Darjeeling, Bergamot and Walnuts
30.10.12
Only a moment ...
It takes a moment to understand,
fleeting and effortless,
seemingly pointless,
yet blissful.
It takes a moment to understand,
like grasping with your hand
a bare electric wire.
Shockingly plainly obvious
you've found a new point of view.
It takes a moment to understand
the message in the sand.
Then you've lost it again,
maybe never to return,
a test of the free will
to find that course and then ...
it takes a moment to understand,
there's a universe outside this land,
upon which we proudly stand.
A bridge is waiting for us
if we can only understand ...
It takes a moment to understand,
and a lifetime to live it.
Your secrets die with you,
your moments lost.
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
29.12.10
This holiday season, idleness is good ...
I would say I'm a philosophical guy: I've heard "the meaning of life is to give life meaning", and I think those are good words to live by.
Though, often I find myself thinking I am living a "get ahead" mentality. On thoughtful conscious contemplation, I'm pretty sure "ahead" isn't a nice place to end up, one of those recurring "us and them" scenarios, but then rarely can we afford a deep look-ahead into the implications of each or our choices in our barrage of daily dilemmas.
Humans are social animals, and much of the unknown factor in our daily lives is of human origin. Can you be trusted, or are you trying to "get ahead" of me? Do I have to "get ahead" just a bit to protect myself from "them", those others who never seem to rest? Our seasonal fellow, Mr. Scrooge, is a pedagogical example of the result of perpetualizing this humbug.
So humans and wolves, unlike most domesticated dogs, try to get ahead. This is probably instinctual. I'm finding taking this to heart, and being a good sport about it, is a step forward, without getting ahead of myself. It's not like there could be a secret code or handshake that one could gesture to cut through the crap and forge a bond of immediate trust: either it would be contained to such a limited circle to be of no use, or it wouldn't be secret for long. Relationships are a perpetual negotiation, aren't they? When I am conscious of this, I feel comforted. There is no shortcut to forging bonds of trust. With presumably so many trustworthy people in the world jockeying, why then should we feel entitled rest at another's expense? Well perhaps we might just let ourselves afford it. As a young boy, two weeks into summer vacation, I always did find myself getting pretty bored of cartoons, froot-loops and Nintendo ... and what satisfaction when a rejuvenated imagination finally set me free to entertain higher pursuits. My grandmother used to say: "Activity makes life sweet, while idleness strengthens the appendages."
And so may the idleness of the holiday season bring with it strength and inspiration for us all to pursue those activities and occupations with true and enduring meaning, meaning of life. And may you stay forever young ... in 2011 and beyond.
Sincerely yours,
darjebergamowalnu
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
Though, often I find myself thinking I am living a "get ahead" mentality. On thoughtful conscious contemplation, I'm pretty sure "ahead" isn't a nice place to end up, one of those recurring "us and them" scenarios, but then rarely can we afford a deep look-ahead into the implications of each or our choices in our barrage of daily dilemmas.
Humans are social animals, and much of the unknown factor in our daily lives is of human origin. Can you be trusted, or are you trying to "get ahead" of me? Do I have to "get ahead" just a bit to protect myself from "them", those others who never seem to rest? Our seasonal fellow, Mr. Scrooge, is a pedagogical example of the result of perpetualizing this humbug.
So humans and wolves, unlike most domesticated dogs, try to get ahead. This is probably instinctual. I'm finding taking this to heart, and being a good sport about it, is a step forward, without getting ahead of myself. It's not like there could be a secret code or handshake that one could gesture to cut through the crap and forge a bond of immediate trust: either it would be contained to such a limited circle to be of no use, or it wouldn't be secret for long. Relationships are a perpetual negotiation, aren't they? When I am conscious of this, I feel comforted. There is no shortcut to forging bonds of trust. With presumably so many trustworthy people in the world jockeying, why then should we feel entitled rest at another's expense? Well perhaps we might just let ourselves afford it. As a young boy, two weeks into summer vacation, I always did find myself getting pretty bored of cartoons, froot-loops and Nintendo ... and what satisfaction when a rejuvenated imagination finally set me free to entertain higher pursuits. My grandmother used to say: "Activity makes life sweet, while idleness strengthens the appendages."
