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Skriven 2007-04-03 10:01:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 GJ> I was tempted, but as it is a brand new computer which Sap has just
 GJ> bought, I thought I had better not...  It has some keys with unfamiliar
 GJ> markings, such as Alt Gr, and the Euro sign, and a picture of a filing
 GJ> cabinet with an arrow superimposed on it.

You know what they should do: put LCD displays on each key so
that when you change codepages you'll see the different characters
on the keyboard.

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

I was mistaken. The youngest candidate won first prize (he's
at Curtis studying with Gary Graffman), but of the other two
finalists one was the median and modal age, and the other
second oldest.

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

It is indeed a staple: it's the Full Moon and Empty Arms piece.

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

I'm not so enamoured of Chianti, perhaps; in any case, I've tasted
some thin and below-average wine under the Gallo Nero.

 >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.

The front-runner sounds to be a consortium of Brits and/or Canadians
at the moment; keep it in the Empire, you know.

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

He laughed and refused the bill. Accepted an offer of a beer
at a time and location to be named later, though.

 GJ> and included with the other mainly seafood fare was a "Crab Claw",
 GJ> which was an ovoid blob of minced crab-meat + filler, battered and
 GJ> fried, with a small crab-claw protruding from the end

This is a standard frozen item here in the States, commonly
available at all-you-can-eat buffets of the lower sort. Yes,
there's much more filler than marine protein there.

--mm
Herbal cup
cat: mocktail
servings: 1

5 ice cubes
7 ml red beet crystals
10 ml cordyceps extract
30 ml acacia honey
120 ml apple juice
celery stick

Blend all together except celery. Pour into glass.
Celery stick is stirrer.

Source: adapted from Changi magazine, 12/2001

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