The Slamlander

The standard “what’s for dinner” discussion lead to a vague desire for something asian. Since as this is my forte more than ‘s the job fell to me … hmmm, this is what I came up with (serves two):

This needs to be started about two hours before serving.

Ingredients:

• 2 lean pork chops – trim off all the fat, bone and gristle. (save all that for making broth, not a part of this dish)
• Hoisin sauce
• Soy sauce
• Greens from three Spring Onions
• Lemon juice
• Sesame seed oil.
• Sesame seeds
• Red Hungarian sweet pepper

Prodecure:

Prep-marinade

1. Cut what’s left of the pork chops into long thin strips, about 3/8ths of an inch wide and the length of the chop. Place in a small bowl. Add in about one tablespoons of Hoisin sauce, a few dashes of lemon juice, one tablespoons of soy sauce, and a small dash of sesame seed oil. Mix well then put in the fridge to marinade for at least one hour.
2. Chop the Spring Onion greens to about the same length as the pork strips. Do not mince them! Save the bulbs for a salad or something, you won’t be using them for this dish.
3. After dressing the pepper, chop it into medium pieces. Set everything aside until the marinade is done.

Cook:

1. Take the marinaded pork from the fridge.
2. Heat a #8 skillet (or a medium wok) to one notch below max heat. Wet it with peanut oil.
3. Take the strips of pork and arrange them on the hot skillet then pour in the marinade too,
4. Add the sweet pepper chunks and a dusting of crushed red hot chili pepper.
5. Stir-fry until the pork is ~90% cooked.
6. Then add two tablespoons hoisin sauce, two tablespoons soy sauce, and a dash of sesame seed oil. Stir in well.
7. Add the spring onion greens and stir in well, making sure that they are all well coated with sauce.
8. Stir-fry more until the onion greens just begin to wilt. Add a few dashed of seseme seeds for presentation.
9. Then remove from heat.

Serve with steamed rice and enjoy.

We just had a power outage, in Neuchatel. Power was out for about 45 minutes.
The network came back up, no problems.

and still breathe!

Regarding this case, on this thread, Retiqlum2 evinces massive amounts of ignorance about both the US Constitution and the law. I am even more amazed that Capt_X was so forth-right with their opinion after self-admittedly professing thier own ignorance and blatantly stating that they hadn’t bothered to read the entire document.

Actually having read the damned case filing myself, my opinion is that GrokLaw is in serious trouble. At the least, this should effect their credibility. Having actually witnessed some of these statements and having read the alleged data from the sealed court documents, they are, at the very least, in violation of court orders and the right of privacy of both Novell and the named plaintiff. Further, intentionally misrepresnting the actual facts and intentionally mis-stating a link between the plaintif and source code, is libelous, as it alleges a criminally prosecutable act.

Moreover, I have myself witnessed the geek community, on slashdot, make these sorts of statements. It is high-time the geek community stopped being adolescents. Those sorts of statements, on permanent record, are damaging folks! A good case in point is that Retiqlum2 has been taken in by all the hype and is actually bigoted against the plaintif. Why is that? Because he was fooled by the aforementioned smear campaign, that’s why. The plaintif has wrongly been made the target of a smear campign by the defendents. That such a smear campaign even occured is already wrong and uncivil behavior. That it was done against the wrong target, using intentionally faulty information, verges on criminal behavior. It is high-time that the Internet, in generall, be held to normal civilized account for civilized behavior.

The saddest bit about this is that the defendents are comparatively penniless and that the plaintif will never be compensated or made-whole by this case. At least, it will stop the continuing slander.

I actually remember this from when N Korea tried to talk to the US. This was during the run-up to the Iraq invasion. I remember that, at the time, I thought that Bush was making a mistake in ignoring N Korea.

