8417 – etcetera

Last Night’s Din-din is even better as breakfast (due to it self-marinating) Lazy bachelor recipe, but here it is.

Tasty bean salad

3 cans black beans
2 cans of corn
1 can garbanzo beans
red and green onion, chopped
fresh cilantro to taste
sliced mushrooms
1/2 tsp. cumin
pinch of cinnamon
pepper to season
juice from a lemon
1/2 to 1 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 to 1/2 cup olive oil
salt
pepper
cayenne

Drain everything that comes in a can and put it in a big bowl. Chop all of the veggies and add them in. Mix the olive oil, vinegar and lemon juice in a separate bowl, then stir it in. Add the seasonings and adjust to taste.


How they reworked Brando into the new Superman movie. Pretty nifty!


Free Movies, Cartoons & Documentaries


Keen perspective art in the subway


Japanese War Tubas only a few decades ago were the very pinnacle of modern technology and your best bet for locating an enemy in the distance or in the dark (that’s Hirohito on the right).

japanese war tubas

Brings Overture to “Die schöne Galathee” by Franz von Suppé (mp3) to mind, for some reason.(I really like the Pygmalion scene)

Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines. It was rendered obsolete before and during WW2 by the introduction of radar, which was far more effective.


via graypumpkin

Pre-eminent scientist, inventor, and respected mixologist Doctor Bunsen Honeydew reveals and demonstrates (with the help of his trusted assistant, Beaker) the amazing combinant power hidden behind movie theater concessions stands across the globe.

Regardless of the very real threat that terrorists might find a way to use this frighteningly accessible technology against us on our own soil, it gives us some comfort to know that when we find ourselves trapped and alone, fighting for our lives against the Gorn on a desolate alien planet made of nothing but Diet Coke and Mentos, by god, we’ll know what to do.


I’m back to playing turn-based pente online. Anyone who’d like to challenge me, the name’s scottobear there.


Keeno druid pocketwatch.


1 year ago – GP & Batman, magic waffle pixies, yubnub, google maps, Lore, grasshoppers, awesomedome, journal scraped

2 years ago – Summertime, silliness, doodleboard, rage icon (since added), extreme heat warning, wifi bike, earbags, pudding pop poll

3 years ago – newt pic, dialects, sacred texts, monkfish, fold up robots, William Marshall RIP

4 years ago – Tope/taupe, cookie puss rap, Francesco ups the rent due to tile, bigbrother time clock installed at FMM, bird pee, random 5, lj virus

5 years ago – Bateman’s smoking cat, communion with dip, W’s approval rating (pre 9/11) & quiz, languor, evil news, mushy thoughts

6 years ago – time poemGeotarget