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[Scepticalscribe]

Indeed. Sausages are one of favourites.
Cocktail sausages are as addictive as heroin!

At his retirement party, (which was held in a pretty posh hotel where my father had frequently taken colleagues and business partners to dinner when he was working), my father had one stipulation - it wasn't a request: Cocktail sausages.

Now, there were sandwiches, snacks, drinks of all sorts, but cocktail sausages - endless baskets - were the only thing he specifically insisted that he wished to have served.

Even at my book launch - at the function afterwards (paid for by my father, not my publisher), in my mother's favourite pub, drinks and sandwiches were one thing - and were made readily available - but my father also insisted on cocktail sausages being served. They were.

 

[0388631]

There's a few preparations where I'll have one or two. Generally don't like cocktail sausages. I used to buy large boxes of them back in the day for fish bait. Tuna loved them for some reason. Sand fleas tend to be king as far as bait goes short of solid chunks of mackeral the size of your fist or whole beef hearts.

 

[Gutwrench]

Cleaning up my phone’s photos and videos I came across some of the Beijing Parkview Green Building. Pretty impressive place.

 

[mobilehaathi]

From what I can see, @mobilehaathi is still around, but posts infrequently.

Not sure who April is.

Life intervenes, but I still pop in from time to time.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Life intervenes, but I still pop in from time to time.

Hope you're well, anyway, and that life - personally and professionally - is rewarding & fulfilling.

Elsewhere, last week, I mentioned a sour that I think you might enjoy.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Life intervenes, but I still pop in from time to time.

Well still nice to see you. Hope all is well.

 

[0388631]

Good to see you alive, Mobile.

 

[AngerDanger]

My cousin's birthday is coming up, and seeing as how he's gotten really into playing guitar, I thought he might enjoy a talkbox, the device responsible for Peter Frampton's "talking" guitar:

However, those things are pretty expensive, and I try to keep my budget for him and his siblings around $30–40. But I did watch a lot of MacGyver as a kid, so…

 

[Scepticalscribe]

There's a few preparations where I'll have one or two. Generally don't like cocktail sausages. I used to buy large boxes of them back in the day for fish bait. Tuna loved them for some reason. Sand fleas tend to be king as far as bait goes short of solid chunks of mackeral the size of your fist or whole beef hearts.

Ever try cocktail sausages roasted in soya sauce, a dash of Yorkshire relish, honey, and/or maple syrup and sesame seeds?

 

[Apple fanboy]

Ever try cocktail sausages roasted in soya sauce, a dash of Yorkshire relish, honey, and/or maple syrup and sesame seeds?

What’s Yorkshire relish?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

What’s Yorkshire relish?

It is a an old spicy sauce/liquid, bottled sauce (not dissimilar to Worcestershire Sauce) - it dates from Victorian times; it was widely available between the wars, and up to the 60s, 70s, 80s.

A dash is good in things such as Bloody Marys, and my father used to like it to flavour mince, in mince pies.

Occasionally, you will see recipes which suggest a dash on Welsh rarebit, as well.

Literally, a dash or two will liven up - give a little heat to - a savoury dish.

I've always had a bottle to hand; it is a cupboard staple.

 

[0388631]

Looks like it's a vegetarian alternative? I thought it was something like Branston pickle.

 

[Apple fanboy]

It is a an old spicy sauce/liquid, bottled sauce (not dissimilar to Worcestershire Sauce) - it dates from Victorian times; it was widely available between the wars, and up to the 60s, 70s, 80s.

A dash is good in things such as Bloody Marys, and my father used to like it to flavour mince, in mince pies.

Occasionally, you will see recipes which suggest a dash on Welsh rarebit, as well.

Literally, a dash or two will liven up - give a little heat to - a savoury dish.

I've always had a bottle to hand; it is a cupboard staple.

I’ve learnt something today then. Never come across that one.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I’ve learnt something today then. Never come across that one.

Google said that it was a Victorian staple (along with things such as Gentleman's Relish) but it was certainly a store cupboard staple - along with mayo, ketchup, Coleman's mustard, when I was a kid.

You'd always see it in bars, where it was added to Bloody Marys, and it was good with mince, or soups, or casseroles - add a dash or two to liven up the dish.

But, for a marinade for cocktail sausages, a dash gives a little heat and edge to a marinade that might run the risk of being too sweet.

 

[kazmac]

I really needed sleep this morning (Eye doctor appointment later), but...

Finally, pin-pointed the annoying dogs and neighbors addresses (as I suspected right next door to me and right behind us on the next block).

