My Substitute Reality

Here’s a recipe by Alton Brown for a cake that made my mouth water the first time I saw it. I decided I would make it so today that’s what I did. Here’s the link to the recipe and here’ s pic of the cake after the glaze is added but before the whipped cream is put on.

Here’s a pic after frosting with whipped cream.

I have to say after eating it I am completely satisfied that it tastes as good as I had hoped. It’s sweet and moist. You might even call it wet with all the milk in it. I highly recommend this.

Here’s a picture of Don Lafferty and Devon Lafferty plus a couple of other Laffertys. This is my buddy Don in Phillie.

I’ve been checking Google maps every so often to see if they have gotten better satellite photos of certain places like Cuba, NY and a few others. Once in a while they improve and you can actually see most of the country in decent resolution but there is still a bit left to go.

Today I found the new site that has the regular Google images plus it has what they call Birds Eye. It has 4 different views of every place I’ve checked so far including Hill St, Cuba. The images are better than most of the Google ones. Here’s an example

First a pic using the Google satellite image:

And now the Birds Eye view:

Check out some other places. Some are better and some are about the same. I thought it would be interesting to most everyone.

Fresh Logic Atlas

Check it out. This is going to change things.

http://www.wolframalpha.com

I got tired of this starting every time I went to my blog. Here’s a link if you want to see it.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid14599856001?bctid=25027561001

I made tamales today. I’ve always wanted to make them so today I finally got all the stuff and did it. I got corn husks and already made masa at the Mexican supermarket near us. I made a mistake with the masa and bought tortilla masa. I didn’t even look as I didn’t know they made tortilla masa. I had to go back to get the tamale masa. I bought carnitas for the filling.

It was pretty easy to make them but it’s a little time consuming. It took about 20 minutes or so to make 15. After you make them you have to steam them for close to 2 hours. I must say they were pretty darn good. Next time I would use more filling. This picture isn’t very good but it’s the only one I took. You get the idea.

Ok, this is one of the geekiest things I’ve ever done but other geeks will love it. I recently got a Mac Mini so that I could try to create some apps for the iPhone. I might be able to make a few bucks or not but I know a lot of people have quit their day job because of it. Since I don’t have a day job at the moment I’ve nothing to lose.

Anyways, this is not about that. This is about VirtualBox. Daryl told me about it a while ago and I had played with it and a similar thing called VM Ware.

I got to thinking about the possibility of installing it on my Mac and sure enough there was a version for it. Here’s a picture of my Mac’s screen with a Windows 7 VB and and an Ubuntu VB running at the same time.

My propeller is spinning at about 8,000 RPM.

Here’s an update showing I added Windows XP.

And one more update showing I added Suse and Windows 98.