TRICHOTILLOMANIA

Apart from being drop dead gorgeous, Ruby is also an amazing cook(sorry boys she's taken). I love the beef curry with potatoes she makes and this is my humble attempt at it. with recipe from Ruby of-course.




Ingredients:

* oil
* bay leaf 1
* beef - 1/2 kg to 800 grams dice into pieces (2 cm)
* potatoes - 2 large cut into 8 pieces each
* tomato - 1 diced
* fresh corriander - 1/2 a bunch along with the stems
* salt to taste

(for paste)

* 1 onion
* 6-7 cloves of garlic
* 1 inch of ginger
* 1 green chilli

(masala)

* 1/2 tbsp turmeric
* 1-1/2 to 2 tbsp red chilli powder (i like it hot + it gives 'that' awesome colour to the curry! if u want u can use less)
* 2 tbsp corriander powder
* 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
* 1/2 tbsp jeera powder

Method

* put cut potatoes in a bowl of water and keep aside

 

* heat oil in a pressure cooker add bay leaf



* add the paste fry for 2-3 mins



* add all the masalas, mix and fry till oil seperates



* add beef chunks, salt to taste ,mix well and cook ,stirring frequently ( do not add water at this stage )



*add chopped tomato and chopped corriander stems
* mix and cook for 5 mins
* add water, put the pressure cooker lid on and cook



*4-5 whistles and then remove the pressure and check if the meat is almost done. if not then add a little more water and repeat
* when the meat is almost done add the potatoes - lid on, 2 whistles ONLY (or else the potatoes will mash)
* remove pressure. and it's done!
* garnish with chopped corriander leaves



More Ruby ...

Where can I start? I found out about Jacaszek from the All songs considered post in which Lars Gotrich recommended him by saying, On Treny, Polish composer Jacaszek manipulates mournful strings and an ethereal voice, tugging between electronic music and neo-classical composition. Its bleak beauty frequently caught me off guard, sitting motionless, unable to do anything but soak in all 55 heartache-inducing minutes at once.



I loved the song Lars played and got my hands on the album. Lars' was right, with "Treny" Jacaszek produced 55 minutes of such heart-wrenching, poetic, alluring and beautiful music that I was undone. I listened to the whole album in one sitting and then I listened to it again and then I sat silent for an entire evening.

Jacaszek’s wordless magisterial world of delicate string play and beautifully paced voices transforms you into a gothic world that evokes tottering depression, you don't want to leave, you relish it and are inspired by it. It's like walking a deserted boulevard on an autumn morning. Walking down deserted streets, capricious leaves blustering and falling off trees, orange and yellow, the winds lead the world bare, as you walk alone with your lonesomeness and the malignant thoughts that accompany you when no one else wants to or can be around you. Treny came out of nowhere, caught me off-guard and gripped me from behind like a corrupt goddess uttering in my ears, filling me up with its malinger - like molten wax.

Treny has beautiful string arrangements in Cello and Violin strung together with electronic drone and punctuated with harp, piano and haunting voices.

You need to listen to Treny many many times, alone, in head phones, walking untouched alleyways. It deserves a space in your head, it deserves your trust, it asks you to give in and follow where it takes you, it expects unbridled affection, romanticism, melodrama, anguish and tears of looking at something beautiful. Leaving you wallowing in your crushing depression, despair, dole, grief, and heartbreak.

Can't wait for this ... i'm jumpy.


Previously.

Bombazine black is a beautiful project playing with ambient sounds and I just fell in love with this song I heard on the NPR podcast. It's from their album Here Their Dreams, and is calles The Sun Will Set

Was mad hot. But, was worth it.

Really like the way the Agfa xpro came out.

Today Nikon launched D90 As a DSLR it's a D80, same controls similar specs, but, for one crucial difference. It shoots Movies.

Ken Rockwell's review


And no camcorder home movie crap. It shoots almost close to a 35mm movie ... You can project the movie you shoot on this $1000 camera on a theater. This is specially exciting for me because I've always wanted to shoot good quality videos with nice DOF and the camera capable of such tricks and the lenses for cine cameras are all very expensive.

Imagine using your 105mm macro for portrait on video with the background in big fat bokeh. Imagine making movies in semi hd quality with professional lenses.



I can't wait.

I've often heard people complain about screen space, and there are many who advocate having two and three monitors. So, I gave it a shot and had a setup with two monitors ... nothing too fancy a 17" screen on top of my laptop.





Having the browser and the codebase bot visible together may seem like an advantage, it is. But not so much as you'd think.

After doing this for a whole month. I have realized that It makes me less productive, as I keep getting distracted by other programs. Maybe, because I can only effectively do one thing at a time. I've a very limited attention span.

So, if you're like me. Don't bother with the multiscreen hype.

Whenever we seemed
To have found the answer to a question
One of us united the string of the old rolled-up
Chinese scroll on the wall, so that it fell down and
Revealed to us the man on the bench who
Doubted so much.

I, he said to us
Am the doubter. I am doubtful whether
The work was well done that devoured your days.
Whether what you said would still have value for anyone if it
Were less well said.
Whether you said it well but perhaps
Were not concvinced of the truth of what you said.
Whether it is not ambiguous;each possible misunderstanding
Is your responsibility. Or it can be unambiguous
And take the contradictions out of things; is it too
Unambiguous?
If so, what you say is useless. Your thing has no life in it.
Are you truly in the stream of happening? Do you accept
All that develops? Are you developing? Who are you? To
Whom
Do you speak? Who finds what you say useful? And , by the
Way:
Is it sobering? Can it be read in the morning?
Is it also linked to what is already there? Are the sentences
That were
Spoken before you made use of, or at least refuted? Is
Everything verifiable?
By experience? By which one? But above all
Always above all else: how does one act
If one believes what you say? Above all: how does one act?

Reflectively, curiously, we studied the doubting
Blue man on the scroll, looked at each other and
Made a fresh start.

Bertolt Brecht

Starting tomorrow, I'm sticking with a swimming plan, from www.swimplan.com. Even though I can swim well I'm starting off with a beginner plan. It sounds pretty good.

Duration 30-45 mins
Distance 1000m
Pool length 25m

Warm up

• 2 x 50m Freestyle Swim (even pace), rest 0:15 / 50m
Freestyle swim at a steady pace.

Build up (repeat 4 times)

• 1 x 25m Freestyle Breath Left, rest 0:10 / 25m
Freestyle swim, breathing only on your left side.
• 1 x 25m Freestyle Breath Right, rest 0:10 / 25m
Freestyle swim, breathing only on your right side.

Core

• 6 x 50m Freestyle DPS, rest 0:20 / 50m
Freestyle swim with maximum Distance Per Stroke (DPS). Concentrate on long, efficient strokes and a high streamlined body position to reduce drag in the water. Count your strokes per lap and try to reduce.
• 6 x 50m Freestyle Swim, rest 0:15 / 50m

Warm down

• 1 x 100m Freestyle Easy, rest 0:20 / 100m
Freestyle swim at a slow, relaxed pace.