Saturday, February 27, 2010
Good memories...
Ainda dá tempo de participar da promoção!
Beijos e boa sorte!
Ainda dá tempo de participar da promoção!
Beijos e boa sorte!
Gosh, I love this commerical!
Bob Out
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Friday Flashback
Long b4 she had "4 Minutes" to save the world. It was all about the "Music". My love for her is still "True Blue". This is the song that cemented my devotion to her and makes me "Cherish" her always...
MADONNA
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Andrew Koenig found dead tonight
His dad, Walter Koenig(Chekov from Star Trek), issued a statement saying "My son took his own life." In regards to depression, he added..."Don't ignore it; don't rationalize it," "Extend a hand."
Such a sad ending to a short life. Andrew was just 41.
Bob Out
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Calendário, por Raquel Cruz
Peguei na net um modelo de calendários, datas. ( mas não pode ser qq modelo, tem que achar um com uma alta resolução para a revelação )
Podem ser usados varios programas neste caso usei o Photoscape, fui editor, abri a foto, depois obejto introduzir fotografia e coloquei o calendário por cima, texto para escrever o que quizer, é melhor sempre colocar margem para ficar melhor na revelação e recortar por 5:7 para poder revelar em varios tamanhos.
Clicar em foto+ objeto e salvar!
Fiz para a festinha da minha afilhada!
Beijinhos
Calendário, por Raquel Cruz
Peguei na net um modelo de calendários, datas. ( mas não pode ser qq modelo, tem que achar um com uma alta resolução para a revelação )
Podem ser usados varios programas neste caso usei o Photoscape, fui editor, abri a foto, depois obejto introduzir fotografia e coloquei o calendário por cima, texto para escrever o que quizer, é melhor sempre colocar margem para ficar melhor na revelação e recortar por 5:7 para poder revelar em varios tamanhos.
Clicar em foto+ objeto e salvar!
Fiz para a festinha da minha afilhada!
Beijinhos
Dragon Palace with the girls
We went to Dragon Palace this time...
A bit blur, but I like this picture of me and Shilan :)
Beautiful Lewar and Tarane
All in all, we spent 3 hrs and 10 min there (crazingly enough, yes), which totally made us break the record! ^^ But what can I say more than that we...talk a lot, eat a lot and laugh a lot? Hehe ^_^
Hump Day Hunk(Ryan McPartlin)
Borderlands
The storyline of Borderlands is the following, you start out on Pandora, which is a planet known for having treasure in a vault under the ground, the Vault opens every 200 years. On the planet Pandora there are few settlements because the environment is very hostile and most treasurers don't choose the good path but rather turn into bandits. You're send as a mercenary to open the vault and see what it contains, whilst remaining on the good side of the law, because the information you get from the settlers is very important in order to accomplish your goal.
The storyline is pretty cliché and you'll probably won't even bother to read any side information or listen to the woman that pops up in your upper-left screen every once in a while. My major problem with this game is that it tries to be two things at one and does a poor job at both of them, whilst they could've really made them work. I'll start with the gameplay, since that will make things a lot clearer. Borderlands is a shooter in that your weapons are guns and is an RPG in that you accumulate experience and your hits are displayed in numbers, along with an inventory system and quests. So where's the problem you might ask, well throughout the game you'll have to grind through tons and tons of enemies in order to complete quests or get level up. There's little variety in quests, there are only 3 types of quests, search-and-destroy, retrieving certain items and certain objectives. For the most part you're killing thousands upon thousands of enemies in order to level up, and I'm not even kidding here, I had to kill about 20,000 enemies in order to get to level 50. So it's pretty redundant to say that the gameplay gets stale rather quick.
The game doesn't really work like a regular shooter in which it just takes a few bullets in order to kill a certain enemy. In Borderlands you do a certain damage depending on a few factors such as your character's level and your gun experience level for that type of gun. So it's not really special that you sometimes have to shoot more than three cartridges in order to kill a normal enemy, if they happen to be a few levels higher than you. Not even mentioning the bossbattles, which will often lead you to deplete your ammunition for every gun type that you have. I find the inventory system to be an annoyance as well, because when you're completing quests in a rapid pace(it saves time to just accept every quest there is and do multiple quests in one area) you'll often lose track of your inventory since all these quests award you with equipment that you don't really need and when you find a gun or something else that you want to pick up, you're required to clean up your inventory first, by throwing out the stuff you just got from the quests.
