Bumbafs. A relatively easy one.
WordAll #743 completed in 2m 20s
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Culture Beat - Mr Vain
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=V3qUoiwr5kQ
Wordle 1,014 4/6*
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#Worldle #798 (29.03.2024) 4/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #813 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #810 6/6 (hexagonad)
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Framed #749 (yes. I think it was a film that straddled the millennium. I watched a Ukrainian gangster film called Rhino, from 2021, which was a good film in numerous ways but ultimately nihilistic. It does a good job of illustrating the social and economic aspects of violent organized crime without justifying it or glamourising it. There is not much charm. I won't give away too much of the plot because it's a good film, well directed and well acted, but I wouldn't recommend it as a fun film for movie night. Seeing a small glimpse of the Ukraine in the 1990s, including "It's my life" by "Dr Alban" showed a kind of gauche nighclub 90s that I suspect was much of young Europe, including the UK, at the time, more fed by cigarettes and alcohol - than counterculture or reconciling the fall of the USSR or the trickling of the pre-smartphone internet. I saw several different aspects of it as a young teenager and it was as much real and illusory as anything else now or then.*)
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* Bobby Conn, as always, can help
Total washout - non stop distractions and interruptions. That's life. 🤷♂️
WordAll #742 completed in 7m 05s
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Santigold - Big Boss Big Time Business
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=eqh8idClZIU
Wordle 1,013 3/6*
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#Worldle #797 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #812 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #809 5/6 (ce n'est pas ma faute, mains de bâtard de singe*)
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Framed #748 (nope. I watched The Alleys, a 2021 Jordanian crime drama, which was good enough I won't spoiler it or talk about it too much other than to say it is worth watching. It's in, I assume, I have zero knowledge of it, subtitled Levantine Arabic but there were a few funny insults in there that I assume it's an Arabic spoken by rougher sorts of people. Not people who wear top hats, have monacles, and race honey badgers. Maisa Abd Elhadi was brilliant as Hanadi and I'd watch a spin-off film based around her character, before or after, and I think it would be successful. Time flies and I am in a hurry.)
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* Translation: https://youtu.be/ojErxEn1vD0
WordAll #741 completed in 1m 06s
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Ed Sheeran - The A Team
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WYABDdnBu0w
Wordle 1,012 4/6*
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#Worldle #796 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #811 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #808 4/6
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Framed #747 (nope. I'm happy people got paid for it but no. I think I have seen three films with Nicolas Cage in them: Raising Arizona, The Color of Outer Space and the not so great remake of The Wicker Man (he was good in the other two films). I didn't watch anything yesterday. I am not proud of my ignorance of Nicolas Cage. It's not like I've had to consciously avoid his stuff much as I don't consciously avoid Ed Sheeran. I heard one of his songs the other day and it was good. A 5 year old has taught himself the lyrics from it been played occasionally in his mum's car. He doesn't understand the lyrics.)
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WordAll #740 completed in 44s
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Johnossi - What's The Point
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9dbReZb5M
Wordle 1,011 4/6*
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#Worldle #795 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #810 5/6 (~1/3 on 4, I think. Culo)
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Framed #746 (nope. I watched the last of Great British Menu, the final banquet, and 3 Body Problem, the Chinese one. Episode 2 of 3 Body was a good episode, the choice of songs in the soundtrack seems a bit sentimental but there are other more ominous aspects to the soundtrack that are better, although maybe just because I'm more familiar with them as tropes. The science explanations were good but, and this could be a by-product of translation, there didn't seem much explanation that experiments had stopped working rather than the scientists having reached a point where experiments no longer work. Big Shi and Wang Miao's relationship seems closer to the book. Although I think Aggie and Clarence Shi were decent adaptions for the Netflix series. In the Netflix series Clarence Shi seemed dumber than in the book although far from stupid. I won't spoiler it or write about it episode by episode. Otherwise it'd just be a no or yes to movies I've seen followed by 28 further episodes of 3 Body and how it compares to the book and the Netflix series. Which does amuse me greatly and I am tempted. I liked the book. It's a good standby until series 4 of The Boys. I probably won't though. I watch other stuff too. I've got up at 5 because I'm baking and I'm in a hurry. I am in moderate pain.)
