Need a card?

Jess and I went to CVS today to pick up a card for some friends. What ensued was a 10 minute laughing fest in the isle. Here are some of our favorites, and the pics are blurry because I was laughing when I was taking the pictures.

Attack of the Multiplying Tomatoes

Just got down picking and washing and endless supply of tomatoes from the garden at my inlaws, they live close enough that we share. Buckets of cherry and heirloom tomatoes were brought in and I believe Pat, my mother-in-law will be canning some for the winter and making some sauce, yummmmmm. There are still so many that aren't ripe yet just waiting to be picked, its incredible how much the plants are yielding. I see lots of dinners based around tomatoes in my future haha.

Musikfest

Brian Chiusano rocking with Orianthi at Musikfest 2010

Friday night Mark and I joined some of my friends and my mother-in-law for a rare appearance at Musikfest. Typically, we do not venture to this debacle because the mass crowding of scandalously clad teenagers and drunken tools of the century ruins all the good parts like fun fair food and side shows. However, one of our hometown heros Brian Chiusano was playing a great show with the guitar prodigy Orianthi along side Adam Lambert. The show was very entertaining to say the least from all the artists, most impressive was the tiny little Allison Iraheta who's pipes nearly blew the audience out of the venue. In the middle were the nothing short of incredible guitar talents of Brian and Orianthi who proved to be master shredders and then topped off with a glitter-tastic Adam Lambert.

Hen Racing

Yes this post is about Chickens racing. I was watching ESPN during lunch today because I wanted to see the preseason football highlights and they showed a clip of this gem, so of course I immediately googled it.

The video starts out with a dude dressed up like some kind of wicked pilgrim with an eye mask stating that his hen is the fastest chicken in the world.... ummm yea

I am surprised the Blue Valley Farm Show has not organized a hen racing event yet, is there any money in being a hen race promoter?

Delictable Vegetable..oh and meat

Organic eggplant

Organic eggplant fried in truffle oil, vegan spinach
and mushroom risotto and a steak haha

We had a quickie dinner tonight, sliced up an eggplant about a 1/4" thick and fried that up nice with an egg right out of the coop, milk and some breadcrumbs, a organic/vegan risotto mix and a nice little steak. Cooking time was probably about 20 minutes total. Mark marinated the meat all day in some vinegar and worcester sauce and some weber grill seasoning packet we had laying around. Washed it down with Mighty Leaf Detox Ice Tea, yum love that stuff.

Generating QR barcode's for your site

Remember those bar codes I just talked about the new edition of Racer X, well now I have discovered its easy to generate one for your own website. By the way, they are called QR Barcode's. Probably won't get you a lot of hits this week, but maybe in the coming months it will be the new thing. Coded blocks all over Facebook (do I really have to link FB?) will be the new rage, who needs English??

Of course I made some up for our sites, you will have to scan them to see what goes where, ohh the suspense.

Don't forget to pick up the i-nigma app on your phone to make this work.

An App-tastic Day so far

A coworker just clued me in on a really helpful app, especially helpful for Mark and I since we are young and still settling into doctors and what not. Anyway, its for UnitedHealthcare customers and its called DocGPS for iPhone. Basically, it syncs with your location and lists virtually every doctor and medical institution  in your area covered under your plan. Oh, and its free! Definitely a super fantastic tool for traveling families, way to go UHC! No can you just lower my copays a bit hahaha

PDN Contest Features Hot Chicks

PDN Faces Portrait Photography Contest 2010

Saw @PDNonline tweet for their portrait contest and was unaware that there was an animal category. I obviously have missed the boat but I know that I could have arranged to enter some of my photos of Snaps and Dora and the chickens and given Tyra and Oprah here a run for their money. Nonetheless these are fantastic photos and given me an idea to bring my fowl into my studio...not sure I have enough newspaper to line the floor though ahhaha.

Racer X + i-nigma

Just downloaded my new digital edition of Racer X, it's got these i-nigma bar codes scattered throughout the magazine. So basically what you do is download a free app on your iPhone, Droid, etc. and then you open the app, scan the barcode and additional interactive media pops up on your phone which could be a YouTube video, quiz, etc. Its basically amazing, I just scanned my computer screen with my phone, then my phone played me a video, ridiculous.

I sense an upcoming trip to B&N armed with my iPhone, scanning every single publication jumping on board with this, that will be a good way to kill time this winter. Apparently some advertisers are jumping on board too, so more bang for the buck for them, print ad + media ad all in one.

Started the morning off with some coffee and wrapping up some orders including one for a pretty cool clothing company called Runway Pilot, I know it does not sound incredibly intense yet but what's cool about these guys is that they are making their clothing out of Bamboo!

End up with this

So basicaly start with this

Speaking of Bamboo, the floors in our kitchen, nook, and dining room are Bamboo as well and Dora loves them.