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17:42
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A animated flash advertisement when I logged off my webmailer led me to the page of Volvic fuer UNICEF, an initiative between (the water brand) Volvic and UNICEF that provides a simple marketing idea:
Buy 1 litre of Volvic naturelle water and they (Volvic) will pay the equivalent of 10 litres in form of financial aid to UNICEF - who are said to be drilling boreholes in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Wow.
What a perfect way to improve your public image.
Nothing new though, the project has been up and running since 2005 now, and there’s a credible (German) journalist doing his “research” on the ground to see every donation is properly used.
Now, before I delve into the usual criticism when it comes to dev aid, lemme get this straight:
People in Europe WANT to help other - poorer - people and they want this aid to arrive as a 100% sum. Obviously, it’s a noble idea.
See that screenshot above? It comes from the Volvic fuer Unicef website and informs visitors about recent activities, tells them where Ethiopia is, which region will benefit and even - and that’s a bit strange, I think - provides us with a gallery of donors that have already logged in on that site and donated for this cause.
Now, those 92 boreholes/wells may not be such a huge figure to the groundwater discharge problem, but as far as I am informed, “water is in abundant supply on the world’s poorest continent” and “poorly managed”.
Poorly managed, oh yes indeed.
So what do you - dear readers - think about such an intiative, considering various complex aspects such as
a) the usage of a mismanaged, but proud and rich country like Ethiopia to highlight some burning Millenium Developement Goals?
b) private companies trying to raise their sales & creating a positive product image by donating a certain amount for an x quantity of sold goods?
c) consumer’s desires to share their relative wealth with other, less fortunate people on this planet in a politically correct way?
As for me, I am bit undecided. It always freaks me out when I see this kind of advertisement (Africa = poor = help needed) - as already seen the other day.
Even IF we share 1 Euro/pp with another nation of our choice - will things improve? And is it only a matter of financial aid?
What about poor management? What about those young academics who are educated abroad and then have to settle for a 300,- EUR/month job with a governmental institution once they come back? Are they going to be the Cheetah generation? Or are they rather going to stick to the rules and manage to climb the institutional job ladder in order to support their families and continue managing the mismanagement they’ve inherited from the retiring Hippos?
I think that Ethiopia does not really need this help. Sure, it’s a nice gift and comes for free + provides further income, but is this the way to help?
How do you feel about this?
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18:07
From: Kikuyumoja's realm
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As soon as I figure out which car it is, I’ll add it to my list.
That’s one hot Kikulicious garimoja there. Damn. I want this car.
I guess it’s all due to the fact that we had this car in the 1970s. Nissan Skyline.
Ha! Makes me think of the KJT I’ve seen the other day…muahaha.
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13:31
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Who needs electricity btw if there’s someone like Theo Jansen?
It is so amazing!
Now where are these guys like Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi or William Kamkwamba to take over? Oh, and check out this Phun version on YouTube.
Next: a wind-powered commuter train supplying Nairobi’s CDB with Githurai?
No, seriously, someone needs to turn these mechanisms into an Afrigadget asap!
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14:56
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“This private blog is presently not open because it is closed” JKE
…for some reasons I just love this pic above [via, thx!] and maybe also because it perfectly helps to illustrate my silence aka blog-abstinence earlier this week - due to this:
Approx. 4kgs of papers related to the beautiful subject of hydrof******mechanics - an exam I had been procrastinating since 2004 (!) and eventually maneeeeegehhhd to passssss. :-)
Can u imagine I even carried this material to EAK the other day?
Kawia ufike.
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18:14
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Although - or maybe because - I diligently clean my HP nx8220 laptop on a regular basis (sometimes even with Isopropyl acohol), the rubber on my laptop’s touchpad today went into early retirement.
Nothing to worry about, but then… you know there are some things in life that have a 1a priority - and my machine here apparently has that status.
A quick search on eBay revealed no luck in finding the right spare part - and it’s a pity because I recently had another HP nx8220 here where I exchanged some parts with my current machine and somehow missed to change the touchpad as well. Stupid.
So what do you do if spare parts aren’t available and things keep on bugging you? Right - fix it in a jua kali way:
Now where would I be without my Leatherman Wave? Ahh….priceless.
