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September 2, 2018

1 Simple Trick

I just got my Taste of Home recipe newsletter and as is always the case, they also put in a few ads. I don't mind them too much and generally ignore them but this one caught my attention:

I wonder what 1 simple trick in Photoshop they used to make that woman's eyes look so green? If they didn't alter the photo, then I wonder if there's 1 simple trick to removing those vivid green contacts, because I think that woman wearing them stared too long into an X-Ray machine. If it's not that, then I wonder if there's 1 simple trick to exorcising that demon that's inside her?

Food Porn

Being an avid collector of online recipes (several thousand in PDF) as well as subscribing to dozens and dozens of recipe websites in my reader, I have seen the term "Food Porn" tossed around quite a bit. It's always puzzled me to an extent; I know the ones using the term mean something as self-indulgent and addictive as porn, but it never made much sense to me. After all, I learned as a young man you simply cannot be hungry and horny at the same time. You can be one or the other, but never, ever both...that's just a fact of life.

(that's also why the fetish of combining food and sex, i.e. fruit or whipped cream semi-disgusts me...it's just not my bag, man. Let me at the sexy woman...or the strawberry cheesecake, but one at a time!)

Then, after seeing this video about Salisbury Steak, it dawned on me why the term "Food Porn" is used on recipe presentations; it's the music!

Half-Staff Widget

What with the recent passing of John McCain and the overblown controversy revolving around the half-staff status of flags on govt. facilities, I did some research about the rules/regulations in regards to just when the flags are lowered and stumbled across this half-staff widget:

Click the widget to get one for your own website or blog.