| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
xenogram
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8:01a |
Roller Derby
So, I've been asking people about this piecemeal, and a couple of you have said yes or no, but I can't remember. So I'm just going to broadcast this; who wants to come to the Rollerderby in Wellington on Saturday night? It's a lot of fun, and not very expensive. http://www.richtercity.co.nz/(I have a birthday party to go afterwards, and I will be there, don't worry Mel) |
jaigyn
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1:34a |
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
alintaflame
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6:53p |
Something Random
Is it not enough that I be here for you? That I am this strange stationary thing that you will not allow to change. I must not change for if I change then where will you be? There will be nothing in your life that you can hold on to that does not shift, does not grow bright and radiant, but also grow dim and fade away. You will be alone in a sea that always moves and you will not be able to stand and fight against the swell. You will be cursed to float where it wills you. Ah, so there it is, the answer to the puzzle. You will not be in control. The sea will control you. It will encompass and swallow you whole. You can not fight such an immensity and if you try, in the end you will grow exhausted and either give up, or die in your battle. So you need me. Yet you stand there with your back too me, you ignore me when I come to you, when I am the one that wants to talk to you, to hold you and get to know you more and more. I am not allowed to make the first move. Always I must simply wait and in my waiting I over hear such things that break my heart. "Oh him? He's just a friend, we don't talk much anymore." And that night I held you sobbing. "Her? Don't worry I only see here once and awhile, you can hardly say we're friends really." And only moments ago I was the keeper of a new secret, whispered in my ear with the plead to 'hold it close, don't tell'. "We haven't spoken in years." No we haven't and yet you text me constantly. Little silly messages you know only I will laugh with you over. "I hate him." Truly? "I despise her." Really? So here am I, your rock - or so if would seem to me - the unchanging, never wavering friend and I can't help but ask: why is it not enough for you? Current Mood:  contemplative |
sui_001
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10:05p |
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pepperbeast
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8:31p |
Via Fruitbat
From General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord: I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
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kirieldp
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9:31a |
Three invitations to dine
1. Yum cha this Sunday - most likely venue seems to be Ginseng at the Hellenic club 2. Farewell for me! Turkish restaurant in Jamieson if it is still open. 18 November 3. Hello goodbye dinner in Sydney, 20 November. Venue is open to suggestion. Let me know for which ones you will join me! Current Mood:  hopeful |
alintaflame
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6:28a |
Day Five - so far
Only done about 700 words today, but they are good words (as in changed, redone, editted, not just blurted onto the page) But I think I'm going to have sit down some time on the weekend and really map out the story. Making things up on the fly is too distracting and for this story possibly disasterous. Word Counts
Nano '09 - 10,222 Reports - same *sigh* Deadlines
Marking - Reichstag Elections done and began research questions. |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
bakebakebake
[ lemonxkiss ]
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3:49p |
layer cake & filling request
Hi there, bakers! My parents' 31st wedding anniversary is next week and I'm planning on making them a fancy dinner and I'd like to make them a delicious cake to go with it. I want to make something different than we usually have around the house, so I was thinking a layer cake with some sort of filling. I had raspberry (or some kind of fruit) in mind, but the thing is, I've never made a cake like this before! So this post has two purposes: a) I'm looking for a tried & true recipe for a filling for a layer cake. Give me anything! Fruit, chocolate, whatever! I had fruit in mind but I'm open to suggestions! b) I'm wondering how I go about executing the cake. I've read a few things online & what I'm mostly worried about is the filling sort of soaking into the cake (especially if I use a fruit filling). Can this be avoided? My baking specialty is cookies, so cakes are sort of new to me. My mom is great with cakes but asking her to help me with her own anniversary cake would sort of ruin the surprise! Any advice/recipes anyone can give me would be VERY much appreciated-- and I'll be sure to post photos of the cake after I make it! Thanks! |
bakebakebake
[ threeonetwo ]
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8:55p |
So, I decided to make pumpkin soup using fresh pumpkin today, and now I have two cups(maybe two and a half) of puree left over. I looked through the comm, but I can't seem to find anything on pumpkin brownies, which I'd really like to try. So if anyone knows of a good pumpkin brownie recipe, I'd love to hear it! |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
bakebakebake
[ w_iredblind ]
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4:36p |
velvet loving
As a first year law student trying to survive the crazy workload and insane brilliance of all those around me, I've turned back to baking. Taking comfort in food and the process of producing delightful treats always replenishes the soul and reminds me that there's so much more to my awful schooling situation. In light of my upcoming end year examinations and graded assignment deadlines, I baked some red velvet cupcakes to lighten the general mood in school.  What did I do for icing? |
bakebakebake
[ beautifulso_up ]
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12:25p |
Hallowe'eny!
