Jacob O'Reilly's Blog

Why is it that people are reading this blog after so long?

jacoboreilly — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:50:11 +0000

I am not google-worthy.

However, the WP interface has been pleasantly enhanced since my last visit. Sweet.

Very Good Taste Blog’s Omnivore’s Hundred

jacoboreilly — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:29:12 +0000

My VGT Omnivore’s Hundred: (see http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk/uncategorised/the-omnivores-hundred/)

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Great Olan Mills Photos

jacoboreilly — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:32:18 +0000

Great Olan Mills photos

I changed my mind…

jacoboreilly — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:54:22 +0000

omgiwtts

jacoboreilly — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:50:49 +0000

Hawksley Workman concert in Hfx

jacoboreilly — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:28:18 +0000

I have just been to the HW concert in Halifax. Real nice. Bonzer.

Here are some folks who I can only aspire to. Folks with hair of such prodigious proportions, busters of astonishing programming chops. The Programmer Dress Code

Now onto the self-made Steven Seagal marathon… (I can’t wait for Cockpuncher!)

Fruit compass… here

Moving?

jacoboreilly — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:26:53 +0000

I have been wondering how I should go about preparing to move. We intend to move to Fredericton in the summer, but I usually do very little preparation for such things and this time I want to be more prepared. Now, I’m not talking about the physical act of selling our house or actually moving our things, I’m talking more about getting mentally prepared. I intend to build a mental image of how my life will be when I am living there, and to do that I would like to conceive of scenarios substantiated by reality. Therefore, I will take a survey of my life: the things I do, the things I no longer want to do and the things that I would like to do but don’t seem to. This resulting simulation of my (more ideal) life will then be validated against the facilities and amenities in Fredericton. Any delta will reveal what I ought to get stressed about, and I can then set about doing so with some solid evidence to support it.

Welly pic

jacoboreilly — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:20:20 +0000

Thanks Wikipedia

Uber Cool High Nerd

jacoboreilly — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:38:22 +0000

Bonne Année

jacoboreilly — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:26:41 +0000

It must have a natural cause. It seems to have been put together so elegantly, that no person might have had more than a passing influence. Answering the question of whether it is divine is a judgment call, one that will be hard to justify. Not because that judgment is wrong or right, but because it steps beyond what is knowable and into belief. One can find many imperfections; upon many the deeper one looks. It being so complex that any coarse action or disagreeable result will be seen out of context, so separate from its purpose, that it would be difficult to give it credit.

Freedom of Will is clear, but to be following the folly of so many before makes its value questionable. It appears a waste to heave so much potential out into the world, only to require much of it to be untapped. Not wasted though, but in reserve, for when it is needed. The efficiency of churning out worker-humans in great numbers to serve the important caste is perhaps desirable, but perhaps it is what we already have. Perhaps this potential is already cheap, or perhaps there really isn’t much potential out there.

We judge miscellany of goings on and setbacks all too harshly. Do something useful sometimes, and don’t begrudge the necessities.