Yeah...I am NOT going to be happy with NFC put on all new phones coming out...I do hope there is a solid way to easily DISABLE this functionality.
I don't even accept credit cards with RFID chips in them. Bank tried to send me some...I called and asked to have them replaced with 'dumb' ones, and they were (fortunately) happy to comply.
I just see this as a huge security/privacy breech waiting to happen.
I certainly don't want to use my phone as my wallet. I prefer to make most purchases in meat space with good old cash. I used credit cards sparingly when I need something and not close to an ATM (or just write a check).....I pay off the CC's monthly.
That system is insecure too...but at least it requires for the most part..physical interaction to help a thief steal....but to have things be able to read your info, and possibly get info to steal from you as you just walk by during the course of your life.
No thanks.....I don't see the upside of this tech. And really...do *most* people need a way to let them spend money they don't have even easier?!?!?
I have found basically only 3 ways to do a whole turkey that I find enjoyable, and moist.
1. Whole Deep Fried Turkey....turns out moist and not greasy at all, if you watch the oil temps.
2. Smoked Turkey...I can brine then smoke a whole turkey in my bandera style smoker..and comes out moist and tasty...this is my favorite.
3. Turdukey...de boned Chicken stuffed in a de boned duck, stuffed in a de boned turkey...with 3 different stuffings, one between each layer. this is then roasted. There is the fat in the dressing and the fat the duck gives off...which keeps everything moist. I've done this by hand..took a couple days to make but was good.
But ick..plain old roasted turkey, like I said...might as well chew cardboard...even with gravy.
The condition you have is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
No...not really a compulsion. I mean, I don't get 'uptight' because food on my plate touches each other....It is just that I like to taste the individual flavors of everything. I don't think things taste as good when mixed...for most things.
Mexican food...for example, is an exception, since it all (at least Tex Mex in the US) is basically the same shit, just rolled up differently....basically corn tortillas, beans, meat, cheese....so, that doesn't bother me.
Hmm..I actually found that Plate Turner is sort of a real term. I thought I'd actually made it up when I was younger.
But I don't consciously do it...I just have always naturally eaten that way. I usually dig into my main entree...say, I'd eat the steak all the way first...then, turn my attention to the baked potato, etc...usually I eat the sides last...favorite one first.
I've met others that eat in the same manner, while not really common, it isn't completely unheard of or uncommon.
Not drinking (anything, I don't mean alcohol) while eating is the smart thing to do though... be glad it's not a habit you have to drop:)
Interesting..I'd heard that before, but never have investigated it.
I suppose that not drinking while eating....is a large contributing factor, to me NOT eating baked/roasted turkey for Thanksgiving. No matter where I've had it...and how 'moist' everyone claimed it was..to me, it was like chewing cardboard.
That's why at Tday, for years...I always to Standing Rib Roast. I tell everyone, "The only turkey at my house on Thanksgiving, is 101 proof!!"
I'm a plate turner...not quite as bad as when I was young..but I just don't like my foods mixed.
When I'd eat..I'd have multiple things on my plate..but I'd eat all of one thing..finish is, then often, literally turn the plate to eat the next thing in succession (I don't recall if always clockwise or counter clockwise or if there was a pattern...likely just the next best thing)...eat that..then turn.....etc.
As a kid, my favorite thing, was those plates that had compartments..so that one food didn't touch the other food.
Hence, in my example above..of late nights on weekends in college...going to Denny's I'd order spaghetti and meatballs or something...and a side of fries, things that don't generally pair...but was ok for me, since I'd eat all the spaghetti...then, turn my attention to the fries.
I find I don't usually drink and eat at the same time, even to this day. I don't wash my food down.
For years, i've been trying to make a concerted effort to change this at least for wine...so I can do like most say, and enjoy a good wine paired with a meal. I used to get pissed when eating with others...I'd drink a bit of wine that came before the meal...but during the meal, I'd stop drinking...and when the meal was over, since the others hadn't stopped drinking and eating together...the wine often was gone....
While I'm not as bad as I used to be...if I don't think about it...I still do the one food at a time thing to a great extent.
