04/18/2005
07:48 : White Sauce Update 2: The Battle Rages On
I decided to give sour cream a try in the Mexican white sauce mystery, per Aron's suggestion. I located the recipe and just substituted sour cream for the mayonaise, even though the recipe explicitly says no substitutions. And while the dip does not taste like mayo anymore, it certainly doesn't taste like El Loro's either. So the sauce continues to exist in a shroud of secrecy, just like the Vatican conclave. Although I highly doubt I'll be able to dissect this recipe before we have a new pope.
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04/15/2005
08:44 : Fell in Love All Over Again
I just discovered how to create smart playlists on my iPod. That means my pearly-white best friend will create a playlist of music based on a set of criteria. I can set it up to play my favorite music or songs I haven't heard in a while. This is the killer feature I've been hunting for in a music player. Turns out, my iPod always had it. I just never read the manual to figure it out. ;-) There is a reason Apple sold 5 million of these buggers in the last year.
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04/12/2005
13:15 : White Sauce Update: Tips from the Inside
Aron reports from the El Loro that their recipe uses sour cream and milk instead of mayo and milk. That could explain the large difference between mine and El Loro's.
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07:45 : You Should Listen to Snow Patrol
You should listen to Snow Patrol. You'll be a better person for it.
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04/05/2005
09:37 : Guilty Pop Culture Indulgence
I admit, I dig the Killers. I dare you to listen to Mr. Brightside and tell me you don't like it.
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04/04/2005
16:43 : What the Hell is in the White Sauce?
At our favorite Mexican joint, El Loro, they have this fabulous white dipping sauce for chips. It's sort of a tangy-sweet-but-spicy flavor, very different from salsa. I started hunting for the recipe a few months ago. Every visit to any grocery store-like building I would insist that maybe this would be the one store with the wonderful white sauce. When I looked online I just couldn't find the right combination of words to locate a recipe.
Then it hit me yesterday, the right words to return the most probable results: Mexican White Sauce. I was so excited to whip up a batch that I ran to the store, grabbed all the ingredients I was missing, and started to mix it all together.
I took a chip and dipped it. I gave one to Court and she dipped it. We ate it and looked at each other. "It tastes like Miracle Whip," she said, the prime ingredient in Mexican White Sauce. We started dabbing in more ingredients. It still tasted like Miracle Whip. We started pouring in ingredients. It still tasted like Miracle Whip. We stopped torturing ourselves and put our concoction in the fridge. We had done enough damage already.
I opened my fridge this morning to a wafing cloud of red pepper, garlic, chili powder, and the like. It was so over-powering that I actually fell backwards a step. My orange had a hint of garlic in it. Everything in the fridge is coated in scent from the white sauce. And the white sauce itself? It still tastes like Miracle Whip.
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10:14 : Word to the Wise
Just a suggestion, for those of you who know Courtney: Don't let her win at games. She gets angry, real angry. Feel free to whomp her fair and square. Of course, that's pretty much the reason we don't play Monopoly anymore.
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08:04 : Proper Business Attire
There are grumblings at work about the dress code changing again. Last year management decided to make a blanketed statement about appropriate business attire and the boundries for dress, instead of just taking the few offenders aside and telling them to clean up their act. As summer approaches there are rumors that they will be upping the ante again because some people can't get it through their skulls on how to dress for work. This time it's not about people being slobs, it's about women getting away with attire murder. I will let it be known right now: CAPRIS ARE NOT BUSINESS ATTIRE. There is nothing professional about capris.
I'm not on a witch-hunt against the general populist wearing capris( so ladies put your pitch forks down). But in an office that carries a business casual clothing policy, capris are just not appropriate. Instead of addressing this sort of specific issue, managment will dance around the issue, giving yet-another-blanketed-dress-code to all of us, potentially raising the bar for men because some women can't get it right. Don't be surprised to find me sitting here in a tie next year at this time.
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03/31/2005
21:17 : Makin' It Happen
Mike Doughty is out makin' it happen. Pre-order his new album now.
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03/30/2005
15:15 : Liger
A liger, bred for its skills in magic. It's pretty much my favorite animal.
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03/28/2005
12:30 : Cockeyed.com
If you need a few good ideas for costumes or pranks, check out this guy at cockeyed.com. Some of his highlights: Switching out the Atkins menu at TGI Fridays and a relief map of California costume. To my surprise, he also has some really interesting commentaries, like a price comparison between Walmart and Target. If you're curious, Walmart wins the comparison by 5 bucks.
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10:31 : Post-Feast Wrap-Up
The Easter hams have been eaten and my stomach didn't explode.
Given the leftovers we were sent home with I will be having some very eclectic meals this week, cocktail weenies and jell-o for the most part.
In a fight to the death with technology, my brother has decided to start journalling again. Which now leaves my mother as the lone Motylinski without some sort of online stream of conciousness. Drew's comments about the lack of point to most weblogs does make me stop and think, "What do I bring to the table?" Then I remember that I have a picture of a Great Dane humping the hell out of another dog. Ah, yes, that's my lot in life.
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03/18/2005
15:17 : Spam - The Nemesis
I hate spam. In fact, I loathe it with all the contempt in my heart. I've had the same email address for 7 years now and I've used it for various purposes. It's been posted to web sites, entered into forms, and generally not been kept a very good secret. In this day and age the best way to fight spam is to never give them your name in the first place.
Put alas, it seems I have made it on to just about everyone's list. I get anywhere from 200 to 400 pieces of pure spam a day. I use many tools to try and combat it, some at the server level, some in my email client. I can guarantee, though, that at least 40 will make it past my defenses a day.
But check this out, it appears that the amount of spam is decreasing. This graph shows the amount of mail in the server's queue (waiting to be delievered). At it's peak 1000 pieces of mail sat in the queue. Today, the queue number is almost half that. That makes Jason a happy man.
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03/17/2005
06:15 : Clearing the Altered Reality Distortion Field
It's taken me five days, but I'm finally re-adjusted to the redundancy of life after spending 8 days in Mexico. I do miss the sun. It was nice to know that it's just hiding just off the Gulf of Mexico. As the plane took off from Cozumel the sun winked and said, "See you in July."
For those wondering about Cozumel, it was a beautiful island with the friendliest people I've met. I may drop a story in every once in awhile. The memories are just starting to come back to me. The summarized highlights:
The first night we stayed at a Days Inn in the middle of the city. Little did we know that it was a prime location to the rest of the island.
One morning we ate breakfast on the beach. After we finished eating we fed waffles to the fish.
A few times we hit Cozumel's downtown for a little lively entertainment at Senor Frog's and Charlos and Charles. After witnessing far too many young children doing adult things, it secured my future daughter's fate of never going on spring break.
We rode scooters down the south-west coastline. Our helmets had THOR printed across the front of them.
We took an hour tour of a lighthouse. It took only 5 minutes to climb to the top, take some pictures, and walk back down.
The majority of our time was simply spent just laying on beaches.
Cozumel was the perfect winter gateaway spot. I would highly recommend getting down there as fast as you can. The locals are fabulous people, the island is beautiful, and the food is fantastic.
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