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This isn't really an academic blog at
all. It just basically records the life and times of Derek J Corbett as he undertakes his
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Tue, 30 Mar 2004 |
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21:31 - Experimental Cooking
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So I finally got around to cooking myself some food. Here are the results.
Meal 1
Name: Teriyaki Veal Strips on Vermicelli garnished Tomatoes and Radishes
Ingredients:
Kikkoman Teriyaki Sauce
Veal leg steak
Strange korean Rice Vermicelli
1 Tomato
2 Summer Radishes
Instructions:
1. Vermicelli is the 3 Minute variety so just add boiling water and leave for 3 minutes
2. Soak the Veal in Teriyaki marinade for a while, or until you get hungry.
3. Resist the urge to drink the Teriyaki sauce by washing the remaining sauce down the sink.
4. Cut the Veal into thin strips
5. Cut The Radishes and Tomoatoes into equally thin strips
6. Stir Fry the Veal in a wok with Seasame oil and canola oil mixed together, this will be a quick process 2 maybe 3 minutes.
7. Tip the water out of the vermicelli.
8. Place the cooked strips of veal on top.
9. Arrange Tomatoes and Vermicelli artisticly.
10. Eat.
Verdict:
Not bad... although, could use a few snow peas, also the radishes tend to overpower the flavour of the meat. Next time I will use unflavoured Vermicelli.
Teriyaki Veal.
Meal 2
Name: Teriyaki Veal Schnitzel
Ingredients:
Kikkoman Teriyaki Sauce
Veal leg steak
Wholemeal Flour
A Slice of Bread
1 Egg
Instructions:
1. Again soak the veal in teriyaki marinade. I'm still not sure how long to do this, or how much marinade to use. But I guess longer and more might be the answer?
2. Once the soaking is done again just rinse that delicious sauce down the sink (such a waste).
3. Take an egg and beat it.
4. Take the Veal and spread flour all over it, so it is white. I used wholemeal flour so it was a bit chunky in places, but still good.
5. Pour the beaten egg over the top of the floured up veal.
6. Realise you have forgotten about the bread, quickly turn the bread into breadcrumbs and add it to the eggy floury veal. I think the smaller the bread crumbs possibly the better.
7. Try to get an even constitency of eggy bready goo allover the steak.
8. While you are doing all of this you should have been heating up your frypan with some sesame and canola oil in it.
9. Place the Veal in the fry pan, and fry one side.
10. This goes on for about 3-4 minutes, pick the veal up with tongs and watch as the bread and flour and egg batter falls off a bit.
11. Try to resuce the batter, but also cook the other side for about another 3-4 minutes.
12. Flip the veal again, and this time give up on the batter, it will have all fallen off the steak.
13. Put the batter to oneside and cook it as an egg and bread teriyaki flavoured hash. Cook the steak as you would cook a steak.
14. When the steak and hash are both a golden brown cooked sort of colour, take the out of the pan and put them on a plate with some mixed vegeatables you would have been cooking as well.
15. Eat.
Verdict:
Well several people told me that teriyaki schnitzel would not work and at least one person
questioned if in fact veal should be marinated in teriyaki. But I say it wouldn't be experimental cooking without experiments!
The batter hash tasted surprisingly good like a more solid more flavoursome scrambled eggs.
And the veal steak tasted ok as well.
Maybe next time I will just not try to adhere the batter to the veal and instead cook it separately. I guess the teriyaki sauce just makes the veal slippery enough so that the flour won't stick to it properly or prehaps I was using the wrong cut of
veal or maybe i beat the eggs to hard? who knows. But it tasted ok.
Teriyaki Veal Schnitzel.
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Mon, 29 Mar 2004 |
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11:47 - Bisy Backson
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Well I have been pretty busy recently. But briefly some of the highlights from the last week.
- Thursday Night: Trivia, we came about fourth, and Baku is apparently the capital of Azerbajain. Saw Nick's band the Generics play at Bailey's Bar in Petersham.
They were pretty good, but it was their last show as their drummer is quitting.
The band that followed them Gauche, were Ok... but a bit on the wrong side of the fine line between music and cacophony for me.
