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[Recipe] Apple-Honey glazed ham

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I have discovered the recipe for ham love.

Take one 2kg smoked roasting ham. Put it on a rack in roasting pan filled with two cups of apple juice (make sure you have about an inch of liquid on the bottom of the pan). Stick a few cloves in the ham. Cover the ham with some foil and cook at 350F/180C for 2.5 hours.

Melt half a cup of brown sugar in half a cup of maple syrup. Once melted, uncover the ham and brush the glaze generously on the ham. Cook for another 30 minutes, basting after 15 minutes.

When cooked, let sit for 10 minutes and dig in.

In one word, SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

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Sometimes the internet scares me

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Periodically, I go over my website logs. I'm getting something like a million hits a month and about 10 gigs of bandwidth traffic (which in itself is flabergasting as this is an I-love-me website). A lot of people link directly to the strips in the comic archive. Annoying, but I can live with that. Since I'm still below my bandwidth allocation, I don't mind, really, and I can't be assed to write an htaccess file to limit the referrers.

Sometimes though, I'm worried about the state of humanity. People hot linking comic strips? I can handle. People hot linking pictures from my portfolio and taking them *scarily* out of context? I get worried. Not as in, OMG they're going to steal my identity or start stalking me (and lets face it, most of the time it's from emo kids on myspace). More of the “what the fuck are they thinking” sort…

Case and point:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nickcerta/
http://myspace.com/plusplusminus
http://myspace.com/risingsunmusicnet

The myspace accounts are typical of all that is wrong with myspace, but that's irrelevant. What is freaky is that they both link images completely out of context. The LJ one is sorta in context, but still, wrong.

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workout #1

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5 miles of bike in 20 minutes with heart rate hovering at 85% of max (so about 160), followed by 5 minutes of an evil rowing machine (I want to do more of that, but damn, so far, I can't do more than 5 minutes!) followed by a few sets of assisted chin-ups and upper body free weights.

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That one thing you wish you could do…

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I recently ran across a video I'd seen a few weeks ago. It's a latvian dude freerunning across an urban landscape. There's something about it that seems so… alive. Dangerous as hell, and his body will be getting its revenge at him in a few years, but see? that's rationality and negativity talking. I wish I could do that. I wish I could leave all my cares behind and just run. Then reality sets in, and I realize that I'm desperately out of shape, afraid of heights and would probably kill myself at the best or end up quadraplegic at the worst. But still I dream.

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Funny, yet so wrong at the same time

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Der Spiegel reports that, in many German cities, IKEA is giving “corporate welfare” a whole new definition. The Swedish furniture retailer's cheap cafeteria food and complimentary child-care services, intended to be perks for shoppers, have caught on with a much wider audience:

From Munich in the south to Kiel in the north, Ikea is increasingly turning into a welfare center for pensioners, young moms, low-earners and the unemployed.

Many low-earners prefer eating in the familiar atmosphere of this temple to consumption to standing in line at the soup kitchen. Indeed, the stigma of poverty is hidden behind the company's cheap and cheerful designs. What started out as an extra service to improve customer loyalty, has developed a life of its own, separate from the shaky wooden furniture and fold-out sofas. Many people feel that they belong when they mingle among well-off customers — even if all they can afford is a hot dog. …

More than food-scroungers, though, IKEA workers fear lazy parents. Around 150 three- to 10-year-olds are deposited daily at the Hamburg-Schnelsen store's play area — a complimentary offer to allow mom and dad to wander in peace through the showrooms. But many people misuse the service as a free babysitting service. Sometimes moms just set their loved ones down among the colorful balls, with the nursery girl watching — and hurry to the hairstylist or the tennis court. The desperate store announcements asking the mother to please pick up her screeching child then go unheeded.

