Seasons greetings. I'm reaching out. It's all good.
I'm becoming more and more aware of the Western World's media attempts at drumming up the supposed current crisis on the Korean peninsula, where I happen to be living at the moment.
I'd just like to remind you of one very, very important fact that all the "journalists" in North America seem to have forgotten:
In the last 60 years of armistice, don't you think the North Koreans would have attacked back when they had a chance of winning, rather than now, when they have no chance whatsoever?
Here's some facts to remember:
War is fought for goals. You go to war to take/win/achieve things.
What would North Korea achieve by going to war? It becomes a target for America, to pound. You may not have noticed, but in the last 30 years they've gotten really good at pounding less developed countries back to the stone age.
North Korea doesn't have enough oil to roll it's tanks and troops around their shithole country twice let alone conduct an invasion. They have no oil resources, and neither does South Korea. So if they can't take oil, they can't sustain an invasion. IF they did, then they'd literally be siphoning gas out of abandoned cars on the highway to keep on going.
But North Korea has Nukes! Yes, and no. They have a nuclear device, and it's probably of a good size, but there's no indication that they've managed to mount it onto a missile. Also, who are they going to nuke? South Korea is 100km away. Japan is about 300km away. Any neighbour they nuke spills fallout back onto themselves. Don't believe the hype, no one is that stupid.
But Kim Jong Il is crazy! Yup. Crazy enough to be the undisputed, still reigning champion, or, leader of his land, for about 40 years. Give the guy a little credit. Dude's got some mad skills at politics.
People are dancing the same dance they've danced for decades. Look behind the curtains and see what's really taking place. Watch the big players posture for the crowds while they really jockey for position.
It's all good people. It's Christmas. I love you all.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
AC Transit fight
This is so much.
This is human.
This is America today.
This is the power of the Internet, shown in 24 hours.
CNN is now a dinosaur.
First:
"a Caucasian senior citizen has a mis-communication with a black man, which leads to a serious ass whipping on a bus"
Second:
"Then there's a bit with everyone outside"
Third:
"an interview with the senior gentleman after all the excitement"
Leaving all the racism on the curb where it belongs, forgetting where it is, ignoring the dipshit commentary, it is my opinion that the man now known as Epic Beard Man is one hell of a bus fighter, and he's one hell of a man.
This is human.
This is America today.
This is the power of the Internet, shown in 24 hours.
CNN is now a dinosaur.
First:
"a Caucasian senior citizen has a mis-communication with a black man, which leads to a serious ass whipping on a bus"
Second:
"Then there's a bit with everyone outside"
Third:
"an interview with the senior gentleman after all the excitement"
Leaving all the racism on the curb where it belongs, forgetting where it is, ignoring the dipshit commentary, it is my opinion that the man now known as Epic Beard Man is one hell of a bus fighter, and he's one hell of a man.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Yo Nails? Where's your Xmas?
Hot topic on everyone' s lips, (HA!), has been my absence from the Internet. It's been a busy busy time, with busy busy things happening on the road. Gettin' it nailed down people, but that takes time, and time takes time.
More to come on that later. In the meantime, I have for you today a lovely medley of lunch time culinary delights. See, my girlfriend, being vegetarian, requires a much different diet than myself. Her nutritional needs are different, and getting those nailed down takes some doing, especially when you're on the road.
Today, I put together two of these darling little recipes, courtesy of "www.cooks.com" and "associated content's" lifestyle page, both modified by "yours truly." Heh. Merrily, Krampus. Merrily.
So, being that time of the time, I was putting together some Hummus. To start with, I wanted to put a little homemade tahini sauce together to make my hummus extra yummy. Unfortunately, I don't have an actual teaspoon, table spoon, or measuring cup. You wouldn't believe what a bugger of a time I've had finding such not in South Korea. I had a measuring cup, but it was made of weak glass, which shattered during an operation one night. Most sad.
So I used a shot glass. Lots of sturdy booze bessesls kicking around Korea, that's for sure.