- Friday Night: Inagural Jazzsoc SUV event. I got to play guitar and clarinet, with some people who are actually proficient in music.
It was fun, I can play Jazz clarinet alot better than Jazz guitar.
- Saturday Morning: Got up at 7am and caught the train out to Thornleigh.
Walked about 5 Kms to vote. Went to Josh and Danielle's wedding in Thornleigh. It was a really good wedding ceremony.
The reception at the Beach House Restaurant at Whale Beach was fantastic!! Danielle and josh both looked extremely happy.
Managed to get a swim at the beach after the reception.
- Saturday Night: Got my second wind at about 10pm and went and saw Steve's band Vaincherry at the Lansdowne, they were pretty good, but they never really moved out of the Key of A minor, except for the occassional departure to C major.
Went back home and had Pop-corn and some drinks with people and somehow managed to stay up chatting until 5:30.
- Sunday Afternoon: Daylight savings ended. So I got up earlier than I anticipated. Had a breakfast of eggs at 1pm. And ended up going Bowling with Heather and Mark.
I think there is alot of room for improvement in our bowling ability.
Everyone came round to my place for Pop-corn afterwards.
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004 |
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17:25 - NS2 Electric Boogaloo
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Defining Packet Header Structures.
Beacon (Intra and Inter)
Control (ACK and Claim)
Data
Vote
Request
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Thu, 18 Mar 2004 |
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14:35 - Birthday
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 |
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11:41 - Yatta!
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Yatta!
Still probably the most bizarre flash animation on the entire internet.
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Tue, 16 Mar 2004 |
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12:50 - Radio Range Found!
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The programme ns-2.27indep-utilspropagationthreshold.cc allows for the calculation of the recieve threshold for a particular distance.
Sweet!
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11:14 - 2 Important Questions
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How to Find the Location of a Node?
thisnode = Node::get_node_by_address(index_);
((MobileNode *)thisnode)->getLoc(&x, &y, &z);
ANSWERED!
How to find the broadcast radius/transmission range of a node for a specific
Wireless Physical Layer?
Not sure... but Maybe this obscure implementation of ZRP will have the answer.
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Thu, 11 Mar 2004 |
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11:30 - The NS2 Adventure
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The next few entries will be a guide in how to write a new protocol for NS2.
There are very few tutorials available for this on the 'net. And none of them deal with the complexity of writiing a MAC protocol from scratch.
So Far I have done the following:
* Visited the NS2 Website
* Downloaded the Current NS2 All-In-One Package
* Downloaded the Current NS2 SOurce As a reference. (This step is redundant as this source is actually included in the All-In-One package
* Read Marc Greis' Tutorial Specifically Writing a New Protocol and Wireless Simulations
* Compiled and Validated NS2 under RH9 Linux
* Run Some sample simulaitons for GAF and SMAC
* Read the source code for Mac, LL, 802.11, Gaf and Smac
Today I begin writing My actual Protocol LAMPV1
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Mon, 08 Mar 2004 |
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14:57 - Top 5 Websites
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1. Homestarrunner.net (It's dot com) www.homestarrunner.com
Each week a new strongbad email appears.
2. Maddox http://maddox.xmission.com
Self righteous guy takes apart everything from vegetarianism to jock football players
3. Something Awful www.somethingawful.com
Bunch of goons write articles and photoshop pictures, check out photoshop phridays and the comedy goldmine
4. Tau Corp Japan www.tau-net.co.jp
Every wondered how much it would cost you to buy a written off Japanese Car? Find out here.
5. Allmusic www.allmusic.com
Every Band Ever.
What are your top 5?
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00:29 - Deadly Spiders
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So I'm just about to go to bed and what should I see crawling along my window sill which is only centimetres away from the headrest of my bed.
Just the biggest Damn Red Back Spider I have ever laid my eyes on. I caught it in a drinking glass I had lying on my desk.
The Internet Says they are "Highly Venomous and Deadly".
And I'll admit it does look nasty..
But I live 3 floors up in Newtown, who would expect to see deadly spiders up here?
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Wed, 03 Mar 2004 |
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15:43 - Fast Food
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