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Kurt's bowl had some prosciutto, but I went a different way with mine. I made a quick cilantro pesto, with cilantro also from HOE, using almonds, garlic, and olive oil. I spooned a bit of this on top of the gnocchi. For both bowls, I sprinkled on some piment d'esplette for color and spice. I know you might not believe this, but it was really good. It was very fresh tasting, and the gnocchi were the perfect addition to the soup. The cheese instantly melted into the top surface, which added to the murky look, but also added a nice salty edge. Grow some greens, or find really fresh ones at a farmers' market, and make a pureed greens soup with gnocchi because it actually is more delicious than it looks.


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Over the last while I have really enjoyed a number of Greek shrimp and tomato dishes such as shrimp saganaki . More recently I came across another one in the form of a shrimp pasta on Kalofagas and it quickly made it to my meal plan. This recipe is really easy to make and you can tell that it will taste great just by looking at the ingredients list. The tomato sauce is a pretty simple one consisting of onions, garlic, some white wine, the tomatoes, oregano, and of course lots of fresh herbs. This pasta would be perfect to make with fresh ripe tomatoes were they in season but in the middle of winter canned tomatoes worked well. I had high hopes for this dish and it did not disappoint! The shrimp pasta in the tomato sauce was so good! Given that all of the recipes that this one reminded me of added feta to the shrimp and tomato sauce combo, I could not resist topping the pasta with some crumbled feta.
Shrimp Linguine in a Tomato and White Wine Sauce
A quick and easy shrimp linguine in a tomato and white wine sauce that is nice and light and healthy and yet full of flavour.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- chili flakes to taste
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pound shrimp, peeled and deviened
- 1/2 cup fresh herbs such as parsley and basil, chopped
- 1 pound linguine (I used whole wheat) (gluten free for gluten free)
- Heat the oil in the pan.
- Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
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EMF Facet/Releng/How to Use
The EMF Facet project is built using Buckminster, with this releng project.
EMF Facet uses the same build system as MoDisco. So, for more explanation about how the build process works, see also MoDisco Releng : How it Works.
Step by step
- Install B3 using the update site http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/b3/updates-3.7/
- Checkout the project org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.tools
- Launch a 'runtime' Eclipse to enable 'org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.tools' (target platform = 'Running platform')
- Checkout the project: :extssh:<committerId>@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/callisto
- Checkout the project 'org.eclipse.indigo.build' from org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.buckminster
- Right click on the file /org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.buckminster Juno/emffacet.rmap and press on 'Update Rmap ...'
- Update orbit URL in /org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.buckminster Juno/emffacet.rmap
- Orbit's URL can be found at http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/
- Launch the build : https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emffacet-nightly-0.2.0/build?delay=0sec and set the following parameter
- SIGN_UPDATE_SITE=true
- Wait the end of the build
- Log in to build.eclipse.org:22 (SSH)
- cd /opt/public/modeling/emft/facet/
- ./manualPromote.sh
- update the file /org.eclipse.juno.build/emft-emffacet.b3aggrcon (change the update site URL)
- Open /org.eclipse.juno.build/simrel.b3aggr
- Wait until all jobs are finished
- Right click on the first node and press 'Validate aggregation'
- Open the error log view to track the validation
- Commit the file /org.eclipse.juno.build/emft-emffacet.b3aggrcon
What is built?
Two features are built:
- org.eclipse.emf.facet.all.feature
- org.eclipse.emf.facet.tests.site.feature
They are referenced as root dependencies in buckminster.cspec
These features must include all other features that must be built, either directly or indirectly.
The releng project contains a Buckminster rmap, which specifies how to get the plug-ins and features that are to be built. For each plug-in or feature, the map defines its location on a version control system (CVS, SVN).
The rmap also specifies the update sites from which to retrieve the binary dependencies from the dependent projects.
Updating the rmap
The rmap reflects the dependencies on the other projects. So, it must be updated at least before each milestone, to make sure that the code that is built works with the latest versions of all the dependencies.
The easiest way to update the dependencies is to copy them from the aggregation build model, which all projects must fill in with the correct reference to their update site(s) and feature(s).
This model is in a project with the release name on the Eclipse CVS:
- "org.eclipse.<releaseName>.build" on
, where releaseName is helios or indigo or juno etc. depending on the version being built.
There is a tool that copies most of the information automatically in this plug-in:
- https://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.emft.facet/trunk/releng/org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.tools (see the README.TXT)
Warning: don't forget to update the aggregation model project before copying information from it
A few dependencies are not in the aggregation build model though, so they must be updated manually:
- Orbit : take the latest version from : http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/
- SWTBot : it is not part of the simultaneous release (its update site has not changed since Helios anyway)
Finding dependencies
If you don't know where a particular plug-in or feature is located, the easiest way to find it is to search the Eclipse download area using "find" on build.eclipse.org. For example, to look for "org.eclipse.emf.compare" :
find /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/ -name 'org.eclipse.emf.compare_*'
How to start a build?
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- Nightly builds are run every 3 hours everyday, if the EMF Facet SVN changed since the last build.
- Integration builds are started manually, usually to prepare a milestone or release
- Only committers in the EMF Facet project, and members of the Callisto-dev group can launch EMF Facet build jobs from Hudson.
- Nightly build : go to https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emffacet-nightly/
- Integration build : go to https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emffacet-integration/
- In Hudson, click on Build Now, change the build parameters as needed (see #Build parameters), and click on Build.
- You can then click on the job name in the Build History section in the left column, and then on Console Output, to follow build progress in real time.
How to publish a build?
Successful Nightly and Integration builds are automatically published to download.eclipse.org. For example, a nightly build for version 0.1.0, created on April 21 2011 at 04:13 would be published to:
- the download drops: http://download.eclipse.org/facet/downloads/drops/0.1.0/N201104210413
- the nightly update site: http://download.eclipse.org/facet/updates/nightly
These builds can then be seen and downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/facet/downloads/, where additional information is available (test results, build log), or installed from the update site: http://download.eclipse.org/facet/updates/nightly/
The publication is done by a script running as a cronjob under user nbros:
*/5 * * * * /opt/public/modeling/emft/facet/cronPromoteMonitor.sh
cronPromoteMonitor.sh runs cronPromote.sh which does the actual publication, and sends a mail to team members if the publication failed.