I love to cook, but one of my downfalls is that I've not grown up learning what foods do go well together when planning menus for others. To me, I'm just usually concerned about each individual dish's flavor...but not how they integrate into a meal...when enjoyed by others that eat a bit of this and a bit of that all through the meal.
Cheap? If I want to cook a steak, it costs me more to buy the raw steak and sides than to just go out and buy one at a restaurant. This is especially true if you're cooking for yourself. Your options there are to eat the same meal for a week straight (bleh, boring), freeze leftovers after cooking (which never tastes good after), or only make things that have no spoiling ingredients (so no milk, cream, etc). Oh and you're going to throw out half your excess ingredients, because grocery stores don't really sell in individual serving sizes for most things. Meals I cook are generally the same or slightly more expensive than going out to get the same meal, with the exception of nights I just decide on a bowl of cereal.
Then, my friend, you don't know how to cook.
Hell, I still cook in the fashion I did in college..and I can afford quite a bit these days.
I tend to spend Sundays cooking.
I'll cook about 2-4 main dishes (pot roast, stir fry veggies, fire up the smoker for bbq meats, maybe grind and stuff some sausages to eat on, meatloaf, pot of chili...whatever else I'm into cooking that month)....and about the same sides. I like to cook...but I cook like this, and package it up to eat for lunches and dinner during the week. I do this so I can have healthy, good tasting meals, that I don't get bored with....
I don't have time during the week with work, gym and other stuff I need to do..to cook most weekdays, so I do it this way.
Leftovers at the end of the week? Well, time to make some jambalaya.
I don't eat fast food...I cannot tell you the last time I set foot in a McD's. I eat better and cheaper than most people do that don't cook from scratch and eat crap food, and processed pre-packaged food at the stores.
I usually start off before grocery shopping, to look at the sale ads for most of the stores around me...and I figure what I'll cook based on what's on sale...I go to 1-3 different stores, getting the sale items (I do make a list)....and get home and cook.
One thing during the summer that is great...just get some meats and marinate them various ways...get veggies like squash, zucchini, eggplant, onions..etc.....and just grill everything.
then during the week...I do various things with them. Maybe whip up some tzaiki sauce (sp?) out of yogurt and have gyro type sandwiches....toss them in some oil with some fresh tomatoes and basil out of the garden and serve over whole wheat pasta...etc.
That keeps things from being boring...economical...healthy....and VERY quick to throw together during the week.
And I do this for less than most families eat on, that don't or won't cook.
Unless someone somewhere is trying to get some kind of funding based on a quota...who gives a fuck if there are more men than women in computer science or anything?
I mean really...what does it matter? There's more men in football too...is this such a bad thing?
There's fields where there are more women than men...is anyone bellyaching about this? If not...why?
I keep seeing this harped on....and I don't know why? Unless there is some mass conspiracy to discriminate letting women into comp sci. programs....I don't see what is wrong. Discrimination would be one thing...and I don't see anyone suggesting that. But lack of interest should be perfectly acceptable. Are we also going to start bitching that there are too many Oriental folks getting into comp sci. math or physics and less Caucasians? More men in coal mines than women? X race females more than another race of females and men?
It is called choice.....what's wrong with that? People are different.
The sexes are different....geez, accept it and lets go on with life.....it just doesn't matter.
It's just different because it's built on what came before.
Actually....that's what I think went WRONG with modern music.
The old stuff I grew up with...did just that, one group after another over the years, took what came before, and made it their own, but you could hear the progression.
Bill Haley and the Coments, Chuck Berry, Little Richard...took from gospel, country and blues...made rock and roll. The Stones and the Beatles and Clapton...took that black and blues music and fed it back to us electrified and distorted, but you could still hear the roots...then progressed...Floyd, and Zeppelin....still hearing the influences....
Then wham..some time in the 80's....the progression was lost....and you just can't seem to find it anymore...the soul of music, seems gone.
At least for rock....which is what I care about. Somewhere along the line...to me, I think it was about the time rap hit the scene...the continuity of music broke...and to me, that's when I lost the ability to hear what I liked anymore....
Geez...I think they're actually well on their way to being forgotten already even as we speak....what anthem have they put out that will last past the end of the year...much less half a decade or more?
