Growing up, Stripes and Banana was the only way to eat Ice cream. Banana is obvious, Stripes is more than just chocolate syrup.
It’s really quite simple. You fill a coffee cup half full with Nestle’s quick. Then you add water and mix until you get the desired consistency. After, you just microwave it for about 30 seconds, Pour and eat up!
It’s somewhere between chocolate syrup and hot fudge if done properly but it’s better than both.
When we got to camp last night conditions were better than we could have hoped. Easily two feet of snow on the level and trails freshly groomed. Unfortunately it was midnight and -10 outside so we promptly hit the hay to prepare for the ride ahead.
This morning one of the other diamond sportsman club members (Chuck Ferrel) stopped by on their way to the Backwoods Inn (previously known as Hams). After some chat about where they were headed we decided to join them.
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We were going right by Little Blue Mountain so we went on up the trail. I say this every time but it was the clearest I’ve ever seen it on top. Usually, if it’s clear, White Face Mountain is just visible through some haze. Today, there was no haze and White Face looked clear as could be.
There wasn’t as many people there as usual but on the way down we met a guy who was having problems getting his sled started. It was an Arctic Cat T660 four stroke with a dead battery and no pull start. No pull start!? Yep, seems since it’s a four stroke there’s too much compression to pull it over so they don’t even bother including one. I’m pretty sure there won’t be any of these sorts of sleds in my future. I wouldn’t want to be stuck out in the woods with a dead battery or a blown starter like that guy. To make it worse he wasn’t even smart enough to bring jumper cables!
NOTE: this post is pre-dated, as it was written but not posted in the mountains since there is no data connection.
We don’t eat at the mall very often but whenever we do I eat at the Famous Wok. It’s nothing fancy, just your typical mall cafeteria style food joint. However, they have the best sesame chicken around and I don’t think they have a place anywhere else in Rochester. Tonight I learned their sweet BBQ pork is just as good.
I use Twitter when I feel it’s appropriate my friends know what I’m doing. When I’m playing a video game on my XBox 360 chances are it’s a multiplayer game and I might enjoy some company.
A few months ago Internet Duct Tape posted an article with several methods on how to obtain your XBox 360 activity. I subscribed to their Yahoo Pipe for my gamertag. I never really came up with any good way to use this but I finally have. My XBox 360 activity (game activity only) now automatically updates my Twitter account.
To do this All I’m using is the Yahoo Pipe mentioned previously and TwitterFeed. TwitterFeed allows you to update your Twitter status using any RSS feed and the pipe feed works just fine.
We made our lunches for the week again today. Yes, we label each day, which gives us an extra push not to forget them.
Rachel and I have been making our lunches on Sunday for about a month and a half now. We make them for the whole week at once. This was Ramit’s first tip in the save $1,000 in a month challenge. We had been trying to bring our lunches for a while but it just wasn’t working out. We always either forgot, didn’t have enough time for it or just didn’t feel like it. Doing it all at once for the week has worked out great. It actually saves us time because making 5 lunches at once only takes a few seconds more than making only one.
My favorite part of lunch this week? The Nuts and Bolts.
Seriously, I do.
You’re probably thinking:
That’s really wierd
it’s not what you think.
“Nuts and Bolts” is the name given to a snack that I ate while growing up. It’s really just Trail Mix, but a special recipe. It’s a secret family recipe which my aunt spent years perfecting (or so the story goes). The base is pretzels and Chex mix, after that you can add just about anything you want, but the sauce used will remain a secret. My mother learned the recipe long ago and my wife now knows it too.
This year I got a ton of it for christmas, and the promise of 2 other batches whenever I ask for it… saweet!
2008 for me was all about reduction, trimming the fat. It was my best year yet. I got rid of a lot of excess crap and simplified my life and fattened my wallet as a result. My biggest mistake, however, was I did not hold myself accountable for any goals because… I had none.
2009 will be different. I’m starting this year by listing my goals and aspirations so that come December 31st I can measure my success (or lack thereof).
My Goal:
Some of these are an extension of what I began last year. Others are brand new. I’m sure others will present themselves during the year.
I’ve been using Windows Live Photo Gallery for a while. My biggest reason for using it is the Flickr Integration. However; there are a ton of neat features I’ve discovered along the way. One of these features is the ability to stitch photos together automatically. I’ve used a lot of stitching programs and this is by far the easiest and the best.
The only steps needed are to 1) select the photos you wish to stitch and 2) right click and select “Create Panoramic photo…”
Windows Live Gallery then goes through a few steps of analyzing the photos, aligning them and finally stitching them together.
Since I’ve discovered the feature I’ve created quite a few stitches. You can find most if not all of them using my panorama tag.
REMEMBER: To create a really good stitch you need to make sure the exposure settings are the same for every photo in the stitch.
A while ago I heard about plans to revitalize Broad street in downtown Rochester by converting it back into the Canal. This is what the aqueduct bridge was originally. When I first heard of the plan, I thought it was neat but didn’t think it would ever work. The biggest hurdle I can see to overcome is the traffic situation. Broad street is a main roadway and carries a lot of traffic.
I just found out that the plans didn’t die. In fact it seems like there are many proposals and that something may actually happen, although what exactly happens to broad st is still up in the air. It will be very interesting to see what happens. There’s a whole website dedicated to The Broad Street Corridor Renovations. The proposals are really quite interesting so take a look.
Whenever I first install any theme, I make my own modifications. Sometimes it’s removing extraneous code that I won’t be using, or changing the size of certain sections, or adding in some calls that I do need. Whenever I do this I always modify the footer to say ‘Modified by Randy Aldrich.’
Recently After modifying the theme to my liking I went to add my own footer only to find the Author had used gz compression and base64 encoding on the footer. All I found was the following code:
eval(gzinflate(base64_decode(“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”)));
This was obviously an attempt to protect the author’s copyright on the theme. However; as I heavily modified the original results, I felt the need to protect my own and so I found a solution to decode the footer.
If you run into this same problem, just place the eval code you found into a file called coded.txt. Then all you need to do is run this decrypt.php PHP script from the same directory and decoded.txt will be created in the same directory and will contain the decoded code.
NOTE: This solution is not mine, it was found on the web at Taree Internet
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