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Monday, December 13, 2004

KAPPAMAKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Most other vegetarians find sushi infinitely boring, because all they can eat in sushi restaurants is cucumber and (sometimes) avocado rolls, and vegans can't even eat tamago sushi. But personally, I could die for a few dozens of kappamaki! There is nothing better than cucumber, especially with seaweed and rice, dipped in soy sauce with wasabi. Mmm ...

g-chef.com has a recipe.

(Of course, I rarely visit a sushi bar without taking on responsibility for the deaths of a few fish, as well. Since I became a vegetarian, around the age of 16-17, I've as good as never experienced any craving for animals or birds, but I do get pangs of fish and seafood craving sometimes. I usually don't wield to it, because the creatures of the sea are nice, sentient beings, and they are most often caught with dubious methods. But sometimes, when I'm particulary weak + inside a sushi restaurant, I can't help myself ...)

Posted at 12:16 am by turukhtan
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Sunday, December 12, 2004

Post-Nuke Comic

This is a really cool, low-key comic about a guy and his dog who make their way through the world after a great nuclear war: Post-Nuke Comic by Andreas Duller.

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Friday, December 10, 2004

Links of the day

I'm writing about Alexander Sokurov's film Moloch right now, which is set in Kehlsteinhaus, above Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat. To see how accurately it had been depicted in the film, I looked for some pictures of it on the internet, and found this interesting website by Geoff Walden, whose father took a lot of pictures in Germany after the war: http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

German WWII air raid bunkers are quite fascinating, as well:
http://www.luftschutz-bunker.de/ (I've biked past here ...)

Posted at 8:32 pm by turukhtan
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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

One of the 2-3 pictures that actually came out perfect ...

... the other has just interesting colours. Click them!! Now!!! To see them BIG!!!!!

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Where animals travel to their death

Another interesting picture that came out blurry.
There is a very big slaughterhouse in Kävlinge, and I came across these lorries once, which are used for animal transports to this slaughterhouse. (And yes, that's the moon in the upper right corner ...)

Posted at 12:49 am by turukhtan
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And now ... some more photographs.

Some pictures from Kävlinge. Click the thumbnails to see them in full size.

For one or another of these I used Mihai's head as a tripod. We went to look at the viking graves in the fields nearby, and as we approached one of them, we frightened something that might have been a bird, a rabbit or a fox. Maybe it was the reincarnated old viking?

Posted at 12:43 am by turukhtan
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Orient & Occident - blurry concepts!

I hate myself so much sometimes. When I can't get my pictures to be sharp, for instance. Even more so, when I don't get sharp pictures because I'm too stupid (and/or stressed) to check that the lens is in the right position (with my camera, it's kind of hard to tell if the picture is sharp just by looking through it). And most of all, when this happens when the picture would have been EXCELLENT!!!!!

So, anyway, here is the result of my photoproject 'Romania between Orient and Occident'.

Supermarket Trio Orient & Café Club Occident, not too far away from each other on Buzesti street in Bucharest.

Both of the pictures are unsharp like hell. Dammit.

It was raining quite heavily when I took the 'Orient' picture, and I was going to go back and take another set of pictures, but apparently I never got that far. And in any case, the trio of Gypsies would probably not have been there again to wave at me ...

My apologies to my readers and especially to the nice man who waved in the picture, but I'm too stupid for my own camera.

(Mihai just told me that in the building where 'Trio Orient' is nowadays, there probably used to be a caravan serai (that's 'han' in Romanian, by the way). Hence, the name ...)

Posted at 8:55 pm by turukhtan
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Saturday, December 04, 2004

"Oranges can often be bitter"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1359969,00.html

Jonathan Steele wonders if what's going on in Ukraine is not just a "post modern coup d'etat", pointing on the many similar incidents lately - Serbia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Yeltsin's elections in Russia, etc.

"In Ukraine, Yushchenko got the western nod, and floods of money poured in to groups which support him, ranging from the youth organisation, Pora, to various opposition websites. More provocatively, the US and other western embassies paid for exit polls, prompting Russia to do likewise, though apparently to a lesser extent."

"Intervening in foreign elections, under the guise of an impartial interest in helping civil society, has become the run-up to the postmodern coup d'etat, the CIA-sponsored third world uprising of cold war days adapted to post-Soviet conditions. Instruments of democracy are used selectively to topple unpopular dictators, once a successor candidate or regime has been groomed."

Very interesting.

Posted at 12:36 pm by turukhtan
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

A piece of art

Click to see it big. It's a portrait of Mihai. I call it 'The Reluctant Economist' ...

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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Del Mar 8

Well, at least here's someone who seems to be able to make the best of her situation - having a frustrating job, but making hilarious comics about it.

Ladies and Gentlemen - Eleanore Studer's Del Mar 8 (as ranted)!

Posted at 7:03 pm by turukhtan
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