OK People Look at this:

patismexicantable.com/2014/01/…

I love gravlox, and that really sounds good.

I'm turned by the look of it though.

Does it look/sound good to you?

Looks good to me, though I'm not sure I'd choose such a strong bread like that.

I'd probably do it with tortilla points.

Definitely all of the garnishes though.

I have a thing coming up for which just the right size to bring

Until I saw that I was thinking sous-vide mi-cuit salmon (almost , not quite raw)

It's brined too, but only for a "normal" length of time.

served with capers, cucumbers and such, like a lox plate.

Hmm...similar but different.

I just ate the other fillet from that fish. It's still perfect. It was vacuum sealed and frozen the day it was caught, so I can do anything with it.

Yeah, it's looks better if I imagine it NOT on that bread

Yep, I think I'll try it. It'll be in two weeks, I'll let you know how it turns out.

Hiya.

Hey ya old dog(s)!

I'm watching a documentary about the footage shot by an American of Nazi Germany in 1937.

Whazzup?

With commentary mostly from other Americans in Germany at the time, the ambassador and such.

It's fascinating.

sounds fascinating

But it's all in German, so you might not be able to follow it, depending on the state of your German.

ha!

The Americans are all pretty negative about Germany.

I am of total German stock on my mother's side, I don't speak a lick of it.

I am appalled that it took our warmongering asses so long to get into that war.

"our" meaning the US, of course.

Ow too bad.

Haha.

Well, I suppose, but that was an era of isolation, to some degree.

And in itself that is peaceful and not bad.

The one time in history that we should have gone barreling in guns a blazing, and we didn't.

It just came up with Tall:

Do you know that Star Trek? The time travel episode where McCoy saved the woman who then delayed even longer the US involvement in the war?

That I do not know.

But, hey, in the end you did help us out.

That is by far and away (IMO) the best episode of the original series.

It was banned in Germany until very recently, because there is Nazi symbolism.

Haha.

So silly.

imdb.com/title/tt0708455/?ref_=ttep_ep29

Here it is:

cbs.com/shows/star_trek/video/620094838/…

I've never seen much of the original series.

That is one of the very few episodes I would watch again.

It may be on my mind right now because I just learned of the death of Leonard Nimoy.

Someone posted taste.com.au/recipes/28794/chicken+adobo a while back.

@Jolenealaska was it you?

You provided me with a different Chicken Adobo recipe initially.

I posted another chicken adobo recipe, not that one.

@Jolenealaska Ok, thanks

I heard about his death, and I am sorry for your loss.

Thanks...

Celebrity deaths are weird things. They can hit like you actually knew the guy.

Aww.

Well, if you grew up seeing his face a lot...

Yep, Star Trek was something I shared with my mother. We had very little else in common.

Aww2.

About that bike, 20,000, wow.

That is too much.

Still no chance you would ask daddy?

Yeah just a bit :)

I'd trade 2 of my monthly infusions for it! But, I don't think that's an option.

Perhaps you could write to someone higher up in the VA?

Because it would be rational.

Rationality rarely plays into government decisions.

Yeah.

Sometimes the higher-ups are amenable.

In this case, the higher-ups are out of my reach, the policy is federal.

Hmm.

Maybe a petition...

I have (before now) had no cause to complain about the medical care I have received from the VA, but it is a huge, huge bureaucracy. Men and women have died on waiting lists for much less reasonable reasons than this. This would be like trying to petition the president to pardon my uncle on a shoplifting conviction 'cause he didn't do it.

Heh.

That sucks.

@ElendilTheTall I just just paid for 3 months of club Club Pogo! Scrabble with no commercial interruptions! Woohoo!

@rumtscho fantastic shot

@jolenealaska does that extend to those poor saps who play with you?

Sure does!

I hadn't been there since the last time I was there with you.

I just played some random dude and broke 600.

He didn't stick around for a rematch.

There is a UK specific question on main.

@ElendilTheTall Guess what I got today?

You won't guess.

The first season of Game of Thrones.

Ooo

Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster

Just the first few minutes of the first one had me on the edge of my seat.

I haven't read the books.

Hehe. Yeah. I will prepare myself for random outbursts of 'What?! How could they do X?!'

