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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 22 2008,14:37   

Quote (carlsonjok @ July 22 2008,14:39)
Quote (stevestory @ July 22 2008,13:04)
How's the employment in Portland, I wonder? That's probably where I'd move.

I would note that, in the current Money magazine, Chapel Hill comes in at No. 65 on the list of Top 100 small cities to live in.  By contrast, Oregon has no entries on the list.

HA HA.  I live in No. 6!!! Of course, it is hotter than blazes here, too. So, maybe you shouldn't bring your sweaty stuff here.  More beer for me that way.

EDIT:Unverbed an adjective.

Chapel Hill does have some really nice qualities. Late fall through early spring it's just fantastic. But I'm just not going to put up with 95º temps anymore.

   
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: July 22 2008,14:42   

Quote (stevestory @ July 22 2008,12:37)
Chapel Hill does have some really nice qualities. Late fall through early spring it's just fantastic. But I'm just not going to put up with 95º temps anymore.

Well, there goes my theory that growing up in a climate like that makes one most able to tolerate it.

BTW, 71 degrees, sunny & breezy in the East Bay today.



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rhmc



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(Permalink) Posted: July 22 2008,15:21   

personally, i like hot temps, high humidity and biting flies.  :)

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 24 2008,02:58   

Well, Crabby Jr. couldn't make a trip to the Outer Banks so Crabby Jr. Jr. and I went on a road trip to Wrightsville Beach to see if Buddies had the crabs.

No, they did not, despite what their website says! No oysters either, the bastids and parking for public access to the beach or anything else for that matter is 25 cents for 10 minutes! WTF? Who carries a couple of rolls of quarters to the beach?

So the mission was set, find some live blue crabs we could take back to Fayetteville. Failure was not an option.

We finally found 'em at a place called Mason's Marina on the Middle Sound. We bought a bushel of medium jimmys and iced 'em down for the trip back. Alarmingly (to me) they were selling sponge crabs along with sooks and jimmys. Is this legal in NC? I need to check.

Jr. Jr. slept most of the way back (2 hour trip in the Lil' Red Rocket). I prepped the spices (my own super secret MD style recipe) while the water was set to boil, then threw the first batch in to steam, extry spice of course.

Jr., Mz. Jr. and friends walk in just as they were ready, naturally.



Mz. Jr. was reluctant at first, this being her first time and all but she soon fell to with mucho gusto (you have to or starve around Crabby and his boys).

A very tasty Belizean shrimp, conch and sea trout ceviche was on the bar. Widmer Hefeweizen, Negra Modelo and more Boulevard Pale Ale were the beverages served.

Much fun was had by all.

Crabby

  
Argon



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(Permalink) Posted: July 24 2008,09:19   

Quick question: How much $$ are a bushel of Blue crabs going for these days? I thought they were getting tougher to find.

  
Crabby Appleton



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(Permalink) Posted: July 25 2008,00:03   

Quote (Argon @ July 24 2008,09:19)
Quick question: How much $$ are a bushel of Blue crabs going for these days? I thought they were getting tougher to find.

I paid $72 for the bushel which was very reasonable. The woman at the dock said she had carpal tunnel syndrome so I had to tong them out of the sluice. I made sure there wasn't a whitey in the basket and they all had both claws.

I just looked around on the web and found a report that MD harvests are down 70% since 1990?!

Crabby

  
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: July 25 2008,01:30   

Quote (Crabby Appleton @ July 25 2008,01:03)
I just looked around on the web and found a report that MD harvests are down 70% since 1990?!

Crabby

It's been a few years since I read Consider the Lobster, but IIRC lobsters were so plentiful 100 years ago that they were considered poor man's food, and fed to prisoners and farm animals.

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 10 2008,01:10   

on another thread Carlsonjok said:

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You planning on spending all your time in pubs?

Oh, it's Steve. Nevermind. Asked and answered.


