Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

cartoonin99 wrote:

Skippers seafood in Apex, not sure if it's a chain or not.

My wife and I went there because we heard the seafood was delicious. It was good, but everything was fried. *everything*. I ate a side of fried cole slaw and wiped my chin with a fried napkin. Went to the bathroom, peed on the fried urinal cake and washed my hands with fried soap.
Washed it all down with glasses of warm butter.

It was good, but we both got so ill afterward that I didn't eat fried foods for about a month.

The random things I love these days:
Crazy Japanese Dramas. I'm currently watching one called "Your dreams will come true" (but with an onomotopeic joke in there involving an Elephant) about a girl who wishes for luck, and the Hindu god Ganesha (in the form of a middle-aged heel from Osaka) ends up living in her apartment. In a recent episode, Julius Cesar, Marie Antoinette and Takeda Shingen come over to give her dating advice. In the next episode, Ganesha summons Oda Nobunaga to teach her about love and war (mostly war).
I'm caught up in a few series. It's like my TV is used for Playstation, J-Dramas and Netflix only these days.

Also this:
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Because of this "quill mouse", all of my PC-related tendonitis (which was getting so bad I was thinking of changing careers a few years ago) simply vanished. I use a regular mouse for gaming, but this mouse saves me at work. Love love love. I was thinking about it recently because I had to pick up a second one this week at Buy.com.

Also, Quintin Stone's North Carolina Permanent Residency Visa has now been revoked. He is no longer allowed to leave the Cary area without an armed escort (to shoot him if he tries to eat filthy non-vinegar barbeque). Although Danny's Barbeque, which provides three kinds of barbeque including tomato-based filth, is also an acceptable option because they're otherwise delicious.

nsmike wrote:
boogle wrote:
nsmike wrote:
boogle wrote:

Freebirds now has $4 pitchers on weekdays. SCHWING!

I don't think they have Freebirds outside of TX and OK.

That doesn't mean you can't respect $4 pitchers. And they are rapidly expanding. 5 new stores last year alone.

Well, good then. Some of that Chipotle love on this thread will disappear when Freebirds hits other states.

Its probably going to be a bit though. They were only bought by a larger corp. that can afford the expansion 15 months ago. Still run by the same people, but they are getting huge infusions of cash. Or were last year when I talked to the corporate people at Norman opening.

Last night, I bought 250 trance songs for $50 on iTunes. No kidding. Armada Music puts out these compilations called 50 X Tunes (can be 50 Trance tunes, 50 Dance tunes, whatever) that are like 3 hours of DRM free music for $9.99. I bought 5 volumes of their trance collections and I could've kept going as there's like 10 volumes of just those, not including any of the other ones. And its good quality trance and electronic too, not the crap you hear in clubs. Freakin' badass.

The Real Mckenzies - what rock have I been living under for the last 10 years to only discover this fantastic band only a few weeks ago?

"I could have been a manager
of a brewery
making beer for everyone
but most of all for me!"

Zigguratbuilder wrote:

Also, Quintin Stone's North Carolina Permanent Residency Visa has now been revoked. He is no longer allowed to leave the Cary area without an armed escort (to shoot him if he tries to eat filthy non-vinegar barbeque). Although Danny's Barbeque, which provides three kinds of barbeque including tomato-based filth, is also an acceptable option because they're otherwise delicious.

Oh.

You're one of them.

SommerMatt wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

Deathklok

Love the show, but you couldn't PAY me to listen to this soundtrack beyond the few minutes I put into it when it first came out! Ugh! I

Oh come on! There are songs with awesome titles like Bloodrocuted and Hatredcopter. What's not to love?

And even past the comedic stuff, The Lost Vikings and Detharmonic are awesome songs.

You just have no soul

Pay him no heed Quintin. His brain has obviously succumbed to the toxicity of the vinegar-side.

The Truth Sayers at Danny's BBQ wrote:

...home of the original High on the hog sweet sauce

Take that vinegar!

cartoonin99 wrote:

Pay him no heed Quintin. His brain has obviously succumbed to the toxicity of the vinegar-side.

The Truth Sayers at Danny's BBQ wrote:

...home of the original High on the hog sweet sauce

Take that vinegar! :D

Not all sweet BBQ sauce is tomato/molasses based. I make a mean, sweet, vinegar/mustard based BBQ.

AnimeJ wrote:
cartoonin99 wrote:

Pay him no heed Quintin. His brain has obviously succumbed to the toxicity of the vinegar-side.

The Truth Sayers at Danny's BBQ wrote:

...home of the original High on the hog sweet sauce

Take that vinegar! :D

Not all sweet BBQ sauce is tomato/molasses based. I make a mean, sweet, vinegar/mustard based BBQ.

