Paul's Journal

09/26/2008 17:27 #45801

Dancing for jesus
Category: dancing

I am thinking about going dancing in Rochester tonight. MC jumper who I enjoy is MCing the hardcore room at Tilt.

Anyways, semi related but way more interesting I was looking some Andy C stuff on youtube and found some jungle music remixed to a video of christian dancers at different churches being moved by the holy spirit. Looks like there are ravers everywhere.

heidi - 09/26/08 17:41
Barbara Ehrenreich's _Dancing in the Streets_ talks about the human need for communal joy and how it's been manipulated in Western culture, harnessed for churches, then relegated to the "bad" people. Raves and ecstatic expressions in Christian churches are contemporary cultural expressions of this need.

Have fun!

:::link:::

09/25/2008 10:17 #45791

Buffalo biodiesel

Turning your fryer grease into something useful. How awesome is
that.

gardenmama - 09/25/08 21:46
Actually - you probably weren't too far off base with that thinking. While it might seem crazy, "the huge pot of rancid oil" there are, no doubt, lots of families who have them. With the popularity of the "King Cooker", used for deep-frying turkey, chicken, etc., I know a number of people who occasionally have gross amounts of oil to get rid of. The food usually tastes great but if you think about it too hard it becomes kind of sickening.

tinypliny - 09/25/08 19:38
I guess. Didn't think about the frying restaurants! Now that I think back, what I thought earlier was hilarious. I had this mental picture of me carrying a whole pot of rancid fat that I might have accumulated frying a bazillion fritters over a month to the recycling place and dumping it in a cauldron. Heh.

heidi - 09/25/08 18:40
YEA!!!

gardenmama - 09/25/08 17:52
Beats the hell out of a landfill somewhere! Besides, with as many "wing" joints and places that serve fish fry as there are around here, they should be able to recycle TONS of grease.

paul - 09/25/08 17:27
I think it is awesome that someone is doing something with the grease.

james - 09/25/08 15:39
This town... I swear sometimes I just want to die somewhere else.

tinypliny - 09/25/08 15:24
This might be very politically incorrect but seriously, anyone who has fryer-grease enough to recycle has way more problems than recycling.

09/25/2008 10:07 #45790

Driscoll's organic golden raspberries

They taste almost exactly like the red ones - yummy.

paul - 09/25/08 22:42
They were actually the same price.

gardenmama - 09/25/08 21:38
Wow - what a bargain!

matthew - 09/25/08 10:22
and only cost three times as much!

09/22/2008 21:47 #45764

Cars with hard drives built in
Category: cars

According to the cadillac commercial I just saw, cars come with hard drives now. I realize my car does not have any hard drive so I can't say much but when they started bragging about how their car comes with a 40gb hard drive, I just couldn't get excited. I feel for something car size, it should have a TB or something, right?

tinypliny - 09/23/08 16:24
I guess if they putting in some space, they might as well put in an operating system and an extra computer. Anything less and you are being shortchanged.

zobar - 09/23/08 08:47
For a car, I'd get a terabyte at least. But for like an Escalade you'll need a mongo RAID array to go with that bass box.

- Z

drew - 09/22/08 23:24
Our truck has a tape deck and 5 preset buttons.

mrmike - 09/22/08 22:02
Nah, not for what the hard drives are actually doing. If the hard drive was doing real work instead of voice activating phone calls, then a terrabyte might be necessary.

09/21/2008 21:16 #45751

Pears Processing Continues
Category: food

I seriously still have a large bushel of green pears and a regular bushel of yellow/red pears and a lot of pears still on the tree. I seriously worked 3 eight hour days on pear processing. Thankfully this happens only once every two years and thankfully pears are one of my favorite fruits and one I am not alergic to.

I love this organic pear juice. Unfortunately, it is so expensive. More unfortunately, Wegman's stores it right under display lights, so close that the bottles get hot. I refuse to pay almost $4.00 for something cooked by a display light. Fortunately, I am a pear baron and can make as much as I want.

Here is one of my cute jars of it.

I started picking more pears at noon and I just stopped processing pears 10 minutes ago.

Okay, I look very special ed here, but it was scary with the pears falling on my head. (e:terry) didn't wear a helmet and one hit him in the head. Its like a twenty foot drop for some of the pears. I knocked a lot of them down using an old branch that fell off the tree during the wind storm. I kept thinking it is like having your arms ripped off and then being beaten by it.

Today, my mother joined us and the four of us peeling, cored and slices pears for the entire afternoon.

Boiling the jars is time consuming but so worth it. People say you can just make them for the freezer but what is the point of using energy and space all years long when you can just spend an extra 20 minutes and boil them. Preserving stuff is so worht it. Next year I am going to build a preservation cellar room and jar a ton of stuff, not just tomatoes and pears.

Here we have 3 bushels of sliced pears in sugary yum, yum syrup.

I made more pears sauce with the iregular ones. This time it was a little more pureed like baby food. I like it both ways.

The sauce is really good with pork chops. They were so cheap for some reason. Eight of them for $9.00 which is way better priced than the lame chops for which I got 8 for like $20.00.

The pork chops were really good cooked.

fellyconnelly - 09/24/08 07:12
lady in white is actually a germ-o-phobe!
i can't remember who it was who told me.

libertad - 09/22/08 23:01
I'm not sure anyone knows the white lady's story so that is a good question. I suppose someone knows.

heidi - 09/22/08 18:50
Um... does anyone know the story of the lady in white?

hodown - 09/22/08 17:14
Ok fine- rock the helmet. Please just don't start rocking it all the time. It's such a fine line between you and the lady in white- you're already so close..

jason - 09/22/08 17:09
Paul, you were right to rock the bike helmet. Fuck how it looks man, sometimes things just have to work.

hodown - 09/22/08 16:57
a few things:

Pear Barron- awesome

You look special ed with the helmet- so funny
in one of the earlier posts you look muscletastic-totes hot.

are you ever going to email/call me back? or should i just talk to you in bianary code? 01101001011100001010101

fellyconnelly - 09/22/08 08:49
My grandmother cans pears every year and I actually asked her about it for the first time 2 weeks ago. You guys have the right idea. You should do peaches too!

tinypliny - 09/21/08 21:38
I just realized that I actually have never had pear sauce. I used to buy pears by the tonloads in my first year but lately I have not been very super-enthusiastic about them because they get spoilt so easily. Maybe I should have made pear sauce all those years. Late realization dawns...

paul - 09/21/08 21:36
Oh, I could have made like 30 gallons with all the pears we had. That wasn't all the juice, just one cute sample jar. It was the only small jar I own ;( I wish I had more small jars - maybe next year.

gardenmama - 09/21/08 21:33
Hey Paul - when you consider how long it took to make your pear sauce and/or juice, and how many pears it actually takes for a small amount, $4.00 for a bottle of the juice probably isn't really so bad. Of course, they cheat and do everything with automation. Your stuff looks great and I bet it's delicious.