Monday, January 26, 2004
Dodge the monkey!
Yes, Dodge the Monkey. Not just a game or a movie, but a phenomenon!! Sweeping the world by storm!
Ok, so I made that up. You think of a better way to start a random blog entry. It was better than my original plan of just starting with my latest crepe story. See, I may or may not have posted before that I had made these wonderful potato blintzes last week (or the week before...), but I did, and they were quite good. I tried another crepe variant tonight, and it wasn't quite as spectacular: one with cheese, and the other with meat. Now one would normally think "cheese and meat? sign me up!", but it's not that simple. See, I tried for more of a dessert type of blintze with the cheese, and ended up with a sweetened cottage cheese concoction. With raisins. I thought they would add a bit of flavour to the cheese, and don't get wrong, because they did. Unfortunately the raisins kind of overpowered the cheese and they didn't live up to expectations. The meat one was slightly better, but not by much, since it was basically just ground beef with some Tex-Mex seasoning. A little bland, but definitely didn't go with the cheese ones. So now I have about 5 or so meat blintzes that need a sidedish, and some cheese ones that I'm not sure I want to eat. I'll probably work up the courage to eat them, but not with the meat ones, and definitely not warm. Still working on the sidedish for the meat ones though... maybe the potato ones?
Be vewy, vewy quiet... I'm hunting laundwy...
I don't know what that's supposed to mean either, but I did do laundry today. I was simultaneously struck by how long the average wash takes to complete (and how many times one can die in Mario during that time), and by the cost of said load. Took $1.75 for a wash, and $1.50 for a dry. I'm no connoisseur on the appropriate charges for laundromat services, but it strikes me that that's a little steep. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not like it matters anyways since I'm not prepared to hike it with my dirty clothes in this weather.
On a related note, I also forgot to put a fabric softener in the dryer. People need to put labels on those things... (the dryers, not the fabric sheets)
Click me, for I am full of sugar!
Do go over and check out Rob Cockerham's site, Cockeyed.com. He does this quite spastic feature called "How Much Is Inside?", where him and his friends try to figure out how much [insert something here] is in a [that something]. They do everything from salsa to rolling tobacco, with a bunch of other neat stuff Rob's done. (especially of note is the "How Much is a Gallon?" page, and some of the paper-mache projects)
More twisted is Wulffmorgenthaler. I don't know what that means, but it's probably not good. Basically a very weird single-panel comic where everyone's naked for some reason, it does have some good moments. (Like the above comic)
If you have any interest in electronic music, I highly suggest you download this neat little program. It gives samples of just about every kind of electronically generated music you can get, from Happy Hardcore (one of my faves) to Anthem House (also good) to Disco and Dub. It also gives a quick rundown on the characteristics of various music types, and is quite handy the next time your friend just says "Do you have any techno?" and you say "What kind of techno?" and he says "There's different kinds?".
So that's that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some dishes to do, and then I have to lead a weird pale girl that doesn't speak English around an empty castle. ¶ 7:08 p.m.
Yes, Dodge the Monkey. Not just a game or a movie, but a phenomenon!! Sweeping the world by storm!
Ok, so I made that up. You think of a better way to start a random blog entry. It was better than my original plan of just starting with my latest crepe story. See, I may or may not have posted before that I had made these wonderful potato blintzes last week (or the week before...), but I did, and they were quite good. I tried another crepe variant tonight, and it wasn't quite as spectacular: one with cheese, and the other with meat. Now one would normally think "cheese and meat? sign me up!", but it's not that simple. See, I tried for more of a dessert type of blintze with the cheese, and ended up with a sweetened cottage cheese concoction. With raisins. I thought they would add a bit of flavour to the cheese, and don't get wrong, because they did. Unfortunately the raisins kind of overpowered the cheese and they didn't live up to expectations. The meat one was slightly better, but not by much, since it was basically just ground beef with some Tex-Mex seasoning. A little bland, but definitely didn't go with the cheese ones. So now I have about 5 or so meat blintzes that need a sidedish, and some cheese ones that I'm not sure I want to eat. I'll probably work up the courage to eat them, but not with the meat ones, and definitely not warm. Still working on the sidedish for the meat ones though... maybe the potato ones?
Be vewy, vewy quiet... I'm hunting laundwy...
I don't know what that's supposed to mean either, but I did do laundry today. I was simultaneously struck by how long the average wash takes to complete (and how many times one can die in Mario during that time), and by the cost of said load. Took $1.75 for a wash, and $1.50 for a dry. I'm no connoisseur on the appropriate charges for laundromat services, but it strikes me that that's a little steep. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not like it matters anyways since I'm not prepared to hike it with my dirty clothes in this weather.
On a related note, I also forgot to put a fabric softener in the dryer. People need to put labels on those things... (the dryers, not the fabric sheets)
Click me, for I am full of sugar!
Do go over and check out Rob Cockerham's site, Cockeyed.com. He does this quite spastic feature called "How Much Is Inside?", where him and his friends try to figure out how much [insert something here] is in a [that something]. They do everything from salsa to rolling tobacco, with a bunch of other neat stuff Rob's done. (especially of note is the "How Much is a Gallon?" page, and some of the paper-mache projects)
More twisted is Wulffmorgenthaler. I don't know what that means, but it's probably not good. Basically a very weird single-panel comic where everyone's naked for some reason, it does have some good moments. (Like the above comic)
If you have any interest in electronic music, I highly suggest you download this neat little program. It gives samples of just about every kind of electronically generated music you can get, from Happy Hardcore (one of my faves) to Anthem House (also good) to Disco and Dub. It also gives a quick rundown on the characteristics of various music types, and is quite handy the next time your friend just says "Do you have any techno?" and you say "What kind of techno?" and he says "There's different kinds?".
So that's that. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some dishes to do, and then I have to lead a weird pale girl that doesn't speak English around an empty castle. ¶ 7:08 p.m.