Hello BBBakers! Thought I would share my Hallowe'en cookies with you. I made them to give out to any Guisers who came into the shop I was working in on Hallowe'en, and they went down a treat!  Spider is happy to be home. ( More pictures behind the cut... )Cookies were made with this No-Fail Sugar Cookie recipe, and were iced with Royal Icing. The only cutters I had were for the bats and the spiders, so everthing else is cut by hand with a template. I'm really proud of this lot. I've never decorated anything before, really, and they turned out better than I expected them to. The cookies were lovely and soft and tasty (one 12 year-old boy called them "epic", which I guess is praise!). Current Mood: accomplished |
bakebakebake
[ fel_k ]
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10:22p |
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thebluerose
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6:30p |
Ghost Cat
 Ghost Cat
Originally uploaded by TheBlueRose.So this picture got First equal in a Flickr photo contest for October - the subject was Abstract.
And it was a late addition, as I had forgotten I had even taken it, my camera was set to take sunset images, but its good and fast enough that it still snapped this as my blue birman Sky was bounding towards me down the gutter. One click and this was the image I got. Its really random :) |
quatrefoil
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1:26p |
A Multitude of Sins
Well, just unrelated things really.
1. After spending the morning feeling a bit unwell, headachy with tummy cramps, it finally dawned on me why and I took my medication. Der. And then it dawned on me that as of yesterday, this has been happening for 31 years, regular as clockwork, so you'd think I'd have figured it out by now. Apparently I'm not that clever. This may be why I usually have to be hit over the head with spectacular pain, since I fail to notice anything less obvious. I'm hoping that today's mildish symptoms may herald the beginning of the end, but I doubt that I'm that lucky.
2. I've stuffed up by leaving it too late to organise crash space for the weekend. Actually, I didn't, I just haven't received a response to an earler request, and the later one is full. But the problem remains and I'm now looking for space for two people. If any of my Canberra readers has space for Saturday night I'd be grateful.
3. Community service announcement 1 - avoiding the 'ladder problem' when knitting on double pointed needles (since this topic has come up a couple of times recently): The reason there's a ladder is that you're making the stitch longer as you go round two needles at the changeover point. Trying to make the stitch tighter as you do it doesn't help. The solution is to knit the stitch as normal and then pull it tight after you've knitted it and before you knit the next stitch. Hope that helps.
4. Community service announcement 2. My local suburb is holding free shopping week, also known as the Council's hard rubbish collection. |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
bakebakebake
[ mirmarmelade ]
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8:14p |
Winter food
With the lousy weather here today, I felt like making winter food. Here I present you a ridiculously quick, easy and satisfying apple-sauerkraut oven dish: ( recipe and a picture ) |
bakebakebake
[ sleevesofsatin ]
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10:12a |
monkey bread!
I love monkey bread. Adore it. For those who haven’t encountered it, monkey bread is a sweet yeast-y pull-apart breakfast bread made in a bundt pan, covered in ooey-gooey cinnamon-sugar butter, and baked. You pull it apart (like a monkey? the name origin is debated) in sticky, awesome pieces and enjoy with coffee in the morning. Or hot chocolate. Or both.
Even better, the recipe uses pre-packaged dough and is so easy, you literally could whip this together in the morning, especially since it has the trick of putting it in a cold oven and cooking it as it heats up. Sugary and sticky and warm and spicy, this is the ultimate breakfast pastry and would conquer any cinnamon roll any day of the week!
Tons more pics and info at my blog jonesing for...( More pics and recipe under the cut... ) |
bakebakebake
[ smiley_goth ]
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8:20p |
Ninja Cupcakes
Hey bakebakebake I've never posted here before so I hope I get this right. ^^ Anyway I haven't been able to bake anything for ages. (so sad.) But some black food dye, bought for halloween gave me an idea. And I finally got around to making these. (You really don't need a recipy, it's just a really basic butter cake I made, but any cake will do, it's all about the icing. ^^)  Ninja Cupcakes (FTW) ( other pic's here ^^ ) Current Mood: bouncy |
bakebakebake
[ trishawisha ]
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8:14p |
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| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
mrsbrown
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7:16a |
composting toilet research.
According to the BCA, we probably need about 1 toilet per 20 people, so 5 toilets for 100 people. According to this site, people produce about 520ml per person per day, including the "dry matter" (sawdust) required. I like this bucket technique - the buckets have good firm lids (they make great nappy buckets), they are light enough to carry when full, and the resulting toilet is a standard sitting height. OTOH, I can only find white buckets in Australia, so it's really obvious what's inside. A dark internal colour is recommended. There's another good description of this method here.
