Monthly Archives: December 2008

I mades me some pudding

Then I eated it. I keeping with the “cooking with rice” theme, I made rice pudding tonight, a very straightforward endeavor involving milk, sugar, salt, vanilla, and cinnamon… oh, and rice of course.  Actual INGREDIENTS, not a mix or anything.  … Continue reading

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Then came the expansion…

I made fun of F.E.A.R., earlier, for not really being all that scary of a game.  I stand by my statements there. The expansion pack, “Extraction Point”, however – THAT is pushing all the right buttons in making me jump.  … Continue reading

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F.E.A.R. finished, fails to frighten

Fear was a pretty good FPS.  It was graphically stunning, particularly considering that it’s a few years old, it had a suitably creepy backstory if you took the time to listen to voice mails and check laptops, and the “Penetrator” … Continue reading

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Cooking without smoke alarms

After a evening spent alternately deep-frying pork and setting off smoke alarms, I was a little more careful the next evening, when I went to use up the leftover rice. I’m happy to report that I turned four cups of … Continue reading

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F.E.A.R. and Unicorns

So, what connection does Monolith’s FPS “F.E.A.R.” have with unicorns? Well, honestly, no connection at all, but I had to stomp down hard on my urge to title this “F.E.A.R. and Loathing”, and I think I deserve some credit for … Continue reading

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Tonkatsu: Lessons learned

I threw caution to the wind and tried my hand at tonkatsu making tonight, and learned many valuable things, which I will now pass along: First: Cooking oil has a temperature called the “smoke point.” This is not just a … Continue reading

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I’m not encouraged to cook.

It’s not that I’m not allowed, it’s just that whenever I get ambitious, I get reminded about a particularly disastrous incident from about a decade ago. I get a relative pass on stuff like pasta and baking-from-mix; it’s understood that … Continue reading

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A virus might have been preferable.

I try not to be the “tech support guy” for my family’s computer issues.  I encourage self-sufficiency – and if that doesn’t work, I encourage asking my sister. It’s hard to do that when you’re being fed, though, and this … Continue reading

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One Furry Thing. One Robot. Ten Thousand Bullets.

I am so going to hell for ripping off THAT tagline. I bought the first Ratchet & Clank game years ago, when it was added to Sony’s Greatest Hits line, because I’d seen people raving about the series and figured … Continue reading

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OK, this was my fault.

One of the courses I’m taking this term is an online Geology course, because I need science credits to get my AA degree so I can enter the next school as a Junior. I don’t much care for science courses.  … Continue reading

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