Hey dude. I've got a triathlon coming up in Sept. I gotta carbo-load.  :p

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 26 2008,23:20   

Is anything ingestible comestible? I'll leave that question for the philosophers.

the following events are all fictional depictions of a character I'll call Teve Tory, and none of the below happened in real life:

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So today was Venture 3 into the cow fields looking for shrooms.
Another disappointment. The past two days I found only very white
mushrooms. Those are def not Psilocybe cubensis, which have a brownish
splotch on top and a purple band on the stem. Tonight I didn't find
anything matching the criteria either, though I went much further out
than before. P. cubensis is somewhat rare, it turns out. But I did
find a brownish cap mushroom with a brown/purple stem and grey gills
as opposed to pure white gills. What the hell, I thought, so I carried
it back to the casa and stuck it in a ziploc bag in the freezer after
cutting about a gram or two off and swallowing that. No need to worry
about me, I know for a fact this wasn't any kind of Amanita, which is
horribly poisonous. Amanita usually has either white or red caps, and innocent
looking but evil white gills. This isn't that. Hopefully it's some
kind of psilocybe and 30 minutes from now I'll be hallucinating, but
95% odds nothing will happen. I think I'm going to need a car to drive
around to enough fields to find some which have P. cubensis in them.

One of the great things about hallucinogens in general and mushrooms
in particular is that it's virtually impossible to overdose on them.
You'd have to eat like 40 lbs of shrooms to OD.

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 26 2008,23:30   

Quote (stevestory @ July 25 2008,02:30)
Quote (Crabby Appleton @ July 25 2008,01:03)
I just looked around on the web and found a report that MD harvests are down 70% since 1990?!

Crabby

It's been a few years since I read Consider the Lobster, but IIRC lobsters were so plentiful 100 years ago that they were considered poor man's food, and fed to prisoners and farm animals.

Rereading Consider the Lobster. I have mixed feelings. The first essay, about the porn industry, is amusing. The last essay, Host, is enough to permanently wreck your enjoyment of DFW's footnote-heavy style. The Dostoevsky essay inserts these cheap ethical questions willi-nilli throughout the text, in a very disruptive way. So I'm not sure I should have reread it.

   
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 27 2008,10:01   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 26 2008,21:20)
But I did find a brownish cap mushroom with a brown/purple stem and grey gills as opposed to pure white gills. What the hell, I thought, so I carried it back to the casa and stuck it in a ziploc bag in the freezer after cutting about a gram or two off and swallowing that. No need to worry about me, I know for a fact this wasn't any kind of Amanita, which is horribly poisonous. Amanita usually has either white or red caps, and innocent looking but evil white gills. This isn't that.

Well, if Steve disappears and never posts anywhere again, at least we'll know what the reason was.

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JohnW



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 27 2008,11:00   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Aug. 27 2008,08:01)
Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 26 2008,21:20)
But I did find a brownish cap mushroom with a brown/purple stem and grey gills as opposed to pure white gills. What the hell, I thought, so I carried it back to the casa and stuck it in a ziploc bag in the freezer after cutting about a gram or two off and swallowing that. No need to worry about me, I know for a fact this wasn't any kind of Amanita, which is horribly poisonous. Amanita usually has either white or red caps, and innocent looking but evil white gills. This isn't that.

Well, if Steve disappears and never posts anywhere again, at least we'll know what the reason was.

And if his next post is
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ABABABABABABA
1234567890-=qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;'zxcvbnm,./
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

we'll know he found what he was looking for.

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Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers

There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"...  The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG

  
EyeNoU



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 27 2008,11:05   

Quote (stevestory @ Aug. 26 2008,23:20)
Is anything ingestible comestible? I'll leave that question for the philosophers.

the following events are all fictional depictions of a character I'll call Teve Tory, and none of the below happened in real life:

Quote
So today was Venture 3 into the cow fields looking for shrooms.
Another disappointment. The past two days I found only very white
mushrooms. Those are def not Psilocybe cubensis, which have a brownish
splotch on top and a purple band on the stem. Tonight I didn't find
anything matching the criteria either, though I went much further out
than before. P. cubensis is somewhat rare, it turns out. But I did
find a brownish cap mushroom with a brown/purple stem and grey gills
as opposed to pure white gills. What the hell, I thought, so I carried
it back to the casa and stuck it in a ziploc bag in the freezer after
cutting about a gram or two off and swallowing that. No need to worry
about me, I know for a fact this wasn't any kind of Amanita, which is
horribly poisonous. Amanita usually has either white or red caps, and innocent
looking but evil white gills. This isn't that. Hopefully it's some
kind of psilocybe and 30 minutes from now I'll be hallucinating, but
95% odds nothing will happen. I think I'm going to need a car to drive
around to enough fields to find some which have P. cubensis in them.

