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While YouTube is Down, Here’s a Peanut Butter Ice Cream Video to Tide You Over

If you were to visit YouTube at the time of this writing, you’d be greeted with this image:

YouTube's 'Out of Order' graphic.

If you need your cheap home-made video fix, here’s something that might help: it’s a video showing me and Wendy in the last stages of making peanut butter fudge ice cream in our ice cream maker (ah, wedding presents). If you have an ice cream maker — they go for about $50 or $60 at Williams-Sonoma or any other kitchen equipment store — the recipe is pretty simple:

Peanut Butter Ice Cream Base

  • 2 cups cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2/3 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter

Warm up the peanut butter so that it becomes more like a thick sauce. Wendy used the microwave, heating it at high for 15 seconds, letting it rest, and then heating it up again for another 15 seconds. Blend the peanut butter with the cream, milk and sugar — one of those hand blenders or stick mixers makes this much easier. Pour the resulting mixture into your ice cream maker.

Adding a fudge ribbon is pretty simple: you simply add fudge sauce very close to the end of the ice cream maker cycle. This video [2.7 MB QuickTime] shows us doing just that.

Still from the peanut butter fudge video.
Click the image to see the video.

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Geek In the News

The Dellfire Club

New York Times photo: 'A Dell notebook computer in Thomas Forqueran’s pickup truck caught fire in July, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks.'
Nice beard, dude! A photo from The New York Times, which they captioned with “A Dell notebook computer in Thomas Forqueran’s pickup truck caught fire in July, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks.”

If you’ve got a Dell Laptop, you just might want to look at dellbatteryprogram.com to see if your batteries are the on the recall list. They have a tendency to ignite, sometimes with spectacular results such as depicted in the photo above. For more, here’s the New York Times’ story.

I must admit that looking at the photo of the guy above, I couldn’t help but think of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon titled Hillbilly Hare, in which Bugs deals with a couple of hillbillies by acting as a square dance caller and telling them to do things like club each other with fenceposts. Here’s the script for the sequence, here’s a writeup of how the cartoon was produced, and I can’t not mention the Hillbilly Hare ytmnd site.

I also couldn’t help indulging in a little Photoshoppery. Inspired by Hillbilly Hare, I decided to Reuterize the original New York Times pic:

Altered photo.

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I Really Should Keep a Closer Eye on the Suit-y Stuff…

…otherwise, I’d have remembered that Tucows’ CEO Elliot Noss was doing a presentation today at the Red Chip Small-Cap Investor Conference, which takes place in New York City today and tomorrow. I did manage to catch the latter two-thirds of his presentaion (which was simulcast on the ‘net), in which he explained Tucows’ business and customer base as well as the challenges and opportunities in our industry.

For those of you with a little investing money burning a hole in their pockets, you might find this slide of interest:

Slide from Elliot Noss' presentation at the RedChip Small Cap Investor Conference in New York City, August 15, 2006.

Elliot’s a good presenter, and I’ve made a note to myself I should wrangle him to do a screencast of this presentation for posting in my work blog, Tucows Farm.

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In the News

Fidel and Hugo: Best Friends Forever!

Courtesy of HeadTurban and Miss Fipi Lele, here’s a specially-captioned photo shoot of Hugo “Greasy” Chavez paying a visit to Fidel Castro’s hospital room. Love the matching outfits, guys — are you starting a gang or something?

Photo session of Hugo Chavez visiting Fidel Castro in the hospital.

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Lisa Reports from the Israel/Lebanon Border

My friend Lisa, a freelance journalist who lives in Tel Aviv, reports in her blog On the Face about her experiences on the border of Israel and Lebanon in an article titled Welcome to the Shooting Gallery. The stories and photos are a mix of the destruction brought about by war, such as this picture of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi on fire:

Photo of Kibbutz Kfar Giladi on fire.

…the often-surreal world of geopolitics, as shown in this strange-but-funny sign on the fence demarcating the border:

Photo of chain link/barbed-wire fence along Israel/Lebanon border with a sign that reads 'Stop! Border right in front of you'.

…and how even amidst all the altillery fire, some businesspeople try to go about with the daily routine, as shown in this photo of the breakfast spread at a guest house in Metulla called Beit Shalom, which translates from Hebrew as “House of Peace”:

Photo of the breakfast spread at Beit Shalom.

Lisa updates her Flickr photostream regularly, so be sure to check that out too.

Stay safe, Lisa!

Saturday Night at Hooters, Explained Concisely in a Diagram

A guy named “Ikes” has created some strange diagrams on his site. I used to live near a Hooters, and for a while, I worked across the street from one, and from casual observation would say that the diagram below is fairly accurate not just of the downtown Hooters, but most places in Accordion City’s club district:

Strange diagram of a Saturday night at Hooter's, depicted using electrical plugs and sockets.

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He Failed the Saving Throw

Found this photo this morning under the title You might need to be a level six cleric to resurrect a ford focus.jpg. I added a caption to it and posted it below:

Two guys in Ren Faire outfits looking at their broken-down Ford Focus on a highway shoulder.