It'll be FUN!  Empire Kayaks is having a kayakking with the seal expedition on Jan 29 2011;it'll be fun!  hey rent all the gear you need; including wetsuits.

Wow; you know... I just sorta liked this song... This video is the awsome, slightly disturbing, but that's what makes it awsome... very thought provoking (emphasis on provoking).  (lol) I'm glad music like this still makes it onto the radio amidst all that sound-alike autotuned stuff (unless the radio really IS playing like 3 singers, in which case ( Read more... )

per my last post:  You know, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking... little girl or boy... that's still AWSOME that we still HAVE kids like that.  I mean, you hear about how badly our kids are doing in science and tech- then you see that, and realize there is still a kernel of hope for us!  (even if it IS more parent-driven than school- ( Read more... )

Something I saw randomly at Microcenter cheered me up a great deal. There was a dad and a little girl; tinny sized kid. She had an RC toy and was begging her daddy to get it, he sounded seriously exasperated. She's promising to clean up, and do chores... and he's like: "but I ALREADY GOT YOU ONE." (lol)  her answer was the kicker: she wanted ( Read more... )

just finished reading "Death Troopers".  It was a zombie horror book set in the Star Wars universe.  Normally, I don't write book reveiws, but I had to comment on this one.  I have to start with, the book WAS pretty well written, a lot of good elements of horror was in it... overall, it was vary enjoyable.  My main issue with the book: Han Solo and ( Read more... )

BP is offering "loyalty Rewards" !  $10 rebate per 5 fillups (8 gallons of gas)  up to $30.

The details are at thislink; basically you fill up 8+ gallons, take the receipt to the cashier.

This time I used regular  rice flour - it rose, but kinda fell apart  and was too wet

Hmm will try 1/2 & 1/2   next time,  I think I also made it in too giant a batch-it  was entirely too wet

But I was curios; I kinda figured it wasn't derived from the same language; but hey, let's see:

puto: from Wiktionary; there's apparently multiple meanings to it (a tasty cake, an annoying kid; to cleanse, and our favorite, a male prostitute/gay)

Follow the link for the others, but apparently, the Latin American term came from the spanish "puta" or ( Read more... )

the male prostitute cake came out too limp and soggy.   It's not awful, it's just kinda bland sweet mochi-flavored.  Bleh.  I guess it'll be ok topped with some chili/scallion/garlic stir-fry with just enough beef for flavor (as kind of an open-mochi bun)

The problem was that I managed to grab the one bag of sweet rice flour ('coincidentally' what ( Read more... )

OK... now that I have your attention...  ^_^

So I was at the chinese grocery near my house, and the line was a little longer than usual.  I randomly started chatting with the person online ahead of me.  No need to get into the details- I basically mentioned rather wistfully that there was this realy yummy steamed ricecake that apparently went out of ( Read more... )