Even from the 60's through the 70's...there are a BUNCH of one hit wonders....and any time I throw those one..people go "WOW".....and start to get into them....
I dunno much of that anymore since like the early 80's maybe....
Trouble is..I can't find anything that I like...new stuff.
Did blues based, guitar driven rock just evaporate and leave the planet?
Although I'll never tire of listening to the Stones during their heydays...I do wish I could find something new, but carrying on the banner that they laid down.
I mean, rock...came about with every generation taking from the past, and extending it a little...country and blues...gave us Chuck Berry....blues and Chuck Berry gave us the Stones and the Beatles...which gave us Zeppelin, etc....
Somewhere along the line....this continuation just broke....
The only close thing I've found is that one album by Wolfmother.....and that's about it.
One of my favorite sayings is, "The more you own, the more you are owned." It's definitely a liberating feeling to not have to own and manage stuff, physical and virtual.
Well, for the most part...the music being produced today, just isn't worth keeping, and owning to replay over and over again in the coming years.
That's not just my "get off my lawn" mentality either...I hear it from younger people today. They go through tons of music, but it is quite often disposable, I've heard them say.
"Oh, yeah, I'll get this, listen to it for a few months, but doubt I'll throw it on again."
Me? Geez...well, I own most of my music in CD form. I've yet to buy a mp3 off the internet....I'd rather buy in a the best format I can generally get, for home use...and then for lessor listening environments, I rip the music to high quality mp3's....which is plenty good enough for bad listening environments like the gym or the car.
But pretty much everything I've bought...I listen to OVER and over again...and have for decades.
I never get tired of hearing Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall....and I usually play those in their entirety, from beginning to end since to me..they are whole pieces of music...the whole album is.
I never get tired of Brown Sugar....or the plethora of other Stones songs.
More recently...well, I do like pretty much the whole Wolfmother first album...great stuff. I've found some good bluesmen of today...Guitar Shorty, and Tinsley Ellis.....but yes, most of my stuff is in the electric blues driven classic rock era.
But I find I like to OWN my music...because, it WILL and is often listened to quite often. A lot of the stuff coming out today...well, I don't usually find it to be something I'd listen to over and over again...so, I can sympathize with the kids of today.
I'm trying to figure out...when did music become disposable?
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Well, there's your problem right there....why didn't they use a (real) database?
What is "Chip'n Pin"? New term for me....is this something in EU?
I don't even accept credit cards with RFID chips in them. Bank tried to send me some...I called and asked to have them replaced with 'dumb' ones, and they were (fortunately) happy to comply.
I just see this as a huge security/privacy breech waiting to happen.
I certainly don't want to use my phone as my wallet. I prefer to make most purchases in meat space with good old cash. I used credit cards sparingly when I need something and not close to an ATM (or just write a check).....I pay off the CC's monthly.
That system is insecure too...but at least it requires for the most part..physical interaction to help a thief steal....but to have things be able to read your info, and possibly get info to steal from you as you just walk by during the course of your life.
No thanks.....I don't see the upside of this tech. And really...do *most* people need a way to let them spend money they don't have even easier?!?!?
Oops....#3 was supposed to be Turducken!!.
1. Whole Deep Fried Turkey....turns out moist and not greasy at all, if you watch the oil temps.
2. Smoked Turkey...I can brine then smoke a whole turkey in my bandera style smoker..and comes out moist and tasty...this is my favorite.
3. Turdukey...de boned Chicken stuffed in a de boned duck, stuffed in a de boned turkey...with 3 different stuffings, one between each layer. this is then roasted. There is the fat in the dressing and the fat the duck gives off...which keeps everything moist. I've done this by hand..took a couple days to make but was good.
But ick..plain old roasted turkey, like I said...might as well chew cardboard...even with gravy.
I don't get what your meaning...?
Why would I drink more wine to get mad? I'm not a mean drunk....?
No...not really a compulsion. I mean, I don't get 'uptight' because food on my plate touches each other....It is just that I like to taste the individual flavors of everything. I don't think things taste as good when mixed...for most things.
Mexican food...for example, is an exception, since it all (at least Tex Mex in the US) is basically the same shit, just rolled up differently....basically corn tortillas, beans, meat, cheese....so, that doesn't bother me.
