Date: 2008-05-07 21:20 Subject: Those who dare Public Music: Otis Redding—Just One More Day Tags: food, mixology, nick is doing something impractical

“You know,” said robertcalvin, “my favorite thing about martinis is the gin-soaked olives. If they sold jars full of them, I’d just get drunk on that.” “Shit yes,” said 2ce. Here are the lessons they subsequently learned:

• You can’t just use a martini’s worth of gin on nine or ten olives, even if you’re giving it two hours to soak. I’m not sure what the ideal ratio would be; one might be able to get five olives per martini. Maybe.
• Related to this, don’t add any olive brine, because you want the gin to be as concentrated as possible. Yes, I know you or one of your co-conspirators likes “dirty” martinis, but trust me, this one is going to be pretty filthy as-is.
• Go ahead and give it more time than you think it’ll need. They were markedly improved by the time we got to the last few.
• Use good olives. (Mine were kind of so-so.)
• It turns out that the failure mode isn’t as good as either plain olives or proper gin-soaked olives, so limit yourself to small batches until and unless you perfect this.

As you can tell, we had decidedly mixed success. Further experimentation will be necessary.

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Date: 2008-03-12 21:54 Subject: Dump post Public Music: JUDY AND MARY—RADIO Tags: dump post, dvorak, macs, nick is doing something impractical, stop posting

Four things, and I post.

Expansion

Anyone else notice those new "Expand" links in the comment threads? Best new LJ feature ever.

Insomnia

My computer has again developed insomnia. We've already been through this! It was totally fixed! Why is it broken again? Pain in the ass!

Time to back up and call AppleCare again. arrrrrrrggggghhhh.

Under There

Boxer-briefs. Someone explain these to me.

If one has an underwear model's abs, hips, ass, thighs, and package, then yes: boxer-briefs are the most aesthetically pleasing underwear for men. This is the undeniable truth. Until the wearer runs, walks, twitches, or scratches himself, at which point the legs roll into these sort of unappealing donut shapes and the garment rides up and smooshes one's balls.

Boxer-briefs: The underwear for physically perfect men who never move. Get yours today!

ARE WE NOT MEN

( ...we are Devo. )

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