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This post is not about the movie character Yogurt from Spaceballs and his obsession with merchandising. It is about yogurt, the milk product. Every day I eat yogurt, and always the "plain" types. Then I add whatever stuff I want, such as nuts, berries or raisins. Or none at all. That gives me choice. I …
Hey ho, another post about cooking. Today I decided to make a complement dish with chick peas. They were canned (boo), but at least ecologically grown. As usual, I hadn’t planned much, and I also engaged in my new hobby since 3 days back: excluding nightshade. I also excluded garlic just for the challenge. So, …
If this is your first visit here, please acknowledge that most of my "recipes" are not exact, but rather rambling documents of my more or less improvised cooking. I’ve previously heard that some people avoid nightshade (Solanaceae) plants. I cannot now remember the reasons they stated for their avoidance, more than it concerned their health. …
On our first episode of Duffercast, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. television series was mentioned. By an amazing coincidence, I found this in my parents’ house the other day: The car, Gun Firing Thrushbuster, was made by Corgi Toys. The above photo shows Napoleon Solo shooting (while driving of course). The right hand side (photo below) …
I may have become a podcaster. If that is really an appropriate term? Podcatcher means a kind of software, not the person catching it (i.e. listening). If the listener is, well, a listener, would not a person talking be a podtalker? Whatever a "pod" is, I do not think I am casting things like that …
"Let’s talk about the weather". That is the epitome of small talk. Except of course for people really dependent on or affected by the weather, such as farmers or people living in areas that experience severe snow stroms, floods and hurricanes. For most people living in modernized areas, the weather is mostly a nuisance. The …
I first came up with the name "inscius" for this blog. Later I started using it as a handle. I never really thought of how it might be pronounced. However, on occasion people have vocalized it. So, finally I put myself together to find out how it is actually pronounced. Since I am too lazy …
Weather report: Sunshine, no wind, around zero and some snow remain. A very bright day. Today is a very special day. Economy report: Economic equality is increasing by leaps and bounds, employment and self-employment will rise and profits increase in productive business. Banks and bank oligopolies will be broken up, and One thousand nine hundred …
I guess no one has missed the big brouhaha about horsemeat in readymade dishes from Findus. I have not followed it very much, since I do not ever buy such products. There are many issues converging in this. It has been mentioned that some horses are medicated with stuff that makes their meat unhealthy for …
I am sorry this short memoir is not about political correctness 😉 About this time of year, 25 years ago, I used a computer for the first time. It was an IBM Portable with an external color monitor placed on top of it. It was jokingly referred to as "draggable" ("släpbar" in Swedish). It had …
I just finished reading a real sci-fi classic. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. I read an old Swedish translation, made from the German translation from the Polish original from 1961. There are newer translations, but I haven’t had access to them. Three films have been made of Solaris, of which Andrei Tarkovsky’s from 1972 is the …
I have read the book series about the Watches, by Sergei Lukianenko (Lukyanenko). He has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. The Watches I think is his most famous work so far, not least because there were films made of the first two books. Lukianenko sees himself as a humanist, following in the literary …