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first.snow.(finally).

Last night we finally experienced our first legitimate snow.

First Snow Sundae

In lueu of such an exciting event, my housemate Kevin and his friend frolicked in our snow covered backyard and designed a special (interesting?) treat that we called 'First Snow Sundae'

How to make a First Snow Sundae

1. Using a large metal kitchen bowl, scoop up a large amount of fresh snow immediately following snowfall
2. Get really excited about the potential of mixing delicious things in snow to make it taste good
3. Add the following ingredients (improvisation encouraged)

• melted chocolate
• cinnamon
• brown sugar
• vanilla extract
• popcorn
• carmelized sugar
• peanut butter
• maple syrup

4.  Eat collectively with small spoons on the floor of your female housemate's room
5.  Make a mess, but relish in eating fresh snow with a touch of sweet
6.  Consume soggy popcorn, and realize half way through that maybe this didn't work out as well as planned
7.  Leave half eaten First Snow Sundae outside of female housemate's room so she can encounter what looks like a bowl of soggy, brown colored soup first thing in the morning.

!super.bonk!

Tonight I am proud to say that I finally finished Super Bonk for the SNES. w0000t!

What a great way to end a vacation. ^^

cooking.beats.

Kitchen diaries

yum yum yum.

psychobilly.freakout.

I would name this kid "Billy the Psychobilly Rocker"

back.in.nyc.

soggy broadway

it's new york city time again.
walking back from work, in the rain.
wet streets and blurry mobile cameras can become somewhat artistic in the end.

bit.torrent.island.

Sea Island for Me!

The Pirate Bay, a well known Swedish BitTorrent site, has determined the best way to freely distribute torrents that go against all spectrums of copyright law in almost all countries is to purchase a country themselves.  In attempt to make this fantasy a reality, The Pirate Bay has begun accepting donations to purchase Sea Land, an old British Naval Platform. 

According to a website set up to secure the purchase of Sealand, The Pirate Bay plans to give citizenship of the micronation to anyone willing to put money towards the purchase.

"It should be a great place for everybody, with high-speed Internet access, no copyright laws and VIP accounts to The Pirate Bay," the organisation claims on its website www.buysealand.com.

Read more about 'Sea Land', the magical nation with high-speed Internet access here.

porterella.twins.

Two Porterella Twin Mushrooms for my boss' twin daughters, born in Novemeber.
Yay Babies!

plushtoid.ftw!

pLuSHt01d

I'm totally crafted out.  Or about to be.  With the handy convenience of my mom's super techy sewing machine and the creative desire to pump out creatures of all sizes and shades of cute, I created this robot Plushtoid, a cuddly embodiment of Destructoid's mascot, for my new aquantances there.  Nagiko was kind enough to feature the little dude on the site, and many loyal Dtoid readers responded with overflowing robot love.  In some cases special, robot, love.

More plushies to come! <3

sam.and.max:the.saga.continues.

Since I was small enough to sit comfortably between my Dad's lap and the desk where our Mac Classic was at bay I have been a die hard LucasArts adventure game fangirl.  It's not the multitude of Star Wars playable side plots that  sucked me in, but rather the unique array of colorful stories and characters found in games such as those in the Monkey Island series, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango, and even the gritty Full Throttle .  Sam & Max Hit the Road could quite possibly be one of my first fond encounters with cynicism and twisted humor as a child, and its much anticipated episodic sequel picked up by Telltale Games can now be downloaded for play.

Last night I played the first episode of the 3D-rendered Sam and Max game, 'Culture Shock', at first with some hesitation.  The last time I played a LucasArts sequel that went from sprites to 3D rendered environments, the result was less than pleasurable (see Monkey Island IV).  Telltale Games however manages to maintain a cartoony, stylistically unique environment that appropriately meets the Sam and Max agenda, following the traditional point and click method of adventure games.  Niether Sam nor Max's appearence are butchered in the third dimension, and the facial animation in the other game's characters comes across as lively and comedic.  Some of the side characters in the first episode were somewhat obnoixious, but Max's mad antics basically makes up for everyone else's setbacks. Playing through the episode, there seemed to be a lot more social commentary that I can remember from the original game, but the dialogue between the two leading mammals remains biting and humorous, with occassional winks to inside jokes from past games, which I appreciate immensely.

So I'd suggest you try it if you are a fan of Sam and Max from the past.  It's been a while since I've played an adventure game at all (I've had to go lurking in abandonware sites to satisfy my adventures cravings through Legend of Kyrandia, Kings Quest, and a little Willy Beamish for good taste), and I look forward to playing through the entire set of episodes.

the.interwebs.math.problem!

002

The interwebs has a math problem!  Here it is!

Is .002 cents the same as .002 dollars?

Apparently, various associates and managers working at Verizon cannot manage to tell the difference.  The vcents video has exploded on the interwebs.  The video features more than 20 minutes of a client trying to explain the difference between .002 cents and .002 dollars over the phone to two Verizon managers after being charged over what he was quoted.  I didn't think I'd have the patience to listen to the entire recording, but the conversation is absolutely mind numbing.  Why can't Verizon understand the difference?

What is equally as mind numbing is how quickly someone picked up on the phenomenon's value in the world of fashion.  Wow the tubes are running fast today.