Monday, February 23, 2009

Phkkkd by the Pharmas Again

If your doctors are telling you it's time to get on medication to lower your cholesterol, you need to be VERY afraid! And you need to read the attached newsletter and get some education before you listen to them.

Attached is the Jan / Feb 2009 edition of the Health by Science Newsletter: Jupiter Falling - Scientific proof that the pharmaceutical companies are once again misleading us softly with their statins (PDF Format) by Professor Brian Peskin, the only guy out there who keeps getting everything right, time after time after time.

You can get it at the above link as well, and sign up for delivery when they come out.

This newsletter is a wee bit technical, but it shows you beyond the shadow of a doubt to what ends the pharma companies will go to, in order to profit from their dangerous drugs. It is disgusting.

And this is not a conspiracy theory!

I love you.

Cam

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Welcome to Washi Urushi

Welcome to Washi Urushi, the new Etsy store for Max & The Yoshida Artwork Gallery!

I spent the day creating Masaki's new Etsy store. I hope that Etsy lets me keep it as there are other stores on Etsy that are run by one person, and the goods are created by another. I am doing the exact same thing.

The difficulty in setting up this store is that each individual item is of a different size and weight, and I need to pre-package everything in order to determine shipping.

Today I set up nine (9) items with some temporary text. I am looking for some inspiration for these items regarding a more attractive sort of "wordy thingies". I know it will come to me in due time *wink*, I just need to be patient.

It took pretty much the entire day to come this far. We will see how things go.

I plan to list all of my eto, as well as my bonsai. If we get orders, then Max will create something "similar but not identical" to what is displayed. It will take some time to add their art, but because it IS art, I don't foresee what we have listed, or will list, flying off the shelves!

But for now... a year or longer project has come to as close to completion as I can achieve in this NOW moment. I want to sit back and see how well we are received.

Welcome to Washi Urushi (Paper Lacquer)

I love you!

Cam

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Obama On Food

The Japanese sure do seem to LOVE President Obama!

Look what they have created now: Obama-maki zushi.

You take a square of nori (seaweed, lay down rice, insert various meats, fish, vegetables, roll it all up into a big cylinder, and cut off slices. I guess they used brown rice...

Can you imagine the minds of the people to have thought up how to lay this all out so that when cut, you have the face of Barack Obama?

For anyone who thinks Obama is HAWT, now is your chance to dive right in and take a big bite!

I love you!

Cam

P.S. Not for the carbohydrate-weak-at-heart.

Note: Image lifted from: http://gawker.com/5156001/obama-sushi.

Special thanks to Dunnster for always finding the most insane stuff!

An Awesome Opportunity!

Does anybody want in on this UNBELIEVABLE deal?!?...

Dear Friend,

I am Mr Smith Kujor a citizen of Togo in Lome in west Africa, I am 40years of age with two children, now living in Cotonou Republic of Benin West Africa, during my staying in my country I worked with one of the biggest company name Alkali group of companies owned by a Saudi-Arabian man called Sheik Mohamed Sheriff who is residing in Riyadh state in Saudi Arabia before is death in two years ago.

After the family shared the properties and companies, I was lucky to transfer to our Financing &Bureau De Exchange as a stock keeper of which I worked till end of this December 2006. Before I resigned, there is a fire problem in my office and our office complex is five-story building with different offices. I was in the office when this fire started and  I rushed down to second floor where their is a trunk of box of money that contains the sum of ( 45.5millon DOLLARS) that my office want to transfer to our correspondent office in Belgium.

All effort to off this fire prove abortive till the building burnt to collapsed. None of our staff or officer knows that the ( 45.5million DOLLARS) is in my possession they all believe that it as burnt together with the building.

After our office conclude their investigation on what may cause the fire problem, the management decided to sack all the top officer including me as a stock keeper we are all suspected but there is know trace of this money, immediately I transferred this trunk of box of ( 45.5million DOLLARS) to a Security & Vault company to my neighboring country for safekeeping and I did not declared the content as money to the vaults company workers, what I told the security and vault company that is inside the trunk box I brougt to their company is jewelries and costumes accessories belonging to a foreign investor for security reason.

Furthermore, the only assistant I need is a reliable and honest foreign partner that can be able to come down to Cotonou in republic of Benin in west Africa to receive this money together with me and open a transit account /domiciliary with ECO BANK in Cotonou in your name and deposited this money by cash before onward transfer to your nominated account in your country.

I will offer you 30% of total amount of (45.5millon DOLLARS) for your assistance to act as a beneficiary of the fund and your time to come down to Cotonou for final transaction, 60% will be my own and 10% for any expenses that may be incurred during the transferring of this fund. So this is a risk free transaction, is not a drug money or government money it's a divine from God. If you are interested as a foreign body kindly forward to me your full information as follows;

{1} Your full home /office address
{2} Your direct telephone/fax number
{3} Your scan copy of your international passport or driving license.