One of the great things about hallucinogens in general and mushrooms
in particular is that it's virtually impossible to overdose on them.
You'd have to eat like 40 lbs of shrooms to OD.

A friend that went to college in Florida told me the cattle had to have grain in their diet to produce 'shrooms. IIRC, he said the stems would turn purple when you broke them.

  
Erasmus, FCD



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(Permalink) Posted: Aug. 27 2008,11:30   

steve god dammit don't fuck around with mushrooms.  get a key, get spore prints, know the morphology, don't eat shit you can't identify.  there is some bad shit out there that ain't amanita.

i recommend David Arora's "Mushrooms Demystified".

Now that the scolding is over, there are some other things you might look for.  Stropharia have hallucinogenic representatives, not that you care about that sort of thing.  Arora covers mostly western species but there is some stuff for common north american things.

ETA  P cubensis is actually rather weak, compared to some of the other species in the genus.  Don't fuck with them without using a key with spore prints and knowing the different type of gill and stem morphologies.

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Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG

the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat

I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

  
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 03 2008,02:01   

Quote (Erasmus, FCD @ Aug. 27 2008,12:30)
steve god dammit don't fuck around with mushrooms.  get a key, get spore prints, know the morphology, don't eat shit you can't identify.  there is some bad shit out there that ain't amanita.

That wasn't me. That was a fictional character named Teve Tory. I would never advocate that sort of behavior. It's illegal and sets a bad example for the childrens.

All I was up to this weekend was, the missus brought some homemade Limoncello with her. It was good, and very smooth, but too sweet to drink in quantity. Sadly, I'm in training, and can't really drink anything in quantity at the moment.

   
stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 08 2008,21:13   

I recommend this stuff. It's like Mountain Dew for adults.

   
dheddle



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,08:51   

Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 08 2008,21:13)
I recommend this stuff. It's like Mountain Dew for adults.

I think I'll try that. Maybe next Sunday (like, OMG, after church of course!!) while watching NASCAR. Seems like fitting environs for "adult Mountain Dew." And all the time laughing at those F1-ers with their tiny glasses of  chablis.

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Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition is susceptible to rational discussion. The mystic has reason for what he believes, and these reasons are empirical. --Sam Harris

   
Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,09:04   

Quote (dheddle @ Sep. 09 2008,14:51)
Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 08 2008,21:13)
I recommend this stuff. It's like Mountain Dew for adults.

I think I'll try that. Maybe next Sunday (like, OMG, after church of course!!) while watching NASCAR. Seems like fitting environs for "adult Mountain Dew." And all the time laughing at those F1-ers with their tiny glasses of  chablis.

Not that I like F1 (it's dull as old shit IMO) but it isn't "tiny glasses of chablis", it's "large, endless glasses of champagne and hordes of sexy women with all their own teeth".

You can fault the "sport" of F1 (and I do) but you can't fault the side dishes.

Anyway, it all needs more cowbell.

Louis

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carlsonjok



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,09:24   

Quote (dheddle @ Sep. 09 2008,08:51)
Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 08 2008,21:13)
I recommend this stuff. It's like Mountain Dew for adults.

I think I'll try that. Maybe next Sunday (like, OMG, after church of course!!) while watching NASCAR. Seems like fitting environs for "adult Mountain Dew." And all the time laughing at those F1-ers with their tiny glasses of  chablis.

Not chablis, macchiatos.

HA HA THIS IS YOU AND RTH (before he left)



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It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

  
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,10:32   

Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 08 2008,19:13)
I recommend this stuff. It's like Mountain Dew for adults.

