head crushed in a, yep you guessed it, a duck press.
the bombe alaska was jacqueline's signature dish, plus I seem to remember she was a tv cook? [a forerunner of today's tv chefs]. and the murderer had planted a real bomb somehow in it while she was cooking on camera. not sure how that happened come to think of it, because i think she made it from scratch on-air.
anyway this movie perhaps sparked my interest in all things food.
while thinking about preparing a list of 10 turn ons and offs all to do with food, I realised it was too one-dimensional and would be an absolute insult to food to take such a simple approach. food demands better treatment. what you find sexy in someone I can just about squeeze into ten, but not food. no, THAT'S serious.
therefore I have taken a different approach and made groupings:
items I truly love, though not necessarily on their own
oysters – tasmanian not sydney rock. the latter can be too high in toxins.
ice cream – current fave is the streets traditional choc chip
blue castello cheese
danish feta cheese
spring onions
red onions
real bagels
good olives, be they kalamata, green, stuffed, etc. cannot stand spanish olives.
cherries but only from a certain tree on the mornington peninsula
good italian cheese, like Grana Panado or Parmigiano Reggiano
[see this cheese place]
red chillies
greek-style yoghurt, plain, thick and creamy
tinned RED salmon. forget pink, and medium-red or whatever it is.
almost all vegetables except not that fond of okra
continental parsley
freshly-made popcorn
heavy-duty, grained or sour-dough bread
vodka [oh sorry, that's not a food. luckily I am creating a subgroup of alcohol. food and alcohol go together. just like alcohol goes with talking, sitting, watching tv, going out, having fun with friends and family. breathing.]
now some subgroups:
processed foods I love:
* kettle plain chips
* potato gems
* flakey sea salt
foods I love which require some preparation:
baked beetroot
nicely cooked fresh fish [white flesh] or salmon. but the fillets, not the steak cut.
mushrooms cooked in butter with a little salt
now the neutral foods:
I know you'll think I'm crazy but I am not that partial to pizza. sorry.
also curly parsley. it's alright, but prefer the flat-leaved.
another one you won't believe. chicken breast. to me it's just the rubbish part of a chicken.
some meals I love:
> soft poached eggs on good toast
> spaghetti marinara [a really good seafood pasta is to be had here]
> a really good salad is hard to find when out, the best are made at home. they are heaven, for example salade nicoise, or a green salad with fetta cheese [danish] tossed through, a good rice salad…
> soups of all descriptions. love them with some cheese stirred through.
> Turkish food
> Japanese food
> Italian food
> a roast chicken with all the trimmings. [yes, and use of the indefinite article 'a' here DOES mean one whole one for myself. No only joking, I will share. You can have all the breast. Just an aside, one of Nigella "Use heaps of oil and butter, don't worry about your hips, thighs and tummy, but I'm a goddess with a beautiful face so it doesn't matter if I happen to be fat" Lawson's mini-recipes is this:
> cook some plain spaghetti which you toss through all the scrapings and herbs and hot fat that you find at the bottom of your roasting pan once the chicken is cooked. You take out the chicken first obviously. Add some parsley and salt, or not. Eat. I have done this once. Gloriously decadent, but again, not something you do every week. [Or month. Or year even.]
> bagel with cream cheese, smoked salmon, capers and thinly-sliced red onion. oh my god, if I could, I'd be getting a stiffy right now.
> bolognaise sauce cooked my way on pasta or sometimes on rice. with a dollop of greek yoghurt. it is heaven. sheer heaven.
> a good steak – mignon or porterhouse [a rare treat]
> a tray of vegies baked in the oven with whole garlic in the casings and lots of olive oil. then tipped over rice. sea salt. eat.
> the best pasta – spaghetti, olive oil, garlic and parsley. and the variations, a bit of blue grenadier and chilli. or some prawns. or some flaked fresh salmon.
> a good spaghetti carbonara. definitely a rare treat but so decadent.
carbs in order of preference [these are my friends] :
1st best-friend = pasta
2nd best-friend = rice
3rd best-friend = bread
4th best-friend = potatoes
restaurants I want to eat at before I die:
food I want to try before I die:
truffles in some form
what I don't need to eat before I die [ie, ever]
witchetty grubs
deep fried tarantula [ I was considering it before I saw it on Survivor. That made up my mind]
honeyed ants/grasshoppers
and finally the hates:
> bad potato or pasta salads, you know the ones with the cheap mayonnaise. I just will not eat them.
