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Month: June 2007
The "Bye Bye Boobies" Party
On Saturday, Wendy and I attended our friend C.’s “Bye Bye Boobies” party, an event to celebrate her upcoming breast reduction surgery (which takes place today).
The party featured a lot of breast-themed food presented in a lovely spread, pictured below:
Among the items were this lovely chocolate boob cake:
…and this bodacious lemon boob cake:
…and, of course, melon bowls:
Wendy and I wanted to contribute, so we used our ice cream maker to prepare some appropriately saucy flavours. Before heading to the party, I took out a Sharpie marker and whipped out some signs for the ice cream. When this computer fad blows over, I could go into the sign making business for ice cream shops and coffeehouses.
Here’s the sign for the first flavour: “Plain” Jayne Mansfield, better known as vanilla:
The next flavour was made with one very ripe canteloupe: Melons sorbet:
Here’s the one for the ice cream with a banana base (Wendy pureed two very ripe bananas into the standard ice cream mix) and chocolate chips made from a chopped up fancy-pant high cocoa content bar — Touch My Monkey:
And finally, here’s the sign for the Oreo Cheesecake ice cream. It had 10 smashed-up Oreo cookies in it, and the base contained cream cheese, sour cream and the juice of a lemon, which gave it a distinct cheesecake flavour. You probably shouldn’t have this fat-licious flavour too often.
Our thanks to C. for throwing a great party, and best of luck with the surgery!
“I fuckin’ love Duran Duran!” he says, but in the video below (shot last night in Accordion City’s Koreatown neighbourhood), I’m actually playing Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole. Still, a compliment is a compliment…
It’s Accordion Awareness Month!
It’s the first of June, which means that once again, we’re in Accordion Awareness Month! I strongly urge everyone to celebrate it by playing the accordion, enjoyign accordion music and even sending Accordion Awareness Month greeting cards.
I plan to celebrate by playing some accordion karaoke with friends tonight at Clinton’s. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please drop by!
(Big thanks to Nicole, who reminded me that I should post something today.)
Schrodinger’s LOLcat [Updated}
Update — Sunday June 3, 2007: Now I know who created this LOLCat image — see below the image for details!
Tired: Schrodinger’s Cat. Wired: Schrodinger’s LOLCAT!
(Wondering what a LOLcat is? Start here, then go here.)
Who’s Behind This Picture?
Three people are behind this image:
- Justin Wick came up with the idea
- Kevin Steele, with whom I used to work at Mackerel Interactive Multimedia, took the photo, which is of his cat Xena.
- Dan “dantekgeek” Lurie, whom I know from the #joiito IRC channel, put it all together. Here’s the Flickr page where it first appeared.
Over at at my tech blog Global Nerdy, I’ve got a new essay titled Do the Stupidest Thing that Could Possibly Work, which you might find interesting if you’re wondering about the future of tech and software development.