I must be hungry, but these simple recipes sound darn good right now…

101 Simple Meals prepared in 10 minutes or less

Stole it from Metafilter.

Nikki and I happened to catch the Flight of the Conchords a few nights ago and we were completely blown away by how good it is. As far as I can tell from just one episode the idea is like this: basically a very good sitcom about two guys from New Zealand living in New York, with utterly hilarious nerd hip-hop and folk music thrown into the middle of each episode. You just have to see it to understand it.

To that end, here’s one of their better raps:

There’s lots more here, but I’m tearing myself away from that site so I don’t spoil the other episodes I haven’t seen yet. There’s also lots of stuff on YouTube from their stand-up comic days if you look for it. Be sure to check it out, you won’t be sorry.

Oh, coffee. How do I love thee? Even robbed of caffeine, your sway over me is absolute. Nikki and I worship at coffee’s steaming altar every day with glee. Don’t underestimate the power of coffee, it really is the only thing that makes the kids cute again when they wake you up too early….

You would be hard pressed to find a more loving tribute to coffee than this set of shots, the absolute edge of when cream hits coffee, little creamy umbrellas. Very cool, and just looking at it makes me want a cup now.

Stolen Coffee moments

I think I saw this on Metafilter.  Some earlier thoughts on coffee, including the still excellent Happy Mornings.

A couple of things relating to booze today.

First an article (on Slate) about how the U.S. (and presumably Canada too) is increasingly buying wine over beer.  Sales of wine have doubled in the last decade, while sales of beer largely remained the same.  As a beer (and not wine) drinker, there’s probably a good reason for this, but I can’t imagine what it is.  The article seems to attribute it to a lean towards the wine “lifestyle”, with a bit of savvy marketing thrown in.  Whatever the trend might be, I know I will be enjoying a frosty 50 for years to come, that’s certain.

Then an interesting development by a bunch of Dutch students who have invented a kind of powdered alcohol.  You add some water, and bingo you’ve got:

“…a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.”

There must be some interesting laws there because they are targeting the youth market of underage kids.  Apparently because the alcohol isn’t liquid you can sell it to anybody.  Weird.  I can only imagine that soon you will need to tell your bartender exactly how dry you want your martini, maybe you can snort that sucker.  You probably would really want to hang onto your own straw in that scenario….

“They’re easy to make a gallon,” Ms. Williams said. “You pull the pickles from the jar, cut them in halves, make double-strength Kool-Aid, add a pound of sugar, shake and let it sit — best in the refrigerator — for about a week.

Holy crap, I can’t decide if that sounds disgusting or not, but man I think I want to try one for myself.  I bet the kids would go bonkers for these things.  The colour alone is excellent, those are some funky pickles.  Saw this on Metafilter, I believe.