Our Geek Life

The Taste of Fall — Pumpkin Risotto

Posted by shegeek on October 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I still don’t have the food blog up, but I wanted to share this absolutely fabulous risotto that I made tonight.

I roasted a pie pumpkin yesterday after cutting it into large chunks, tucking cloves of garlic in between the slices, drizzling generously with olive oil, and adding a little sea salt and pepper.  I cooled it overnight in preparation for making the risotto today.

I don’t often cluck about what I cook, but I must say that this is absolutely fabulous.  I need to write down the recipe to share on the new blog once it goes up.  But for now, I’m sharing the pictures below to keep you anticipating this recipe.

Would you like a side of rude with that 503?

Posted by shegeek on October 8th, 2009 | No Comments »

Another day, another crappy user experience on Twitter.  Sadly, failures have become de rigueur which leads me to longing for another option.  Don’t get me wrong.  I’m still having a love affair with Twitter, but the bloom is off the rose.  The new car smell has faded. The moon has lost its honey.

Gone are the gut-wrenching, mind-bending panic attacks.  I am so thoroughly geek that I have previously mourned the outages.  Lately my attitude has undergone serious degradation, sinking from the once experienced OMGWTF to a more apathetic status of Meh.

Although I am rather cavalier about the outages, I still use these times of Twitter-exia to come up with new ways to poke fun at Twitter and those of us who use it.  What fun is a ridiculously obsessive self-absorbed addiction if you can’t humiliate yourself and others like you when given ample opportunity to do so?

Can I get an Amen?

During one recent outage I looked over at my amazingly geeky other half and said, “I have the perfect alternative to that idiotic Fail Whale.”   I proceeded to explain what I believe to be a new and greatly improved Twitter Failure Mascot – one with less sweet and more meat – less happy and more snappy – a snark among snarks wrapped in the familiar net of doom and gloom.

Yes, my friends, the goofy and somehow happy-to-be-a-failure Fail Whale has been replaced by his snarkier cousin, Fail Seaman.  I believe that there is an animated version in the future, complete with Twitter related snarky commentary.

All Hail the Dunny Bot Army

Posted by shegeek on October 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Today a very special package arrived and make this geek girl giddy.  Yes, today the custom dunny bot army that James had commissioned for me arrived.  I saw the box sitting in the kitchen when I got home, but I steered clear, trying to be a patient geek girl.

Tick tock, tick tock.  Waiting. Anticipating.  As luck would have it there was some “Oh Gosh, It’s Wednesday and It’s Been Quiet So Let’s Create Some Drama” going on early in the evening.  As a result I had to wait until all was quiet and the drama queens were tuckered out before I could open the box. <insert crabby face>

But then it was time.

There are five custom painted unique dunny bots.  In the pictures below you can see the details added by TrentonMStudios, including the individual dog tags and various battle wounds.  This was by far the coolest dunny gift to date.