> the orange part of scallops.
> badly-cooked eggplant
> badly-cooked rice
> offal of most descriptions
> margarine/soft spread butter
>overcooked pasta
PS You'll notice an absence of sweets. I also appreciate a good baked cheese-cake, plus other desserts. And there is no chocolate listed. That is because desserts don't rule my life. For me it is savoury all the way.
And finally, the faithful companion to food:
martini – vodka only. gin makes me cry. plus a tiny bit of dry vermouth, shake and pour into the largest martini glass available. there have to be as many olives on the tooth-pick as you can get on. I have found four is usually the max. and they have to be stuffed. the can't ever be stone ones.
wine – usually white
champagne - not too cheap but to tell the truth i can't taste the difference between the really expensive stuff and the $15 bottle
beer – just the local stuff
coffee – espresso or percolated or plunged. café au lait is wonderful. heat the milk in a pan and add to the strong coffee. this is the only coffee I have with sugar and it has to be partnered with a sweet pastry of some sort. for me, coffee is never, ever of the instant variety. I can do without. yes, I'll put up with the headache, thank you very much.
* check here for jacqueline's impressive movie list. she was a '70s darling with this one being the best one.
** check here for a nice site on movies that feature food. something that really appeals to moi. though they could have included the thief, the cook etc, chocolat, oliver, 9 1/2 weeks, Tess of the d'Urbevilles.
35 comments:
- Fluffy said...
♥ ♥ ♥ Melbourne Girl, be mine ♥ ♥ ♥
also loved jaqueline building the bombe layer by layer from scratch using those huge patissier spatulas to smooth out the merangue, icecream, cream, etc.
le sigh
- 10 Aug 2005, 20:53:00
- Fluffy said...
- 10 Aug 2005, 20:54:00
- Cape Man said...
Hey, bring some of that food round behind the shelter shed next time.
Jaqueline, she of the great high cheek bones.
I like cherries too, wonder if there'll be a good crop this year?
I also like home made salami, dad's second batch this year was better than the first.
Feeling a bit peckish now....
- 10 Aug 2005, 21:33:00
- Melba said...
oh fluffy
can't believe someone else saw that movie. yes, the spatulas. yes, the layers of ice cream. yes, the meringue.
and weren't there three colours, my memory is of a neopolitan-type affair?
capey, no carbs after 8pm!
- 10 Aug 2005, 21:40:00
- PiesFan90 said...
I don't see Pies on your list.
Pie with sauce. Can o' VB and standing in the outer at Vic park, mmmmmm.
- 10 Aug 2005, 21:55:00
- Cape Man said...
PS: Fix the cheese link, she no work.
- 10 Aug 2005, 21:56:00
- DJ said...
So you'll be participating in A taste of slow?
- 10 Aug 2005, 22:31:00
- mj said...
This one is looooooong, I'll have to absorb it in a couple of sittings MG!
- 10 Aug 2005, 23:19:00
....writes...first off this is the sweetest food blah blah I have have read in Yonks... Fluffy is fucking ace but is also a food snob from hell and a grammer freak - (aint nobody can drink pots and finish a crossword like fluff), canned Salmon, fuck that .. smoked salmon for few bucks from V market (can ham spam).. Coffin Bay oysters-start there-ligurian black olives-gorganzola-meredith dairy goats argghhhhh Martini 'G' - oj bitters. rich reserve Verve.....we out we fluff.....
- 11 Aug 2005, 04:29:00
- Melba said...
hey anon, don't diss the canned salmon. has to be red i said. and it is foine. yep smoked is good. yep fresh is good too. but canned has it's place.
along with frozen peas.
and canned tomatoes.
i am also a grammAr freak, and a spelling freak. typos are my enemies.
but thanks for what i THINK was a compliment?
capey - will check that link. thx
- 11 Aug 2005, 10:09:00
- surlysimon said...
