How Pale Is My Borscht

I made borscht in the slow cooker overnight, and it's really odd how all the colour has leached out of the beetroot. The borscht is in fact not pale, it is redolently ruby, but the chunks of beet are positively pallid.

Tastes good, though. In my head I have invented a fancy version, where you get a bowl of the-ingredients-chunked-up-in-the-stock, much as it is now, only within that bowl is a little bowl of deep-fried bread, and within that is a liquidised version of the same soup. Different colour, different texture, the same flavours but with a totally different mouth-feel. How's that for froufy? I shoulda bina chef...

I shouldabin anything but a writer. Have been unaccountably depressed & inadequate for twenty-four hours now. Not even playing with the new toy. Nothing to write, nothing to do. Bleah.

Googleflump

Things have come to a pretty pass, when you seek a quotation in Google and all it offers you is the self-same source you found it.

To be specific, I'm rereading "The Lost World" (the Conan Doyle original, thank you, not some nasty Crichton rip-off) for makework purposes, and he quotes:

"On that conical bullet his one chance hangs,
'Tis the weak one's advantage fair"

- and ascribes it to "Gordon", without further elucidation. So I googled the quotation, and all it offers me is texts of "The Lost World". Which are not useful.

So I dunno. He can't mean Byron, surely? He'd say Byron, if that was who he meant. Adam Lindsay Gordon? I dunno. Nothing's helping. Snarl.

ISO image - help!

Our Google, who art full of fu -

I want to try a Linux live disk in the laptop, see if it works.

I can download OpenSuse 10.3 - which is what I'm used to - but it comes as an ISO image, and I don't know what to do with it. Can I just burn that onto a CD and will it work as is, or do I have to unpack it somehow...?