Archive for October, 2007

Weddin’ photos

Wedding Photos

National Hero

http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2605 A buddy of mine at work and I agreed that we’d both gladly fork over $350 to bust up a Comcast office with a hammer. (see also)

Saturn

Some terrific photos of Saturn (plus color commentary) here: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/10/15/cassini-10-years-and-counting/

Monkey Bread Recipe

(A special guest recipe from Dawn Young) Depending on the size of your bundt cake pan. (my pan only holds two cans of biscuits) 1-3 cans of biscuits (I like the hungry jack kind) 1 tablespoon of cinnamon 1 cup of white sugar 1 stick of butter 1 cup of brown sugar Optional: raisons or [...]

Can I get bacon on that?

http://www.peppersandsmoke.com/bbq/burgers/index.html Bacon burger. Literally. (needs BBQ sauce)

The UnBoxing

That’s right. Activation was a snap…super easy. It took maybe 10 minutes. Most of that was waiting for the progress bar. Syncing the first time took a little longer than I expected…but it has to basically look through your mac and find email accounts, and photos, calendars, and whatnot in order to give you the [...]

That iPhone guy looks familiar…

You know that guy who does all the iPhone how-to videos? http://www.apple.com/iphone/gettingstarted/guidedtour.html He looks familiar some how:

For your wedding, we got you a dinner party (you have to cook though)

Instead of following some boring old wedding gift registry, Julie, her special man, and Kathleen bought us a wine dinner kit from the Torii Mor winery here in Oregon. The kit included three bottles of wine, a 2005 Pinot Blanc, a 2005 Pinot Noir, and a 2005 Gewürztraminer. Also included was menu, recipe cards, instructions [...]

The ABC of Cocktails – an out-of-print book review

Right after the wedding the BluePlate Misses and I went to lovely Rockaway Beach, Oregon for a short mini-moon (we’ll be flying off to sunny Mexico for the real thing this December). We rented your classic cheesy beach house, with classic cheesy shell-encrusted furnishings and decor. However this beach house had a little something extra. [...]