Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Hello all. Still no interwebs in the new house, but thought I would drop in and say hello when I was stealing interwebs off my pal for five minutes to check my email. Briefly skimmed the thread, and can report that I am going festivaling tomorrow in a tent, Jesus and Mary Chain, woo!

Hopefully will be all internetted up next week sometime. Take care, all x

aww why was that such a sweet note? i feel like i just read a message in a bottle in a movie.

aaah, chilli sauce. i really need to like delve more into the world of peppery pastes and suaces. it's right up my alley.

Get thee to some Jamaican jerk marinades, grill some chicken thighs. Juliana is my preferred brand. Bring extra napkins for mopping the sweat from brow.

Good luck with the camping and the internets, ailsa!

mmmm... anything spicy and zesty. so has anyone tried Campbell's Selects line of canned soups? they're fucking amazing. i used to like Progresso a lot but now i find Progresso has that canned soup guck consistency. is it guck or gunk.

I'm fading fast. As is ILx is in it's late afternoon slump.

Have to go home and do homework. not fun.

FFS!!! I hate it when something works in several versions of Explorer but not Firefox. This means I have done something very wrong and I can't figure out what. gahhh, make me a mgr now please so I don't have to tinker under hoods anymore.

i'm fading too. i don't like fading.

Just don't overcook the swordfish! Slathered with mayo then grilled is so good. Lately I'm only using lime on seafood. The note of bitterness makes it more complex than lemon. Plus the G&Tness of it.

I was fading and I had some tea.
I invited my older son over for a beer so my old college friend who's visiting could meet him, but then I realized I'd given away all the beer to my younger son. I cannot deny them anything. Anyway! Rush rush down the back roads to the wet town, avoiding rush hour traffic. Surgical strike, like an Army Ranger.
Laugh if you want to, but yes, Martha's Vineyard has a rush hour and it's a total pain in the butt.

Guys, I need to know the English word for this kind of lettuce. Anyone know?

http://www.kwaliteelt.nl/img/content/LR_20050705_183_rode_eik.jpg

http://www.seedfest.co.uk/seeds/lettuce/LollaRossa.jpg

Aparently it's called Lolla Rossa, but that doesn't sound very English to me.

just got in from djing in completely empty club, well, 10 people or so as everyone is at a festival, plus it's a thursday night. was the worst most boring club experience of my life.

We're talking about lettuce here, Ronan. Why doncha come in and join the fun? This is where the action is tonight.

shit that explains the quiet club...lettuce!

Yeah, most people showed up for lettuce, but the endives tent was pretty popular too.

I think it's red oak leaf lettuce. Lettuce move onto another topic:
Greenland kayaks.
And I quote:

Greenlandic kayakers amaze the crowds in Montreal

MICHAEL BRADLEY
Special to Nunatsiaq News

HATLEY VILLAGE, Quebec — The Olympic Rowing Basin in Montreal and the waters off Forestville, Quebec were recently the sites of two interesting kayak rolling demonstrations.

Three young members of Greenland's Nuuk Kayaking Club, Christian Ari Josefsen, Pavia Thobiassen, and Holger Amonsen entertained the crowds with a variety of kayak rolling and hunting techniques.

The three were dressed in waterproof suits called tuilit. These knee-length hooded shirts fasten tightly around the face and wrists, as well as around the circular opening of their traditionally made kayaks, allowing the kayaker to capsize completely and then roll back upright without getting wet or letting water into the boat.

While one man wore a tuiliq made of sealskin, the others wore ones made of neoprene rubber, which in the cold waters of Greenland is warmer.

The first part of the demonstration was a look at the boats themselves. To become a Kayak Club member in Greenland, one is required to make one's own kayak with assistance from fellow club members. No modern fiberglass or plastic boats are permitted.

The boats demonstrated were about 16 feet in length and 18 inches wide, and specifically made for rolling. Other styles, longer and roomier, are built for either racing or hunting.

Traditionally built

They are all built using a traditional skin-on frame constructed in the old way, although the seal-skin coverings of old have been replaced with stretched and painted canvas.

