Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Ingrédients
- 1/2 pastèque (environ 2 kg avec la peau)
Préparation
Vider la pastèque avec une cuillère à glace. Mixer la pulpe, passer à la
passoire en appuyant sur la pulpe pour en extraire le plus de jus possible.
Remettre la pulpe restante (donc vidée d'une partie de son jus) dans le mixer et
mixer à nouveau. Passer à la passoire à nouveau, en appuyant. Il reste une
petite quantité de pulpe et plein de pépins. Passer le just à la sorbetière.
Verser dans des bacs à glaçons et piquer un cure-dent dans chaque « glaçon ».
Mettre au congélateur.
Commentaires
- Produit des « glaçons de pastèque ». Lorsqu'on suce ces glaçons, on aspire un
jus sucré et on se retrouve avec un morceau de glace moins rouge et moins
parfumé.
- En pot, la glace devient dure comme de la glace, au contraires des sorbets
de fruits. Qu'est-ce qui donne au sorbet sa consistance molle ? Le sucre
ajouté ? Les pectines (ou autre gélifiant ajouté) ?
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Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Cooking/Ice Cream ]
Ingrédients
- 1,5 kg rhubarbe
- 500g sucre
Préparation
Éplucher et couper la rhubarbe en morceaux. Faire cuire avec le sucre environ
20 minutes. Passer à la passoire, presser la pulpe dans la passoire pour
extraire autant de jus que possible. Laisser le jus une nuit au frigo avant de
passer à la sorbetière. La pulpe est mangeable comme une compote.
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Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in Plum Pie in 1966.
Bertie learns that his now friend Roderick Glossop is depressed because his
fiancee refuses to get married before Roderick's daughter Honoria is married.
Aunt Dahlia happens to be working with Blair Eggleston, a young author who
produces a serial for her paper, Milady's Boudoir. The author has told
Dahlia that he is madly in love with Honoria but is too shy to propose. Bertie
then decides to court Honoria to make Eggleston jealous and force him to
propose to Honoria. Bertie goes however a bit too far since, after kissing
Honoria in front of Eggleston, he learns they had been engaged since the
previous evening and that this move made him break the engagement. Honoria of
course considers herself to then be engaged to Bertie. To force her to break
their engagement, Bertie, on Jeeve's advice, hires an acrtress, Trixie, to
pretend to be engaged to him in front of Honoria, but this scheme has been
unnecessary since Honoria and Eggleston are already reconciled. The agent of
the actress howerver blackmails Bertie to marry Trixie or get sued for breach
of promise. On the day the blackmailer comes to Bertie's place to collect his
money, Jeeves and Dahlia manage to convince him that Bertie is actually living
far beyond his means, has not actually any money to pay him, and would be sent
by Dahlia to Canada with a very small allowance.
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Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in The Man with Two Left Feet in 1917.
Aunt Agatha sends Bertie to New York to prevent his cousin Gussie
Mannering-Phipps to marry a vaudelville actress by the name of Ray Denison.
When Bertie meets Gussie, he discovers that Gussie is playing on the
vaudeville stage as well, Ray's father, a famous vaudeville actor himself,
refusing that his daughter marries outside of the profession. Reaching a
dead-end, Bertie ask Aunt Julia, Gussie's mother, to come to New York and
reason with her son. But the mother used to be herself a vaudeville actress,
and was turned into a respectable lady by Aunt Agatha and by force after
getting married. When Aunt Julia meets Ray's father, she recognizes him as an
old accointance from when she was on the stage. The man reveals that he had
always been in love with her and since their are both widow(er)s, he asks her
back to come back the stage and to marry him.
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Categories: [ IT ]
The DICT-NetMOT Gateway
I wrote some time ago suffered from an annoying bug: when the list of
dictionaries at the source website is updated, the gateways uses the wrong
dictionary (not-so-long story short: dictionaries are identified by index, and
when the indexes change, it looks up in the wrong one). This has happened one
time too many it seems, because I decided to fix this and get the gateway to
download the list of dictionaries instead of using a hard-coded list.
Currently the list is downloaded only on startup, so if it changes, the
gateway needs to be restarted. If I am motivated, I may get it to reload
automatically after a given timeout. EDIT: I was motivated, I just changed it;
it now reloads after 1 day. (2010-06-29).
