Link of the Day [6.22.11]
A first hand account of what’s up with the new Final Cut Pro X.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/fcp_x_first_look_martin.html
Tortilla
This week I started eating salad for lunch trying to lose some weight. I bought too much vegetables so that by the weekend I had left over onions and peppers. I needed to use them before they go old. Somehow I thought that I should make a Spanish tortilla, an omlet. I can cook scrambled eggs so how hard can it be?
First, I prepped the onions and peppers. Just fry them up like normal in a bit of oil. They recommend olive oil, but all I have is canola. Then comes the potatoes. I used white potatoes because of their size. Slice them up. If I was a better knife handler, they would all be the same thickness, but they weren’t. Cook these up as well. When done remove the excess oil from the pan. Lower the heat on it and get ready to put everything pack into the pan. I was worried that they would stick to the pan so I put a little bit of butter before arranging the potatoes on the bottom. Then I put the fried peppers, onions and tomatoes on top. Took four eggs and scrambled them then poured over the vegetables. I finished it off with some feta cheese. Let sit for about 1 minute before I slid the pan into a pre-heated the oven at 325F. Cooked for about 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven. Let sit for a few minutes. With a spatula, free up the edges, put a plate over the pan and flip. Enjoy!
Things to note, because I may forget.
Use less oil. I used too much for the pepper, onion, tomatoe mixture so that as the tortilla came out of the oven it was too oily. Use more salt. I’m watching my sodium, but more salt is needed to give the tortilla a kick. At least the feta cheese added to the saltiness. Slice potatoes better. Or even the peppers. I should’ve diced them. That pan handle is hot after it comes out of the oven. Yes I know, but not being in the kitchen very often.
Link of the Day [6.15.11]
Apropos with Monday’s Link of the Day. And also why it’s become harder and harder to read X-Men.
http://io9.com/5808487/proof-that-the-x+men-have-the-crappiest-lives-of-any-fictional-characters
Link of the Day [6.13.11]
In light of the travesty that is X-Men: First Class, here's something to chew about in reference to the DC and Marvel Superverse. When can we get an ending? Or are comics doomed to be about continuation and endless recycling of the story?http://resnikoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/superhell/
Super 8
After all the bombast of the latest summer films, Super 8 was a nice respite. It doesn’t hit you over the head with action scenes after action scenes, but it builds slow like films of yesteryear, the 70s to be exact.
It harkens back to lots of movies that occurred before the advent of Michael Bay. There is not much spinning or hyper-cutting or stupid action that happens for actions sake. There is a deliberate pace, a build up to the climax.
It’s an abandoned alien story with a modern twist. CG. It had some close encounters aspects, mixed with ET, some Goonies, some ID4. It was 1979. It was fun to bike to school, to your friends house, to town. Biking is good. It gets you around. Ask Elliot.
The alien was supposedly friendly. How friendly can you get stuck on this rock since Roswell.? He was also weird. I couldn’t decide what he was or if it was cool. Not really, but ET phone home right?
I saw this in a digital theatre and it was dark. Not the movie, but the projection. I should’ve watched the analog print. Better that way. Has this digital stuff been terrible especially with that 3D technology?
3 of 5 stars
Homestand
Back home from the tonight’s game. Made some updates to the picture posts because they were upside down.
It was a close one and the O’s should’ve one that one, but shoddy defense cost them the game. Felix has got to catch that ball. It hits your glove you should’ve had it. I think Nolan would’ve gotten that one. And our first baseman who’s up for only a few games doesn’t make the catches to keep them in it.
Mark Reynolds clobbered the ball tonight. His second homer was a moon shot that looked to be falling in but just kept going and going and going 415 yards from home, a monster shot. I’ll post the video of his first homer soon.
The ball girl wore a pony tail!
Sat with the people I sat with a few games ago. They were old white folks but they seemed to enjoy the game. Good times.
The Yard was rocking tonight in that bottom of the 8th. I hadn’t heard it that loud in a long time. Not perhaps since opening day a few years ago and even then. It was something to behold and hear.
I’m 3-2 on the times I’ve been to the Yard, the Orioles have been battling, and it’s summer. Should I go tomorrow?
Bottom 8th Rally
Bottom 8th Rally
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
The heck! Im trying to send this for the last half hour.
Bottom 4
Bottom 4
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
X-Men: First Class
These aren’t the X-Men I grew up with. This aren’t Professor Xavier’s first students. Where’s Jean Grey? Angel? Scott Summers? Iceman? Who’s this Darwin fella? Is he even in the comics? The Hellfire club was the original bad guys? Where’s The Fellowship of Evil Mutants? And how fucking funny is the title: The Fellowship of Evil Mutants? I think I got that wrong.
So, I caught X-Men: First Class and wish I hadn’t. They retconned everything. Why? Are we so bored of the original X-Men that we could not care to see any of them again? And then they get these guys to fill in? Banshee? Havok? Angel? I know I stopped reading X-Men, but where are all these mutants coming from?
The movie revolves around the Magneto versus Xavier view of being mutant: rule over or co-exist with humanity. Magneto comes through anger to create his world view. Xavier comes from privilege. Magneto was Bondian. Xavier was prissy. When did the X-Men become lame? (Right around the first xmen movie)
Well, at least Rose Byrne was in it. Once again, remember when she was the frumpy one?
2 of 5 stars.