Capn Bob

For those interested in Jamestown VA, the Lawes Divine Moral and Martial are online. Early Jamestown was not a fun place, and it looks like Marshall Thomas Dale didn't mess around. Here's the link... http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/james...browse?id=J1056 And long live Nate Bacon (jr)!

Me? I'm making Jamaican Shrimp. Right now, as I write, the shrimp are bathing in their marinade, the green pepper and onion are all chopped up...I'm stuck working today, and my Mother is in hospital, so I'll be heading there directly after work. But once home, the shrimp will be cooked...as below: 1 to 2 lb. shrimp (shelled, deveined) 1/2 c. Lea & Perrins steak sauce 1/4 c. Myers spiced rum 1/8 c. pineapple juice 1/8 c. orange juice 1 tsp. liquid smoke 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 2 tbsp. molasses 1 tbsp. ginger, crushed 1 sm. clove garlic 1 sm. yellow onion 1 sm. green bell pepper 2 tsp. cayenne pepper or pepper sauce 1 c. uncooked brown rice Marinate shrimp, for several hours or overnight, in steak sauce, pineapple and orange juices, molasses, ginger, and cayenne pepper (sauce). Heat vegetable oil in medium saucepan, using high heat, saute garlic, onion and green pepper until browned. Remove shrimp from sauce mixture and set aside. Strain sauce mixture and combine with contents in saucepan, simmer on low heat until reduced by 1/3. Add liquid smoke. Cook shrimp in sauce mixture for 5 minutes. When shrimp is done, remove it from sauce and set aside. Saute uncooked rice for 1 minute, using high heat, in a clean saucepan. Add 1 1/2 cup cold water and remaining sauce mixture, bring to a rolling boil. Lower heat, cover pan with tight fitting lid. Cook rice according to package directions, minus 5 minutes. Serve shrimp over rice.

You *evil* person, you! Not even a *touch* of rum in it? You *do* know fish breed in that stuff, don't you? And breeding isn't the only thing fish do in water...

Since I just posted something regarding our good friend Edward Teach, also known as Blackbeard, I thought I'd mention that the PBS series "Secrets of the Dead" is planning to broadcast a program about the Queen Anne's Revenge and Himself on April 22 2009. This *just* happens to be the day after my birthday, which is as close to Cap'n Teach himself giving me a present this side of Fiddler's Green.

Our good friend Edward Teach is back in the news! Nat'l Geographic News website has released some more photos of items found on the supposed Queen Anne's Revenge site (I say "supposed" because there are still some that are skeptical about the claim). Anyway, here's the link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...eard-artifacts/

Well, credit where due, it was JC that had Fred the Turtle Avatar...as for me, I came up with The Ceremony, the resulting ELFSATs, the Elven Liberation Front, and of course, Gamblelouse Green...I also attended a few classes in college, but really, who wants to hear about boring stuff like that...

Just remember...that guy there wi' the fleams and scarificators asked for it...so don't get me in trouble... Back in the distant fog of time (late 1970's, early 1980's), I attended Kent State Univ (yes, *that* Kent...not the one in England). The gang I hung out with (isn't hanging out an act of public indecency?), hung out in the Student Center cafeteria, at the Bygge Round Table, just under a "picture" of a large blue fish...hence, I dubbed that precise location the "Blue Fish Tavern". At that time, the cafeteria was serving "Springwater Chocolate Chip Cookies", which were as big as small dinner plates. One of us would get one, break it up, and divide it among the rest. Well, JC started to play around with the process of dividing the cookie, and came up with a little ritual, as below: First, the Cookie was unwrapped and held aloft. While aloft, these words would be spoken: "This is the Cookie of Fred (the Turtle Avatar) Who taketh away the virginity of Young Women. Blessed are we who are called to his Vocation. Fred have mercy, Fred have mercy Fred... Grant us a Piece." And with those final words, the Sacramental Cookie of Fred would be broken and distributed among us. And there was much rejoicing. Ye think maybe JC was Catholic? Do tell! (Learning interesting stories about the people who post is one of the neat things about this thread.)

It be just me...plottin' how I can break into that castle behind me, make off wi' at least two of the resident princesses, ravish them to me heart's content (or whatever other organ might be involved in the proceedings), liberate whatever gold and silver and whatnot might be just layin' around, and buy me a Caribbean Island someplace. Altho, on reflection, I *could* use a turtle, to honor Fred the Turtle Avatar...whole long story behind that, going back to me university days (bein' an eddicated pyrate), thanks to one Joseph Czup and the Sacramental Cookie, and the Ritual.