To re-run the publication of the last nightly build, log in to build.eclipse.org, and do:
cd /opt/public/modeling/emft/facet/ touch promoteSignalN && ./cronPromote.sh
With a script
First, if not already done, you need to retrieve all the necessary scripts and resources:
- create a directory (in your home directory for example) that will contain the scripts :
mkdir emffacetBuildScripts
- get the scripts that will fetch all needed scripts:
svn export http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.emft.facet/trunk/releng/org.eclipse.emf.facet.releng.buckminster/serverConfiguration/updateServerSideScripts.sh
- make it executable:
chmod +x updateServerSideScripts.sh
- launch it:
Then, you can launch the publishing script:
- run
and fill in the parameters
Stable, Maintenance and Release builds are not automatically published. They should be first tested internally before publishing. For example, to publish the 0.1.0M6 milestone build:
- First, fetch the build archive to test (from Hudson, or using
for example):
wget https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emffacet-integration/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/S201103151256.zip
or, if https access doesn't work, a NFS access can be used (from build.eclipse.org). For example:
cp /shared/jobs/emffacet-nightly/lastSuccessful/archive/S201103151256.zip .
- Then, test the build locally
- Then, publish it:
ssh <commiterid>@build.eclipse.org wget https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/emffacet-integration/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/S201103151256.zip unzip S201103151256.zip -d /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/facet/downloads/drops/0.1.0/
Add a new update site with the new build to the composite:
- unzip the content (the update site zip that was in the first zip) in a new folder with the release number:
unzip EMFFacet-Update-0.1.1RC3.zip -d /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/facet/updates/milestones/0.1/SR1_RC3
- update both the
files of the update site (that are located in the parent of the folder to which you extracted the update site) to add a reference to your newly added update site- set the value of p2.timestamp to the result of "
date +%s000
" - increase the "size" attribute of the children element
- add a "child" element inside the "children" element with a "location" set to the name of the folder (e.g "SR1_RC3")
- set the value of p2.timestamp to the result of "
- You can enable download stats on the repository by running /opt/public/modeling/emft/facet/addDownloadStats.sh on the update site
- Check that the new build appears on http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/facet/downloads/.
- Builds can be hidden from this page before a release by modifying
- Update the archive site with the new build:
unzip S201109070430.zip -d /home/data/httpd/archive.eclipse.org/facet/downloads/drops/0.1.1/
- update
with a link to the newly added update zip
- Tag the build
Simultaneous Release
If the build must be part of the simultaneous release, you must also:
- Use the B3 Aggregator (or a text editor if the modification is trivial) to update the build model for the aggregator (after checking it out from CVS).
- Open juno.b3aggr in the B3 Aggregator editor, right-click on the first root node and select Validate Aggregation. Check in the error log that there are no errors.
There are no "release builds". The release is a release candidate that is promoted to an actual release by following these steps:
- copy the last release candidate's update site (e.g downloads/facet/updates/milestones/0.1/SR2_RC4) to a release update site (e.g downloads/facet/updates/release/0.1.2/)
- fix the "p2.mirrorsURL" in the release update site's artifacts.jar, so that it matches the update site's location. For example:
<property name="p2.mirrorsURL" value="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/facet/updates/release/0.1.2&format=xml&protocol=http"/>
- copy the last release candidate drop (e.g downloads/facet/downloads/drops/0.1.2/S201202140309) to a release drop (e.g downloads/facet/downloads/drops/0.1.2/R201202140309).
- rename the update site in the drop so that it doesn't have a RCx suffix. E.g: R201202140309/EMFFacet-Update-0.1.2.zip
The release process for the simultaneous release is a bit more involved. The process is usually documented in a document on the wiki named "<release> final daze". E.g http://wiki.eclipse.org/Indigo/Final_Daze. It consists of:
- when creating the release update site, do not add the release update site to its parent composite yet: this must be done on the release day (when announced on the cross-project-issues-dev mailing list), in order to let mirroring complete before users try to download the bits
- hide the drops from the download page, by modifying the PHP script for the download page:
- uncomment the line that contains the comment "XXX hide release until release day", and set the release folder to hide
- check after a few minutes that the release does not appear on http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/facet/downloads/
- delete all the milestone (S20*) builds from the drops, and delete all the previous milestone update sites, in order to minimize the amount of data that mirrors have to copy
- ask the webmaster to update the Eclipse help infocenter with the new help plug-ins (e.g on Bug 348355 - Will soon need an Indigo Info Center)
Then on the release day — once the announce is made on the cross-project-issues-dev mailing list — do the following:
- show the release drop by re-commenting the line you uncommented previously in the download page PHP script.
- add the release update site to its parent composite
- update the documentation to add a reference to the new release update site
Build parameters
Hudson builds expect these parameters:
- BUILDTYPE : the kind of build, represented by a code letter (see this page):
- N: Nightly
- I: Integration
- M: Maintenance (NOT milestone)
- S: Stable (for Milestones and Release Candidate builds)
- R: Release
- BUILD_ALIAS : the name of the release (0.8.0, 0.9.0M1, etc.); leave it blank for nightly and integration builds
- SIGN_UPDATE_SITE : whether to sign the update site (can take up to an hour on the Eclipse build server); mandatory for all builds except nightlies
- VERSION : the version being built. Dictates in which folder the build will be placed under the download "drops" folder.
Releases should have a tag like R0_1_0, and milestones should have a tag like S0_1_0M7.
Check bundles
Check that each bundle contains an about.html file:
for f in $( ls *.jar ); do unzip -t $f | grep -q about.html || echo $f; done
or for plug-ins in your workspace:
find $workspaceRoot -name 'build.properties' | while read i; do grep -q about.html "$i" || echo "$i"; done
Check licenses
find $workspaceRoot -type f -name 'license.html' | while read i; do md5 $i; done
Check Manifest.MF
find $workspaceRoot -name 'MANIFEST.MF' | while read i; do grep -q Bundle-Vendor "$i" || echo "$i"; done find $workspaceRoot -name 'feature.xml' | while read i; do grep -q provider-name "$i" || echo "$i"; done
Check p2.mirrorsURL
Each milestone and release update site should have a correct "p2.mirrorsURL" defined in its artifacts.jar (see Equinox/p2/p2.mirrorsURL).
