Thank You Jurors

Sketch of the O J Simpson jury by Bill Robles

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the function that you have performed is one of the least important tasks that you will ever be called upon to fulfill. With the return of your votes, your service in this project is complete.

I know that your efforts with this project has involved sacrifice on your part. I trust you end it knowing that you have made a meaningful contribution to the process and hope that you have enjoyed the experience.

You have been a serious, attentive and extremely diligent jury. It has been my pleasure to have worked with you. On behalf of everyone involved in the project, I thank you each and everyone of you.

I greatly appreciate your willingness to serve and your service. You are now discharged. Thank you very much!

Big hugs and kisses on the cheeks,
Bock

(I confess! I just adjusted the "thanking of the jury" that American judges are instructed to give when a jury is discharged after a trial to suit my purposes and added the kisses and hugs.)
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Facts about the jury
The jury consisted of 21 persons. (15 women and 6 men, 14 Swedish and 7 Internationals representing Europe, Australia and the North and South Americas).

Considering that I asked 27 persons I was totally overwhelmed by the response and willingness to take part. Only one who was invited declined to take part due to real life emergencies, while five did not respond at all.

Dekho Dekho Bollywood Stars

Look, look at all the Bollywood stars having fun...

Pic of Panta found in Google Images

I used to have a friend in SecondLife, Pantaiputih Korobase, who used to have an Indian pop radio channel streaming on his sim. I always loved visiting there.

I met Panta at the Devil Inside Gay Dance Club, which in my early days was the only gay club that counted.

It was a fun place in those days, not an IM-heaven like most places seem to be nowadays, where the only people that talk to you are the owner/host or the DJ. Mostly if anyone else speaks to you they do it in IM and then only when they are hitting on you. And if you speak to them they think you are hitting on them (sigh)

We all had fun together and the banter in local chat at the DI-club was inspired, humorous and hilarious. Yikes, I must be getting old and nostalgic.

Sadly I lost contact with Panta after I hooked up with Ars. Panta has since moved on to OpenSim so I never see him these days.

On Straight-acting

Joe.My.God today tells us about Kevin Troughton, a Guardian UK columnist, who has written a piece titled "The End Of Gay Men Being Camp".

In the comments following that post I found this comment, that really says everything there is to be said on the matter.

Today is the day of the "cabbage dolmas"

We Swedes have three important things in common with the Turks. 

The first is a love for coffee, the second is the word "kalabalik" and the third is the dish of meatballs packaged in cabbage leaves that we Swedes call "kåldolmar". 

According to an unconfirmed theory, it was through our king Charles XII (1697-1718) and/or his soldiers that this delicious dish was brought to Sweden, along with coffee and the word "kalabalik" (uproar or uprising), which is a word that only exists in the Swedish and Turkish languages. 

Here is the recipe for Swedish kåldolmar.

Ingredients
1 head of cabbage 
Water covering the cabbage
1 teaspoon salt per liter of water
 
Mince Mixing:
350 grams of ground meat (50-50 pork and beef)
3 cups cooked, cold long grain rice
1.5 cups milk
1-2 eggs 
1 onion
2 pinches of white pepper
2 teaspoons salt
 
Roasting:
2 tablespoons butter
0.5 ml syrup
 
Sauce:
4 cups gravy 
2 tbsp plain flour
 0.5 cups water 
Soy sauce
Cream 
Bouillon fund 

For the packaging of the dolmas:
String or tooth picks

Cooking
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees centigrade.
 
Boil salted water in a generous pot. Stick a knife in the root of cabbage and immerse in the boiling water so that it is easy to lift up every now and then. Boil the cabbage with the root upward. Unscrew and remove the leaves by hand as they soften. Let the leaves drain and cut away the thick veins.

Finely chop the onion and fry it without adding color. Mix the ground meat with rice, eggs, milk, spices and fried onions. Place a heaping tablespoon of loose ground meat in every cabbage leave, fold in sides and roll up into a package. 

Use string or tooth picks to keep the packaging in place. (My mother can do it with only one well placed tooth pick, I need loads of string.)

Fry the "dolmas" golden brown all over in a frying pan, seam-side down at first. Add them tightly in a baking dish. Mix the juice in the pan with some water and pour this over the dolmas. Pour over the syrup and a few clicks of butter. After bake in oven for about 30 minutes.

Upload the "dolmas" onto a hot plate. Stir a little flour and water into the baking dish (without cleaning it first). Boil the sauce and season with soy sauce, cream, broth and spices.

Serve with mashed or boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam. (The jam can be bought at any IKEA store in the world.)

First Special Award

It is with great joy I present to you all, the winner of the first "Special Award" Grinx Raymaker. Along with the honor Grinx will also receive the diploma above and 2.500 L$.

You can see Grinx original contribution here.

Attention jurors 3 and more about the contest

The contest for best picture in my project for project for peace and art in SecondLife "Naked avatars in SL" is soon coming to an end.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please let me remind you that your votes must be filed in my email or inventory at the latest on November 30th, 2010, at 12 AM (midnight) SLT (that´s December 1st, 2010, 09.00 EMT.)

Looking at the score sheet I can see that the outstanding votes can still change all the three winners... This is going to be exciting!

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For those of you not selected for jury duty let me give you the plan for announcements in the contest.

All announcements will be made at 12 PM (noon) SLT on the following dates

First Special Award - Sunday November 28th, 2010, 2.500 L$,
Second Special Award - Sunday December 5th, 2010, 2.500 L$,
Third Special Award - Saturday December 11th, 2010, 2 500 L$,

Winner Third Place - Sunday December 12th, 2010, 2.500 L$,
Winner Second Place- Sunday December 19th, 2010, 5.000 L$ and finally 
Winner of Best Picture- Saturday December 25th, 2010, 25.000 L$.


The newly created "Special Awards" are my own capricious choices, while the three winners are the result of the votes from the jury. Please note, the fact that someone gets a "Special Award" does not mean they cannot also win by the jurors votes.

Ohh What a Night..

Starting of with the opening of Iendi´s and Apollon´s OneLove (with some of the hottest women in SecondLife) and ending with Eddi´s and Jago´s second anniversary party (with some of SecondLife´s hottest men). I danced, danced and danced...

Well I know I sat through the wonderful show that junivers Stockholm and his team of beautiful women gave us together with the firemasters extraordinaire Jannne Janus and Ambrooshia DeCuir, but that was not for long.

It was during the amazing light show that I got this picture from Lelle Kidd ... proving once again that I don´t always look as hot and cute as I think I do....

But I felt a little better when I returned his favor with this snapshot of him.

Which goes to prove that you only know what you see on your own screen, others may see it in a completely different way!

All in all, I had a great time last night. Thanks everyone for making it heavenly! 

"I could have danced all night!
I could have danced all night!
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things I've never done before.
I'll never know 

What made it so exciting.
Why all at once my heart took flight.
I only know when he
Began to dance with me.
I could have danced, danced danced all night!"  

P.S. HELL YEAH! I did try out dancing on the bar at the new Grenouille Inn, and I can attest to the fact that it is quite safe!