The decks had several cross-lashings of bearded seal skin rope, which are used for holding various items, including the paddle. All three men used the narrow-bladed paddle seen throughout the Arctic in days gone by, rather than the wider sport paddles seen today in recreational kayaks in southern Canada and elsewhere.

Once in the water, the three men demonstrated a variety of rolls, some of which required using their paddles and others using just the arms and upper body, showing that even a kayaker who had lost his paddle can still recover from a capsize.

Following the rolling, a number of rescue techniques were shown. Here, a man unable to right his boat for some reason, may be assisted by a companion in another boat.

One method shown was by coming alongside and placing a paddle between the overturned boat and that of his rescuer. The man in the capsized boat then reached up, grabbed the paddle shaft, and pulled himself and his boat upright.

In the case where a paddler has come right out of his upturned boat, he was helped onto the rear deck of his companion's boat, while his boat was dragged onto the front deck and emptied of water. It was then turned upright and brought alongside and the paddler got back into it none the worse for wear.

Hunting techniques

The next part of the demonstration was a series of hunting techniques. For example, one kayaker would run his boat up on the deck of another.

This provided a more stable platform on which to stand up and scout the horizon for animals, or perhaps to look for a path to take when trapped in a maze of floating ice pans out at sea.

Another hunting situation shown was when the kayak itself was used much like an avataq or float. This was used when a larger animal was harpooned as a way to tire it out.

The harpoon line coming from the animal was attached to the sealskin strap on the boat just behind the cockpit. As the wounded animal tried to escape, it would be forced to drag the upturned boat sideways through the water.

This was demonstrated by having five large men act as the animal. They pulled a line attached to a kayak sitting out in the basin to imitate an animal trying to escape.

As the men pulled, the kayaker flipped his boat onto its side, perpendicular to the line, and using his paddle, kept the boat properly positioned as it was dragged through the water by the men pulling on shore.

All five men admitted to getting tired out quite quickly trying to drag the kayak in this fashion, although it was fascinating to watch!

Finally the show ended with a series of amusing demonstrations.

The smoker's roll

First all, three men performed the "smoker's roll." Her,e each rolled their kayak while managing to keep a smoking cigarette lit.

Next, they showed how even a kayaker can still stay fit by doing some push-ups on the kayak's deck while at sea. He simply exits from his cockpit, stretches out along the deck, performs his exercises, then reseals himself inside his boat again.

Perhaps the funniest sight was when all three men turned their kayaks upside down, held their paddles in the air, and began to paddle along! What a sight to see two arms coming out of the water paddling with only the bottom of the kayak visible!

Demonstrations like these showing the ancient skills and techniques of kayaking are becoming common in Greenland today with various kayak clubs setting up competitions among themselves.

Enough villages and towns now have kayaking clubs so that national championships have been organized on an annual basis. The present champion is a 17-year-old named Maligiaq Padilla from Sisimiut.

This was the Nuuk club's first venture to North America, and given the warm reception they received in Montreal and Forestville, they will be back.

As well, they are definitely looking for people who want to learn traditional kayaking skills and who would like to compete against them at some future date.

Do you suppose they close their lips over their lit cigarette while rolling?

I was imagining cupped hands around the cigarette, doing the kayak-rolling with thigh and torso muscles. In the mouth makes more sense. Even the pudgiest hands would let in water.

That's incoherent. I'm a little drunk. I walked the dog in the (waning, cloud-obscured) moonlight again. My drunken stumbling feet know the path pretty well.

Ha ha, nutsack.

I R GRONEUP

OK WAU

My mate Dave told me last night his parents live in the same village as LOL TOLHURST and ARE FRIENDS WITH HIM.

That is quite wau. Is the inside of his house painted entirely in dark red gloss paint, I wonder?

Totally Non-shocking Revelation #1 - Lol likes a bit of a drink.

Snakebite? Or something more sophisticated?

Apparently he pretty much only drinks real ale now. But quite a lot of it.

