Ah, to return to the days of being a teenager....
Yes, sleeping late on the weekends. That was always nice. The funny part about this though was that it was in the middle of the afternoon. So after getting up at 10 or 11, who has the gall to fall asleep on the couch?
Yup, Elly. Great role model she turned out to be for Ken and George....sigh
We had a really simple lunch today, instant Ramen really. We did add something to make it something a little more than a lunch of MSG. And since I didn't actually take pictures of last weeks final product, which I'll post about here in a bit, I have decided to use this for this week's GYO post.
We've been growing Bak Choi and it's been doing really well. In fact, I probably planted a little too much of it. But that means we've been eating a lot of it too which isn't a bad thing. Last week we had this version:
Today, we grabbed some Bak Choi from the garden:
If you notice some holes in the Bak Choi, that would because we are not using any pesticide nor fertilizer on the garden. I may use them next year, but I wanted to see how we did this year. Clearly we need to thoroughly rinse the the Bak Choi prior to using for anything that goes in my mouth. Then you chop them all up:
Actually, prior to chopping them up, we throw some eggs into boiling water to get the soft boiled eggs going. We also follow the instructions for the Maruzen Ramen, which basically consists of boiling the noodles for several minutes, adding the soup mix to the noodles. For five people, we actually use only 4 packets of ramen.
Add a teaspoon of vegetable oil in a wok and stir fry the pak choy until it's soft. Pour the ramen into a soup bowl. We actually have "ramen bowls" which we use, but any soup bowl should do. Add the soft boiled egg and the ｂak choi, and VOILA:
Probably the hardest part about the above is getting the soft boiled egg just right. Everything else is dead simple. And makes it a completely different dish from plain old instant ramen. And it takes just a few minutes to make.
Update: corrected Pak Choi to Bak Choi
They didn't flip flop, they just hid it. This page doesn't indicate anything about Ubuntu when you click on of the systems except for the $349 one. Hence, if you click on the Mini 10v on that page, you do not have the option to swap out windows for Ubuntu. Hence I thought that is was no longer an option.
My daughter, concerned that she wasn't going to get her favored Ubuntu netbook did some more digging. And sure enough, it's not that they don't sell it, they just hide it. Well, I guess hiding it isn't even right. It all depends on how you navigate the site. If you go to their laptops page and only select minibooks in the left hand navigation box, you get this page which does show the ubuntu version.
Clearly this is a marketing thing. They don't want to sell ubuntu (or Microsoft doesn't want them to) is one way of looking at it. Based on my experience with Dell I tend to take that view. It's always hard to find linux boxen even though they are there. But more likely, really, is that most consumers would be confused since they don't know what Ubuntu even is.
But here's the thing - the Mini 10v is a Mini 10V and you can customize it to your delight. With the exception of the operating system depending on which one you find first. Wouldn't it just make sense to make the operating system customizable? Or at least a link to the other system? For what it's worth, you can't select windows if you happen to start with the Ubuntu system.
I now remember why this will be this family's first dell ever. It's just too hard to by a non-windows system even though they offer it.
Suffice it to say though, my daughter is relieved that they do sell the Mini 10v with Ubuntu and is excited to get hers.
I'm amazed. A few weeks ago I was looking at getting a netbook from Dell, largely because we get an employee discount. Not much of a discount, but a discount. So I login again today since my daughter wants to buy one. One with Ubuntu on it, not Windows. Her choice, not mine - though if you know me, you'd know Ubuntu would be my choice as well.
When I originally saved my cart (cool little feature there on Dell's site), I had selected a Mini 10v, which came with Ubuntu. And it cost $299. The Windows netbooks were like $50 more. So imagine my suprise when I go back today and the Mini 10v is only available with Windows on it, and the Ubuntu version now costs what the Windows version did previously, $349.
No explanation, no nothing. You just can't order the Mini 10v with Ubuntu on it anymore. You only have the option of Windows XP SP3. Which is surprising to me since we all know that Microsoft has been waffling back and forth as to when XP is going to hit the junk heap.
I would be absolutely fascinated with Dell's explanation of this flip flop. The only change in the configuration is the OS. What made Ubuntu, a free and free of charge OS all of a sudden $50 more expensive than an operating system that costs money?
Maybe I need to go back and consider Asus again. But that will be for my next one. We did order the Mini 10v that was saved in my cart. We'll see what actually shows up.
