”Moderate Earthquake” Shakes California
Copied from the Cal Tech Web Site:
Magnitude 5.6 - local magnitude (ML)
Time Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 8:41:46 AM (PDT)
Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 15:41:46 (UTC)
Distance from Anza, CA - 9 km (6 miles) ESE (106 degrees)
Idyllwild, CA - 27 km (17 miles) SSE (151 degrees)
Palm Desert, CA - 29 km (18 miles) SW (221 degrees)
Palm Springs, CA - 33 km (20 miles) S (187 degrees)
San Diego, CA - 99 km (62 miles) NNE (32 degrees)
Coordinates 33 deg. 31.9 min. N (33.532N), 116 deg. 34.4 min. W (116.573W)
Depth 13.5 km (8.4 miles)
Location Quality Good
Location Quality Parameters Nst=101, Nph=101, Dmin=4 km, Rmss=0.29 sec, Erho=0.3 km, Erzz=0.7 km, Gp=18 degrees
Event ID# ci14151344
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Biden Might Have to Wait a While
For to hear him talk yesterday on Meet the Press one would have thought the man was already Secretary of Defense.
Methinks ole Joe will have to wait until Hillary gets elected.
Although like any Armchair General who’s never been a General, Hairplugs certainly has it all figured out. Down to how many soldiers we’ll be needing in Iraq and when.
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True Crime Updates
It was a real roller coaster this past weekend folks, with that case in Aruba and missing American teen, Natalee Holloway.
Late last night it was reported that the "blood" found in the trunk of the car of the "Aruba Three" was NOT blood.
Tomorrow will feature a true crime update with a theory about what’s REALLY going on in Aruba.
The Supremes
Put out that joint, the feds are coming.
Blog Post Here
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Al Queda Cell Caught in California
Blog Post Here
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True Crime-All Week-Aruba Case/Michael Jackson
No resolution; lots of rumors. Something posted on it every day last week. I’ll comment no more but look for a comprehensive true crime update post tomorrow.
Blog Post 1
Blog Post 2 This post has a link to a very interesting memo by a former victim of Michael Jackson.
Blog Post 3
Blog Post 4
Blog Post 5
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Congress
Janice Rogers Brown, other judicial nominees, passed cloture and given up and down vote in senate.
Blog Post Here
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Hearings on Downing Street Memo Begin June 16.
From Rawstory.com:
The hearings, which will be held next Thursday, will bring renewed attention to what is being called the "Downing Street memo," actually official minutes of a secret 2002 meeting.
Conyers office has revealed that they will introduce new documents that corroborate the Downing Street Memo at the hearings June 16.
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Political Cartoon of the Week
Just so, so appropriate.
"Hell's Kitchen"-Second Week
So I tuned in to the second installment of Fox's new reality show featuring a rather nasty chef fellow named Gordon Ramsey and twelve would be restaurant owners.
Which is, indeed, the prize for the contender who survives Ramsey's abuse and rises to the top. The winner will own an entire restaurant-Hell's Kitchen.
The second installment was much like the first episode but it seemed to me that Chef Ramsey was much nicer although there were still plenty of profanity and insults, including insults directed to restaurant customers.
I'm going to tune into the show again but mostly because of the previews of action to come next week. The preview vignettes showed much action that intrigued me, including a fire and one contestant taking what looks like a very nasty fall.
In this second episode Chef Ramsey once again shut down the kitchen when the entrees became log-jammed and the customers became restless. One table assigned to the red team actually ordered pizza and had it delivered to the restaurant!
This episode followed the same format as the prior week in that Chef Ramsey selected one person from the losing team-this week the red team lost-and that person had to choose two people from his team from which duo Ramsey would toss one out of the door.
Dewberry, a contestant that was emphasized over the first two episodes, was chosen AGAIN as one of the losing two chosen by his team mate. The first week Dewberry was not eliminated.
This past episode, which aired on Monday, 6/6/05, Dewberry was chosen because he threw down his towel and walked off the job during an especially hectic time in the infamous kitchen from hell.
For this Chef Ramsey demanded Dewberry's chef cloak and sent the man on his way.
A couple of observations: I notice that when the would-be chef contenders are in the midst of chaos in the kitchen that, well, they don't seem to be doing anything! When Dewberry walked off the job all he had been doing was stirring a pot. The other contestants look busy but that's just it, they look busy.
I don't see handsome plates being prepared for proper presentation or chefs in training chopping vegetables or rolling dough. The viewer must assume all of this activity is going on but what is actually shown on the TV screen seems to be more acting than cooking.
Also this show is going to have to get more interesting to the viewer. This viewer has no idea what is featured on the restaurant menu OR how any of the entrees are prepared.
I've seen a "Beef Wellington" pass over the hot table but it would be more interesting to see this dish prepared properly.
Part of the "allure" of this reality show, if there is one, is the preparation and ingredients featured in the restaurant entrees. At least to this amateur cook. Besides a particularly gruesome scene featuring the cleaning of squid there's been very little featured about food preparation.
For who would be most intrigued by this particular reality show but cooks? And yet we see the contestants cook nothing. Chef Ramsey spends more time yelling than actually teaching.
I plan to tune in next week as stated due to the intriguing previews. If I don't see more food prep than this viewer will not tune in again. An hour of cussing, yelling and contestant abuse just isn't going to carry me through twelve shows.
BY LOOKING AT A PICTURE OF A PERSON, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE IF HE IS A COMPUTER GEEK OR A SERIAL KILLER. GO WITH YOUR GUT FEELING AND CLICK ON YOUR CHOICE. YOUR SCORE WILL BE GIVEN AT THE END.
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