Re: PESO: Birthday Cake
Do you turn into a gremlin if fed after midnight? :) Despite the late night I didn't sleep well, possibly due to the licking of spoons when I'd finished with the coloured coatings. It's very sugary. I also sampled some of the sponge cake offcuts along the way... ah the pleasures of baking :D Cheers, Dave On Nov 27, 2013, at 6:44 pm, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: It's adorable! but now I'm hungry and its after midnight ann On 11/26/2013 15:37, David Mann wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:13, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that fact that I'm missing? Nope, just a Tetris cake :) Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. It's too obvious for me to point out that the photograph is a 3rd-order signifier, and this email is one step beyond. Now, if you'd baked a cigar cake, well, that would have been just a cigar. Anyway, whatever else you do, don't leave the cake out in the rain. Bobrillard -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. It's too obvious for me to point out that the photograph is a 3rd-order signifier, and this email is one step beyond. Now, if you'd baked a cigar cake, well, that would have been just a cigar. Anyway, whatever else you do, don't leave the cake out in the rain. Bobrillard Your philosophical treatise of the subject matter goes beyond cake and eating:) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. It's too obvious for me to point out that the photograph is a 3rd-order signifier, and this email is one step beyond. Now, if you'd baked a cigar cake, well, that would have been just a cigar. Anyway, whatever else you do, don't leave the cake out in the rain. Bobrillard Your philosophical treatise of the subject matter goes beyond cake and eating:) It goes, indeed, to infinity and beyond. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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So, how does one go about cleaning coffee stains off of both a keyboard and screen again? On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:13, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that fact that I'm missing? Nope, just a Tetris cake :) Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. It's too obvious for me to point out that the photograph is a 3rd-order signifier, and this email is one step beyond. Now, if you'd baked a cigar cake, well, that would have been just a cigar. Anyway, whatever else you do, don't leave the cake out in the rain. Bobrillard -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Birthday Cake
On Nov 27, 2013, at 9:38 pm, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: On 27 Nov 2013, at 04:13, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that fact that I'm missing? Nope, just a Tetris cake :) Nothing is ever 'just' something. The cake is a 3-dimensional simulacrum of something which only exists as an idea, embodied in 2 dimensions (if the virtual domain can be said to be dimensional). The contradiction is that the signifier is somehow more real than the signified, so that the inherent paradox of the sugary comestible becomes itself a double signifier, equally of meta-meaning in late postmodernism, and of the love you have for your wife, which embodies the courtly ideal. Tetris, of course, is a game of joining and of construction, which relies on the player being able to respond to randomness and from it construct meaning despite the difficulties. It is a kind of bricolage, making do with what life has dealt you, to construct as best you can what is, essentially, an idea. This quite unequivocally symbolises marriage, and by baking a Tetris cake rather than say a Battenberg, you have particularised the mathematical generic metanarrative, moving from the signifying domain to the realm of the signifier. Well, I figured all that was obvious to any half-educated viewer... :) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO: Birthday Cake
I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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that is just about the nerdiest thing I've ever heard of! But very nice ;o) B On 26 Nov 2013, at 20:37, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:37 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave Certainly very original and looks nice! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Awe.some! You should get an Internet Award for that effort. I bet your wife just loves it. :-) On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:37 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Your wife is very, very lucky. My congratulations :) By the way, is she a physical geometrician? Or, a cubist? :) Bulent - http://patoloji.gen.tr http://celasun.wordpress.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun 2013/11/26 David Mann dmann...@gmail.com: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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The last video game I played . It was addictive. Perhaps your cake will be as well! Paul via phone On Nov 26, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Awe.some! You should get an Internet Award for that effort. I bet your wife just loves it. :-) On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:37 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I, for one, have had it up to HERE with this shameless objectification of cake on the PDML. On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: The last video game I played . It was addictive. Perhaps your cake will be as well! Paul via phone On Nov 26, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Awe.some! You should get an Internet Award for that effort. I bet your wife just loves it. :-) On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:37 PM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- I don't have a problem with idiots. I have a problem with the fact that they have an internet connection. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Nov 26, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote: I, for one, have had it up to HERE with this shameless objectification of cake on the PDML. MARK! Here's to cake! Looks darn good! G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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You should be proud as hell of that, David. Well done! -- Walt On 11/26/2013 2:37 PM, David Mann wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Nov 27, 2013, at 10:32 am, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: Your wife is very, very lucky. My congratulations :) By the way, is she a physical geometrician? Or, a cubist? She studied chemistry but she was better at maths than I was. Continuing the nerd theme I gave her a copy of Simon Singh's new book about mathematics in The Simpsons. Looking forward to reading it after she's finished it. Thanks for all the kind responses everyone, it was a blast to make and is quite delicious. It's just strangely-shaped lamingtons made from a home-made sponge cake. I was up until nearly midnight making it so I'm paying for it today! Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: Birthday Cake
On 11/26/2013 3:37 PM, David Mann wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that fact that I'm missing? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:42 pm, John johnsess...@yahoo.com wrote: I get that it's a Tetris cake, but is there any specific meaning to that fact that I'm missing? Nope, just a Tetris cake :) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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It's adorable! but now I'm hungry and its after midnight ann On 11/26/2013 15:37, David Mann wrote: I was up until 11:30 last night making this cake for my wife's birthday :) http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/710/#peso Here it is with candles lit... http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/711/#peso I'd like to have used more pieces but that would have needed a lot more cake. Cutting the pieces smaller would have been a bit fiddly to cut and probably make them too fragile to coat. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
