With thanks to Liam, and everyone in Fenor Road Bowling Club.
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Making carob powder
The carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub in the Caesalpinioideae sub-family of the legume family, Fabaceae.
It is widely cultivated for its edible pods, and as an ornamental tree in gardens and landscapes.
The carob tree is native to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.
The word “carob” comes from Middle French carobe (modern French caroube), which borrowed it from Arabic خَرُّوبٌ (kharrūb, “locust bean pod”), which ultimately borrowed it perhaps from Akkadian language kharubu or Aramaic kharubha, or related to Hebrew haruv.
Ceratonia siliqua, the scientific name of the carob tree, derives from the Greek kerátiοn κεράτιον “fruit of the carob” (from keras κέρας “horn”), and Latin siliqua “pod, carob”.
In English, it is also known as “St. John’s bread” and “locust tree” (not to be confused with African locust bean).
The latter designation also applies to several other trees from the same family.
– extract from Wikipedia page for carob.
Inspect them and make sure they’ve not got signs of insects, or damage.
Left-to-right:
– Raw carob picked from the tree
– Remove remove the pod seeds. I used a small knife and cut them open, then removed the seeds.
– Cut/break the pods into small pieces.
– Sieve the carob pod pieces to remove any things that shouldn’t be there.(Bugs, leaves, etc.
Once boiled, remove the pods from the pot, and put them onto a baking tray.
Put them into the oven for 10-12 hours at 50-60 deg C.
Check them regularly, give them a shake to make sure they don’t stick.
Once dry, put them into a food processor. Be patient, it’s going to take some time.
After grinding, try to sieve them. Depending on how powerful your food processor is you might need to keep grinding!
Also, depending on how dry the grinds are you might need to dry them out more.
(The drier the grinds the finer the powder you can get.)
I had to dry them out more.
I needed to dry the grinds out for a few more hours. I put them back into the oven at 50 deg C for 3 more hours.
I spread them out on a piece of tinfoil to make it easier to pour them later.
Carob powder can be stored for up to 1 year in an airtight container, in a dark area. Carob powder doesn’t go off, but it will loose it’s taste.
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🛸 Spaceship controls
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What happens?
Y es de verdad, pero no sé que pasa
por la república sudafricana
Nelson Mandela, está entre rejas
y han concedido un Premio Nobel de la paz
A Desmond Tutu.
Y hablan de represión, contra mineros,
contra obreros y estudiantes negros, y es de verdad
la resistencia está entre rejas
Y han concedido un Premio Noble de la paz: (Ja, Ja)
A Desmond Tutu.
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Christmas dinner, part 1.
Now Winter at the end of day
Along the ridges takes her way,Upon her twilight round to light
November Twilight by Bliss Carman
The faithful candles of the night.
Ya falta menos.
(Copyright César Oroz Martija – La Tira de Oroz. Si tienes dinero compra unos libros y posters.)
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The Hello Machine
When I worked in telecommunications (late 2000’s) Electronic Switching Systems had been pretty much taken over by software switching systems, but the proprietary hardware, closely coupled to the software, was still very much an important component.
While the call switching and routing was no longer achieved by thousands and thousands of hardware relays switching dedicated connections between each “phone line”, the hardware operated the same. The installation process was pretty much the same as in this video, recorded in 1974.
The thousands and thousands of interconnecting cables connecting each hardware module were still needed. The teams of men (99% of my colleagues were men) were still needed to “dress” the cables. This jobhad been outsourced to “installation” companies who employed teams of men – usually a foreman (“gaffer”) and his team of often young fellas – would travel to each datacentre, stay for 5-6 days and carry out the installation of the hardware, the cables.
It was then the job of the “commissioning” engineer to manually check all the hardware and cables were correctly connected and seated. This was a laborious and tedious job which took days.
Then came the software commissioning – configuring the software manually building-up line-by-line of the logical connections.
Once this was done, then loading the system configuration for the particular client network.
Pretty much everything done in this video was still being done 30+ years later.
Today the hardware is commercial-off-the-shelf computing servers like IBM Bladeservers. They’re essentially no different to a high-capacity webserver, mailserver, or router.
Instead of requiring separate teams of people for the installation, commissioning it’s now reduced to 1, maybe 2 people.
Set One
Set Two
Buy their music, and t-shirts, and stickers and tea-towels.
And when you’re finished that, listen to some Caleb Klauder and his country band music.
Trallalero singing from Genova.
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