All this information is needed to secure your identity card from the Security &Vault Company in Cotonou in republic of Benin in West Africa where this fund was kept as the owner.
Immediately I hear from you I will forward the certificate of deposit of this trunk box to you for assurance.

Regards,
Smith Kujor,
+229 97 08 69 51.

NB, THIS TRANSACTION IS FREE FROM ALL PROBLEM , NOT GOVERMENT MONEY, NOT DRUG MONEY , NOT BANK OR MINSITRY MONEY OR ANY CONTRACT FUND, THIS IS A DIVINE GIFT FROM GOD AND DOESNT NOT INVOLVE ANY UPFRONT PAYMENT

... I wonder how many people actually get sucked into this shit??!?!?!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Food for Thought

I had such a delicious breakfast that I just thought I would share it with YOU! I'll be posting this on the LowCarBlog that Stefnee and I work together as well because there it is health related, and that is where we keep these kinds of things as a repository so people don't have to sift through all the naked pictures of me dancing while washing my mountain bike.

Here is one of my many similar breakfasts that I cook daily. It is an ordinary breakfast to me, but it could be lunch or dinner to anyone. I know full well that most people don't have the time in the morning to create what I do, cooking a full meal (working from home has its definite advantages).

This meal consists of meat fried in olive oil, then a citrus soy-juice drizzled over, a salad with lots of tomatoes (fruit carb), two Stefnee-style steamed eggs with melted cheese on top (fried in real butter, not plastic margarine) and some salt-pickled daikon radish. I also had yogurt with frozen blueberries, and now jus realize that there is a bowl of defrosted, steamed fresh spinach still sitting in the microwave. Damn, I always do that!

When I create a meal, I don't think of creating high/low carb meals, I just make what my body wants. In most cases it tells me it wants meat, meat, meat, with some eggs, cheese, vegetables, water, and some yogurt.

By the way, in case you didn't know this, vegetables are pretty useless to humans since we can't digest cellulose (plant cell walls), unlike cows, goats, and those with five stomachs. Many people believe (brainwashed we have been) that we need the vegetables for the vitamins and minerals, but from a truly biochemical viewpoint (which nutritionists and doctors seem to be blind to, and refuse to recognize), vegetables are cellulose, and all of the "goodness" is locked up in the cell walls of the plants. And since we cannot digest the cellulose of plant matter, we can't get at the majority of those "good things". BUT, meat-based animals can. And they absorb and integrate into their cellular structure all of that goodness (vitamins and minerals) that we cannot access. Then when we eat the meat, because we CAN digest meat and proteins, and amino acids, we get all of that goodness into us. It is the natural cycle, one that nutritionists and doctors and lobbyists for agribusiness have tried to make us forget.

I won't even get into the talk about fiber and its total uselessness for us in spite of what we have been brainwashed to believe otherwise. Science has shown, and published, but not talked about in the news (of course), that high fiber leads to a LOT of complications, one of them being mineral LEACHING (i.e. taking away) from our body as the fiber absorbs and passes through unusued. The other minor annoyance is the increase of intestinal cancer, but what the hell, right? We're all going to die of cancer anyways, so it's no big deal.

Did you know that cellulose is the exact same thing as sawdust? Yes. But, I will say this: having vegetables is a nice way to break up the meal and add some other flavour, colour, shape and texture to the plate. It's really too bad that we are not designed physiologically to digest plant matter... 

The only other thing I added (because I had it in the freezer) that I don't usually have is the frozen blueberries. But I saw them, and I thought, "I want them today!" So I did.

And that, dear friends, is the power of our amazing NO DIET eating lifestyle.

So, my question to those of you out there who say that "low carb meals" are too difficult to maintain is this: Is a meal like this undoable? Because it sure tasted damn good to me!

Come for a visit and let me cook for you! You won't be disappointed, and you most definitely will not go away hungry, I promise. (And I have a lot of bourbon and whiskey sitting in my liquor cabinet that I don't drink, so you can sip your way to happiness should you so desire.

I love you!

Cam

The Phoenix Has Risen

A phoenix is a mythical bird with a tail of beautiful gold and red plumage (or purple and blue, by some sources). It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again. The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. The bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe, thus being almost immortal and invincible — it is also said that it can heal a person with a tear from its eyes and make them temporarily immune to death. The phoenix is a symbol of fire and divinity.

Many years ago I found the jeweller, James Binnion, on the web. How I found him, I remember not, but I fell in love with his rings that were made with a very special traditional Japanese metal forging technique called mokume-gane (metal with woodgrain patterns), that blended several kinds of metals which then melded with one another to make the most amazing patterns.

I ordered a pingpong ball sized mokume-gane ball from him for Masaki to use with one of his dragons, and it added such amazing depth to Max' art work that the customer was very impressed. I was impressed! We are still impressed, years later!!