I spied a culprit earlier: a yipping, whining mid-sized dog at a chain link fence behind us (and now all of the dogs in that house are going off). Took another walk around the block a few minutes ago and used Google to confirm the addresses.

It's been a brutal, sleepless drag these past three days (non-stop at all hours), in addition to years of dealing with both homes' animal noise disturbances. I also have a log since the middle of last month of the times and dates. At the house behind us, the dogs have been at it 7x since 4:30 this morning alone.

I am finally armed though. Besides the log, I've got my warning letter drafted at work and will definitely print these out tomorrow and leave in the mailbox on the next block. That is the last strike before I call the police and animal control.

I am at wit's end with this. Weary of cursing at the top of my lungs for quiet (It's not working, and not good for me, or anyone else).

 

[Gutwrench]

Has MR posted anything about the 12.4.1 update? Didn’t see it.

Disregard: I will search again.

 

[JayMysterio]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/big-bang-may-created-mirror-universe-time-runs-backwards/

Why does time seem to move forward? It’s a riddle that’s puzzled physicists for well over a century, and they’ve come up with numerous theories to explain time’s arrow. The latest, though, suggests that while time moves forward in our universe, it may run backwards in another, mirror universe that was created on the “other side” of the Big Bang.

 

[yaxomoxay]

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/big-bang-may-created-mirror-universe-time-runs-backwards/

So basically, they had no idea how to give a decent, provable answer

 

[JayMysterio]

So basically, they had no idea how to give a decent, provable answer

I think that's coming up, when they can get "out there". Until then, I think it's a... theory?

 

[LizKat]

Change of seasons on my mind. Fog this morning so dense could slice it for breakfast!

 

[yaxomoxay]

I think that's coming up, when they can get "out there". Until then, I think it's a... theory?

I wonder how can an "inverse" universe can be created due to matter decay and entropy. A creation in which time goes backwards would mean that it would have had to be born as a "dead" universe already. Time to build a TARDIS or something.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Change of seasons on my mind. Fog this morning so dense could slice it for breakfast!

Yes, autumn, that "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" - to quote my father, (who loved poetry) and who was quoting John Keats - and who marked the annual arrival of autumn with that quote - is making an appearance.

 

[JayMysterio]

I wonder how can an "inverse" universe can be created due to matter decay and entropy. A creation in which time goes backwards would mean that it would have had to be born as a "dead" universe already. Time to build a TARDIS or something.

I think they clarified that, they don't say time is literally moving backwards meaning death - life - birth. I took it as if one could perceive the other universe, events would seem backwards to you.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-propose-a-mirror-universe-where-time-moves-backwards

Two separate teams of physicists have been examining the flow of time in the Universe, and they’ve proposed that some 14 billion years ago, the Big Bang could have given rise to a second, inverse mirror universe where time moves in the opposite direction: it moves backwards, not forwards.

Basically, if we were looking at the mirror universe, we would see time moving from the future to the past, but from the perspective of that universe, it would look like our time was moving backwards, not forwards, the researchers suggest.

"Time is not something that pre-exists," one of the physicists, Julian Barbour from the University of Oxford in the UK, told Olivia Goldhill at Quartz. "The direction and flow of time we have to deduce from what’s happening in the Universe. When we look at it that way, it’s natural to say that time begins at that central point and flows away in opposite directions."

Physicists have been struggling for decades over the fact that none of the fundamental laws of physics that govern the Universe state that time has to necessarily move forwards. "Whether through Newton’s gravitation, Maxwell’s electrodynamics, Einstein’s special and general relativity or quantum mechanics, all the equations that best describe our Universe work perfectly if time flows forward or backward," Lee Billings writes for Scientific American.

It wouldn't be literal, it would be a matter of perception, based on which universe you are in.

 

[yaxomoxay]

I think they clarified that, they don't say time is literally moving backwards meaning death - life - birth. I took it as if one could perceive the other universe, events would seem backwards to you.

Interesting, it would connect to St. Augustine's comment (in the Confessions) about time (basically, it's perception) which is not dissimilar with the Vedic concept of time... amazing subject to discuss, esp. w/ a good dose of alcohol.

 

[JayMysterio]

Interesting, it would connect to St. Augustine's comment (in the Confessions) about time (basically, it's perception) which is not dissimilar with the Vedic concept of time... amazing subject to discuss, esp. w/ a good dose of alcohol.

Something else that gets tossed in our files for possible future story ideas.