I get that vibe, like forget your expectations.

Ya

Also prepare for lots of boobs

YAY! :)

The US network and PG13 nudity restrictionsare, as you know, a major pet peeve of mine.

Indeed

You will also hear a gamut of English accents

The first 10 minutes of Saving Private Ryan...no probem...

Obviously, more sexy than even boobs

:)

English accents, that is, not saving private ryan

That's a actually a little tough.

I get annoyed when I can't quite make out what they're saying.

Subtitles

Closed captions, that is

I was just thinking that...

I wonder if that's an option on Amazon.

We put them on just because modern TVs suck at producing vocal frequencies

It's just hard to distinguish the sounds.

It probably is. It is on Netflix

When I put it back on, I'll try.

Speaking of language, I have a Spanish question you might be able to help with

ok

'quiero' is 'I want', yes?

yes

But you or I wouldn't go into a restaurant and say to the waiter 'I want a steak!'. Is there a Spanish equivalent of 'I would like'? Or does quiero cover that?

Yes, it does

Quiero carne asada.

OK. Thank you.

Gracias

It seems abrupt, but it's not.

It's perfectly polite.

You can always add *por favor".

Sure

I haven't been doing Duolingo for a good couple of months, I've just gone back to it

A surprising amount has stuck

Vacation next month

<DANCES>

:)

I just used Google translate.

It translates "I would like a steak" as

"Me gustaría tener un bistec"

I think that's wrong.

OK. A literal translation

But colloquially you'd just use quiero

gustaria means liking something, not wanting it.

Yes

Sure. Me gusta

Me gusta jojo

:) aww

Which, it occurs to me, would be pronounced 'hoho' :)

yes!

Again google:

I want a steak

Quiero un filete

I want a steak, please.

Quiero un filete , por favor.

Cool.

I will be positively swimming in steak

Si si!

Woo, good old Duolingo: Donde estas las mujeres?

If there's a more useful phrase I don't know what it is?

I actually Googled that because I didn't know "mujeres"

Certainly more useful than 'mi cepillo es amarillo'

My brush is yellow

I know guapo though!

What's that?

El Guapo is the villain in The 3 Amigos

handsome, in a studly kind of way.

Ah. That's useful for composing my Spanish business card

A handsome man is an hombre guapo

:)

of course "macho" is more universally understood

Soy un hombre alto y guapo

Handy :)

muy!

Spanish is soooo much easier than English.

Pronunciation oddities are rare...

If you think you're making sense, you probably are.

Korean on the other hand...whew!

Although it's supposedly pretty easy to learn to read and write.

Is Korean tonal like Chinese?

Japanese is pretty simple too. Atonal, and very consistent

Wakarimasu - I understand

Wakarimasen - I don't understand

I don't know if I can answer that.

Wakarimasu ka - do you understand?

And the su, sen, su ka endings apply to everything

It is a pretty sounding language.

I do know that Korean was more than just base pronunciation. There were a few phrases that I learned to say well by sheer mimicry.

The difference between being understood and not was in subtleties.

Sorry, just having my finger chewed off by littlest the tall

I can't imagine a computer voice.

AWW!

So are you done with work for a while, as in vacation has begun?

No, it's just Sunday

Vacation is next month

It is next month, it's the first!

I just played a game of trivia on Pogo.

I thought I was hot stuff when I got the first 15 right. Then I got every one of the last 5 wrong.

OK Mr Trivia wiz:

From what country were the original Amish?

Germany?

Hmmm, no

That's the Pennsylvania Dutch

Switzerland rings a bell

Yes Switzerland

Germany was my guess, and I was surprised it was wrong since my Great-grandfathers was in that vein, and he was VERY German.

So is a significant proportion of Switzerland

There were all kinds of puritanical, fun hating sects floating around the mid west

The church that my great grandfather built still stands as an historic landmark in Nebraska.

Spooky-ass place. I saw it as a young kid, it scared the hell out of me.

My great-grandfather was still alive then.

<shivers>

Just in case I'm wrong about the commercial free Pogo...

I see that I have a 5 day free pass I can give away.

so, either way, no commercials!

Sweet

still here?

Guess not, well, I should go to bed anyway. G,night!