I could start here with my own list but it would be too long. Just a few notes:
DUCK, Mr Duck is SO much better than chicken and forget that health shit about taking the skin and fat off, both chicken and duck taste sooooo much better with the fat and skin.
FRESH TUNA, enough said, in fact my dinner tonight is tuna burgers amde with fresh naturaly
VU DE MOND is a must followed by a trip to sydney for dinner at the temple of gastronomy TETSUA'S aside from a couple of restraunts (one in spain, the other in california) this is the best period.
BAKED BEAN, heinz of course and on sourdough bread or bagels (i also love tinned procesed peas, i am sick i know)
CALVES LIVER don't turn your nose up this is fine stuff (in fact include duck liver and of course foi gras)
SALTED RICCOTA better than parmesean on pasta (best from the pasta shop at the QV markets)
please forgive any spelling or grammer mistakes, i draw pictures for a living and words aren't my thing.
- 11 Aug 2005, 10:50:00
- Melba said...
hey surly, isn't the ricotta soft or is it dried?
that place in spain, bullios? or something like that? that's the foam guy
tetsuya's i'm sure would be an experience. are you saying he's the best after the other two? i've read about the calif one too.
i do love pate.
and good duck is hard to find but it is delish. and i'm with you about the skin and the fat. what's the frigging point if you pull all the best bits off?
can you recommend a good duck place in melb? there's a good chinese restaurant that does the peking duck pancakes in china town [maybe called peking duck, it's upstairs and it's a funky old dining room overlooking the intersection]
where else is there?
- 11 Aug 2005, 10:58:00
- Gill Stannard said...
Don't you just hate the skinny little carb nazis! Life is too short to eat crap bread, or substandard pasta for that matter.
Am with you on the tinned salmon, especially the 'wild alaskan' red, which has to be better than the farmed stuff (however deliciously fresh or smoked) fed on ground up animal products. Yes some salmon now contains saturated fats instead of all the good oils.
One needs a nice vodka martini after that shocking bit of information.
- 11 Aug 2005, 12:05:00
- Fluffy said...
who was that anonymous? someone who knows or stalks me well enough to remember a time when I had crosswording and beer drinking leisure time...
- 11 Aug 2005, 15:57:00
- Melba said...
have no idea who that anon was. seemed to know you though fluffy
i'll say it now, bigoted though it might be.
i don't like the anonymous people
god even a fake name, which we all have, is better. put out, a bit, anonymii of the world!
- 11 Aug 2005, 20:52:00
Yeah, what she said!
- 11 Aug 2005, 21:03:00
- Darcy said...
Oh! Good food!!!
I could go on for ever about it.
I have eaten witchetty grubs. Filth. I cooked mine buried in the hot ashes of the fire and it went all crispy on the outside like a burnt marshmallow (actually how I like my marshallows) then when I bit through that crispy layer, a slimy rush of goo exploded into my mouth! Just don't do it.
I've also eaten paddy melon, (or rather tasted it because I was told how bad it tasted and couldn't resist - don't do that either!), crocodile, goanna, kangaroo, venison and Bengali Tiger Fish.
"Excuse me sir. What, pray tell is a Bengali Tiger Fish?"
"Well madame," he replied with a head wobble and an Indian accent, "actually it is a fish. And actually it is a Bengali Tiger Fish."
"Ah, I see," I said. "I'll have one of those."
Here's a good mix of things you love: Good fresh olive bread, perhaps litely toasted ot warmed, with blue castello cheese/fetta, flat leaf parsley and olive oil. Mmmmmm.
Have tried truffles too! Not to mention blogged about the first ones to be harvested in our very own state. Yum.
Some friends and I once made a four course meal based on figs from their garden. It included walnuts from their garden and truffle oil (left over from the truffles that we had there one night) and...ok, I'll stop now.
Let us just agree that food provides an endless topic of conversation and stimulation for those lucky enough to have it.
We are truly lucky.
- 11 Aug 2005, 23:22:00
- Darcy said...
Oh and I've worked with Jacquleine Bisset as well.
- 11 Aug 2005, 23:23:00
- Cape Man said...
Darcy sounds like you had an episode of The Iron Chef.
"The secret ingredient is --- Figs"
PS: show off... Does Jaq have the high cheek bones still?
