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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

This is some leftover pork from last Saturday. After about an hour simmering, I drained and saved the liquid, like you would for boudin, but instead of grinding the pork and onions (the peppers, used up, were discarded) I returned them to the reddish stock after it had reduced about 50%. This was simmered for a few hours until the pork basically disintegrated, then cooked down to this consistency. Makes a decent sandwich. 7:52:14 PM    comment []

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FeederCam has a new name and a new look as I learn FrontPage. My ISP offers 5 megs of space “free” – that’s roughly the data on free 3.5” floppy disks, remember them? This is a good thing; I am learning economy (a lesson forgotten in the jungle of 200Gb hard drives).  The new name is “The Birds Of Carrboro” and you can find it here. 7:08:12 PM    comment []

Let Freedom Reign   Let   To give permission or opportunity to; allow: I let them borrow the car. The inheritance let us finally buy a house. See Usage Note at leave1. 2. To cause to; make: Let the news be known. 3a. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal: Let's finish the job! Let x equal y. b. Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat: Just let her try! 4. To permit to enter, proceed, or depart: let the dog in. 5. To release from or as if from confinement: let the air out of the balloon; let out a yelp. 6. To rent or lease: let rooms. 7. To award, especially after bids have been submitted: let the construction job to a new firm.   Freedom   The condition of being free of restraints. 2. Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression. 3a. Political independence. b. Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action; civil liberty: freedom of assembly. 4. Exemption from an unpleasant or onerous condition: freedom from want. 5. The capacity to exercise choice; free will: We have the freedom to do as we please all afternoon. 6. Ease or facility of movement: loose sports clothing, giving the wearer freedom. 7. Frankness or boldness; lack of modesty or reserve: the new freedom in movies and novels. 8a. The right to unrestricted use; full access: was given the freedom of their research facilities. b. The right of enjoying all of the privileges of membership or citizenship: the freedom of the city. 9. A right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference: “the seductive freedoms and excesses of the picaresque form” (John W. Aldridge, The Atlantic Monthly August 1994).   Reign   To exercise sovereign power. 2. To hold the title of monarch, but with limited authority. 3. To be predominant or prevalent: Panic reigned as the fire spread.   In the context of the highlighted definitions, this instaquote actually makes sense. That’s good, because I’d struggled for a while to find harmony in a sentence so short yet so wrought with conflict. The confusion was exacerbated by the allusion to “Let Freedom Ring” a lyric frequently lifted from National Anthem contender “My Country ‘T’is Of Thee” as a slogan for political groups who desire to impose an agenda on you.   So many sub-currents, all in apparent conflict with the subject of the sentence, “freedom.”   Such as the verb “let,” in the sense of “allow,” acting on it. Once freedom is subject to permission, it is no longer freedom. “Reign” seemed like a strange choice too, given its historical baggage of kings and fiefdoms, as in definition 1 above (and definition 2 isn’t very helpful either, with its “limited authority” disclaimer).   But if you dig down a few levels in your dictionary, you can find the definitions that work together like a hastily assembled Three-Man-Basketball team that has learned to “get the ball to the big guy” in lieu of a game plan. That works for me, but I hope the people who translated this sentence into Arabic gave as much attention.     Oh, and he didn’t dot the “i” on “reign” – but he gets major bonus points for scribbling it hastily on the nearest piece of paper, like Lincoln did The Gettysburg Address. 5:15:48 AM    comment []