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  • Don’t pick up Hitchhiker Joe

    He’ll slit your throat. Cut off your big toe.

  • Random Morning Thoughts

    It’s almost Friday. I need Friday this week. I’ve been exhausted. I need to find a little *FUN* this weekend. As well as take care of some things I’ve been putting off (like getting my hair cut. I always seem to wait too long).

    Tonight I’m having dinner with Susan. She just moved into a place around the corner from me, so I now have more people to have dinner with. I should burn off a CD for her, since she doesn’t have any of mine yet.

    I also have to rave again about how I love my Audiotron. It has been serving up just a wonderful selection of random music this morning. Everything from Howard Jones to NIN to music from FLCL. And I also found a stack of CDs I hadn’t ripped yet, so I should have those in soon, adding to my music totals.

  • Focus

    I’m becoming the anime pimp. I think that must be one of my official side roles in life. The most fun is finding something that someone who ‘hates anime’ or ‘just doesn’t get anime’ likes. I think it is because many people make assumptions about what anime is.

    Right now I’m pestering a friend to watch Noir. If that doesn’t work I still have a few more tricks up my sleve.

  • QOTD

    Howard Scott. “Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

    [Quotes of the Day]

  • Puff Pancake in Cast Iron

    Here’s one of my favorite recipes.  I love making this for breakfast.  I think it’s perfect served with some sausage too. An additional note that this has to be made in a cast iron skillet. This is a great recipe to help season your skillet too!

    2 eggs
    1/2 cup flour
    1/2 cup milk
    dash of salt
    4 tablespoons butter

    1. Set oven to 450 degrees F and put a large (12″ or so) skillet in to heat.
    2. In a bowl, beat the eggs, flour, milk and salt together. (Mix in all together at once or it won’t .   The more air you beat into the batter the higher it will rise in the oven)
    3. When the oven is hot, toss the butter into the skillet and let it melt.
    4. Pour batter into the skillet and return it to the oven.
    5. Bake 12-15 min or until the pancake is ed and golden.
    6. Cut in half and serve immediately with warm maple syrup (and whatever else you want)

     

  • New Blogrolling

    I added a link to Jon Udell’s Radio Weblog.  I’ve found myself over there reading things a bunch lately.

  • Google Bombing

    The BBC has an article about Google Bombing.  A few sites have already talked about this some.  I have to agree, yes a few people are abusing this, but I think the way google works is great.  Many times weblogs are where I want to go to first.  Look at examples like the 802.11b Networking News, this site is still one of the first places I go when I am looking for news on the wireless front.

  • Is paypal a bank?

    Nope. At least not by the FDIC’s definitions.. They feel that it isn’t a bank and shouldn’t be regulated like one. I thought that was pretty interesting. It seems like paypal deserves much more attention if it doesn’t have to be regulated. If they were to pull their act together, I’d be happy to use them more often. It just makes me nervous when I hear the types of stories I have about them.

  • QOTD

    Henrik Tikkanen. “Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.”

    [Quotes of the Day]

  • My ‘lovesign’

    A few friends over on LJ were posting this. You can find out yours at http://glitterstars.com/shescrafty/you/signs/lovesigns.html. Here’s mine (sheesh this is long):

    Cool Water

    If you’re cool water, this means you probably:

    * are incredibly romantic

    * are very sensitive to other people’s feelings needs

    * believe you need a boyfriend/girlfriend

    * often find it hard to decide what (or who) you want

    * are always daydreaming

    * just love sappy books and slushy movies

    * often find yourself going out with people you don’t actually like that much

    * are extremely touchy-feely

    With your cute expression and soft nature, you create the impression of someone who needs to be looked after. You’re actually perfectly capable of looking after yourself, but this doesn’t stop more dominant personalities from being drawn to you.

    in love: You’re one of the most romantic elements. You write the best love letters and have even been known to pen the odd poem. You’re happiest when you’re in love, but you sometimes delude yourself that your partner is perfect and may feel let down when you find that they aren’t. You need someone with an imagination as fertile as your own who will keep the relationship as romantic as possible for as long as possible.

    watch out: Your own insecurities mean you may have some problems with jealousy. Also, you sometimes find it difficult to leave a relationship, even when you know it’s not working.

    advice: Try to realise that not everyone goes for the ‘little boy/girl lost’ type. In fact, they’re more likely to be attracted to the real, more confident you.

    cool water scorpio: People tend to view you as cool and mysterious, a belief you like to encourage as you just love to keep ’em guessing.

    perfect match: cool water and cool fire

    brief encounter: hot water

    don’t hold your breath: hot air

    unrequited: cool air

    flirt: cool earth

    stay friends: hot fire

    waste of time: hot earth

    One interesting thing I found when looking at some of these. The whole perfect match, brief encounter, etc section is screwy. My perfect matches are cool water and cool fire. So, I pulled up a cool fire to see what it said and cool water was under don’t hold your breath. Does that mean the perfect match for me wouldn’t work well with me?