Denver PD Destroys Micro Homes For The Homeless

This is a funny report about a sad story. Be kind to the homeless, and help those in need.

Link: Linux Set System Clock and Hardware Clock

Cool link, explains how to set your system clock and hardware clock on a linux box.

http://notes-on-using-linux.blogspot.com/2015/12/setting-system-clock-and-hardware-clock.html

ALGORITHM: The Hacker Movie

Just finished watching this. I thought it was a really good movie.I wasn't overly crazy about the ending ;-)

Driving Around Town Today.

I was out doing some holiday shopping earlier, and snapped a few pictures of my town, Buffalo NY. Thought I'd post them here for anyone that might be interested in where I come from.

The first stop. Elmwood Poster Art.

This is a shop in Elmwood Village. I spent most of my early teens in this neighborhood when I was a kid. It use to be all bars, punk rockers, and skateboard kids, now over the years it's beginning to undergo gentrification, and is home to mostly hipsters and yuppies. Still a fun neighborhood to shop, and I didn't realize it at the time, but Elmwood Poster Art had just what I was looking for.

The S&M Markets

I passed this as I waited at a light, and couldn't help but giggle at the name. It's a neighborhood grocery, but I wonder if anyone ever accidentally stopped in there looking for some leather whips, and a bottle of KY. Come on, you thought it too.

Black Rock New York  Baby!

This is in Black Rock. It's in a college neighborhood, I just liked the mural, so I took a picture.

Tell me this doesn't look creepy.

This is the old insane asylum. I think it was SyFy Ghost Hunters did a TV special here. Ever since I was a kid, the place had tales of being haunted. We broke in one night and did a little urban exploring and the place definitely had a creepy vibe to it. Some of the rooms still had shackles and chains where they would keep the mentally unstable patients. All I'll say about that, is we pushed each other to explore as much of the place as possible, but I think everyone was relieved when we finally decided to leave. The place is currently being renovated as a high end hotel. I wonder if they'll tell the guests it was once a haunted insane asylum. LOLZ

Side entrance to the insane asylum.

I forget how old this building is but it's really old. It will make a really nice hotel when finished. It's one of the things I love about Buffalo. The city is filled with all kinds of old Victorian architecture, and cute little neighborhoods.

My old stomping grounds. I just about lived in this bar all throughout my 20's.

 This is my old stomping grounds. I just about lived in here from my 20's to my early 30's. The bar use to be called the Pink Flamingo and when I hung out was home to bikers, metal heads, punk rockers, and all the local riff raff. Now it's just referred to as the Old Pink.  Good freakin times here! I still stop in there from time to time, and the place hasn't really changed much over the years.

Here's one of those cute neighborhoods I was talking about.

This is down the street from the bar. I love this neighborhood. The area is called Allentown, and they host a huge Art Festival here each year. I think it's the second biggest Art Festival in the country. People come from all over to check it out.I'll post more pictures of Allentown , it's one of my favorite parts of the city.

Well, that's it. Our tour of Buffalo has come to an end. I'll post more pictures from time to time. Thanks for checking them out and feel free to comment.

Nats Wolf - Guitar Voodoo Child (2009)

I just friended this guy on my Tsū page. I've met some of the coolest people over there. Anyway, I thought this was some of the coolest guitar playing I've heard in a while.


You can check out his youtube channel here.

Here's his band page.

Follow on tsū.

Louders Pro Duo band page.

I'll Just Leave This Right Here... PunDay Nerd Humor

This just cracked me ...

 More terribly funny puns found here.

Spirits of Autumn [Autumn Psybient Compilation Vol. 2]

Woke up to this beautiful compilation of trance and imagery. With current world events and everything that's going on in Paris, sometimes we just need to take a deep breath, chill out and listen to some good music.

 Music is one of those things that knows no borders and people can relate to it from every walk of life. For the most part I've found people are the same throughout the world and are generally decent, we only have corrupt governments and imaginary lines that divide us all.