To quickly check this on all update sites under the current directory, execute the following command:
find . -type f -name 'artifacts.jar' -or -name 'artifacts.xml' | while read i; do echo "$i" if [[ "$i" =~ .*/artifacts.jar ]]; then echo " "$(unzip -p "$i"|grep "p2.mirrorsURL") else echo " "$(cat "$i"|grep "p2.mirrorsURL"); fi done
Check simrel reports
for url in \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/layoutCheck.txt" \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/verifydiroutput/unsigned.txt" \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/versionPatternCheck.txt" \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/breedata.txt" \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/pack200data.txt" \ "http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/nonUniqueVersions.txt" do echo "checking $url" curl -s -S "$url" | egrep 'modisco|facet' done
url="http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/licenseConsistency.html" echo "checking $url" curl -s -S $url > licenseConsistency n=$(cat licenseConsistency | grep -n "Features with matching" | sed 's/:.*//') cat licenseConsistency | head -n $n | egrep 'modisco|facet'
url="http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/featureNames.html" echo "checking $url" curl -s -S $url > featureNames n=$(cat featureNames | grep -n "Probably correct names" | sed 's/:.*//') cat featureNames | head -n $n | egrep 'modisco|facet'
url="http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/bundleNames.html" echo "checking $url" curl -s -S $url > bundleNames n=$(cat bundleNames | grep -n "Probably correct bundle name" | sed 's/:.*//') cat bundleNames | head -n $n | egrep 'modisco|facet'
url="http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/providerNames.html" echo "checking $url" curl -s -S $url > providerNames n=$(cat providerNames | grep -n "Probably using correct provider name" | sed 's/:.*//') cat providerNames | head -n $n | egrep 'modisco|facet'
url="http://build.eclipse.org/juno/simrel/reports/copyrights.html" echo "checking $url" curl -s -S $url > copyrights n=$(cat copyrights | grep -n "Features with copyrights that are probably ok" | sed 's/:.*//') cat copyrights | head -n $n | egrep 'modisco|facet'
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Refund policy
What is your refund/exchange policy?
Since all our jewelry is custom made/made to order, we have kept a no refund policy for our store. Although if you aren't happy with your product, we will be happy to exchange/give you a store credit for the same. The product should be in the original condition, accompanied with the receipt and the return should be initiated within 3 days of receiving the product. Any purchases made on the Sale day will be deemed as final and no exchange will be provided. Earrings can't be exchanged because of hygiene requirements.
If the customer wishes for an exchange/return, all the shipping cost will be borne by them. Any shipping cost will not be eligible for a refund.
My jewellery is broken or damaged - can I get a replacement?
We will be happy to replace any damaged jewelry up to 3 days after receiving the product. Needless to say the damage should be from manufacturing or shipping errors.
What happens if my jewellery breaks?
As evident from our designs, our jewelry is quite delicate. It needs to be handled with care and caution. Any rough handling like those of the statement and chunky pieces could lead to breakage. To give an idea, if we were to add thicker, chunkier, sturdier chains and clasps, it would not hold the classy, delicate, one of a kind look that it currently possesses. A lot of designing and planning goes to make it look visually aesthetic.
However, KiriKiri is happy to repair your item for you. Repairs start at Rs.300/- and will increase depending on the extent of the damage. For online orders, please provide photos of the issue so we can determine the best course of action. Please be ready to provide your receipt from the original purchase. Discontinued designs cannot be repaired especially if it was purchased from us 6 months ago.


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Welcome to the November Studio AE from Technique Tuesday blog hop! I am thrilled to be joining the design team today to share a project using the stamp set, Memories of Home by Ali Edwards!
I am keeping things pretty simple today. The background was stamped with the darling house image in grey ink. Then I stamped the house again onto patterned paper and cut out only the heart. A twine-tied button was added to the heart. Because it wouldn't be a card with out a button and twine. :) And then I stamped the larger home sentiment in black ink. This would be a cute card for a first home gift or a new home gift.
Be sure and visit everyone inspiring us on the hop today!
- Kimberly Crawford, our guest for November *you are here*
- Ashley Harris
- Ali
- Daniela
- Nichol
- Sharyn
- Laura
- Teri
Tune into the Technique Tuesday blog on Nov. 13 to see if you are the winner!
thanks for stopping by!
Gratitude: Today I am grateful for LiveWriter which allows me to schedule my blog posts ahead of time with ease. Especially when I am off for fun adventures. :)


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Looking ahead to Valentine's Day, we want to give thanks for the love you have shown us, our work, and the children and communities we serve around the world. We can't do this work without you! Thank you for your love. We love you too!
In today's photoblog, five teams here at World Vision each highlight one of their supporters that has been influential and inspirational to them.
30 Hour Famine
Much love goes out to Road to Life Church and their fearless leader John Mefford. This group is incredibly passionate about the 30 Hour Famine and caring for those around the world who are hungry. Their passion for helping the poor is evident in their leadership, the effort they put into their 30 Hour Famine events, and the significant amount of money they raise each year for the hungry.
Thank you for allowing us to be a part of your youth group's story and for partnering with us in serving those in need!
Church Mobilization
Rev. James Adams has a tradition: For every couple he marries, he gives them a pig, a sheep, or a goat from the World Vision Gift Catalog along with a brief note. "I give animals from the gift catalog," says Rev. Adams, "to encourage the couple to think beyond themselves." What a gift, to receive a humbling reminder of the world around you on a day that you will remember for the rest of your life.