Those buckets are advertised on ebay and are 20litres each. You don't want to fill them more than 3/4 full, so each bucket will be enough for 30 people each day. For 100 people, for 5 days (being generous), I would need to collect 17 buckets. Need some extra buckets for sawdust, so 30. This will also provide buckets to be demolished to fit toilet seats. Alternatively, there are a number of people selling larger plastic barrels with lids. Ceres sell worm bins. When I looked at them, they had aeration holes on the side, and a tap at the bottom. That could be useful for the "store for 12 months option". Because I think we need to drain the leachate into a trench. The bucket method above relies on an open compost system to provide sufficient oxygen. Ideally, we would use a container with a piece of mesh steel in the bottom and a tap to drain leachate. Over the mesh we would put several layers of newspaper and some sawdust. The container would be large enough that it doesn't need emptying or moving for 5 days. The seat would sit on top of the container and would be at using height without needing steps. Everybody using it would be amazed that it doesn't smell and remember to both cover their deposit and close the lid. The container would have a pipe with holes in it that won't clog but will allow for oxygen to get into the pile. When full, the container would have a tightly fitting lid with a few more, insect proof, holes. It will be small enough that it's easy to move. In a years time we would open the lid and empty the pathogen free [1], non smelly humus into a trench which we would cover with 100mm of dirt for further aging and/or use as fertiliser. And the process would start again. [1] Actually, according to my reading, you don't need perfect composting conditions to achieve pathogen free in 1 year. That just happens with time. Current Mood:  chipper |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
bakebakebake
[ ghostcommunity ]
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11:02p |
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| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
alintaflame
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9:55p |
Day Three
Wrote about 900 words on Day Two, but have not written anything today because, instead of getting up at 5am I slept in to 6.45. Since I went to bed at 9 instead of my usual 11pm; I got an amazing almost 10 hours sleep. .... but I'm tired again. On the plus side, chapter four works well with the rest of the story so I'm rather gleeful. Word CountsNano '09 - 9,758 Reports - still the same Deadlines
Marking - complete homework from the weekend and SOSE tests. Current Mood:  tired |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
slothphil
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2:50a |
Boardgames day
Boardgames (and card games, etc if desired) here on Sunday (8 November). Doors open from 1pm, finishing up whenever people get round to departing. Bring games, snacks and so on. We'll probably break for takeaways around 6. I'm hoping to play Endeavor ( ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) qarl's game), Dominion and Race for the Galaxy among others. Current Music: Uriah Heep - What Should Be Done |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
mrsbrown
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10:05p |
second shift
Some might call this the second shift. We just got home from visiting my Dad. MsNotaGot went to bed, mr-bassman went to bed with his laptop and I sat with Rose until she fell asleep again after getting out of the car. Everyone's tired after a busy day of moving furniture to the point where everyone could have a bed in the right place. Rose is sleeping in her own room for the first time tonight. But I made a cake for Rose to take to kinder tomorrow where they will celebrate her birthday. Then I punched down the bread I started this morning and put it in a tin so it can rise overnight and I can cook it in the morning while I eat breakfast. I cleaned up the kitchen a bit and spoke to Sneetch for the first time today. If I were the overachiever I normally think of when people talk about the second shift, I would still be in the kitchen; cleaning up while I wait for the cake to finish cooking before I can go to bed. And then I'd set up my laptop on the kitchen table and finish that technical paper you're all over hearing me angst about. But I'm going to spend my cake waiting time posting this and then reading the internet. I might watch some telly or read a mag. Also, mr-bassman will get the joy of cleaning up the rest of the kitchen tomorrow, so it doesn't feel properly sacrificial enough to get proper opression points and count as a second shift in the feminist sense. OTOH, I'd really prefer to go to bed, even if I do have something self indulgent to occupy my time with. Current Mood:  tiredCurrent Music: I think MsNotaGoth might be watching Notting Hill, although it is a famous piece |
jaigyn
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6:31p |
Level 30 - El'birthdayanaero!
Today is my 30th Birthday!!! Holy Ancient Wonder Batman... I'm freaking Old! Woohoo... yes that's right... all ye young whippersnappers... beware *sits in rockingchair with shotgun*
One question though...
If I give back the XP... do I get to be younger? =P
Current Mood:  amused |
| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
bakebakebake
[ yaoiandpocky ]
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3:29p |
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determined
