I do take great pleasure in cooking, but for me it is all about the food. Maybe I just don't agree with Alton Brown's approach. Maybe I just don't like most of the crap on foodtv.com/network (except for the Iron Chef, that is a great show - Emeril is annoying, though I have eaten at his place in Nawlins). The intent of my post was to reveal Bourdain's book as a better read... It seems like it would be more appealing to the slashdot audience. It is like comparing Bill Nye the Science Guy to Bucky Fuller. Both have geek appeal, but one clearly has more going on. Alton has a web site, so I guess he wins. Oh, well. I wonder if he will address a question about someone else's book?
On the subject of 'fat', Boudain does mention it - I didn't take it as over the top as you did, it was hyperbole. The 'secret' ingredients - butter, shallots and garlic. If you want rich foods you could use those in everything... same could be said of cream, capers and anchovies. Boudain did make it a point to adress butter, but he was seemed to express disdain for the 'fat free' butter alternatives. He was pretty hard on vegans also, stating that every vegan he met got sick when they thought about getting the cold.
That all being said, I don't see what is so great about fois gras either. phhhfft
I hardly ever eat anything processed and pre-packaged, and fauxmeat has very little appeal. If you take all the 'vegetarian' dishes from India, Italy, Mexico, Indonesia, East Asia, Middle East and North Africa you have plenty of delights for the vegitarian without any need for the offerings of the "food industry".
I was looking at the equipment list and noticed it was extraordinary compared to Anthony Bordain's list in Kitchen Confidential (a couple knives, ring shape PVC, squeeze bottle, tooth-picks, sauté pan, stock pot, mandoline and a couple other items). Can we make do with less? I have cooked to impress in my hack kitchen using the simple tools... (granted I have Le Creuset and All Clad pans and Kitchen Aid and Cuisinart tools) I always find that it comes down to the best ingredients and one decent knife & pan. I only ask because DIY and "keep it simple" often go hand in hand in the hack mentality. Plus $5K to go out and upgrade the kitchen is a lot to ask.
I live near Hampshire College and there are several of these cars driving around with the www.greasecar.com printed on the body. Volkswagens... Rabbits and a Bus I have seen. Our local rag did a srory on these pioneers. I am thinking about buying my neighbor's diesel Rabbit for $250.00 just so I can try the kit out.
The 'No Postage Neccessary' envelope that you return the application with should be returned only. They get charged for this. Send it back filled with sand, lead foil, pornography or banana peels as it gets metered for weight.
What bash (no pun intended)? Seems more like a wish list to me. If you truly do use Sybase and compared MySQL to it you would see where it lacks. We have Apache that does quite well at competing with the commercial offerings. It would be nice to see MySQL do the same instead of remaing a 'lite' alternative....and to answer the previous question, can you use another app to take the place of stored procedures? Yes, but the preferred method would be having those other apps execute SPs with parameters for the sake of performance (precomiled code runs faster as it has already gone through the optimization), maintainability (you can change the database stucture or the code without touching the application that executes it - as long as parameters passed are the same), and security (giving users execute permissions rather than update delete as they would need if the application did not use SPs). All that said, rollbacks, triggers views and such are also lacking. I guess this is all offtopic for a book review, but I did not start the thread.
Why does a naturalized citizen need to say it once, yet all the children get brainwashed each day?
Shouldn't Christians and the like be opposed to the pledge also? It seems like a form of idolitry.
It should be reserved for special occaions and for immigration/naturalization. Do away with it in schools altogether, and certainly leave God out of it.
I always rebelled against it when I was growing up. I am very pleased to see this.
I saw it in many articles when this was first published. If you read the link from Wired above it does mention it. I am sure there are other articles if you seacr Google. To make it easier, here you go:
When I turned my attention to the flask, I saw what I should have seen before: electricity flowing through the submerged coils was creating heat that made the frigid liquid boil. Just as eggs bounce around when you boil them in a saucepan, the superconductor and its target mass were being lifted by bubbles. We weren't measuring gravity reduction, here, we were conducting an experiment in cryogenic cookery!
Different, yes, but not unsimilar (I know, not a word). I did not see mention of Dr. Podkletnov in the sciam article. Glad to see that they made the same connection.
...and his anti-gravity machine? This looks somewhat similar...
