diff --git a/463-davison-ave-ne.md b/463-davison-ave-ne.md index 9f29375..dca348b 100644 --- a/463-davison-ave-ne.md +++ b/463-davison-ave-ne.md @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Policy Number: 0003457855 #### TODO -* [ ] draw floorplan +* [x] draw floorplan #### Design Principles @@ -74,23 +74,21 @@ but placed on a console or credenza. ### Main Bedroom -Largest by room area -small closet +Largest by room area, with a small closet. ### Guest Bedroom A -Smaller than main -large closet +Smaller than main, but with a much larger closet. ### Guest Bedroom B -Smaller by far than other bedrooms +Smaller by far than the other bedrooms. ### West Yard #### TODO -* [ ] cleanup brick, block pieces +* [x] cleanup brick, block pieces #### Plans @@ -117,21 +115,17 @@ Smaller by far than other bedrooms ### Appliances -#### Television - -%% boo. %% - -Maybe take back from Val. +* [ ] 50in television ### Furnishings #### Tables -* Coffee table -* Dining table (island extension?) +* [ ] Coffee table +* [ ] Dining table (island extension?) #### Rugs -* 1 each bedroom (total 3) -* 2--3 living/dining area -* runner rug for hallway +* [ ] 1 each bedroom (total 3) +* [/] 2--3 living/dining area +* [ ] runner rug for hallway diff --git a/kombucha.md b/kombucha.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af4e021 --- /dev/null +++ b/kombucha.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# Kombucha + +**Kombucha** is fermented tea, often flavored with fruit or spices. + +The **pellicle** is the cellulose mat +that grows on the top of the kombucha during first fermentation. +the pellicle is often referred to as the **SCOBY** +(Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast), +but this is not accurate. +During fermentation, the SCOBY lives in the pellicle _and_ the tea. +**Only the SCOBY is necessary for creating a new batch,** +which is why its possible to use store-bought kombucha as starter tea, +although adding the pellicle does help speed things along. + +## Recipe + +### First Fermentation + +1. Bring 1 cup of filtered water to boil. + +2. Add 2 tsp. tea leaves and set a timer for 15 minutes. + +3. Add 1/4 cup sugar and stir until dissolved. + +4. After 15 minutes, strain out the leaves + and add the hot sweet tea to a glass jar. + +5. Add 2 cups of cool water to dilute the tea + and bring the temperature down to 70--90°F. + +6. Add the 1/2 cup of kombucha and the pellicle + leftover from the previous brewing. + +7. Cover the jar with a coffee filter and secure it with a screw band. + +8. Let ferment for 7--9 days at room temperature (70--85°F) + in a shaded spot with some airflow. + +#### Notes + +* Decaf tea is not recommended, + the SCOBY feeds on all nutrients in the tea, caffeine included. + +### Second Fermentation + +1. Set aside 1/2 cup of kombucha and the pellicle for the next brewing. + +2. Stir the remaining kombucha. + +3. Add 1/4--1/3 cup of pureed or juiced fruit to a 16 oz glass flip-top bottle. + +4. Add the kombucha to the bottle, leaving about an inch of head-space. + +5. Let ferment for 2--3 days at room temperature. + +6. Refrigerate. + +#### Notes + +* To keep from making a mess, only ever open when fully chilled. + +* If after refrigerating the kombucha is not sufficiently carbonated, + it can be left at room temperature for a day or so to ferment more. + Fully chill in the refrigerator before testing. diff --git a/savio_1964_sproul-hall.md b/savio_1964_sproul-hall.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b37fb1a --- /dev/null +++ b/savio_1964_sproul-hall.md @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ +--- +title: Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall +tags: + - exclude-from-word-count + - type/media/speech +creator: + - type: speaker + text: Mario Savio +date: 1964-12-02 +description: > + Address delivered by Mario Savio 2 December 1964, + at The University of California at Berkeley, + prior to a sit-in protesting the university's ban + on political activities on campus. + + The address is often called the "Bodies Upon the Gears" speech, + in reference to Savio's second mode of civil disobedience. +url: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariosaviosproulhallsitin.htm +--- +# Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall + +%% +Transcriber's Note: +The transcription is largely copied from the URL, +with changes made based on my own listening +and my preference for formatting. +%% + +You know, I just wanna say one brief thing +about something the previous speaker said. +I didn't wanna spend too much time on that +'cause I don't think it's important enough. +But one thing is worth considering. + +He's the---He's the nominal head of an organization +supposedly representative of the undergraduates. +Whereas in fact under the current director it derives--- +its authority is delegated power from the Administration. +It's totally unrepresentative of the graduate students and TA's. + +But he made the following statement (I quote): +"I would ask all those who are not definitely committed to the FSM[^1] cause +to stay away from demonstration." +Alright, now listen to this: +"For all upper division students +who are interested in alleviating the TA shortage problem, +I would encourage you to offer your services +to Department Chairmen and Advisors." +That has two things: A strike breaker and a fink. + +[^1]: Free Speech Movement + +I'd like to say---like to say one other thing about a union problem. +Upstairs you may have noticed they're ready on the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall, +Locals 40 and 127 of the Painters Union +are painting the inside of the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. +Now, apparently that action