rozeboosje
Poetry War starts. You did ask for it, suckers! Prepare to die, now.
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Cheers
Pino
[facedesk]
It's halfway through Day 5 of the new starter - it's about 110 hours old now - , and it's dormant at the moment. I'll leave it in peace, and I'll illustrate this using my mature starter as it has built up to the point where I need to use it to bake or discard it. And I'm not discarding a perfectly good starter! :-)
At the moment the power struggle between all the micro-organisms remains undecided. If all goes as it should, eventually the yeast/lactobacillus symbiosis will win out over any other critters in there, but right now it's hard work for them. Leave them in peace. They'll be OK. :-)
Obviously this is a great sign but the starter is far from ready for use yet. A mature starter has a pleasant, fruity smell to it. This one still smells mostly yeasty, even musty. Not unpleasantly so, but it's clearly not right yet.
I will now keep feeding this regularly with organic white wheat flour. I started this with organic wholegrain rye flour as this is more likely to contain all the yeast and lactobacillus you need for a good starter. But now it has in fact started we don't need to add any more. It'll grow all by itself :-)
Day 2 (20 hours after making the starter):
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Day3 (40-48 hours after making the starter):
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Day 4 (early morning, 60 hours after making the starter):
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Day 4 (evening, 72 hours after making the starter):
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Day 5 (evening, 96 hours after making the starter)
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Interlude: Keeping the mould out:
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What's wrong with your own water tray? It's the same water, you know!
This will have to be a poor substitute for same.
I would consider it polite to unblock someone if you're talking about them, but that's just me. Don't feel like you're under any pressure to do so. Whatever you do: welcome.
I'm afraid you're a bit late to the party. I have lost interest in YouTube. It took me almost two days to even check out your video after two people told me on two separate occasions that you had mentioned me in your video. Too busy with living life in reality these days. All good, too. I've discovered that it's fun to work in the garden and I've just started baking sourdough bread. Very enjoyable passtimes indeed!
William Tapley's video in which he mentions me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfgumIHREo
I have to admit that despite the sectarian undertones of the whole event the atmosphere in the place was relaxed and most people seemed to enjoy the event as just a parade.
And why the heck not, eh?
No, sorry idiots, you're still idiots. TJ was right about THAT.
Then I realised I had disturbed an ants' nest. They're bitey little rascals, and they had obviously marched up the spade handle and had gone on the attack.
But I can't say I blame them. Wouldn't YOU be peeved if someone destroyed YOUR home?!
I think they are Common Carder Bees, a species of bumble bee, Latin name Bombus Pascuorum. Apparently these can be confused for a similar be called the Tree Bumblebee - Bombus Hypnorum, but the latter has a white end to the tail, and as you can see right at the end of the video, the tails of these are black all he way to the end.
I put a little sign beside them saying "bumble bees, do not disturb" :-)
According to information I found online, "ground bees" are supposed to be solitary, but I can definitely hear quite a distinctive "buzz" coming from underground, as if there's a hive down there.
As these seem to be quite peaceful - they never attacked or got angry while we were moving that pile - I see no need to do anything about them. Let them pollinate our garden! It sure explains why our apple tree seems to be particularly heavily laden this year :-)
I keep saying "13.7 billion time/time(s)" until eventually I get it more or less right and I say 13.7 billion YEARS of time. My bad
Slim to none, I reckon.
Photosynthesis' two stages:
http://canmedia.mcgrawhill.ca/istudy3/books/0070741751/images/figures/bro41751_0803L_lg.jpg
For those of you who might be interested in that sort of stuff: In order to reduce the video size, I pushed this video through Handbrake, quality setting RF26 - the video doesn't need to show perfect detail, after all. The AUDIO, however, I produced as 96khz 32-bit FLAC, and I muxed the two together using MKVToolNix. YouTube was perfectly happy with that. Huzzah!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22463845
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_St_Tibulus
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idiots
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22436942
Cozmikzen had been very ill in recent times. He lost his battle with cancer yesterday, 17 February 2013.
