And if evil and sins are people's beginnings then I will be there.

[reddragdiva]

• Oh look, it might not be Syria next after all. PRACE BETS NOW!

• Good fucking riddance. Though I shudder to think what he'll be replaced with.

• The target audience for Matrix: Reloaded is in fact scholars of comparative religion.

I really hate cooking meat. It smells disgusting, you can see how much fat you're about to eat and it makes doing the dishes an utter bastard. Tastes good, but. Fills you up, but.

Quiet weekend in. Today I did said dishes (a horrifying task), helped redcountess with her geeking (including reliving the saga of Java on FreeBSD, which is still compiling - Liz has added memory to her wishlist) and went down the shops. There I obtained an item to induce trepidation indeed: a bottle of Asda own-brand premium ale. Alleged real beer. It's called Gentleman Jack, and it's brewed for them by Shepherd Neame. And it's half the price of everything else. And ... it's actually not offensive. A bit watery. But slides down the throat very effectively.

(I did buy some Spitfire and Old Peculier as well. Asda actually have quite a usable real ale selection.)

I should note that last weekend at Dead and Buried, ladymoonray reiterated and emphasised the assessment of my favourite new tarting outfit she made after B-Movie: not merely 'gorgeous', but "unfairly gorgeous." I like that. Gorgeous beyond the bounds of common decency. Gets the chyx too.

Tomorrow the rats come home from arkady's. w00t! And there will be more meat to cook, no doubt. (Not them.)

Update: To run Mozilla (or Firebird) for Linux on FreeBSD with compatibility installed:

# cd /usr/compat/linux/usr/lib
# ln -s libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

This is wrong and bad in so many ways, but works. So far.

Comments

Meat

[wednesday]

It smells disgusting,

I find this really varies depending on what kind of meat is involved, what cooking methods are involved, and how the meat might have been treated (cured, spiced, marinated, whatever) beforehand. I love beef on charcoal. I love well-smoked bacon on a grill. Parma ham smells too sweet. Lamb makes me vomit.

But obviously this is one of those "I have an opinion, and you have an opinion, and we will wax eloquent about the nature of opinions being neither right nor wrong, except for that we won't because I fucking hate that shit" situations.

you can see how much fat you're about to eat

On the other hand, more than one cooking method lets you watch the fat melt off and away, so you can whew relievedly and figure it could have been much worse.

I sure won't argue about the dishdoing, though. Hell, I have to *pre-wash demeated dishes* in order to avoid clogging the dishwasher.

Re: Meat

[reddragdiva]

I have cooked for myself for many years, but have hardly ever cooked meat - too long as a financial vegetarian. Meat is/was something cooked by other people and only eaten by me.

Grilling: cleaning the grill is always disgusting.

Matriciana: the bacon smelt appalling.

Bolognaise: the one that prompted the above. Everything it touches turns orange.

Frying stuff is fine, though. Especially with onions and mushrooms.

Re: Meat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Uh, Vegetarian bolognese is just as much the universal dye as meaty bol (I cook either, depending on company).

Re: Meat

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

it's the fat combined with the red wine, peppers, tomatoes and spices (particularly paprika, which dyes everything it touches!) that makes bol-stains so hard to get out. I suppose a vegetarian one could be less fatty so the stains wouldn't 'fix' so much.

Can I just take the opportunity to state that I make the best bolognese ever? It's not exactly health food, but it is great.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Grilling: Lining the grillpan with aluminium cooking foil saves so much hassle when cleaning.

Bolognaise: Sorry, I have absolutely no idea how to stop it turning everything orange. I've tried many different methods and I still end up with everything orange!!

Dry-frying mince does help cut down on the fat content though. I often find that if I dice up the onion finely enough I can fry the mince and the onions at the same time, using just the fat from the mince; it does actually work. I usually add the garlic at this stage too. I'm afraid there's nothing I can suggest for the smell though - apart from getting someone else to cook it for you. ;-)

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

But... darling...

It *is* unfairly gorgeous...

[sigh]

[reddragdiva]

It's a good thing I'm public-spirited to share myself with the world.