And so may the idleness of the holiday season bring with it strength and inspiration for us all to pursue those activities and occupations with true and enduring meaning, meaning of life. And may you stay forever young ... in 2011 and beyond.
Sincerely yours,
darjebergamowalnu
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
20.11.10
When we all win
To win a debate, one has to desire to be right.
One has to keep fighting until decisive victory,
or time runs out, and the meeting is adjourned.
However, the desire to be right does not make one right.
One fights to learn to be the winner, or loser.
We are all winners when we know and do as is right.
Alas, we are all losers when following a false Prophet.
The truth is not decided by debate.
The truth is in the pudding.
May the truth be told.
"Know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31)
May the truth protect you from what you want.
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
One has to keep fighting until decisive victory,
or time runs out, and the meeting is adjourned.
However, the desire to be right does not make one right.
One fights to learn to be the winner, or loser.
We are all winners when we know and do as is right.
Alas, we are all losers when following a false Prophet.
The truth is not decided by debate.
The truth is in the pudding.
May the truth be told.
"Know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:31)
May the truth protect you from what you want.
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
15.10.10
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science
"There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors"
-- Source unknown
-- Source unknown
26.9.10
21.8.10
20.8.10
When no one is looking
This world is full of harsh realities,
like is every rat genetically responsible
for not growing enough brain matter
dedicated to understanding the human world?
Alas so some lose out at this chess game
and end up with short tortuous lives
Sure the big should help the small
But with so little time
and so many mouths to feed
the smallest do tend to fall through the cracks
when no one is looking.
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
like is every rat genetically responsible
for not growing enough brain matter
dedicated to understanding the human world?
Alas so some lose out at this chess game
and end up with short tortuous lives
Sure the big should help the small
But with so little time
and so many mouths to feed
the smallest do tend to fall through the cracks
when no one is looking.
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
17.6.10
MechaDuck
Reductionism: Descartes held that non-human animals could be reductively explained as automata — De homines 1662.
26.5.10
RE: last email
Go for it dude. Would be happy to hear you'd be happy, in your Lamborghini or just doing whatever ...
You are a clever guy, I always saw that ... but emotionally you are very unstable, no wonder considering all the shit you've been through.
Still, one week you abuse me like I'm a piece of shit, like u'd stab me in the back first chance you got, the next week you abuse me like I'm the only friend you have who can help you, and if I don't let you come visit and do detox for a month and take care of you like you my own kid you gonna die and it'll be my fault.
Anyway, as a friend, I can't say "yeah let's do a business, buddy" cuz then someday u'd distrust me I only did it for the money. Use your model, start your own business and make a ton of money and start a family or move to Australia or do whatever makes you happy.
And when you're a big fat genius, please have pity on me in your time of glory that I couldn't walk your road, and please don't begrudge me that in your time of need I couldn't help you as you wanted.
peace and love, e.
You are a clever guy, I always saw that ... but emotionally you are very unstable, no wonder considering all the shit you've been through.
Still, one week you abuse me like I'm a piece of shit, like u'd stab me in the back first chance you got, the next week you abuse me like I'm the only friend you have who can help you, and if I don't let you come visit and do detox for a month and take care of you like you my own kid you gonna die and it'll be my fault.
Anyway, as a friend, I can't say "yeah let's do a business, buddy" cuz then someday u'd distrust me I only did it for the money. Use your model, start your own business and make a ton of money and start a family or move to Australia or do whatever makes you happy.
And when you're a big fat genius, please have pity on me in your time of glory that I couldn't walk your road, and please don't begrudge me that in your time of need I couldn't help you as you wanted.
peace and love, e.
