Day 251: Stewpendous

Today I dusted off the crockpot and made beef stew. That might seem like an odd thing to cook when it's 80 degrees out, but the mouth wants what the mouth wants.

Here's the pot all loaded up and starting to cook. I didn't use a recipe, even though I have about 15 books of slow cooker recipes checked out from the library right now. Instead, I threw in some stew meat, carrots, celery, onion, garlic cloves, mushrooms, tomato juice, red wine, beef bouillon, chicken broth, canned diced tomatoes, Bakon vodka, seasonings, salt, and pepper. I think that's all. I was going to add potatoes but I ran out of room. Maybe I'll make some mashed potatoes to go with it next time I eat some.


But for now, I have to hurry off to JKD soon, so I just had a little bowl of yummy stew. Tomorrow I will have the whole meat and potatoes feast.



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Day 250: One Week to Learn XHTML

You might see this as cheating, but I see it as being efficient. While it's always good to kill as many birds as possible any way you can, everyone knows that the preferred method is killing two birds with one stone. Literally and figuratively.

My make for today is a basic web page I had to make for one of my classes. Keep in mind that this page had to meet certain requirements, and I was limited in what I could include. Also, I had to do it totally from scratch, using real tags and stuff, without any fancy web editor.

View the glorious page here.

Just wait until next week, when I have to learn XML and Cascading Style Sheets and my head will explode.

Day 249: Pip Pip Cheerios

What do you get when a bee and a squirrel walk into a British pub and ask for s'mores, but the barkeep doesn't have any chocolate or graham crackers? You get a tasty treat, obviously.




Yes, you are looking at Rice Krispy treats, only made with Honey Nut Cheerios instead of Rice Krispies. (Do you get the overwrought intro now?)



Yes, they are delicious. And yes, they are sitting on my Better with Bacon plate. And they probably would be, but I don't have any bacon right now.

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Day 248: Some Mildly Humorous Photos

Today I put together some slightly funny pictures I've found on the internet. I'm in a bad mood, so they don't really seem as funny to me right now as they did when I plucked them from their rightful owners, but maybe one will bring a smile to you.

Day 247: Pub Crawl

Here's a photo album of yesterday's Everett Mall Way pub crawl with Mat.

1. Qdoba


2. La Hacienda


3. Applebees. Forgot to take a picture, but the drinks there were lame anyway.

4. Famous Dave's


5. Bob's Burgers and Brew





There were more drinks after that, but I lost interest in photography.

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Day 246: Ascii Me

Today I discovered a nifty little Ascii art generator online. Here are just a few of the billions of variations available: Try it for yourself.

Standard:

  __  __        _  _                     
 |  \/  |  ___ | || |  ___  _ __   _   _ 
 | |\/| | / _ \| || | / _ \| '_ \ | | | |
 | |  | ||  __/| || ||  __/| | | || |_| |
 |_|  |_| \___||_||_| \___||_| |_| \__, |
                                   |___/ 

Block:


_| _| _| _|

 _|_|  _|_|    _|_|    _|  _|    _|_|    _|_|_|    _|    _|  
 _|  _|  _|  _|_|_|_|  _|  _|  _|_|_|_|  _|    _|  _|    _|  
 _|      _|  _|        _|  _|  _|        _|    _|  _|    _|  
 _|      _|    _|_|_|  _|  _|    _|_|_|  _|    _|    _|_|_|  
                                                         _|  
                                                     _|_|    

Straight:


|\/| _|| _ _

|  |(-||(-| )\/ 
             /  

Ghoulish:


)\ )\ )\.---. .') .') )\.---. )\ )\ )\ /(

(  ',/ /  (   ,-._( ( /       ( /       (   ,-._( (  \, /  \ (_.' / 
 )    (    \  '-,    ))        ))        \  '-,    ) \ (    )  _.'  
(  \(\ \    ) ,-`    )'._.-.   )'._.-.    ) ,-`   ( ( \ \   / /     
 `.) /  )  (  ``-.  (       ) (       )  (  ``-.   `.)/  ) (  \     
     '.(    )..-.(   )/,__.'   )/,__.'    )..-.(      '.(   ).'     
                                                                    

