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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…
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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.)
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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!
Click to see the image on its original Flickr page. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
(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.
Me singing some accordion-enhanced karaoke.
Unlike here in North America, even the toughest bar in the Philippines — even the ones with real-life pirates — are likely to have karaoke. That’s how hardcore we are about it. In my immediate family alone, we collectively own 4 karaoke machines (6 if you count my PlayStation 2 and XBox with their karaoke-based games).
And believe me, that’s nothing. Here’s a story from ABS-CBN news…
Man slain for singing off-key in videoke bar
For singing out of tune, a jobless man was shot dead by a security guard of a videoke bar at the height of an argument in San Mateo, Rizal Tuesday night.
The victim, Romy Baligula, 29, was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival in a local hospital.
Senior Superintendent Felipe Rojas, acting Rizal police director, said the suspect, Robilito Ortega, 43, was arrested by responding policemen and yielded a caliber .38 revolver with five live bullets.
Rojas said Baligula and his companions were having a drinking spree at the Jullives KTV bar where Ortega worked as a security guard.
Prior to the incident, Ortega approached the table of Baligula’s group and shook hands with each of them, apparently in a show of friendship.
When Baligula started to sing, Ortega even danced to the tune. But when the song progressed, the suspect reportedly commented that the victim was out of tune, triggering a verbal tussle.
At the height of the argument, Ortega pulled out his service firearm and opened fire at Baligula before fleeing.
Rojas said policemen patrolling the area heard the gunshots and responded to the scene and eventually arrested Ortega.
Dave, who sent me the link to this story, wrote “I will never do karaoke in the Philippines,” to which I responded “Lightweight.” They should try to incorporate firearms-assisted judging into American Idol.