The Great David Hume on Truth and Human Nature
For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, 'tis certain it must lie very deep and abstruse; and to hope we shall arrive at it without the utmost pains must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous.
-- David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
-- David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
5.5.10
Cranberry-Feta Meatballs
For my own remembrance, what was cooking tonight and will be again on some occasion in the near future ;-)
In a bowl combine:
1 tsp - 1 tbsp fresh rosemary finely chopped
1 tsp - 1 tbsp chives finely chopped
1 medium sized onion finely chopped
1 tsp - 1 tbsp oregano
2 cloves organic garlic
90g feta cheese
Note: Pre-heat a teflon frypan to "5 of 9" setting with 4 tbsp rapseed, sunflower, or olive oil.
Don't stop adding! Keep adding, there's more! (to that same bowl):
1/3 cup dried cranberries, diced
5 grinds of pepper
500g organic ground beef
Meatballs need to be salty, so add about 2 tsp of salt, or let's say the meat forms a 20cmx20cm area, then about 20 salt crystals per cm^2. Thats how I estimate it: by crystals per cm^2.
Massage well. Form into ~8 balls about the size of a kiwi, slightly flatten, and place in the pan.
Drop 3 drops of Worcestershire sauce on top of each ball.
Cover and let cook ~8-10 min.
Add 3 tbsp red wine to the juice, flip the balls and give at least 30sec for sauce to return to boil, then moisten the balls by spooning the wined juice on them.
Cover and cook another 8-10 min.
With a total of 8 balls, serves 4 with 2 balls each.
Serve with Spaetzle or Tagliatelle larghe covered with diced parsley and walnut oil, and steamed vegetables (zucchini, carrot, cauliflower, green asperagus.
Of and I forgot to mention, you need to add to the above:
1 splash of darjeeling
1 mash of bergamot
1 dash of walnuts
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
In a bowl combine:
1 tsp - 1 tbsp fresh rosemary finely chopped
1 tsp - 1 tbsp chives finely chopped
1 medium sized onion finely chopped
1 tsp - 1 tbsp oregano
2 cloves organic garlic
90g feta cheese
Note: Pre-heat a teflon frypan to "5 of 9" setting with 4 tbsp rapseed, sunflower, or olive oil.
Don't stop adding! Keep adding, there's more! (to that same bowl):
1/3 cup dried cranberries, diced
5 grinds of pepper
500g organic ground beef
Meatballs need to be salty, so add about 2 tsp of salt, or let's say the meat forms a 20cmx20cm area, then about 20 salt crystals per cm^2. Thats how I estimate it: by crystals per cm^2.
Massage well. Form into ~8 balls about the size of a kiwi, slightly flatten, and place in the pan.
Drop 3 drops of Worcestershire sauce on top of each ball.
Cover and let cook ~8-10 min.
Add 3 tbsp red wine to the juice, flip the balls and give at least 30sec for sauce to return to boil, then moisten the balls by spooning the wined juice on them.
Cover and cook another 8-10 min.
With a total of 8 balls, serves 4 with 2 balls each.
Serve with Spaetzle or Tagliatelle larghe covered with diced parsley and walnut oil, and steamed vegetables (zucchini, carrot, cauliflower, green asperagus.
Of and I forgot to mention, you need to add to the above:
1 splash of darjeeling
1 mash of bergamot
1 dash of walnuts
-- (c) 2010 DBW, all rights reserved.
3.5.10
29.4.10
28.4.10
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung, and may you stay ...
Forever Young
Words and music Bob Dylan
Released on Planet Waves (1974) and in an early demo version on Biograph (1985)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
Album version I (slow):
D
D
May God bless and keep you always
F#m/c#
May your wishes all come true
Em/b
May you always do for others
G D
And let others do for you
D
May you build a ladder to the stars
F#m/c#
And climb on every rung
Em A(sus4-A) D
May you stay forever young
A Bm
Forever young, forever young
D A D
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
Source: http://dylanchords.info/14_planetwaves/forever_young.htm
25.4.10
Seriously, these people are WIRED
Present the masterpiece to your guest. For all they know, this is how you always make coffee. Michael Conroy.
who has trained himself to sleep in one-hour bursts. This gives him time to run his firm and fit in book-writing, race-sailing and all the other distractions of achievement-focused wakefulness.