Taking the basic homemade Tahini recipe,
1 T soybean oil
2 T water
1 T lime or lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced
1 T oregano, chopped
1 T sesame seeds
I replaced T with
And carried on with the operation. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out, and I was forced to add two more shots of sesame seeds to the recipe to produce the thickness of Tahini I like.
Also, to even things out, I used three giant cloves of fresh garlic. Yup.
I like a thick tahini sauce. Kind of like a sesame seed peanut butter, only with a whack of zing on your tongue.
Completing this crucial stage, and winning a dubious yet curious look of approval from my Girlfriend, I continued, and produced this recipe:
1 lb. can garbanzo beans (chick peas)
Sm. clove garlic, mashed with
1/2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sesame tahini (three Korean standard sized soup spoonfuls in my case)
2 lemons, juice only,
substituting a normal can of chick peas for the pound can, a large clove for the small, a dash of salt instead of a bloody tsp of it, and lemon juice to flavour, which wasn't really necessary after the tahini was added, which was pretty lemony itself.
The end Product was mmmmmmed approvingly by the girlfriend, though it could used a little more lemon. I went back to my laboratory and doubled down on the hummus again, going light on the tahini, (two spoonfuls) and heavy on the blending.
The end result nailed it.
Good combo. I'm eager to try modifying this further with two things:
1. Roasted Eggplant. A Moroccan buffet I go to adds that to their hummus, and it's awesome. Gives it a smoky flavour. It's quite nice.
2. Fruit. but I'm not sure which fruit yet.
This made a great lunch, served with some toasted bread and cut broccoli as dippables and a vegetarian soup to round everything out. Filling, with lots of hummus and tahini leftover.
Adding raw vegetables to my diet has been one of the little things I've been working on for the last little while, which I hope to illuminate in a later post.
Rock on, and nail it down.
More to come on that later. In the meantime, I have for you today a lovely medley of lunch time culinary delights. See, my girlfriend, being vegetarian, requires a much different diet than myself. Her nutritional needs are different, and getting those nailed down takes some doing, especially when you're on the road.
Today, I put together two of these darling little recipes, courtesy of "www.cooks.com" and "associated content's" lifestyle page, both modified by "yours truly." Heh. Merrily, Krampus. Merrily.
So, being that time of the time, I was putting together some Hummus. To start with, I wanted to put a little homemade tahini sauce together to make my hummus extra yummy. Unfortunately, I don't have an actual teaspoon, table spoon, or measuring cup. You wouldn't believe what a bugger of a time I've had finding such not in South Korea. I had a measuring cup, but it was made of weak glass, which shattered during an operation one night. Most sad.
So I used a shot glass. Lots of sturdy booze bessesls kicking around Korea, that's for sure.
Taking the basic homemade Tahini recipe,
1 T soybean oil
2 T water
1 T lime or lemon juice
1 clove garlic, minced
1 T oregano, chopped
1 T sesame seeds
I replaced T with
And carried on with the operation. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out, and I was forced to add two more shots of sesame seeds to the recipe to produce the thickness of Tahini I like.
Also, to even things out, I used three giant cloves of fresh garlic. Yup.
I like a thick tahini sauce. Kind of like a sesame seed peanut butter, only with a whack of zing on your tongue.
Completing this crucial stage, and winning a dubious yet curious look of approval from my Girlfriend, I continued, and produced this recipe:
1 lb. can garbanzo beans (chick peas)
Sm. clove garlic, mashed with
1/2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. sesame tahini (three Korean standard sized soup spoonfuls in my case)
2 lemons, juice only,
substituting a normal can of chick peas for the pound can, a large clove for the small, a dash of salt instead of a bloody tsp of it, and lemon juice to flavour, which wasn't really necessary after the tahini was added, which was pretty lemony itself.
The end Product was mmmmmmed approvingly by the girlfriend, though it could used a little more lemon. I went back to my laboratory and doubled down on the hummus again, going light on the tahini, (two spoonfuls) and heavy on the blending.
The end result nailed it.
Good combo. I'm eager to try modifying this further with two things:
1. Roasted Eggplant. A Moroccan buffet I go to adds that to their hummus, and it's awesome. Gives it a smoky flavour. It's quite nice.
