renster's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=renster2004-08-02T04:13:01ZBlower (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/Blowerrensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2004-08-02T04:13:01Z2004-08-02T04:13:01Z<p>A blower is a business or person who is engaged in <a href="/title/invoice">invoice</a> <a href="/title/fraud">fraud</a>. </p>
<p>The general approach is to first call a target business to discuss <a href="/title/advertising">advertising</a> opportunities for the business and to <a href="/title/glean">glean</a> useful information like the names of staff etc..</p>
<p>After some time has passed the blower sends an <a href="/title/overdue">overdue</a> invoice for advertising with a claim it was authorised by staff at the target business - they have their names so it must be true! Often there is no advertising actually placed in directories or other publications or the publications were never distributed.</p>
<p>If confronted a blower will often use <a href="/title/hard+sell">hard sell</a> techniques, <a href="/title/intimidation">intimidation</a> and demands of quick payment in a hope to get payment for the non-existent advertising. The blower preys on busy workplaces where there might be some confusion, uneducated (or easily intimidated) staff and/or no clear advertising or bill payment procedure.</p>
<small>P.S. I only made this node so that e2 would become in some way work related. Hah! Take that employer.</small>
bugs (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/bugsrensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2002-12-06T15:26:01Z2002-12-06T15:26:01Z<p>Tonight, a few of my <a href="/title/friends">friends</a> came over to my house for drinks. We sat outside and drank <a href="/title/beer">beer</a>, <a href="/title/wine">wine</a> and <a href="/title/champagne">champagne</a> and talked about our lives together, collective memories and good times (as well as bad). It was a great evening, enjoying the cool of a summers night. We also left open the sliding screen door of the house. <p>
<p>The night wound down and it wasn't until the last guest, in gracious form, had helped me clean up a little that I noticed that a marvelous assortment of bugs had gathered around the kitchen light. Mostly clinging to the kitchen <a href="/title/ceiling">ceiling</a> - long ones, fat ones, strange ones alike flapping wings or crawling around. I peered closely, trying to minimise the glare of the ceiling lights.</p>
<p>My first instinct was to get rid of them. Spray them. Then I looked closer at their different features. What a marvel of God they were. Then i sprayed them and they all fell to the floor - momentarily in a state of <a href="/title/epilepsy">epilepsy</a> (as most modern insect destroying chemicals induce) - convulsing<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…scone (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/sconerensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2002-06-15T02:01:53Z2002-06-15T02:01:53Z<p><b>Cheat's Scones</b>
<p>Here is a really simple scone recipe that works well and is quick. I was also <a href="/title/skeptical">skeptical</a> but I made them and they worked out very well.
<p>4 cups Self raising <a href="/title/flour">flour</a><br>
300 ml Thickened <a href="/title/cream">cream</a><br>
250 ml <a href="/title/Lemonade">Lemonade</a><br>
<p>Cut the ingredients together with a <a href="/title/knife">knife</a>. The dough will be fairly sticky. Pat out on a floured surface until 3 or 4 cm thick. Use a big circular cutter to cut out scones or cut to desired shape. Place on baking <a href="/title/tray">tray</a>. Brush with <a href="/title/milk">milk</a>.
<p>Cook in 210c oven for 12-15minutes or until lightly brown on top.
<p>source: some <a href="/title/abc">abc</a> local radio cooking segment thing
<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>Kokoda Track (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/Kokoda+Trackrensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2001-11-15T03:27:03Z2001-11-15T03:27:03Z<p>The seldom used track (except now for Australian <a href="/title/tourists">tourists</a>) is located in the Oro province of Papua New Guinea. It starts near Buna and Gona on the north coast of Papua led easily up slopes to Kokoda to the south. Kokoda stands on a small <a href="/title/plateau">plateau</a> some 400 metres above sea level and is surrounded by mountains rising above 2,000 metres. The Kokoda track was formed by gold miners during the 1890's moving from Port Moresby to the <a href="/title/gold">gold</a> fields of Yodda and Kokoda. The Kokoda track is significant in Australian history because of the events surrounding the <a href="/title/Battle+of+Isurava">Battle of Isurava</a>.
<p>"<i>Between Kokoda and Ilolo </i>(a village a short distance to the south of kokoda)<i>, the track often climbed up gradients so steep that it was heartbreaking labor for burdened men </i>(often carrying packs of 40kgs)<i> to climb even a few hundred yards. Much of the track was through dense rain forest which enclosed the narrow passage between walls of thick bush. At higher levels the <a href="/title/terrain">terrain</a> became moss and stunted trees<!-- close unclosed tag --></i><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Battle of Isurava (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/Battle+of+Isuravarensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2001-11-15T03:26:13Z2001-11-15T03:26:13ZThe Battle of Isurava
<p>The Battle of Isurava by <i>all</i> accounts stands as a truly remarkable story of the mythical <a href="/title/grit">grit</a>, <a href="/title/courage">courage</a> and <a href="/title/tenacity">tenacity</a> of Australian troops. It also marks a desperate fighting withdrawal that stopped the momentum of the Japanese and bought the Australians some time in the Pacific Theatre. Most notably it is the only battle where Australia fought essentially alone in defence of it's own country. Isurava is located nearly midway between <a href="/title/Port+Moresby">Port Moresby</a> on the south coast and Gona on north coast of <a href="/title/Papua+New+Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>. The Australian forces were the first and last line of defence preventing a Japanese invasion of <a href="/title/Australia">Australia</a> through Port Moresby. Port Moresby was accessible by land forces via the 90 kilometre <a href="/title/Kokoda+Track">Kokoda Track</a> that crossed the Owen Stanley Ranges. The <a href="/title/Battle+of+Coral+Sea">Battle of Coral Sea</a> in May and <a href="/title/The+Battle+of+Midway">The Battle of Midway</a> in June, prevented alternative routes, such as a sea landing on Port Moresby itself.
<p>By mid-July, 13,500 Japanese Troops had landed in the Gona area on<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Tortured Nodes (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/renster/writeups/Tortured+Nodesrensterhttp://m.everything2.com/user/renster2001-11-13T00:48:58Z2001-11-13T00:48:58Z<p>Take a look at your list of <a href="/title/nodes">nodes</a>. Go on, you know you want to. See how they <a href="/title/sleep">sleep</a> there? Laying with their, snuggling up to the list of upvotes and downvotes? Isn't it <a href="/title/erotic">erotic</a>?
<p>Now <a href="/title/focus">focus</a> in on the nodes with as many upvotes as downvotes. No, not the ones with 1 <a href="/title/vote+up">vote up</a> and 1 <a href="/title/vote+down">vote down</a>. Go for the higher ones - 10,20 <a href="/title/...">...</a> 40. These are your tortured nodes. To me they are your best nodes. They <a href="/title/pissed+off">pissed off</a> as many people as they hit a chord with. You made people react - smacked them out of their hypnotic, glazed <a href="/title/eye">eye</a> amble through life, and made them vote with <a href="/title/conviction">conviction</a>. How tortured are your nodes?
<p>Tortured nodes seem to sit on the edge of two or more groups of thought. Various like minded noders sifting the node detritus. Some tortured nodes <a href="/title/engage">engage</a> or confront our own understanding of fact. One group sees it wrong (<i>downvote</i>) the other sees it as correct (<i>upvote</i>). But, most tortured nodes seem to challenge what is acceptable to say or node about. One group would<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…