Guess and Check

Hearts

Tom — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:08:01 +0000

I shot the moon today. Tiger Woods wasn’t happy.

Dallas/Arlington

Tom — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:59:36 +0000

Photos from my trip to Dallas and Monday’s Yankees/Rangers game are in an album. It was a great trip.

Chocolate Cupcakes

Tom — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:42:23 +0000

Today we’ve got some chocolate cupcakes made with Cupcake Project’s recipe for the cake and just a general confectioners’ sugar/butter/vanilla extract/salt/milk combination for the vanilla icing.

Amblyopia

Tom — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:02:14 +0000

Amblyopia (aka lazy eye) came up as a topic of conversation yesterday, and I was able to input that the eye-patch treatment of amblyopia is one of the most rewarding in medicine. This is because without medication or surgery or hospitalization a child can be given eyesight in an eye which otherwise might have no sight.

Where did I learn this? From this Peanuts comic:

Thank you Charles Schulz, Linus van Pelt, and Sally Brown.

Kansas City

Tom — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:02:29 +0000

My quick trip to Kansas City went well, select pictures are in an album.

Chocolate Layer Cake

Tom — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:52:54 +0000

Here is today’s Chocolate Layer Cake, made via Gale Gand’s recipe.

In more places

Tom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:51:54 +0000

Hey, you know that AT&T commercial where the two partners are trying to sell beer? The one guy that came up with the beer and seems to be in charge of infostructure and planning keeps receiving phone calls from the guy that’s out on the road pitching the beer to bar owners and getting them to agree to stock and order his beer. During all this, the voiceover guy (Stanley Tucci) is telling you how great the blah blah and blah blah is, and then he mentions AT&T’s marketing slogan:

“More bars in more places”

Yeah, I just got that it’s also a play on words for the situation the two guys are in, since AT&T is helping them get their beer into more bars in more places.

Joe Ades died

Tom — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:09:22 +0000

Aww man, Joe Ades died.

That guy was awesome.

Via Valerio.

Central Park census

Tom — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:22:45 +0000

Census Tract 143 in New York County, New York has a population of eighteen people.

That’s Central Park!

Too bad the Met doesn’t have its own census tract.

Via the U.S. Census Bureau.

Firefly and Serenity

Tom — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:46:56 +0000

I got started on Firefly and Serenity and I’m through with both; now on to all the commentaries and comic books.