Edible crysanthemum flowers. We picked the petals and threw away the bitter centres:
but the resulting dish (petals boiled with daikon and various enoki) was rather bitter:
Home-grown sweetcorn, really sweet:
Basashi:
Lady M took us to an Ethiopian restaurant tonight and this was the first time I have enjoyed Ethiopian food. The meal consisted of small lamb and chicken dishes surrounding a sourdough pancake called injera. To be honest the pancake was very sour and somewhat unpleasant.
The lamb and chicken dishes were pleasant enough once we’d ordered some rice to replace the pancake.
Notice my rather excellent ELER / Schneier T-shirt in the above photo.
I laughed out loud at this:
“Bruce Schneier generated his RSA key with the two largest prime numbers.”
A short explanation on the above: There are an infinite number of prime numbers as is taught in any basic number theory course, so there are no “two largest” primes. But the meta-joke is that if Schneier had actually chosen the two largest primes then because the numbers would (presumably?) be close it would be wide open to a Fermat attack.
This is our lovely local heron:
N-sama tried to set fire to the kitchen. I burned my hand on a smoking pan of hot oil:
For the past few weeks N-sama has been wondering about the strange secret project I’ve been engaged in. Well, here it is, revealed to the world for the very first time:
The internet in all its glory forgets my first brush with FORTH, which happened in around 1981 or ‘82 with ARTIC’s FORTH. I still have my original cassette and manual.
Ever since then I wondered how it worked …
Only now have I found out and become enlightened.
Please somebody buy me a Jupiter ACE.
We spent a long time this weekend in the scarier parts of London — Hackey and Elephant & Castle.
These are tomatoes and a zucchini flower from Samara’s garden:
Tommy’s vegetarian chilli:
Natsco’s carrot cake:
Tring has a small but rather wonderful Natural History Museum. Actually it is more properly known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, which is now managed by the Natural History Museum in London. The collection is marvellously Victorian — 4000 stuffed animals, a spectacle rather than an education.
If you’re on mixi, please join my community.
Update: Apparently that link doesn’t work. Try this one instead. (Thanks Lady E)
EOS 5D, lovely camera.
But can you tell what’s missing from the photo?
Damn …
This deserves about ten blog postings … in the meantime, this is me:
For the past three years I’ve been taking part in the Summer Burn. Once you join you get two friends assigned, and you have to send them each a mix CD of your favorite summer songs. They send CDs back to you.
Because I’m the laziest person in the world, I still have my summer burn CDs here, while my two friends have already sent me theirs:
One of them is alt.country-tastic, not precisely my cup of tea. The other was pretty good for the first half, but I haven’t got around to listening to the other half.
I’m sure they won’t like mine.
Three of my CDs shown in the photo above, because one is for the salon.
We seem to be all competing on packaging, rather than music. Look at this flickr group and weep:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/summerburn/
Yay, I’m going to a private screening of Far North (IMDB entry) next week. Hope the lovely Michelle Yeoh is there …
Here’s a picture of me and Michelle from a few years back. As you can see I don’t look very different now.
