Chocosphere: Cote d' Or Belgian Chocolate:"Côte d'Or Chokotoff Chocolate-Covered Caramel Pieces"
12.06.2006
12.05.2006
Too good to be true?
I've already got my hopes up too much on this coaching thing, I'm not sure I can bear this - NASA Plans Lunar Outpost - oh please, oh please.
Jesus Camp
I saw this last night...........kids and adults were chanting in tongues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_camp
It made me want to buy more guns.
At one point an eight-year-old girl hands out chick tracts in a bowling alley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_camp
It made me want to buy more guns.
At one point an eight-year-old girl hands out chick tracts in a bowling alley.
12.04.2006
12.03.2006
My favorite commercial ever
Not to be left out, I decided to post my favorite commercial ever. Spike Jonze directed it for Addidas. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (currently the greatest punk band recording) provides the creepy raspy vocals.
Not to be left out, I decided to post my favorite commercial ever. Spike Jonze directed it for Addidas. Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (currently the greatest punk band recording) provides the creepy raspy vocals.
David Blaine is just a bony vertebrate amateur
I want to see him do this.
Speaking of our future cephalopod overlords, I finally got to see the Wild Discovery episode on the Humboldt squid. It's one of the best hours of TV I've seen in a while. And while they effectively make the case that the vicious sea beasties are mostly curious and benign when not being hunted by Messkins, seeing them pissed off on IMAX convinced me that diving in the Sea of Cortez is overall a bad idea.
Best part of the show: the special forces guy who dives alone with the squid. He wears a protective armor dive suit designed by--I shit you not--Star Wars costumers.
I guess you do need a Storm Trooper suit to deal with this guy.
Speaking of our future cephalopod overlords, I finally got to see the Wild Discovery episode on the Humboldt squid. It's one of the best hours of TV I've seen in a while. And while they effectively make the case that the vicious sea beasties are mostly curious and benign when not being hunted by Messkins, seeing them pissed off on IMAX convinced me that diving in the Sea of Cortez is overall a bad idea.
Best part of the show: the special forces guy who dives alone with the squid. He wears a protective armor dive suit designed by--I shit you not--Star Wars costumers.
I guess you do need a Storm Trooper suit to deal with this guy.
What's not for supper
Wow. I'd like to see Sandra Lee compete on Iron Chef America. Or perhaps not.
Food Network: Venetian Ice Cream Cake
1 quart coffee ice cream, softened
3/4 cup butterscotch caramel topping
3/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
1 container (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed [i. e.: Cool Whip]
2 (5.5-ounce) packages chocolate caramel cookie bars (20 sticks total) [i. e.: Twix]
1 milk chocolate candy bar, shaved
Food Network: Venetian Ice Cream Cake
1 quart coffee ice cream, softened
3/4 cup butterscotch caramel topping
3/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
1 container (8 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed [i. e.: Cool Whip]
2 (5.5-ounce) packages chocolate caramel cookie bars (20 sticks total) [i. e.: Twix]
1 milk chocolate candy bar, shaved
Special Equipment: pastry bag (or resealable plastic bag) and a # 6 star tip
Line a (9 1/4 by 5 by 2 3/4-inch) metal loaf pan with 2 layers of plastic wrap, allowing 3 inches of plastic to hang over pan sides. Using a rubber spatula, press 1/4 of the coffee ice cream into pan. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of caramel topping over ice cream. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of pecans over caramel. Spread 1/4 of the vanilla ice cream over nuts. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of caramel topping over ice cream. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of pecans over caramel. Freeze for 20 minutes or until firm. Repeat layering of coffee ice cream, caramel, pecans, and vanilla ice cream 3 more times, freezing for 20 minutes between each layering. Fold plastic overhang atop cake to cover. Freeze for 4 hours or until frozen solid.To unmold, wrap hot damp towels around pan to loosen ice cream cake from pan. Fold back plastic from atop ice cream cake. Invert a large plate or serving platter atop the ice cream cake. Holding plate and pan together, invert cake onto plate. Remove pan from cake; peel off plastic wrap. Spoon whipped topping into pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Pipe stripes or fluted lines atop cake. Freeze for 1 hour or until whipped topping is frozen solid. Let cake stand at room temperature for 10 minutes before serving. Meanwhile, slice caramel cookie bars in half and arrange, cut side down, around perimeter of cake. Sprinkle chocolate shavings over cake. Cut cake crosswise into slices; transfer cake slices to serving plates.
[Then throw away & serve under-sweetened grape Kool-Aid & Hydrox cookies like you had in VBS- your guests will thank you.]
And yes, they did it for the children
RIP, Das Booth
TUSKmag.com: Last call:
"Saturday [ November 25] marks the end of an era for students, alums and Tide fans alike. On that fateful day, The Booth – an institution as synonymous with the University of Alabama as houndstooth and hospitality – will close its doors on The Strip for the very last time.
....
'I’ve got a 9-year-old son, so I can’t disagree entirely with what they’re doing,' Hammock said. 'They’re looking for a place where kids won’t be walking by and looking in.'"
