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Haute Cuisine

DavidW - Publisher — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:10:38 +0000

If a person is what a person eats, look at me I’m a hot dog. The humble blended sausage has been getting short shrift for too long now. It is time to hit it out of the ballpark and reinstate it to the plate.
Often misunderstood, the construction of the dog is plain simple. Pig parts, snouts, tails, bits of gristle, the little muscles on the side of the animal that makes its skin twitch to scares flies are mixed with an exquisite blend of mystery spices and large amounts of salt. Most hot dogs are made to this recipe, but some makers now use the surplus parts of other beasts, like cute little chickens, dumb-ass cows or any other creature fool enough to come too close to the machine. This mixture is all ground into a greasy mash and extruded into a length of cleaned small intestine, or synthetic tubing and twisted, like the arms of a balloon animal to a regular length, typically just shorter than a bun.
Preparation of the frank can be as easy as dropping it live into boiling water, frying it in a pan or searing it to a crispy charcoal pencil over a campfire or on a barbecue grill. Perhaps the tastiest dogs are prepared by the time honored traditional method of nuking them in a microwave. Whether you like them just barely warm and slimy, crisp and cardboard like or somewhere in between, remember that the microwave will bring out the best of that saline meaty flavor, mmm, tasty and delicious.
A good bulking agent, like a bun, tortilla, flexible cracker or slice of bread, does more than just hold the dog and relish, it also helps to conceal and insulate the blistering, inferno heat of a snausage fresh from the nuker so your tastebuds are fully exposed and scorched thoroughly. In fact, the best way to eat a dog is just as it is pictured above, speared by fork, dipped in grey poupon, served up hot on a clean plate in a dirty kitchen.
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Watson Lakes Hike, Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness

DavidW - Publisher — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:52:13 +0000

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Took the day off for a late fall hike in the Noisy Diobsud wilderness area of Washington state. A beautiful day, began crisp and cold before dawn, driving up from Whidbey through Anacortes, Sedro-Wooley and on up over the Baker Lake dam to where the trailhead was lightly frosted and remnants of the last days snow still lingered. Setting off through old growth forests, open meadows bursting with wild blueberries, don’t step in the bear poop, and on to Anderson lake for a look see before making our way over to Watson Lakes and spectacular views of the Picketts Range. This hike is short, moderately hilly and now on my top ten day hikes.

Internet Addiction Clinic Opens in Seattle

DavidW - Publisher — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:21:34 +0000

The United States has it’s first official internet addiction clinic and it’s located in a suburb of Seattle, Redmond Washington, near the headquarters of Microsoft? Well a clinic like this is long overdue, as anyone who’s ever spent time on the internet can tell you, there’s a lot of sick people out there.

The facility, called ReStart specializes in treating bad cases of, (hold on gotta new tweet), internet obsession. (tweet was about my bff’s facebook pic, brb) So the program is a residence type treatment center where the afflicted, not me lol, go to break the vapid cycle of flat-screen fixation. (1sec, fresh IM from, lordrandall63) Patients go cold turkey, no cell phones, lattes, eeepc’s or WoW allowed. Upon succesful completion of the program each patient recieves a small flat rock that says “See Other Side” on both sides.

Tumors Get Stung By Nanobees

DavidW - Publisher — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:13:16 +0000

Treating cancers with bee venom. From Washington University in St. Louis come this story on how cancer may have a new nemesis in the form of bee venom.

Researchers there have reported some very positive results in the treatment of two types of cancer with the use of nanospheres delivering the effective ingredient in bee venom, melittin, directly to the cancerous regions. Mellitin, the toxin, had long been a sustance of interest to researchers due to it’s destructive properities to cellular structures. Targeted delivery via the nanospheres, which are readily passed through the bloodstream, along with an additive that makes the spheres particularly attracted to affected tissue has resulted in either the slowing of the growth of tumors or a signifigant decrease in their size.

And I thought the only good bee was a dead bee.

W.Va. dad makes son cannon for birthday.

DavidW - Publisher — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:56:51 +0000

Alright kiddos, time to start thinking about your wish list for Santa Claus this year. How about a howitser?

The Charleston Daily Mail is reporting that a local father has made a real working cannon for his eleven year old son as a birthday gift. The cannon, which weighs 700lbs and looks like a piece of civil war field artillary, is the real deal. Fill it up with powder, light the fuse and you don’t get a little firecracker pop, you get a window shattering kabooom that could rouse civil war veterans buried in cemeteries three counties away.

Mike Daugherty, who is a machinist by trade, said his son is very mature and would be able to handle the responsibility of owning a piece of artillery.

“He’s a good kid. One thing about my son he has a great respect for guns and weapons, so he will not be firing this anytime soon without an adult present.”

Gosh dad, can I have a rail gun next birthday?