http://lekker.danieleliasson.com pulling ostrich teeth since 2009 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:04:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Something cool is happening right now, namely that manufacturing is moving back to the individual. Back in the day, the village blacksmith would do all the metalworking for his whole village. Industrialisation put an end to this, and centralised manufacturing in large factories, and standardised the products we got from ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/makers-and-arduinos Remember Ok Go? The band that made the cool long-shot video with the treadmills? Well, they've made an even more impressive video this time, featuring an almost four minutes long Rube Goldberg machine. Enjoy: http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/ok-go-this-too-shall-pass According to plan, the pancetta should've been done curing this Monday, so when I came home from work, I immediately yanked it from the fridge and had a poke. Both pieces of meat were very firm to the touch, a good sign that the cure had penetrated properly, so I got ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/homemade-pancetta-part-2 Speaking of terror against the global financial elites, a JP Morgan office in Greece was bombed, CNN reports here. The bomber called in and warned ahead of time, so no one was hurt. Yet the message is clear. http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/4gw-jp-morgan-office-in-greece-bombed With some of the money my parents gave me for Christmas, I treated myself to a book I've been eyeing for a while: Charcuterie, by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn. This brilliant books describes the techniques of salting, smoking and confiting, as well as sausage-making and throws in recipes for ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/homemade-pancetta-part-1 Anyone with an interest in current affairs would do well to add John Robb's excellent blog Global Guerrillas to their RSS reader (or, for the technically challenged, to their bookmarks). A while back, the following passage from Robb got me thinking: Global financial elites have set up themselves up as a ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/terror-against-global-financial-elites It is time, dear readers, for a real treat. Afrikaans rapper Jack Parow. Enjoy. Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy rook Yves Saint Laurent sigarette Jy dink jy’s cooler as ekke, want jy’t ‘n tattoo van ‘n slang op jou tette. Jy dink jy’s cooler as ek, want jy’t ‘n ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/jack-parow Well, almost. Snake, actually, and more "behind the house". Over Christmas, Stephanie and I went to meet up with her family in Oubaai (previously mentioned here). We had a nice time, and one day, I was treated to my first African snake experience. Awesome shit. Alet, Stephanie's poor mother, was about to ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/snakes-on-a-stoep In 2007, I officially emigrated from Sweden to Germany. In a dataset I found at SCB, I am told that I was one of 925 men to do that. The dataset breaks down Swedish emigrants during the years 2000-2008 into country and gender. In total, 344 600 people emigrated from Sweden during these ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/swedish-emigrants-2000-2008 In response to my last post, my good friend Stefan and my evil sister Maria both replied with similar counter-arguments: Buying a house allows you to leverage your money through the loan, which means that even a more modest interest rate might end up making you more money than investing a ... http://lekker.danieleliasson.com/is-a-house-an-investment-part-2