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The rarely updated blog of Joel Dixon
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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Resolute
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 26/12/2010 22:39:27I completed the 10 things for 2010 with around 6 months to spare. Another desire for 2010 was to see a lot more live music - mission accomplished.
My enjoyment of live music will continue into 2011 (so far Stone Temple Pilots, Sia, Weird Al Yankovic and others have been booked) - so it's time to come up with a new goal for 2011. Quiero aprender espaņol (I want to learn Spanish).
Now Google Translate helped me with that last sentence - but I'm hoping by the end of 2011 - I'll be well on my way to speaking conversational Spanish on my own. A friend at work has started weekly Spanish lessons that have been going well. I'm hoping I can learn enough to justify a trip to Mexico sometime in the next two years.
# Posted in the General section
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Mr. Potato Head Mashups
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 29/06/2010 21:25:36(geddit? Mashups)
This is awesome! My brother's girlfriend, Carmen posted a link to some amazing Mr. Potato Head designs, made with modelling clay. Another excellent example of how great the Internet is. The Flickr Set is here - but here are some of my favourites:
Bender
Garfield
Yellow!
Another Futurama one - but Zoidberg is great in this one.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Web
Saturday, May 29, 2010
You have been the ones, you have been the ones for me.
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 29/05/2010 18:23:42When Belinda and I discussed our separation a year ago, our babies (our two dogs and two cats) were an early concern. We decided that Belinda would keep the dogs, and I would keep the cats.
But as it's looking like Belinda will be staying in our current house I've realised that it's unfair to take the cats out of this environment. Belinda works from home, they get Bell's attention all day and have grown to depend on human interaction. They also love the size of this three-bedroom house, constantly running up and down the long hallway.
I'd hope they'd get used to any environment I put them into given enough time - but I love them enough to know they'd be happier here with Bell.
I'll miss my little kitties - but I'll be visiting them at least once a week before basketball games, and Belinda will just have to take more photos of them
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Pets
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Balls
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 12/05/2010 22:58:51I administer a website that is used by high school students in support of their studies. I was looking through the search log tonight and found the following four searches that all occurred within a few seconds of each other:
gentil
genitil
genitals
balls
I sure hope that student found what they were looking for.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Funny, Web
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Caramelised Pumpkin Risotto
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 17/04/2010 22:38:55The second meal for my vegetarian week is Caramelised Pumpkin Risotto:
Pumpkin, 500 gram
Canola oil, 2 tbsp.
Onion, 1 medium finely diced
Garlic, 3 cloves minced
Arborio rice, 250 gram
Sage, 2 tbsp. chopped
Salt and Pepper to taste
Parmesan, 4 tbsp. shaved
1. Dice 250 gram of the pumpkin into 1cm-wide pieces. Place in a non-stick frypan with 1 tbsp. canola oil and cook over medium to low heat.
2. Periodically toss and continue to cook until the pumpkin is cooked and the outside is darkened. Set aside.
3. Dice the remaining pumpkin into large pieces and cook in 2 cups of simmering water.
4. When tender, puree the pumpkin with the water in which it was cooked. Add more water to bring the total pumpkin liquid to 1 litre.
5. Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a pan, add onion and garlic. Sweat for 30 seconds and add rice.
6. Toss for 1 minute and add 1 cup of pumpkin puree. Cook over a low heat.
7. As the liquid is absorbed, add another cup. Stir constantly and keep adding pumpkin stock as necessary.
8. After 25 minutes, the risotto will be cooked. Remove from the heat and toss the diced caramelised pumpkin and sage through.
9. Season with salt and pepper and serve with shaved parmesan.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Recipe
Malaysian Vegetable Curry
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 17/04/2010 21:34:42The final item on my 10 things for 2010 list is to be vegetarian for a week (well, from Monday breakfast to Friday lunch). I've left this one until last because it was the one I was least looking forward to. But the friend that came up with the 10 things list also gave me a few recipes, which is only fair after all. The first of which is Malaysian Vegetable Curry:
Red Thai chilies, 2 chopped coarsely
Fresh ginger, 2 tsp. grated
Garlic, 3 cloves quartered
Coriander root, 1/2 cup loosely packed coarsely cut
Ground turmeric, 1/2 tsp.
Ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp.
Ground cumin, 3 tsp.
Coriander seeds, 1 tsp. crushed
Whole peeled tomatoes, 1 can (400 gram)
Coconut milk, 1 can (400 gram)
Kaffir lime leaves, 6 leaves shredded finely (I just used lime juice)
Palm sugar, 25 gram shaved (I used dark brown sugar)
Pumpkin, 2 1/2 cups chopped coarsely
Potatoes, 3 medium (600 gram) chopped coarsely
Green beans, 200 gram chopped coarsely
1. Blend or process chili, ginger, garlic, coriander root, spices and seeds until smooth.
2. Add undrained tomatoes, process for 1 minute or until tomato mixture is well combined.
3. Transfer tomato mixture to medium saucepan. Add coconut milk, leaves and sugar and bring to the boil.
4. Reduce heat, simmer tomato and coconut mixture uncovered for 5 minutes.
5. Add pumpkin and potato and cook, covered, for about 10 minutes or until just tender.
6. Add beans and cook for 3 minutes or until tender.
Serve with brown rice and roti.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Recipe
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Yeah ... Baby!
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 03/03/2010 20:04:48The green light has been given for my favourite book series to be turned into a HBO drama. Considering how much I loved Rome, The Wire, Flight of the Conchords, etc, etc - I'm excited!
Here's the announcement from the author.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Books
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
xkcd Parody
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 09/02/2010 23:09:41Was stopping the mysql service on my laptop when I had an idea for a xkcd-style comic:
Alt Text: sc interrogate ex_girlfriends offers no hints either
Super geeky, crudely copied from a previous xkcd strip, and not very amusing - but it made me chuckle. A little bit.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Web
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Donate money for my next stupid run
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 04/02/2010 23:22:53Updated by Joel Dixon at 13/12/2011 17:47:40
I decided to enter the 2010 Run for the Kids 14.6 km event, and will probably stuff up my knees again. But I'm racing a friend from work - so it shouldn't be all bad.
How about you donate some money to sponsor me? Or don't.
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: Running
Feta, Sushi and Underwear
# Posted by Joel Dixon at 04/02/2010 23:18:24That's right - I knocked off items 2, 3 and 9 from my 10 things for 2010 list.
Feta and Sushi have been eaten (not as bad as I remember them), and I feel I'm now ambi-jock-drous.
That's 5 items out of the 10 down, half-way there. But it also means I'm running out of the easy wins (or low-hanging fruit as managers like to say).
# Posted in the General section and tagged as: 10 in '10
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