It's also a shame that the creators of this game changed the graphics during the development of this game, at first they went for a Fallout 3 style look but later changed it to a cartoonesque style, similar to Prince of Persia. That's what also made it hard to be sucked into the game, the game had a cold, bland, empty feeling to it. Another thing that bothered me is that they re-use enemies a lot, I think there are only 6-7 different enemies in this game and they keep reappearing with different names, pallet-swaps and of course with better stats.
Soundwise there isn't anything that's the noteworthy neither on the bad or good side. The only thing that I thought could've been better is the background music, or the lack of there being background music. The only music that's in the game is the title music and combat music, whenever you get attacked you hear a song, but besides that there's no music at all, which doesn't really help with the fact that the game has a cold, bland, empty feeling to it.
My overall conclusion of this game is that it really let me down, I had been tracking this game for quite a while and I was disappointed when I got it. The repetitive grinding gameplay and the cold, bland, empty feeling to it, make that this game becomes boring pretty fast. If you were looking to buy this game I'd suggest trying your luck somewhere else, since this game isn't noteworthy on both the Shooter-side and the RPG-side. But the truth be told it isn't that bad, everything works like it's supposed to work, but the overall mediocrity makes the game a let-down, especially when you consider the fact that there was such a hype around this game. Oh yeah, about the millions of guns, that's a lie. Surely there are guns with different stats, but they all look pretty much the same, except for a few special ones but for the most part it's just the same gun with a different skin, different stats and a different name. They use the diablo-method of just randomizing the stats. So when you're considering to buy this game, I'd suggest trying your luck somewhere else.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Evgeni Plushenko can suck it!
Check out this interview...
Escritório em obras!
Olá meninas! Lembram do meu escritório???
Depois de receber o orçamento do marceneiro, que me pediu um absurdo pelo trabalho, vi que minhas idéias não combinavam com meu bolso... Então eu tinha que mudar alguma coisa. Como não dava pra reformular o bolso, melhor reformular as idéias.
Pensa daqui, pensa dali, o tempo passa e vai até que marido, que detesta obra, começa a implicar com tudo o que possa representar qualquer transtorno. E já viram obra sem transtorno? Não, né? Definitivamente isso não existe!
Veio janeiro e com ele o calor. E o escritório se transformou em uma sauna! Solução mais fácil: um ar condicionado. Mas eu DETESTO ar condicionado! Então parti para a missão mais difícil: convencer marido a encarar um quebra-quebra.
Eis o método que eu usei:
Como a calor ficava insuportável às 3 da tarde, eu só trabalhava até essa hora. Juntava minhas coisinhas e ia trabalhar com alguma coisa que pudesse se feita fora da rede em casa. Não adiantou muito. Duas semanas depois, isso tinha virado rotina...
Aí eu apelei: largava o trabalho e ia bordar, pintar, passar meu caderno de receita a limpo, ou ficar passeando pela blogosfera.
Resultado: 2 dias para contratar um pedreiro, mais 2 dias pra colocar um telhado e ontem foi o primeiro dia de quebradeira no escritório.
Estou com minhas coisas amontoadas, trabalhando num cantinho improvisado da loja, mas muito, muito feliz!
Não tem barulho, nem poeira, nem bagunça que me incomode! Já marido...ah! Ele se contenta em pensar que isso acaba em uma semana...
E a promoção continua! Os PAPs que chegarem até o dia 28/02 estarão concorrendo. E ainda vão ter até o dia 5/03 para receberem comentários!
Beijos!
Escritório em obras!
Olá meninas! Lembram do meu escritório???
Depois de receber o orçamento do marceneiro, que me pediu um absurdo pelo trabalho, vi que minhas idéias não combinavam com meu bolso... Então eu tinha que mudar alguma coisa. Como não dava pra reformular o bolso, melhor reformular as idéias.
