Cooking With Richard

This is what it looked like last year:

Hard to believe that 10 years ago we were happy to get rid of a spent and morally bankrupt government ……

… oh wait …

Thanks for RIPA, policy laundering, data retention (previously), section 44, collaboration with that oh so “special” relationship, indefinite detention without trial, ignorance and stupidity, bribes, …

Image by the excellent C4 illustrator / b3tard Beau Bo D’Or.

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Squid:

I was trying to feed them nori:

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The sooner we can get rid of these stupid government monopoly/cartels, the better. Read more and even more and for the geeks …

Video of ducklings

Quite scary ….

from G Gibson butchers in Watford market.

Sign the official petition to save Oriental City which is due to be “redeveloped” (turned into a B&Q superstore of all things) without any consideration except for profits.

Links

• Petition
• If-else blog
• BBC Inside Out programme describes the “real Chinatown”
• Developer’s website describing the work

• 4-core AMD Athlon development box
• 2-core Intel Xeon development box
• IBM X60s laptop

…who today made shrikhand, well except they didn’t make that precisely because on the programme they made it with pineapple and pomegranate. Still, it looks really nice.

And …

Something which looked like a deep-fried doughnut and looked like it might be really delicious and simple to make, but I didn’t catch the name. Was it veda?

Tonight’s lunar eclipse.

I was using my camera with the rubbish 300mm lens, in our back garden:

Full moon, taken at around 9pm:

This is about when we can see the eclipse:

Half-eclipsed in the earth’s shadow:

More:

What doesn’t really come out well in photographs, and what you don’t know unless you read stories about 19th century travellers: The lunar eclipsed moon has an uncanny bloody quality about it. We know that this is caused by light filtering through the earth’s atmosphere, but still it is unsettling. I tried to capture this in this photograph, taken with a 1 minute exposure during the eclipse:

JBS Haldane’s seminal essay: On being the right size.

In no particular order …

Scotch eggs and Irish stew at The Peddler’s Daughter in Nashua, NH. The food was pretty good.

It’s a geek joke:

Freedom to destroy the planet:

They have the Antique’s Roadshow in the US, which I was quite impressed about. However they seem to have a lot less of the old fuddy presenters handling crockery with shaking hands, and a lot more about how many thousands of dollars everything is worth:

While I was walking along the bay, an eagle flew past holding half a pigeon. It dropped its meal on the ice and then sat in a tree while I grabbed my camera and took some pictures. This was (unfortunately) the best one:

A 16th century graveyard:

Cheeky squirrel:

The squirrel was next to this ice-rink in the main park in central Boston:

Carl Zeiss Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science:

Some street scenes from the old quarter:

The office is in fact in Westford, MA which is miles away from Boston itself:

The Red Hat office:

Some typical lunches. I had to go a long way to find those fruits:

You get these daft warnings on everything. We went to a sushi restaurant and they were warning about food poisoning. Strangely enough they don’t warn about how you’ll die of a heart attack if you keep eating the junk above.