Posts by EddieD 1117 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
Not eating offal is one of the biggest calamities to hit the western diet, the foods I was brought up on (60s and 70s) are really hard to find. Stuffed lambs' hearts... mmmm....
I remember when I was in Greece visiting some friends for Easter (it's well worth visiting any country that practices Orthodox Christianity at Easter for the incredible vibe it brings), and we had the traditional roast lamb - made by getting a lamb, and roasting it an oven. Whole. I've not been looked at by any food higher up the chain than whitebait, so I was a bit non-plussed, but when my friend's husband and his father had a bit of barny about who got to scoop out the brain, I was very chuffed.
We're far too wussy about our food these days.
Although, I don't think i'll be rushing to try these recipes...
Jumping out of steel balls at 30,000+meters need balls of steel, but not huge numbers of brain cells, and, since he's taken Red Bull's shilling, he's probably shilling for them.
He expressed an opinion, which I disagree with, but as the commentator on Voltaire said "I disagree with what you said, but will fight for your right to say it". The usual comments about opinions apply :)
And besides, Red Bull is horrible stuff - I had a can once, and decided I preferred espresso.
You took the words out of my mouth - I'm a long term FF user, but recently, it's become so slow and cumbersome - without any extensions/plugins - I'm looking at Opera or IE instead. Add in ABP, noscript and I'm looking at making a cuppa waiting for it to start.
Every series needs a start, and I particularly like this - no toys, no gimmicks, no SFX, no CGI - just Bond with his wits, and his new Walther PPK (part of the time) - and a nice line in witty ripostes ("That's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your 6" and he then goes on to mow down a technically unarmed man...).
Nipping in before the inevitable replies, I hope.
Of course, there is one way to stop spilling out my information - don't use Facebook. I would, but, like when I didn't have a mobile 12 years ago, I wouldn't get any invites to rot my liver and generally act 30 years younger than my real age, so I have to try and find an acceptable compromise
You'll see updates from your "liked" pages, if you add them to your interests - thus confirming your continued interest and adding a datum to your file to be flogged to the advertisers.
<shrug> Adblock, a couple of Userscripts and a hosts file that mainly points to 127.0.0.1 stops the adverts. Obviously it doesn't stop me haemorraghing information to them, so it's a pyrrhic victory.
A few weeks ago, I took my box of assorted bits to work, added them to the pile waiting for the secure recycling van, and went to my office.
And I don't regret a thing - the only spares I have now are a few SATA drives, a few cables - usb, firewire, displayport - and that's it.
I have a large amount of space in my attic, and I'm wondering what /new/ crap I can fill it with.
Things like this make me wish I'd continued my career in Biology - I never got to play with the big toys, but I did get to gold plate a wasp once.
And I'll need to read that PLoS article - they say symbiosis, but I don't really see the advantage for the mayfly in having prehensile antennae thrust into its wing. Unless it's having company for the long lonely minutes before the poor ephemeropteran shuffles off its mortal coil (or spring).
I'm still pissed off, but I'll give them credit (slightly less because they're saying "it wasnae us...") for stating publicly what the error was, and detailling the steps they'll be taking.
And a really big "WTF" for not putting a failover solution in place after the July outage that did cause me problems.
Much as I hate patent lawsuits, maybe it's better to be going after the organ grinder and leave the monkeys alone.
Google have been insulated from most of the lawsuits involving Android and IP, which is a bit wrong, imo. They have designed the underlying O/S, but their name is not on the box, so they seem to be Teflon.
Obviously, this doesn't apply to arguments involving rectangles with rounded corners, 'cos they're just pants.
A friend involved in marine seismology said that when they had to upload data, he called in a helicopter.
Even in the middle of the North Sea in midwinter, it was still cheaper - and quicker - than satellite links. They just unplugged the storage unit, dropped it in the chopper, and carried the replacement down below.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/11/tax-avoidance-justice-network
2 year old figures have 70bn - the figure I used was introduced by Mark Serwotka and was not challenged by anyone else - not even the tory - on any questions on Saturday.
It's still available on iPlayer.
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