December 2007 Archives
Christmas recipe!
I make a pie for holiday gatherings. It is delicious. Here’s how to make it.
- 1 package cream cheese, room temperature*
- 1 regular-size tub Cool Whip*
- 1/2 to 1 cup powdered sugar, depending on how sweet you want it
- (optional) 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- Prefab graham cracker or Oreo crumb crust
- Handful of chocolate chips
- Handful of walnut pieces
- Caramel ice cream topping, or cajeta
*You can use low-fat cream cheese and fat-free Cool Whip and nobody will ever know. I do. Of course it probably won’t really make this any healthier, but at least you can say you tried.
Dump cream cheese and Cool Whip into a big bowl. Beat until smooth. You want to use some kind of mechanical mixer for this, srsly. Add powdered sugar and peanut butter if you’re using it; beat more. Pour into crust. Sprinkle chips and nuts over top. Drizzle caramel on top. Put in fridge for a few hours. That’s it.
The laptop, he is named.
I figured since the desktop is the Black Beast of Aaaaaargh (or, officially, “blackbeast”), it would only make sense for the laptop to be the evil killer bunny rabbit with big nasty sharp pointy teeth. Which is just a leettle too long.
So instead, I named it after another horrible nasty bunny rabbit:
Y HELO THAR ROBBIE
So tomorrow at work, I will be making a nice little plate to stick on the outside, with a Robbie head on it. \o/
NAME THAT LAPTOP
“So,” I thought, “since I has a Christmas bonus and my rent is paid and all, I think I would like to buy some sort of portable device which I might be able to take to remote places like, say, IHOP to do my writin’. Perhaps I will buy one of these little Alphasmart NEO thingies, that should be enough for me.”
“But,” I then thought, “although it does really sort of do pretty much most of what I would want it to do, its screen is hell of tiny. And not backlit. This may be a problem in places like, say, the farm. But whatever, I can sit by a lamp I guess, sure.”
And then I poked a little more to see how much it would be with tax and shipping, and I thought: “Hmm. Perhaps before I plunk down this wad of money, I will check for a cheap but serviceable actual real laptop somewhere, like the Microcache store that is like right across the street from me.” Because I knew Microcache occasionally had mad cheap used laptops. My stepdad had gotten one, and it lived a long and happy life. They probably weren’t top-of-the-line, and they were in fact used and usually missing software and/or documentation, but fortunately I kind of know a little bit about computers and basically as long as the display and the motherboard don’t up and die on me, I should be able to fix that shit without too much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
So off I went to Microcache after work and asked to see a cheap used laptop.
I was shown an IBM Thinkpad of some sort. P4 1.8, 40GB hard drive, 256MB RAM, DVD, and most importantly, not fucking Vista. $350 even. Which was still more than I really wanted to pay but fuck, that’s not bad.
And so: I HAS A LAPPY ♫
Now what the hell am I going to name it? HALP ME INTERNETS
as a matter of fact, I WOULD jump off a cliff if my friends were all doing it
Via damn near everybody:
Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band’s name.
Click random article again; that is your album name.
Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.
Band name: IBM System/360 Model 67 [so, electronica I guess, that's fine]
Album name: Volcanic Plug [which is what Devil's Tower in Wyoming is, according to the article. This is an album about vaguely phallic mountains, then.]
- Minister of Justice (Finland)
- 2006 VFL Season and TAC Cup Season
- Ralph Farris
- Zine Library
- Busy Work
- RC Willey Home Furnishings
- Theta-divisor
- Radio Link Protocol
- Jean Lannes
- Kumaoni
- Demic Diffusion
- 20th Maine Regiment
- Ear Cancer [...I'm guessing this is not the radio-friendly single]
- Yeavering Bell
- Vamdrup Municipality
*wheeze*
So the other day I got a wild hair up my ass to set up yet another shiny new WordPress installation up here and use it to make the 100 Candles site go.
It is done. I think it is very pretty.
Speaking of things that are done, so is the next chapter.
*dead*