Dr. Podkletnov was discounted as a hoax by many sources (cited that rising gases from the coolant, air flow from spinning or magnetism influenced his results), his university ejected him and now he has retreated to a hermetic existence.
Here is a story on Wired for your reading pleasure.
Well, at least you are not using the same lame excuse I hear from 90% of the people that by an HD. "They hold their value". Everyone and their uncle is buying an HD now and HD is keeping up the demand with their cookie-cutter dinosaurs. I don't think they will hold value in the long run.
That 1979 Gl and 1974 H2 are highly collectable and even with 1970's technology they surpass the HD new in the showroom for performance, style and technology.
Dude. Honda has the GL and Valkarie. Those are a better deal than anything HD has to offer, and it fits the same class of ride. Gl for tour, V for cruiser. If you want dinosaur tech, why not buy a classic and restore it?
Overpriced, pushrods, two-valves, low tech and heavy. (an the loud pipes = noise pollution not safety) HD is all about style and image not performance technology.
For $10k less you could get a Japanese hotrod. For more or less the same price of an HD why not a BMW, Ducati 996 or MV Agusta F4 750?
I was looking for a similar tool yesterday when I was doing research for low power FM transmitter placement. I have a street address for the tower and was looking for an easy (or more accurate, as I am not an adept map reader) tool rather than looking at the USGS maps.
The music industry today is going to do the same thing to music as what Hollywood has done to film. Now the only creative force in the 'industry' is profit. Thank god for college radio and indie labels...
I don't work in the business, my college radio DJ and garage band days are over - but if I was a successful artist in music I would give back. Scout for talent - help them self produce their work, let them be in full control of the creative process and maintain full ownership of their creations... and also be vocal about the ills of the industry while doing so.
With the FCC recent opening of regulations to low power stations I see no reason why small local non-profit stations might emerge. I live in a small town (30,000) which happens to be nearby over six colleges and universities (all with college radio stations) in western Massachusetts (student population might exceed 80,000). We have over a dozen record stores, possibly 50-100 local bands and many music related support (engineers, critics... etc). If there was a local public owned station it could be staffed 24hrs. And this is not a major market which does have two local Clear Channel stations...
Now that I have been thinking, it is time to get to work on this!
More like Hidden Fortress without Hyoe Tadokoro? He is the foil to Han in Kurosawa's film - which Star Wars is a total rip-off of. At least George admits it. Comparing Eddie to Han made me laugh out loud, spilling coffee on my desk. Thanks a lot.
At a recent computer expo (Comdex), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that get 100 miles to the gallon." Recently,General Motors addresses this comment by releasing this statement, "yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" Below is a synopsis of the Microsoft Car: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail, and you would have to re-install the engine. for some strange reason, you would accept this too. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times faster, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 5% of the roads. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades for their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. The oil, gas and alternator lights would be replaced with single "general car fault" lights. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
I always found that you can tell a lot about a person based on their musical taste... as well, I listen to things that people list as their favorites when I have not heard them before - both to understand where thay are coming from, or if the person and I have common interests I may like what I hear.
Alan, what would you list as your Desert Island Discs? Those ten discs that you would want with you if there were none others to be heard...
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Surprising? Obvious? Predictable?
I guess I am a moron for not figuring it out.
I do take great pleasure in cooking, but for me it is all about the food. Maybe I just don't agree with Alton Brown's approach. Maybe I just don't like most of the crap on foodtv.com/network (except for the Iron Chef, that is a great show - Emeril is annoying, though I have eaten at his place in Nawlins). The intent of my post was to reveal Bourdain's book as a better read... It seems like it would be more appealing to the slashdot audience. It is like comparing Bill Nye the Science Guy to Bucky Fuller. Both have geek appeal, but one clearly has more going on. Alton has a web site, so I guess he wins. Oh, well. I wonder if he will address a question about someone else's book?
On the subject of 'fat', Boudain does mention it - I didn't take it as over the top as you did, it was hyperbole. The 'secret' ingredients - butter, shallots and garlic. If you want rich foods you could use those in everything... same could be said of cream, capers and anchovies. Boudain did make it a point to adress butter, but he was seemed to express disdain for the 'fat free' butter alternatives. He was pretty hard on vegans also, stating that every vegan he met got sick when they thought about getting the cold.