Aye, and sure may ye be havin' a joyously debauched birthday festivities!

In regards to the Private Stock, t'be honest, I was thinking something along those lines meself...that the flavoring additions would tend to overpower the food. Not really a problem as far as red meat is concerned, but in the case of seafood dishes, it'd certainly be a consideration. Its hard to use seafood as a dish...even when they stop wiggling about, they're still slippery and the food keeps sliding off...

Ooo! Are there videos?!

I'm laying into stock a variety of recipes that involve cooking with rum...generally, a dark rum. But in your considered opinion, would gold serve as well? What would consitute a good cooking rum. Keep in mind the fact that, being a lowly librarian in Reale Lyfe, I'm looking to combine my cooking rum and drinking rum in one label. Being as I am a very beginning rummer (but since I am employed, I'm not an Idle Rummer), I tend towards Capn Morgan Private Stock (hey, *Bilgemunkey* likes it, so it be good enuff fer me...), but would it serve for cooking? And so ye may know what I'm planning on feeding to meself, here's a link to one recipe... http://www.grouprecipes.com/90439/pecan-cr...tter-sauce.html

I have a pet peeve... I caught it in the wild, domesticated it...but it eats too much and I always have to take it for walks...

It'd be their tamest, most civilized and cultured show ever...

The goon (yeah, Eddie, I know its you...) that keeps calling the library, wanting, no, demanding, to know the name of the show that came on such a day, at such a time, on such a channel...or what such a newcaster was wearing on the local news three days ago...*and* after you do *all* that work, he disputes with us about it...yes, you do, Eddie, admit it... He, too, shall be belayed wi' a pin...

People who use cell phones in a library...loudly. People who print something in library, then say "I didn't print that!" Both should be belayed wi' a pin!

Helpless with shock...or more likely hysteria. As for the rum, I understand Radcliffe just out from Fort Knox has a lot of bars these days. Kinda grown up since we were there And if the raid should fail, the PX used to have fake gold bars...painted plaster bars

Come to think of it, it *would* be like the attack of Panama...except I think our opponets would have better morale than the Spanish did... Hey.... sound like fun.... Anyone up fer a little Pyratical raid ?...

Would it be (cough) indelicate of me to say I'd eat it?

I used to live at Fort Knox...there's a great armoured museum there...not that the museum itself is armoured, but they have a collection of armoured vehicles there (Patton Museum of Armour). As for the Gold Depository...well, how are ye at climbing barbed wire fences (might be concertina wire, which is much worse) while dodging bullets fired by *very* unsympathetic expert shots?

I wouldn't mind having whoever modelled for the bench sitting pirate...lady...looking grand in my entry...or in other unspecified locations. I would be tempted to ask that model one question..."Pardon me, Miss...is that all *you* in there?"

Right now...nothing. I'm at woik. For lunch, I had something from a local grocery store that called itself seafood salad. I don't know what it really was. It was edible (keep in mind I grew up in the Army, and I define "edible" based on mess halls and C-rations...oh, and spam). In my defense, I recently had a bout of diverticulitis (Ouchie!), and I really rilly need to work on that fiber intact. All that being said, I *wish* I had eaten bbq ribs and lobster.

Oh no! Did they manage to revive him after he choked?

I got me one of them belayin' pins, and right handy they are, too. Only trouble is, the library director frowns on their use. Why, I disciplined me a couple of trouble-makin' spalpeens at library t'other day (as I work at such a place, bein' a literary pyrate, belike)), and twas *I* what got tossed into the library brig. And what makes it worse, the library doesn't even *have* a brig! And I was threatened with the rightly-feared Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts if'n I didn't stop belayin' patrons *right now*! How are we going to run a ship-shape library without belaying pins, thats what I want to know... Mad Capn Bob

Make: Technology on Your Time magazine has a special "steampunk" issue out, March 2009. This issue includes how to build a steampunk "raygun" (Pg 76: The "Discrete Companion" Ladies' Raygun), a Florence Siphon Coffee Extractor (a mad scientist brewing apparatus), a teacup Stirling Engine, and for the really mad scientist, a Wimshurst machine. Check your local bookstores, libraries, or www.makezine.com Just to let you know, I'm not a mad scientist...I'm not even a mildly upset one.