The Middlesex Diner

The Middlesex Diner is a nice little place. Banik and I were coming home from Hershey Park a couple weeks ago and started looking for a 24-hour diner along I-81. A restaurants-at-this-exit sign for exit 52 listed this 24-hour diner, and we happily stopped. The sign proclaiming "Great homemade food and plenty of it" is not lying, and we left happily full (and with some leftovers, iirc) for $20+tip. It almost made up for the crappy food in Hershey Park.

Free CF Bulb for the first 1 million requests

Kinda neat that someone would do this. CF bulbs should pretty much be required for more application (over incandescent).

http://www.millionlightsproject.org/

Linky

Download:
Superweapons of the Ancient world.
New Yankee Workshop


Been playing a lot of wargames lately, and came across this while at 'work.'

http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=010812613448546227331%3Awubxalibev0

Quite cool, actually.

Also,

http://www.fool.com/investing/mutual-funds/2008/07/02/what-to-do-with-5000.aspx

so I can investigate the mutual funds.

Some CT gaming groups?

http://www.theateamgamingclub.com/
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CTUWC/

BT

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-bittorrent-invites-90/t-what-trackers-worth-with-reviews-and-ratings-298328/?


Search all of Craigslist at once...
http://crazedlist.org/index.cgi#

A link worth a thousand words

http://ded.mo.gov/researchandplanning/indicators/cost_of_living/index.stm

Well, I didn't want to lose this, so it goes here! Bwahahahaha!

This is just a page with some cost-of-living index modifiers and a map. It makes one think.

A Terrible Secret

So.

I have a secret. Before I enlighten the bored world, let me go into a bit of history.

In General, I don't really like reality shows. The drama just annoys me. All the infighting, the petty, stupid politics, and the bad editing just kill me. I hate them all.

That being said, I've actually started watching Hell's Kitchen. I enjoy it. I don't enjoy everything that I mentioned above about it, but I Do enjoy the look into a line kitchen. It also gives me ideas of dishes that I need to learn how to cook. However, in my defense, I do watch it on my computer, so I can skip the annoying parts. So, here are some of the ideas.

Paella
Risotto
Flambe
Sugar Work (caramel, candies, etc)
Mousse

Souffle
Sauces (not just the normal stuff)
How to plan a multicourse menu to compliment itself


Anyway, that's it for now.

there's never enough R2-D2

This morning Banik sent me a link for commercial by Nikko. If I had absurd amounts of money to burn I could now have an R2-D2 projector and/or webcam of my very very own. Actually one set for me to play with and one set to keep in the original packaging. Banik would have to get his own.



Prices for this awesomeness?

the R2-D2 Projector + Millenium Falcon remote is $2900
the R2-D2 Webcam + Lightsaber remote and IP phone is $400

have yourself a purple cow

For an awesome milkshake combine:
- raspberry sherbert
- vanilla ice cream
- milk

Nobody measures anything for a milkshake, but I can say it was probably about [1 sherbert : 1.5 ice cream] and enough milk to make it work. Introduce to a blender and pour into mugs which have been chilling in the freezer. If you don't need fat drinking straws for the milkshake (ie. not the standard skinny ones) you used too much milk.

This would probably be awesome with any berry sherbert, but then I like berries. And I'd like to try a ratio that is higher in sherbert. And a version that uses vanilla frozen yogurt. And possibly also adding fresh or frozen berries. The possibilities are endless.


Useless factoid: A "white cow" is a vanilla milkshake, and a "brown cow" is chocolate.

Bonus useless factoid: Milkshakes were originally marketed as a health food. (Now that's a health food I could love.)