As you can see, via Safeway.com, about 2.5 lbs of bananas costs $2.00, for five bananas.
In Chuxiong, it costs $0.20 USD for five bananas (at $0.19 USD/kilo).
-BOB-
Archive for November, 2006 Page 2 of 3
I’ve been watching these really helpful Pro Tools DVDs. Tutorials on everything related to Pro Tools, from setting up a unit, to editing, recording, file management, keyboard shortcuts, plugins, blah blah.
Anyway so I just watched chapter 13, “File Management of Pro Tools Systems”, and guess what! It turns out that Pro Tools automatically saves every take on your hard drive, whether or not you delete it inside the program or not. So I was advised to go and delete all the excess files (or “takes of ideas” I didn’t want, or bad takes, or whatever). I went through 6 different folders (or, 6 different songs/ideas) and by deleting all the garbage, I cleared out 6 GB.
To give you an idea, I have about 40 folders (or song/song ideas) to go. So it should give me more space.
I see no smoothie recipies, so either a) no one reads this blog, b) no one knows any recipies, or c) I should just keep making my own. I think I got a good one:
1 pear (skinned, de-seeded), 1 small banana, 150 ml whole milk, 50 ml water, little sugar = pretty good. Our blender also has this coffee grinder think, so next time I get coffee I’ll have to test out Helen’s “bigger coffee ground” theory. Okay, sleep time.
-BOB-
Anyone have any creative, good tasting smoothie recipies? We just bought a blender (pictured), it’s the only choice in Chuxiong, the Philips Comfort.. blender. I already made these, because I only have bananas:
Recipe: 3 small bananas + 250 ml milk + 1 pouch of soy/protein powder + a sprinkle of sugar
Result: goowie thick banana mess, bubbles formed like molten lava at the top, felt like a meal
Score: ?????
Recipe: 1 small banana + 150 ml spring water + 5 small ice cubes + 1 frozen ice pop (vanilla flavor + raisins)
Result: Water, ice chunk, cold, slight banana flavor, maybe needs two ice pops
Score: ?????
Recipe: 2 small bananas + 175 ml spring water + 1 soybean pouch + 1 frozen ice pop (vanilla flavor + raisins)
Result: Not bad, but after drinking three of these today I’m kinda sick of bananas.
Score: ?????
-BOB-
It turns out that the camera at the bottom of the hill is, indeed, turned on and connected to the system. 151 km/h = 91 mph (as seen on the top of the page) the fine was 200 RMB, or roughly $25 and 1 point (of 12) on my record.
The header (from left to right) displays the date, time, how fast and exactly where on the highway I was. Doh.
-BOB-
ps - the only reason I have this is because I kept asking the police officer at the station if he could email me the picture (it looks much more impressive in color with the red car, I must say). He said all he could do is give me a print-out, that’s why 1/2 the picture isn’t there. BTW, the Chinese license plates display a character for the province, followed by the city letter (in this case, E for Chuxiong).
That’s why it’s ?E 36958. ? = Yun, short for Yunnan, or ??
I’ve just be recording lately. Today, Chun Mei ate out on the balcony. The season is changing, interesting time. The other day the sky was red again.. I’ve noticed that it happens when there are these light blanket-like clouds during the day, then when the sun sets, it turns the whole sky a deep orange-red. Too bad I didn’t have my camera. Anyway, the weather is getting a little colder and the days are shorter, but it’s still in the 70s during the day.
ENLARGEThey love to play music of the Yi People at our little community 20 hours a day. It’s nice for tourists, but it’s driving us crazy.
We have spoken with the management and they have avoided our requests. Now we’re taking matters into our own hands.
The question is, how do we disable this speaker? I think if I unscrew it and clip the wires, that would turn it off. But we’re looking a more inconspicuous way to accomplish our goal. Of course, we would have to do this in the early hours of the night when the rent-a-cops are sleeping on duty.
Please advise. We don’t care that this is childish, I’m a recording musician and I can’t have that bleed into my mix anymore.
Would these ways work?
- pouring water into the speaker
- some sort of magnet
- Tom, is there a toxin I could dump all over it?
All ideas are welcome, thank you, this is not a joke!
-BOB-