quacky: —–+—+—–

Will Bailey writes for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, 15 Uses For Vodka.
Here are two I love:

Make your own vodka sauce. Pour vodka directly onto food. Vodka sauce.

Clean your gun with a vodka-soaked rag. Now your gun will smell like vodka when you show it to people.

Porcini Powder – Opium for the cooks « Hong Kong Phoodey
the umami taste was so potent it actually hit me on a mental level. It felt like I was tweaked on drugs. So I think I’m going to have to use it a bit more sparingly, otherwise eating may become just too intense.

Retro Recipes: Titty Sauce Yams, 1961 is part of a series of blogs, that I just don’t have the time to read right now. From a wonderfully literate and elegantly witty food writer. I love Stephanie Butler’s prose, and her take on this old wack-job cookbook from the good old days of chauvinism and terrible food:

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices … by the illustrious Mr. George Leonard Herter of Waseca, Minnesota. It’s impossible to improve upon or even accurately convey the passionate prose of Mr. Herter, so I’ll let him take it away. From the third paragraph:

“I will start with meats, fish, eggs, soups and sauces, sandwiches, vegetables, the art of French frying, desserts, how to dress game, how to properly sharpen a knife, how to make wines and beer, how to make French soap, what to do in case of hydrogen or cobalt bomb attack. Keeping as much in alphabetical order as possible.”

Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 boxset.

I just came across a bunch of these Stax-Volt box sets that I could have for relatively cheap. What a treasure! But there’s one problem, the MP3 tags are impossible! For whatever reason, they’re not auto-tagging from the web, or with my MP3 tagging programs. The darn things just don’t exist. So I’ve got about 3 or four (not quite sure) big piles of really badly tagged, nine-volume box sets of soul music. It’s not so bad, really, just a kind of mammoth data entry project. But MAN, I wish CD manufacturers would offer that their stuff was already tagged. don’t you?

Watch yourself! Jamie is coming!
Jamie Oliver and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest join forces to fight obesity in the USA | Mail Online.

In other news, the Olivers are a couple of nutters:

The new project comes just a month after Oliver and wife Jools, 34, celebrated the arrival of their third daughter Petal Blossom Rainbow.


$ man awesome

Warning: do not booby-trap your finger daemon, unless you are prepared
for infinite finger loops.

I don’t have anywhere else to put this kind of thing:

Vote for Zach:

Or Mitch Hedburg. That would be good too.

I’m just gonna predict here:
“I along with many others tried Linux during college” will inspire a ridiculous internet meme for a while. Maybe there’s something else going on here, maybe the “news” is being pranked, a la the adequacy.org of yore.

Betcha fifty bucks!

Today, in between making spreadsheets and purchase orders and taking statistics (or metrics) of things, I am also making superhero avatars. Here are a few:

The first one is a girl superhero, with a tail and wings, I call her Kir. The second one is a little bit muscular guy named QUNK, who I think looks a little bit too effeminate in the face (or “stuck up” as they used to say). The third one, I just clicked randomize until it felt great, and then I tweaked with the colors and some background details to smooth things out. He is called Wuqaqzy because that is a bizarre twist of Quacky. I made him on HeroMachine2.

Amazon.com: Klipsch iGroove HG All-in-One iPod Shelf System: Electronics

I recommend to buy!

There is now a new spiritual dimension to this election, and it is decidedly evil.

God’s Politics: A Blog by Jim Wallis & Friends

Okay so despite my distaste and being an asshole about the right-wing kind of christianity, they’re not all bad. Sojo.net is a case in point of what I think the historical Jesus would have blogged.

Yes I said “what Jesus would have blogged.”
Suck it.

Sexy Robot Steak Lover
Alternative | Epic / Theatrical | Rap / Hip-Hop | Rock

I like to make keywords playlists with Media Monkey. It’s very easy to search my whole library, highlight good or odd picks, and pump them into a playlist. These are very fun, thematically coherent, and best played on SHUFFLE. A lovely way to listen to tracks that suit the mood of the day, and hear things you’d normally overlook. Of course you don’t put everything that matches, and you… [ ]
I like to make keywords playlists with Media Monkey. It’s very easy to search my whole library, highlight good or odd picks, and pump them into a playlist. These are very fun, thematically coherent, and best played on SHUFFLE. A lovely way to listen to tracks that suit the mood of the day, and hear things you’d normally overlook.

Of course you don’t put everything that matches, and you put in some stuff that doesn’t necessarily match too, just like cooking a recipe!

Today’s playlist uses the keywords ’sex/sexy’, ‘robot’, ’steak/meat’ and ‘love’. [-]

jigsaw #5 / interview/ Unwound

Vern: we’re forever 19.
Jigsaw reporter #2: how come you guys are forever 19 and not forever 18 (like the Nation of Ulysses) ?
Justin: because 19 is a more awkward age.
Jigsaw reporter #2: you think?
Justin: yeah, it’s more fucked up.
…
Brandt: my favorite Melvins show was—and this is really hard cuz every Melvin’s show is really different and great in it’s own way—I guess the one with Beat Happening and Nirvana at the grange hall on steamboat island road….
Jigsaw reporter #1: when they played ‘keep on rockin in the free world’
Unwound: yeah, that was cool
Jigsaw reporter #1: I got kicked in the head at the beginning of that song and passed out and didn’t come to until the very end of it but I didn’t hit the ground cuz there were so many people there.
Vern: the cops tried to break up the show during that song I think.
Jigsaw #2: was that the show where Calvin put holes in the ceiling with his head?
Jigsaw #1: yeah.
Jigsaw #2: there hasn’t been a show there since that happened…
(talk about whether or not Nirvana was good that night)

Src= Musickum.com

Hi I’ve been remiss.
I stopped writing blogs on here, because I resumed writing blogs on here.

It rocks. I am glad satanosphere.com is back from the dead, because diary maggots weren’t even keeping its corpse interesting.

What’s new besides that, you ask? I really like google Chrome, you know, the new browser from Google?

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• Is project light upon by sunlight with long hours, place and will shine on to the product in the heat environment damage.
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• Can’t use the strong line of sharp object opens the cassette tape.
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I bought this for my daughter. The Engrish warning text on the back of the packaging is astonishingly putrefied of the Strong alkaline is originally the product.

Get me these please. I promise I won’t play them.

I submit for you only this: bash.org Quote #868827.

David Sedaris, on KUOW’s Weekday, 6/24/08

Steve: Think we’ll ever have a gay president?
David: Golly. That’s a toughie… Only after we have, um, oh goodness… only after we have an alcoholic Chinese president, I think, we’ll have a gay president.

David: I just got the internet. I saw it for the first time, I saw what it looked like, last September. … I’d never seen what it looked like, I’d never even seen it. And then my boyfriend Hugh got that… what, that thing, in the house where it’s just in the air, right? And he showed my how I could go on, so I went on, and I saw what it looked like… and then I forgot about it for four months … and then I got it, I remembered it. So I’m just at that point now where I go to bed, and then at two oclock, I lay awake, and then I think “I wonder what Russel Crowe is up to?” so I get out of bed, and look him up on the ol’ interweb. But I’m not very, it’s all pretty new to me.

Very nice.