Short names for dictionaries, used as DICT identifiers, are generated
automatically, so this may not work properly for dictionary names I haven't
seen yet (there is a risk of short name collision, there is not checking
against it).
Dictionaries which should be looked up by default can be specified with a
(hard-coded) list of regexps against which the dictionary's long name is
matched.
Also, some unidentified time ago, I updated the gateway to use the new NetMOT
interface. I noticed that it started to use AJAX to provide the user with a list of
suggestions while typing in the query box. I then used this feature to add support
for ‘prefix’ and ‘glob’ matching strategies (‘prefix’ is mandatory in the DICT
protocol, so before that the implementation was incomplete, but who cares?).
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Categories: [ Beer/St Peters ]
“malted wheat and German Hallertau hops. Fermented with a special Belgian
yeast to give a European style Wheat Beer”
I'm not sure I would have identified it as a wheat beer, but then again I'm
not a specialist. Pretty ordinary, slightly bitter with a metallic taste.
Contains barley and wheat.
St. Peter's Brewery, Bungay, Suffolk, England. 4.7% alcohol.
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Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in 1974.
Bertie's physician suggested him to go and rest in the countryside. Bertie
decides to rent a cottage at Maidens Eggesford, where his Aunt Dahlia is
staying with friends of hers, the Briscoes. Colonel Briscoe breeds horses, and
his horse's only serious competitor is Mr. Cook's horse, his arch-rival. On
his first day at the village, Bertie accidentally meets Cook, who, learning
that Bertie knows Briscoe, is convinced he has come to sabotage the training
of his horse by pinching the cat. The cat appeared one day and since then,
Cook's horse refuses to train if she is not around. Moreover, Major Plank is
staying at Cook's place and, although an attack of malaria prevents him from
remembering in what circumstances he had previously met Bertie, there is a
risk in the future that he would remember that he is convinced Bertie is a
thief. When Aunt Dahlia, who had bet a very large sum of money on Briscoe's
horse, learns about the cat, she asks Briscoe's niece to help her pinch the
cat. Thanks to a local poacher of her accointance, the cat is stolen and
delivered to Bertie. Bertie then pays the poacher to take it back, but the cat
follows him back to Bertie's place and refuses to leave. At the same time,
Cook's daughter Vanessa, whom Bertie had met once at a party a year ago,
quarrels with her fiance Orlo, the son of Cook's former business partner, who has
entrusted the control of Orlo's inheritance to Cook. The reason of the quarrel
is that she finds Orlo didn't ask her father hard enough for the release oh
his money. Orlo needs the money to be able to marry Vanessa, but her father
refuses her to marry the communist he is. Vanessa therefore announces Bertie
they are now engaged, and that she will make him loose all his bad habits
(smoking, drinking cocktails, going do the Drones' club and reading light
books). Orlo is of course furious and threatens Bertie, but since the former,
an insurance salesman by trade, managed to sell Bertie a life insurance,
killing him would be bad business. Bertie manages to convince Orlo that
Vanessa actually still loves him, and encourages him to ask again for his
money. When Jeeves comes back from visiting his aunt at a nearby place, he
tells Bertie that the cat is actually his aunt's, and they use the animal to
force Cook into releasing Orlo's money and dropping the charges agains Bertie
for cat-theft (Plank having meanwhile remembered his first meeting with
Bertie). Briscoe's horse eventually wins the race and everything ends well.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Translation: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Categories: [ Blog ]
Pour filtrer le contenu « moins intéressant » du blog, c'est à dire les
résumés de livres, de films, les bières et les chocolats, il suffit d'ajouter
le paramètre subset=life
à l'URL du blog. Pour les plus fainéants, voici des
liens directs vers les version
HTML et
RSS du blog.
To filter out the “less interesting” content of the blog i.e., the book and
movie summaries, the beers and chocolats, you just have to append the
subset=life
parameter to the blog's URL. For the laziest of you, here are
direct links to the HTML and
RSS versions of the
blog.
Jos haluat suodattaa “vähemmän kiinnostavan” sisällön pois, eli kirjojen ja
elokuvien yhteenvedot, oluet ja suklaat, sinun tarvitsee vain lisätä subset=life
blogin URL:iin. Tässä vielä laiskimille suoria linkkejä
HTML- ja
RSS- versioihin.
