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GTA04 (vs.?) and FSF

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The day before yesterday I had an unpleasant, I’d rather say pointless, argument with Richard Stallman about his definition of “free”.

The result was that he insisted that one must not be free to upload unfree firmware to a wireless lan chip, when he likes to, while my opinion is that we just should let the chip being soldered into each device, we ship, and leave the decision to the customers themselves if they wanna upload unfree firmware to the wifi-chip in order to use it or if they don’t wanna use it, because there is no free firmware available yet.

As a result of this discussion FSF still refuses to call our project a “free project”, which PISSES ME OFF Rich, because it’s just stupid!

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StarTrek – New episodes – Phase II

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Finally StarTrek has become a community project xD

The first episodes were a bit over acted and by trying to act up to the original star trek episodes they made it become a bit too ridiculous at some points.
But the later episodes (e.g. episode 5) on the other hand became quiet convincing and serious… except this Klingon girly is somehow redundant… -.-

Episode two, really feels like original StarTrek. Like it’s used to feel when watching 🙂

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/Episodes.html

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Heisenberg-Murphy unification

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Heisenberg law dictates:
“One can never measure the position and speed of a particle at the same time.”

Δp * Δq ~ h

Murphy’s law dictates:
“But there is certainly another particle, which is certainly NOT the one you are looking for, with the wrong speed and the wrong position.”

Unification done 🙂

Recipes

ManjÅ« – 饅頭

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Howdy.
Yesterday I cooked something really delicious.
And it is vegan!
Not that I’d care… I’m more a carnivore then a vegetarian.
BUT. This stuff tastes awesome ^^
It’s kinda sweet samosa with a sweet bread-like shell and its filled with a sweet azuki-bean puree.

Ingredients

  • The dough
    • A pack dry yeast
      (Read on the back, for how much flour it’s supposed to be used!)
    • A bit salt
    • 250g flour
    • 1 tablespoon tapioca flour
    • 100g sugar
    • 125ml warm water
      (“hot” mode of the water-tap is sufficient)
  • The stuffing (Anko)
    • Two hands full off azuki beans
    • A big amount of spoons full with sugar
  • Tools needed
    • Baking paper
    • A rice steamer like this one (With steaming part!)
    • A bowl big enough to contain the dough
    • A mixer like this one

Processing

First put all the dry stuff for the dough into the bowl and mix it well, then add the water and mix it further.
After kneading it well you have to let the yeast grow for 3 hours.

In the meantime put the azuki beans into the rice cooker fill water into it and cook it as you would cook rice.
This will take an hour or so (depends on the cooker).
At some points the azuki beans will become soft and will decay.
You can check them from time to time by picking one of them out with a spoon (Warning:The hot steam can burn you)
and squeezing them  between your fingers. If they are soft and easy to squeeze let them boil to a thick sauce.
Then put some sugar into the sauce and try if it tastes all right.
Two or three big spoons of sugar are normally quite enough. If it’s not enough sweet you can add more.

Unplug the steamer and let it cool down a bit, then put the azuki beans into the mixer and mix it until it is a fine puree.
Then put it into the fridge and wait until the dough is ready.

Stuffing:

Take some baking paper and lay it into the steamer part of the rice cooker. Wash the pan where you had boiled the azuki beans in and fill it with fresh water.

Cut the dough into four pieces, press it to a flat triangle-like round thingy which is approximately 4 millimeters thick.
Put some spoons full of the paste into the middle of the dough plane and take three ends of it.
Put them together above the azuki bean past. Now take the three newly created ears and put them together too.
The dough-pack now should be sealed.
Put them with this part you have pressed together onto the baking paper, repeat it for the rest of the dough.
Remember to keep space between the buns, because they grow further inside the steamer!

Steam it for around 15-20 minutes.

Enjoy! ^^

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