I HAS A SAUSAGE MACHINE

-- aldo, Thursday, 30 August 2007 16:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

C'mon people - in amongst yout lettuce conversation, aldo GOT A SAUSAGE MACHINE. Surely this is exciting enough for some comment? Accent, think how good home made sausages and rough cider will be at ATP next year! Think of the delights of experimental sausages like apricot and salami, or something!

Sausages - God's own food and one of the only ones not made better by putting it in a pie.

not made better by putting it in a pie

HERESY

Plus Toad In The Hole falls within rules of pie.

mmm but sausage in a good stew mmm

We could make them with wee apple bits in them to complement the rough cider. Or we could get drunk and burn the sausages.

I'm hoping the wee woman that comes in to clear up cooks them for us.

Without wishing to dredge up this old argument, if Toad in the Hole is a pie why isn't a sausage in casing a pie anyway?

xposr, obviously.

or xpost even.

xxxpost Or if we get really drunk we could just bite the ends off and suck out the fillings instead of cooking them.

Or cook them sober and eat them cold, which is probably a better idea.

YOU HAVE BEEN FOR A LUNCHTIME PINT AICM£5.

Actually, I haven't. I'm just shit and bored.

Walking the dog on a beach, in the moonlight, while drunk sounds like heaven.

Lime is supreme on seafood and also most forms of chicken.

This class is just terrible. I can't keep my mind from thinking about what work stuff I need to do today during the "lecture" argh.

Also I can't do the homework in one night as evidenced yesterday.

I'm alone in the office today. Stereo up!

Cowboy up, stereo up.

We could make them with wee apple bits in them to complement the rough cider. Or we could get drunk and burn the sausages.

This sounds like some kind of GENIUS. I will see no bands at all at ATP next year, I think. Just sit in your chalet and SCOFF SOSSIES.

Speaking of ATP, teh_kit friended me on teh_fasebuk! His picture there is adorable.

And, not speaking of ATP, the Middle East journal that looked like it was going to be really difficult actually turned out to have one-line abstracts. Wheeeeeee, that's 12 abstracts done in three minutes and an early dart for our heroine. Look out goldfish, your tank's getting cleaned this afternoon.

So fed up. I've been starting at 7am all week (getting up at "shit the bed time" as aldo would say) and I'm officially beat. I was attempting some e-training modules this morning and my brain hit saturation point. My hand refused to keep taking notes and instead started drawing eyeballs*.

This afternoon I have spent over an hour pressing F5 every 5 seconds on the BBC transfer deadline page and a Celtic news blog.

* I read somewhere that drawing eyes is a signifier of possible schizophrenia and worry when I start doing it so much

At least you weren't drawing dicks like that kid in Superbad.

I want to be kit's facebook friend. :(

I do love a chicken and apple sausage.

Onimo, do you have to start at 7am all next week too? Sounds awful. Especially if it's bringing out your psychosis.

Ms. M, he's right there, you can befriend him too!

Beth, mmmm, sossies.

xxxpost I've been doing the same on the BBC transfer page.

And nothing is happening apart from the possibility of Steven Naismith going to Celtic, which may be interesting for you but isn't particularly for me.

If you going to draw eyeballs you may as well be good at it:

http://www.picturedraw.co.uk/How%20to%20draw%20eyes.htm

Isn't it great when you get that uplifting feeling when a great track you weren't expecting comes on your MP3 player? In this case White Town and Your Woman.

I am mentally singing along and actually grinning like a looney.

I don't have to start at 7, I have been choosing to do so for the benefit of my flexi-time but I think I've done too many hours and my body is rejecting work :)

I wants sausages.

I don't have facebook. I don't think I need anything else to occupy my wasted time.

Thanks for eyeball tutorial GB - mine have all been a bit cartoonish compared with that. I've looked back through my notes and there's as many squiggly signatures as eyes. Is that a good sign?

I really only go on fbook for scrabble these days and that's usually just once a day b/c I'm busy. I'll probably hit it more tonight with a few beers. Always a good time to play word games.

"WAHT! Of course cnutface is areel wurd! FCUK YUO!"