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(thinks back of the Simpsons)
The basis of this lane seems to be simple geometry...
"I can't believe it. You've actually found a practical use for geometry."
You know what, Poly, I believe you're right! 
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A proper study of joint movement, which does involve some geometry, requires first or second year university physics because it also involves the
study of curvilinear and rotational equilibrium including a study of the concepts of force and torque.
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See? There's the problem: we have all Dutch words for that. Thank you Simon!
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Waved bye to my sister who stayed with us for a week.
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I'm just trying to get my motor running again after a moody hiatus following a viral attack. The wind is out of my sails, I'm sure it'll return again
soon enough.
Do you miss your sister when she's not around? Does she live far away?
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Amsterdam is about an hour and a half by train, so getting there when you don't have a car costs a bundle. Besides that, even with a car, it'll cost
you a bundle because you have to pay a parking fee outside her door. She has a single room on the 4rd floor (5th for Americans) and there's no lift -
we had to move her into that apartment twice and out of there once, that's a nightmare with all her books. My sister's very sweet but her living space
is rather cramped and lives in a miserable neighborhood - a couple of years ago a man was stabbed to death over a parking space below her balcony on
her birthday, and once a guy was shot dead around the corner behind the steering wheel of his car: it was in the middle of the night and the sound
effects were considerate. It took an hour for the police to arrive, but they couldn't move the corpse and they'd had to wait another hour for the
forensics - by then, an angry neighbour had pulled out the car battery.
if you go to visit her, better do something in town than actually stay at her place.
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That's a grim picture. Is Amsterdam really that bad, or were they just isolated incidents? A long time ago when I lived in North Carlton in Melbourne,
there was a shooting just down the road. The chalk outline of the body in the road was quite creepy. The cops were quite jumpy for a while. Once, my
brother and I were in a hurry to go some where and as we ran out the front door a bunch of cops jumped us and threw us in their car and hassled us
until they finally realised we actually lived there.
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Amsterdam is the hubbub of everything and is a major player in drugs criminality. It depends on where you go of course, there are a lot of nice
places, but my sister doesn't live in one.
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Hope she knows hope to stay safe!
but wait!
Primus is on NPR for their new record doing the songs from Willy Wonka?
WOW!
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/356890014/primus-music-makers-dreamer...
WOW!
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Whoo! Will check out!
Went to my pal yesterday for his birthday, baked some strawberry muffins for him. He's given up ganga and alcohol, but he's smoking all the more for
it. Hm.
He took me to the botanical gardens where he works, was quite beautiful.
Discovered I didn't pay for my return trip. Oops.
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Not much news here...
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Am having a hard time mailing with my blind friend - her internet browser is out of date and updated versions don't support her refreshable braille
display. (For the record, that's a total space age apparatus that she clicks under her laptop and that converts text on the computer into braille so
that she can read it.)
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Baked bokkenpootjes.
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Spent some time looking for a distant cousin, the one of whom my great aunt told me that in WW2 he was in the resistance and died in a concentration
camp. Found he was sent to Neuengamme and passed away on 16 December 1944, in the additional camp Husum-Schwesing. Husum-Schwesing only existed for
three months - the captives there were male political enemies who worked on the defense system Friesenwall. After a change of tactics, the Friesenwall
was deemed unnecessary and the camp was closed, with 300 people worked to death (or possibly shot by the sadistic Untersturmführer Hans Hermann Griem)
in vain. Most of the remains were repatriated after the war, and he now rests at the military cemetary in Loenen.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=45406379
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http://www.nordfriesland.de/Kultur-Bildung/Kulturarbeit-des-Kreises... As to not lose this link.
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In the pressure cooker at the moment. Three big exams coming up and a major practical report due through mid November. Yikes.
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What is this made of?
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Laconic version: it's sugar that's been glued to sugar with sugar, then dipped in sugar.
Long version: egg whites, sugar, almonds, butter and chocolate.
Good luck Poly!
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huum sugar, it seems good.
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You'll need:
for the biscuits:
3 egg whites
180 grams of sugar
chipped almonds
for the coating:
pure chocolate
for the cream:
butter
powdered sugar
coffee extract or cocoa
How much depends on the size you decide to make your bokkenpootjes. But the standard recipe is 2 parts butter for 1 part powdered sugar, and a
teaspoon of cocoa. This time around I had to use regular butter cream as I'd made a mistake.
-Remove baking tin from the oven and preheat the oven to 120 degrees Celsius. Put waxed paper on the tin.
-Beat the egg whites all the way stiff and mix in the sugar.
-Use a pastry bag to spray the whites in the chosen shape of your bokkenpootjes. Traditionally that'd be more or less rectangular, 2 by 6 cm. Or you
could make rosettas.
-Cover the biscuits royally with almond chips.
-Bake the whites for an hour to 90 minutes, depending on the size of the biscuits. There's a nice margin of error.
-Remove them from the oven and pick them off the paper. Let them cool.
-Prepare the cream: mix the butter with the sugar and heat it slightly.
-Stick the biscuits to each other, flat side to flat side. Be careful: meringues are fragile. Let them set.
-Melt the chocolate. Dip the ends of the biscuits in, put them on waxed paper and let them cool.
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