Perhaps the true beauty in this story is seen in the thanks that one couple sent back to their pastor. Alexandra and Jeremy received a goat on their wedding day, and just two weeks later Rev. Adams was surprised to see a World Vision envelope on his desk. "To our wonderful priest, thank you. A flock of ducks has been given to a family in need in YOUR honor. Love, Alexandra and Jeremy." It's more than a gift; it's a way of thinking.
The next time you're wondering what to give the happy couple, consider giving them a new perspective: a global vision.
Transformational Engagement
Joanna Mockler gave her life to Jesus as a young wife and mother more than 40 years ago. One of her first acts after that was to sponsor a child through World Vision!
20 years ago, Joanna was unexpectedly widowed and began to search for the Lord's plan for her. She traveled on a World Vision vision trip to South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia, and as a result, she has become a significant financial partner, the Chair of the World Vision U.S. board, and also served on the World Vision International board.
She prays fervently for our work and opens her home every year to host World Vision events. A few weeks ago, World Vision had the joy to help Joanna celebrate her 80th birthday.
She is a treasure to World Vision!
World Vision Artists
The first time I (Violet Galaviz) heard about World Vision was at a Casting Crowns concert. That evening I sponsored Cedric. I read Rich Stearns' book A Hole In Our Gospel and was moved by the compassion God had given Rich. Months later, I learned about Team World Vision and committed to running a half marathon. I felt in my heart that I was running for Cedric. In the course of four years, Cedric and I have corresponded via email and letters. At every meal, we pray for him and his community.
In July 2013, I had the incredible opportunity to visit Cedric! My visit consisted of introductions, a feast, a tribal dance, a Bible story, and Cedric and I finally got to read our letters and share a meal together. Just recently, I volunteered with World Vision partner, Third Day. This time I was on the other side of the World Vision table, and I got to share my story and the letters and photos of my journey to Minakulu to visit with Cedric. It was a team effort and 89 children were sponsored! Praise God! Together we are sowing very special seeds in the Kingdom of God.
Team World Vision
Chris Miller is the Team World Vision super fan, known for his orange hair, orange socks, and … well, being loud. He's been seen cheering for some of Team World Vision's most dedicated participants. Why does he do it?
He remembers running his first marathon. Team World Vision national director Michael Chitwood had encouraged him to write his name on the front of his jersey. Throughout the race, people cheered for him. They had most likely cheered for hundreds of runners that day, but when they yelled out his name, it gave him the strength to keep going.
Now he cheers for others in hopes that it will give them that same strength: the strength to press on and change lives with Team World Vision.
Tell us below: Whose love are you thankful for?
What better way to show love for Valentine's Day than pledging to change the life of a child in need? Consider sponsoring a child today!


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After a trip to Maui, I told my husband that gingers were a must in our garden. I think they are quite romantic.
Viewing these majestic cypress trees are well worth the fight through the mosquitoes and sweltering heat.
This mangrove is one of many that belong to the 10,000 Islands of South Florida's west coast.


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I didn't think it would be this way.
I was expecting more.
I got up this morning, looked out the window and … it was a beautiful day.
I didn't see that coming.
Winter is setting in, here in Alaska. Beautiful days are few and far between and I just didn't expect today, of all days, to be one of them.
I, well, to be honest, I just thought the end of the world would be, I dunno … different.
I'm not sure what I was expecting exactly, maybe a wine dark sky lit around the horizon with a hellish orange glow, blood soaked moon ten times its usual size filling the sky, sooty clouds of gritty choking ash, erupting volcanoes and shaking earth, agonized woeful shrieks of bereft men filling the air, rising seas and burning mountains, the smell of bitter acrid smoke and sulfurous brimstone. Vast undead hordes risen from their graves, shuffling across the countryside dripping gelatinous ichor and clods of wormy stinking soil, feasting ravenous upon the quaking flesh of the hopeless. Demons loose as a plague upon the blighted land, gleeful in savage mirth, horned and leathery, skins black as sin, wielding crackling fiery lashes in their flinty hands like brands made of hellfire and lightning as they drive the doomed and the remorseful damned down to their eternal torment in the bowels of the malignant Earth.
Also, Nazis.
You know, like that.
Instead, well, it's a beautiful day here in the Alaskan Matsu.
Today it's as only Alaska can be. Diamond clear air, cold and invigorating beneath a cloudless cerulean sky. The sun is a brilliant yellow fire upon the pristine white peaks of the Chugach. The still crisp air smells of winter and wood smoke, the wings of bald eagles slice through it without a sound as they soar and wheel majestic over the winter landscape.
It's a fantastic day to be alive.
There's nary a Nazi horde in sight.
The sky is empty of invading Communist paratroopers.
The dead remain still and safely entombed within the frozen ground.
The landscape is absent any hint of biblical plague, there are no poison frogs falling from the sky, no foul cloud of biting flies, the seas are cold and blue instead of warm and red as blood.
Not a single shriek rends the still, peaceful air and I haven't spotted a single shambling zombie or damned soul, even though I kept a careful lookout for impending Rapture on my way into Anchorage this morning and again on my way home. And, heck, even the traffic was light today, making the commute painless and relatively free of myopic demons reeking of naturally produced, pesticide free organic hemp and blocking the fast lane with their Satanic hybrid electric cars of Hell.
As I said, I expected the end of the world, the end of America, to be different somehow. More biblical, I guess.
Frankly I'm a little disappointed.
I mean, that's what today is, right?
The end of the world, the end of America, the beginning of the End Times, Rapture, Armageddon, Ragnarok, the Blue Light Special at the end of the universe. We're in some real pretty shit now, aren't we? Game over, Man, Game over!
That's what they told us, isn't it?
If Barack Hussein Obama wins reelection, it's lights out for America. Jesus will weep, God will rage, poison arrows will fall from the sky, the ground will shake, Nazis, demons, Communists, panic on the switchboard and industrial disease, immorality, sparkly gay atheist fascists running free in the streets.
I mean, come on, all those TV preachers couldn't be wrong, could they? All of them? Why it's like they were just making stuff up, scaring people for their own personal agenda – you know, instead of really speaking for God.
