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Wednesday 25 May 2011
Monday 23 May 2011
Tripe soup
Recently there was one of mine Finnish friends from Erasmus in Prague and we went to my favourite pub called Lokál. Because they all were vegetarians, they did not enjoy much the Czech cuisine, but they were bit surprised I have eaten a tripe soup there.
Tripe is cut animal stomach, mostly in Czech republic it is from cows. It has to be washed and boiled for several hours before it is edible. It looks like shit, smells terribly (when boiling) but tastes really good. The Czech tripe soup is bit like a goulash with marjoram.
I was looking at wikipedia and it seems, that we are not the only ones who are eating this. Tripe is eaten in quite a lot of countries. The Italian version looked quite interesting and I guess I will try to prepare it some day.
Tripe is cut animal stomach, mostly in Czech republic it is from cows. It has to be washed and boiled for several hours before it is edible. It looks like shit, smells terribly (when boiling) but tastes really good. The Czech tripe soup is bit like a goulash with marjoram.
I was looking at wikipedia and it seems, that we are not the only ones who are eating this. Tripe is eaten in quite a lot of countries. The Italian version looked quite interesting and I guess I will try to prepare it some day.
Friday 20 May 2011
Two medicaments which really work (for me)
Well apart from medicine for headaches I am not in need of any medications, but there are certainly two cases, where I found what really is the best (for me).
First condition is so called Aphthous ulcer, which is very painful, but totally harmless and usually (in my case) develops from mild injury in my mouth (like biting myself etc.). So it bothers me like twice a year. Well I have used lots of things, but this one works in seconds! It is called Oralmedic. The price is bit high, but with the frequency of the ulcers (in my case), it is totally worth it. The application is quite painful, after the treatment it looks still the same until it heals in couple of days, but! In seconds after application there really is no pain at all. (Well the application itself is bit painful, but worth it!). The whole process took five seconds, then I washed my mouth with plain water and spit it out and that was it!
The second condition is called diarrhea. And have to say usually I suffer from it by travelling to places which are southeastern from Czech Republic (like former Yugoslavia and such). The treatment I used is Imodium, again bit expensive, but again totally worth it. There are only 8 tablets in the package but in case of acute diarrhea I never used more than two.
First condition is so called Aphthous ulcer, which is very painful, but totally harmless and usually (in my case) develops from mild injury in my mouth (like biting myself etc.). So it bothers me like twice a year. Well I have used lots of things, but this one works in seconds! It is called Oralmedic. The price is bit high, but with the frequency of the ulcers (in my case), it is totally worth it. The application is quite painful, after the treatment it looks still the same until it heals in couple of days, but! In seconds after application there really is no pain at all. (Well the application itself is bit painful, but worth it!). The whole process took five seconds, then I washed my mouth with plain water and spit it out and that was it!
The second condition is called diarrhea. And have to say usually I suffer from it by travelling to places which are southeastern from Czech Republic (like former Yugoslavia and such). The treatment I used is Imodium, again bit expensive, but again totally worth it. There are only 8 tablets in the package but in case of acute diarrhea I never used more than two.
Wednesday 18 May 2011
Kindle order placed...
Having at home hundreds of books and almost no space where to put the newly bought... today I placed an order for Amazon Kindle... hope it was good idea, definitely one thing I could not do with kindle - reading in bathtub, which I was doing quite often... But still I hope it will read at least all the free PDFs I have (written by the surely dead authors).
Monday 16 May 2011
Thumbs up if...
Thumbs up if you are a douchebag who starts every comment on YouTube by: "Thumbs up if..."
Friday 13 May 2011
Petr Nikl - Líni
This my favourite song by Petr Nikl. Too bad that his webpage is not updated that much, because we have lots of his books and CDs at home.
Shnilí líni líně sní
Tisknou, ale netísní
Samí svatí v sítích spí
Svítí, ale nestíní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Shnilí líni písní zní
Nahlas, ale neslyšní
Dnem dní v ledu bledě bdí
Oblí, ale nehmotní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Shnilí líni líně sní
Tisknou, ale netísní
Samí svatí v sítích spí
Svítí, ale nestíní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Shnilí líni líně sní
Tisknou, ale netísní
Samí svatí v sítích spí
Svítí, ale nestíní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Shnilí líni písní zní
Nahlas, ale neslyšní
Dnem dní v ledu bledě bdí
Oblí, ale nehmotní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Shnilí líni líně sní
Tisknou, ale netísní
Samí svatí v sítích spí
Svítí, ale nestíní
Tuuu, tydu tu tuuuuu
Thursday 12 May 2011
Being old and wise
I have to say thay my wife's grandmother is really funny. She is over 80 years old, doctor of philosophy, and enjoying manual work and also she likes the thought that people who do not know her, think of her that she is just the "cleaning lady" :o).
