Mar 8
Wunderground’s new full-screen radar map is just awesome.
Their previous Wundermap was already my favorite radar, but this just ups the ante. Check it out:
This uses all of your browser’s real estate to show you the most radar possible – and if you F11 to fullscreen your browser, you get absolute radar.
I love it!
Click to view the image at full size:
Dec 20
So recently they changed the dough, sauce, and cheese they’re using. As an ex-Domino’s Pizza employee (in the 1990s), I’ve always held a special place in my heart for the company. For a long time after working there, though, I couldn’t stand the pizza unless it was literally fresh out of the oven. Breadsticks, though, were always awesome. Loved them.
Well, when the recently introduced the option for the white garlic sauce instead of the pizza sauce, that was great – I LOVE that stuff. It felt like a friend coming back from a city far away… One of my favorite pizzas now is Domino’s regular crust with the garlic white sauce, diced tomatoes, feta, and sliced italian sausage. Good stuff!
So when I heard they were changing the recipes, I was a little excited. Certainly quite interested.
It came out, and I gave it a try – found a good coupon for two mediums with one topping; ordered a half pepperoni, half bacon; and half diced tomato and half sliced italian sausage (I love ordering halves for more variety!). What’s really odd is that I clearly got one pizza using the old dough, and one with the new. The sauce was new, and I’m pretty sure the cheese was. No complaints – it actually gave me at least a halfway old/new comparison. 
I like the new crust.
I see a lot of people complaining on the Domino’s Pizza Facebook that the new pizza is horrible – like New Coke. Oy. Frankly, it’s not HUGELY different from the old recipes… I don’t understand the hate. So I posted my experience.
Well, full disclosure: I was offered a free large one-topping code, and I took it. No strings attached, but I will admit that it pushed me to actually write this entry, which I’d thought about doing anyway… So if you want to discount what I’m saying because of that, hey, at least it’s full disclosure, right?
So anyway… We ordered the pizza today. I snuck in a couple of extra toppings – half pepperoni/mushroom, half double-sliced-italian-sausage (yes, I’m addicted to the stuff!) and extra provolone on top of the whole thing. So I got a pizza for the price of delivery, tax, and two toppings. Well, and the tip – always tip your driver well, they remember you and take care of you when they can.
Result? Excellent. Now, since I added the provolone, I can’t speak to the new cheese on this pizza, but I can sure talk about the crust and sauce, both of which are excellent. The sauce has a tiny bit of spice bite to it – it’s very good. The crust has a little bit of garlic butter applied to the rim – which I think will be a little bit of a problem with time going forward, because it’s apparently hard to get it placed right. Or maybe they need practice. Either way, it’s very very tasty, and makes the crust a joy to eat (well, I always liked it anyway, but it’s even tastier now).
The changes Domino’s Pizza has made in the past couple of years have really made a difference. I remember when I worked there, I would sometimes sneak in cheddar cheese from my house because my favorite pizza was to take a little bit of the zesty breadstick/pan sauce instead of the tomato marinara, add beef, bacon, and cheddar cheese. Delicious!
But I can do that one better now: Order a pizza with the white garlic sauce, ditch the standard moz/prov cheese, and get diced tomato, bacon, and extra cheddar. MMmmmMMMM!!!
And I love that I can get feta, spinach, and diced tomato. Delicious!
My problem is now that I want to order at least three pizzas – one for each sauce – and so many delicious combinations that it’s so hard to decide.
So, to sum up: I really like the new Domino’s Pizza. It’s even better than before!
Dec 9
First of all, let me just say that The Boondock Saints is pretty much my favorite movie of all time. At least, I have this little set of movies that I consider to be freakin’ awesome; to be honest, I’m not sure which is my actual top favorite, but they’re collectively movies I adore.
So I was worried about this movie – I’d heard that maybe it wasn’t so good…
I just got home from seeing it (they FINALLY opened in Panama City…), and let me just say: It. Rocked.
Don’t expect there to be too much thinking here… this is just a hell of a lot of fun. It’s not a comedy, per se, but it is funny as hell.
It is worthy to be the second movie.
If you’ve seen the first one, go see this one. It is worthy.
If you haven’t seen the first one, GO SEE IT! Then go see this one!
Well, is Beck an abject imbecile or is he just without a sense of humor?
He’s obviously not an imbecile. He’s made himself fabulously wealthy and powerful by playing on the fears and insecurities of imbeciles. I don’t think you’d call Hitler an imbecile. I’m not comparing Beck to Hitler… well, actually I am. Like Hitler, Beck appeals to that lowest common denominator, and he uses divisive language to spread hate and fear.
So, this is an interview with my lawyer. Correction: My awesome lawyer.
Dec 7
What is Sriracha? It’s a spicy thick sauce. Primarily sun-ripened chile, with a bit of garlic (which is not consciously tastable, but is definitely there), a little vinegar and a touch of sugar. That’s the primary ingredients in order of import. It’s not sweet, but a bit less vinegar than Tabasco, for instance.
Here’s the distinctive bottle of Huy Fong brand Sriracha:
So far, the best use I’ve found – which is, by itself, brilliant, is to mix 1:4 ratio of Sriracha:Mayonnaise, and use as a dipping sauce.
I bought this stuff the other day, just because I wanted to try something new. I’m not a hot sauce aficionado, although I did grow up with Tabasco and Louisiana Hot Sauce, way before they were popular in the mainstream… heh. But I’ve never believed in hot overpowering flavour. I like to *taste* my food, and just give it a little kick to open up the taste buds.
