My Substitute Reality

-You’re just jealous cause the little voices only talk to me-

  • Jun
    25

    RIP Farrah Fawcett

    Filed under: Life;

    farrah

    10 Comments
  • Jun
    15

    Tres Leche Cake

    Filed under: Food;

    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.
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    Here’s a pic after frosting with whipped cream.

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    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.

    5 Comments
  • Jun
    14

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

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    4 Comments
  • Jun
    14

    Fresh Logic Atlas

    Filed under: Geek, Web;

    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:

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    And now the Birds Eye view:

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    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

    4 Comments
  • Jun
    4

    Wolfram Alpha

    Filed under: Geek;

    Check it out. This is going to change things.

    http://www.wolframalpha.com

    2 Comments
  • Jun
    4

    I like this.

    Filed under: Funny, Politics;

    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

    No Comments
  • May
    25

    Tamales!

    Filed under: Food;

    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.

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    3 Comments
  • May
    13

    Geek Alert!!!

    Filed under: Geek;

    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.

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    Here’s an update showing I added Windows XP.

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

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    4 Comments

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