Steak au Poivre

The grinding of fresh black peppercorns was a welcome sound as I opened the door, just returning from a day of school. “Tonight we will feast,” my father said, still moving his hands grinding the pepper ever finer. I shed my jacket and threw down my bag for something more suitable, a piece of German steel 8” in length that felt well balanced in my hand. I began mincing shallots, moving the blade in a motion second nature. I reach for a sprig of tarragon laying it down flat and strip it of its leaves, discarding the rest. My father finished his toil at the mortar and pestle and uncorked a bottle of red a cabernet, pouring himself a glass and tasting a look of ecstasy on his face as the liquid dances across his palette.

Our Mis-en-Place was laid before us like a puzzle waiting to be assembled, we had all the raw materials. Now we needed fire, oil, and a good skillet of cast iron. “Is the pan ready?” I call, unwrapping the butter. “It’s hot,” my dad replies, turning to watch the solid yellow form liquefy and begin to sizzle. Dad throws in the shallots, letting them brown and caramelize. We cover the steaks in the ground pepper, rubbing in the black particles and letting them sit before putting them into the pan. They hiss and spit smoke, absorbing the heat and flavor of the other ingredients. Dad sprinkles the tarragon over the meat, giving its subtle flavor, turning the meat then and browning the other side. A pinch of salt and then the wine is added, deglazing the mix of shallot, pepper, tarragon, and butter. The alcohol ignites, encircling the meat like a creature around its prey, instilling its flavor and creating a sauce reduction in the bottom of the pan. The meat is taken off the heat and put on a platter, the sauce then poured over it, then served. Dad and I, smiling, take our first bite.

In Class:
1st student: Excuse me professor I believe you have the wrong date marked on the paper.
2nd student: Why do you believe it to be wrong?
1st student: In the text it states that the date is 1812.
2nd student: Why is that the correct date?
1st student: Because the date of the event is a fact.
2nd student: Do you believe the date to be a fact because the text told you?
1st student: Yes, and the text is factual.
2nd student: What is a fact?
1st student: A fact is a truth.
2nd student: A truth that you were told by someone who interpreted an interpreter of the event. How can you be certain that the interpreter was not wrong in his interpretation? What is "wrong," something you don't believe because someone who you believe didn't tell you so?
A dialogue by Nate Shepard

Does democracy only represent the majority?

Questions:
1. Will candidates advocate what will win them the election or what they believe in?
2. What is the bigger rift in the country the political parties or the economic gap? What is the bigger problem?
3. Is the world market (jobs, companies) a perpetual machine? Is the money energy?

Perfection:

Nothing can be perfect, something can only be perfectly imperfect.

electric battery cars: great idea!

When you charge that battery where is that electricity coming from and how is it generated? Well I would assume that it is being generated by a fossil fuel power plant. So what does that save us? Nothing!!

Hydrogen fuel cells:

I believe the only way hydrogen fuel cells are going to gain traction on today's roads is if we jumpstart the hydrogen production with natural energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and biomass energy. Then use the generated pure hyrdrogen to run a highly efficient fuel cell that will generate more pure hydrogen then it uses. If many of these machines are produced it will make hydrogen fuell cells feasible.

When selling a medical product do you think it is better to tell the consumer that it is a very serious and dangerous ailment and that they need to get help immediately or to tell the consumer that alot of people have the ailment and they're all getting help?

While watchin the Tour de France and observing the mass of riders or the peloton almost work together for the betterment of the group by staying together and breaking the wind resistence for the other riders even though they are the very people they are trying to beat. I thought it was interesting that even though this is a race where you are attemting to beat the other racers the different teams do work together for the betterment of all.

Why we live...well....hmmmmm...umm:

I believe inherent in every living human's mind is the need for stimulus, excitement, pain, happiness, love, hate, all these feeble emotions are what make up our lives and make us want to continue on and repeat the cycle. Why do we have children, why do we hold jobs, why do we socialize. No reason

Thinking of abstract shapes, unreal objects, things that have not yet been created. I ponder how is it that I can visualize something that I have never seen nor had a cognition about before. I believe all things that you conceptualize and form in your mind have some fibers of relation to another thought we had conceived. This chain continues until it reaches something already created or already known. I believe that all things are somehow derived from another idea ergo I believe that it is impossible to create a thought that is truly "new" or totally "different".

I would like to believe that I am different and my ideas are revolutionary but I know that is impossible

Perfection , dancing just behind its incandescent borders, stimulating me to try harder and to reach it.

I do not understand how you can be so devout to a religion or to a person. Although following a religion is alike following a celebrity or media icon (which is also pointless), I feel that living a life dictated by the strict morals or ethics of a religion is a waste of a life.

