Foodpairing rehearing

Apparently, these flavor trees under the Foodpairing Trees are supposed to help give you ideas of new combinations to try with the main ingredient. So, that explains my love of say, coffee and chocolate(duh), chocolate and raspberries, coffee with my migas (eggs, tortillas and salsa). Some of their suggestions are out there. But who am I to argue with science? Nope, not me. Tomorrow morning its oysters and coffee for breakfast.

Foodpairing - attempting to explain what we taste

FOODPAIRING
This is a fantastically interesting site that attempts to break down the flavors we taste in common foods to explain why certain combinations work--"foodpairing", or how we can substitute one food for a combination of others--"interchangeable." I love this kind of food science.

One of my favorite books is called Cookwise by Shirley Corriher, which dissects the science behind how cooking affects food, and then goes on to describe how to cook and combine different foods to get the desired texture, flavor and smells. This site is a tangent of the work in that book (not that they are related) just in my own head.

Because I love artichokes with an intensity and consistency that boggles my mind, here you have THE AMAZING ARTICHOKE:

FreeRice

Test your vocabulary skills and donate rice to end world hunger. FreeRice

Because I'm vain

I'm in the middle of chewing in this picture (I said before that I didn't have a good picture of myself!) I do admit that my mother looks exactly like Zsa Zsa, so I probably do have some resemblance.



So, I tried another photo from the same exact day.
What do you say when both Julia Roberts, Chevy Chase, Barak Obama, Uday Hussein(!) with a nasty 5 o'clock shadow and VIN DIESEL supposedly look like you!@!$@#$%? I should be flattered with the Julia, Nancy and Eva comparisons, but I'm fixated on the men. I'm insulted! I don't look anything like Vin Diesel. Notice also that there is not one repeat between my first picture and second. And let's get real. I look nothing like Julia, Nancy or Eva. If I did I wouldn't be here blogging to no one.


Here are my husbands' look alikes. NO Vin! Notice there are no women in his look alikes! Argh!

And, I tried another one of cute hubby:

Again, none of them are the same. Of course, my pictures suck, so I don't blame them. I think they have done an incredible job and it's a lot of fun!

Celebrity Look Alike Software or How to Waste Time at Work

Condoleeza Rice? That Ciara chick looks nothing like Nat. She's just got her head tilted the same way. The only one I see remotely similar is Norah Jones. I think Nat is just too beautiful for comparison!


Now this is funny. My son has mostly women look alikes, but their percentage matching is much closer than my daughter. I don't think any of these folks look like him (he's much more beautiful!). Where do they get Serena Williams! And whoever Conner Oberst is, he looks nothing like my kid. Oh well. I would try myself, but I have so few pictures of me, I can't find one that is straight on.

Go check it out, it's a blast and I think the finished product is slick.

Mooch Me

Looking for a book? Come mooch one from me at BookMooch.com



Give away your books at BookMooch.com

National Registry

I met the company that created this website at a seminar this weekend and I thought it is a great idea. It's a website where you can check to see if a deceased friend or family member has left behind unclaimed retirement benefits. Often these benefits are not listed in the State Unclaimed property website. I'm going to send the link to a friend that is active with Estate attorneys. These are the attorneys that frequently handle wills, estates (probate), guardianships and trusts for people. You must have the person's social security number to search the National Registry.

WHERE DO THEY LEARN TO POSE?!!!

Etsy :: Colors

More fun than a left-brain person should be allowed to have!
Etsy :: Colors

GPS Alarm Shoes for Sex Workers on Gadget Lab

I want.

The Meaning of Life

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor with only 3-6 months to live, gives his Last Lecture on campus as part of a speaker series. This lecture speaks to the heart of what life is, and what to do with it. Read up People!

Layer Tennis?

I've never heard of it. Not that I should have--I'm not in that industry, but this is the neatest internet game/competition. These guys are so creative. I hope they have a blast and generate a ton of business for themselves. Ok, check it out: Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis Presented by Adobe CS3

These are so much fun!

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

My new favorite daily comic.

Germs taken into space can come back meaner than before

HITCHHIKER: Wherever humans go, germs are along for the ride.

POWERFUL: Scientists sent salmonella on a space shuttle and found that it killed mice in space more quickly than initially identical germs on earth.

CHANGES: Researchers found 167 genes had changed in the salmonella that went to space, possibly due to a force called fluid shear.

September 24, 2007 - 4:24 p.m. Copyright 2007, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

Who knew the AP had a sense of writing style.