Karl Rove, one-eyed king in the land of blinders, now he couldn't have been wrong last night, could he? Romney won Ohio after all, tell me he did. How could it be? How could it be that Karl Rove was wrong? Romney didn't win the popular vote in a landslide? Romney didn't win the electoral college? But, but, but, that would mean Karl Rove wasn't any more accurate than those aforementioned TV preachers!
Ted Nugent, shocker, rocker, and draft dodger – he couldn't have been wrong, could he? My God, no, not The Nuge! I mean, he's always been so reliable. Monday before the election he tweeted, "Dear God in heaven America vote Mitt Romney Paul Ryan Republican and save America!" Last night, after the election results could no longer be denied, despite Karl Rove's frantic last minute Hail Mary to Almighty God for divine intervention, the Motor City Madman announced the end of America: "Goodluk America, u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools!" and then he said "I cry tears of blood for The Last Best Place & the warriors who died for this tragedy."
And yet – and yet – here on this gloriously cold beautiful Wednesday, it appears as if America is still standing.
Probably Ted can't see it, what with his eyes full of bloody tears and all – and seriously, tears of blood? You're crying tears of blood? Dude, that's not right. Visit a doctor. Vision is totally covered under Obamacare and now it looks like Michigan will have to implement it after all. Thanks to Obama, you're covered, Ted, I'm just saying.
Oh yes, that. Warriors. Right. Ted Nugent, craven draft dodger, lamenting the dead warriors who died for our sins. Yeah. I'm just going to let that one go right on by. I'm feeling good. The world didn't end and the Rapture didn't come and Angry Bearded Jesus didn't call us all home and there's a black man in the White House. I know you're disappointed, Ted, that the rest of us didn't get cornholed by Satan. You ought to get a little something. So, as somebody who didn't shit their pants in front of the entire country when called to arms under the American Flag, I'll just let it go. Consider it a consolation prize. Speaking as a veteran who answered the call: you're welcome, you gutless chicken-shit coward, you're welcome.
Ted Nugent wasn't the only one to soil himself on Twitter last night, Donald Trump suffered a full on Britney Spears style social media meltdown. By this morning, after the world didn't, in fact, end after all, The Donald's lawyers had deleted his sullen tweets calling America to treason and sedition. Too bad one of his tech savvy apprentices didn't tell him that on the internet nothing is ever really deleted. I have a complete list of Trump's tweets right here. Let's review: "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!" Yes! That's it, that's freedom, that's true America right there, override the Constitution with riot and violence and then install a leader handpicked by Real Estate moguls. Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who insisted on the armed revolution clause in the Constitution? Trump continued to blurt out increasingly demented tweets like the social media version of Tourette's Syndrome, "The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy." Jeez, really? I wonder why the Framers put it in the Constitution then, they must have hated America.
At the end of the night Trump proclaimed, "He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!"
Later that tweet, like the others, was deleted.
Interesting thing that, don't you think?
I mean, it turns out that President Obama actually did win the popular vote by a comfortable margin and the electoral college by a landslide – winning every swing state but one. Yet, Trump initially claimed Obama lost the popular vote "by a lot." Trump implied electoral chicanery on a scale large enough to warrant armed insurrection against the United States government. But, then, hours later he issued what is essentially a retraction by deleting the post. Could this be an abject example of how information can be garbled and unreliable in the first moments of a big event? Could it be an example of how people can get things wrong because they don't yet have all the facts, all the information, because the numbers aren't yet crunched and the interviews aren't complete and because there is chaos on the ground? Could Trump's incorrect reporting of fact and a call for armed action be an example of why, maybe, you shouldn't depend in the first moments on rumor and confused media reports and the fog of war because you're likely to have it wrong?
You know, like the initial reports regarding the attack on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya?
But I digress.
Former Saturday Night Live cast member, professional bimbo, and rabid rightwing Uber Christian, Victoria Jackson, also managed to spectacularly lose her shit in public. "I can't stop crying" she tweeted over and over. This morning she roused from her dirty tear-stained sheets to proclaim, "America died last night." She didn't blame Obama for the demise of America though, instead she pointed her staggering intellect elsewhere, "Thanks a lot Christians, for not showing up. You disgust me." Yeah, disgust, that's the word I was looking for. Disgust.
Another of Hollywood's D-List, Stephen Baldwin, the last and least of the Baldwin brothers, he of woodenly acted bit parts and of low-budget SyFy and Lifetime Channel movies, didn't get called up to heaven by Jesus. So like crashing an Oscar party held by actual actors he raptured himself: "2nite Gods Spirit lifted within me&joy came over me, I will serve the Lord, my hope is in Jesus not Obama, Gods wrath is upon US. 2Thes2:11." Funny, maybe it's just me, but God's wrath looks like a pretty fine day here in Alaska. I understand things aren't so bright on the East Coast at the moment, but God's Wrath? Really? Where is this guy tweeting from? The 14th Century?
Sarah Palin boggled that "Americans would support the president's policies." Boggled. Apparently her last minute appeal to America didn't pay off as big as she expected. "It's a perplexing time for many of us right now," she said. Perplexed. I don't often agree with Sarah Palin, but hey, she's perplexed. I'm hip.
You know, these people and their wealthy masters literally spent billions of dollars, billions, to defeat Obama.
All those dollars are now wasted.
They'll never get anything back. Karl Rove basically took their money, bushels and bushels of it, and lit it on fire. If this was anything but politics (or religion), Rove would be in jail next to Bernie Madoff for running a bogus investment scheme, he lost just about as much money.
The ironic part is that these folks are the ones who are screaming the loudest about having to pay a couple bucks more in taxes, hell they gave double that to Rove and other SuperPACs and got nothing back. They could have saved themselves a shitload of money, garnered themselves a big fat tax break, saved thousands of small businesses, and kick started the economy right out from under President Obama by giving every out of work blue collar conservative a year's wage – say $35K – to spend at the businesses of their choice. And they would have created a self-sustaining cycle that would have eventually paid back the investment with interest. Instead they poured their money down Karl Rove's rat-hole. Savvy businessmen, my ass.
But, again, I digress.
Conservatives lost.
And they lost big.