Pensa daqui, pensa dali, o tempo passa e vai até que marido, que detesta obra, começa a implicar com tudo o que possa representar qualquer transtorno. E já viram obra sem transtorno? Não, né? Definitivamente isso não existe!
Veio janeiro e com ele o calor. E o escritório se transformou em uma sauna! Solução mais fácil: um ar condicionado. Mas eu DETESTO ar condicionado! Então parti para a missão mais difícil: convencer marido a encarar um quebra-quebra.
Eis o método que eu usei:
Como a calor ficava insuportável às 3 da tarde, eu só trabalhava até essa hora. Juntava minhas coisinhas e ia trabalhar com alguma coisa que pudesse se feita fora da rede em casa. Não adiantou muito. Duas semanas depois, isso tinha virado rotina...
Aí eu apelei: largava o trabalho e ia bordar, pintar, passar meu caderno de receita a limpo, ou ficar passeando pela blogosfera.
Resultado: 2 dias para contratar um pedreiro, mais 2 dias pra colocar um telhado e ontem foi o primeiro dia de quebradeira no escritório.
Estou com minhas coisas amontoadas, trabalhando num cantinho improvisado da loja, mas muito, muito feliz!
Não tem barulho, nem poeira, nem bagunça que me incomode! Já marido...ah! Ele se contenta em pensar que isso acaba em uma semana...
E a promoção continua! Os PAPs que chegarem até o dia 28/02 estarão concorrendo. E ainda vão ter até o dia 5/03 para receberem comentários!
Beijos!
Red Alert 3
The third title in the Red Alert series, it was released in 2008 by EA.
In RA3 you are introduced with a third faction, the Empire of the Rising Sun. This faction uses state of the art technologies, units and buildings. The other two remain the Allies and the Soviets
All three factions are playable in the campaign and start at the same time in the game. The intro shows you the Soviet Union at the brink of the defeat by the allies, most likely at the end of Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge. By using a time machine general Krukov and colonel Cherdenko travel back in time to Brussels to the year of 1927, where the International Physics Conference is held. There they murder Albert Einstein, which prevents the Allies from obtaining technology that he would have created. When they travel back, they found out that the Soviet Union is winning the Third World War. But Einstein’s disappearance has had a second outcome. Without Einstein the Empire of the Rising Sun (a.k.a. Japan) has risen and declares war against the Allies and the Soviet Union. When Krukov and Cherdenko find out that they don’t have nuclear weapons because of Einstein’s existence, they are forced into a war on multiple fronts.
From that moment onwards all faction have a different storyline, though there are some points where the different campaigns are a bit parallel to each other. But with other scenarios and outcomes of course. Every campaign ends in the same way. the faction you chose at the beginning of the campaign achieves global domination. You always play with a co-commander in the campaign. You can choose play with a computer-controlled AI or with another player online.
RA3 introduces a new range of units and only a few buildings are left from the previous parts. The allies still have the chromosphere and a variant from RA2 prism tower, only this time it’s called the Spectrum Tower. The soviets are still using their mighty Kirov airships and the famous Tesla Coils. The Empire of the Rising Sun is really the only faction that had to be build from scratch. The Allied and Soviet units can find their roots in RA and RA2. Every unit in RA3 has a secondary ability which must be activated manually.
The only thing I find disappointing the balance in the game, because it's almost non-existent. And I will tell you why. The Allies have their bombers that can tear apart almost every unit and even worse their carriers. There's is almost nothing you can do against these monsters, they have only 2 drawbacks: their drones can be destroyed and they suck at close combat. The Soviets have an almighty ground advantage with tanks that can rip through everything especially in the early minutes of a match . And last but not least the Empire of the Rising Sun. To be honest, it isn’t really good at anything as it relies more on adaptability rather than specializing itself. Some examples are transformable submarines that can turn into planes and helicopters that can morph into two-legged walkers. This means that the Empire is a difficult faction to play with, for it has no distinctive strengths or weaknesses.
