Chocolate cookies

The Boy and I made these cookies tonight, more or less. I swung real sloppy on the amounts, and we didn't have any brown sugar so at Jenny's suggestion we just used white sugar for the whole amount and then added some molasses.

I didn't want to leave the kitchen to find the ratio of molasses/sugar for substituting, so I just threw some in there.

They came out really good. Also, we chopped up Easter chocolates in place of choco chips. And Buzzy donated some of his own Reese's Pieces.

Now you know all about our cookies!

Joan Collins

Reminded, by the 1987 Letterman Top Ten list "Peter Holm's Top 10 Grievances Against Joan Collins," that Joan Collins used to be to "loose woman" as Viagra is to "bone-yab", I Googled her name to see what see looked like back in the day.

Came up with this delightful piece from the Telegraph:

Joan Collins: the day I said no to James Bond

A glimpse of the swanky side of the past from someone you don't hear from all the damn time.

Sutherland/Letterman: Talkin' bout jail

Here's Keifer Sutherland on Letterman, CBS era, talking about his stint in LA County Jail. He's well candid and human about the whole thing. Strikes the right tone exactly -- not too light, not too serious. Just simultaneously light and serious.

The thumbs bit is hilarious, and he actually answers the #1 question that everyone wants to ask anyone who goes to jail. He does so without Dave even having to ask, which is nice since Dave wouldn't've. Not these days.

The dumb CBS player will throw a commercial at you before and after, I'm afraid.

Letterman Top Ten Lists, 1987-89

You're 9. You're in bed. You hear your mom laughing downstairs. What is she laughing at?

Maybe the "ashtray" you made in art class and gave her for Mother's Day. She doesn't smoke. If she did, she wouldn't trust her ashes to this lumpy fuchsia monstrosity. What a fool you are. What a fool.

Or maybe she's laughing at one of these Top Ten lists from Late Night with David Letterman on NBC, from June 1987 through December 1989.

lookalikes

Nothing to add, this is just very nice:

http://www.sweetsauer.com/kristis_bliggitty_blog/2008/08/look-alikes.html

Examples:

Your dj truck ran into my violin truck

Awesome is as awesome does, motherfuckers.



When they bust into the Roots - dynamite.

via collegehumor

IDIOT TOYS: Tech reviews for the bored: Natalia Bonarenko sacked for lack of effort

I like to check in now and then at Idiot Toys; they do a thing there where they take the tons of promotional photos they receive and treat them as entries in an ongoing competition. On the right days I find it hysterical. They're fully deadpan.

An excellent example is IDIOT TOYS: Tech reviews for the bored: Natalia Bonarenko sacked for lack of effort

Andrew WK

That's Andrew WK and me. You know, just hanging out after a good nights' work.

Salesmanship

From a woot.com product description:

We can throw around terms like “four inputs” and “80 watts”
and “built-in subwoofer” all day, but what good are such bloodless
phrases? Let us put it this way: either the MAINStage Sound System will make your TV, DVD,
iPod, Xwiistation, or laptop sound way, way better, or we’ll drink a
12-oz. glass of our own urine. That’s how much we believe.

How does anyone not love woot?

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Testings, testings, 1, 2... 3?

Hrm.. just testing out this firefox extension ("performancing")... let's see if it works.

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i'll store this with the Cheek Squeezers

Yonder an important product.

The "May we suggest..."s at the bottom complete the perfection.

toast

This made me laugh out loud. The text, that is. The concept is awesome, and no laughing matter.

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/10/04/toast_printer_i.html

"what the shit is this?"

Too many awesomes to count in this clip here, but I will add that I've seen this movie at least twice and I didn't ever notice the massive, massive microphone creepage going on. I think my noticing it now is an unfortunate effect of seeing it in this small size, where you can see pretty much the whole image without moving your eye much. Anyway, I could have sworn this was the scene in which Dolemite utters the famous words, "Those aren't my furs", but I guess I was wrong. Please enjoy.

To see it in a bigger size, go here.

(click in the white space to start it)

i know

yes I realize that last one's up twice. one has the video, one the still. Didn't mean for em both to post, can't decide which of the two to delete. So they're staying.

gui(guitar)tar

You know what I like? I'll tell you what I like: guys who play guitar who have pictures of guitars around in the space where they play. It's as though they often get to the room and are like, "Hmm... now what did I come in here to.. ah! That's right! Guitar!" and then they get going.

gui(guitar)tar

You know what I like? I'll tell you what I like: guys who play guitar who have pictures of guitars around in the space where they play. It's as though they often get to the room and are like, "Hmm... now what did I come in here to.. ah! That's right! Guitar!" and then they get going.

I have a new tiny graphics tablet

Jenny's awesome mom, Denise gave me for my birthday the macally "icecad" mini graphics tablet. How Denise osmosed that a graphics tablet was up by the top of my things I want to get list, I do not know, but this one's very nice and allows me to do drawings like this one here. And so the world may now finally move forward, assured that it's need for fine art will no longer go unfulfilled. Drawing is fun.
The device is allegedly for mac only, but in europe it's marketed as mac or windows and if you go to the company's european webisite you can find all the drivers you need to make it work on your xp machine.
The things a little squirrelly yet, but I only tinkered with the settings for 2 minutes before I had to rush into photoshop and get the vision you see above out into the world. I'm confident the little thing and me will get along just fine. Thanks, Denise! Well done, you crafty lady.

the tablet

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