Hmm..I actually found that Plate Turner is sort of a real term. I thought I'd actually made it up when I was younger.
But I don't consciously do it...I just have always naturally eaten that way. I usually dig into my main entree...say, I'd eat the steak all the way first...then, turn my attention to the baked potato, etc...usually I eat the sides last...favorite one first.
I've met others that eat in the same manner, while not really common, it isn't completely unheard of or uncommon.
Interesting..I'd heard that before, but never have investigated it.
I suppose that not drinking while eating....is a large contributing factor, to me NOT eating baked/roasted turkey for Thanksgiving. No matter where I've had it...and how 'moist' everyone claimed it was..to me, it was like chewing cardboard.
That's why at Tday, for years...I always to Standing Rib Roast. I tell everyone, "The only turkey at my house on Thanksgiving, is 101 proof!!"
And...I never get tired of my leftovers either.
I'm a plate turner...not quite as bad as when I was young..but I just don't like my foods mixed.
When I'd eat..I'd have multiple things on my plate..but I'd eat all of one thing..finish is, then often, literally turn the plate to eat the next thing in succession (I don't recall if always clockwise or counter clockwise or if there was a pattern...likely just the next best thing)...eat that..then turn.....etc.
As a kid, my favorite thing, was those plates that had compartments..so that one food didn't touch the other food.
Hence, in my example above..of late nights on weekends in college...going to Denny's I'd order spaghetti and meatballs or something...and a side of fries, things that don't generally pair...but was ok for me, since I'd eat all the spaghetti...then, turn my attention to the fries.
I find I don't usually drink and eat at the same time, even to this day. I don't wash my food down.
For years, i've been trying to make a concerted effort to change this at least for wine...so I can do like most say, and enjoy a good wine paired with a meal. I used to get pissed when eating with others...I'd drink a bit of wine that came before the meal...but during the meal, I'd stop drinking...and when the meal was over, since the others hadn't stopped drinking and eating together...the wine often was gone....
While I'm not as bad as I used to be...if I don't think about it...I still do the one food at a time thing to a great extent.
I love to cook, but one of my downfalls is that I've not grown up learning what foods do go well together when planning menus for others. To me, I'm just usually concerned about each individual dish's flavor...but not how they integrate into a meal...when enjoyed by others that eat a bit of this and a bit of that all through the meal.
They always wondered why spaghetti and french fries sounded good to me late night in college....
But why is it worth understanding at all? Can't we just strike it up to being 'different'?
j/k
Then, my friend, you don't know how to cook.
Hell, I still cook in the fashion I did in college..and I can afford quite a bit these days.
I tend to spend Sundays cooking.
I'll cook about 2-4 main dishes (pot roast, stir fry veggies, fire up the smoker for bbq meats, maybe grind and stuff some sausages to eat on, meatloaf, pot of chili...whatever else I'm into cooking that month)....and about the same sides. I like to cook...but I cook like this, and package it up to eat for lunches and dinner during the week. I do this so I can have healthy, good tasting meals, that I don't get bored with....
I don't have time during the week with work, gym and other stuff I need to do..to cook most weekdays, so I do it this way.
Leftovers at the end of the week? Well, time to make some jambalaya.
I don't eat fast food...I cannot tell you the last time I set foot in a McD's. I eat better and cheaper than most people do that don't cook from scratch and eat crap food, and processed pre-packaged food at the stores.
I usually start off before grocery shopping, to look at the sale ads for most of the stores around me...and I figure what I'll cook based on what's on sale...I go to 1-3 different stores, getting the sale items (I do make a list)....and get home and cook.
One thing during the summer that is great...just get some meats and marinate them various ways...get veggies like squash, zucchini, eggplant, onions..etc.....and just grill everything.
then during the week...I do various things with them. Maybe whip up some tzaiki sauce (sp?) out of yogurt and have gyro type sandwiches....toss them in some oil with some fresh tomatoes and basil out of the garden and serve over whole wheat pasta...etc.
That keeps things from being boring...economical...healthy....and VERY quick to throw together during the week.
