August 2006

13 things to do with tomatoes

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tomatoes

  1. Eat ’em with a lit­tle salt and pepper.
  2. Make a sandwich.
  3. Make sal­sa.
  4. Make soup.
  5. Make sal­ad.
  6. Make pas­ta sauce.
  7. Take pho­tos of ’em.
  8. Fail to come up with some­thing clever for #8.
  9. Throw ’em at peo­ple you don’t like.
  10. Per­form div­ina­tion based on the pat­terns of their seeds.
  11. Dye cot­ton.
  12. Make ketchup.
  13. Repeat list, because you plant­ed a dozen plants and they’re all doing incred­i­bly, stu­pid­ly well.

Flickrblogging — “The Disappointment” (IMG_3280)

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Dis­cov­ered in worstelen.org’s Flickr photostream. 

Lat­er, in the bar

“Dude, why did you inter­view him?”

“C’mon, John­ny, don’t you know who that was? Did­n’t you rec­og­nize him?”

“No.”

“John­ny, that was the Green Gob­lin! What a scoop!”

“Dave…”

“What?”

“Dave, that was­n’t the Green Gob­lin. That was some guy in a green mask.”

“…Seri­ous­ly?”

“Yeah. Seri­ous­ly.”

“Aw crap, man, that’s like eighty bucks worth of tape I used. That’s gonna come out of my salary.” [Drinks a shot of whiskey] “Heh, you’re just yankin’ my chain, sure. That was the Green Gob­lin. I’ll be fine.”

“No, Dave, that was some guy in a mask. Dude, you’re a lit­tle too cred­u­lous, you have to work on that.”

“What­ev­er. I sup­pose you’re gonna tell me that ain’t Wolver­ine that was tend­ing bar, too, right?”

“Dave, that’s just a guy who needs to trim his fingernails.”

Tech­no­rati: Flickrblogging

Stormy

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We had a big ol’ storm roll through last night. Severe thun­der­storm warn­ing from Envi­ron­ment Cana­da, unend­ing flick­er­ings to the west and north, the whole she­bang. I wish I’d tak­en my cam­era with me when I went to pick Kath­leen up from work; the light­ning show peaked while I was wait­ing in the park­ing lot, read­ing Wiz­ard and Glass (which is anoth­er sto­ry), and I have to say, it was amaz­ing. 10:30 at night, and there were moments when the world lit up like it was day­time. Once we were head­ed home, there was a moment, as we approached the lights for our left turn, that the row of pines that stand across 18th Street from the flood­plain Cor­ral Cen­tre were back­lit by what looked sus­pi­cious­ly like a strobe light. The light­ning was intense, con­sis­tent, reg­u­lar, and plentiful.

Once we got home, I grabbed the cam­era, hop­ing to be able to cap­ture some cool images, but the light­show had fad­ed in favour of a brief but tor­ren­tial down­pour. Accord­ing to the weath­er chan­nel, we got about 20mm of rain last night, but it only rained for maybe half an hour.

I tried any­way to get some shots of the light­ning, but it seems our lit­tle cam­era was­n’t up to the task. It’s great for snap­shots, but I don’t think it’s meant for low light shoot­ing. Oh well.…