OH6DC is back with new videos. This time: CW from a record player.

OH6DC is back with new videos. This time: CW from a record player.

Somehow I doubt that setting the player to 78 would help increasing the transmission speed.

In case you have never seen his videos: Go to his channel and enjoy 1001 ways to morse...

#hamradio #morse #cw  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PceeUbzqjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PceeUbzqjY

Quake - on an oscilloscope

Quake - on an oscilloscope

Because he can, that's why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

via http://hackaday.com/2014/12/29/ultimate-oscilloscope-hack-quake-in-realtime/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

Found another gingerbread creation:

Found another gingerbread creation:

How to defeat Sauron in two easy steps
1) Convince Sauron to build tower completely out of gingerbread.
2) Unleash children.

http://cheezburger.com/8406373632

Gingerbread dragon

Gingerbread dragon

Wow, just wow. Watch the video in the link!

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20067685.ab

This movable stick is perfectly suited for portable and mobile applications.

This movable stick is perfectly suited for portable and mobile applications. Instead of only hitting people or things inside your kitchen, the new movable stick allows you to hit them anywhere at any time - with a roaming plan even globally!

http://cheezburger.com/8402720256

Attack can be a good defense

Attack can be a good defense

Even when you are very, very small

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPntyzEbaSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPntyzEbaSA

I made a Totoro cookie.

I made a Totoro cookie. (OK, two.) Problem is, the parts of different colour just do not want to stick nicely to one another and I can't see any way to solve this. Just compare before baking and after.

How did I make it? The dough is a cheese cookie. Lacking a printer I displayed a stylised Totoro on screen and then drew a copy on paper, just like in the old days. I cut out Totoro and his belly and used those two as templates.

The green dough got some food dye, the "black" parts are actually dark green seaweed (nori). The dots you see on his belly come from cheese.

Quick Birdy Num Num

Quick Birdy Num Num

No, I didn't invite Perter Sellers to the party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EzjG5O6j4

Neither some French guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMYMC6atRoE

Just a roasted duck (made under the watchful supervision of my consultant Nimrod) and some Spaetzle to go with it.

You saw nothing! Understand? Nothing!

You saw nothing! Understand? Nothing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YoFw4RhZT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YoFw4RhZT8

Santa run

Santa run

No reindeer, no sleigh, but at least the bike is red. The box on the back goes to an orphanage, filled with gingerbread, chocolate coins (those I bought) and marzipan potatoes. They have 136 children there, so it really isn't much for every child.

Side cases are holding two stollen, one to be delivered directly, one going to the country where they only have miniature editions of everything: Japan.

That's all done, now I'm on the way to deliver a last custom "cookie", which will take a few hours. (no, not by bike)

Happy holidays!

So here it is...

So here it is...

Merry Christmas to everyone! Happy holidays, if you celebrate! Have a nice time and try to be nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apoFZv5J6xo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apoFZv5J6xo

The mood is right, the spirit's up.

The mood is right, the spirit's up.
We're here tonight, and that's enough...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-sXrdQtog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-sXrdQtog

Title

The dark side of the holidays

The dark side of the holidays

Wow, someone really went over the top here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5dfpe_-Lgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5dfpe_-Lgg

150 marzipan potatoes waiting for cocoa. Something is approaching...

150 marzipan potatoes waiting for cocoa. Something is approaching...

Sorry, couldn't resist: Made two smaller stollen.

Sorry, couldn't resist: Made two smaller stollen. "Smaller" means that each is several times the size of the toys some people buy in Japan...

Oh that's naughty, whoever did this probably got himself on the other list. But a great idea it is...

Oh that's naughty, whoever did this probably got himself on the other list. But a great idea it is...

via Rui Alberto G. 

Originally shared by Karen Bierwirth

Hi hi hi ;-))*

#frauenforum

OK, so I've set up the tree.

OK, so I've set up the tree. Not sure who will see it this year other than Nimrod and me, but there it is, just in case...

