Daily Haiku - September 16, 2012

Recovery time
The day after the wedding
Pass me the aspirin

Daily Haiku - September 14, 2012

You'd better thank her.
Ignoring all her hard work?
Inexcusable.

Daily Haiku - September 13, 2012

I dreamt of earthquakes
The world crumbled around me
What life lies below?

Food + Redditt = Delicious Hilarity

I love to cook. I also love Reddit. Fortuitous then that there are subreddits allowing me to meld these two wondrous joys into a single delicious entity, not unlike chicken and whatever chemical compound Panda Express has passed off as ‘orange sauce.’

One of the relatively newer subreddits, FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUD, attempts to combine the humor of rage comics with recipes, usually to hilarious effect.  I threw my hat into the ring ages ago with one of my favorite recipes, Ginger Ale Marinated Pork Loin (this is the actual recipe, not the comic), but then never followed up even though I had a great time making the comic.

I'm finally getting around to rectifying that oversight with a peach cake recipe, but in the interim I thought I'd share my original creation, as I'm very proud of it.  Due to the sheer size of the image (475x5920) I'm just going to link to it, instead of imbedding it into the blog. 

Daily Haiku - September 12, 2012

Board games can be fun,
But frustration not so much;
Let’s play Find the Zen.

Daily Haiku - September 11, 2012

Curse you Louisville

The bane of bar trivia

You’re not that big, town.

Long term time travel--worth the trip?

I admit my opinion may be limited by my practical nature, but it seems to me that going way back in time (i.e. years or more) would have a LOT of downside.  Say I want to go back to before Apple stock went crazy so I could cash in and become a millionaire today.

For the sake of this argument, let’s go with January 2003, where the stock was still selling for about $7.50 per share (roughly 1.14% of the current value of $660) and that you had enough money back then to make it worthwhile (in reality I would have only been able to buy about 300 shares, netting me a meager $195,750 pre-taxes).  Now I just have to wait a decade and I’ll be set for life, assuming I don’t cash out earlier.  What could possible be wrong with this scenario?  I’m glad you asked.

Having now set things in motion you merely have to relive the next ten years of your life.  Now this is great if those ten years sucked and you’re happy with anything or everything potentially changing, but if life was pretty sweet you’ve got some problems.  Namely, you’re burdened with ten years of memories that never happened.  Trying to duplicate those years to properly set up and maintain all the relationships and experiences that you accrued over that time seems really difficult.

Imagine accidently referencing some shared experience or some personal piece of information someone hadn’t told you yet.  Say you’re talking to your future girlfriend or wife, and mention some little known fact from her childhood that she told you years into the relationship.  It would be really creepy, right?  Maybe it would freak her out and ruin your chance to have that relationship.  Now it’s always possible you could excuse it as being confused or a strange coincidence.  But what if it kept happening on and off over the months or years?  That could damage or completely ruin friendships that you had come to cherish.  Just not worth the risk to me.

Short term time travel has a much smaller risk-reward ratio though and I would totally go back a few months in time (even more than once) in an effort to tweak my choices for maximum awesomeness and/or moderate financial gain. 

So in closing, if anyone has a time machine I can borrow I really appreciated it.