Two Updates
April 15, 2003
You guys are so lucky huh.
I discovered that the thing with instant noodles is that you can throw whatever is in your fridge and it will still taste damn good. I am hooked on a certain brand of instant noodles here and it kicks the ass of some normal noodle restaurants in Vancouver. I forgot what flavour it is but probably somewhere along the lines of Kyushi shio ramen or something. Ever since Eri moved back to her house and left me with the cooking, this ramen has become the main sustenance. Usually I just throw whatever is in the fridge and eat the sucker right out of the pot.
Today, as per my usual Chores Tuesday, I went grocery shopping. I decided I was going to splurge a bit because it was pay day and I had some nice change in the bank that I could spend. I bought some damn nice beef that is supposed to be for grilling, some bok choy because I haven’t been eating greens, some eggs, and a whole shitload of non-ramen items. And so, I had possibly the best instant noodle pot I’ve ever made. I essentially threw in whatever spice or condiment I could think of and marinated the beef in some sort of Japanese sauce and even cut the bok choy into pretty bite-sized pieces. I don’t think anyone in history went to the meticulous details I did to prepare some instant ramen. Looking back now I should’ve bought real noodles and just make my own soup base but that’ll be for next time, for sure.
Now, with a rather bloated tummy and a smile the size of Wisconsin, I think I will fall back onto a pillow, throw in The Usual Suspects, and leave Spin Doctors on at a just audible level.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is living.
Urgh
After some very pleasant, “Jerry it’s not working” messages. I think I finally fixed everything. Turns out a few months ago I fucked Golive and now it came and bit me back in the ass. I think the problem was the page was looking for a javascript library on my computer when it should’ve just shitted the code onto the page as it should. Well I think I made it shit on the page so all the pictures should work. If not, please tell me and I’ll shoot the messenger. The webcam which mysteriously stopped working (I didn’t touch this page at all for a very long time) should also be working too.
Thanks to Justin for pointing out it was fucked and telling me which line the error was on. And thanks to Dennis for patiently testing every little thing I tried, eg. “And this?” “Nope.” “How about this?” “Nope.” And thanks for offering your abuse code but I don’t want pictures of razored women popping up all over the place.
I would update but I’m too sick of looking at this computer. I need to go outside and melt. See you.
Here’s something to read before you eat lunch:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (news – web sites), prosecutors said on Friday.
But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers “callous and barbaric” and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them.
The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were “spent” — or no longer able to produce eggs — and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney’s spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.
Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego, asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.
“Once they had permission we decided that they did not have any criminal intent,” Stewart said.
Brothers Arie and Will Wilgenburg, who run Escondido-based Ward Poultry Farm, could not be reached for comment on Friday. Earlier, they told the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper that they were doing “what we thought we had to do” based on expert advice and stopped as soon as they learned otherwise.
Wayne Pacelle, a spokesman for the Humane Society, said that explanation was unacceptable.
“The act of feeding live chickens into a wood chipper is an extraordinarily callous and barbaric act and I can’t imagine any person with a whit of common sense would use a wood chipper as a killing tool,” he said. “No person with any experience in killing animals would sanction the use of this technique.”
Pacelle said the District Attorney’s decision not to prosecute the brothers rested on the “faulty assumption” that using wood chippers to kill chickens was an accepted practice. [Yahoo! News]