"You could build traffic noise into a dream.", not he stresses, when he's driving.
A hundred thousand years ago, if you slept for eight hours, you'd be eaten
Home-gym heroes - exercise tech you won't want to hide in the basement
Don't be fooled by the penny farthing looks: its electric motor will carry you 10km on a single charge, at speeds up to 20kmh. £3,000 ...
laid down in layers and heated, fusing the particles into a form generated by algorithms.
Next I want to make a doorbell that sounds like a dying star
Researchers have developed a way to compare aromas visually
comes as a stainless steel box; you bash a seat into it with a hammer (supplied). $9,750.
Canadian poet wants his work to live on after he's gone. Like, billions of years after. It if works, his poem could outlast the human race.
I wanted to write about "play", but it's fallen prey to our 21st-century need for significance.
When someone tells me that something is impossible, I want to do it and prove it is.
Brush away your plaque with some wound-healing, car-repairing paste - Colgate sensitive pro-relief rapid and lasting relief ... from pain and suffering
Interviews designed to blow your minds [If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how would you fix it? Asked at Apple]
Robert's soldiers use the wiki while on the move by talking, typing into a smart pad and annotating Google maps.
Military scholars have been arguing the importance of networks for future conflict for more than a decade now.
"Our wiki firewalls get cleverer and more responsive everytime the enemy tries to hack them ... they're alive, canny."
I like the idea of flattening this limitless, unknowable space into something as outdated as a family slide show.
We look for companies to dominate an initially small market that subsequently experience explosive growth
"Imagine if anyone caught spending money on Stephanie Meyer novels could be rendered down into their constituent chemicals and scattered on barren land as organic fertiliser."I make it explicit: this snip is by none other than Warren Ellis of WIRED magazine, who "didn't spend all these years evolving the ability to operate a bottle-opener to have all possible minions immolated in one go."
No more philosophy - genuine understanding
I see that undergraduates, rather than flocking in droves to investment-banking jobs, are turning to volunteering and smaller cars.
This is the future of warfare
It's not how many friends you have. But how much of a friend they are.
The significant is driving out the light.
My favorite is type 1b - it explodes as brightly as a billion suns.
Living under someone else's dominion? Serf. It's time to start your own country.
Wired explores the new trust economy. Someone in Brisbane borrows it until tuesday.
Overheated milk produces hydrogen sulphide, which smells like rotten eggs.
Microfoam malfunction?
Promptly resubmerge it to avoid rendering the milk unstable injecting too much air.
"And, O my brothers, would you believe your faithful friend and long suffering narrator pushed out his red yahzik a mile-and-a-half to lick the grahzny, vonny boots...The horrible killing sickness had whooshed up, and turned the like joy of battle into a feeling I was going to snuff it." - CWO
Way to ruin a perfectly good and naive sunday, like thinking things might just end up alright, and like there's a whole lot of decent people in the world who care. Thanks wired. I hope this urge to vomit subsides before dinner.
Got your attention? Check out "WHY THE IPAD REALLY MATTERS, P. 120"
Don't forget to inform yourself of "WHO'S SHAPING THE DIGITAL WORLD? FROM VIRAL HIT-MAKERS to V.C. TITANS: THE WIRED 100, P. 86", and "DUCK! WE TEST BULLET-PROOF VESTS, P. 132"
MAY 10 £3.99 - weird.co.uk - THE FUTURE AS IT HAPPENS
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Frankly, it all sounds to me like those visions of grandeur I associate with the occasional changeling days I start off with a strong shot of espresso, or a double tall latte.
And thats why Darjeeling, bergamot and walnuts.
who has trained himself to sleep in one-hour bursts. This gives him time to run his firm and fit in book-writing, race-sailing and all the other distractions of achievement-focused wakefulness.