Each faction has their own way of constructing their base. When playing as the soviets your buildings will be assembled in the field, while the allies are using the traditional way of base building. What’s the normal way you say? Queuing up buildings and when ready place them in the field, immediately ready for use. The Empire uses a more mobile way of building. Its Construction Yard spits out construction vehicles, which can be deployed anywhere and assemble themselves on site.
Resource gathering has been changed but only for a bit. In RA and RA2 you would find concentrated fields of ore (resources), in RA3 resources are centralized in pits which are scattered around the battlefield. You usually have two of those pits at your start position. These pits make resource make harvesting a bit easier, because refineries can be build in front of them. Both the refineries and pits use rotating platforms turn the collectors around pointing them in the right way and while doing so they load and unload the vehicles. Though they have changed one thing. All resources are evenly split between you and your team-mates.
But this has a positive and negative side. The positive side is that you also get resources even when your refineries are destroyed ( only if your partner(s) has any refineries standing). The negative side is that you never get the full amount of resources that you gather, which can sometimes mean the difference between defeat and victory.
The graphics in RA3 have been increased to a ridiculous level where it becomes cartoony. The terrain sometimes looks better than the units. But the one thing that draw my attention is the big detail of the water. It looks excellent when you compare it to the rest of the game. You can see shockwaves appearing in the water during naval battles.
To conclude this review, I had some fun playing this game. It's too bad that there's little balance in the game. But I would still recommend this game for a buy because it's not that bad and it's part of the Red Alert Universe.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Boner is missing!
Andrew Koenig, best known for playing Boner on Growing Pains, has gone missing in Toronto.
He was last seen on February 14th and missed his flight home two days later. His family reported that he had not seemed like himself lately and believed he had been suffering from depression.
His father, Walter Koenig, is also an actor best known for playing Pavel Chekov in Star Trek. The Vancouver police are now involved and lots of people are looking for him. Let's hope they find him safe.
Bob Out
Sexy black heels
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Monday morning
1. Reschedule mydentis appointment. (The poor dentist apparently broke her arm. :O) [x]
Need for speed III: Hot Pursuit
Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit is a racing game developed by EA Canada and published by EA. The game was released in 1998 for Windows and Playstation. The police plays a big role in this game, because they try to arrest you and your opponent while racing on several tracks.
This game has no storyline, but has several game modes in which you can earn new cars and a new track. These modes are: Single Race, Tournament, Knock-Out and Hot Pursuit. Single Race is self-explanatory. Tournament is championship mode, in which you have to race on eight tracks against seven other racers. In Knock-Out you also have to race on eight tracks, but in this elimination mode the racer who finishes last is eliminated. In Hot Pursuit you can race against one racer, but the main objective is to outrun the police or to arrest six AI racers (Windows version). If you manage to outrun the police for a longer period, they will set up road blocks and spike strips to slow you down.
Tactical aspects of the police pursuits have also been improved since the last game. The police have the ability to deploy roadblocks (which simply consists of lining up police cars across the road) and spike strips (which puncture the tires of a racer's car that runs over the strip, and halts the car). Both tactics present weaknesses, specifically, gaps in the blockade that can be used by a racer to avoid collisions with police cars or tire punctures from a spike strip. The player may also listen to police radio chatter on the pursuits' statuses, revealing the current locations of racers, police cars, as well as roadblocks and spike strips.
It's also possible to play this game split-screen. In split-screen Tournament mode there are only two other racers instead of seven in singleplayer. In Knock-Out there is only one other racer in split-screen, but both players have to finish ahead of the AI racer in order to proceed to the next track. In Hot Pursuit both players can race each other to the finish or one player can be the police and has to arrest the other player (only in the Windows version).
When starting a track, you can change the weather conditions. You can also race in day-or night time, or change the amount of laps you have to race. When playing Hot Pursuit you can get more fines when racing more laps, but when you aren't fined for a long time (let's say four laps on an eight lap race) you're arrested right away when you get caught.
