October 2005

Super Easy Improvised Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe

This is what I do to roast pumpkin seeds. As I am lazy and don't really want to go around buying special ingredients, here is my bare bones recipe for yummy roasted pumpkin seeds. You will note that I use the words "or so" a lot in the following recipe. Use this as shorthand for "improvise as required". This is a recipe that MacGyver would use in a pinch.

1. Wash the pumpkin seeds. I have not found a quick and easy way of doing this, nor of getting the pumpkin seeds separated in the first place. I assume that the only way is manual labor.
2. Lay out the pumpkin seeds on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil. Improvise as required if you do not own a cookie sheet or aluminum foil. I think non-stick aluminum foil would work best, but use what you have lying around.
3. Salt them pretty good.
4. Put them in an oven at 250‘’ F. According to my house of conversion, this is about 120‘ C.
5. Using a spatula (or pencil or stick or something), move them around every 20 minutes or so. The idea is that you don't want them to stick to the aluminum foil, burn, etc. You want them to dry out evenly.
6. They should be done in about 3 hours or so.

That's it! Eat and enjoy. I know other web sites have you adding oil and such, but if you are a bit culinary impaired (like I am), this is an easy way to get a nice result without too much work.

Mass Games

While listening to Emmanuel Goldstein's podcast (Off the Wall), I heard a lot of talk about North Korea's Mass Games. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to Google right now and search for it. Here is a website with some pictures. There is fantastic choreography and - my favorite part - thousands of people that hold up individual color papers (pixels) to form immense pictures.

People I'm Looking For

Ok, here's a list of people I'm looking for and would at least like to drop a line to...hopefully someone will google their name and point them to this page.

Lauren Meserve, Alex Benitez, Alexander Spivack, Jeff Wernberg, Jeff Straley

More as I think of them.

-- Updated Oct 18

Peter Andersson, Jonny Thomsen, Thomas Funck, Kevin Douglas King, Jared Groth, Mike Goatley

Online Microscope

Here's an online microscope. Pretty cool stuff to look at, including pacreatic islets.

New Page of Friends

Well, here is my new page of friends (getting rid of the old one since most of the links have died. Bummer. Well, I want to keep the names and places somewhere online here in hopes that those that have lost their site will contact me sometime in the future.

Waldorf Family Tree - Links to the Waldorf family tree and family news. Here's another family tree.

Peter Andersson - From my days in Trollhättan at Saab. Check out his band, Jungle Juice. This link seems to be really old. Peter: Var är du någonstans? Kebab?

Ze's Homepage - Another Saab friend, Markus Winqvist, with his topics about everything from Sweden to Thailand to Trains!

The Mercury Monterey -53 Homepage - Hans Tanderud and his 1953 Monterey

Thomas Eriksson's Homepage - Trolhättan friend, lots of Win 98 info. He and his wife Pia Eriksson were really cool. Now, the page has vanished away (Folkshögskola i Trollhättan websida)

Fred Ghofulpo - My Dad´s homepage - done quite nicely by Virginia Jones! Well, it was, until it vanished. Here's a copy of it on archive.org. The graphics seem to have disappeared.

Homol'ovi Home Page - Where I worked in Arizona doing archaeology one summer. People I'd like to drop me a line: Doug Gann, Lauren Meserve, Alex Benitez (lost your e-mail, sorry).

Tom Jennings - GE Friend, avid runner

My guess for the future of Google

Writing this down now so I can claim the ultimate prize of being the new spokesman for the internet...

Google's future vision is going to be based around using their VPN software to connect to a virtual Sun machine (hence the link with Sun) and allow the user to save/edit/browse/whatever (using StarOffice) from anywhere (hence the WiFi stuff in San Francisco and buying up all the fiber).

Remember, you read it here first.

Update: October 9th: Well, I guess it's not going to happen...for now. Guess I'll keep my day job.

JDRF Walk for Diabetes Part II

The JDRF walk for diabetes went quite good -- Team William raised $270. I played guitar with a bunch of guys from GE in a band called "Third Rail". Here's a pretty cool picture from the stage.