Archive for December, 2009
December
19
On my last trip to Costco I picked up a large package of Campbell’s Healthy Select – Italian style wedding soup. Ignoring a pet peeve of mine about eating what amounts to celebration food everyday. I like Italian wedding soup, meatballs, little pieces of pasta, broth, cilantro, whatever else is in it… what could be better. Well ‘choice’ you make in being healthy seems to be abandoning your taste buds in favor of your waistline. But I’ve discovered the universal equalizer in diet food, Sriracha hot sauce. This bland healthy soup not becomes a blazing hot pho-like soup.
As for those little guys in the background… Well I’d like to tell you that I had some grand master plan for those. But really it’s that I started cooking the hot dogs when I realized that I didn’t have any buns. But like most great discoveries in human eating, this has brought a great advancement in man-food. I have discovered a way to eat a hot dog on a piece of bread without it rolling off or the bottom of the bread cracking. I know, just let that sink in for a while. All you have to do to recreate this einstein moment is… put the bread on a plate, then the hot dogs on it, then balance a slice of cheese on it. microwave for 30-45 seconds. the cheese glues the dogs to the bread, wrapping them in a delicious blanket of security.
Schu-Review : 4 out of 5 Schus
1 commentThis video both rocks and/or rolls. I’m always interested in what other countries think of the US, I don’t know if this was making fun of us… but I love it. The video features a dangerous level of sexy Italian women in skin tight pantsuits and the awkward ‘OK’ hand sign from what looks like “Italian Borat” is hilarious. The lyrics are NOT in English, but they sound like they are. So think of this whenever you’re inappropriately making the slit eyes and saying “Ching Ching Cong” … It reminds me of a post on ask.metafilter about what gibberish words non-english speakers use to make fun of americans.
via Boing Boing
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16
This is what happens when you leave me to make my own dinner. I fear for my future children when Laurel leaves me home with them for the night. They had better get used to spicy things!
Ingredients
- Half an onion – chopped into long stringy onions.
- Half of what I thought was a cucumber but turned out to be a zuccinni.
- A big head of broccoli.
- a quarter of a red pepper.
- a cup of jalapenos from the pepper bar at Quiznos.
- 15 frost encrusted shrimp from the freezer.
- a pho seasoning packet.
- 2 packages ramen noodles.
- soy sauce.
- sriracha hot sauce.
- hoisin sauce.
- honey.
- salt and pepper.
Directions
- have a glass of wine.
- with new super-sharp wedding registry knives, cut up all vegetables into edible sized chunks.
- put in to the biggest clean pot that you can find.
- fill pot with water.
- throw in the pho seasoning bag.
- get another glass of wine.
- Sit down and finish watching an episode of “The League” .
- forget about soup.
- remember that you are cooking dinner in the other room and run back in there.
- put in ramen noodles, shrimp, hot sauce, hoisin sauce, soy sauce, salt and pepper
- stir
- put in a couple big scoops of honey, because you have way too much honey around the house.
- let simmer for 10 minutes.
- realize that all the bowls are dirty and aren’t big enough anyway, so get out a smaller pot and eat out of that.
- burn mouth on lava-hot soup.
- enjoy.
December
15
Chapter 1: Backstory.
This movie came out in 2007 and for some reason I had never watched it. I like the director’s first movie, Donnie DarkoW, but something had been stopping me from actually sitting down and watching Southland TalesW. I heard that it was bad, but I’ve liked bad movies before (The Island, Terminator Salvation). Laurel was working on Friday night so I decided that I was bored enough to watch it.
I was unprepared.
To say this movie is bad is a disservice to other bad movies. You know when a movie is so bad it’s good? (Road House) Well this movie was heading there then it would snap back to good for a second, then dive headlong into a shit storm of terrible, then it would try to redeem itself, then it would snap off into a vat of crazy.This movie is so insane that it will make you question your own sanity.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here
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08
This wasn’t one of those albums that grabbed me right away, but I knew that there was something I liked about it. I think he’s finally, in my mind, moved out of novelty act territory. He’s no longer “that Hasidic jewish guy” who raps and sings reggae, this is actual good music. Like much of the reggae genre the themes of hope and fun permeate the album. There’s just something about this music that makes me happy. It’s the kind of music that makes you want to get out there and do something positive in the world.
The first track, “Smash Lies”, starts the album with a crowd pleasing energy and tempo and is one of my favorite tracks. The rest of the album is less reggae and moves into more reggae-influenced rock and pop, but it’s the peaceful attitude that ties it all together. The third track and possibly the radio single, “One Day”, is so hopeful for the future it almost crosses into cheesy. There are some songs that I might skip through if they came on by themselves, but they’re so much in the flow on the album that I don’t notice till they’re over. I know it’s just music and it wont “really” change anything, but it makes you think it’s possible, in a Michael FrantiW sort of way. The whole sound of the album is a bit like a jumble of Franti, MGMTW, and SOJAW
Schu-Review : 4/5 Schus
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04
Unlearn what you have learned
- If you try to resize a .png file and “save for web” in Photoshop as a Jpg… the results will suck.
- Apple has a great warranty on their hardware.
- Even with ATT’s crappy service on the Metro, if you start a streaming podcast at Lenfant plaza you’ll buffer enough to get you out the top of the Federal Center SW without any stuttering.
- My least favorite personality trait is “the one upper” especially the non-self-aware one upper who doesn’t like New Yorkers because “they think they’re better than you”.
- Brian Regan is still a genius.
- Idiocracy is an under rated movie.
- I can get an almost full wifi signal from the Starbucks downstairs when I am in the bathroom on the second floor.
December
03
December
03
Real Ron Silver
Fake Ron Silver
I know that probably about 10% percent of all men riding the Orange Line look like Ron Silver. But when I saw this guy the first thing I thought of was, “I know how they filmed the ending of Timecop!”. There’s nothing wrong with this guy, I just think he looks like Ron Silver…
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03
Going into the game we did not know that two of our players were suspended, so I’d say that we were a little too optimistic. I guess we should pay more attention. Jesse and I met at “The Froggy Bottom Pub” which was turned into “the Mason Bottom Pub” for about 2 hours before the game. Everyone there was in high spirits hoping for a good outcome. I still think Mason fans are still getting used to pregame festivities, but we’re learning. On the walk to the stadium it was great to see all the Green and Gold. Walking into the gym I could tell that the fans had really showed up.
Mason fans to the Left
Mason fans to the right
and then the game started.
It was a turnover filled beating of a game. It’s not like GW started out very hot either, but Mason couldn’t hit any shots. Long must have missed 5 straight runners in the lane. In the first half Hancock was awesome. The GW fans behind me kept saying “just don’t let the white guy get it!”. Which would have been a pretty good strategy in the first half. At halftime I went to the bathroom, in what seemed like the locker room, and then came back to talk with Jesse. “I hope they come out hot in the second half”….
They did not.
GW started the second half on a 14-2 run and the game was pretty much over with 10 minutes left. We almost left at that point because we were so frustrated. But we stuck it out to the end to see them pull a little bit closer, mostly due to sloppy passes by GW subs. On the way out I heard a Mason fan say “These guys aren’t worth traveling to Wilmington for”. They are not… yet.
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