It was a landmark night for gay rights. Same sex marriage will now be legal in a number of states, Maryland, Maine, and Washington. Legal by popular vote for the first time in our history. Staunchly conservative Wisconsin, Paul Ryan's home state, not only fell to Obama, they elected themselves the first openly gay Senator, Tammy Baldwin. Talk about kicking Ryan in the balls.
The Tea Party whimpered, clutched at its wrinkled gray sternum, and went into cardiac arrest. It's not dead quite yet, but it needs to fill out a living will and start thinking about where it wants its ashes scattered. Democrats didn't win back the House, but Allen West and Joe Walsh are out of a job – and that's a major victory for sanity in America. Michele Bachmann, damn the luck, held onto her seat by the skin of her flabby white ass, but her fangs have been pulled and her power base is dust and her state went to President Obama just like Paul Ryan's did. Just like Mitt Romney's did.
Over in Washington State and up in Colorado, people are out today buying munchies. Recreational pot is legal there, no more bullshit about "medicinal use." Legal, at least at the state level, the feds aren't happy about it but again, just like gay marriage, the writing is on the wall.
Everybody better just get used to Obamacare, because last night it became permanent. Americans want universal coverage and they're going to get it. States can now quit dragging their feet like petulant children and get busy seeing that all of their citizens have access to healthcare. Period. The argument is now over – not that conservatives will stop arguing over it. Even if they take the White House in 2016, the ACA is now the law of the land. Better get onboard, fix the things that need fixing, and get used to the idea that even poor people are entitled to healthcare in America.
Latinos and African Americans sent an unequivocal message to the Old White Guy Party last night – if you want our vote, you'd better do some serious remodeling. You'd better get rid of the racists and the bigots and the xenophobes in your party. You'd better wake the hell up and realize that America is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural nation and it always has been – the difference is that now minorities have real power at last. Either get onboard with this idea, or join the Whigs in the dustbin of history. Women likewise slapped the GOP right upside the head. The message was crystal clear, you want our votes? Then you need to dump the misogynists and the legitimate rapists and the Neanderthal religious lunatics. Women are fifty-one percent of the population, why would you kowtow to those who keep trying to disenfranchise them? Are you stupid? "Minorities" aren't so minor any more, they're as American as you are, they're motivated, they believe in this country just like your ancestors did, and they want somebody in government who represents their interests. You're either that party, or you're not.
The problem is simply this:
Once upon a time the faces of the Republican Party were Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, and, hell, Ronald Reagan.
Today the public face of the GOP is Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch Brothers, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, and a silly old man shouting at an empty chair.
Once upon a time, the Republican Party stood for freedom, the end of slavery, the extension of rights to all Americans, the reasonable regulation of business and monopolies and the protection of the little man from the same. The first president to call for pluralism, i.e. multiculturalism, was a Republican, William McKinley. The republican who followed, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen, Teddy Roosevelt, believed in science, in reason, in the conservation of nature and the husbanding of our natural resources, the protection of our lands, in equality for all, and in peace. Republicans once upon a time believed In freedom of religion and freedom from religion.
Today the GOP would make businesses into citizens and make citizens into property. They squint suspiciously at any non-Christian and seem hell bent on denying others their just and due rights as Americans based on those self-same religious beliefs. Science, natural resources, and the environment seem to share equal contempt among conservatives nowadays. They are the party of drill, Baby, drill and legitimate rape. They've got abortion on the brain and are obsessively concerned with what other people might be doing in the privacy of their own bedrooms. The GOP has become the very military-industrial complex another great Republican once warned us about. The GOP has given up science and become the party of Birthers and creationists and conspiracy nuts – and rather than distance themselves from such crazies, the modern Republican Party embraced them. One has only to look at the 2012 GOP Platform to see just how far they've drifted from the once great party of Lincoln.
Once upon a time, there was room in the Republican party. Room for competing ideas, room for reasoned debate and differences of opinion, room for all Americans.
Today, the Republican Party has grown very small – small in mind, small in ideas, small in tolerance. They've become the party of loyalty oaths, purity balls, and secret handshakes.
Once upon a time, the Grand Old Party faced the world with the courage of Roosevelt, of Eisenhower, of Lincoln.
Today, this morning, these last four years, the Republican Party is shrouded in the rank stench of hysteria and fear. They face the future with the false bravado of the coward and the blustering shallow patriotism epitomized by the likes of Ted Nugent. They cower under their beds, clutching their guns and their bibles, deathly afraid of the future.
And that, more than anything is why Mitt Romney lost last night.
Sarah Palin was correct this morning. Perplexed is exactly the right word.
The GOP is dying a slow death, poisoned by their own bitter tea. They are now firmly on the wrong side of history and unless something changes, they'll wear that confused expression into oblivion without ever understanding why.
It was a beautiful day, here in Alaska.
You'd hardly know it was the end of the world and all.
There's a long cold winter ahead, but that just makes spring all the sweeter.


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One day after a Florida judge set his new bail at $1 million, accused killer George Zimmerman is out of jail after posting a bond.
Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman, who has been charged with second-degree murder, says he acted in self defense. Trayvon's family and supporters say the African-American teenager was racially profiled and that Zimmerman had no business following the young man. The case ignited another national discussion of race relations.
As we've previously written, Zimmerman was originally released after posting 10 percent of a $150,000 bail, but was ordered back to jail on June 1 because neither he nor his wife had told the presiding judge of the large amount of money they had collected — via online donations — in a defense fund.
To be released, Zimmerman would have had to post another sizeable bond — of at least $100,000. As of Thursday, according to The Orlando Sentinel, Zimmerman's defense fund had a balance of about $211,000. And since Thursday's announcement of the $1 million bail amount, the fund has collected about another $20,000.
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The final component for my Valentines Day dinner, and arguably the most important part, is the dessert and it is the perfect time to go for something a little more decadent! I am a huge fan of cheesecake and at first I was thinking that a pink strawberry cheesecake was the way to go but then I was thinking that I would absolutely have to include chocolate somehow. A white chocolate strawberry cheesecake would have been nice but I was more in the mood for dark chocolate and I was thinking that dark chocolate is even better with raspberries and that was when I arrived at my final idea for this raspberry and dark chocolate cheesecake. I kept things really simple making a classic cheesecake but then I hid a layer of dark chocolate and fresh raspberries in the middle for a Valentines Day surprise. You can get an even bigger chocolate fix by serving the raspberry cheesecake drizzled with a chocolate sauce.
