Blue Skies - Lenka

I like this;  it's still pop, but a little better beat and catchy like most of her other tunes.

If You Printed the Internet

It would take 57,000 years non-stop to read it!

Read more fascinating facts: Print What Matters

Happy Labor Day!

I just saw a post in a frequently visited forum where one of the resident Leftists said Labor Day was in honor of and a celebration of Socialism. 

Good grief.

No, it's a celebration of the American worker...who has his/her job because of capitalism. Even govt. workers have their jobs because of the taxes paid from the work of taxpayers.

You Oughta See My Id

Your Ego is Medium

You have what psychologists would call a healthy ego. You have high self esteem, but you don't think too highly of yourself. You believe in yourself, but you are also able to believe in others. You know how to put your ego in check and let someone else take the reins.

How Big Is Your Ego?

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!