Posts by BenWilson
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Interesting indeed and he apparently enjoys it a lot having once said that "cutting C++ code is better than sex".
There are too many programmers around to get away with a snide remark about nobody being in a position to make the comparison. I'll settle for a 'ur doin it wrong'.
Yeah, he must have really bad sex. Or is he intimating that you need to C++ to really f$%& a machine?
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Ben, rather than take the space arguing I'm just going to assert that I find culinary, economic and lifestyle sense in occasional pickling. You don't understaaand!
Nah, I do understand. Just giving my particular reasons why it isn't for me. The real main one is I don't eat much jam and I love fresh fruit. Everything else is just justifying that....
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That's OK unless you have several hundred fruit, berry & nut trees - it is such a waste to see the birds get everything you can't eat or palm off on friends & rellies.
Heh, just watch me do a Homer impression...But, rethink the usage of the land? Different crops for a continuous yield? Several hundred trees says 'farm' to me rather than 'garden', though :-)
Good storage sounds like an easy alternative plan.
What I want to know is, when living off the land in New Zealand, how do I make mochachinos.
Cocoa and coffee beans grown under glass?
I grow coffee under glass (well actually it's a plastic greenhouse). My advice is to buy the damned stuff. You just need too many plants for it to be viable beyond a once-a-year cup to satisfy your curiosity. Tea and coffee are reeeaally labor intensive, which probably explain why they mostly come from the third world.
jams are not created equal.
Hmmm, could be true. I've never eaten a commercial feijoa jam to know...but I could chow my way through the yield of one tree easily.
Unless you've got acres of land, you can't really live off it, so that does imply that you can easily eat everything it produces, fresh.
If you do have acres you're a farmer, and selling the excess produce is clearly the best use...
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As for jam, I'd rather just gorge on the fresh fruit than spending hours making what I could buy in minutes for the cost of a few minutes work. I get that it's a good idea when you do actually live off the land, though. In which case a wood fired stove made out of garden clay for cooking the jam in home made earthenware would be the trick.
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But microwaving jam feels... wrong. Aren't there laws about preserving fruit and jams and whatnot that say it have to be done on top of an oven?
Or you'll get burned as a witch, in your own microwave oven....
But microwaving jam feels... wrong.
It will feel so right when you get it in your mouth.
a lot of the prejudice against microwaves is warranted. try microwaving a roast dinner for example.
Yes, it's not a replacement for the oven. But when you use it for what it's for, it's the bomb. Reheating stuff, f'rinstance.
Us, but I'm on the look out for the magnetron tube out of one. I'm planing to build myself a death ray robot, to protect my herb garden from computer geeks.
LOL, if only you'd asked sooner, I had a busted one that went out in the last inorganic collection (or should I say it was instantly recycled by a passing scrounger). Anything to keep geeks out of your herbz!
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Microwave? What's the world coming to?
Outrageous, but actually pretty green. Who in this day and age doesn't have a microwave?
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I reckon the government now uses immigration like the OCR - as a macroeconomic lever, but without the consideration and control that goes into the reserve bank
That would be more sensible than what they actually do, which is to mount a kneejerk response everytime Winston plays the race card.
Yeah, I was thinking that too - what an excellent lever, with so many more nuances than the blunt instrument of raising and lowering the OCR.
everyone "deserves" to live on a quarter acre. i'm not sure how doing nothing but going to school, then going to work, makes you "deserving" of a huge house in the suburbs...
Que? If it's what you want, and you're prepared to pay for it, then that's deserving enough, in my book. It's got jack shit to do with a sense of entitlement. A sense of entitlement would be that someone else should pay to put you there, but I don't see that much evidence of that in NZ.
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Brain chemistry is just something you shouldn't feck with
LOL, this on a page about consuming nutmeg and absinthe?
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I used to feel the same way about actual weed.
It may grow like a weed but it gets harvested like ... gold?
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Emma, perhaps the dosage is hard to control...but how strong is it really?
Not that I actually drink it anymore. It didn't do anything, in pill or tea. Probably cause I'm not depressed or anxious...
I'm just amused at how much people pay for the stuff when it grows like a weed. Makes quite pretty ground cover.
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