This slice did not last long!
Raspberry and Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
A cheesecake with a hidden surprise of raspberries and dark chocolate!
- 2 cups graham cracker crumbs (gluten-free for gluten-free)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup raspberries
- 2 ounces dark chocolate, melted
- Mix the graham cracker crumbs, sugar and butter and press into the bottom and up 1 inch along the sides of a 9 inch spring form pan.
- Beat the cream cheese until smooth and then beat in the sugar followed by the eggs, one at a time, the sour cream and the vanilla extract.
- Pour 1/4 of the mixture into the spring form pan, sprinkle on the raspberries, drizzle with chocolate and cover with the remaining cheese mixture.
- Double wrap the bottom of the spring-from pan with foil, place it in an oven safe pan and pour recently boiled water into the into the pan so that it goes one inch up the foil wrapping.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until there is just a small wobble in the middle when shaken, about an hour.
- Let cool, remove the foil, cover in plastic and place in the fridge over night.
- Serve garnished with fresh raspberries and chocolate drizzle.
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Guinness Chocolate Cheesecake
White Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Sauce
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Dark Chocolate Souffle Cheesecake
Lemon New York Style Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust
Japanese Souffle Cheesecake
Strawberries and Cream Cheesecake with Pretzel Crust
White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pecan Pie Cheesecake with Pecan Caramel Sauce
White Chocolate Souffle Cheesecake
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Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheesecake


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Keeping Up With the Profession
From Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
**See also Staff Training and Online Training Resources for Librarians
Tips for Keeping Up
- Make your first stop for "keeping up" Steven Bell's Keeping Up Web Site found at: http://staff.philau.edu/bells/keepup. This site lists more than a hundred different sources for developing a well-rounded keeping up regimen that includes e-newsletters, web page change detection services, good web sites to monitor (using WPCD services), and of course, some blogs. The philosophy of this site is that to really keep up with librarianship you need to go outside the boundaries of traditional librarianship, which means keeping up with internet search, information technology, teaching and learning, and (for academic librarians) higher education. For additional keeping up strategies take a look at this article published in College & Research Libraries News (July/Aug 2000) titled "To keep up, go beyond: Developing a personal professional development plan using e-resources outside the bounds of library literature"
- Subscribe to Current Cites, a monthly current awareness newsletter on information technology. A team of volunteers writes one-paragraph annotations on the best of current literature, web sites, etc.
Blogs/Websites to Watch
- Info Career Trends Lisjobs.com's Professional Development Newsletter
- LIScareer News 3-4 new articles each month relating to career management
- DavidLeeKingBlog David Lee King Blog
- 21st Century Library Blog 21st Century Library Blog
Discussion Lists for Librarians
Finding Them
- The LISWiki Discussion Groups page is an organized list of library-related lists/discussion groups
- ALA's Open Discussion Lists
- [1] Librarian's Internet Index. Perform a search for "(library OR librarian) discussion list."
- Library Listservs-n-More
- [2] SLA's Discussion Lists (The e-mail address should match your SLA membership address, if you have one, otherwise you may not be able to access the "private" lists to which you are a member.)
Open Lists (Membership Not Required)
- GOVDOC-L: Discussion of Government Document Issues
- MEDLIB-L: An Email List for Medical Librarians
- TLA-L: A listserv for the Theatre Library Association.
Reference Sources for Librarians
- Whole Library Handbook 4 - Many topics of professional concern are addressed in this reference work.
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In Mexico, the party that ruled for more than 70 years is claiming victory in the presidential election. According to preliminary results, the P-R-I - or PRI candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto, won the most votes, but the apparent runner-up is refusing to concede. NPR's Carrie Kahn has more on this, from Mexico City.
CARRIE KAHN, BYLINE: Hundreds of supporters sporting red shirts, and waving white flags emblazoned with the PRI's logo, celebrated their candidate's apparent victory. Blaring norteno music filled the esplanade of the party's massive headquarters, in downtown Mexico City.
KAHN: The country's independent federal electoral commission said a preliminary count of the votes showed the PRI candidate had captured 38 percent of the vote. Trailing 6 percentage points behind was leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Mexico's president, Felipe Calderon, took to the national airways to congratulate Pena Nieto. This is a stunning turn of events for Calderon and his PAN party, which just 12 years ago ousted the PRI from power, ending its 71-year reign.
Pena Nieto appears to have convinced voters that the old PRI - infamous for election rigging, widespread corruption, and making deals with drug traffickers - had changed. As Pena Nieto made his way to an indoor auditorium at campaign headquarters, hundreds more supporters shouted president, president.
UNIDENTIFIED SUPPORTERS: Presidente! Presidente! Presidente!
KAHN: On stage, the 45-year-old Pena Nieto smiled beside his wife, soap opera star Angelica Rivera, and thanked the crowd for their support.
PRESIDENT-ELECT ENRIQUE PENA NIETO: (Speaking Spanish)
KAHN: He said, "Mexicans have given our party a second chance."
PENA NIETO: (Speaking Spanish)
KAHN: "We will honor that with results." Pena Nieto pledged to continue Mexico's democratic march with honesty, transparency, and a full accounting of public funds. He made a special point of telling supporters that the fight against the narcos will continue, although with a different strategy than the outgoing administration's.
PENA NIETO: (Speaking Spanish)
KAHN: "It's very clear," he said, "in confronting organized crime, there will be no pacts and no truce." He has pledged to hire a famous Colombian anti-drug-trafficking cop who is popular in Washington, D.C., and focus more on the violence associated with the narcotics trade than going after cartel bosses. The six-year-long drug war, which has claimed the lives of more than 50,000 people, weighed heavily on the minds of voters. But it was Mexico's sluggish economy, and the current administration's inability to make good on promised democratic reforms, that led to the PAN's defeat.
