fyi if you (reader) dismiss my post thinking i'm posting feeble/mild garbage or morally bankrupt, yeahhh i'll gladly punch your fucking nose in dear fucker. we'll have full arguments and points IF we fix this by making the topic. there's lot to talk anyways and it's definitely a waste seeing her go or you guys fighting so make ammends.

*deer fucker
 
 

On topic: Where did this deckhands thing come from? or was that just spontaneous?

I am an Able Bodied Seaman by profession: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_bodied_seaman 
 
Someone was asking me what my job title entailed and I posted them that link. I was reading about notable ABs in history and fiction though at the bottom of the page and I came across Perce Blackborow.
 
 
Edit: What? I'm done with that junk. I'm just tryin to help ol bonzi with his english.

I think dear fucker was correct. I like it more, anyway. It's warmer.

ahahah yeah it is pretty backwards eloquent isn't it?

did you get the cheese steaks esiann, how were they?

I don't know anything about Khmer.  A guy who lived in the town my community college was in invented this machine to detect land mines safely and he used it in Khmer to help the population there cuz there are a bunch of landmines in the ground...it's bad.

Also, my uni has the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and you can learn Khmer language (as well as Thai and Tagalog).  Pretty sweet stuff.

I would take a khmer language course in a second. if there was a pimsleurs khmer I would already own it

I don't know anything about Khmer.  A guy who lived in the town my community college was in invented this machine to detect land mines safely and he used it in Khmer to help the population there cuz there are a bunch of landmines in the ground...it's bad.

Also, my uni has the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and you can learn Khmer language (as well as Thai and Tagalog).  Pretty sweet stuff.

Have you gotten into vietnamese? or are you going to? There are a group of like five or six first gen vietnamese/americans that work here and when they speak it, it sounds wierd. Kind of like a cat growl/meowing "UUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA". Like they drag their vowels out or something? Shit freaked me out first time I heard it. I get mad respect points from em' because I got a t-shirt from when we went to Ho Chi Minh (they didn't go, laid off) and they poke me everytime I wear it.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City
 
It was cool because when I got back to the states my pop pop (grandfather) was asking me about it because he was in vietnamn. I told him about what I saw and how it looked around there and he seemed to reminisce fondly of it even though he was fighting a war there.

It's sort of as if Murder, She Wrote were annoyed.

Oh I did! I liked whichever one we ended up at because they just have big buckets of pickled things, which I took all of. Otherwise it was really similar to the M&M, which isn't a bad thing. Slightly cheesier. Mixed sentiments from the others. I think it was Chubby's. The Reading Terminal Market was way better than expected (indoor fair concessions I guess?). There's a good Cajun place where I got some alligator gumbo/bean liquid. I wonder if reptiles count as fish, Catholic-wise. Also Philly in general is much nicer than expected, feels similar to Boston but more barren (on an inhospitable day). The statues are better.

It's sort of as if Murder, She Wrote were annoyed.

Oh I did! I liked whichever one we ended up at because they just have big buckets of pickled things, which I took all of. Otherwise it was really similar to the M&M, which isn't a bad thing. Slightly cheesier. Mixed sentiments from the others. I think it was Chubby's. The Reading Terminal Market was way better than expected (indoor fair concessions I guess?). There's a good Cajun place where I got some alligator gumbo/bean liquid. I wonder if reptiles count as fish, Catholic-wise. Also Philly in general is much nicer than expected, feels similar to Boston but more barren (on an inhospitable day). The statues are better.

good! I think they both have big buckets of pickles and peppers. the main difference between the two is that dalessandro's is tiny inside, and chubby's is larger w/ booths. the rtm is great too. that Corner of Louisiana place has the best cajun food I've had, really good po boys there. I should have recommended dinic's, but I didn't really know about it at the time. I think alligator counts as fish.

I'm probably going to be making a thread about the reading viaduct/old abandoned stuff in philly this weekend, you might be interested

speaking of louisiana and louisiana cuisine, does anyone here watch swamp people? I love that show and a welder I work with sells crawfish he catches to troy and told me a cafe he frequents at where you can talk to him. I've really gotten into that whole workin' man reality tv trend that discovery has been doing with shows like; Deadliest Catch, Swamp People, Bearing Sea Gold etc.. Might make it a topic soon because the stuff is honestly really interesting and sheds light on a dying breed of the entrepreneur/pioneer/self-sufficient laborer in a vein of true realism you don't usually see in the horrible genre that is reality TV.

I rode on a hoverboat through some gator farms a couple times. Its pretty incredible. The guy doing the tour had palsy or something like that and couldn't walk which made it that much more awesome.
 
 

I think alligator counts as fish

Been a long time since I ate it but if I remember correctly because of texture and preparation I'd say its closer to a chicken or beef. Fish are too tender I think and you can't make jerky out of them.

did you get the cheese steaks esiann, how were they?
I would take a khmer language course in a second. if there was a pimsleurs khmer I would already own it

http://www.livemocha.com/ has Khmer on it.  It's a free language learning website kinda like Rosetta Stone but no 500 dollars.  I don't really know how they compare.

Also Farren, no Vietnamese.  I like the food though.  I might take People and Cultures from Southeast Asia class sometime but right now I don't need it for my degree and cultural anthro isn't my focus.

of course the first thing i programmed it to do was make a dong on the leds

I think I may have to put in an order to do this. It hasn't been christened correctly otherwise.

Ed are you an engineer? Or are you working with some sort of engineering department on the coding and programming side?

I've got a masters in EEE. Currently doing a PhD in space imagers.

If I could do my undergraduate again I'd like to do something more towards interfacing computers with real world processes. All the current interfaces are kinda obvious. I'm still amazed that we don't have appliance standards for home automation yet. I don't want to die before feeling like George Jetson.

If y'all like interfaith dialogue and discussion, please join my fb group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/212783462146850/

you can make fish jerky
http://www.dehydratorbook.com/fish-jerky.html

I am ostracized enough already, I'll prolly check it out though.
 

It's sort of as if Murder, She Wrote were annoyed.

This is really good btw, it took a minute to register.
 
 
Dok, I couldn't imagine eating that shit. Fish meat just does not seem like the kind of meat you'd wanna use for a jerky to me.
 
Also I think this is a better description as far as tendencies of the meat and taste: 

it has a fairly firm texture and (like chicken) pretty much absorbs the flavor of whatever it is cooked in.

It doesn't specifically taste like chicken but thats the closest I think you could get to it. I also read calamari/chicken and that seems kind of accurate too.
 
 
They cook cajun on here ALL THE TIME when we're closer to stateside. Froglegs, gumbo every third day, rabbit etc.. They don't cook gator on here but when "Mister T" comes back I might ask him about it (he's the steward onboard a big old creole guy): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_people
 
The term creole being used in this instance is a black person with a lighter skin tone being the product of the reoccurance of french blood in genetic disposition. Not the same as a "mixed" person they look a little different. Think how an albino black person would look except like a cream color. I've never even seen/heard of that till I got out here, its pretty interesting.
 
I worked with him in the galley for awhile last august and we were working in the freezer he kept mumbling about boudin over and over again like every other day (the guys really old and kind of talks to himself sometimes) which is another cajun food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudin. It sounds really funny to hear someone say it because it sounds like "BOH-DAN".
 
I think he was complaining because he wanted to cook it one day but he didn't have enough. I don't think I'd like it though because its parts of the pig I don't really wanna eat.