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in 1971.
Bertie's friend Harold ‘Ginger’ Winship is, under the pressure of his fiancee
Florence Cray, running for Parliament in Market Snodsbury. Aunt Dahlia asks
Bertie to come to Brinkley Court and canvass for him. The first person Bertie
meets is Mrs. McCorkadale, Ginger's opponent; the meeting is disastrous, which
convinces Bertie to give up. Mrs. McCorkadale is however fair-play enough to
go and see Aunt Dahlia to warn her that a man called Bingley (a former valet,
who had been at Bertie's service in a previous episode) wanted to sell her
dirty information about Ginger which Bingley got from the book of the Junior
Ganymede Club a club of valets and butlers who keep records of juicy
information about their employers. Bingley had stolen the book and while
Bertie's attempt at recovering failed, Jeeves' succeeded. Moreover, Dahlia had
invited Roderick Spode, Lord Sidcup to keep speeches in favour of Ginger.
Finally, Dahlia had also invited a businessman called Runkle from whom she
hopes to extract money; the man was Tuppy Glossop's father's employer and made
a fortune from an invention by Tuppy's father, but never paid him back
anything. Since Tuppy and Dahlia's daughter Angela are engaged, Tuppy needs
money to get married, and Dahlia wants to get the money for him. Ginger's
problem is mainly that he had fallen in love with the secretary he had engaged
to help him in his campain, and needs Florence to break the engagement.
Meanwhile, Spode taking a liking on running for parliament, he decides to give
up his title to be allowed to run for it. Madeline, his fiancee who dreamt of
becoming Lady Sidcup then breaks the engagement and turned once again to
Bertie. Finally, Dahlia being unsuccessful at softening Runkle up wants to
blackmail him by stealing a piece of silver he wanted to sell to Dahlia's
husband Tom (who had fled the house since he hates guests). When Bertie is
trying to put the silver back in Runkle's room, he is caught and accused of
theft. Eventually, advises by Jeeves, Ginger decides to make a speech where he
encourages his supporters to vote for Mrs. McCorkadale. This prompts Florence
to break her engagement to him. Since Spode got a black eye from a thrown
potato during Ginger's speech, he decided to give up becoming a member of the
Parliament, which makes Madelin restore their engagement. Florence then
proposes to Bertie, but Runkle tells her that Bertie is a thief, and she takes
her proposal back. Finally, thanks to the information found in the Junior
Ganymede Club's book (Bingley having been in Runkle's service), Dahlia manages
to blackmail Runkle and extort him to money she wanted.
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
Categories: [ Beer/Thwaites ]
“golden beer with a soft fruit flavour and a bit of sweetness”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley.
Daniel Thwaites, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. 4.1% alcohol.
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Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in 1963.
Bertie's friend Pinker tells him that his fiancee Stiffy Bing wants him to go
to Totleigh Towers to do something for her. Knowing Stiffy, Bertie refuses at
first, but when he learns that Gussie is angry at his fiancee Madeline because
she put him on a vegetarian diet, and that if they break up, Madeline will
turn to Bertie, the latter decides to go to Totleigh Towers and try to patch
their relationship. Sir Watkin Basset, Madeline's father and Siffy's uncle, is
a collector, and he recently acquired for a very low price a very valuable
statuette. Stiffy wants Bertie to return the statuette to the seller, an
explorer named Planck, because she believed Sir Watking cheated him. But Sir
Watkin only pretended to have paid a low price, to make Bertie's uncle Tom
Travers, another competing collector, jealous. Thanks to Jeeves, the statuette
is returned to Sir Watkin's collection room, and Bertie escapes the wrath of
Roderick Spode, now Lord Sidcup, who is persuated that Bertie has come to the
house to steal the statuette. Later, Gussie flees the house with the cook and
Sir Watkin is happy to learn that his daughter will not marry Gussie after
all. He's so happy that he even promises a vicarage to Pinker, who was waiting
for it to get married to Stiffy. But when he learns that Madeline got engaged
to Bertie (because she believes he is in love with her), he takes his word
back. Thanks to Jeeves, Pinker gets a vicarage at the neighbouring village
from Planck, who was at the same time looking for a new vicar and a player for
his rugby team. Stiffy then gives him the statuette, which she had again
pinched from the collection to blackmail her uncle to honor his word. Bertie
passes it to Jeeves. Meanwhile, Lord Sidcup tries to convince Madeline, with
whom he had been in love for a very long time, to marry him instead to Bertie.