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WordAll #739 completed in 54s
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Dyamorph - Cyberpunk
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=pzf79rlKOjM
Wordle 1,010 4/6* (this was a tough one, but I guessed correctly because it has been in Octordle a few times)
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#Worldle #794 2/6 (100%) (cheated. There's a play again button. If I was serious about learning it I'd repeat it until I remember the correct answers. It won't perma store* but it would help get there. (follow that footnote if you have trouble remembering stuff. I do, my memory is like a cloud))
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La palabra del día #809 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #806 6/6 (Accent cul actuel)
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Framed #745 (nope, nah, and thrice no. I've nothing against that sort of thing. I had a good day, I enjoyed playing, I ate some excellent Lancashire hotpot with the venison pie mix I made earlier in the week, with an OK, but not great, glass of malbec, and in the evening watched the first episode of 3 Body, the Chinese adaptation of the Chinese sci-fi book Three Body Problem by Cixin ↔️ Liu. It's on Prime Video. The subtitles are a bit off in English. Stuff like "I want to see you after a while", it's obvious what is meant is "I want to see you later" but it reads a little like a machine translation. Assuming "after a while" is the superlative of "in a while". I'm only on episode one. The good points are that I think the Chinese characters are closer to the book, and, like the book, while it's China-centric it takes on a far more international tone from relatively early on. In the Netflix adaptation it didn't feel international until the last two episodes of eight (yeah, I know many of the protagonists were from a variety of international backgrounds, but that's most elite higher education everywhere on the planet because universities want the best people regardless of nationality). It feels like a family friendly adaption of the book and the Netflix adaptation a more adult adaptation of the book. Both adaptions have pluses and minuses and I'll watch out of curiosity. I haven't checked to typos or grammar and would not make good machine translated subtitles.)
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* How to remember anything forever-ish (why they don't do this from the age of 7 at school is beyond me, because it turns it learning into a game):
Nicky Case is a hero of our times:
A little late.
WordAll #738 completed in 1m 03s
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TV On The Radio - Quartz
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RhE_PzAcjn4
Wordle 1,009 4/6*
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#Worldle #793 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #808 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #805 3/6
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Framed #744 (nope. I pretty much watched Thomas & Friends for a few hours as wells as some printing of, primarily, Thomas & Friends, and watched 3 Body Problem before bed. In a little while I'm going to wolf down breafast, peel some potatoes and mandolin then to about 2mm then put them on top of the venison pie filling I did earlier in the week. I have and like Décor food storage containers from Australia because they're airtight. Which I'll spot with butter, season, put a rosemary twig on top and bake covered in tin foil at about 140C. Which I'll remove to crisp up before lunch plus vegetables. I'm also reading. I think I'd prefer to be outside today because the weather is cold, occasionally bright, and clear but I can't because of guest(s) which is often a situation for people and dogs but not so much domestic cats. I don't know about other animals. The more a person sees of duck behaviour the more easy is becomes to eat them. I'm wary about that argument because the potential for carnivorous aliens observing war or racism or zealotry or torture or murder or road rage or abuse or crime or random stars of light entertainment. Noel Edmonds is a genius of light entertainment and I'm sure he's not any of the bad things. He'd be OK. They'd just think he's a bit cantankerous and gristly.)
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Jesus Jones - They're Out There
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxJr1O7PSw
WordAll #737 completed in 49s (I think this one would be a good intro for beginners. Try and get two or words, preferably different enough, before starting. Took me about 5 seconds through practice. Although sometimes it's longer.)
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Wordle 1,008 4/6* (1/2 on 4)
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#Worldle #792 1/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #807 3/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #804 5/6 (cinq mots de cul, techniquement quatre, cul)
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Framed #743 (nah. I watched Three Body Problem on Netflix, which was very good but made me a little emotional at various points, which I guess means it is good. I don't like the idea of trigger warnings* because I think rectifying and dealing with stuff that makes us feel sad or nuts is part of life and assuming a lack of being a psychopath some stuff is supposed to make us feel bad or sad. Obviously there are exceptions to that and if something makes you feel that bad you should seek comfort or help or find some way of expressing it and/or talk about it. I'd say preferably not in book form or interpretive dance, or nutty online videos with ALL CAPS and exclamation marks, or excessive use of talkshows, but I suppose that's sometimes part of the process and not necessarily crap. Just mostly. And it's subjective. Which is a ballbags thing to say about any art. Althought not everything is meaningful**. If I can get my eyes on the Tencent version I'll give it a go, but given it's 30 episodes, and I don't know Mandarin it's contingent on time, subtitles and availability. Usual Saturday ahead.)
