Month: September 2007

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Southern California Trojans & the Radisson

a perfectly cooool place to stay!
Every school has these secrets. You KNOW what I mean! The secret of where you can stay that is actually in walking distance from the stadium!

In Gainesville, we found a hotel actually ABOVE the student union on campus! We could even view the SWAMP (football stadium) from our room. At SMU, it’s the Holiday Inn. At the University of Oregon, it’s the Phoenix…. you get the idea… a lot of ‘secrets’ out there.

The University of Southern California is no exception. The big secret is the Radisson Hotel right next to campus! Aaaaah…. it was wonderful to walk into bed right after the game and watch everyone else struggle with the traffic. We have done that before all too many times!

let the good times roll!
Sometimes you take a picture that everyone takes… the rainbow running from one side of the stadium to the other was on everyone’s list! My lovely bride is all smiles in victory and a shot of the entrance to the stadium and the ever present ‘white horse’!

Fight On!

Roger Freberg

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Down 88 on Jenny Craig

Thank you Jenny Craig!

Well… I am a few pounds away from my goal weight… which I am thinking about lowering a tad. Although I have lost over 88 lbs… here are a few things that weigh over 80 lbs… for perspective.

Supermodel weighs only 80 lbs?

Pictured above weigh 80-88 lbs: Super Model, Martial Artists, emperor Penguin and big ol’ Tunas!

Thank you  Jenny Craig!

Roger Freberg

 

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Food Preparation before Refrigeration

For many people on his planet, they can remember a time before air conditioning and before refrigeration. Cooking was challenging and methods of preserving then restoring food became quite an art… some of those recipes from an older technology are well worth trying…. here’s a couple I have been working on:

Key Limes and the unique preparation make all the difference

Take one of my favorite recipes for Key Lime Pie. It was a great deal of time before air conditioning, refrigeration and steady power came to “the Keys of Florida.”. (Some folks still complain… they do have hurricanes that swamp certain areas. I remember one restaurant that measures each flooding with high water marks on its walls.) Back to the dessert, this famous but simple pie (the State Pie of Florida) is made with Key Limes ( not to be confused with the Persian variety) and condensed milk  … most delicious on a graham cracker crust!

This next brings me to the South African dish called “Smoorvis”… a wonderful meal of fish, rice, vegetables and Cape-Malay spices! The fish historically used were dried, salted and preserved in the sun. An effort was then made to reconstitute and ‘plump’ the fish prior and during cooking… today, many folks use smoked salmon ‘straight from the box.’

However, I am preparing it the old fashioned way… and it looks intriguing. Recipe to follow.

Roger Freberg

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Cal Poly learning censorship by doing

the contrast between good and not good

Here’s a small plug for  Fire.Org.  These are the wonderful guys & gals who run around the country defending students, faculty and an assortment of other nice folks from the whims and callousness — I say “capriciousness” — of university bureaucrats. They have offered up their own evaluations of universities across our great land.  Do you know where your college stands? CHECK it out! Each analysis comes with links to media coverage.

Did you that in some universities you can not even discuss whether or not any differences exist between the sexes … even in an academic setting? If you dare, then the full force of the university can land on you? 

Once some enterprising student takes them to court, these neanderthal regulations will fall, …. but until then, they will act as a law unto themselves. Sensoring speech is but the tip of the authoritarian iceberg in a lot of these schools… but it is their key stone and must be removed.

Roger Freberg

Kudos to the University of Tennessee

 

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O.J. Simpson was a BRUIN! got proof!

all of my fantasies are gone!

I know it is hard to believe… but as this picture clearly indicates… and pictures don’t lie… O.J. Simpson was really a Bruin all along! Wouldn’t you know it was those dastardly Bruins who would do anything they could to besmerch the Good Trojan Name? How Low can you go?

“UCLA” Simpson seems to have  come into the news  with more problems. The latest is a claim by his lawyers that there is  no evidence against O.J.  Of course, I have been wrong before… I THOUGHT he was guilty the last time.

Another “PR Nightmare” ( as my daughter Karen would say) is Sally Field. Just as they thought it was safe to give her another award…  Sally uses the mike  to confirm that she is one step closer to a full time rubber room…. and trotted out the worn feminist rhetoric:

“Let’s face it. If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.”

As for me, I will always remember Sally as the sweet nun who brought more sunshine into the lives of others than she was able to bring to her own… and O.J. as one of the greatest halfbacks of all time … but a street thug and no more. I still think he was a Bruin plant.

Roger Freberg