April 2008 Archives

It's grilling season and I bet we could all use some awesome burger recipes. Now if we could only get some nice weather up here in God's Frozen Tundra. Oh by the way, it snowed pretty much all day yesterday.

Make-Great-Burgers.pdf

One of my favorite Dixie Chicks songs.

Here are some pictures from the small celebration that Yuko and I had for Miyabi's 1st birthday. We decided not to have a larger party and invite people has she is really too young to have memories of the event and turnout can be ify. :-)

Happy Birthday Miyabi. It had been an awesome year with you in our family! Pictures to come...

I found this manual covering the basics of food storage and some might find handy.

Five-Easy-Steps-to-Food-Storage.pdf

I found this pdf with recipes and techniques and examples of how to make bread in emergency situations or while out camping.

Emergency and Outdoor Bread Manual.pdf

It looks pretty interesting, maybe I will give some of them a shot.

I was cruising StumbleUpon today and I found these two pages on My Neighbor Totoro (Page 1, Page 2). I feel like I have found a new destination that I am going to have to take the family on. This area in japan looks pretty cool. I wonder where it could be.....

I found this site that has a lot of nice Japanese recipes on it. I really want to give some of them a try.....In other news it is nice out today and Yuko managed to take the kids out to the park.

It has been absolutely nasty here in the frozen tundra of Minnesota. It managed to snow for a large portion of the day without any accumulation. That is about the only goods thing that did happen with the weather. I did spend some time out in the garage, very little, grabbing some scooter parts that needed to be painted. The plastic on the Stella leaves a lot to be desired and seems to pretty much disintegrate when DOT 4 brake fluid is split on it. Not that I would know about that. :-(

Has anyone turked before? A mechanical turk is defined as:

"The name Mechanical Turk comes from "The Turk", a chess-playing automaton of the 18th century, which was made by Wolfgang von Kempelen. It toured Europe beating the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this 'machine' was not an automaton at all but was in fact a chess master hidden in a special compartment controlling its operations."

What turking consists of today is a service that Amazon.com where turkers can do simple tasks that computers can not. I have work a couple of hours and have made about 10 bucks....