Love and light,

 The Dood

Photography: Oil on Canvas Gimp Edit Taken In Gasport NY

Oil on Canvas photo manipulation done in Gimp.

An image I took with my Samsung Stratosphere II phone camera. Edited in Gimp with the oilify filter, canvas filter, and some contrast and light adjustments.

Recipe: Homemade Beef Stew

It was a rainy cool day in Western New York. Our autumn and especially November have been a little nicer than usual. During the cooler autumn and winter months I enjoy cooking.

 Today I had a bunch of errands to run around town.  I took care of those then grabbed some wine and some stew meat and put together a pot of my beef stew. This is the perfect meal on a cool autumn or just plain cold winter day.

Ingredients 

• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 pound mushroom (more if you like The Doods a big fan of the shrooms :-)
• 2 cups chopped onion (about an onion and half chopped however you like)
• 4 garlic cloves (smashed or chopped)
• ½ cup all purpose flour
• 2 lbs beef cut into stew cubes
• ¼ to ¾ teaspoon salt (to taste)
• 1 cup dry red wine (I use a cheap burgundy but not too cheap)
• 2 14oz cans beef stock (unless you have your own)
• 1 tablespoon thyme
• 1 or 2 bay leaves
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 5 or 6 chopped carrots (more if you like carrots)
• 5 or 6 potatoes cut into quarters

 Preparations: 

 Pour a little olive oil into the bottom of a rather large pot. I'm no Martha Stewart over here, so I just used the biggest one I had in the cupboard. DO NOT USE A NON STICK COATED PAN You have to fit all the above ingredients in it.

 Anyway, once you select your pot, pour a little olive oil into the bottom on medium high heat and get it nice and hot. Dump in your mushrooms and sauté for around 5 minutes or until they begin to brown. Once brown, dump them temporarily into a large bowl. If there's mushroom juice in the bottom of the pan, pour that into a coffee cup and save it, that's great flavoring there.

 Now dump another squirt of olive oil into the bottom of the pan, around another tablespoon, and take your onions and sauté around 10 minutes. I chop the onions in quarters, then let them fall apart while frying. When the onions get a nice golden color, toss your mashed up or chopped garlic cloves in there and cook for an additional minute or two. Now add the onion garlic mixture to your mushrooms.

 Remove your pot from the heat for a minute, and dump a ½ cup of flour into a bowl or shallow pan and then take your meat and dredge it through the flour. You're basically just coating the meat with flour. This will help thicken the broth as it cooks and gives it a real nice flavor.

 Now return your pan to a medium heat burner, add another dollop of olive oil , around 1 tablespoon and brown your meat in the pan. You might want to brown half, and then the other half if it won't all fit at once. Sprinkle with salt and pepper as it cooks. When meat is browned, add it to the mushroom mixture.

 Now the bottom of the pan should have a nice brown coating on it. Don't clean that out. That's all flavor! Add your 1 cup of wine and of course pour a glass for yourself. You deserve it. Cheers! Dump in the thyme and then take a spoon, or spatula and loosen and scrape all those brown bits on the bottom of the pan. DON'T DO THIS WITH A NON STICK PAN!

Once you've scraped up all the loosened bits of flavor add your beef broth, your mushroom juice if you have any, bay leaves, and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil then add the meat, onion, garlic and mushroom mixture to the broth. Cover and simmer about an hour on a medium low setting.

 After the hour is up, add your chopped carrots, and quartered potatoes. Cook for about 45 minutes covered then another ½  hour uncovered stirring occasionally. This will thicken the broth and give it a nice stew texture. That's it you're done. You should be fairly buzzed on your wine now, and have a nice case of the munchies.

 Enjoy!

Beef Stew Finished and Ready To Eat!

Serve with biscuits and beer or wine. The Dood buys the cheap .75 cent generic biscuits in a tube and cooks them in the oven.