2. Fruit. but I'm not sure which fruit yet.
This made a great lunch, served with some toasted bread and cut broccoli as dippables and a vegetarian soup to round everything out. Filling, with lots of hummus and tahini leftover.
Adding raw vegetables to my diet has been one of the little things I've been working on for the last little while, which I hope to illuminate in a later post.
Rock on, and nail it down.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tis the season... of death threats
... and it looks like the returning economy is not returning fast enough to stop the rising tide of racism in Korea.
If I get acid in the face, I promise to go Phantom of the Opera, and haunt Itaewon from the sewer drain closest to the old SlimeLight club. It really is the closest piece of class in Seoul comparable to the Paris Opera House. Or maybe I'll haunt SpyBar, still the bar of choice for Russian models.
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-threat-against-atek-president.html
If I get acid in the face, I promise to go Phantom of the Opera, and haunt Itaewon from the sewer drain closest to the old SlimeLight club. It really is the closest piece of class in Seoul comparable to the Paris Opera House. Or maybe I'll haunt SpyBar, still the bar of choice for Russian models.
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/11/death-threat-against-atek-president.html
Sunday, October 11, 2009
I'm going to bugger about with the settings
I'm going to bugger about with the settings, just to see what happens. I'm in an adventurous frame of mind, for reasons which you'll see, sooner or later.
Hmm. Interesting. Changes saved, ads added, or soon to be added. I wonder what will pop up.
User interest on this page is far from "up there" with the money makers. I'm more interested in what comes up as a Google directed Ad. Given some of the things that I've written about, some of the words that I pop in here from time to time, I think some very interesting things will appear.
There are some changes coming, my friends. Some big ones. I've got some personal stuff going on, and I'll get into that in due time, once I've got some complete stories to tell. Probably Wednesday, so if you're one of the four usual visitors to this space, drop in in the middle of the week, Wednesday night my time. I should have a tale for you. I hope, damn I hope it's just a cautionary tale. Wednesday. Big blog post, or poop strikes fan.
Tune.
In.
Wednesday.
Loyal Reader.
Heh. Loyal Reader. Unlike the "Devout" followers on Twitter. The language inference on that site still weirds me out. It's bizarre to receive an email every so often that says, "so and so is now following you ... on Twitter!" Temple of doom, website of ridiculousness. Although, I do love the story I read on the Huffington Post about the waiter who lost his job for twittering about the Hollywoof, (spelling intentional), star who ran out and didn't pay.
Not the best time to be losing your job. Not the best time to lose your job for publicly stating your opinion. Freedom of speech, shot dead, age two hundred and some odd and no one gives a damn because a rich actress who's going to lose her own job once she turns 38 (at best) took offense to being publicly lambasted for behaving like, well, a criminal. A petty criminal.
Sh*ts and G*ggl*s. I wonder what the Adsense program will think of that. Heh.
Here's the best news of the year for you though. All that hullabaloo about never getting the promised toys of the future is about to come true. Here, courtesy of the BBC is the nuclear battery.
It's the size of a dime. It lasts longer. How much longer? Well, the BBC tells us that, "Nuclear batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because the isotopes that power them can provide a useful amount of current for phenomenally long times - up to hundreds of years or more."
Hundreds of years or more. What's that mean to us? Watches that never stop. Ipods that never need to be recharged. Hand held communications gear, Internet gear, field equipment, flash lights, hand drill, portable power saw, or electric based toy, tool, or trick, is going to last much, much longer.
Uranium, which you can check out Here:
the basic wiki for this metal
the wiki for mining this metal
some more information, and some kickin' pics of what we're talking about.
Think about, make sure you understand what's going to happen, and where. If radioactive isotopes are going to take over as the new portable power source, then uranium, our favourite reactor fuel, is going to be an even, "hotter", power source than ever. Who's got it, who mines it, who processes it, and who's selling it, will be the big questions for the mid to latter 21st C.
Power, baby. It's all about power. The power to do, the power to create. Of course, if you whipped up your own hand crank generator, you really don't need to worry about these things, do you?
Hmm. Interesting. Changes saved, ads added, or soon to be added. I wonder what will pop up.
