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Earl Leonard

Ballarat, Victoria, AUSTRALIA


Joined August 3rd 2008

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Started a NEIS course

March 15th 2010 04:37
To help with my Chidlren's music. I've been thinking long and hard about the different things I'm interested in and have decided that that is the one I'm most likely to be able to make a living out of. I still like cooking enough to want to interview chefs. I bought Julie & Julia for my wife as part of her birthday present Saturday, so, y'know, blogging about food is still a thing I think about, but it's just not going to become my focus. haha.

Um, Rach's browning some lamb shoulder right now, I'm not sure what for.

Oh, and I made my first cake the other day! (yes, Id never made a cake before).

It was a vegan chocolate cherry cake. Tasted quite good. Nice and moist. Might have used too much cider-vinegar. I'm not sure who owns the recipe, I'll check and get back to you with it sometime.
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James has been cooking in Antarctica!

January 15th 2010 05:22
James, the young cook whom I three part interviewed earlier on this sparse blog, has been preparing meals for people in Antarctica.

Yes, I respond to your thoughts, of course I'll be re-interviewing him shortly so you can all learn about it.

He was in touch recently and insisted I do so in fact.

So, anything in particular you'd like to know? (oo! Readers questions!)
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James has been cooking in Antarctica!

January 15th 2010 05:22
James, the young cook whom I three part interviewed earlier on this sparse blog, has been preparing meals for people in Antarctica.

Yes, I respond to your thoughts, of course I'll be re-interviewing him shortly so you can all learn about it.

He was in touch recently and insisted I do so in fact.

So, anything in particular you'd like to know? (oo! Readers questions!)
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Allergic To Eggs

November 17th 2009 06:34
A few months ago while I was making scrambled eggs* and Jasper got his hands to the mixing bowl and knocked it over.

He got some raw egg on his hands and then fidgeted while I tried to clean him and the floor up


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Brain teaser attachment

May 27th 2009 01:25
A friend of mine sent me an email with a brain teaser attached- an excel file that's password was the answer to a math problem. If you solve the problem you can open the file, and add your name to the list of people who've opened the file to forward it to someone else. It appears to have travelled around the world a bit which is kind of cool.

I don’t know if there's a little macro grabbing people's email details or something, but heck, I'm going to forward it anyway (not only did I put my name down, but I also added this web address and that of my myspace


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Personality of Handwriting and a small comment about Slash fiction

May 13th 2009 00:08
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Jet Li vs Tony Jaa

March 19th 2009 00:41
I as:

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Aquaman vs The Kraken

March 18th 2009 03:41
Repostings 2.

On 03/12/2008 as `Earlofthercs' I made the following comment (bad spelling and all- refer to my previous post comments section for an explanation on why I'm reposting comments with mistakes intact


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James' Interview Part 3

March 18th 2009 03:35
Check out earlier posts for parts 1 & 2 of this interview of a young chef. To change things up, this time I'll include the questions (answers in italics):

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James' Interview Part 2- including his Crème Brûlée recipe!

March 17th 2009 00:28
So here's part 2 of the interview I did with James ages ago. (still haven't recieved the answers from the other chefs I sent questions to). Check out my last post for part 1 (I'll post part 3 tommorow).

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Comment by Earl Leonard
on Started a NEIS course

March 17th 2010 02:07


Cook Focus
Earlsthoughts
Hi Morgan, yeah I believe in the importance of business plans! One `advantage' I have over other musicians in trying to make a living from gigging is probably my nine years of accounting experience! So yeah, initial and then constant (re)preparation, (re)assessment is key to good business practice.

Um, food. Whoo!

Comment by Anonymous
on 70's and 80's Pop Divas

December 4th 2009 00:22


Cook Focus
Earlsthoughts
See, I hear the word `diva' and I think Maria Callas or some other `difficult' opera singer! Im `only' 31, so its got to be something to do with upbringing.

Comment by Earl Leonard
on THE MOST BLOOD-CURDLING, SHADOW-FEARING VAMPIRE FLICKS EVER!