I need to have a serious word with Nimrod: That dog is now going after my sushi!

I need to have a serious word with Nimrod: That dog is now going after my sushi!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

I am not usually into Heavy Metal (Punk is my game), but this whole album is nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw1Tfm0LFSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw1Tfm0LFSI

Now everybody, sing!

Now everybody, sing!

And one more time, like you mean it!

In a previous life, when I was teaching at a college, I taught this to students in an English class I had to give at another department. That way at least they learned a Christmas song they may actually like to sing for a change...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XII6f1R1yLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XII6f1R1yLk

A week or so ago I made a stollen, according to Wikipedia a kind of "fruit cake" that is popular for Christmas in...

A week or so ago I made a stollen, according to Wikipedia a kind of "fruit cake" that is popular for Christmas in Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

Du Lenowsky wanted to know the result, and perhaps also Heidi Adick: The white rabbits have survived the stollen test, so the recipe should be OK. Here it is:

750g flour
60g fresh yeast (dry works too)
175ml milk
120g brown sugar (I was racist and used white one)
100g almond (ground)
375g soft butter
100g almond (hacked)
300g raisins
125g cranberries (Didn't have the band, skipped this.)
200g marzipan
125g butter for coating
125g powder sugar for coating

Pour all the flour into a pot, make a small depression in the middle for yeast and some warm milk and sugar, mix those to a kind of mud, then let it rest.

When the yeast is awake, mix the rest of the sugar with the milk, then add to the mud, together with butter and ground almond, and make a dough of all of it. Let it rest. (No stress before Christmas, right?)

Now add raisins and hacked almond to the dough, the roll it out a few centimeters thick, in an oval shape. Roll the marzipan out too, a bit smaller than the dough, then put the marzipan on the dough and fold two sides to the center.

I'd say some more folding should be done to spread the marzipan more evenly, except you want it concentrated there. Next time I'll also use a bit more marzipan.

For the last rest the recipe suggested to surround the dough with aluminum foil to prevent it from flattening out too much. Baking is at 160-180C for 50 minutes - at least in theory.

You should leave the stollen in the oven for another 10 minutes after you switched off. Melt the butter, brush it over the stollen, then dust some powder sugar. Wait a moment, then repeat until you have a nice layer of sugar coating.

The finished stollen should be wrapped and left for another week - in theory, again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

I'm all about that bass

 I'm all about that bass

The little Drummer Boy

The little Drummer Boy

Oh don't you love those traditional Christmas songs, so nice and easy...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVFTozZOSIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVFTozZOSIo

Ave Maria

Ave Maria

For all who got rocked by "In Dulci Jubilo", here is something more tranquil. And in the spirit of the DTH song "Entschuldigung, es tut uns leid" (Apologies, we are sorry): Apologies for all that was, for all that is, and for all that will still come...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxT8qMrADOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxT8qMrADOs

There is this saying: "Nothing is set in stone." Well, this is.

There is this saying: "Nothing is set in stone." Well, this is. Our company participated in a building material exhibition, and during the few chances I had to take a look around I came across a company offering tiles made of cement with small pebbles of certain color and shape pressed in.

Their biggest exhibition piece were The Gleaners you see pictured here. This is not a usual mosaic that was made from small mass-produced ceramic tiles, they did indeed use small pebbles, which looked pretty natural from my distance.

I better not asked for the price...

An opulent freeway dinner

An opulent freeway dinner

After five days of exhibitioning we are on our way home. ETA not before midnight...

I shall call this one "Night by 101".

I shall call this one "Night by 101".

No, not a mistake. Most people photograph the 101 at night, but I photographed the night around 101...

Oh, I can still be an artist one day...

That's winter in the tropics. Pardon: Subtropics. Taibei is only "sub".

That's winter in the tropics. Pardon: Subtropics. Taibei is only "sub".

Even in the big city (Taibei), even in winter, there will be markets in the morning.

Even in the big city (Taibei), even in winter, there will be markets in the morning.

For a few days I will be pretty close to this building - but don't get to see much of it.

