Posts by Steve Barnes
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Jackie Clark,
We ate those in my childhood, Steve.
In Aucks? I have never seen them ripen here, they should be an Orangy Yellow when ripe.
Choko,
Yuckity yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk. Right down there with Okra.
potassium oxalate:
The Potassium salt of Oxalic Acid found in the leaves of Rhubarb, great for cleaning saucepans, apparently.
They’re so particular about what they’ll buy.
But they still buy weeds ;-)
They also don’t have much in the way of “Quality Control” like we have here to assure us that all is down to the same quality, “looks good tastes like water” so I suppose it’s worth choosing. Those look like Cucumbers but I can’t be sure because all our cucumber are belong to New World Ordering execs and like them, they all look the same.. -
Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to David Hood,
Flying Spaghetti Monster bread
Excellent.
I think the Fejoa thing is dependent on what you did as a kid. I grew up in the UK and never tasted a Fejoa until I arrived here and I found them totally awesome, like nothing I had tasted before. I guess that when you are a kid and taste them for the first time you mat well have this same experience and, the very next time you see them, you eat them until you are sick and never touch them again.
As for Fruit salad...
It all comes on one plant in Queensland.
This one does not bare fruit, or anything else for that matter but in Northern Queensland they do and, remarkably, the fruit tastes just like tinned fruit salad, even down to the hint of tin. -
How about some Fake Donuts
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to StepDoh,
Think the usual rule of thumb is to ‘slightly’ undercook it, let it cool then put a shine on with some oil.
Any particular oil?
Peter Schulze , Oct 02, 2004; 12:20 p.m.
Hi RJ, some tricks regarding food shots. For gravy use motor oil. It shines more and looks better than regular gravy. Whipped cream use shaving cream it retains its form longer under the lights.
Other tips and tricks include...
A friend of mine is in the business he had to shoot a Heinz Can of Tomato Paste. (The Can not the tomato's). To make the Tomato on top of the can look more pleasing and glowing one of the young assistants put one of the little red christmas lights inside the Tomato and turned on the power. The shot was the keeper sold and printed you will see it on the Heinz Tomato cans etc.
And remember folks...
Never try to shoot steam against a white background. -
Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
Chris Dodd, the current head of the MPAA, has a flock of flying monkeys standing by ready to take action against TPB's airships.
Whatever next?.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Sacha,
Shareholding doesn’t equal control, unfortunately – and the supercity and earlier SOE and port law changes were set up that way deliberately.
Especially when Auckland Council only holds 1000 shares and Auckland Council Investments Limited owns 156005192 shares.
However, the constitution of ACIL must be reviewed before 30 June 2012 under section 92 of the Local Government act (2002) which...included a focus on sustainability with the reference to the 'four well-beings' social, economic, environmental and cultural. The purpose of the Act is (a) to enable democratic decision-making and action by, and on behalf of, communities; and (b) to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities, in the present and in the future.[2] The Local Government Act 2002 received the Royal assent on 24 December 2002.
I don't see any provision in there for shafting the workers.
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I wish I could understand the Herald article...
Nearly 300 sacked port workers have won back their jobs after Ports of Auckland's u-turn decision to drop moves to replace them with contractors and re-enter collective agreement talks with the Maritime Union.
So, the Wharfies all have their jobs back and all is hunky dory?
A minute from Judge Barrie Travis said the company had agreed not to take any further steps to make union workers redundant and would halt its contracting out processes.
So, no more talk of contracting out.
"If it is agreed, we will lift the strike immediately," union president Garry Parsloe told the Herald last night.
He said workers could safely return to work on the terms and conditions of their collective agreement
The Wharfies must feel proud and vindicated now that it's all over.
But wait...The company had agreed to halt contracting out for four weeks, he said, but it was in no way resiling from its position on contracting out.
WTF?
"The only thing that has changed is that the judge has encouraged the parties to have one more crack at mediation. That is it," Mr Pearson said.
Square one then.
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to andrew gunn,
Steve I think the difference between Scott and the defendants is that Scott hasn’t been spotted running round with guns and molotov cocktails.
Just because he hasn't been seen doesn't mean he hasn't done it, we only have his word for that and you can't be too careful eh?.
What the defendants were seen doing was little different to kids playing dress-up with unsafe toys.
I have seen what insurgency and civil war looks like and this was nothing like it.
Be careful next time you unpack your G.I. Joe combat set, the Police may not have any tea party tapes to listen to that day. -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Sacha,
how?
Scandal?
There must be something dodgy to chuck at the fan, a letter from a Minister or something like that.