Anyway it seems to me like she has discovered that now she is in the age when she can get away with almost anything, plus is making fun of people in the purest form of stereotype, that younger people are automatically thinking of the elderly as people with "dementia" or whatever. So here goes few examples of her wit and cleverness.
1) She was at the doctor and he told her - so we should do the next check in two months. And she replied: "One moment, I am quite busy, so let me check first my schedule if I have time at this day." So the doctor was like WTF?
2) She crossed the street not on the "zebra" and policemen who was walking nearby stopped her and said: "Hey, you should not be jaywalking, there is a zebra 50 metres there!" And she replied: "Oh young man, that is so kind of you that you want to carry my bag, but no hassle, I live over there I can manage." Then the conversation went for another 5 minutes where she pretended she has hearing problems and then the other policemen was like: "Hey man, let the lady go, not worth it" :o)
3) We were visiting her and she told me: "Oh look at this wonderful flower, how it blossoms so wonderfully." I did not know her that much back then so I was like looking at my wife and trying to explain in non-verbal language that the flower is from plastics, and that maybe her granny is bit mad, but she was just having a laugh at me.
Well I could have only one wish in my life, I wish I will be like her in next 50 years. I have never seen anyone like this. So intelligent, witty and hardworking. She could just enjoy being retired, but she still works three times a week for couple of hours.
Anyway it seems to me like she has discovered that now she is in the age when she can get away with almost anything, plus is making fun of people in the purest form of stereotype, that younger people are automatically thinking of the elderly as people with "dementia" or whatever. So here goes few examples of her wit and cleverness.
1) She was at the doctor and he told her - so we should do the next check in two months. And she replied: "One moment, I am quite busy, so let me check first my schedule if I have time at this day." So the doctor was like WTF?
2) She crossed the street not on the "zebra" and policemen who was walking nearby stopped her and said: "Hey, you should not be jaywalking, there is a zebra 50 metres there!" And she replied: "Oh young man, that is so kind of you that you want to carry my bag, but no hassle, I live over there I can manage." Then the conversation went for another 5 minutes where she pretended she has hearing problems and then the other policemen was like: "Hey man, let the lady go, not worth it" :o)
3) We were visiting her and she told me: "Oh look at this wonderful flower, how it blossoms so wonderfully." I did not know her that much back then so I was like looking at my wife and trying to explain in non-verbal language that the flower is from plastics, and that maybe her granny is bit mad, but she was just having a laugh at me.
Well I could have only one wish in my life, I wish I will be like her in next 50 years. I have never seen anyone like this. So intelligent, witty and hardworking. She could just enjoy being retired, but she still works three times a week for couple of hours.
Monday 9 May 2011
how to be loved on facebook
For example commenting the photos of your friends in a way as: "Oh my god, you look fabulous, chica, on your new profile pic! Not like the big fat walrus you are in real life! Next time when we have party, send us just the photo!"
Jusus, I really dont get the people with the photoshopped or design photos... We all know you, it is not like that if you upload your hype picture you are a different person now!
Jusus, I really dont get the people with the photoshopped or design photos... We all know you, it is not like that if you upload your hype picture you are a different person now!
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Monday 2 May 2011
Sense of Place. Sense of Space
I think that people back in the 19. century could really enjoy life and living in spacious places. According to some Czech data in the 19. century ppl were aprox. 165 cm tall. Only 3 % of population was taller than 180 cm.
Nowadays in the Czech Republic (data from 1999) 30 % of population is taller than 180 cm. I was already writing about similair topic here. I am personally 187 cm tall.
But what I want to write about today is bit different and concerns architecture.
The buildings from the end of the 19. century have ceilings 3,8 meter. Nowadays the standard is around 2,6 meter. And yet we are much taller. So in the 19. century people would have space above their heads for 2 meters at least. Nowadays, if you are tall like 190 cm you have no problem touching the ceiling with your hands, so you have like 60 cm above your head... that is quite huge difference.
Nowadays in the Czech Republic (data from 1999) 30 % of population is taller than 180 cm. I was already writing about similair topic here. I am personally 187 cm tall.
But what I want to write about today is bit different and concerns architecture.
The buildings from the end of the 19. century have ceilings 3,8 meter. Nowadays the standard is around 2,6 meter. And yet we are much taller. So in the 19. century people would have space above their heads for 2 meters at least. Nowadays, if you are tall like 190 cm you have no problem touching the ceiling with your hands, so you have like 60 cm above your head... that is quite huge difference.
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