That all being said, I don't see what is so great about fois gras either. phhhfft
I hardly ever eat anything processed and pre-packaged, and fauxmeat has very little appeal. If you take all the 'vegetarian' dishes from India, Italy, Mexico, Indonesia, East Asia, Middle East and North Africa you have plenty of delights for the vegitarian without any need for the offerings of the "food industry".
I live near Hampshire College and there are several of these cars driving around with the www.greasecar.com printed on the body. Volkswagens... Rabbits and a Bus I have seen. Our local rag did a srory on these pioneers. I am thinking about buying my neighbor's diesel Rabbit for $250.00 just so I can try the kit out.
How could I forget...
Kitchen Confidential
Looks like a great book. I am going to buy it today for a gift.
For the DIY/Geek Chef that has not gone to culinary school, here are three must haves:
The Professional Chef
Gastronomique
La Technique Culinaire
Essentially, textbooks from most schools including the CIA.
I just being clue-free and irony-deficient?
ctrl-c / ctrl-v is outright IP theft in most cases. It is a joke, laugh.
It is obvious church/state separation issue.
Why does a naturalized citizen need to say it once, yet all the children get brainwashed each day?
Shouldn't Christians and the like be opposed to the pledge also? It seems like a form of idolitry.
It should be reserved for special occaions and for immigration/naturalization. Do away with it in schools altogether, and certainly leave God out of it.
I always rebelled against it when I was growing up. I am very pleased to see this.
I saw it in many articles when this was first published. If you read the link from Wired above it does mention it. I am sure there are other articles if you seacr Google. To make it easier, here you go:
When I turned my attention to the flask, I saw what I should have seen before: electricity flowing through the submerged coils was creating heat that made the frigid liquid boil. Just as eggs bounce around when you boil them in a saucepan, the superconductor and its target mass were being lifted by bubbles. We weren't measuring gravity reduction, here, we were conducting an experiment in cryogenic cookery!
Dr. Podkletnov was discounted as a hoax by many sources (cited that rising gases from the coolant, air flow from spinning or magnetism influenced his results), his university ejected him and now he has retreated to a hermetic existence.
Here is a story on Wired for your reading pleasure.
Much more to look if you search Google.
Well, at least you are not using the same lame excuse I hear from 90% of the people that by an HD. "They hold their value". Everyone and their uncle is buying an HD now and HD is keeping up the demand with their cookie-cutter dinosaurs. I don't think they will hold value in the long run.
My bikes:
1979 GL100
1974 H-2
1974 GT 380
1976 GT 550
1970 GT 500
1972 S-1
That 1979 Gl and 1974 H2 are highly collectable and even with 1970's technology they surpass the HD new in the showroom for performance, style and technology.
The HD thing perplexes me.
Overpriced, pushrods, two-valves, low tech and heavy. (an the loud pipes = noise pollution not safety) HD is all about style and image not performance technology.
For $10k less you could get a Japanese hotrod. For more or less the same price of an HD why not a BMW, Ducati 996 or MV Agusta F4 750?
The music industry today is going to do the same thing to music as what Hollywood has done to film. Now the only creative force in the 'industry' is profit. Thank god for college radio and indie labels...
I don't work in the business, my college radio DJ and garage band days are over - but if I was a successful artist in music I would give back. Scout for talent - help them self produce their work, let them be in full control of the creative process and maintain full ownership of their creations... and also be vocal about the ills of the industry while doing so.
With the FCC recent opening of regulations to low power stations I see no reason why small local non-profit stations might emerge. I live in a small town (30,000) which happens to be nearby over six colleges and universities (all with college radio stations) in western Massachusetts (student population might exceed 80,000). We have over a dozen record stores, possibly 50-100 local bands and many music related support (engineers, critics... etc). If there was a local public owned station it could be staffed 24hrs. And this is not a major market which does have two local Clear Channel stations...
Now that I have been thinking, it is time to get to work on this!
At a recent computer expo (Comdex), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that get 100 miles to the gallon." Recently,General Motors addresses this comment by releasing this statement, "yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" Below is a synopsis of the Microsoft Car: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail, and you would have to re-install the engine. for some strange reason, you would accept this too. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then you would have to buy more seats. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times faster, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on 5% of the roads. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades for their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. The oil, gas and alternator lights would be replaced with single "general car fault" lights. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
Alan, what would you list as your Desert Island Discs? Those ten discs that you would want with you if there were none others to be heard...