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“Beautiful images you’ll be proud to hang.” (Taken with instagram)

“Beautiful images you’ll be proud to hang.” (Taken with instagram)

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Can London Afford the $14.5 Billion Price Tag of the Summer 2012 Olympic Games? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Based on this Vanity Fair article, and the spiralling cost (more than £11bn) to the UK of hosting the Olympics, then as a British tax payer it is my considered opinion that the International Olympic Committee can go fuck itself.

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Whedon on "The Avengers"

Utterly charming.

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My friend Scott got a new dog. He’s provisionally called “Wicket”. Forget about cloud computing — this is cloud poochin’.

My friend Scott got a new dog. He’s provisionally called “Wicket”.

Forget about cloud computing — this is cloud poochin’.

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rrrrred: lindstifa: undercovernun: HODOR! This is ingenious.  I wish I’d thought it up.  :-D Aaaaand I died. Always… going on… about climate change. Brilliant. _Brilliant._

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HODOR!


This is ingenious.  I wish I’d thought it up.  :-D

Aaaaand I died.

Always… going on… about climate change.

Brilliant. _Brilliant._

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Dinner tonight

Danielle and I made a three course meal for our friends Scott and Ali tonight, to celebrate my promotion to “application architect” this week.

Appetiser was chips and dips (a bit cheaty, but hey, it’s a school night so prep time is short, plus I only have one oven right now). We made fresh guacamole and a from-scratch caramelised onion dip (with sour cream, mayo, and cream cheese) which turned out to be bloody nice.

Main course was salt-cured beef brisket, with twice baked potatoes and runner beans. Beef was cured for three weeks then slow-cooked in beer. Potatoes were baked, the top cut off and most of the flesh removed. Flesh was mashed with sour cream and spring onions, spooned back in to the shell, and the whole potato baked again to rewarm it and slightly crisp up the top of the mash. Beans were blanched, then fried in Iberian pork lard with some finely sliced prosciutto.

Dessert was tiramasu, inspired entirely by some marscapone I had to use up. We made a fairly proper one, with a zabaione based cream. Very happy with how it turned out.

Pics to follow! (Over on O:S!)

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I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of the food I’m frying in Iberian pork lard. (Taken with instagram)

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of the food I’m frying in Iberian pork lard. (Taken with instagram)

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"Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money is More Important For Men’"

Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,” The Daily Beast reports.

Britain’s Raving Monster Looney Party once made an election promise to tow Britain into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea so we’d get better weather. Is the modern GOP attempting to vie with them in the ‘unelectable nonsense’ stakes? Or have all the rational conservatives simply conceded 2012 to Obama and run off to prepare for 2016, leaving the field filled with wingnuts and lunatics?

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ToDo: blanch green beans, then fry them in Ibérico pork lard with pimentón. Great idea, or the best idea? (Taken with instagram)

ToDo: blanch green beans, then fry them in Ibérico pork lard with pimentón. Great idea, or the best idea? (Taken with instagram)

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Beautiful pancetta from Melbury & Appleton - for spaghetti carbonara. (Taken with instagram)

Beautiful pancetta from Melbury & Appleton - for spaghetti carbonara. (Taken with instagram)

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Definitely.

Definitely.

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Ullswater, one of seven pictures from our trip to England’s Lake District that are now on flickr.

Ullswater, one of seven pictures from our trip to England’s Lake District that are now on flickr.

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For real. Sorry.

For real. Sorry.

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Sundog.

Sundog.

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Current status. (Taken with instagram)

Current status. (Taken with instagram)

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