Marquee:


.:: .:: .:: .::

.: .::   .:::           .:: .::                            
.:: .:: . .::   .::     .:: .::   .::    .:: .::  .::   .::
.::  .::  .:: .:   .::  .:: .:: .:   .::  .::  .:: .:: .:: 
.::   .:  .::.::::: .:: .:: .::.::::: .:: .::  .::   .:::  
.::       .::.:         .:: .::.:         .::  .::    .::  
.::       .::  .::::   .:::.:::  .::::   .:::  .::   .::    

Sweet:

                         ___   ___                                 
                        (   ) (   )                                
 ___ .-. .-.     .--.    | |   | |    .--.    ___ .-.    ___  ___  
(   )   '   \   /    \   | |   | |   /    \  (   )   \  (   )(   ) 
 |  .-.  .-. ; |  .-. ;  | |   | |  |  .-. ;  |  .-. .   | |  | |  
 | |  | |  | | |  | | |  | |   | |  |  | | |  | |  | |   | |  | |  
 | |  | |  | | |  |/  |  | |   | |  |  |/  |  | |  | |   | '  | |  
 | |  | |  | | |  ' _.'  | |   | |  |  ' _.'  | |  | |   '  `-' |  
 | |  | |  | | |  .'.-.  | |   | |  |  .'.-.  | |  | |    `.__. |  
 | |  | |  | | '  `-' /  | |   | |  '  `-' /  | |  | |    ___ | |  
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                                                           .__.'  

Thorned:


, , _,, , _,, , , ,

|\/| /_,|   |   /_,|\ |  \_/ 
| `|'\_'|__'|__'\_ |'\| , /` 
'  `   `  '   '   `'  `(_/ 

Reverse:


===============================================

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=  == ==  ===   ===  ==  ===   ===  = ===  =  =
=  =====  ==  =  ==  ==  ==  =  ==     ==  =  =
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=  =====  ==  =====  ==  ==  =====  =  =====  =
=  =====  ==  =  ==  ==  ==  =  ==  =  ==  =  =
=  =====  ===   ===  ==  ===   ===  =  ===   ==
===============================================

Tiles:

[.. [.. [.. [..

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[.. [.. [ [..   [..     [.. [..   [..    [.. [..  [..   [..
[..  [..  [.. [.   [..  [.. [.. [.   [..  [..  [.. [.. [.. 
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                                                   [.. 

Tinker Toy:


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|   | |-' | | |-' |  | |  | 
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                          | 
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| |\/| |  / -_)    | |     | |    / -_)  | ' \     \_, | 
|_|__|_|  \___|   _|_|_   _|_|_   \___|  |_||_|   _|__/  
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Univers:


88b d88 88 88

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P.S. Weird little spaces have appeared in random places when I view the blog entry, but it all looks correct in the typing pane. I could probably figure out what's wrong and fix it, but I don't care that much. It's been a long week.

Day 245: Double Elimination Depp

Tonight, I took a break from the mountains of homework to watch The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. I wasn't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn't great, but it had excellent eye candy and some funny bits. Anyway, it inspired me to do another of those tournament bracket things like I did once a million years ago. I found a template online for a double elimination tournament, so I picked 12 Johnny Depp movies I could remember watching and let my guts do the choosing. It got a little weird at the end with the double elimination thing, since my opinions didn't change so much in the time it took me to type out all the winners and losers, but it worked well enough.

(Click image to enlarge.)

I could stay up all night writing out my reasoning for each decision, but that's just a waste of everyone's time. It's much more entertaining for you to think I've lost my mind for picking Sleepy Hollow over Edward Scissorhands.

Maybe some day I'll use these tournament brackety things for something a bit more consequential than movies. Well, wish in one hand...