He now has a second chance to shoot himself in the foot. Will he talk to them or will he continue with his stupidity? My bet is that he’ll listen to his more hawkish advisors and snub N Korea yet again. I expect that, when he does this N Korea will not talk to anyone until they have a baker’s dozen of warheads and are ready to actually test one. Then their communique will consist of a 24-hour warning that they are going to underground test it.

I can blame the Democrats for Bush being in office by only allowing a lame-duck, like Kerry, to oppose him. Almost any other non-Senator candidate had a better chance and a lot of Republicans would have voted for Wesley Clark. Had that happened, Bush might not be there to make these sorts of silly blunders.

It’s the picture of everything!

this comes up more often than you think, especially with the sort of SysAdm that had so much trouble with lately. I had one contract where the first thing, before giving me a LAN connection, they wanted to search my laptop. My answer was “only if they were a LEO and even then, I needed to see a subpoena first”.

Of course, I immediatly escalated it as high as I could go (executive council, pretty high non?) and pointed out the proprietary nature of my work, other clients that I have, current non-client projects, and the fact that the current contract does not have a requirement such as to make my personal equipment subject to search. I also pointed out the legal liability that they make themselves vulnerable to should such a search go wrong. A not so minor detail is that my laptop is my personal property and that I would sooner comply with a strip-search than to allow a scan of my laptop by some nit-wit power-hungry admin.

Having gotten past that hurdel and as soon as I connected to the LAN, I get an email, from the SysAdm, that server software is not allowed and that one of their under-flunkies would be by to install Win95, as per company standards. Of course, this could only have been detected by an illegal port-scan, of my laptop, and resulted in another escalation (noting the explicit clause that I would have internet access while on site). I also hid both the floppy drive and the CDROM drive (both are external attachments for a Dell Latitude) and had a passwd-locked screen saver running, in case they came by while I was “out” (I am usually in meetings a lot). Note that this client was running Novell Netware and I run Win2K Advanced Server with Active Directory (including Netware drivers).

Now, if I wouldn’t allow a paying client on my machine, what do you think my reaction to the BSA would be?

thought I’d be a Dragon and so did I. Apparently not …

You scored as Eagle. You are the Eagle. People respect you and for good reason. You are a creative person who likes to do things abstractly. You tend to be a healer, either with yourself or with others. Eagle 92% Salmon 83% Stag 75% Crow 75% Bull 75% Bear 75% Dragon 75% Horse 75% Fox 67% Snake 67% Dog 58% Wolf 58% Ram 50% Deer 42%

Which animal totem best suits you?
created with QuizFarm.com

BTW, it’s LJ cut because it breaks friends pages.

This may not be much of a surprise, since I was born in 1954.

what decade does your personality live in?

quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

and this one doesn’t seem to break anything … good job!

Red Beans and Rice
(just like mommy used to make)

2 – 1lb bag of red kidney beans (Camellia brand is what I have alway used)Camillia Brand the recipe on the site is probably quite good, mine is a bit different.
1 cup of
chopped onions.
1/2 cup of shallots
Large Ham bone, if you cannot find
one forget it.
1lb or or so of baked ham, not smoked…trust me, you want to
cut this ham in1 – 2 inch cubes
1lb or so of Good smoked hot or andouille
sausage
1 1/2 TBSP of mined garlic maybe a bit less for the squeemish
1/2
tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp cayenne
2 whole bay leaves
1/2 tsp
thyme
1/4/ tsp basil
Salt to taste

Soak your beans overnight in a
large kettle. Youl need about 2 1/2 quarts of water.

Rinse beans. Place back in kettle with 2 quarts of water. Now toss all of your stuff together in a
big @ss kettle 8- 210 quarst size. The water should cover all of the yummmy goodness.
Bring to a boil, then simmer for about 2 1/2 to 3 hoursor until nice ‘n creamy. Stor occasionally, be sure to scrape bottom and sides of your kettle.
While simmering inhale deeply, drool away from the pot. Add water if it appears
to dry.

When done ladle over rice. Oh, yeah tis makes allot of stuff, but
it freezes very well.