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Rufus Blooter: UK Election Results 2015
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Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. UK Election Results 2015. The results are mostly in. Electing the UK parliament is done via what's the known as the "First Past The Post" [FPTP] voting scheme. The naming of this scheme enrages me out of proportion. It is a terrible name. The voting scheme should simply be called "Most Votes Wins" [MVW], which would be fewer syllables and also accurate. FPTP makes zero sense. What post? Anyway, here are the headline results. UK Election Results 2015.
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Rufus Blooter: Financial Press: Mostly For Entertainment Purposes Only
http://rufusblooter.blogspot.com/2014/08/financial-press-mostly-for.html
Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Financial Press: Mostly For Entertainment Purposes Only. One of the fun things about looking at stock prices on Google Finance is the scroll of related "news" items on the right. Most of these should really be ignored. Here's an example of my favourite perpetrator of uselessness, Motley Fool UK. And their "coverage" of HSBC for only a single month:. The Risks Of Investing In HSBC Holdings plc. Better-Than-Expected Results Boost HSBC Holdings plc. HSBC Hol...
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Rufus Blooter: Sous Vide Gyros (Doner Kebabs)
http://rufusblooter.blogspot.com/2014/04/sous-vide-gyros-doner-kebabs.html
Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Sous Vide Gyros (Doner Kebabs). Has started a "fakeaways" series on their blog. The other week they did doner kebabs. And it looked really good. Check out their recipe - it's really easy. I adapted it as follows:. 40g (approx) garlic, minced (about 7 cloves). In food processor, blend all ingredients well (pulsing to the point mixed well but not too gummy, don't let it heat up). Roll in cling film, ballotine-style, to form smoother shape. 3 hrs @ 63C.
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Rufus Blooter: PaleoCat Life Plan
http://rufusblooter.blogspot.com/2014/05/paleocat-life-plan.html
Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. PaleoCat on Fridge: a performance-art piece offering an unironic, melancholic comment on obligatory subservience to industrialized technology as required by neolithic sustenance practices. Or trying to get to the catnip. You might think the lesson from this would be that animals, including humans, do better on species-appropriate diets, but you'd be wrong. The real lesson is that we should all live just like this cat. Of course. Inside a suitcase? Subscri...
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Rufus Blooter: Hobbitses
http://rufusblooter.blogspot.com/2014/12/hobbitses.html
Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Saw the third Hobbit movie today. Wow was it awful. But not quite. Bad enough to be comical. Just boring. Takes real. vision? I'm not actually bent out of shape that it differed from the book. I got over that after the first movie. I might be the only viewer who liked the long, slow start of the first movie, where the dwarves eat a lot and have some fun at Bilbo's expense. It kind of went off the rails after that. Ok, the forbidden love between elf and dw...
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Rufus Blooter: 2014/08
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Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Financial Press: Mostly For Entertainment Purposes Only. One of the fun things about looking at stock prices on Google Finance is the scroll of related "news" items on the right. Most of these should really be ignored. Here's an example of my favourite perpetrator of uselessness, Motley Fool UK. And their "coverage" of HSBC for only a single month:. The Risks Of Investing In HSBC Holdings plc. Better-Than-Expected Results Boost HSBC Holdings plc. HSBC Hol...
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Rufus Blooter: 2015/05
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Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Heartened to see what I hope's a trend of the return of practical effects and the more judicious use of CGI. In 2008, Roget Ebert said of the ambitiously no-CGI film The Fall,. There will never be another like it.". And about all the cars. I can't wait to see it myself. UK Election Results 2015. The results are mostly in. Electing the UK parliament is done via what's the known as the "First Past The Post" [FPTP] voting scheme. The naming of this s...First...
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Rufus Blooter: 2015/07
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Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Why does the AI engineer need to ask the CEO to run a test? Why does the CEO not see the potential monetization of an AI breakthrough? Why does the Hugh Jackman character, an engineer at a robotics company, wear a sidearm? Chappie displays a childlike wonder and curiosity until he's dumped by the first black people he's encountered, at which point he's immediately afraid. Why? Why does he stand still and take a beating when he could just run away? I was c...
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Rufus Blooter: BurgerWeek 2
http://rufusblooter.blogspot.com/2014/04/burgerweek-2.html
Practitioner of the Traditional Pineapple Method. Not quite two years ago we did BurgerWeek (links for original at bottom). We decided it was time for another. We bracketed it with two from the previous BurgerWeek but tried five new (to us) places in between. Day 1: Lucky Chip. We kicked off BurgerWeek2 with a sunny Saturday lunch at Lucky Chip. Day 2: Honest Burgers (Soho). Honest Burgers: GBK for adults. So, the food? For a nation that can do fine dipping pieces of cod into batter and then the fryer, o...