Removed the touchpad from the laptop, opened it, cleaned it, swapped buttons (!), removed the rubber “hole” and reassembled it. Quick fix, took me 15 minutes. Not as pretty as a used & cleaned touchpad from The Bay, but works fine and once I’ll get around a decent spare part, I can still exchange it.
Now, I really have to think about limiting my daily usage to avoid any further damage. Can’t be that I’ve already ruined a keyboard and now this touchpad within a timeframe of almost 2 years. HP Compaq built quality? HP = huge problems, high price. But still the best laptop I’ve ever used. Except for my landlord’s ThinkPad X41 of course. :-)
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10:32
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A short tweet by fellow blogger Sascha Lobo brought me to smava.de and to the question if smava could also work in a country like Kenya?
In other words: do we have to leave this interesting market to the big players only - who are good at targeting Kenyans abroad (~ trips from StanChan & Equity Bank CoKE to the UK & USA etc.)?
(The German) smava.de is similar to zopa.com - a “social lending” platform, much like kiva.org but targeted at everyone - unlike kiva that “lets you lend to a specific entrepreneur in the developing world, empowering them to lift themselves out of poverty”.
So I was wondering: could zopa/smava also work in Kenya? As far as I’ve understood it so far, kiva is targeted at entrepreneurs in such areas where banks are far away and these kind of microcredits a good opportunity to obtain a loan to an otherwise non-existent alternative.
But what about zopa and smava that clearly depend on providing a risk assesment aka credit rating? Do we have such external rating services in Kenya for private customers?
Ati, I am not the mbeca guy here, but maybe you are and know much more about the prevailing conditions in the credit industry. In any case, please feel free to leave your comment below. Thx! :-)
As for me, I was just thinking about how the provision of such an online platform could help pull back assets from abroad in a much easier and probably also much more interesting way as you get to choose where to invest + won’t have to pay your bank for this. Is it really that simple?
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21:48
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What’s this?
Blog material.
No, seriously - what you see here is my broken Tusker polo shirt.
Bought this One-Way XXL shirt sometime in 2006 and after only 4 months in use, the collar suddendly fell apart. Obviously, there’s something to the one-way name that didn’t quite appear to me when I coughed up the mbeca for this Tusker goodie. Also, “XXL” is meant to be read: “this shaat will shrink once you hand-wash (!) it at 30°C”.
A tailor in Embu even tried to fix it the other day but it just wouldn’t work. Apparently, the collar went into early retirement.
I am the polo shirt guy. That’s why you’ll hardly ever see me in t-shirts. BarCamp Nairobi shirt? Africantees.com? Naaa….no polo shirt (no collar), no deal with JKE.
Actually, I just bought this polo shirt because of the TUSKER logo, but then: I wouldn’t mind if there was “JKE” on it instead, as long as it comes in a good quality. Something that will stay in shape after washing (and mind you, I am not using any dryer), won’t expand like those many Made-in-Bangladesh clothes as found @ H&M & Zara and that’s still affordable.
What’s the best shirt then? I hate to admit it, but I quite like these Ralph Lauren classic polo shirts because - if original - they’ll just be as solid as Barbour wax jackets.
The other day I decided to get a used (ati, I am cheap..) RL polo shirt from eBay and…well…
…baaad idea. What you see above are two RL polo shirts in size XL. The turquoise one is my old one, the black one on top is the “new” used one from eBay. Can you see the difference? Atiriiri…how am I supposed to cover my Tusker belly with such a short shaat?
So, because I know I am not the only one out here with peculiar dressing habits, let me ask you: is there any brand out there you can recommend? Any polo shirts that will just remain in shape after the 20th washing and that come without any stupid logos or brandings? I know you folks from the USA will laugh about this, but there seems to be a difference between the clothes you can buy in Europe and those you’ll get in the US. Even if they are all made in some low cost countries.
@Bwana Kobia: polo shaats @Africantees and I’m your next customer! :-)
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21:09
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I’ve attended the IFAT 2008 today - the “15th International Trade Fair for Water - Sewage - Refuse - Recycling”. There’s an IFAT in China and one in Munich, Germany. I had already attended the last IFAT in 2005 and was once again invited to Munich this time around, with my focus being set on low-budget solutions.
