For Battle!

yet some how compelling...

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Or anyone else that enjoys a good satire: an article from the Daily Mash, the UK's daily satirical newspaper, on the provenance of the bible.

Well worth sticking on your RSS feed reader.

Coz and I went to a gallery showing which was a fundraiser for Second Chance, the animal shelter where she works. Because it was a fundraiser for an animal shelter - and because this is Flagstaff - we assumed (correctly) that dogs were welcome, and took Darwin and Roo along. The exhibit on was kind of cool; the artist set up one of those automatic photo booths in a variety of places around town, and collected a whole bunch of the strips of photos, which he mounted in a strip all around the outside of the gallery. There were some fun photos in there, and it was kind of cool to see some of the groups and progressions, and guess where the booth may have been at the time. And of course, to make the whole thing properly recursive (or reflective, or self-referential, or whatever wank term I'd use if I were a true artiste...) he had the booth set up at the exhibit (and was donating half the proceeds to Second Chance, so don't be too hard on the guy.)

The obvious result of all of which is:

Came back from lunch today to find a colleague telling us all that there was a confirmed case of Swine Flu in the organisation. Specifically on our floor. Specifically in the bank of desks just around the corner from us.

This is a hotdesking office, although it doesn't really need to be. I love the reaction so far. Instead of stating that we should all stop hotdesking to ensure the germs don't spread too far, which might be an easy and predictable management response, they have instead chosen to order us more screen and keyboard wipes.

Oh, and sent our manager around to tell us not to panic. I quote "there's no need to run around screaming and waving your arms in the air because someone's been confirmed with swine flu". (I promptly asked him if we could run around doing so for the fun of it, being the absurdist that I am. He said, yes, and smiled)

I like the understated nature of it all.

-I'd like you all to note that I have resisted the urge to rant about this 'pandemic', and the actions that have been taken so far. Brownie points please!

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Normally Lechon is a whole roast pig, which D recently sampled on a trip to the Phillipies for work. He was so impressed that he did a version for me.

First he got a (boneless) roast shoulder of pork from Woolies and baked it. Then once it is baked you take off the crackling and roughly chop the pork into large chunks and put it back into the oven at about 180 degrees for 15 minutes. You can snack on the crackling while you wait. Then you take a small bowl and fill it 3/4 full with white vinegar (just plain white vinegar, white wine vinegar isn't as good for this) and a finely julienned clove of garlic. Once the pork has finished its second cooking pile it onto a plate and put it on the table with the bowl of vingear and garlic beside it. Then grab a fork get a bit of pork and dip it in the vinegar. Then eat. D also made garlic rice to have with the pork. Which is cooked rice with garlic flakes mixed through. Really yummy subtle garlic flavour. If you were being good you could even have some steamed asian greens with it. Great way to use up left over roast pork, or a great reason to have a pork roast.