User interest on this page is far from "up there" with the money makers. I'm more interested in what comes up as a Google directed Ad. Given some of the things that I've written about, some of the words that I pop in here from time to time, I think some very interesting things will appear.
There are some changes coming, my friends. Some big ones. I've got some personal stuff going on, and I'll get into that in due time, once I've got some complete stories to tell. Probably Wednesday, so if you're one of the four usual visitors to this space, drop in in the middle of the week, Wednesday night my time. I should have a tale for you. I hope, damn I hope it's just a cautionary tale. Wednesday. Big blog post, or poop strikes fan.
Tune.
In.
Wednesday.
Loyal Reader.
Heh. Loyal Reader. Unlike the "Devout" followers on Twitter. The language inference on that site still weirds me out. It's bizarre to receive an email every so often that says, "so and so is now following you ... on Twitter!" Temple of doom, website of ridiculousness. Although, I do love the story I read on the Huffington Post about the waiter who lost his job for twittering about the Hollywoof, (spelling intentional), star who ran out and didn't pay.
Not the best time to be losing your job. Not the best time to lose your job for publicly stating your opinion. Freedom of speech, shot dead, age two hundred and some odd and no one gives a damn because a rich actress who's going to lose her own job once she turns 38 (at best) took offense to being publicly lambasted for behaving like, well, a criminal. A petty criminal.
Sh*ts and G*ggl*s. I wonder what the Adsense program will think of that. Heh.
Here's the best news of the year for you though. All that hullabaloo about never getting the promised toys of the future is about to come true. Here, courtesy of the BBC is the nuclear battery.
It's the size of a dime. It lasts longer. How much longer? Well, the BBC tells us that, "Nuclear batteries are an attractive proposition for many applications because the isotopes that power them can provide a useful amount of current for phenomenally long times - up to hundreds of years or more."
Hundreds of years or more. What's that mean to us? Watches that never stop. Ipods that never need to be recharged. Hand held communications gear, Internet gear, field equipment, flash lights, hand drill, portable power saw, or electric based toy, tool, or trick, is going to last much, much longer.
Uranium, which you can check out Here:
the basic wiki for this metal
the wiki for mining this metal
some more information, and some kickin' pics of what we're talking about.
Think about, make sure you understand what's going to happen, and where. If radioactive isotopes are going to take over as the new portable power source, then uranium, our favourite reactor fuel, is going to be an even, "hotter", power source than ever. Who's got it, who mines it, who processes it, and who's selling it, will be the big questions for the mid to latter 21st C.
Power, baby. It's all about power. The power to do, the power to create. Of course, if you whipped up your own hand crank generator, you really don't need to worry about these things, do you?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Blast from the past!
Here's a few September posts from 2005 From that other blog which did not stand the test of time.
Interesting to look back.
Friday, September 30, 2005
Return of Pain Ray-- microwave update
Some of you out there will remember earlier rants and reports about the development of a mobile microwave projector that the US has been toying with over the last several years. This article is the latest I've seen on it's expected deployment. For those uninitiated to the freedom created by this marvel, read carefully! Mounted on the back of a truck, or the underside of a helicopter, the pain ray works by bombarding people with low intensity microwaves. Not enough to cook your innards, but enough to boil the water present in your skin. While, supposedly, not yet tested in real life situations, the least this freedom wave will do is make you feel like every inch of your skin is on fire, upon such feeling you will most likely drop to the ground and do the freedom twitch until it is switched off. At the most, it'll cause the water in your skin to boil and burst, leaving you with numerous bloody, freedom stains all over your heretical, non-christian clothing.
The sooner this gets into the field, the sooner we can start transmitting freedom directly into the flesh, rather than taking that cumbersome route around through the ears and around the brain.
Unfortunately the link that this was connected has been taken down at Defense News dot Com http://www.defensenews.com/index.php A shame. Defense news cot com is a fine website. Lots of neat little articles. see also
the wiki for this machine, please note the contracts given
this one from 2008 which discusses the expanding interest
and this one from February 2009 discussing the miniaturization
ah pain ray. I can't wait for you to infringe my civil rights, beneath my skin.
