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You Want to Eat This Sandwich

All the deliciousness. All of it.

Devere’s Irish Pub has these delicious BLTs that I tell everyone about.  They use their own housemade Irish bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo, just like any other BLT. But, then you can have a fried egg put on your BLT too. I looked at that option many a time before actually trying it. I wish I hadn’t wasted all those opportunities! I am the last person who’d have thought that a fried egg on any sandwich, let alone a minimalist masterpiece like the BLT, was a good idea. I was wrong and so are you. The egg adds so much flavor and depth!

Stop whatever it is you are doing right now, go home, make yourself a BLT, fry an egg, combine them, and eat it. I’ll be waiting here when you want to thank me for giving you the idea.

For something even more decadent try the grilled cheese and egg sandwiches in this month’s (April ’11) Bon Appetit. That is the sandwich seen in the picture above: pancetta, provolone, arugula, green onions, and a fried egg on sourdough bread. Truly, to die for.

It’s Dangerous to Go Alone! Give This to Help Japan!

The above animation can be yours as a program or screensaver for either Macs or Windows if you give absolutely anything to the Americares Foundation which is raising money right now to help those caught in the on-going disaster in Japan.

This is a really nice piece of pixel art and you can proudly show it off on your desktop and do something nice for those in need!

via Ted Martens’ Blog

 

So This is a Smartphone?

old, broken shiny

Here in California it is finally spring; and, since it is I dusted off the bicycle and took a quick 36 mile ride to next town over. It was a lovely ride and I’m really excited about cycling this year through summer and into fall. As you can tell by the picture at the top though, this isn’t a post about cycling.

The ride was good but uneventful. All the way until the end when while stopped at a stop sign in town. I leaned the wrong way with my foot clipped in and fell, SMACK, right onto the curb and right onto my phone. That is what you see up top there. That old LG Shine (I think that’s what it was) wasn’t a very fancy phone. It couldn’t do the Twitters, or the Facebooks, or the Foursquares. It could accept phone calls and send texts and that is really all I needed it to do. With the cracks on the screen it can’t even do those simple tasks.

So, I ended up getting a new phone:

new, complicated shiny

That is a HTC Inspire 4G, and Android phone. It is apparently capable of many, many things. I’m not really quite sure how it all works, it didn’t come with a manual. I can find tutorials for it on-line though! So that is nice. The Inspire does do the Twitter, and the Facebook, and the Foursquare, and a lot of other stuff too, I think.

Like, I said it I’m not quite sure how it all works. I’ll figure it out, I hope.

Don’t forget that I’m giving a book away this week! You can find all the details here.

The DiMortuiSunt Book Giveaway!

Everyone Likes Free Stuff!

I get a lot of books. Way too many books. I don’t really have room for all the books I get. I feel bad taking them to used bookstores (and that business model isn’t doing that great anyway.) The local library doesn’t want to take books from me anymore and it feels downright criminal to toss them into the recycle bin.

What am I going to do with all these books?

Then I remember I had this blog. This blog that people occasionally read, if they are good people they then mention it to their friends who also read it. I could give the books away to these people!

So this is how it’s going to work: every Friday in April I will post a picture of a book as well as a short book review of it. Anyone who comments on the post will be put in a random drawing for the book to be held the following Friday when the next book becomes available.

Seeing as I only have maybe 30-60 people who view this blog there is a reasonable chance that you just might win a book. If this is successful (wholly to be determined by me) than I’ll do it every month or so.

PS – don’t be a dick and require a bunch of legalese gobbley-gook or this will go away and you’ll never get your book!

PPS – I’ll pay shipping.

 

 

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