The Crimson White: Last Call
The Booth's official site
12.02.2006
You really can find anything @ Wikipedia, or what's that song in that commercial?
Wikipedia: Remind Me:
"'Remind Me'/'So Easy' is the first single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp's debut album Melody A.M.. The single version is substantially different from the album version (it is more upbeat). The song was used for a time on British television adverts for T-Mobile. The vocals are sung by Erlend Øye.
The song was also used in a September 2006 commercial for GEICO where a 'caveman' is walking on a travelator in an airport (which appears to be JFK airport, judging by the ATC tower in the background) and is shocked to see a billboard advertisement for GEICO featuring an actor in a bad caveman costume quoted as saying: 'So easy, a caveman can do it'. The song is a reference to past commercials where the caveman was offended by GEICO commercials featuring the 'So easy, a caveman can do it' phrase; obviously considered demeaning and 'racist' by cavemen everywhere."
I really like this song, as it puts me in mind of the aesthetics of movies like Rollerball & 2001, & of the best parts of Bauhaus architecture.
"'Remind Me'/'So Easy' is the first single from the Norwegian duo Röyksopp's debut album Melody A.M.. The single version is substantially different from the album version (it is more upbeat). The song was used for a time on British television adverts for T-Mobile. The vocals are sung by Erlend Øye.
The song was also used in a September 2006 commercial for GEICO where a 'caveman' is walking on a travelator in an airport (which appears to be JFK airport, judging by the ATC tower in the background) and is shocked to see a billboard advertisement for GEICO featuring an actor in a bad caveman costume quoted as saying: 'So easy, a caveman can do it'. The song is a reference to past commercials where the caveman was offended by GEICO commercials featuring the 'So easy, a caveman can do it' phrase; obviously considered demeaning and 'racist' by cavemen everywhere."
I really like this song, as it puts me in mind of the aesthetics of movies like Rollerball & 2001, & of the best parts of Bauhaus architecture.
12.01.2006
What's for supper
Food Network: Tyler Florence's Thick Pork Chops with Spiced Apples and Raisins:
Delicious & so easy even I couldn't mess this one up. However, I did leave out the raisins as I don't really care for them hot.
I rate this recipe 10 T-Bone Steaks* out of 10.
*As the T-Bone steak is my favorite foodstuff, I thought it only appropriate to use it as the marker on my rating scale.
Delicious & so easy even I couldn't mess this one up. However, I did leave out the raisins as I don't really care for them hot.
I rate this recipe 10 T-Bone Steaks* out of 10.
*As the T-Bone steak is my favorite foodstuff, I thought it only appropriate to use it as the marker on my rating scale.
I [heart] Sony
I just got my new cell phone from Cingular, the Sony Ericsson w810i. It rules. Not only is my reception here 50x better than with Verizon, but the phone is just way too hot. Plus, it's not one of those puss-ass Federation flip phones. It's a bar phone, the way our Lord Jesus and his Romulan hosts intended phones to be.
Included was a free 1Gb chip, instead of the 128kb standard. So I can get roughly 150-250 songs on there depending on how much space is left after downloading porn. Since I currently lack an iThing, this works out nicely.
Coolest feature you only ever need to win bets: you can link into the Sony/Cingular website, hold the phone up in the air, and it will tell you the song and the artist of what's playing. I tried it at lunch, and yes it was Elvis's Blue Christmas.
I got limited text messages, but unlimited internet time to keep up with my gmail on the go. I'm not a fan of text messages: either leave the table and go make the phonecall or save it for later. Plus I like English too much to butcher it via 12-button textese.
1701
Very nice - The U.N. "Dangerous Chemicals" number for xylyl bromide - used in WWI, as Opie would say, for "Tear Gas!"
VDH's new blog @ Pajamas Media
Works and Days: Wars, then and now...:
"So don’t expect the world’s liberal conscious to weigh in much on the latest poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko—done to a UK subject in London and in such a manner to top off the earlier medieval “oranging” of Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko. Russia, after all, not only has and sells nukes, uses energy blackmail against eastern Europe and the millions of the former Soviet Union, but, like the Iranians and the Syrians it arms, has a propensity to murder in grotesque fashion critics of its plutocracy in their own homelands. So it is much easier for a European or Middle East journalist to concentrate on the purported misdemeanors of a Donald Rumsfeld than the known felonies of a Vladimir Putin. "
"So don’t expect the world’s liberal conscious to weigh in much on the latest poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko—done to a UK subject in London and in such a manner to top off the earlier medieval “oranging” of Ukraine’s Viktor Yushchenko. Russia, after all, not only has and sells nukes, uses energy blackmail against eastern Europe and the millions of the former Soviet Union, but, like the Iranians and the Syrians it arms, has a propensity to murder in grotesque fashion critics of its plutocracy in their own homelands. So it is much easier for a European or Middle East journalist to concentrate on the purported misdemeanors of a Donald Rumsfeld than the known felonies of a Vladimir Putin. "
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