Interesting to look back.
Friday, September 30, 2005
Return of Pain Ray-- microwave update
Some of you out there will remember earlier rants and reports about the development of a mobile microwave projector that the US has been toying with over the last several years. This article is the latest I've seen on it's expected deployment. For those uninitiated to the freedom created by this marvel, read carefully! Mounted on the back of a truck, or the underside of a helicopter, the pain ray works by bombarding people with low intensity microwaves. Not enough to cook your innards, but enough to boil the water present in your skin. While, supposedly, not yet tested in real life situations, the least this freedom wave will do is make you feel like every inch of your skin is on fire, upon such feeling you will most likely drop to the ground and do the freedom twitch until it is switched off. At the most, it'll cause the water in your skin to boil and burst, leaving you with numerous bloody, freedom stains all over your heretical, non-christian clothing.
The sooner this gets into the field, the sooner we can start transmitting freedom directly into the flesh, rather than taking that cumbersome route around through the ears and around the brain.
Unfortunately the link that this was connected has been taken down at Defense News dot Com http://www.defensenews.com/index.php A shame. Defense news cot com is a fine website. Lots of neat little articles. see also
the wiki for this machine, please note the contracts given
this one from 2008 which discusses the expanding interest
and this one from February 2009 discussing the miniaturization
ah pain ray. I can't wait for you to infringe my civil rights, beneath my skin.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
today's awesomeness
Sometimes absolutely nothing happens in a day. Then you have days like today.
A different Jackass giving you the death stare every ten minutes, old people throwing fits on the subway because you've got a different skin colour. Wading through a city built with arrogance and stupidity.
And then gems like these pop up:
"Giant Man eating birds from New Zealand!" Only extinct for about five centuries, the existence of these winged bloodthirsty marvels of nature give flight to my imagination, and should compel you to wonder about what else may be lurking in places where men fear to tread.
"Quantum computing takes another bold leap forward." As we forge forward into the quantum world, pushing our technology into a state where we can store data with light, we move ever closer to a ... well ... imagine a world where you didn't have to wait for your machines to catch up to you. Imagine a world where all human knowledge could be stored on a device that fit comfortably on your wrist. Imagine a world defined only by the boundaries of your imagination.......
"Also in the world of quantum computing." Teleportation is and always shall be damn cool. That we're on the edge of that beast, that we might be able to soon pop things in and out wherever we choose? Tele - F@#&ing - portation. Shit yeah.
"I"m not shitting you with a bunch of baloney." We're much further along than you might think.
"Saturn has thunderstorms that can last for eight months." There isn't much cooler than that. Check out the images, then remember how damn large that planet is. Rockin.
"some people can actually see time" because of the way that their brain is wired. What else could be perceived if there were more connections?
Sky's the limit people, once you get that foundation laid down.
A different Jackass giving you the death stare every ten minutes, old people throwing fits on the subway because you've got a different skin colour. Wading through a city built with arrogance and stupidity.
And then gems like these pop up:
"Giant Man eating birds from New Zealand!" Only extinct for about five centuries, the existence of these winged bloodthirsty marvels of nature give flight to my imagination, and should compel you to wonder about what else may be lurking in places where men fear to tread.
"Quantum computing takes another bold leap forward." As we forge forward into the quantum world, pushing our technology into a state where we can store data with light, we move ever closer to a ... well ... imagine a world where you didn't have to wait for your machines to catch up to you. Imagine a world where all human knowledge could be stored on a device that fit comfortably on your wrist. Imagine a world defined only by the boundaries of your imagination.......
"Also in the world of quantum computing." Teleportation is and always shall be damn cool. That we're on the edge of that beast, that we might be able to soon pop things in and out wherever we choose? Tele - F@#&ing - portation. Shit yeah.
"I"m not shitting you with a bunch of baloney." We're much further along than you might think.
"Saturn has thunderstorms that can last for eight months." There isn't much cooler than that. Check out the images, then remember how damn large that planet is. Rockin.
"some people can actually see time" because of the way that their brain is wired. What else could be perceived if there were more connections?
Sky's the limit people, once you get that foundation laid down.
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