Why?
From the McGill events calendar, happening today:
Analysis of the polymorphic transitions in cocoa butter.
Sounds to me like an excuse for some students to smear goo on each other.
Archive for January, 2006
Easy Smoothies
My wonderful wife gave me a hand blender as one of my xmas gifts which prompted me to explore the world of smoothies. No longer do I need to drag the big blender out of its hiding place and deal with its eccentricities. The hand blender is a perfect tool.
My first smoothies have involved chunking up a banana and throwing it into a large yoghurt pot along with some frozen berries, then adding some orange juice and/or milk and/or yoghurt then finishing it off with an extra bit of sweetness with some honey or maple syrup. Whizz it all up with the whizzy hand blender and I have the perfect breakfast drink; tasty, filling and healthy.
I plan to experiment with other smoothie ingredients such as different fruits, coconut milk, chocolate, egg nog, and alcohol.
2005
Happy new year everyone, time to take a look back at 2005.
Top 10 events of 2005
- Jen getting pregnant
- Jen having a baby
- Surprise parties (giving and receiving)
- Finishing the cupboard
- Making new friends
- Learning to play euchre
- Achieving my ATM
- Teaching a Unix course
- My first Ebay purchase(s)
- Managing to keep this blog going for the whole year
Top 10 Music of 2005
- The Killers
- Modest Mouse
- Arcade Fire
- Rise Against
- Green Day
- Jack Johnson
- The Shins
- The Gorillaz
- Motion City Soundtrack
- Ben Kweller
Top 10 Movies and TV that I saw in 2005
- Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
- Bad Santa
- Garden State
- Doctor Who
- Motorcycle Diaries
- Serenity
- Lemony Snicket’s Unfortunate Series of Events
- Lost
- Little Britain
- Battlestar Galactica
Discoveries of 2005
- Hospital food is even worse than I imagined
- Online poker is addictive
- Changing nappies isn’t as scary as it sounds
- PVRs rock
- I know more about Canada than many Canadians
- Firefox (or did I discover that in 2004? hmm)
- The Battle of Wesnoth
- I can be funny sometimes
Worst things of 2005
- C-sections
- Dubya
- Rising transit prices
- Overly credulous people
- Everyone having parties when we can’t make them
- Missing every single YULblog meet
- MySpace
- Accidentally using salt instead of sugar in a cake mix
- Bureaucracy getting in the way of progress and creativity
- Loved ones getting sick