Monthly Archives: January 2008

I never thought my love of baking and 8-bit video games could be combined into one awesome item…until now!

tetris-cookies.jpgPeople have way too much free time on their hands; HOWEVER, it occasionally works out for the benefit of mankind. Thanks to a lovely Flickr how-to by Eva Funderburgh, I can now impress all my friends at my next party with these gorgeous 8-bit cookies!

Yes friends, they are Tetris cookies. Eva and her husband use a Playdoh extruder, of all things, to squeeze out long rows of dough, and then lay the dough logs on top of each other to make patterns. After chilling, they cut the cookies from the formed roll and voila! Awesome patterned cookies from scratch.

I think I’m in love.

[Thanks Boing Boing!]

What’s all that thumping, you ask? It must be Michael Moore doing the “I told you so” dance

In not-so-breaking (or oh-so-shocking) news, the U.S. ranks last in healthcare among industrialized nations. Now, while I do enjoy Michael Moore’s passion for bringing light to important issues, I tend to agree with those who say he often goes too far. That said, this report is quite a slap in the face to all the naysayers who said Sicko was just a bunch of baloney. (Having not seen Sicko myself, I can’t really comment on it.) One thing I can comment on, however, is my own problems with the healthcare system, which have been almost entirely with the business of healthcare and not with the actual medical treatment I have received. To those of you who have always been on your parents’ plan or employed full time with benefits, you have no idea the nightmare involved with getting your own insurance. And god forbid you have a pre-existing condition. You might as well just say you have a rare form of leprosy that can be spread through the telephone. It took me months of forms and innumerable phone calls to get a plan in place (with one of the leading healthcare providers, mind you) and nearly cost me my sanity. Which, of course, would have been quite the problem if I had gone crazy before I had healthcare.

Read the AFP article here. I must say, the toughest decision for me would be choosing whether or not I was willing to deal with the French people in order to experience their top-ranked healthcare.

Here comes 2008…and a badass cold…yippee!

Here I was telling myself that since I had a nice, long break from school, I’d be able to blog so much more. Well, first there was the entire first season of Heroes to watch (thanks Lance), then an urgent need to replay Final Fantasy 3 all the way through (for the 187th time), then some books to read, and now, for the entirety of 2008 (all four days, I know), I’ve had to deal with this:

No, I have not had a small, very sad-looking child (with ginormous hands!) dropped on my doorstep. What I have had since I woke up on the first morning of 2008 is a very, VERY annoying cold. So I apologize for my recent lack of witty banter and smart-ass comments on the goings-ons of idiots all across this lovely planet, but my nose is rubbed raw, I’ve sneezed so much I think I have brain damage, and all I want to do is snuggle under my covers and have Morgan Freeman read me stories. (Johnny Depp in character as Jack Sparrow will do as well.) Is that too much to ask for?

Therefore, I promise there will be more action on the site very soon, as I plan on kicking this nasty cold to the curb ASAP.