no, not for failure to post anything. pft. apologies to anyone using me for blog hosting, as my database went kaput or something in the last few days, and lost a bunch of…well, data.
also, apologies for spamming your RSS readers, with old posts that want to show up as new. mercifully, i had a recent enough backup of my tables. one of the advantages of not posting anything for 6-7 months.
and hey, finally activated that theme i was working on sometime last year. still not complete, but whatever.
pictures:
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| Kinetic Sculpture Race, 2009 |
kinetic sculpture race is hella fun.
will talk more about it, or at least post a link to pictures, later. like, when my body starts working again.
seriously, unless you live in DC, you have no right to complain about taxation without representation.
also, i really hope this protest involves the destruction of tea. because, quite frankly, someone had to pay good money for that tea, only to have it destroyed.
idiots.
lifeandliberty.gov (and its siamese-twin-like sister sites, patriotact.gov and protectamericaact.gov) has been banished to the purgatory that is the DOJ archives.
good-bye, patriot act cheerleaders. we’ll miss your crazy enthusiasm for some horrible legislature.
saw eugene mirman at his book reading at barnes & noble last night. there are even some pictures:
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| Eugene Mirman, 27 February 2009 |
also, this was my parking lot at work this morning:
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| From From my phone |
so, i’m watching leverage on the DVR. i notice that the defendant’s lawyer looks familiar. just a little something in the back of my head.
i search imdb’s cast list for the episode, and he’s not in there. which is quite odd, as he has a speaking part and everything. finally i remember epguides.com, and look up “leverage” there. find the episode and find the actor in question. its this guy:
where did i recognize mr. shatraw from? he was christopher titus’ friend tommy on titus.
to emphasize: i recognized a guy from a tv show that hasn’t been on the air for seven years, with only a brief look at his now. a real life person? i wouldn’t be able to recognize them a day later.
using this recipe, i made some pigs in a blanket:
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| From From my phone |
well, okay, the link calls them “bannock wrapped hot dogs”, but come on, we all know what they really are. and, to make things even better, i added bacon!
things for the future:
- roll the dough out thinner
- cook the bacon a bit before hand. while not a problem with this batch, it would probably taste a bit better cooked a bit longer. also, less bacon grease to get in the dough.
all-in-all, 8.5 out of 10.
for dessert:
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| From From my phone |
rolled out the remaining dough, spread some of jenny’s bourbon-butter, coated with cinnamon sugar, and baked. a very nice cinnamon roll.
(sorry, forgot to take a picture before tucking in to dessert)
i made some rss feeds for various comic strips. feel free to use them. suggest new ones in the comments.
(daily strips only, please. i don’t do any error checking to see if the page actually exists, so sites that miss various days will be a pain. maybe in the future.)
a critic-quote for the movie ‘new in town’:
It’s Legally Blonde meets ‘Sweet Home Alabama’
and for some reason, a marketing person at the movie studio thought that this is a good thing.
(seriously, this movie looks like a five-peanut turd. hahaha! them folks from minnesota sure are wacky with their snow and ice and hunting and ‘oh yah’s all over the place. i mean, yeah, they are, but the coen brothers did a better job of illustrating this fact in ‘fargo’.)