Not familiar with that, tell me more, I am intrigued. I know the sweet sauces, the dry rubs, and the vinegar based bbq, but am unfamiliar with this new form of witchery.

cartoonin99 wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:
cartoonin99 wrote:

Pay him no heed Quintin. His brain has obviously succumbed to the toxicity of the vinegar-side.

The Truth Sayers at Danny's BBQ wrote:

...home of the original High on the hog sweet sauce

Take that vinegar! :D

Not all sweet BBQ sauce is tomato/molasses based. I make a mean, sweet, vinegar/mustard based BBQ.

Not familiar with that, tell me more, I am intrigued. I know the sweet sauces, the dry rubs, and the vinegar based bbq, but am unfamiliar with this new form of witchery.

Recipe as follows:

3lb. pork shoulder
2 cups cider vinegar
1 cup brown sugar
2 tblsp - 1/4 cup yellow mustard
1/2 tsp red pepper
1 1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp salt
1 tblsp worcestershire sauce
1 tsp tabasco or hot sauce

roast the pork shoulder for a few hours with a slightly sweet BBQ rub, simmer the sauce for the last hour or so that it's cooking. Just mix all the other ingridients in a saucepan and let it go. When the meat is done, shred it like usual and mix in the sauce. Done.

Oh f*ck me is "The Renaissance" awesome. Seriously, Hip-Hop fans, this may be the album of the year. Thank god Q-Tip's back.

AnimeJ wrote:

Food stuff

Nice, I should be trying to whip some up this week.

I think we've conclusively proven that barbecue and burritos DO deserve their own threads.

cartoonin99 wrote:

Pay him no heed Quintin. His brain has obviously succumbed to the toxicity of the vinegar-side.

The Truth Sayers at Danny's BBQ wrote:

...home of the original High on the hog sweat sauce

Take that vinegar! :D

The Sweat Hogs have a BBQ sauce?

muttonchop wrote:

I think we've conclusively proven that barbecue and burritos DO deserve their own threads.

Probably, but there's enough crossover for it to exist here.

muttonchop wrote:

I think we've conclusively proven that barbecue and burritos DO deserve their own threads.

Right under Bacon

cartoonin99 wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:

Food stuff

Nice, I should be trying to whip some up this week.

Awesome, hope ya like it. Two extra notes I left out:

1. Get a bone in shoulder. Boneless are ok, but bone in gives a bunch of extra flavor otherwise.
2. With the sauce, try adding in the vinegar slowly after the first cup. It'll keep it a bit sweeter and not as vinegary tasting. If it's not thick enough, a cornstarch roux will thicken it up some

Hehe, well, I wanted it today so I made it, bone-in natch, but instead of worcestershire I substituted red wine. Turned out really well.

This won't come between me and my favorite sweet sweet sauces and rubs though.

cartoonin99 wrote:

Hehe, well, I wanted it today so I made it, bone-in natch, but instead of worcestershire I substituted red wine. Turned out really well.

This won't come between me and my favorite sweet sweet sauces and rubs though. ;)

Cool deal, glad ya like it

As for coming between your sweet, tomato based sauces, I enjoy those too now and again. It's just not a very common thing with me. The only time I use those is when I'm making ribs. I can't print you that recipe though, but I can point you to where you can find it at. On a side note, this is hands down my favorite cookbook that I own. The Joy of Cooking is a distant second for most applications.

Tommy Wonder's Cups and Balls routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6qT...

Fanatka wrote:

Tommy Wonder's Cups and Balls routine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6qT...

Not bad... But Penn & Teller's explanation of this trick has ruined all variations of it for me. Despite the clever presentation, it's the same tricks.

And now... The voice of WALL-E and Lightsabers.

Night Watch and Day Watch. Who would have thunk that the Russkies can make some good movies?

Good rice pudding. After suffering through the horrible slop my campus passes as "pudding" I had the chance of eating an amazing cup of it at my hospital's volunteer junior board shop of all places. Ugh, so good. It was made even better with raisins.

OG_slinger wrote:

Night Watch and Day Watch. Who would have thunk that the Russkies can make some good movies?

Try the books.

Direct deposit. Especially when it is basically found cash.

Using said cash to pay off the loan for my Lasic surgery from last year.

Using leftover cash to start a nice down payment for a big and shiny rock for hot waitress girls finger.

Today is Bagel Day at work. If I could have unlimited amounts of Panera's Asiago Bagels, I'd eat nothing else.

I love the fact that Bethesda is changing the "power of the atom" quest in Fallout 3 for Japan. The double standard is great.

The Dresden Dolls.
Not sure why.

Tetnis wrote:

I love the fact that Bethesda is changing the "power of the atom" quest in Fallout 3 for Japan. The double standard is great.

It's a different culture. Respecting that is one of the many acceptable double standards that I can think of.