So after buying it – without a clear picture of what I wanted to try – I went searching for recipes, and found the mayo idea – which sounded good. So I made up about 2oz (approximately four teaspoons of mayo and one teaspoon of sriracha), and tasted it to try and think of what to do with it. MmMMmmmMMM!!!
I had some potstickers on-hand, so I steamed them and used this sauce as a dip. Lemme revisit that “MMmmMMmMMMMM!!!” – very tasty!
I think it would also work well for chicken, or sushi.
I also found a suggestion to mix 1:1 honey:sriracha, which I did, but found to be a bit too hot for my taste, so I will later try diluting that to maybe a 3:1 honey:sriracha and see if it works better. I’ll try it as a dip for sweet and sour pork/chicken, or as a dip for eggrolls.
I did also cook a batch of green beans (from raw frozen) that I added some ham, garlic, salt, and sriracha – it was a little bit different flavour from the Tabasco I normally use, but it was quite pleasant.
Sriracha has a little bit of… I don’t want to say “gritty” texture, that’s much too strong a word – but you can feel the chile just like with chili powder. It’s not unpleasant; in fact, just the opposite.
I like the flavour it adds – not just hot, but the garlic is nice. And it’s not too much vinegar, which means I can use this stuff in places where that would be detrimental.
Also, it’s a brilliantly strong red color, which is really nice. That’s natural, too – not artificial. Of course it turned pink in the mayo, but it wasn’t an ugly pink.
So, overall, I really like this stuff. I heartily recommend it.
Nov 28
Pretty freakin’ sweet.
Nov 28
Cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Favorite sentence I can remember in recent times from a news article:
Lobbyists have been furiously lobbying the Obama White House to oppose restrictions on their ability to lobby.
Seems logical to me.
Nov 28
Great, funny movie. Some reviews here.
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is going through Uganda’s Parliament after receiving its first reading last month.
According to Clause 2 of the Bill, a person who is convicted of gay sex is liable to life imprisonment. But if that person is also HIV positive the penalty — under the heading “aggravated homosexuality” — is death.
This is *bullshit*.
Nov 26
This is my young cat, Pepper, who has gotten in the habit of asking me to play with the letter opener with her. And it’s gotten to the point where if I have this shirt on my desk, she will claw at it, trying to get me to play with her – and she especially like tunneling. Strange cat. hehe.
Forgot to mention… at the end – I was concentrating more on taking the video, and she got my finger – drew blood! And I instinctively hit the button to stop recording. heh. Silly cats.
Nov 17
It’s ugly. I don’t have the tools I need. Didn’t realize I needed a piece of wood for the bottom. Had to get it up because the old one was broken and it had to be put up.
So I’ll be fixing this in a few days when I can… Meanwhile, here. Laugh at me. *whimper*
Slideshow:
If that didn’t work, here’s the gallery:
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Handy:
Summary
When you double click a file containing no extension, the Open With dialog opens. In the Open With dialog box, you can click the program where you want the file to open, or click Browse to locate the program that you want.
However, the Open With dialog may not allow a permanent association for files with no extension, as the Always use the selected program to open this kind of file check box may be grayed out. This article tells you how to associate Notepad to open files with no extension.
Link here:
Nov 12
So apparently, people are finding my blog now. For those of you that make it here, perhaps I can give you a little insight into why I did it – or, for those that seem not to understand, I can explain *what* I did.
One thing I did not do was to accuse Glenn Beck of any crime. What, the alleged rumour? Did you not read on the site ( http://gb1990.com/ ) where I clearly 1) ask the question and 2) turn around and say that I don’t think he did and 3) clearly mark the site as the parody it is?
If you missed all that, you’re probably suffering from some misunderstandings. I’m glad we could clear that up.
So am I obsessed with Beck? Well, if I am, a whole lot of other people are. Perhaps you missed the “Origin” links in the menu on the site. They will point you to the original Fark thread where this thing took off, as well as to the Gilbert Gottfried roast of Bob Saget where the ‘rape and murder in 1990′ bit comes from. I couldn’t have ever made this thing as big as it got. A whole lot of people had to get it, like it, and spread it. The people who don’t understand it and don’t agree with it are the extreme minority.
So, just Beck? No, but the domain dispute he filed made me stop and take care of that first. We’re going to be going after others.
Here’s an interview I gave to Wikinews that also helps to explain this better: Creator of website satirizing Glenn Beck on winning domain name case – Wikinews, the free news source
If you haven’t caught all the articles talking about this, check out the Twitter, where I have links to a lot: http://twitter.com/gb1990com
Also, you can find a ton of sites that have covered this here: Official Threads
So I hope that helps clear some of this up.
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Nov 6
So I was fighting a particular legal battle – I’m not mentioning the subject here so I don’t bother those that don’t care…
We won!
Sep 26
This is a work in progress. It’s listenable, if a bit repetitive. I think I have a decent groove going on, but I’ve got to figure out what to *do* with it now.
Listen now: IEH-033 – Beautiful Day (working).ogg
I may well do some tweaking, but at least for now:
Listen now: IEH-031 – Cleansing (ogg)
This one is rather long, but it’s intended to cleanse and renew you. There are some changes in there, but some of them are subtle.
Jul 4
Walked again today – 1.7 miles in 37 minutes = 2.75mph
Jun 10
Back in town from HACU internship orientation in Washington, D.C. What a trip!
And now I have to get to work. I’m working full-time and going to school… Oh, and I got talked into doing a play…
Jun 2
0.9 miles in 18 minutes == 3mph
