Love the newsletter, Matilda: did you fire the painter before s/he got to the walls, or am I WAY behind what is in fashion now?
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Originally posted by Abbyrawlinson, we're going for that broken down look. Contrast between old and new, ya know?
alleyes, we have the same interent connection here (10m fibre), so no changes.
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Originally posted by AbbyUh, actually, our servers have moved, from San Deigo, to Dallas / Ft Worth in Texas.
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btw, they don't get earthquackes in Dallas, but on occasion a tornado.
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Abby writes, "rawlinson, we're going for that broken down look. Contrast between old and new, ya know?" ((Sorry, I'm not up on the technology here): there is a specific Japanese aesthetic term for the walls: wabi-sabi (or sabi-wabi, as Alan Watts formed it). The look is not entirely broken down: the contrast is to the point (and that is not wabi-sabi, although it incorporates the wall, and so on, which does express wabi-sabi). The interior is superb; kudos to the designer!
What I'm trying to figure out is the "line of cordials": those are rather large containers; "cordial" to me means an aperitif or dessert drink, like Cointreau, for example, drunk in (generally) very small quantity. What seems to be on the shelf looks more like fruit juice -- unconverted -- Matilda seems like such a sober, humourless person I find it hard to believe she would use a word out of context, but perhaps "cordial" is dialect for what we called, in summer camps in Pennsylvania in the 1960's, "bug juice"?
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Cordial is something you'll find very popular in Aussie supermarkets (popular brands are Cottees and Anchor). It's basically fruit-drink concentrate, that you dilute with water (roughly 4 parts water to 1 part concentrate), prior to drinking. The typical Aussie household fridge will always have a jug or two of pre-diluted cordial, chilled and ready to drink, for those hot summer days. It's cheaper than buying actual fruit juice as well.
Red cordial is sometimes associated with hyperactivity (possibily because of its high sugar content?)
The annoying thing with cordial is when you get the concentrate/dilute jugs mixed up, and you end up pouring yourself a glass of concentrate (that tastes way too strong and feels syrupy in texture); I've done that a number of times!
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Originally posted by DiabloRed cordial is sometimes associated with hyperactivity (possibily because of its high sugar content?)
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Originally posted by AbbyUh, actually, our servers have moved, from San Deigo, to Dallas / Ft Worth in Texas.
Does this mean the first update will come at midnight US Central time? (GMT-5)
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Originally posted by DiabloCordial is something you'll find very popular in Aussie supermarkets (popular brands are Cottees and Anchor). It's basically fruit-drink concentrate, that you dilute with water (roughly 4 parts water to 1 part concentrate), prior to drinking. The typical Aussie household fridge will always have a jug or two of pre-diluted cordial, chilled and ready to drink, for those hot summer days. It's cheaper than buying actual fruit juice as well.
Thank you for the vocabulary expansion, and the warning about the price of fruit juice.
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Originally posted by Vid DudeAt the risk of taking this thread even further off-topic, it's the ingredients of the red food colouring (additive 123) that causes hyperactivity in children. In fact, many red coloured products do not have that hyperactive ingredient anymore, it's been replaced with #124, but the legend still stands.
And, I'm not sure how off-topic this is; we none of us want any mischief to come to youse-all at AWHQ, so it's good to know that you won't be hyperactive because of the food colouring.
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