My "counter prophecy": I'll be laughing at the morons when the white smoke rises announcing the election of Pope number 113. When that might happen is anybody's guess, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_the_popes
Unknotting the wire to my headphones without taking them off :P - I rush through this but if you do it very slowly and carefully you can literally slide the wire between your ear and the cup of the headphone, and each cup will at all times continue to touch its respective ear. Magic! :P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21154385
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVdKUiIVIks
http://bit.ly/VY8Cpq
Cozmikzen: http://www.youtube.com/user/theaist
2012 Damp Squib Gloat 12/12 - not much of a gloat. That would be completely unnecessary.
Sunrise and Sunset calculators: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html or http://www.suncalc.net
Story, poem and reading by Pino Carafa (rozeboosje)
Audio remixing, visuals and editing by Qntkka (T.J. Marcott)
Original Audio: http://www.carobit.com/Antinativity.MP3
It was cold, wet and dreary in old Galilee
but Gary Inmendham was hopping with glee
Which was rare as he normally sulked all day long
so to see him so happy just looked really wrong
To snap Gary out of just being a dick
must be the result of a pretty good trick
Whatever it was, he no longer looked peeved
but content in the glow of what he had achieved
And soon the extent of his mischief was clear
A few months ago our Gary ... oh dear
Had gotten a man known as Joseph SO pissed
that he got him to turn antinatalist
He got Joe so sloshed he was violently sick
and happy to go to a shady clinic
What he didn't know was that he, during that trip
ended up getting sober ... but also the snip
So Gaz was elated, yea almost demented
as he thought Christianity had been prevented
With Jesus removed he thought he could do well
and AN might become a much easier sell
But God thought "you bastard, I'll have you for that!
Tricking poor Joseph, that gullible prat.
If you think that that stunt will scupper my plan
you silly old bastard should just think again!
So God sent old Gaybo, the Angel of Death,
with a vial and a plunger, to do IVF
And while she did not know what could be the matter
Joseph's wife Mary got fatter and fatter
And soon Gary saw this and stopped having fun
as he worked out what that sneaky God must have done
"Well up yours" he thought as Mary got fatter
"if you can do tricks, well, then I can do better"
So he went down to Joe's in his trusty old banger
and poked at his wife with a rusty coathanger
Despite his incompetence he did succeed
and happily left after that dirty deed
And thus Gary ruined by being so mean
a perfectly decent Nativity scene
No longer a picture of bliss and of joy
It just ain't the same without that little boy
Mary and Joseph are staring forlorn
At a crib that is empty as no-one was born
So sad that they don't even hear Gary scoff
"fuck Jesus, the lad is now much better off"
The Oxen did hear him but headbutts the walls
too scared to attack, he has not got the balls
the Ass stares at Gary with ill disguised hate
"I know that you are the one who got me spayed"
Gary, however, did get his reward
when the sheep all went feral and ripped out his heart
From his stem cells they did make a new embryo
And got Mary and Joseph to have one more go
And lo and behold, Mary got big again
and we all know how that bit of the story ends
This prequel to that story was never told
but now you all know how that came to unfold!
Dear Santa,
I have been a very naughty boy.
I would like a lightsaber for Christmas.
Thank you Santa
Pino
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20657939
The cult I was thinking of may have been, according to DaithiDublin (see comments): "The Eternal Flame cult run by Charles 'Chuck' Brown and his wife Bernie. Chuck was a former nightclub crooner, scrap dealer and Evangelical pastor. In 1960 he claimed that the cells in his body were switching the DNA from death to life. Apparently there were over 200 in the UK & Ireland in the early 90's, and a few thousand around Scotsdale, Arizona with Chuck and Bernie, trying to figure out how to colonise other planets!"
If you fail to realise that the common language concept of "cause" is agency based, and you then proceed to work from the premise that "cause and effect" is a fundamental part of reality, then your "proof" for, e.g., the existence of some "god" thing is nothing more than the sort of magic trick in which a magician puts a rabbit into a hat in full view of the audience, and then gets pissed off when nobody is impressed with him pulling it out at the end.
If you accept that "agency" must be removed from a philosophical understanding of words such as "cause" and "causation", you have to face the fact that nothing in any "laws of physics" that we have ever invented to formally describe our understanding of how reality works seems to hint at anything akin to an impersonal, non-agency type of "causation". If you wish to insist that it DOES, you will need to explain what part of our "laws of nature" you think represents such an impersonal, non-agency type of "causation", and what, exactly, makes you think that.
More nonsense: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGfpiDENp3s
A "voice" in a so-called Fire Tornado in Australia. Pity the editor of the sound wave thought it was necessary to apply Reverb to the voice making it sound like it was spoken in a room. And what about that American accent? ROTFLMAO