The graphics of this game are, considering that this game is made in 1998, very good. I have only one complaint. When you drive behind an AI racer or police car, it seems that they're floating above the track, since they change driving lanes much faster than you can change lanes.
The sound of this game is okay. The soundtrack playing in a race changes when something happens to you.
I own this game on my Playstation, and I have to say that I had a lot more fun with that version of the game than the Windows version. The difference between these games is that the police talks to you, and not to each other, just like in the Windows version and when they talk to you it's more fun. For example, when you hit a police car he screams (mostly when he crashes) or you can hear him say 'Hey, this is a new paint job' and you don't hear that with the Windows version. However, the graphics of the Windows version are a little bit better. The gameplay itself however, is very funny. It's even more fun when you play it with a friend.
In the kitchen with Bo's Bowl
Well, I'm not actually in the kitchen with Bo but I am making one of his recipes. If you haven't checked out Bo's blog then please stop by. He has a great blog going where he features wonderful recipes he makes. I saw this one a few weeks ago and knew I had to make it.
3 carrots, peeled and diced
3 celery stalks, diced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp dried oregano
2 bay leaves
35 oz can of crushed tomatoes
2 15.8 cans Cannellini Beans, drained and rinsed
5 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, torn
olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste
Friday, February 19, 2010
Shake Weight
Now check out the parody(NSFW)...
LMAO
Bob Out
Plushenko says Lysacek is not the champion
Evgeni Plushenko says Evan Lysacek is not the champion because Lysacek didn't attempt a quad jump.
“Just doing nice transitions and being artistic is not enough because figure skating is a sport, not a show”
Guess what Plushenko...you both scored 82.80 on artistry. It was the technical score that won it for Lysacek. I am not a professional, hell I still can't tell a triple axel from a triple toe loop but Lysacek looked like the better skater last night. He had more jumps...more combination jumps AND he performed them all better. Judges should look at the entire routine and not just one quad jump. GET OVER YOURSELF. If you blame anyone...blame yourself!
Bob Out
Milk and cookies
Milk and cookies - an invincible combo. ♥
Um problema resolvido!
Não conseguia visualizar meus seguidores (nem os de ninguém)e não conseguia seguir mais ninguém.
Comentar também era uma dificuldade! Dependendo do modelo do blog (aquele que aparece a postagem, os comentários e uma caixa para você escrever o seu), simplesmente não tinha onde escrever!
Na hora de postar uma foto, ela não aparecia, só aparecia o link, mesma coisa com os hiperlinks. Cada postagem era um teste de paciência.
Procura no google, corre aqui, corre ali e nada! Até que eu me lembrei que o problema começou depois que formatei o meu notebook. Conclusão lógica: está faltando instalar alguma coisa! Mas o quê????
Pensei no Java. Instalei e nada.
E não é que hoje, acordando mais bem disposta que o habitual, fiz minha ginástica, fui tomar banho e... eureka! (que coisa mais velha!) De repente, me lembro do Adobe Flash Player!
Foi só instalar e tudo voltar a funcionar normalmente!
Ah, você achava que eu tinha te esquecido? Não! Agora sim, vou poder passar aí e comentar à vontade!
Nem imaginam como estou me sentindo aliviada!
Beijos!
Um problema resolvido!
Não conseguia visualizar meus seguidores (nem os de ninguém)e não conseguia seguir mais ninguém.
Comentar também era uma dificuldade! Dependendo do modelo do blog (aquele que aparece a postagem, os comentários e uma caixa para você escrever o seu), simplesmente não tinha onde escrever!
Na hora de postar uma foto, ela não aparecia, só aparecia o link, mesma coisa com os hiperlinks. Cada postagem era um teste de paciência.
Procura no google, corre aqui, corre ali e nada! Até que eu me lembrei que o problema começou depois que formatei o meu notebook. Conclusão lógica: está faltando instalar alguma coisa! Mas o quê????
Pensei no Java. Instalei e nada.
E não é que hoje, acordando mais bem disposta que o habitual, fiz minha ginástica, fui tomar banho e... eureka! (que coisa mais velha!) De repente, me lembro do Adobe Flash Player!