She makes her mind to do so when Jeeves tells her that Bertie is a
kleptomaniac and that he just found the statuette hidden in Bertie's sock
drawer. Bertie is then arrested and put in prison, but Jeeves manages to get
him out by promising to enter Sir Watkin's service (which he plans to quit
after a week to return to Bertie's service) against him dropping the charges
against Bertie.
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“chestnut beer… a full malt flavour, a dry bitter finish and prominent hop
aroma”
Quite strong malt flavour. Otherwise not so interesting. Contains malted
barley.
Daniel Thwaites, Blackburn, Lancashire, England. 4.4% alcohol.
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Categories: [ Beer/Hook Norton ]
“…fruity, moderate bitterness and spicy. Hooky Gold marries English
tradition with american pizzazz – it is the first of our beers to use an
American hop – Willamette, together with English Fuggles and Goldings.”
Very flowery smell, but got boring near the end of the glass. Contains malted
barley and wheat.
Hook Norton Brewery, Hook Norton, Oxon, England. 4.2% alcohol.
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Categories: [ Books/Wodehouse ]
© Amazon.fr
Published in 1960.
Bertie learns in the Times that he is engaged to Bobbie Wickham. Soon
after, he is asked by Aunt Dahlia to come to Brinkley Court. Her goddaughter,
Phillis Mills is already staying there and her stepfather, Aubrey Upjohn,
Bertie's former schoolmaster, accompanied her; he is to deliver a speech at
Market Snodsbury's grammar school in a few days. Moreover, Dahlia's husband
Tom is negotiating with an american named Mr. Cream, who came to Brinkley
Court with her wife, a mystery writer, and her son Willie. The latter has a
reputation of a playboy, and Dahlia doesn't want him to get engaged to
Phillis who is a bit of a slow thinker, and likely to fall for him. At Brinkley
Court, Bobbie tells Bertie that the announcement was a plot to make her mother
feel relieved when she tells her she is actually engaged to Reginald ‘Kipper’
Herring, a friend of Bertie's who is a columnist at a paper and recently wrote
an acerbic critic of Upjohn's book on English grammar schools (of which Bertie
and Kipper have terrible memories). Moreover, Bertie discovers that Roderick
Glossop, the loony-doctor, is posing as the butler; he has actually been asked
by Aunt Dahlia to evaluate the sanity of Willie Cream. Since Dahlia is
temporarily away from the house, Bertie, as the acting host cannot tail Willie
all the time to prevent him from proposing to Phillis, so he invites Kipper
and asks him to replace him. Bertie then learns from Jeeves (who is currently
on vacation) over the phone that Willie Cream is also a kleptomaniac, and soon
discovers that Tom's silver cow creamer has disappeared from the collection.
After Bertie fails twice at searching Willie's room, Glossop manages to
recover the object. Meanwhile, Upjohn has seen the critic on his book and
wants to sue the paper, meaning that Kipper would loose his position there and
be barred from getting a new one. Soon after, one learns that Phillis got
engaged to Willie and after a heated discussion with Upjohn, Dahlia (who came
back) discovers that the Cream have two boys, Wilfred and Wilbur, and that the
playboy is the other one; exasperated by Upjohn's smug attitude, she asks him
to leave the house. Jeeves, who had come back on Bertie's call for help, packs
his belongings and pinches the text of his speech. Since Upjohn is unable to
deliver a speech without his notes and that the speech is impotant since it
would start his political carreer, Bobbie blackmails him to drop the lawsuit
for the return of the speech. Some time earlier, Mrs Cream had discover the
silver cow creamer hidden among Glossop's belongings (who doesn't know that
Tom actually sold it to Willie) and called the police. Since to defend
himself Glossop would have to reveal that he was called to spy on Willie and
thought the latter had stolen it, thus jeopardizing Tom's negotiations, Jeeves
suggest to tell that Bertie is the kleptomaniac.
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Categories: [ Grumbling ]
I'm 86% geek, to be accurate:
86% Geek
Was there anyone to doubt it?
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