Cooking With Richard

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Found by the canal (it is shroom season now):

The real thing:

£14.99 -> £14.89, a whole TEN PENCE.

I hate supermarkets.

An indescribably odd website.
http://www.feedthehead.net/

Damn …

Laughably bad terrorists watched some videos on the internet, go to Homebase, buy some propane cannisters and a can of petrol, and try to turn themselves into suicide bombers. Unfortunately they don’t understand even the basics of explosives. Perhaps next time they should buy the Anarchist’s Cookbook. There won’t be a next time for these fools because they will be spending a very long time at HM’s pleasure.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/more_fear_biscuits_please/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/02/terror_idiocy_outbreak/

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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Habitual birophagists will be familiar with the unwelcome crunch of plastic and the taste of ink which comes from poorly designed promotional pens. Google’s free pens (of which I got a big handful at their last bash in Belgrave House) suffer in particular from a weak plastic screw joint, and they break apart after even relatively short hacking sessions:

Here’s hoping that the smart folks at Google can rectify this problem (metal pens, anyone?) and send me some. I don’t need to tell them — they’ll find me.

More birophagy:

Two hours of my life that I won’t see again

If you want to see a good Tom Hanks movie, I recommend Apollo 13.

This prompted a small WTF moment when I was in the supermarket today:

Jeyes Fluid “Kills bird flu”. Well I’m sure it does. So does bleach, or probably washing up liquid.

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

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

Yearn to be able to spell the word RHYTHM? Look no further than this easy to recall mnemonic: Russian Hippies Yearn To Have Money[*].

Currently, there are no hits on Google. So as far as I know, this was invented by someone at my school. I don’t know his name, but this aide-memoire has helped me on many occasions.

(Unfortunately Oxidation is Loss, Reduction is Gain (OILRIG) which was also claimed by a classmate of mine, turns out to be rather more commonly known.)

[*] It made a bit more sense in the 80s when (we assumed) Russian hippies suffering under communism were really rather poor.

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:

Quite scary ….

Instant onigiri!

I don’t believe it …

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