- 11 Aug 2005, 23:38:00
- Melba said...
darcy, i'll see your crocodile, kangaroo and venison and raise you turtle [yes i hang my head in shame]
i also had a near miss with some dog. it was beijing, when i was 17, and the only way we could know what we were eating was for the waiter to "act it out". Needless to say, his dog charade was perfectly clear. the meat looked very grey and gristly anyway, so no one was going there to start with.
i clip articles on truffles for some reason. i clip articles on lots of food and other stuff. it's [one of my] obsessions.
- 12 Aug 2005, 11:55:00
- LadyCracker said...
Marvellous list Melbourne Girl.
Having eaten at flower drum I can tell you - the seafood taste like it was plucked from the ocean immediately before cooking.
Save $10 a week til Christmas and let's go...
- 12 Aug 2005, 13:22:00
Man, I'm hungry. Curse you all.
- 12 Aug 2005, 17:14:00
I just ate a mugful of M&M's. Now I feel all light-headed and weird.
- 12 Aug 2005, 17:35:00
- Melba said...
oh my a whole mugful, surly? that will give you a rush for 30 secs then make you feel sic
ok lc, we'd need to book now though? i wonder if it's a good since the head chef/owner has left. the man who'd been there 30 years or something... but i read he still keeps an eye on it, i don't think he sold his share, just semi-retired...
- 12 Aug 2005, 19:20:00
- Cape Man said...
I had some 'gator in the states, it tasted like chicken.
- 12 Aug 2005, 22:06:00
- Darcy said...
Everything tastes like chicken!
I forgot to say that I'm a vegetarian. Well, a vegquarian. Do the math.
Morrocan Soup Kitchen: do it! I did it tonight.
- 13 Aug 2005, 00:51:00
- Gianluca Di Milano said...
I'm not read evrything because is a little boring by the begining but I'm like mushrooms to much.
- 16 Aug 2005, 05:36:00
- surlysimon said...
the riccota is hard due to the salting, the best is from the pasta shop at the queen vic where you will also find fine duck at the poultry pantry, johnathons duck is even better but supply is erratic (their duck and shitaki pie is to die for)as for peiking duck i am not so sure, it isn't my thing though i do like it.
untill i eat at E Bulli (the spanish one) or the french laundry (the californian one) i can't really make a judgment but based on one meat at tetsuyas and comaring his cook book to the french laundry i would say it would be a close run thing, tetsuyas is regularly voted as one of the top 10 restraunts in the world. here in melbourne aside from vu de monde (18 out of 20 in the age last week!) i reckon pearl is pretty good i want to try the flower drum may be soon.
- 16 Aug 2005, 10:58:00
- la nadine said...
great post.
now i'm hungry too.
mmmm...grana panado...
- 16 Aug 2005, 11:06:00
- LadyCracker said...
right looking into lunch at flower drum in november.
- 16 Aug 2005, 11:55:00
- Melba said...
surly - i went to pearl about 18 months ago, took my daughter there for lunch. it was divine.
la nadine, you have recently discovered cheese i believe.
LC omigod better get saving now!
might have to take a trip to Sydney to go to Tetsuya's as well. start saving for that too....
oh shit, so much to eat and so little time
oh and gianluca - mushrooms are good
- 17 Aug 2005, 11:32:00
- Aleks - Anarcho-Syndicalist said...
Melbournegirl, where art thou?
- 18 Aug 2005, 11:01:00
- Melba said...
hi aleks
i'm here i've been sick as well as trying to get work done.
blogworld can suck so much of my time
thanks for noticing
- 18 Aug 2005, 11:30:00
- Melba said...
This is my future self coming back to leave a comment. I am going to Flowerdrum next Friday.
9 Nov 2012
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Barry Bonds received a new home decoration on Saturday: His number 25.
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During his speech to a mostly full house at AT&T Park, Bonds attributed his drive to excel to his father, Bobby, himself a wondrously talented Major League outfielder from 1968-81.
Bonds noted that his father rarely praised him unconditionally. In one of the ceremony's more poignant moments, Bonds related that he asked his father before he died in 2003 at age 57, "Why, Daddy? Why were you so hard on me?" The answer came in the form of the tireless work ethic that the younger Bonds developed.
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