うさぎ、馬鹿やろう！ といって仕方がないじゃないんですか。 分かっているけど、やっぱ頭が来ますわ。
いや、実は前から小さなうさぎちゃんが何回もバークヤードに発見しています。 しかも、殆ど人間に怖がらないやつなですよ。 子供のうさぎだから可愛いし、ガーデンではなくクローバ(Clover)とか食べていたのであんまり気にしていないのです。でも、こんなにやられると、あいつがピーターラビットと同じ経験させようかなと思っています。 でも、昨夜隣に住んでいる方と話しをしたら、やっぱうさぎではんくグラウンドホグが犯人だと思います。
僕も前に見たことがあって、デカーーーーイやつんですわ。 多分２ー３フィートぐらいの大きさです。 隣の方が一昨日に我が庭にいることを見たそうです。 こういつをどう追い出すかが今の課題です。 もちろん、フェンスを買った方が良いでしょうけど、まず他の手段を使う予定です。 非常にシャイだそうで、風鈴を出しました。これからグラウンドホグが嫌いな石けんとかアモニアとかを使って見ます。
結局、フェンスしかないと気がするけれど、フェンスだって登ることが出来るし、下に掘ることも出来るなので困りますわ。
そのページを読んだらこのGrow Your Ownというブログイベントを見つかりました。 なんか、このアイディアが非常に面白いなと思って参加しようと思っています。
参加ルールは非常に簡単です。 第一条件として、自分のガーデンの野菜などを使ったレシピーを自分のブログに投稿します。 ようは自分が育ったものをなんらかの形でレシピーで使うことです。 例えば、今月の初め頃に「Garden Report」という記事を書いたのですが、その中でうちのガーデンから収得したレタスとChives(ニイラ？）を使った「生春巻き」を作ったという内容でした。 一応、そのぐらいにレシピーを加えれば、GYOの条件を満たすわけです。 ブログにアップしたら、300x300以内の写真と簡単なブログ紹介をホストにメールします。 ホストは持ち回りに8月中旬まで決まっていて、リストアップされています。 （ホストは自分のブログに全員のブログ内容をまとめて紹介する役割です。 毎回、担当変わるのでそんなに重くならないような仕組みになっています。
JANOでもこのような形式でなんかやっていいかなと思いますね。
僕はこのGYOに参加しますけど、 どのレシピーでやるかはありさと相談しないと。。。。
Okay, just so you don't get the wrong impression. We here at neohawk.org don't do just vegetables. In fact, vegetables are generally my reposonsiblity. Arisa, on the other hand does the flowers. So here are some quick pics:
Update: I finally got some good pics on the one rose flower that's blooming. Bunch more coming in. I added them to the pics below.
The flowers are mostly in the front of the house, while the last three pictures in the above slide show are the side of our driveway in front of the garage. We have a bunch of sunflowers there, some shiso, and other mixed flowers. This side area is actually kind of a collaborative effort. When some of the flowers that I planted in the backyard bloom, I'll grab some picks.
Okay, so the garden is coming along okay. Today, we picked our first radish, grabbed three more strawberries, and picked one head of lettuce. The lettuce is a tad bit early I think, but we wanted to taste it, and I wanted to thin the row out a little bit. Check out the pics below:
The last picture in the slide show is a picture of a "Raw Spring Roll". It's made with lettuce, chives, harusame(green been noodle?), pork, shrimp, and egg. You dip it in a korean miso based sauce, i.e., spicy. Of course, the lettuce and chives were from our yard.
m, m, good
For the time being, nevermind. It didn't work like I thought it would.
I am trying something new on this blog. I am giving Google Connect a go for commenting. I have also added a "social bar" on the right side of the blog, but that was really part of my testing to make sure that Google Connect was working.
This site is powered mostly by Byteflow with some minor code added by me (news and links), and a couple other pieces of Django code/modules. But I wanted to give Google connect a try. With Byteflow, in order to comment you need to register with this site either with an OpenID account or a email address and password. I'm pleased with the OpenID support, but not many people actually know what it is. They do know their google, aim, or yahoo accounts and can use those to register and then comment.
Of course, there actually needs to be somebody reading this blog before any comments are going to happen. But I know I'm talking to myself here in the ether. But I think this may be easier in the long run.
I'll need to tidy up my templates since there is still some stuff left over from the byteflow templates. I'll need to nix those when I get around to it.
A tad bit belated, but we had a very nice Memorial Day. For lunch, we had our first attempt at bbq'd ribs and I must say it was quite successful. After that we headed to the Blossom Time Festival in Chagrin Falls, and listened to Alex Bevan. On the way home, we had dinner at Four Guys Burgers and Fries to see what all the fuss was about. Pretty darn good burgers..