Foi só instalar e tudo voltar a funcionar normalmente!
Ah, você achava que eu tinha te esquecido? Não! Agora sim, vou poder passar aí e comentar à vontade!
Nem imaginam como estou me sentindo aliviada!
Beijos!
The Friday Flashback
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Ganhei selinho!
Ganhando o selinho, a blogueira (o) tem que responder algumas perguntinhas e depois pode repassar o selinho para 5 blogs que acha interessante.
Então vamos às perguntas:
1 - Qual cidade voce mora?
Barra longa - Minas Gerais - Brasil
2 - Trabalha em que?
Gerente administrativa de uma loja de produtos agropecuários.
3 - Gosta do que faz?
Aprendi a gostar. Quando comecei não entendia nada de contabilidade, mas sempre fui daquele tipo "se é pra fazer tem que ser bem feito". Então corri atrás e aprendi muuiito. E tudo o que a gente entende fica mais leve...
4 - Empregado ou patrao?
Patroa, se bem que trabalhando junto com marido...
5 - Se nao trabalhasse nisso, o que faria?
Gosto do que é belo. Já pensei em estudar arquitetura, fazer cursos de decoração... Também gosto muito do que é ligado à internet.
6 - Trabalharia em um setor administrativo ou como professora?
Administrativo. Sou muito pouco paciente para lecionar.
7 - Como é a sua rotina?
Levanto às 7:00, me arrumo e vou trabalhar. Trabalho até às 18:00, venho para casa, fico com marido e filhos até a hora de deitar. Quando não estou com eles, invento arte.
8 - O que faria se ganhasse na mega hoje?
Iria matar minha fome de mundo, porque literalmente eu tenho fome de conhecer o mundo! Acho que pegava uma mala e partia com a família sem destino certo.
E as indicadas são:
Flávia - Decoracasa
Ana - A Casa que minha avó queria
Cynthia - Fala mãe!
Janice - Doce Encanto
Alinoca - Casa da Alinoca
Beijos!
Ganhei selinho!
Ganhando o selinho, a blogueira (o) tem que responder algumas perguntinhas e depois pode repassar o selinho para 5 blogs que acha interessante.
Então vamos às perguntas:
1 - Qual cidade voce mora?
Barra longa - Minas Gerais - Brasil
2 - Trabalha em que?
Gerente administrativa de uma loja de produtos agropecuários.
3 - Gosta do que faz?
Aprendi a gostar. Quando comecei não entendia nada de contabilidade, mas sempre fui daquele tipo "se é pra fazer tem que ser bem feito". Então corri atrás e aprendi muuiito. E tudo o que a gente entende fica mais leve...
4 - Empregado ou patrao?
Patroa, se bem que trabalhando junto com marido...
5 - Se nao trabalhasse nisso, o que faria?
Gosto do que é belo. Já pensei em estudar arquitetura, fazer cursos de decoração... Também gosto muito do que é ligado à internet.
6 - Trabalharia em um setor administrativo ou como professora?
Administrativo. Sou muito pouco paciente para lecionar.
7 - Como é a sua rotina?
Levanto às 7:00, me arrumo e vou trabalhar. Trabalho até às 18:00, venho para casa, fico com marido e filhos até a hora de deitar. Quando não estou com eles, invento arte.
8 - O que faria se ganhasse na mega hoje?
Iria matar minha fome de mundo, porque literalmente eu tenho fome de conhecer o mundo! Acho que pegava uma mala e partia com a família sem destino certo.
E as indicadas são:
Flávia - Decoracasa
Ana - A Casa que minha avó queria
Cynthia - Fala mãe!
Janice - Doce Encanto
Alinoca - Casa da Alinoca
Beijos!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In case you ever wondered what humans taste like...
So what do we taste like? Game? Chicken? If we use Lecter's choice of wine as a barometer, we might taste like beef, which matches well with a hearty Italian red. Or perhaps, if we listen to Fat Bastard from The Spy Who Shagged Me, we taste like pork (the other other white meat). Actually, the pork hypothesis is a strong one - Christopher Hitchens elaborates on the similarities between humans and pigs in God Is Not Great, in an attempt to explain why so many religions eschew pork products. Basically, he surmises, we aren't supposed to eat pork because pigs are much, much too like people.