"You could build traffic noise into a dream.", not he stresses, when he's driving.
A hundred thousand years ago, if you slept for eight hours, you'd be eaten
Home-gym heroes - exercise tech you won't want to hide in the basement
Don't be fooled by the penny farthing looks: its electric motor will carry you 10km on a single charge, at speeds up to 20kmh. £3,000 ...
laid down in layers and heated, fusing the particles into a form generated by algorithms.
Next I want to make a doorbell that sounds like a dying star
Researchers have developed a way to compare aromas visually
comes as a stainless steel box; you bash a seat into it with a hammer (supplied). $9,750.
Canadian poet wants his work to live on after he's gone. Like, billions of years after. It if works, his poem could outlast the human race.
I wanted to write about "play", but it's fallen prey to our 21st-century need for significance.
When someone tells me that something is impossible, I want to do it and prove it is.
Brush away your plaque with some wound-healing, car-repairing paste - Colgate sensitive pro-relief rapid and lasting relief ... from pain and suffering
Interviews designed to blow your minds [If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how would you fix it? Asked at Apple]
Robert's soldiers use the wiki while on the move by talking, typing into a smart pad and annotating Google maps.
Military scholars have been arguing the importance of networks for future conflict for more than a decade now.
"Our wiki firewalls get cleverer and more responsive everytime the enemy tries to hack them ... they're alive, canny."
I like the idea of flattening this limitless, unknowable space into something as outdated as a family slide show.
We look for companies to dominate an initially small market that subsequently experience explosive growth
"Imagine if anyone caught spending money on Stephanie Meyer novels could be rendered down into their constituent chemicals and scattered on barren land as organic fertiliser."
No more philosophy - genuine understanding
I see that undergraduates, rather than flocking in droves to investment-banking jobs, are turning to volunteering and smaller cars.
This is the future of warfare
It's not how many friends you have. But how much of a friend they are.
The significant is driving out the light.
My favorite is type 1b - it explodes as brightly as a billion suns.
Living under someone else's dominion? Serf. It's time to start your own country.
Wired explores the new trust economy. Someone in Brisbane borrows it until tuesday.
Overheated milk produces hydrogen sulphide, which smells like rotten eggs.
Microfoam malfunction?
Promptly resubmerge it to avoid rendering the milk unstable injecting too much air.
"And, O my brothers, would you believe your faithful friend and long suffering narrator pushed out his red yahzik a mile-and-a-half to lick the grahzny, vonny boots...The horrible killing sickness had whooshed up, and turned the like joy of battle into a feeling I was going to snuff it." - CWO
Way to ruin a perfectly good and naive sunday, like thinking things might just end up alright, and like there's a whole lot of decent people in the world who care. Thanks wired. I hope this urge to vomit subsides before dinner.
Got your attention? Check out "WHY THE IPAD REALLY MATTERS, P. 120"
Don't forget to inform yourself of "WHO'S SHAPING THE DIGITAL WORLD? FROM VIRAL HIT-MAKERS to V.C. TITANS: THE WIRED 100, P. 86", and "DUCK! WE TEST BULLET-PROOF VESTS, P. 132"
MAY 10 £3.99 - weird.co.uk - THE FUTURE AS IT HAPPENS
-------
Frankly, it all sounds to me like those visions of grandeur I associate with the occasional changeling days I start off with a strong shot of espresso, or a double tall latte.
And thats why Darjeeling, bergamot and walnuts.
21.4.10
Tenureclock and Jabberwock
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
"Beware the Tenureclock, young one,
Don’t pause at night or flaws they’ll catch.
Be sure you publish blurbs, and shun
The populous intro class!"
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i4/tenureclocky.html
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html
"Beware the Tenureclock, young one,
Don’t pause at night or flaws they’ll catch.
Be sure you publish blurbs, and shun
The populous intro class!"
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i4/tenureclocky.html
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