had been planned some time in the past. +I've tried to contact those unions. +Unfortunately---and \[it\] tears my heart out--- +they're as bureaucratized as the Administration: +It's difficult to get through to anyone in authority there. +Very sad. +We're still---We're still making an attempt. +Those people up there have no desire to interfere with what we're doing. +I would ask that they be considered and that they not be heckled in any way. +And I think that---you know--- +while there's unfortunately no sense of---no sense of solidarity at this point +between unions and students, +there at least need be no---you know---excessively hard feelings +between the two groups. + +There are at least two ways +in which sit-ins and civil disobedience and whatever--- +least two major ways in which it can occur. +One, when a law exists, is promulgated, +which is totally unacceptable to people +and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed. +Alright, but there's another way. There's another way. +Sometimes, the form of the law is such as to render impossible +its effective violation---as a method to have it repealed. +Sometimes, the grievances of people are more---extend more--- +to more than just the law, +extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, +a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power. + +And that's what we have here. +We have an autocracy which---which runs this university. +It's managed. +We were told the following: +If President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal +out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, +why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? +And the answer we received---from a well-meaning liberal---was the following: +He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm +making a statement publicly in opposition to his Board of Directors?" +That's the answer. + +Well I ask you to consider--- +if this is a firm, +and if the Board of Regents are the Board of Directors, +and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, +then I tell you something--- +the faculty are a bunch of employees +and we're the raw material! +But we're a bunch of raw materials +that don't mean to be---have any process upon us. +Don't mean to be made into any product! +Don't mean---Don't mean to end up being bought +by some clients of the University, +be they the government, +be they industry, +be they organized labor, +be they anyone! +We're human beings! + +And that---that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. +There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, +makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! +You can't even passively take part! +And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, +upon the levers, upon all the apparatus--- +and you've got to make it stop! +And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, +to the people who own it--- +that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!! + +That doesn't mean---and it will be interpreted to mean, unfortunately, +by the bigots who run _The Examiner_, for example--- +That doesn't mean that you have to break anything. +One thousand people sitting down some place, +not letting anybody by, not letting anything happen, +can stop any machine, including this machine, and it will stop! + +We're gonna do the following--- +and the greater the number of people, +the safer they'll be and the more effective it will be. +We're going, once again, to march up to the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. +And we're gonna conduct our lives for a while in the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. +We'll show movies, for example. +We tried to get _Un Chant d'Amour_. +Unfortunately, that's tied up in the court +because of a lot of squeamish moral mothers for a moral America +and other people on the outside. +The same people who get all their ideas out of the _San Francisco Examiner_. +Sad, sad. +But, Mr. Landau---Mr. Landau has gotten us some other films. + +Likewise, we'll do something--- +we'll do something which hasn't occurred at this University in a good long time! +We're going to have real classes up there! +They're gonna be freedom schools conducted up there, +we're going to have classes on the 1st and 14th amendments! +We're gonna spend our time +learning about the things this university is afraid that we know! +We're going to learn about freedom up there, +and we're going to learn by doing!! + +Now, we've had some good, long rallies. + +\[Rally organizers inform Savio that Joan Baez[^2] has arrived.\] + +[^2]: [Joan Baez - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez) + +(Just one moment.) + +We've had some good, long rallies. +And I think I'm sicker of rallies than anyone else here. +She's not going to be long. +I'd like to introduce one last person--- +one last person before we enter Sproul Hall. Yeah. +And the person is Joan Baez. diff --git a/wishlist.md b/wishlist.md index c412b23..b3e172e 100644 --- a/wishlist.md +++ b/wishlist.md @@ -8,16 +8,33 @@ up: "[[my-things]]" ## One Per Week -* [ ] hand sewing thread set (multiple colors) -* [ ] quality aux cable + +## Office Supplies + * [ ] half-letter 3-hole punch - -## One Per Month - * [ ] paper shredder (for composting) +* [ ] printer -## One Per Year +## Furnishings + +* [ ] end table x2 +* [ ] coffee table +* [ ] TV console +* [ ] 50in TV +* [ ] table lamp +* [ ] floor lamp +* [ ] runner rug + +## Homemaking + +* [-] hand sewing thread set (multiple colors) +* [ ] spray bottle for ironing + +## Hobbies * [ ] [[e-ink-tablet]] * [x] 61-key midi controller (M-AUDIO Keystation 61 MK3, Nektar Impact GXP61) -* [ ] printer + +## Quality of Life + +* [ ] quality aux cable