HFCS: effika’s blog

I was cleaning up my bookmarks the other day, and realized I’d bookmarked several videos at places like YouTube. In light of this, I created a “Video” folder. It’s interesting to watch the progression of technology by the folders I create in my bookmarks. I remember creating folders for shockwave games, Internet [...]

Short review: Needs more explosions (current explosion count: 1), and possibly a chase scene.
Longreview: A very spiffed-up powerpoint presentation given by Al Gore. However, Al Gore just plain lacks charisma and that human feeling, so the movie goes through parts of his personal life in order to humanize him. These stories [...]

Congratulations to the couple, who were married last night (July 8th) at the State Capitol in the Blue Room.
Again, my favorite part of weddings is the food. There was a very moist and lovely cake along with some apple juice-ginger ale slush/punch.

A cache of fossils in Australia holds strange animals.
From the article:

Prof Archer said the flesh-eating kangaroos did not look anything like their modern day cousins.
“They were galloping kangaroos, they didn’t hop,” he said.
“They were also far more muscly than the kangaroos we know, with sharp sabre-like incisors and powerful forelimbs to help rip and tear [...]

I’m slowly transitioning off of eating only one dish for dinner. For years I have saved myself time and hassle by only cooking one thing for dinner (e.g., a box of Rice-a-Roni was good for two entirely Rice-a-Roni only meals). Lately, inspired by lurking in a cooking forum, I’ve started trying to make [...]

The first Winstead-Vrazel anniversary BBQ went quite well, with lots of food, frisbee playing, splash park fun and improv-ing. I hope to attend the 2nd (and therefor now annual) event next year. Buck can really cook a mean burger— I’m not a fan of burgers in general, but there’s something about an irregularly [...]

Jay’s friend reneged on her offer. She really should have thought her plans through before promising items to people.
It is very disappointing; I think I was looking forward to getting a new bed more than I thought I was. Probably because we were going to get it right after my birthday, so it [...]

Jay was making his usual egg-ramen but discovered something quite unusual in the egg carton:

Click that for big (~40k). Thanks to Jay (as always) for being our lovely hand model.
What is it? A frozen egg, cracked open. This particular egg was in a carton stacked high on another egg carton on the [...]