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johnny9fingers) wrote2010-02-11 02:04 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote2010-02-11 02:04 pm
Personal update
Tuesday night I watched Charlie Brooker's 'Newswipe' on BBC Four.
Here is the BBCi-player page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qpkdg/Newswipe_Series_2_Episode_4/
or try this
http://bbc.co.uk/i/qpkdg/
If you can get it in your various countries I would recommend it. Funny, vicious, sarky, well-written, and pretty bloody cynical; it seems without compare in the modern media. Though marginalised on BBC Four, this is the sort of stuff we pay our license fee for. And gladly, actually.
This evening we have Fra, Cressy, Johanna, and Posh Stephen for supper. We're cooking Jamie's recipe for Roasted slashed fillet of sea bass stuffed with herbs, baked on mushroom potatoes with salsa verde - a la Tony Bliar, from his book "The Return of the Naked Chef". Despite it having associations with Bliar, the dish is damn good.
www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php
I picked up four bottles of a decent Chablis to go with it.
First course will be a pea and mint soup.
Cheese and walnuts to follow. Perhaps with either a Sauternes or a good Port.
On a different topic, I still haven't got SWMBO a Valentine's present yet.
I'm getting increasingly irritated by climate-change denialists cherry-picking their quotes to bolster a case based on what appears to be nothing more substantial than an ideological need to disagree on principle with anything anyone to do with the Democratic Party has ever said or done. If you know any reputable scientists of any standing whatsoever in the scientific community, ask them about climate change. I bet some 90% will agree that anthropological climate change is happening. Perhaps the percentage will be even higher. Now science isn't a democracy, so these figures don't represent fact....just informed opinion based upon peer-reviewed research, because the facts are still waiting to be proven: but you wouldn't know that from some of the debates I've been looking at, many of the participants who seems to think the case closed after the CRU debacle. Ye Gods, no wonder democracy is in such poor shape. To return to my opening subject, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is pretty damn good about democracy.
Go well and do good things....and may those good things also bring you pleasure.
Here is the BBCi-player page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qpkdg/Newswipe_Series_2_Episode_4/
or try this
http://bbc.co.uk/i/qpkdg/
If you can get it in your various countries I would recommend it. Funny, vicious, sarky, well-written, and pretty bloody cynical; it seems without compare in the modern media. Though marginalised on BBC Four, this is the sort of stuff we pay our license fee for. And gladly, actually.
This evening we have Fra, Cressy, Johanna, and Posh Stephen for supper. We're cooking Jamie's recipe for Roasted slashed fillet of sea bass stuffed with herbs, baked on mushroom potatoes with salsa verde - a la Tony Bliar, from his book "The Return of the Naked Chef". Despite it having associations with Bliar, the dish is damn good.
www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php
I picked up four bottles of a decent Chablis to go with it.
First course will be a pea and mint soup.
Cheese and walnuts to follow. Perhaps with either a Sauternes or a good Port.
On a different topic, I still haven't got SWMBO a Valentine's present yet.
I'm getting increasingly irritated by climate-change denialists cherry-picking their quotes to bolster a case based on what appears to be nothing more substantial than an ideological need to disagree on principle with anything anyone to do with the Democratic Party has ever said or done. If you know any reputable scientists of any standing whatsoever in the scientific community, ask them about climate change. I bet some 90% will agree that anthropological climate change is happening. Perhaps the percentage will be even higher. Now science isn't a democracy, so these figures don't represent fact....just informed opinion based upon peer-reviewed research, because the facts are still waiting to be proven: but you wouldn't know that from some of the debates I've been looking at, many of the participants who seems to think the case closed after the CRU debacle. Ye Gods, no wonder democracy is in such poor shape. To return to my opening subject, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is pretty damn good about democracy.
Go well and do good things....and may those good things also bring you pleasure.