As you may already know, I am active in the field of sustainable sanitation and consequently tried to spot those solutions that go beyond the typical high-tech gadgets one would expect to (and will) find on such an international trade fair. The IFAT really is THE fair for all technical solutions with 2.560 exhibitors and 120.000 visitors from all over the world. Think of waste collection, recycling machines, complete sewage treatment plants with all their pumps, screening plants and technical state of the start guidelines. In short: if you’re into environmental engineering, this is your fair.
I was still a bit dissappointed though to find almost the same products I had come across in 2005 and, obviously, most of them being from the high-tech range. In other words: high-tech = $$ (€€), but not necessarily sustainable.
For example, most sewage treatment plants still produce lots of sludge that needs to be processed, i.e. dried, composted or incinerated. To my mind, such a procedure is far from following any sustainable concept. The only sustainability to that is that it provides a secured income to those companies active in the sale of treatment options. The utilisation of sewage sludge on the other hand is still discussed on local levels though, which each federal state (in Germany) having his own perception of what *should* be done with it and how the law should be adjusted to provide a legal framework aka the pressure on the industry to act accordingly. A ticking time bomb, I think. But anyways, politics are an evil game and there sure are lots of different interests at stake here.
Another example could be the availibilty of various sorting machines used in recycling different fractions of plastics, glass, metalls and so on. Nice. But will they also allow an upcycling of products? What they won’t tell you, is that most recycled materials only provide enough quality for a downcycling process. Or take the refuse incinerators. You mean we should burn all *waste* to generate thermal energy? Is that sustainable in any way? Again, there’s a huge industry behind this - and they will make sure that this technology will always be sold.
Well, instead of elaborating any further criticism, lemme switch to the interesting part and show you some mixed visuals I had captured on the IFAT 2008:
One crazy exhibitor put up this masive ice block on their stand. It lasted from Monday to Friday (5-9 May) to melt approx. 20cm on each side. An impressive way to attract visitors…
The battery recycling booth. As mentioned earlier, I am dreaming about an Africa-wide battery recyling system which would help us remove ticking time bombs from your local shamba. Let’s face it: most ppl (world-wide) just dispose of their empty batteries in the next takataka site. Would you want to have leaking batteries sitting next to your sukuma plants? Well - this scenario is still the norm, and ppl can’t be blamed for it because a) they were previously used to organic waste (maize combs, goat bones, etc.) and b) were given toxic products. Batteries are harmful to the environment! So as long as they aren’t produced of environmentally friendly materials, we will need to collect them and, if possible, try to recycle them. Problem is: Only the contained nickel will be of interest and already is a commodity with limited availibility. Hence any battery recycling system would have to be big enough to cover a critical mass and also require the support of future generations who are well sensitized to this matter.
The Stiftung Gemeinsames Rücknahmesystem Batterien (GRS) is a foundation for the recycling of batteries and financed by all manufacturers of batteries in Germany. Again, there are those batteries for sale in Europe (and Kenya, for instance) which were made in China. Those Asian manufacturers never paid their contribution to this foundation, but an up-coming law will change this in future where those who put any batteries on the market will have to pay a levy. Good.
One of those HUUUUGE self-propelled compost turning machines.
Nice little colour-coded plastic containers used for the separation of household waste fractions, made by an Italian company. Those grey coloured versions are already in use in an Italien city - adjusted to the colour of the pavement so that they aren’t that obvious (in regard to the Italien waste collection system which is different from the German, also due to climatic differences). Liked those very much and thought that these sizes would prolly sell quite well if sold through IKEA (hint, hint). Customers in Europe want this (really!) to sort their household waste.
A dinousaur made out of old printed circuit boards and other electrical materials. Obviously, this company is into the E-Waste business.
The Talking litterbin! Took this pic for fellow blogger Afromusing :-)
The product manager of this company - OTTO - the biggest and best known manufacturer of public waste collection systems (see picture below with a wall full of this well-known black 2-wheel container almost every private household in Germany owns) told me that a customer had the idea of fixing solar panels on top of this litterbin and putting a motion sensor inside so that it actually talks to you (e.g. “thank you, have a nice day”, etc. - adjustable). Well, I think that is a very smart and simple idea. Imagine this version in Kenya! Yani, it would “walk away” within a matter of 2 days, sindiyo? ;-(
Still, the idea of combining (simple, polylithic) solar cells with approved litterbin systems is smart. I like it.
