Spins

Was just flying an Extra 300 doing spins and took this screen cap looking out the back. Thought it looked cool. Don't know what I'd do without flightsim.

South Park Cartoon Wars

How much pasta?

You have all been there, the water is boiling, you confidently grab the bag of pasta and rip it open, then a dilemma! "Gad Zooks ..." you declare out loud, "... how much pasta should I make?". You always hate to make too much, especially when it ends up being a moldy experiment in a ziploc container a week or two later, and not enough could be equally traumatic. Think... has anyone ever taught me a trick about this, nope, have I learned anything useful from the Swedish chef, well not for this particular problem.
Now if this were rigatoni or elbows you could just measure the amount in a measuring cup, but the long spaghetti / fettucine noodles on the other hand are what pose a challenge.
I did see a solution at Sara's family cottage which was a plastic shim with various holes in it just for this purpose, including how many people each would feed. To everyone's bewilderment I found this to be ingenious. I have not been able to find this item in any store, and I have never given up the search. For now I just continue to make too much.

Mmmmm Dharma

This is going a few episodes back, and I've been meaning to post about this for a while. First was I the only one that found it hilarious that there is dharma brand cereal in the hatch, let alone a complete line of dharma brand foods which seem to have become more and more numerous in the past few episodes. Also the logo on the box is specific to the swan hatch, so does this mean the other hatches / locations have their own specific food as well? Does the arrow hatch Kraft dinner suck compared to the swans?

I've been following the online side of Lost for a while now, and it's insane how many details and little items have been put into the show just for people (or "geeks" as Sara puts it) like me to read about online. This certainly doesn't hurt the ratings either as the latest major tidbit is one to really toil over, the neon map which the producers expected people to go ape over online. This is probably my fav. TV show to date.

Kinda Freaky

Got an e-mail today:

On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06.

This will never happen again.