Posts by giovanni tiso
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Master kitchen hack: teach your children to cook. In time it'll halve their student loan.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Ben Chapman,
Pizza hack 3: cut down on the yeast and leave to rise overnight.
Or: buy a kilogram of baker's yeast at Moore Wilson's for $4.5.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Samuel Scott,
best is cheap standard flour in this context.
Yes, I agree. For pizza in Italy we use the 0 kind rather than the 00 for that very reason - although some insist that the finer kind is better. Not for my taste.
Whilst we're on the subject of cheap is better, valumetric mozzarella 500g (averaging $6 per bag at Pak 'n Save, worth buying whenever on special as it keeps) is by far the best kind of topping cheese, not just in relation to the price but in general. All the other brands I've tried are far too fatty.
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Samuel Scott,
and it turns out better than hand kneading
Me and your food processor need to have a knead-off. And I don't like your food processor's chances.
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My next hack will be to literally hack my breadmaker (if I'm honest: Stephen's breadmaker) and teach it to make panettone. If I can swing it, I think it could make me rich.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to George Darroch,
Quite. We don't get gay marriage advocates arguing that their marriages will be good for the economy. (They almost certainly will be). They argue rights and love.
On the flip side, let's all be reminded of the difference between equality and equity. Marriage equality has taken so long to conquer *and it doesn't cost anyone a penny*. Imagine if there had been a bill attached somehow.
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I realised I made it sound like a (relatively) simple matter of reasoned persuasion. Protest will have to play a role as well.
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You've just described how inclusion works in primary schools.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Let's be positive and hope that every school will eventually follow the 1989 legal requirement that they (willingly) enrol all local children between the ages of 5 and 19.
I'd rather be realistic and observe that given the current stick and carrot approach - where inclusive schools are beaten with a stick, and non-inclusive schools are given extra carrots - this is unlikely to happen in the short to medium term.
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Up Front: Another Brick in the Wall, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Blame my ugly economic argument on having spent the last 3 months writing grants, where I'm asked to justify doing (pretty damn exciting) science in purely immediate economic gains. It leaves one with a jaded view of those in power.
A friend of mine has made the argument that what Clark and Cullen tried to do through working for families and kiwisaver was to make the middle class buy into the idea of social welfare by making it materially relevant to their situation. If those were their intentions, I think we can say that it didn't work. The poorest beneficiaries are as discriminated against and demonised as they've ever been. I don't know to what actual extent the tearing apart of the body politic was a direct consequence of neoliberal reform (and to what extent the preceding egalitarianism is in fact a myth) but I would say that we are a long way away from piecing together (or back together, as the case may be) a sense of society that is more than a sum of individual competing interests. While we may see promoting a radically alternative view as a long-term political goal, our campaigning on issues such as disability should take into account that there is a very serious deficit at the present time.