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Big Daddy’s Whole Wheat Bread

Great Wheat Bread from Big Daddy

Okay, I am really tired of these ‘artisan’ breads that crumble when you try to make a sandwich out of them. Obviously, it is the choice of what ingredients they use, but more importantly, what they tend to leave out. Health nuts tend to think eggs are bad… so they carelessly omit them.
Holy Granola! Where’s Baker-man when you need him?

So put on your Berkenstocks, tie die your ammo vest and get ready to bake some real whole wheat bread…. that you guys might even like.

What I wanted in this bread was all the favorites from the ancient grain of ‘Millet’ used by the Chinese long before the advent of rice…. add to this corn meal ( y’all love this one), whole wheat flour, wheat germ and a bunch of things that make it just fine! Oh, don’t forget all those things that make it so crunchy: Sesame Seeds, Flaxseed… and don’t worry, we got Oats!

It’s sweetened with Molasses & honey… and held together with an egg.

HERE’S THE RECIPE!



Made this especially for my wife, Laura…. who loves her daily turkey/cheese and stuff sandwich at lunch.

Roger Freberg

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Social Connectivity in today’s world

It's just little ol me!Social networking has always been the key to success in any sales endeavor.

It didn’t matter if you were selling chocolate, airplanes or ideas… the reality is ‘who you know’ and what they know of you! The more folks you knew and the stronger the ‘relationship’, then the greater likelihood you would find a ‘buyer’ for whatever it was you were selling.

The reason for the value of social connectivity is simple. People offer loyalty to the ideas of other people and to specific people… not to non human entities. For example, you are more likely to fail to remember to return something to the library than you would be to a friend, This is certainly not rocket science, but the importance of connectivity is something always underestimated by many people as they pursue their own personal goals.

Recently, we joined our daughters on two separate on-line sites ; “MySpace” and “Facebook”… there are other sites, but these were the ones they pointed out to us. Our interest was not in networking, per se, but to study the phenomenon. Kristin pointed out that one ‘Dive’ shop (Scuba) keeps a list on one of these sites to let divers know about upcoming events.
Karen has found a home on “Facebook” as it appeals to those currently in school… whereas Kristin likes “My Space” as it appeals to those past college. It is a place for meeting old friends and getting acquainted with new ones…. and keeping in touch with groups that share your interests.

Old ways with a new twist.

Roger Freberg

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Cal Poly Graduation : “Be Coul, dude ! “

President Warren Baker of Cal poly in full regalia!Cal Poly’s administration is fraught with troubles. Terrible troubles, indeed! The fact is that a massive wave of ‘coulrophobia’ has surged over the campus, sending faculty to their drawing tables!

The dictum has come down from on high: “NO MORE CLOWNS!”

However, from what I hear, a celebratory ‘t-shirt’ is being produced to reduce the coulrophobes anxiety through what Psychologists refer to as ‘flooding!’ I can only imagine what it might look like… maybe something like what is pictured here, allegedly of our Cal Poly campus President and otherwise great guy, Warren Baker.

Obviously, there are more issues than a ‘fear of clowns’ pervading the administration tower. There is a fear of not connecting their link firmly enough with that bastion of human rights Saudi Arabia. We give them advanced engineering technology… and they give us?

Meanwhile in clown central, the current Dean of Engineering has singled me out for special consideration in a memo sent wide and far to his “leadership team”. As readers of my blog know, I do not work at Cal Poly, so this special recognition is a great honor…. Indeed!

So when I received a copy of the memo that Dean Mohammad Noori sent to the world of Cal Poly Engineering… I looked with anticipation to see if it mentioned my name? Ahhhh… and here are parts of it…

Is this BIG Givernment McCathyism or what?
Obviously, I wrote him back and said that I said no such thing… I really didn’t … although I brushed it off thinking that Mohammad seemed distraught, overwrought and in dire need of a ‘clown suit’ to cheer himself up!

Although I found the memo darkly amusing, the concept of a state entity potentially unleashing the troops against a private citizen is disturbing. This resembles concept of ‘McCarthyism’ which has been characterized by many as an abuse of governmental authority over private citizens… so did Mohammad step over the line by mentioning me in such a derogatory way to his ‘colleagues’ in an official Cal Poly memo? What was he really asking them to do?

Makes you think…. because I have been here before.
Roger Freberg

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YOUR space & MySpace

Rogers MySpace

Okay, I finally put up a MySpace page for no other reason than to show the next generation of family members that I could do it too!

Here it is!

I think it has some value for folks that already have web sites of their own because it is a venue by which one generation searches for their friends… add to this Facebook and a young professional’s site is complete. My daughter Karen has links to both of her sites to sites on Facebook and Myspace.

Interestingly enough, MySpace asks you several times what you want your ‘myspace url’ to be … and warns you that it can not be changed! Hopefully this prevents naming a site that one might be a bit embarrassed about later on.

The Internet is staying interesting

Roger Freberg