I kept in touch with James over the years, and had him design a few rings for me, but we never actually made anything because nothing grabbed my soul. If I am going to wear rings, they need to either reach out and take possession of me, or must have a special meaning to me. This one does (as do the others I wear now).

Most of you know how I absolutely LOVE the amazing texture, and feel of titanium and all of it's characteristics. I bought my first titanium ring and bracelet from another fellow in about 2001 (lost the bracelet in an international flight and miss it terribly!). I just love how titanium becomes one with the body; no other jewellery I have owned does that. I have stainless, sterling, gold, but nothing feels as perfectly in harmony with me, with my body, my soul as my titanium.

Recently I found out that James and his partner had started a new business in which they create the mokume-gane patterns out of blends of stainless steel, and some with titanium/zirconium (to give a grey, black pattern). OMG I loved his designs, so I ordered one!

Well, it turned out that the one that James told me was titanium was actually NOT titanium but stainless, and they had never done anything like that. However, since he took my order, and I paid up front for the ring, he knew he needed to make that ring. So... he and his partner developed an entirely new "know how", technology, to be able to make the mokume-gane pattern in titanium/zirconium! And guess what? They created it on MY RING!

I decided to call this ring my Phoenix Ring because this year is the year of new beginnings, the shift, the rebirth, the BEING. It describes the amazing transition I have gone through the past year with my spiritual studies and meditation, and it expresses my "rebirth through fire" as one might say. I absolutely LOVE this ring! It feels so natural and good on my (shaved) finger, that it really has already become a part of my soul.

I asked James to take photos of the process so that I might share them with you when I tell you the story of how "The Phoenix Has Risen". It is a little complicated, but still... amazing to behold. If I ever meet you, I promise you I will let you see, touch, feel and wear the ring. THEN you will understand why I love titanium so very much! I have semi-retired my other titanium ring for now as I don't have another finger to fit it on because I have my "Eternity" ring from artisanimpact (on Etsy) on the middle finger of my right hand.

God, this ring is gorgeous and just feels so.... NOW!!

Here is a message from James Binnion of www.mokume-gane.com:

That ring is quite special as it is the first one of the Ti/Zr (titanium/zirconium) rings to be made in that way. When you chose that pattern I thought it was one of the Ti/Zr rings but my partner told me after I took the order that the one you chose was a stainless steel ring.

That pattern is actually the end grain of the extrusion. It is what you see when you slice through the bar.  So to make the ring I had to convince the end of the bar to become the side of the bar.  This is done by making a washer and inverting it. It is forged to make it a conic section , then further forging to bring it in to a tube form. Then trimmed and put on the lathe.

In stainless it is easy to do this and in fact is done cold, but if you try this with the Ti/Zr rings they crack with the extreme distortion that is required. However if you can keep it above 898C you can move it fairly easily. The trick is there is so little mass in a ring blank you have no time to do anything to it before it is too cold. So fast work and lots of reheating to get it to final shape.

It was quite a challenge to make, and while we will offer it as a special pattern it will be quite a bit more expensive (than we had planned) to cover the time involved. So it was a real learning experience for me.

I hope it brings you a new beginning and a wonderful new year.

*****

I love you!

Cam

P.S. If you would like to see the rings up close, please visit my Flickr Page.

 

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Experiment 3258.6: Duelling Squeegees

I am always trying to find the perfect squeegee to clean the moisture off the walls, ceiling and floor of the bathroom in order to prevent mold buildup in this very humid climate. It keeps the walls amazingly shiny as well, and prevents that white calcified buildup that forms when water sits and dries of its own volition.

 


This one has worked well. Better than the second one, but not as good as the first one (which wore out) and far better than the 3rd one which I threw into the outside tools bin and haven't touched since. I picked this baby up at a car shop. This is the 4th one in the history of this experiment.

 

This squeegee, the fifth one, purchased at Komeri Home Center, sucks! The polymer used for the blade is waay too soft, it bends, doesn't slide the water well at all, and screams like a squealing pig heading for the slaughter house! You'd think it would be the cat's meow by the marketing they splashed all over the packaging! Unfortunately it's more like the cat's demise.

Actually it sounds identical to the screams that Tug used to make whenever I would take him for a bath. For some reason he loved swimming in rivers and streams, but despised (yes, that strong a word is appropriate) the shampoo bath. Washing Tug was a "joy". I always worried that the neighbours might call the police thinking we were torturing baby bunny rabbits or something...

I won't be going into the past three squeegees and digging up past failures. What's the use? All you have is EN OH DOUBLE YOU.

I love you!

Cam

P.S. I'm not kidding about the difference it makes in your bath! Even Dunnster swears by it now. It really makes a huge difference! It really really does!!

P.P.S. I wasn't dressed like this in the shower... of course... But I figured I had better not try taking any "strategic photos" with me the way I WAS in the shower, because well... you can imagine the results should they go awry.