Cooking With Richard

Damn …

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I counted 25 starlings in the garden today. There appeared to be two adult pairs, and the rest were juveniles. Noisy.

Here’s that famous video of Bill Oddie watching starlings:

This video is actually about my level in Japanese, in that I can watch it and understand almost all of what the narrator is trying to say. I understand the sentences, but just what is going on?

(From JWZ)

Update

Apparently this is a sketch from バミリオン・プレジャー・ナイト (Vermillion Pleasure Night), a risque Japanese late-night variety show. For more of this see Oh Mikey which is somewhat reminiscent of the brilliant Leisure Town.

This is what it looked like last year:

Yeah!

Shugendo:
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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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Tomato, mozzarella, garlic and prosciutto:

and sausage meat, chilli, thyme (from the garden) and mozzarella:

but what’s this? Has someone eaten too much?? Or addicted to mixi??? Or chatting to メル友????

Skip to the second part of this video (or watch all of it — it’s quite fun) to see Lee Krasnow demonstrate an amazing puzzle box.

More here

Also these appeal to my mathematical nature:

Shame that they cost $400. Actually with the state of the dollar these days, that’s not really very much money.

Previously … swan feeds its pet fish, and video of our ducklings.

Paul Smye-Rumsby, who lives in Dover, said: “It was about 08.15 when suddenly the bed shook violently. “I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds..

When I was in Aomori four years ago there was a really huge earthquake near Sendai which shook the whole place for a minute. Screen capture from the TV:

Crazy little app called Photo Booth that comes with new Macs:

This one looks like The Scream:

Stupid website.

(Previously, Katamari in real life)