My view on using the word like(supposedly not grammatically correct)

The word "like" is strange it sounds as though it is used as a filler word when your thinking of the right thing to say. But in fact I believe "like" is used when a person is not sure of the factuality of what he/she is saying. When people say "like" thay mean something is "alike" or close to something else, not exactly like something else.

Intelligence

I do not believe that all people are born equal, I think that some humans are born with an ability to interpret information and learn faster than others from birth. I also believe that some infants that receive more stimulation in different parts of their brain while it is still developing will be more skilled in those areas. My explanation for why no one is equal in intelligence is genes. I believe that your parents are the key to your level of intelligence.

In conclusion if you get bad grades blame it on your parents

Colors

A change in color, the stimulation that defines a form, a definite shape, an edge. When colors change abruptly a line is formed which shows the edge or the end of a shape, if colors change subtly and gradually with similar colors around it this is not interpreted as a line or an edge it signals the continuation of a shape.

Think about this by looking at an object and seeing what makes you believe that it has an edge to its shape.

Pottery

Watching an essentially abstract form take shape by mean of your own hands and mind working in symbiosis is an art form in of itself. I delved deeper opening my clay form pushing it contouring it to a graceful camber. I articulate my hands and manipulated the pot lengthening its walls. I push with balanced force on the curve of the pot until it is my view of perfection. But pottery is not about being perfect it is about creating something with your own mind and body that has imperfections because inherently your own body is not perfect, so perfection is something I strive for but am unable to reach.

The economy of the world is based on trade and interaction between countries. Without this there would be no world economy. Because countries trade they have built dependencies on each other to supply them with what they need. For example the United States depends on Saudi Arabia for oil and Saudi Arabia depends on the United States for buying their oil and providing military support. If we did not trade with countries like Saudi Arabia we would be losing valuable resources such as Oil, Uranium, and Gold. These are things that we cannot harvest from our own country. So we have become dependent on other countries to supply us with it for a price. The world economy is based on countries depending on each other for resources that they cannot get themselves.

This past week I have viewed people take part in physical activities. I see obese people, lanky people, muscular people all playing their sport. I wonder with removing the variable of how much natural skill a person has can you accurately hypothesize how good a player will be by knowing the weight of the person and what muscles are used most in the sport and testing the person for coordination and muscle control. With knowing these areas of athleticism you could tell how good they will be at a sport. Although skill is a huge factor, athleticism can let you take greater advantage of your natural fortes.

Evolution
I remember when humans and nature were one
I remember when our living was in symbiosis
when we dwelled in equilibrium
that was when we had not evolved
past our true meaning

Humans evolution should not deteriorate the environment. I believe that when we create new machines they should not destroy the natural, or pollute the air. I feel that we have to be more conscious when we are evolving, so to speak. So that when we create things that could aid our survival we do not destroy another beings chance of surviving.

Today I successfully weaned my parents off Internet Explorer converting them to Mozilla firefox a superior web browser, my dad was apprehensive at first stating that it was spyware and should be deleted immediately, but I changed his mindset once I told him my brother was using it. Does he trust his oldest son more than his wisest, me? I don't understand his logic

On another note I told my father that a yarmulke could be used to cover up baldness. I have a feeling he will start to practice Judaism in his later years.

Education
I believe that the social aspect of a humans development is just as or more important than the academic process of gaining knowledge. This is why I believe that our institutes for education should put more effort into creating a social environment so the students may develop socially at the same level as their knowledge. I believe that the main objective of schools is to create better people and to do that social development is an integral part.

Space
I believe that the future of space missions lies in unmanned, robotic-guided missions with no probability of human endangerment. Mechanics have come far and are now able to replicate human functions and when we are simply traveling to space to perform scientific research there is no reason to involve humans.

Another new Revelation,

The U.S. Economy is based on a humans psyche and their faith in the market. Such as in the case of 9/11 the stock market fell becasue people became unfaithful and nervous in the economy's ability to stay stable. Ergo the investors withdraw their money and set off a cataclysmic chain reaction deteorating the architecture of the economy, which makes the corporations lose money, therefore reduce their workforce, which makes one of the people laid off have less money to buy products, and reduces demand. Now think about it this way if everyone had, had faith in one another to stay invested for the long run and everyone had kept their money in stocks the stock market would never have gone down. In conclusion I believe that if everyone depends on others the market will steadily rise and all people will gain wealth and confidence.

My Revelation

The realization of the past and present states has been incomprehensible for the human mind to contemplate and to understand because when movement occurs within your sensory range you bodily functions realize this after the motion has occurred because waves and particles move at a finite speed. Once this sensory information enters the receptors for such, it translates the movement into electrical impulses, which travel to the brain to be interpreted. Inherently this all takes time and this revelation proves that the past exists both figuratively and in reality.