A Successful Failure

So, haha, things didn’t exactly go to plan. The pack of Karaage mix i had turned out to be over a year put of date, so oops!

Nevermind i said, i’ve most ingredients anyway, lets muck in!

The karaage mix took ages to make, and was very stodgy, so i ah… took a few shortcuts.

Conclusion

The chicken was cooked well, and tasted ok, but the texture of the coating was a bit rubbery. Not a great result but worth a try :)

Got some of Ginger garlic bok choy soup left iver from last night. Gona try frying some karaage chicken to have alongside it tonight.

Updates might come later, if i don’t burn my kitchen down.

I’ve come to like notes that are at the end of the book. I find myself irresistibly drawn to read all available footnotes in a book, especially the ones where theres some extra context, but by switching topics like that i lose the thread of the main text, which slows down my already glacial reading :o

environmental approval changes set to be made, as mentioned in the story. They seem to make the EPA more subject to the political winds of the time, not great for long time horizon administrative organisations.

Hehehe, thays good. I see why the hippo design jogged your memory.

Is someone using rhino’s? What is that in Quokkas?

I disagree that incrementalism will never lead to systemic change. But i’m a believer that big change is precipitated by ten small changes. Cue Paul Kelly…

I don’t feel George Monbiot put his case well. If we take Australia as the example, without the incremental changes we’ve individually already made its hard to believe that the bigger things we are actually doing now would be as uncontroversial as they are.

The big projects I’m thinking are the many renewables going in around the country. The offshore wind farm in NSW, is maybe the only exception, but even thats not stopping the nation like it might’ve a decade ago.

Plastic bag bans, container deposit schemes, removal of plastic straws, yellow top recycle bins, FOGO, keep cups, these are all examples of the highly visible incremental changes that, bu their constant presence, demand people rethink a wasteful practice.

I think he’s right to say is incrementalism might be too slow. But his other option of waiting for the economic/climate revolution is akin to rolling the dice at a casino you don’t own.

Mmmm… thats gona have to be my Friday night plans now you’ve put it in my head.

Ginger Garlic Noodle Soup w/Bok Choy

Super warming for the rainy day we’ve had over here in Perth*. *^That deadbeat town over the otherside of the continent ;)^

Recipe Link

Must be the same cooker who was in charge of the Liberal party registrations. Old mates struck again!

This report seems relevant to farming regions across Australia.

As farming moves away from certain areas and rewilding occurs, farmers, governments, and peeps in general should be aware that if poorly managed, fire danger could rise.

That one from Day Dawn looks eery and sad. Maybe its just the Black and White.

My lawns still crap; my partner has decided to take over its care. I have a curious feeling of failure and relief.

Whats the issue for Labor here, are there really that many people in Aus that blindly side with Israel that its electorally suicidal to come out and say, ‘we’re with the rest of the world’? If so, then we should look at ourselves.

Adelaide - The Arsenal of Australian democracy.

Gotta admit, it has a nice ring to it, and theres gona be a lot more work like this in the future it seems. Maybe its time for the rebrand?

Sorry, and I don’t have advice. But I did, long ago. Had a grandparent with dementia. They were overseas so i never saw. My mum went over though. She said there were times when it was just like normal, and those were happy and the memories she cherishes.

I thought it was cool to. But i’m no good at explaining games to people, so that doesn’t help.

Also we’d already learned the base, plus cities and knights, maybe they wanted a different board game for a change lol!

Very cool. Always found it hard to convince people to play sea farers, this might make that easier.

Here’s the problem we have. By most accounts the only reason the green light hasn’t been given to Ukraine for wider use of the Storm Shadow missile (UK weapon) in their defense against Russia, is because of a US veto. A veto they apparrently only have due to a single component for the weapon coming from the US.

If this is the case, and the US is using their military technology supply chain as leverage with its allies in this way, then Keating is right, and Australians should be concerned about a critical arm of our defense structure being open to that risk.

There is however other possibilities, such as, UK wishing to talk the talk, but not walk the walk on wider military support. In other words essentially agreeing with the US about the risks of escalation, but wanting to be quiet about that fact.

Glad to see DPIRD is doing community engagement at the Royal Show, they should be using every possible community contact point to educate the rest of us on what we need to know to be an effective help for them.