[barbedwirekiss.livejournal.com]

Grilling: cleaning the grill is always disgusting.

That's what tin foil is for! You put a big sheet of tin foil in the bottom of the grill pan (or across the grill itself) and then, as the fat runs off, it lands on the tin foil. Switch off the heat, leave 20 minutes and then just pull up the tin foil. Most (if not all) the now solidified fat/grease is lifted with the tin foil.

I love grilled chicken. It is juicy, succulent and you can season it under the grill so that the heat forces some of the flavour down into the meat. A chicken breast, done with dijon mustard and black peppercorns, makes a yummy meal, and you can do it all in about 15 minutes so that the meat is properly cooked, you don't have to stand over it watching it and it tastes fan-flamin-tastic! *grin*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

I have to applaud ASDA for stocking real ale from smaller British brewers (and other supermarkets too).
This did mean I felt forced to buy some when I popped into ASDA (not my usual shop) for bread, which meant my bike was less stable than usual and this contributed to me coming off the bike spectactularly shortly after.
Real Ale will be my downfall, it already is...
Nicolai

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I really hate cooking meat. It smells disgusting, you can see how much fat you're about to eat

I reckon either your meat's not up to much, or you're cooking it wrong! :-P

Any meat you get from a supermarket is likely to contain somewhere in the region of 20-25% added water, which floods out when you cook it and starts the whole thing boiling, producing a nasty bloody miasma. You can dry it out in the fridge beforehand, or just buy meat from butchers.

And if you're cooking meat on anything other than a griddle pan or barbecue, something is amiss. ;-)

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

If that link works it'll probably keep working. Doing that kind of linking isn't necessarily going to blow up in your face, it's just a sign of someone not quite getting the compiling right. It's a pity you can't make process-wide symlinks, though.

[reddragdiva]

It's really a problem in the linux-compat port. The Linux Mozilla Phoenix port used to include the symlink as a kludge. The reason I bother is to run the Mozilla Firebird nightlies for Linux (they don't do a FreeBSD nightly as yet). I'm just wondering about possible effects on other Linux binaries that think they're actually getting 6.2-2.so.3.

[hythloday.livejournal.com]

The only things that should cause a crash are datatypes that changed between glibc-2.2 and glibc-2.1, everything else should be invisible to well-written applications. If you're really worried I guess you could write a wrapper for the application that set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to something temporary, make the symlink, started the program and cleaned up the symlink and LD_LIB - probably not worth it, though.

[reddragdiva]

Mmm. And we're talking about Linux binaries only, which means commercial apps (R**lPl*y*r, Opera) or semi-experimental stuff written by overcaffeinated Linuxcentric crackmonkeys (all the world's a Linux box). If something dies from it, it's unlikely to be traumatic.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, why aren't you just building your own FreeBSD binaries instead? My recollection of Mozilla proper, at least, is that it's fairly portable and will build out of the box on all sorts of wacky things. Like IRIX. FreeBSD ought to be a doddle.

(Well, OK, a time-consuming doddle, but it's the sort of thing you let run overnight.)

[reddragdiva]

I want convenience, dammit!

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

So create a firebird-cvs port and run the build/install process out of cron.

Assuming there isn't already such a port. It wouldn't be terribly surprising if such a thing already existed.

Goff Whitlam for GG!

[baralier.livejournal.com]

While he might not be any better than many other candidates I think it would be a rather ironic justification.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

That Matrix article is interesting. There is a lot of stuff in there. I think the link between the Merovingian, Priory of Zion and following back to the devil is something he missed out. But otherwise pretty interesting reading. Hadnt read it before. Cheers.

[absinthea.livejournal.com]

The target audience for Matrix: Reloaded is in fact scholars of comparative religion
...and people who want to see Keanu's ass. LOL. I quite enjoyed the rave/sex scene. A1 thought it went on WAY too long, but hey...gotta have some eyecandy in there for the horny ladies ;)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I would say that I think the target audience is drunk people, but I'm not actually convinced that beer would have improved it any.