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* Trigger warning: cats
Particularly difficult. Possibly because I haven't slept yet
Daily Octordle #789
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily/789
Daily Sequence Octordle #789
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/789
Daily Rescue Octordle #789
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Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9b2PnmgxY
Wordle 1,007 4/6*
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#Worldle #791 3/6 (100%) (cheated)
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La palabra del día #806 3/6
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Framed #742 (nope*. What I did watch, having read Cixin Liu's (Liu Cixin) Three Body (Rememberence of Earth's Past) series, although not sure I've read Death's End, but most of it, was The Three Body Problem on Netflix. I only watched episode one and not because I don't want to see episode two, but because I enjoyed episode one so much I don't want to binge watch it. The Netflix Adaption is clearly a European adaption but most of those characters were in the book in slightly different ways and the majority of bits set in China happened in the book too. I won't disect it too much or spoiler it but I think it's a good show. I hope there is a Chinese adaption eventually, the Cultural Revolution bits were more harrowing in the book which was contrary to my expectations of Chinese science fiction because I expected those bits of history to be taboo. Maybe it's a prejudice on my part. There is some, minor, overlap with the Strugatsky brother's Definetly Maybe, an excellent bit of Soviet sci-fi (at least in the updated Neversink Library imprint I had**) and I wonder if Soviet sci-fi was translated to Chinese in the 1970s/1980s. I'll do wordall later and I'm looking for ward to episode 2 of the Three Body Problem. I'd recommend the book for a more China centric version (most sci-fi centers around an author's nation) if only because it's a good demonstration that despite cultural differences we have more in common as people than things that set us apart.)
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* https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AavWRhrvaUk
** The newer editions of the Strugatsky brother oeuvre with the notes and additions are an interesting glimpse of Soviet publishing. It was mad. I think in some ways Definitely Maybe was as much a reflection of some of the problems with the USSR as science fiction.
WordAll #735 completed in 32s
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Add cooking oil* oil (maybe a tablespoon) before you get the meat in the pressure cooker and stir regularly at the start of the recipe. To avoid excessive sticking. A little stocking is fine, that's why it's deglazed with the wine.
* Light olive oil, canola/rapeseed/vegetable oil, lard, butter or whatever is available and edible.
Gerling - Deer in You
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dyyy98QfPIM
Wordle 1,006 4/6* (1/4 chance on 3)
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#Worldle #790 4/6 (100%)
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La palabra del día #805 4/6
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Le Mot (@WordleFR) #802 6/6 (fesses de six culs)
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Framed #741 (nope. Yesterday I watched Great British menu and made a pie filling which may become a variation of Lancashire hotpot because potatoes and a mandoline are less fuss.
Pie filling per yesterday
600gm of chopped or minced venison
4 slices of smoked streaky bacon diced (or a chopped beef sausage if you don't do pig)
1 onion diced
1 large carrot peeled and sliced
1 stick of celery diced
1 clove of garlic finely minced/crushed
1 large glass of red wine (about 100ml but can be more/less)
A squirt of tomato paste
0.25 heaped teaspoon ground white pepper
0.5 teaspoon sugar
0.25 teaspoon of freshly grated nutmeg (or a pinch if pre ground)
Pinch of ground cinnamon
3 tsp of plain white flour
2tsp Worcestershire Sauce
500ml beef or venison or vegetable stock
Thyme (1 twig or a small pinch of dried)
Rosemary (a half teaspoon finely chopped)
Bay leaf
Salt/freshly ground black pepper to taste
Fry the venison and nutmeg in a pressure cooker until browned and the liquid has gone. Deglace with a large glass of red wine and reduce the wine by half. Add the beef stock and put the lid on the pressure cooker. Pressure cook it for 1hr. Turn it off and while waiting for the pressure to drop:
In a large saucepan heat a three tablespoons of cooking oil and fry the onion/carrot/celery/bacon on a medium heat, stirring occasionally until the onion is translucent and much softened. Add the garlic and fry for a minute. Add the flour and cook stirring continuously. It will clump.
Add everything else including the stuff in the pressure cooker. Cook, stirring regularly, until reduced by a 1/3rd and it's beginning to thicken. Remove the bayleaf. Season to taste. I added 0.5tsp salt - it depends how salty the stock is. That's it done. Turn off the heat. It can be used however a pie filling can be used but may need to be further thickened by making a roux if it needs it for a recipe/type of topping or casing.
I've got it in the fridge in an airtight container for cooking in a pie or topped with sliced potato for Sunday morning. Also works with a tougher cut of beef like shin or chuck. All measurements can be slightly different, herbs/spices can be dropped, 500gm or 700gm of meat isn't going to make a huge difference. When I make the pie I'll maybe add fresh chopped parsley. Serve with fresh vegetables on the side however you do them.
I'll do wordall later. All the talking about food has made me hungry. For buttered wholemeal sourdough toast. Rock and roll. I can't check for typos because toast.
And I watched Curb Your Enthusiasm. They are right about email chains. Luckily most people in my family are unsentimental.)
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Daily Octordle #786
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily
Daily Sequence Octordle #786
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https://www.britannica.com/games/octordle/daily-sequence/786
Daily Rescue Octordle #786
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