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Kiwi Melon Martini

Super sweet and tasty!

Ingredients:

  • 1 oz Midori®
  • 1 oz 42BELOW Kiwi vodka
  • 1 oz watermelon juice
  • 1 sliced kiwi

Preparation

  • Pour the Midori, kiwi vodka and watermelon juice over ice into the shaker.
  • Shake well.
  • Strain and pour into martini glass.
  • Garnish with kiwi slice.

Makes 1 drink

Slap happy

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A 2008 holiday movie release called Bitch Slap (”eye candy with a message”) - what more could you possibly want out of life? This movie has it all: girl fights, desert dust, cleavage, and big, sexy hair. If that is not enough for you, then make sure you check out some of the character names: Kinki, Horndog, and Hot Pockets. Even though all those things make for a very tempting movie, it may not be enough to tempt everyone to go and see it. Some people will claim to not be the shallow type - they need a plot or a story or something all nice and cultured. Too all of those people - I say phooey! Who needs a story - its over-rated anyway. If anyone asks, you can blame me - tell them I told you that you had to see it. Besides you can’t miss a movie that has Lucy Lawless, Renee O’Connor and Kevin Sorbo in it - you would be the laughing stock at your next local SciFi Con.

Stepping stones

These are definitely stairs that I would consider worth the climb. There are so many stairs that you look at and think - I think the elevator would be much more entertaining. But if more stairs looked like these, then I wouldn’t find myself even considering the elevator. These are some steps found in Watkins Glen State Park in New York. I may just have to add this park to my list of places to see before I get too old to climb stairs (hey, that’s actually not to bad of a name for a list - I may really have to write one of those…).

Found on Stair Porn via deputydog’s new charts page.

Peach Mojito with Sugar Cane

A fresh drink for a steamy afternoon.

Ingredients:

  • 20 sprigs fresh mint
  • 2 oz. simple syrup
  • 4 oz. fresh lime juice
  • 10 oz. light rum
  • 10 oz. Peach Schnapps
  • Ginger Ale
  • 2-4, 8 inch stalks of sugar cane

Preparation

  • In a large pitcher, stir the mint, simple syrup and lime juice until the mint is aromatic.
  • Add rum and peach schnapps.
  • Stir lightly to blend.
  • Pour mixture into highball glasses filled with ice - stir.
  • Top off glasses with ginger ale.
  • Garnish with sugar cane

Makes 4 servings

Oh what a walk

The story (because I can’t say it any better than this):

“A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman’s history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks.

The results showed that the appropriately trained sexologists were able to correctly infer vaginal orgasm through watching the way the women walked over 80 percent of the time. Further analysis revealed that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women. “This could reflect the free, unblocked energetic flow from the legs through the pelvis to the spine,” the authors note.”

Translation: A college student who shakes her booty when she walks, has probably enjoyed sex a time or two.

I hate to tell it to the researchers, but this is not really much of a surprise.

Found on FuturePundit.

A movie or two

I recently signed up for the “Netflix lets you rent, watch and return DVDs from home - Try free for 2 weeks” offer that you see advertised around town. It seemed like things were slowing down around my house and we might have a chance to watch a couple or three movies during our nice free trial. I signed up for the 3 movie plan with the Blu-ray option (they send you the Blu-ray version whenever it is available - I LOVE that). To prove how un-busy I thought we would be, I put 30 DVDs into My Queue. I knew that we couldn’t possibly watch every one of them, but at least we wouldn’t run the risk of not having a movie in the list.

The first movie on the list arrived the very next day with the other two arriving the day after. We watched the first one that same day and mailed it back the next morning. But the other two movies sat around for a couple or more days. We finally finished watching them and sent them back. In the meantime, the replacement to the first one showed up. And so on… I really have to hand it to them. The movies arrived very quickly!

My free trial ended yesterday. The grand total of DVDs watched during the free trial was 5 movies with the 6th arriving on the last day. We decided to give it a full month and see how we like it. We didn’t have any chance to watch anything from the “Watch Instantly” selection, but I would really like to give it a fair try.

PC Toast

I can’t count the number of times I have been working away at my computer and thought “man, I really wish I had some toast right now!” Well… let’s see… maybe I can count it up … … … how about ummm… maybe one.

Oh well, for all those of you who have had the toast craving and couldn’t tear yourselves away from the computer to go and make the toast, then the CrazyPC people have just the thing for you. A one-slice toaster that fits into your available 5.25″ bay. It costs right around $30.

Today everything changed for me. I went beyond asking the question of “why.” Usually, after I see strange things out there on the Internet I ask “why” or “what did they do that for” or “WTF”. But not today - today the only thought that came into my mind after seeing it was “is there a Mac version”? Turns out - not yet, but they are working on it.

Found at the Presurfer.

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® and mango in a blender. Blend until slushy.
  • Pour mango margarita mixture into the chilled glasses. Drizzle raspberry puree on top.
  • Garnish with a mango wedge and serve.

Prep time: 10 minutes

Makes 4 servings

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 were pretty perplexed as to why someone would put paper into their cookies.

Found on Boing Boing.

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 together? Sell it! Just make sure that when the photographer comes over to take pictures, that they don’t change a thing. Make sure you leave everything as it was - no staging for these people that is for sure.

Found on It’s Lovely! I’ll Take It.