Talking of this well-known “Großmülltonne”, there was this 30 year old, used 2-wheel container on display. Silke volunteered to jump in on the picture as both were “born” in 1976 (this container is as old as she is and it is STILL in good condition). Impressive.
Yeah - that’s an old VW Golf II on top of this Hammel Primary Shredder.
Silke then told me: “Hey, you just took that pic because of that *girl* in front of the machine.”
Being the nerd I am, I only then realized her sitting there and consequently told Silke: “Hmm…ati, it’s true, there’s this beautiful blonde vamp in front of the machine. What a waste. This sure is one machine that will attract any man just because it crushes cars. We like demolition. But it’s an interesting sight. Lemme blog this.”
So here you go.
I actually combed through all stalls at IFAT to find this interesting piece of “furniture” I had already seen way back in 2005. That’s a 4-wheeled metal container normally used for collecting waste - turned into a comfy sofa. Smart!
My new friend Keith from seepex.com. Keith is a Sales Manager from the US who doesn’t speak German, but he sure had an interesting product. See these two stator pumps? The one on the right side is the conventional product, the one on the left is the newly improved version coming with a 4-piece cover that may be dissassembled within 6 minutes. The old one within 20 minutes. If you’ve ever worked with such pumps, you will know the pain such a system will give you. With the new rubber housing, the exchange of parts on this pump is such an easy game.
Keith gave me a ring spanner to test it myself and hey - I had lot’s of fun dissassembling and reassembling it within the given timeframe. This inconspiciuous improvement will be LOVED by many many frustrated fundis out there….now that’s what I call a Smart Stator Pump.
Eventually, “our” little jua kali model of a Urine Diversion Dehydration Toilet (UDDT) on display at the booth of newly founded German Water Partnership (GWP). Imagine the faces of these guys from GWP when we turned up with our improvised UDDT - a …..*ahem*….low-budget? solution on display in a smaller scale, because these approaches may not be a guarantee for huge revenues, but they sure close the nutrient loop and provide an efficient use of waste streams (faeces, urine, greywater). This is a model for sustainable sanitation. And besides, such toilets are already in use all over the world (the model above was prepared by students from The Philippines, for instance) and provide sanitational facilities to those areas where ppl just can’t afford access to conventional sanitation systems. And that’s about 2,4 billion people out there who are still lacking access to a decent toilet.
Ok, enough for the day. Hope these pictures could provide you with some insight into the world of evironmental gadgets, even though I believe the real technical solutions are still to be developed and will hopefully provide much more sustainability than what’s currently for sale. As long as low-budget / DIY solutions are still considered to be somewhat “inappropriate” for “developed” countries, we’ll prolly continue running sites like Afrigadget because that’s where technology meets people’s needs. There will probably always be a market for each niche, but let me be honest: the World’s environmental issues won’t be solved by high-tech machines ONLY, but by smarter products and brothers and sisters who will actively walk their talk on environmental protection and start with cleaning their own backyard.
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9:31
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The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel today published an interesting list (compiled by Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.) of cars driven on behalf of German Federal Ministers - indicating the consumption [in l / 100km] and the carbon dioxide emissions (original PDF, 0,2 MB).
The list isn’t complete as some Ministries refused to provide information on this (due to “security” reasons), but nevertheless - it shows that there’s still a lot of change needed to shift the issue of saving the environment from a pure discussion level to an action level.
On the other hand though, the best solution would be a no-emission-car or one whose emissions aren’t harmful to the environment (~ in a McDonough/Braungart/C2C-way). Well, dream on…
(+ compare this with the cars driven by GoK officials….*sigh*)
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19:25
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Maybe it’s just me and my way of looking for the core information on websites that goes beyond the usual marketing blabla - but could it be true that there have been various Kenyan websites coming up lately that actually do NOT have any serious content? Or at least not much more than what the webdesigner had initially put up online and has since been waiting for a content update (to be published online)?
Where are those content editors out there? Do I smell a job opportunity out there for young folks? Ppl who will help companies and organisations to edit their message for online publishing?