It makes some sense that we would avoid eating an animal so much like ourselves - pigs are balder than most stock, and a lot more intelligent. Their organs are so much like ours that pig insulin was given to diabetic patients until a synthetic type was developed. Pigs are said to cry tears of grief, and to scream in a very human manner when trussed up for slaughter. The slang term for roasted human amongst Papua New Guinean tribes that practice cannibalism is "long pig", and Hitchens notes that firefighters tend to dislike pork, and especially pork crackling. Apparently, once you've smelt a burned human carcass... well, I'm sure I don't need to finish that sentence.
So we taste like pork, right?
Wrong, according to a New Yorker called William Seabrook, who decided to break the last taboo and try human flesh whilst travelling in West Africa in the 1930s. Finding that it was not uncommon for the locals to munch on roasted people from time to time, Seabrook approached the village chief and asked if humans really did, as he had heard, taste like pork. The chief was puzzled by this question, stating than that he had eaten pork many times and that human flesh was nothing like it, nothing at all. (We can suspect that he must have followed this up with "you dumb-ass whitey", or similar). Seabrook bided his time and waited for the opportunity to find out for himself.
Soon afterwards, he found that opportunity, in the form of a freshly killed 30 year old man whom the locals assured Seabrook was "not murdered". Seabrook never bothered to ascertain the man's cause of death, but instead set to work in cooking a small rib roast and a "sizeable rump steak". "I proposed", he wrote, "to make a meal of it as one would any other meat, with rice and a bottle of wine". And make a meal of it he did, as well as taking meticulous and detailed notes on the texture, colour, smell and taste of the raw and cooked portions.
If you're still with us, then here is the crux of what he had to say:
"I took a big swallow of wine, a helping of rice, and thoughtfully ate half the steak. And as I ate, I knew with increasing conviction and certainty exactly what it was like. It was like good, fully developed veal, not young, but not yet beef...
"The roast, from which I cut and ate a central slice, was tender, and in colour, texture, smell, as well as taste, strengthened my certainty that of all the meats we habitually know, veal is the one meat to which this meat is accurately comparable... as to the 'long pig' legend... it was totally, completely false".
Seabrook, the man who referred to himself "thoughtfully" chewing on a dead man's cooked buttock, wrote that he felt "a sense of pride in having carried something through to its finish", and congratulated himself upon "a long-standing personal curiosity satisfied at last". At the time of writing his memoirs, he noted that "Neither then, or at any time since have I had any serious personal qualms, either of digestion or conscience". That said, he became known as The White Cannibal of New York, and eventually committed suicide in 1945 amid speculation that he was going insane. (It took people that long to notice something was wrong here?)
But one man's pork is another man's veal... and another man's tuna, if we listen to Issei Sagawa, the "Cannibal of the Bois de Boulogne", who famously murdered and ate his unrequited love in 1981 in Paris. Sagawa related that her flesh was "soft" and "odorless", "like tuna". However I think we can assume that any dickhead who considers tuna to be "odorless" (not to mention, any dickhead who thinks he can emulate the health and beauty of a woman by ingesting her) can be safely written off as complete whack-job with too much time on his hands.
So to return to Lecter - take a bow! According to Seabrook, our most credible source on the subject, his wine choice (a nice Chianti) is a stylish match with the regional Italian speciality of tender veal.
Or person.
Hump Day Hunk(Tom Ford)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Semlor from heaven
In Sweden Semledagen/ Fettisdagen (fatty day) is celebrated on one Tuesday in February every year (but of course they sell semlor way ahead in January already -.-). And on this day you are suppose to indulge in semlor (= bun with a layer of almond icing and whipped cream in between). However, if you want something else than the “traditional semla”, Forsa Hembageri makes the best chocolate and blueberry semlor in the whole Uppsala. - Just so you know. ^^
One semla costs SEK 26, but it’s sooo worth every Swedish krona. :)