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DVD List (january 2006)

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* 25th Hour, The
* Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the (box set)
* Alegria
* American Beauty
* American History X
* Animatrix
* Any Given Sunday
* Babylon 5 – Two volume Set – The Gathering
* Babylon 5 (Season 1)
* Babylon 5 (Season 2)
* Babylon 5 (Season 3)
* Babylon 5 (Season 4)
* Babylon 5 (Season 5)
* Babylon 5 (The Movies)
* Being John Malkovich
* Ben Hur
* Big Lebowski, The
* Blown Away
* Bourne Identity, the
* Box of Moonlight
* Bulletproof Monk
* Caligula
* Carlito's Way
* Contact
* Corruptor, The
* Corsican Twins, The
* Couch in New York
* Count of Monte Cristo, The
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* Cyrano de Bergerac
* Daredevil
* Dark City
* Dark Crystal, The
* Dead Poets Society
* Eddie Murphy – Raw
* Enemy at the gates
* Fifth Element, The
* Fight Club
* Frank Herbert's Dune
* Freshman, The
* Full Metal Jacket
* Ghost in the Shell
* Gladiator
* Godfather, The
* Good Morning Vietnam
* Good Will Huunting
* Great Escape, The
* Grosse Point Blank
* Hackers
* Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone
* Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
* Heat
* Hero
* History of the world – Part 1
* Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Hoodlums
* Hustle – Season 1 Box set
* Hustle – Season 2 Box set
* Hustler's Barely Legal
* Incredibles, the
* I, Robot
* Insider, The
* Italian Job, The
* Kill Bill, Volume 1
* Kissing Jessica Stein
* Last Man Standing
* Last Samourai, The
* Law & Order (Season 1 – 6 DVD Box set)
* Leathal weapon 1 – Director's Cut
* Leathal weapon 2 – Director's Cut
* Leathal weapon 3 – Director's Cut
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* Lost in translation
* Man in the iron mask, The
* Mary Poppins (40th Anniversary Edition)
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 1
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 2
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 3
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 4
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 5
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 6
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 7
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 8
* MASH Collector's Edition – Season 9
* MASH The Movie
* Mask, The
* Matrix, The
* MIB
* Minority Report
* Monty Python – Quest for the Holy Graal – SE
* Mulan
* Mummy, The
* Muppet Xmas Carol
* Muppet Show – 10 DVD
* Muppet Show – Season 1 Box Set
* Muppet Treasure Island
* Muppets from Space
* My big fat greek wedding
* National Treasure
* Negotiator, the
* Nightmare before xmas, The
* Ninja Scroll
* Ocean's Eleven
* Office Space
* Payback
* Pink Floyd – The wall
* Pink Floyd – London 1966-67
* Pirates of the Caribbean
* Pulp Fiction
* Pump Up the Volume
* Pushing Tin
* Rachel Papers, the
* Ref, The
* Replacement Killers, The
* Reservoir Dogs
* Return of Sherlock Holmes, the (box set)
* Revenge of the ninja
* Ronin
* Rounders
* Scent of a Woman
* Score, The
* Seven
* Shawshank Redemption, The
* Sherlock Holmes Feature Film Collection
* Shrek
* Sin City
* Snatch
* South Park – Bigger, Longer, Uncut
* Spartacus
* Spawn – The complete animated series
* Spirited Away
* Suicide Kings
* Thomas Crown Affair, The
* Three to tango
* Transporter, The
* Truth about cats and dogs, The
* Two if by Sea
* Underworld
* Untouchables, The
* Who framed Roger Rabbit?
* X-Men


* Amityville Horror, the
* Barbara Curries Power Packed Yoga
* Benny & Joon
* Big Fish
* Bill Bailey – Bewilderment
* Bill Bailey – Cosmic Jam
* Bill Bailey – Part Troll
* Black Books – Season 1
* Black Books – Season 2
* Black Books – Season 3
* Brothers Grimm, the
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer (7 season box set)
* Butterfly Effect, the
* Catch me if you can
* Charlie and the chocolate factory
* Chicago
* Chronicles of Narnia, the (BBC)
* Constantine
* Donnie Darko
* Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
* Exorcism of Emily Rose
* Finding Neverland
* Grudge, the
* Hannibal Trilogy (box set)
* Kill Bill, Volume 2
* Legally Blonde
* Millenium Season 1
* Millenium Season 2
* Millenium Season 3
* Miss Congeniality
* Phantom of the Opera
* Queen – Live at Wembley Stadium
* Queen on fire – Live at the Bowl
* Queen – Greatest video hits 1
* Queen – Greatest video hits 2
* Ring
* Ring 2
* Saw
* Shaun of the Dead
* Two Weeks Notice
* True Lies
* Village, the
* Walking with Dinosaurs (box set)
* War of the worlds

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