For a few days I will be pretty close to this building - but don't get to see much of it. This is the "101", Taiwan's tallest building, and was the tallest in the world when it was completed.

All that doesn't bother me much, I am busy with an exhibition.

Stollen v0.1a

Stollen v0.1a

Always wanted to try one, never really got to it - until now. As usual, I had to set a temperature way lower than the recipe said. This is supposed to rest for a week now, so I'm curious how it will look like when I'm back from the trade show...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

Oh no, I completely forgot to dig out my Christmas music and only two weeks are left!

Oh no, I completely forgot to dig out my Christmas music and only two weeks are left! Let's start with a classic then: In Dulci Jubilo. Not Mike Oldfield, Die Roten Rosen.

Hint: The band needs a minute or so to warm up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxVcHuLU9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxVcHuLU9Y

So ein Hundeleben...

So ein Hundeleben...
Such is a dog's life...

http://cheezburger.com/8394783488

Make it so, make it so, make it so...

Make it so, make it so, make it so...

Originally shared by john kinsey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeaehxEdpgo&feature=share

Japan...

Japan...

#godzilla #christmas #japan  
http://cheezburger.com/8393390336

I knew there were more ways to do this, not only the Jason way...

I knew there were more ways to do this, not only the Jason way...

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2011/12/11


Originally shared by Kyla Myers

There's me done then.

Today is Nikolaus Day in Germany.

Today is Nikolaus Day in Germany.

This day is pretty important for German children, as it ranks like a small Christmas. That's why nearly all children in Germany will get very busy the evening before, cleaning all their shoes and lining them up nicely.

The saying is that Nikolaus will come during the night and if he finds clean shoes, he may drop sweets, cookies etc in them. So on this day children will get up early and go checking their shoes for success.

This is not really known here ein Taiwan, but I still got my hands on a nice Nikolaus boot (Sorry, completely forgot to take a photo.), filled it with cookies and put it in front of my daughter's door in the morning. "Fortunately" it's a little bit cold currently, so even without snow it feels a little bit like winter/Christmas.

http://galleryhip.com/nikolausstiefel.html

I wish I could have had such a test...

I wish I could have had such a test...

It's #fidofriday , isn't it?

It's #fidofriday , isn't it? And don't you love the precision and eagerness with which dogs fetch balls and other objects right in mid-flight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltS0G7KA7XQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltS0G7KA7XQ

What can I say?

What can I say? Baking disorder, as someone called it. It just comes over me from time to time. Today I tried some speculoos (Spekulatius in German, those squarish cookies), but with a modified recipe, slightly sweet: No spices, and sugar replaced with honey. Also started grinding some almonds to powder, until I remembered I had almond powder in the fridge. (Getting old, I know...)

And while I was waiting for the cookies to be baked, I grabbed the marzipan from my (apparently successful) preservation test and made some marzipan potatoes. Oh, yes, there are also the cheesy cookies again, but I made those on Tuesday, not today.

The dog has already shown that he likes them, all of them, so tomorrow I will make a test with living humans.

Nothing says my beer as this lock.

Nothing says my beer as this lock.

http://cheezburger.com/8391093760

Oh dear Brits, where are your manners?

Oh dear Brits, where are your manners?

Originally shared by David “not B” A

If you're looking for me, I'll be in Cwim Farteg. Or maybe Puddinglake (mmm, pudding... ).
http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/heres-a-map-of-all-the-rude-place-names-in-the-uk

Now what?

Now what?

http://cheezburger.com/8387133440

Went to Taibei last Sunday morning, a city that is famous for its exceptionally bad weather.

Went to Taibei last Sunday morning, a city that is famous for its exceptionally bad weather. (Not the worst on the island though.) Fortunately there was no rain, but the sky looked a bit dramatic, so I tried a shot.

Back in Gaoxiong the sky was blue again... Btw, the path you see there is on top of a flood protection wall. That river can rise quite a bit during rainy season or when a typhoon comes.