Sunday, June 7, 2009

Well Boys and Girls

I found it interesting todays' news, from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/07/israel.speech/index.html

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver a major speech next week in which he will lay out his plan for the country's peace and security.
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Biblical prophecy "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape."
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And what do you get for ''parting'' Gods' land?

Joel: "I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat (Armageddon), and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land."

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bannock recipes :-)

This is a collection of Bannock recipes...need to store them somewhere...give them a try..

Bannock

2 cups flour
4 tbsp baking powder
1/4 cup margarine
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1.5 cups cold milk (approx)

Mix dry ingredients thoroughly then add margarine and mix until everything is crumbly. Slowly add the milk until everything is incorporated but not sticky.

Roll out on floured board and cut into circles, bake at 375 about 20 - 25 mins until browned. Don't over handle the bannock or it will become tough and won't rise.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gather the following ingredients:

* 6 Cups of flour
* 1 Cup of lard
* 3 Tablespoons of baking powder
* 1 Tablespoon of salt
* 2 Cups of currants or raisins
* 3 ½ Cups of water

You’ll also need a medium sized mixing bowl.

In the bowl, mix the flour and lard together by hand. Then add the baking powder, salt and the currants or raisins. Once this is done, add the water and work the ingredients into a dough. Next, you have two options: the camp fire or the oven. To cook over a camp fire, divide the dough into four lumps and firmly wrap each lump around the end of a four foot stick and prop securely over the fire until golden brown. To cook in an oven, spread the dough out into a 16" square cake pan. Bake at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.
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Ingredients

3 cups of flour
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¼ cup of fat (shortening or butter)
1¼ cups of warm water

Steps

* Mix all dry ingredients together
* Make a hole in the middle and add fat
* Pour water on top of the fat
* Blend mixture together with your hands
* Divide the dough into two balls
* Flatten each ball into 1cm thickness
* Punch holes in both with a fork
* Cook in well-greased frying pan for 20 minutes
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Bannock recipe, take anywhere just add water
Premix 2 cups of flour with,

-1/2 tsp of salt
-2 tsp baking powder
-1 tblsp of sugar
-1/4 cup of powdered milk

(multiply ratio as needed)

Mix all ingredients well and store in a zip-lock bag or container of choice.

When ready to eat, just take 1 cup of mixture and add cold water slowly while mixing, just a little water at a time. Untill you get a nice uniform dough, and dont knead too much, you want to keep the air in the dough making it lighter and not so much like a hockey puck.

Then spread dough evenly into a well oiled pan and cook slowly untill browned and then flip and do the same for the other side. Add butter and maybe some jam and enjoy.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Ubuntu Linux

video

Sunday, February 15, 2009

WHEN GOD WANTS A MAN

(Anonymous)

When God wants to drill a man and thrill a man and skill a man...When God wants to mold a man to play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart to create so great and bold a man that all the world shall praise...Watch His methods; watch His ways!

How He ruthlessly perfects whom He royally elects...How He hammers him and hurts him, and with mighty blows converts him into frail shapes of clay that only God understands.

How His tortured heart is crying and he lifts beseeching hands...How He bends but never breaks when His good He undertakes. How He uses whom He chooses...with every purpose fuses him; by every art induces him to try His splendor out...God knows what He's about!

When God wants to take a man and shake a man and wake a man...When God wants to make a man to do the Future's will; He tries with all His skill...When He yearns with all His soul to create him large and whole...with what cunning He prepares him...how He goads and never spares him!

How He whets him and He frets him and in poverty begets him...How often He disappoints whom He sacredly anoints! With what wisdom He will hide him; never minding what betide him...Though His genius sob with slighting and His pride may not forget; Bids him struggle harder yet! Makes him lonely so that only God's high messages shall reach him...So that He may surely teach him what the hierarchy planned; And though he may not understand...gives him passions to command. How remorselessly He spurs him...with terrific ardor stirs him When He poignantly prefers him.

When God wants to name a man and fame a man and tame a man...When God wants to shame a man to do His Heavenly best; When He tries the highest test that His reckoning may bring...When He wants a god or king; How He reins him and restrains him so His body scarce contains him...While He fires him and inspires him…Keeps him yearning, every burning for that tantalizing goal. Lures and lacerates His soul...sets a challenge for His spirit; Draws it highest then he's near it! Makes a jungle that he clear it; makes a desert that he fear it...and subdue it, if he can -- so doth God make a man!

Then -- to test His spirit's wrath -- throw a mountain in His path; puts a bitter choice before him and relentlessly stands o'er him...Climb or perish, so He says...but watch His purpose, watch His ways. God's plan is wondrous kind -- could we understand His mind ?Fools are they who call His blind!

When His feet are torn and bleeding; yet His spirit mounts unheeding...blazing newer paths and finds; When the Force that is Divine leaps to challenge every failure, and His ardor still is sweet -- and love and hope are burning in the presence of defeat!
Lo the crisis, Lo the shouts that would call the leader out...When the people need salvation doth he rise to lead the nation; Then doth God show His plan...and the world has found a man!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

People are like Buildings

When you see Buildings, you see the facade not the inner workings. You don't see the Elevators, Air Conditioners, Stairs, Engineering Rooms. People are like that, you don't see the thoughts, wishes, desires, hopes, dreams, reasoning. Some buildings are beautiful and pleasing to the eye, others not so much, but each building does not bring the same response from different people. One person might find a building beautiful, while another finds the building ugly. In human interactions, each person is attracted to a 'certain' beauty in another, that someone else might find repulsive.
People like a Building might look beautiful on the facade, but contain a dated interior, or broken engineering components that make its' function faulty. Unlike a building you can't go inside a person to see what is broken or how the engineering works. We only get to see the things coming out of the person in words or actions, since those really are all you get from a human for output.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Construction Fred

Fred on construction

Friday, October 24, 2008

Things for your computer

Here are a few computer applications/programs that are free and robust. These are not junk, and you will find very useful. All can be used on Linux and on Windows and Mac's:

http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe <- Free virus software

http://www.gimp.org/ <-Image manipulation program http://www.blender.org/ <- 3D creation suite http://www.openoffice.org/ <- Office suite http://www.stellarium.org/ <- 3D planetarium

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linux appz

GnomeSword
Kalzium
Stellarium
lbreakout2
Xmoto
Blender
Emesene
Skype
Qcad
GnuCash
WinFF
OggConvert
GKrellm
Wine
Firestarter
Kompozer
PokerTH
FlightGear
Agave
Audacity
Open Movie Editor
Trigger
Pingus
Neverball
Frets on Fire
Awn
Kig
TORCS
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A kindergarten pupil told his teacher he'd found a cat. She asked him if it was dead or alive.

"Dead," She was informed.
"How do you know?" she asked her pupil.
"Because I pissed in its ear and it didn't move," answered the child innocently.
"You did WHAT?!?" the teacher exclaimed in surprise.
"You know," explained the boy, "I leaned over and went 'Pssst!' and it didn't move."