Am asking because I sometimes come across such websites where I think: aah, ok, these guys just had some extra funds and wanted to be online for no apparent reason and actually haven’t thought about what to put online. Makes me think of Ayittey and the leaking bowl…
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17:39
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Ah, wieder so ne verlogene Scheisse…oder vielleicht bin ich auch einfach nur zu anspruchsvoll, als dass mir der Sinn einer solch öffentlichen Mobilmachung nicht bewusst werden will.
…Hier findest du die neuesten Informationen über Strategien, Musik und Kleidung der Neonazis.
Aufm Studivz läuft zZt so ne Werbung gegen Nazis, was ja auch politisch korrekt ist und sicherlich wunderbar ankommt. Wenn der Sinn des Studivz darin besteht, so vielen aussagekräftigen oder gerne auch sinnlosen Gruppen beizutreten, die dann in ihrer Gesamtheit ein mehr oder weniger genaues Bild bzw Image eines *Profils* wiedergeben sollen, dann erfüllt diese Gruppe sicherlich auch ihren Zweck. Nebenbei wird so die Plattform “sauber” gehalten.
Für mich befremdlich wirken solche Aktionen allerdings hinsichtlich des Feindbildes - als dass ich da zu wenige Idioten erkennen mag. Es mag ja sein, dass in meinem kleinen Mikrokosmos zu wenige Neonazis auftauchen um der Gesellschaft jetzt kollektiv den Stempel aufzudrücken, aber ich wundere mich immer noch. Ja, ich wundere mich.
Mein österreichischer Vermieter würde jetzt sagen: “Wissens, die Deutschen…naaa…die sind so faschistisch. Also die Anderen auch, aber die Deutschen die rufen im Radio an um ne Radarkontrolle zu melden, und wundern sich dann wenn ein Kind doootgfahrn wiard. Ich find die sollten dafür ins Gfäängnis kommn.”
Hmm. Vielleicht nicht unbedingt das beste Beispiel, jedoch: bei solchen Aktionen, die dann nur einen *click-of-a-button* entfernt sind, springen viele auf den fahrenden (Image-)Zug, aber bei anderen Dingen, die ein selbstständiges, eigenverantwortliches und mutiges Handeln beinhalten, wird oft der Schwanz eingezogen. Das ist so eine falsche Genauigkeit für mich.
Bei einem so klar ausdefinierten Feinbild vermag es ein Leichtes sein, “Mut” oder Gruppenzugehörigkeit zu beweisen. Die für mich offene Frage: wieso gibt es so eine Werbung nicht für Zivilcourage, sozialen Einsatz für die Gesellschaft oder einen neuen Generationenvertrag?
Oder anders gefragt: was hat die leidvolle DuBistDeutschland-Kampagne von vor drei (?) Jahren eigentlich gebracht?
Fickt die Nazis, es gibt ganz andere Probleme heutzutage. Macht dafür mal Gruppen, werdet aktiv und mischt Euch ein. Hab ich auch gemacht und es hat mir nur geholfen in the long run.
Von den guten, den sozial engagierten Menschen, gibt es meiner Meinung nach immer noch viel zu wenige. Siehe Demos, siehe Freiwilige Helfer, siehe Umweltaktivisten, siehe Bildung unserer Kinder, und so weiter. Statt diese Ideale (es muss ja nicht gleich Altruismus sein) als Vorbild zu nehmen, werden Feindbilder ausgemacht und gruppendynamisch ausgegrenzt. So schafft man sich eine abgefuckte Gesellschaftsform.
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12:42
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….und nicht anders stellen sie sich bei payback also die Chinesen vor.
Ich behaupte an dieser Stelle einfach mal, dass heutige, europäische Verbraucher mit der Zeichnung im Screenshot eine Parallele zu ihrem Chinabild [Schiinahh, Kiinahh] erkennen - und es auch ganz wunderbar zu den bewegten Bildern im Poparchiv im McChopstick-Stil zuordnen können. Ist das jetzt gut oder schlecht?
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22:45
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I am bit late on new stuff, but how could I miss this?
[via] <– yo! blingbling…
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15:24
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Harr…maybe some of you like it as much as I do + can somehow relate to it.
Track #05 “Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Have A Finger Of Fudge?”