And I do this for less than most families eat on, that don't or won't cook.
I mean really...what does it matter? There's more men in football too...is this such a bad thing?
There's fields where there are more women than men...is anyone bellyaching about this? If not...why?
I keep seeing this harped on....and I don't know why? Unless there is some mass conspiracy to discriminate letting women into comp sci. programs....I don't see what is wrong. Discrimination would be one thing...and I don't see anyone suggesting that. But lack of interest should be perfectly acceptable. Are we also going to start bitching that there are too many Oriental folks getting into comp sci. math or physics and less Caucasians? More men in coal mines than women? X race females more than another race of females and men?
It is called choice.....what's wrong with that? People are different.
The sexes are different....geez, accept it and lets go on with life.....it just doesn't matter.
Actually....that's what I think went WRONG with modern music.
The old stuff I grew up with...did just that, one group after another over the years, took what came before, and made it their own, but you could hear the progression.
Bill Haley and the Coments, Chuck Berry, Little Richard...took from gospel, country and blues...made rock and roll. The Stones and the Beatles and Clapton...took that black and blues music and fed it back to us electrified and distorted, but you could still hear the roots...then progressed...Floyd, and Zeppelin....still hearing the influences....
Then wham..some time in the 80's....the progression was lost....and you just can't seem to find it anymore...the soul of music, seems gone.
At least for rock....which is what I care about. Somewhere along the line...to me, I think it was about the time rap hit the scene...the continuity of music broke...and to me, that's when I lost the ability to hear what I liked anymore....
Seriously? Really?
Geez...I think they're actually well on their way to being forgotten already even as we speak....what anthem have they put out that will last past the end of the year...much less half a decade or more?
Even from the 60's through the 70's...there are a BUNCH of one hit wonders....and any time I throw those one..people go "WOW".....and start to get into them....
I dunno much of that anymore since like the early 80's maybe....
I have a huge (what I call my K-tel collection) of one hit wonders, most from the late 60's - 70's...and everyone at parties sings along with them....
Many have forgotten about them, but often people ask oh man, what was that and can I get a copy?!?!
Any other suggestions?
Did blues based, guitar driven rock just evaporate and leave the planet?
Although I'll never tire of listening to the Stones during their heydays...I do wish I could find something new, but carrying on the banner that they laid down.
I mean, rock...came about with every generation taking from the past, and extending it a little...country and blues...gave us Chuck Berry....blues and Chuck Berry gave us the Stones and the Beatles...which gave us Zeppelin, etc....
Somewhere along the line....this continuation just broke....
The only close thing I've found is that one album by Wolfmother.....and that's about it.
Does it run Linux???
I always thought it was...
"He who dies with the most stuff.....WINS!!"
That's not just my "get off my lawn" mentality either...I hear it from younger people today. They go through tons of music, but it is quite often disposable, I've heard them say.
"Oh, yeah, I'll get this, listen to it for a few months, but doubt I'll throw it on again."
Me? Geez...well, I own most of my music in CD form. I've yet to buy a mp3 off the internet....I'd rather buy in a the best format I can generally get, for home use...and then for lessor listening environments, I rip the music to high quality mp3's....which is plenty good enough for bad listening environments like the gym or the car.
But pretty much everything I've bought...I listen to OVER and over again...and have for decades.
I never get tired of hearing Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall....and I usually play those in their entirety, from beginning to end since to me..they are whole pieces of music...the whole album is.
I never get tired of Brown Sugar....or the plethora of other Stones songs.
More recently...well, I do like pretty much the whole Wolfmother first album...great stuff. I've found some good bluesmen of today...Guitar Shorty, and Tinsley Ellis.....but yes, most of my stuff is in the electric blues driven classic rock era.
But I find I like to OWN my music...because, it WILL and is often listened to quite often. A lot of the stuff coming out today...well, I don't usually find it to be something I'd listen to over and over again...so, I can sympathize with the kids of today.
I'm trying to figure out...when did music become disposable?
Err....only if you like having sex in your ass...?
Ewwwwwww.......
Nah...re-read it...funnier the original way.
Just hope they don't use the same Chinese drywall we got stuck with in New Orleans, after Katrina....*cough*....