tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50696172024-03-12T20:28:14.323-07:00Quadra Street DesignsThoughts, unprovoked rants, and dry humour about anything and everything.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-54672608782755745112012-06-22T16:31:00.001-07:002012-06-22T16:32:18.131-07:00Secrets of "Jewish Auntie" Cake revealed!If you've ever been to a Jewish celebration, be it bris, bar/t mitzvah, or wedding, you've surely had some "Jewish Auntie" cake; sometimes it's in a bundt shape, or maybe a loaf, or maybe you've only ever seen it in its classic "4 mouthful slab" form.
The key to Jewish Auntie cake is its durability.
With the right secret ingredient (banana? shmaltz? guilt?) and some careful wrapping in tin foilUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-89965078499758583242012-06-12T23:12:00.000-07:002012-06-12T23:12:00.425-07:00Fun with Donut... the word!Two new uses of the word "donut".
"Donution", noun: What you give a person or group for charity when you can't afford a decent cash offering, but a 6-pack from Timmy's fits the budget.
"Donoshing", verb: Snacking on donuts, particularly Jewish-themed donuts such as "Lots of Lox" or "Shmaltz-tastic"... yum!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-61110024203554245522012-06-08T14:25:00.002-07:002012-06-08T14:25:41.651-07:00Chest bursting animated GIF... not for the squeamishI can still remember the first time I saw the "chest burster" scene in Aliens... yoiks. Still gross, still shocking.
Slate magazine, Classic Cinema in 3 animated GIFs
There are other GIFs for this latest entry in the Slate cinema gif series, but they're not quite as "intense".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-87961478066957125092012-05-31T14:33:00.002-07:002012-05-31T14:33:34.022-07:00Kill a Tree a Day... because they'd do the same to us if they could!Now don't get me wrong, I love trees as much as anybody... but they can be pretty scary just moving around in the wind, let alone when they're on a rampage.
Kindly soul, or crazedkindling?
Compare that to, say, a lavender plant... even when the wind is pretty heavy, lavender is not at all scary.
As such, I'm convinced that trees would kill us if they had the chance; all that's stopping greatUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-79292205885124052992012-05-29T15:20:00.001-07:002012-05-29T23:45:29.026-07:00New memes: mixed up outdoor place and (bonus!) a new speech habitAs part of my never ending quest to spawn a new meme, I've come up with two new possibilities.
"Padeckio" -- a combination of "patio" and "deck"; I know there's a big difference between the two, but I can never remember which is which. Thus enters the "padeckio", an outdoor place for the whole family!
"The laws of physics being what they are,..." -- A great new way to start off your side Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-21586014411788893302012-05-25T17:13:00.001-07:002012-05-26T11:26:10.637-07:00"Now that's a bad site!"I guess as a web developer I shouldn't make fun of (hopefully) amateur sites, but sometimes I just can't help myself. You're the lucky reader of my first entry in the "Now that's a bad site!" blog series. First up: Popeye goes crazy in his first crack at web design.
Title: WWW.POPEYETHESAILOR.COM (no doubt about which site this is!)
URL: http://www.popeyethesailor.com/
There are so many things Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-60652833612728662432012-05-23T10:31:00.000-07:002012-05-24T13:53:12.813-07:00Facebook shmacebook! Does FB have real value?Farhad Manjoo at Slate has a new article on the true value of Facebook. Essentially, IMHO, he's saying Facebook's lasting value will be the spinoff concepts and innovations.
I love this quote from a former 'booker:
Finally, let’s hear from Jeff Hammerbacher, a former Facebook employee
who quit because he couldn’t stand the idea of all of the company’s
highly educated engineers spending Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-72786362636006608902011-12-30T21:20:00.000-08:002012-05-23T13:09:47.823-07:00A new state motto for Idaho"I-da-ho, you-da-ho, we-all-da-ho for Idaho"
Update 2012/05/23: It's been pointed out to me that if you don't know about "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream", the new motto doesn't make any sense. Then again, even if you did know about the ice cream variety, it may not make sense :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-20562109554843937042010-08-20T10:52:00.000-07:002012-05-10T16:07:34.210-07:00Bands that never quite made the big time... (part 1)
Helga cracks a joke
"Finger Bitching" -- East German girl band from the early 80's, complete with spiky blonde hair and misplaced makeup, they were most famous for their potato chip ad:
"Vee are finga bichin. I'm Helga und dis is Freda. Eeet our chips or vee vill be very upset."
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-79598377603226091762010-07-15T10:25:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:10:40.134-07:00Newest acronym: GSODGSOD: Gerbil Sneeze of DeathGerbils, by their very nature, tend to hold things in: their emotions, their food, their p--p (!), and, unfortunately, their sneezes. If you don't help your gerbil by opening up their potentially-fatal nasal passages with tweezers (or barbecue tongs, as you see fit), they stand a good chance of suddenly letting loose with a GSOD. Poor little fellas...Update: GSOD (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-25540848319589686172008-07-08T12:57:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:10:40.121-07:00Operation QSD Meme... againNewest word from "Operation QSD Meme":"Vegecanarian": A vegetarian who abstains from eating any animal... except canaries.Usage: (when offered a yummy chicken burger) "No, thanks. I'm a vegecanarian."Pass it on!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-21872326434479366652008-06-27T12:07:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:10:40.117-07:00FOK (in a nice way!)Yet another Internet meme from QSD:"FOK" (Fount Of Knowledge)Usage: "That guy is darn clever! He's a real FOK!" Or perhaps, "What a FOK that guy was!"Pass it on!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-61256719710502634062008-06-20T13:30:00.000-07:002012-05-10T13:10:40.125-07:00Fauna MemeI've come up with my own catch phrase, and I'm hoping it will become the next Internet meme:"Hummingbirds are the jelly beans of the animal world."Pass it around!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5069617.post-1128699430651495112005-10-07T08:35:00.000-07:002012-05-11T12:32:17.681-07:00Trivia: In Einstein's famous 1905 paper, he didn't actually write E=mc2. He wrote the equivalent: m=E/c2. In 1901, the entire Indian subcontinent, with a population totalling 300 million, was administered by a British ruling caste which consisted of no more than 1,000 men. From 1948 to 1963, Porsche manufactured more than 150,000 tractors. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0