November 26th 2009 04:31


Cook Focus
Earlsthoughts
I was joking re Keanu in Dracula; he's truly terrible in it. But I dont think he's overall as bad an actor as he generallly gets called. He's good in small supporting roles like the dentist in Thumbsucker (and comedy in general) and he is always cast as `himself' when he's cast as lead; and that he generally does that well (I mean, look at all the obviously comical `whoas' he's given in everyfilm; its the opening line of Scanner Darkly for petes sake!). Then again, Johnny Mnemonic is one of my all time favourite films and not in an ironic way....

Anyway, horror films...

I loved Ginger Snaps, did you see either of the sequels (prequel)? Worth checking?

Loved Dog Soliders too and think its a pity the planned sequel to that fell through.

Heard they're gona make a bunch more 30 Days of Night based on the other GNs of the series. Onyl problem with that movie was my brain comparing the effects unfavourably with Templesmiths awesome artwork. Then again, he's one of my fav illustrators in gen.

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on THE MOST BLOOD-CURDLING, SHADOW-FEARING VAMPIRE FLICKS EVER!

November 20th 2009 11:22


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Earlsthoughts
Did Keanu really dot hat bad a job with Harker, I mean, I only read the novel at uni years ago, but I seem to remember ol' John being a bit confused/vacant/wooden/crippl ed by his own reserved nature and thought reeves nailed those traits with his performance

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on Shifting Responsibility Back To The Perpetrator

October 12th 2009 23:11


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Earlsthoughts
That's brilliant. I think I'd better keep a copy of this on my usbdrive for availability at all times to post in comment sections when some dude (or chick, because even that happens sometimes) is being an embarasment to the gender/species/planet (etc).

I assume the list is getting kuddo's on all these feminist blogsites you mention? In which case the originator must know the respect for them is there, even if they're chosing to be anonymous (or the credit's been lost in the re-posting process somewhere),

E.

Comment by Earl Leonard
on Happy Birthday: Four bottles of wine and a wig

September 1st 2009 04:18


Cook Focus
Earlsthoughts
Oh yeah, I meant to also say: Happy Birthday!

Comment by Earl Leonard
on Happy Birthday: Four bottles of wine and a wig

August 31st 2009 23:40


Cook Focus
Earlsthoughts
I think that often when`fat girls' have boyfriends who more closely fit the typical idea of `attractive' its actually a case that the `attitude' the girls already have is one of the things the boys find most attractive in the first place, not the other way around. (Plus the boobs and general cuddliness).

Its just conjecture though; maybe you could do a survey?

Comment by Earl Leonard
on A Model Scorned: Landmark Blogging Ruling

August 21st 2009 03:21


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Earlsthoughts
Nice one Morgan.

Though to be fair animosity can lead to humble generosity as well. (much like all mans creations and capacities, the internet can be used for both good and evil!)

Marc P, you're like a new Mr Terrific! (Im not coming on to you, its a comic book reference).

Comment by Earl Leonard
on A Model Scorned: Landmark Blogging Ruling

August 20th 2009 01:05


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Earlsthoughts
This is a great result, hopefully it'll mean people will stop trying to use the relative anomosity of the internet as a cowardly way of being pricks.

Manners people. They matter.

Comment by Earl Leonard
on Lost Dog: Have You Checked The Mirror?

June 17th 2009 01:58


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Earlsthoughts
I find it interesting that only one species of Magpie passes the test... I wonder what makes them different from the other species of Magpie (or other similar birds rooks/ravens/crows etc) or other species of whales, dolphins, porpoises other than bottlenose and killer for that matter. Do btoh african and Indian Elephants pass? Wouldn't that make it 10 species then? Which doesn't if only one of them does?

Also, Is that 18 month thing for babies an average rather than a definitive? It seems like my son has known his own reflection is just that, for over a month or so now, and he's a couple of weeks shy of 18 months still. I could be wrong, but he used to point and go `bub' but now he goes `Jabber' (his names Jasper) and he put a bowl on his head yesterday, then ran to the mirror in our bedroom to look, and laughed at the `boll-hat' (it was pretty funny). So yeah, is there deviation in that figure the same way there is for language/motor skills?

Interesting post either way.