I think I already made this comment here a few years ago (Carlson can track it down), but it's been said that Irish coffee is the perfect beverage since nothing else combines alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,20:37   

I have to agree. That does make it nearly the perfect food. That reminds me I need to make some french-pressed French Roast. It's sort of redneck french press. I heat the water to about 210º, then spoon in the coffee grinds and stir, then after a couple minutes I strain out the grinds with the thin mesh of a splatter screen. Starbucks French Roast is the only whole-bean I could find at the local grocery store here in BFE. Would have preferred some Sumatra.

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,22:26   

I make a very simple and very pleasent fish soup. I take what ever 2lbs of white meat fish I have just caught (the more species the better. Today was only Paralabrax sp.). I cut the filets into 3cm cubes, and add them to the boiling soup base and then turn off the heat. After 2 minutes, serve.

The trick is the soup base.

I use:
1 jar Newman's Own Marinara
1 8oz can of baby clams in juice
3 cloves of garlic, minced and pasted with 1/8 teaspoon of salt
1/2 red bell pepper, diced small (1/4 inch, or 6 mm max)
and ~1/2 bottle of a good red wine (drink the rest)

Some times I add a dozen shrimp, and/or 1/4 pound of mushrooms. Or all of the above.

I did all the above tonight except finish the wine- it seems a bit too much.

Edited by Dr.GH on Sep. 09 2008,20:49

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Dr.GH



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 09 2008,22:44   

Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 09 2008,18:37)
I have to agree. That does make it nearly the perfect food. That reminds me I need to make some french-pressed French Roast. It's sort of redneck french press. I heat the water to about 210º, then spoon in the coffee grinds and stir, then after a couple minutes I strain out the grinds with the thin mesh of a splatter screen. Starbucks French Roast is the only whole-bean I could find at the local grocery store here in BFE. Would have preferred some Sumatra.

We used to make "cowboy coffee" in the field. Boil as many cups of water as your pot "makes." (For my 12 person field crews, I used my grandmother's 100 year old 32 cup coffee pot). When the water is boiling, add 1 teaspoon of coarse ground coffee per cup of water. Remove from heat.

Drop in a few egg shells from breakfast preparation to settle the grounds.

Dang, now I am hungry...

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L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"

   
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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,12:43   

This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to begin:



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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,13:15   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Sep. 19 2008,18:43)
This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to begin:

[SNIMAGE]

We may disagree on many thing Arden, but on curries, you and I are in complete agreement.

Louis

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stevestory



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,13:34   

Making do with what i have, i made a ginger scallion chicken dish last night, and it was pretty good, except for spiciness i used this stuff



and the heat was okay but the chili taste didn't work. I think i'm just going to get some ground cayenne pepper when i go to the sto' later.

   
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,13:37   

Quote (Louis @ Sep. 19 2008,11:15)
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Sep. 19 2008,18:43)
This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to begin:

[SNIMAGE]

We may disagree on many thing Arden, but on curries, you and I are in complete agreement.

Louis

This is a 'Vermont curry'. I suppose we should be happy it doesn't have maple syrup in it.

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Louis



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,13:46   

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Sep. 19 2008,19:37)
Quote (Louis @ Sep. 19 2008,11:15)
Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Sep. 19 2008,18:43)
This is wrong on so many levels I don't know where to begin:

[SNIMAGE]

We may disagree on many thing Arden, but on curries, you and I are in complete agreement.

Louis

This is a 'Vermont curry'. I suppose we should be happy it doesn't have maple syrup in it.

Actually that doesn't sound bad...

....it sounds like a heresy that should punished to the most extreme level possible.

Louis

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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,14:13   

Rough week (I've got a newborn at home), so I'll be chasing a burger and fries with some of this



And thinking about some of this for dessert


  
Arden Chatfield



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(Permalink) Posted: Sep. 19 2008,14:16   

Quote (stevestory @ Sep. 19 2008,11:34)
Making do with what i have, i made a ginger scallion chicken dish last night, and it was pretty good, except for spiciness i used this stuff



and the heat was okay but the chili taste didn't work. I think i'm just going to get some ground cayenne pepper when i go to the sto' later.

That's basically just a pretty ordinary Mexican hot sauce that's for putting on chips, eggs, or soup. But I bet that's probably the best that's available in BFNW North Florida, right?

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