Archive for August, 2008

Raspberry Mango Margarita

Let’s all have a drink!
Ingredients:

1/2 Cup fresh lime juice
2/3 cup tequila
1/4 cup Cointreau®
1 cup cubed mango
1-2 cups ice cubes
2-4 tablespoons raspberry puree

Preparation:

Moisten the rims of 4 margarita glasses with lime, then press into sugar. Drizzle raspberry puree around the inside of the glass. Place glasses in freezer to chill.
Combine the ice, lime juice, tequila, Cointreau® [...]

Not so Chinese fortune cookies

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I had always wondered how fortune cookies came about, but I never really got around to looking it up. Well, someone else did and even gave out some fortune cookies to some Chinese people. It seems that fortune cookies are American, so the Chinese [...]

A sinking feeling

You’ve been working on a home remodel job for months. You have most everything done except for the sinks, so you get started on them. But the sinks just prove to be too much of a challenge. What do you do with your house when you can’t figure out how to put the sinks back [...]

45 years of The Doctor

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I have been watching Doctor Who most all of my life. When I was young it showed on the local PBS station. Now that I am a little older it plays on the SciFi channel. What I guess I never realized was exactly how [...]

A wish in hindsight

Great White Snark made a point about getting what you asked for - kinda one of those be careful what you wish for warnings. He asked for pictures and commentary about tattoos from his readers. Sadly for him, his wish was granted:
When I began soliciting geeky tattoos from my readers, little did I know that [...]

Periodically Elemental

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The Periodic Table of Elements just got a little more interesting. Some very fine folks over at The University of Nottingham put together a nifty little table for us to review our elements. Which overall is very nice of them, but they didn’t stop [...]

Pitfall for a laptop

novellamarie created a Apple //c version of Pitfall inspired laptop case. This is what she says:
“it’s Pitfall! On an Apple IIC! With your laptop inside!! Perfect!!! This case is fully lined and padded with cotton polka dots. Adjustable red strap. Fits a 13″ Laptop”
It is done in needlepoint and you can buy the one of [...]

Pac-Man Disturbia

In case you ever wanted to know exactly what the ghosts were thinking while you were playing Pac-Man, here is your answer. It would seem that Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde are all thinking about how to avoid being eaten by Pac-Man - who would have ever guessed that one. I would have thought that [...]

Hello 8-8-08

In honor of the very auspicious day of 888, I went out to the local Chinese market to do a little shopping. I discovered all sorts of interesting food items, but my favorite had Hello Kitty on it! I just thought you might like me to share.
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A nipple a day

Somehow it just seems wrong to not allow a commercial on television because it shows one female nipple for less than one second. Oh puhleeze! If censors need to ban a commercial from television, they should seriously consider the one where the baby throws up (which completely grosses me out every time!). The nipple belongs [...]