(Cadbury’s Fudge jingle / Ad from the 70’s/ 80’s)
(The Beach Boys ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’)
..mixed by Mark Vidler // Go Home Productions:
I haven’t a clue if non UK residents know what a Cadbury’s Fudge is, or even know the song that accompanied the Ad and was prominent over here in the 70’s and 80’s.
Anyway it works well enough with The Beach Boys. A complete accident this one.
Just scanning YouTube for ‘commercials from the seventies’ in the early hours one night (as you do) and stumbled across ‘the fudge’. It’s pretty much acapella and I was after a mid-way break in the running order of the album…perfect.
‘Pet Sounds’ was near to hand…the rest is history.
[via]
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15:10
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…und was für welchen.
Jeera Rice, von priya. Schmeckt genauso fad und ölig wie es auf dem Teller aussschaut. Ich bevorzuge ja klebrigen Reis dem locker luftigem, aber dieses ölige Gemansche war dann doch zu viel Pappkram. Außerdem: mit den 30 Kreuzkümmelsamen, 2 Blättern und so bekomm ich das auch noch selber (besser) hin.
So etwas weiß man jedoch nicht, wenn man im Asia Shop vorm Regal steht und es einen für 1,39 EUR anlächelt und zuflüstert: “try me, jke”.
Kam, sah und probierte.
Der Milchreis vom Penny schmeckt auch zu sehr nach Wasser und Milchpulver. Und überhaupt, diese pasteurisierte Milch. Ein Verbrechen…
Palada Payasam, noch so ne Ready-To-Eat Pampe, die sich ebenfalls hübsch auf dem V&B Geschirr meiner Vermieter ausbreitet. Eine Art Milchreis mit Zimt, Safran und weichgekochten Cashewnuts. Auch hier gilt: gut zu wissen, aber nächstes Mal mache ich es lieber selber. Schmeckt dann wenigstens.
Das Schöne am indischen Essen ist, dass es oft leicht zu kochende Gerichte sind. Das Schlechte (und irgendwie typische) daran ist, dass die Zutaten oft interessanter als das eigentliche Endergebnis sind.
Und außerdem: ich kenne mehr Asiaten, die auf Fertigessen oder zumindest Natriumglutamatdurchtränkte Speisen stehen, als selber am Herd die Kelle zu schwingen. Find ich irgendwie bißchen enttäuschend.
[UPDATE] : Die Sarah schreibt mir grad:
>>Ich weiß nicht, ob Du Dir dessen nicht bewusst bist oder warst, aber das Wort [Endergebnis] wird eher negativ belastet, in unseren Breiten. Denn das wurde, genauso wie “Endziel” bei der Judenverfolgung sehr oft verwandt, genauso wie die Parole: “Jetzt geht’s los…”.<<
Interessant! In der Tat hatte ich beim Texten einen kurzen Moment gezögert, da es mir seltsam vorkam. In Ermangelung eines brauchbaren Synonyms habe ich es dann trotzdem ausgewählt. Weniger weil es mich an irgendwelche NS-Verbrechen oder Sprache erinnerte (in der Schule hat man uns damals verboten, BRD zu sagen, weil das zu sehr nach DDR klingen würde), sondern weil es für mich so ein Pleonasmus ist: Endergebnis. Ist am Ende nicht immer ein Ergebnis zu erwarten?
Als ich die e-mail zu dem Thema sah, dachte ich erst ich hätte Kritik an meiner Verallgemeinerung zum Essen zu erwarten (”das Schöne, das Schlechte, das Typische” - schreibt man das eigentlich groß?).
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10:17
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Note to myself: never change a running system!
I really have to keep on telling myself not to verschlimmbessern any approved system. Just because a modification is possible, the “hack” often isn’t better.
Case in point: When I recently *upgraded* the original silver cover on my Nokia N95-1 to a black Made-in-China cover, I also switched to a new (and fake) camera lens cover - which apparently comes with a very low-quality plastic lens. The original lens cover isn’t that much better, but it still is. Guess it comes with a polarization filter. So today I’ve switched back to the old lens cover et voilá, macro mode has improved to the old sharpness. Sweet!
macro mode with fake lens cover:
macro mode with original lens cover:
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