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Skriven 2007-04-01 15:11:32 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: CRIMINAL 281
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 >GJ> I had a reply almost complete, when I hit that #$%&* Window key and
 >GJ> lost the lot!   Hate hate hate!
 > What was Mr. Bill thinking? On this computer I forcibly
 > removed the Windows key; other keys, the e, 7, and -,
 > ran away in protest.

I was tempted, but as it is a brand new computer which Sap has just bought, I
thought I had better not...  It has some keys with unfamiliar markings, such as
Alt Gr, and the Euro sign, and a picture of a filing cabinet with an arrow
superimposed on it.
                   
 >> We had foie gras several ways and some interesting wines of which
 >GJ> I'm looking forward to reading about them.

 > It'll be a while, even though our concerto competition judges
 > (Jura Margolis, Paul Badura-Skoda, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and
 > Tamas Ungar) awarded prizes to young students instead of the
 > more accomplished musicians who offered the first Prokofiev

Perhaps on the principle of "to each his need" rather than their capabilities.

 > and third Bartok concertos: this means that we have to learn
 > only the Rachmaninov 2nd, Beethoven 4th, and Tchaikovsky.
 > Got the music last night for the first two, the Tchaikovsky
 > gets handed out at rehearsal this morning if they've managed
 > to get a set of parts overnight. Concert's tomorrow. Some of
 > the orchestra are kind of stressed about learning 3 concertos
 > (concerti) in this short span; I'm not. If it were Bartok,
 > I might be. But for the next few days, busy busy busy.       

That should at least stimulate your memory banks somewhat.  Rachmaninov would
be a standard for such events, I would think.    

 >GJ> Young Jim has been investigating this classification of Chiantis, and
 >GJ> what he has written bears out my own experiences.  I found that if the
 >GJ> waiter was any good he would produce the good stuff, and explain the
 > 
 > If the waiter wanted to get a commission on bottles, you mean.

There would inevitably be a degree of self-interest, but if he was a really
good waiter he would be convincing in his apparent interest in the customer,
and desire to give a wine which would make the customer happy.
 > 
 >GJ> labelling.  Numbering the bottles is a good indication of top quality.
 > 
 > Wellll ... numbering the bottles is a good indication of
 > expensive quality. It is still hit-or-miss whether top will
 > be congruent with expensive. Not completely random, as if a
 > customer has spent lots of money s/he has higher expectations
 > and more incentive to go off angrily on the seller in case of
 > major disappointment.                                        

Certainly I have been quite satisfied with all the DOCC Chianti I was served,
and most unhappy with some of the crook plonk not bearing that sort of ID, but
claiming to be Chianti.

 >GJ> It looks increasingly likely that Qantas will be sold to a consortium
 >GJ> including 49% owned by Singapore Airlines and 15% by Temasek (ie Lee
 >GJ> family).
 > 
 > That offer just imploded, I heard the noise all the way down
 > here in downtown Arkansas.

I haven't caught up with the latest; maybe tomorrow.

 >> Been there, done that. An electric wine chiller might
 >> well come in handy, especially with the depradations of
 >> advanced age.                             
 >GJ> You going to buy me one?
 > 
 > If it would make you happy.

Thanks, but I will wait until I get old, and in need of it.
 > 
 > I was joshing with the principal viola of the orchestra:
 > then, and he mused:
 > 
 >   I'd be happy if I had $1000 to give away like
 >   that. I'd be happy if I had $1 to give away.
 >   Gee, I'd happy if I just had a dollar.
 > 
 > So I whipped out my wallet. (I like to provide happiness,
 > especially if it comes cheap.)                          

I'm sure he would have been grovellingly greatful for that $1 note!

 >GJ> I was pleased to find that my SIL had not finished off the bottle of
 >GJ> OP Bundy which I had left here when I was last in Darwin early last
 > 
 > Oh! A carefully chosen SIL, then.

At the moment I am sipping on a post-lunch J Walker which he has forced on me.

 >GJ> No recipes available on this computer.
 > Make something up.

Last night we dined at The Jetty restaurant, an AYCE place by the bay, and
included with the other mainly seafood fare was a "Crab Claw", which was an
ovoid blob of minced crab-meat + filler, battered and fried, with a small
crab-claw protruding from the end, for use as a holder.  A good idea, and not
too bad; better if more crab meat.  Oysters and mussels good.  Salt and pepper
squid over-cooked.  Large local prawns excellent.  For Darwin this is a fairly
high class eatery, so I wore shirt, trousers and shoes. The other customers
wore just about anything, including singlets which showed off their tattoos to
advantage (men and women), board shorts to show off leg tattoos (men), tiny
short shorts which showed off their "lower back" tattoos (girls).  

I drank Coopers Pale Ale, at $4 a stubby.  I noted that this was served
ice-cold, in the bottle without a glass, but stubby holders were provided to
keep the bottles cold.

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