sometimes dee’s breaking from the LJ mold
A Long Island woman ordered a hit on her husband, then went to the spa/beauty salon the next day. Makes for one nice looking mug shot!
Garden City Mom Accused In Hubby Hit Plot Went To Spa Hours Before Arrest – 1010WINS.com .
You can now buy my Pi Soaps on eBay:
NYC may have filled its 2 millionth pothole, but there are another 20 million to go. Meanwhile, a Briton has a prettier solution.
Spring Is Here, and the Potholes Are in Bloom | Architecture & Design | Fast Company.
Disney Pulls ABC From Cablevision After Deal Fails – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com.
That’s it. I will now only have the Single Play – Optimum Online, which is how I watch most of my TV, anyway.
It’s official – Cablevision no longer has Channel 7. I’m on the phone cancelling my cable TV.
German scientists can controll a pinball game based on brainpower!
I’m still taking orders for Pi soaps. That’s right – the very Pi Soaps that are featured in Think Geek’s action shot! In addition to Red Apple and Green Apple, I can also custom-made Blackberry, Chocolate, Lime, Pumpkin and Strawberry Pi soaps for your geeky indulgence! Visit my measly Etsy store and give a holler so I can make a custom listing for you!
One day, I was browsing at ThinkGeek.com, when I cam across some geeky ice cube trays. I bought the Pi tray and the Space Invaders tray, because whenever I see silicone molds of any kind, I immediately think “soap!”
So this is that I did with the Space Invaders soap.
1. Melted about 6 oz of white melt-and-pour soap (actually, to save money, I melted clear soap and added white coloring).
2. Added fragrance.
3. Used PJ Soap’s Injector Tool (kind of like a Soapy Syringe) to pour the white soap into the Space Invader mold.
4. Let that harden overnight.
Next: All your base!
1. Melted about 6oz. of clear soap:
BTW, melting is a lot quicker when you chop the soap into little pieces and nuke ‘em!
(please excuse the messy kitchen)
Made sure it was around 125 degrees Fahrenheit, to avoid melting the invaders:
2. Poured it into a silicone brownie mold, then spritzed with rubbing alcohol:
3. Spritzed each Space Invader with rubbing alcohol, and placed it in the brownie mold:
More spritzing for good measure:
4. Melted 16oz. of clear soap, added black coloring and fragrance. I chose Brambleberry’s Kentish Rain, because it seems to have wide appeal. You can choose just about any skin-friendly fragrance oil, because you don’t have to worry about discoloration with black soap! (Just please, PLEASE make sure it’s safe for the skin!)
5. More spritzing, then poured black soap into the brownie mold:
6. No such thing as too much spritzing – it makes sure the layers of soap stick to each other, and also pops air bubbles!
7. Let the whole shebang harden overnight.
8. Used a knife to chop the large square into smaller rectangles.
The finished product!
Now, you might notice that the white Space Invaders bled a little bit. That’s because I didn’t let the black soap cool enough before pouring it in.
But, I still think it’s a cool and geeky idea, so I’ll be making more soon, only I’ll have more patience with the black soap!
BTW, I am addicted to brambleberry.com, but there are other online soap suppliers out there. In fact, you can get clear soap and fragrances at Michael’s, AC Moore or other brick-and-mortar craft stores. However, they tend to sell glorified food coloring, which can “bleed” out even more than my failed example here. They also don’t sell black and white colorants. In addition, Brambleberry soap is so much cheaper pound for pound.
Once again, Woot sums up my feelings.
Woot : Lenovo Core2Duo IdeaCentre All-in-One with 21.5” LCD.
Isn’t The Tonight Show supposed to be on right now?
First you wanted the Lenovo, then the O’Brienvo, and now back to the Lenovo.
Honey, I think our new Lenovo Core2Duo IdeaCentre All-in-One with 21.5” LCD is broken.
THE COMPUTER! THE COMPUTER THING IS BROKEN!
No, the big, bright LCD screen is intact. The facial recognition software still sees me. The better-than-your-average-desktop video card is still running smoothly. Unfortunately, so is the stupid healthcare software yelling at me for sitting too close.
No, I just can’t figure out why Jay Leno is on right now. This is Conan’s time slot, right?
I mean, I got this sucker for two reasons: first, I hate Apple but I wanted an iMac; and second, I wanted to be able to watch interesting and well-crafted sketch comedy using the TV tuner. Not typos in local newspapers. What is this garbage? Oh, wow, look at that: people say dumb things when you blindside them with a celebrity, a camera crew, and a lighting rig. No kidding.
We might have to take this thing back. I mean, the DVD burner’s still good, the wireless keyboard is nice, and the Lenovo Rescue System with OneKey recovery and Antivirus are awesome. TheWindows 7 Upgrade makes up for the installed Vista, and the Intel Core2 Duo Processor works great. This little 4-in-1 remote is pretty nifty, too.
But Jay Leno? No way. No deal.
What? They gave him this time slot? Why would they do that? His ratings have been terrible. SurelyNBC wouldn’t reward failure like that, would they? I mean, that would be incredibly, almost criminally stupid.
Does the guy need more money? He hasn’t quite bought enough stupid cars? Why can’t he just keep shilling Doritos to a nation with an obesity epidemic? Or keep doing those god awful stand-up gigs in Hermosa Beach. I think more people might watch him there than on TV.
This is what’s wrong with America, you know. I’m telling you honey, this guy gets kicked off The Tonight Show, gets a new gig, sucks wind there, and gets rewarded with a better time slot at the expense of a more talented comedian. Failing upwards is the new American dream. It’s not right!
Well, on the bright side I guess we’ll keep the computer. We’ll just have to find some other reason to use it on late nights now.
FLASHLIGHT: BRAND NEW MOON
Sarah awoke to find Edward staring at her creepily from the foot of her bed.
“Uh, what? What the hell are you doing here?” she said, bewildered.
“I was just watching you sleep. Isn’t that dark and brooding and romantic?” Edward brooded darkly.
“No. That’s just creepy.” Sarah turned on her Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod with Mini-Tripod Keychain, which she always kept at her bedside. “Aren’t you that weird emo kid from the woods? Holy crap, are you sparkling?”
“Yeah, weird, that usually only happens in sunlight,” his brooding words darkly brooded across the room and into her ears.
“Well this thing’s got a brightness of 60 lumens, Sparkles.”
“Please don’t call me that. It’s gym class all over again. Anyway, I’m a vampire. And I love you,” he darkly brooded.
“Love me? You haven’t even said two words to me until you snuck into my room. That’s not love; that’s an unhealthy infatuation, and you’ve clearly demonstrated a complete disregard for my personal boundaries,” Sarah wisely noted.
“But that’s because you’re my brand of heroin,” Edward broodingly brooded in such a dark and brooding manner that it was so totally hot.
“So are you here to ask me out or something? Can I just reject you now and get this over with?” she asked.
“Actually,” Edward brooded, “I want to fall in love with you, then run away, thereby forcing you to string along a werewolf guy while you go nuts and detach from everyday life in your obsession with me so that I can return, proving to millions of teenage girls everywhere that if your boyfriend leaves you the only way to get him back is to go completely insane and isolate yourself from everything else.”
“I’m sorry,” Sarah responded after picking her jaw up off the floor, “is this seriously your best effort? I mean, this is the plot of some pulp comic riff on Romeo & Juliet, right? Who in their right mind would fall for this?”
“Well,” Edwards dark words brooded, “I was hoping you would.”
“You know my last name’s Van Helsing, right?”
“Who?”
“Nothing. Come in and meet my dad!”
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