The PAN's candidate, Josefina Vazquez Mota, finished in third place. She conceded just one hour after the polls closed. Vazquez Mota said just because she lost the election, doesn't mean she would stop fighting.
JOSEFINA VASQUEZ MOTA: (Speaking Spanish)
KAHN: Referring to the PRI party, she said she will fight against any return of authoritarianism, corrupt empires and impunity. While Vazquez Mota was quick to accept the results, the apparent second-place finisher, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, would not.
ANDRES MANUEL LOPEZ OBRADOR: (Speaking Spanish)
KAHN: Speaking to hundreds in the Mexico City hotel, Lopez Obrador said he would wait until a complete count was finished before announcing what his next step would be. Six years ago, he lost the presidential race by less than a percentage point. His supporters paralyzed the capital with huge protests, for weeks. Last night, his supporters said they were prepared to do it all again.
Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Mexico City. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Mawwiage is wot bwings us togevaaah...today."
Plus everyone's favorites: the missed marks!
As always, we start with the inspiration cake:
But you shouldn't go swimming after for at least a good hour.
Stephanie M., Anony M., Amanda C., Ann B., & Jennifer, are there Wrecks ahead? If there are, we'll all be fed!
Note from John: Um... just so we're all on the same page, the first cake in the pair is what the customer wanted and the second is what they got. Carry on then, carry on! (mmmm Fruit Newtons)


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Saturday, May 30, 2009
How Bizarre
Saturday, May 30, 2009
How about a construction worker merman?
I'm sure there must be an absolutely fascinating back story to this, but I don't have it. It reminds me of that time eons ago when Christopher Lowell dressed up as a mermaid on his show, though - anyone remember that? (Wait, what am I saying? How could you forget something like that?)
Here's one for those of you celebrating the torrid love affair between your pet lobster and rubber ducky:
I would pick on the redundancy of "12 month anniversary", but frankly I'm more concerned over this being a stock design. Just how many people out there are encouraging relationships between their seafood and bath toys, anyway?
Or how about this gem from last St. Patrick's Day?
You're really giving me some mixed signals here, Mr. Rich Irish Carrot. I mean, first you offer me monetary incentive to kiss you, but then you go and look all horrified by my appearance. Ok, so maybe I don't look my best right now, but it's still kind of rude to shield your sensitive regions* with that coin. Now pucker up, blue-eyes, or I'll sic my Carrot Jockeys on you.
Anne J., Meaghan L., and Rabi W. & Thomas M., I'll give you a nickel if you write "Kiss Me, I'm a Cake Wrecks fan" on your forehead and photograph yourself in public. (Our advertising budget is up from "nonexistent" to "Whatever I've got in my pocket." So I could also offer you a half-used tube of Blistex. Any takers?)
*Wait a minute - this is a carrot. Isn't the whole thing a "sensitive region"?
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- Melinda said...
I love it when the cakes make no sense! I'll bet the story behind the construction worker merman isn't as fascinating as the one you could make up about it.
- May 30, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- MomofthePolka-DotPony said...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the ocean.... (ominous music here)
- May 30, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Wow! That's all I've got. And I'd kill to know the back stories of those cakes! Curiouser, curiouser...
- May 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM
On the bright side, at least the baker of the first wreck has good penmanship.....
- May 30, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Half Assed Kitchen said...
And if your eyes travel downward a ways...Mr. Carrot doesn't even look all that happy to see you.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - May 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Renee Nefe said...
did I see a second weird carrot cake in that pix?
- May 30, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- SJM said...
Merbehr...merbear? A really hairy merman? Oh brave discoverer of this horrid relic of some sinister, ancient cult, please post tell Jen of it's demonic origins!
The tragic part of the romance between bathtub duck and lobster is that the lobster can't visit the duck at its place lest it turn into a tasty dinner. Or maybe that's its shtick...like the witch in Hansel and Gretel.
Keep the carrot wrecks coming! - May 30, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- Christina M. said...
I love how the merman is growing out his chest hair to cover the beer belly.
Tried to make heads or tails of the duck-loves-lobster cake, and gave myself a headache. Anyone?
Mr. Rich-Carrot is funny. Too bad his eyebrows look like they are along the side of his eyes. It's not helping his surprised expression. - May 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Christel said...
I think I actually might know what the first cake is referencing!
There's a series of videos on You Tube called 'Charlie the Unicorn'. In the third one, there's a song about how all of the sea creatures love him. I know, sounds corny, but at the end he finds the snowman and his missing kidney. Full of bizarre images and odd humor.
'Candy Mountain, Charlie! Candy Mountain!' - May 30, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Yota Armai said...
There was definitely a second kiss me I'm am Irish carrot cake in that pic. Incoceivable! (I've been saying that since the princess bride post) I can imagine the convo going something like this...
"OMG I just looked at the calendar, it's St Patty's day and we don't have any green cakes!"
"Boss, why don't we just reuse this stack of carrot cakes, they're not selling any ways?"
"Brilliant!" - May 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM
OMG that is hilarious! Good thing I wasn't drinking anything when the page loaded :D
- May 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Tory said...
I have, in fact, met Christopher Lowell. When I saw on a billboard that he'd be at Huffman Koos, right at that moment, I told my mother to turn the car around, because we needed to go see the legend in person. I was a little disappointed that he wasn't dressed in women's clothing, but he was still unintentionally quite entertaining.
I would love to get the carrot cake for my Irish brother-in-law. Maybe he could decipher it? - May 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM
No words, just letters to express my reaction to today's collection:
Who knew carrot cakes could inspire such bizarreness? I guess no reason to keep them from the fun just because they include a vegetable.
I kind of hope the back stories will appear in the comments, yet at the same time I'm having so much fun being puzzled and making up my own...
Word verification: perchedp. The Kiss Me I'm Irish carrot has a coin perchedp on his sensitive bits. - May 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Haiku Joy said...
Shellfish loverboy
Knows how to protect Duckums:
Build a candy moat. - May 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- KJ said...
You know you've got a real man on your hands when you can't tell his facial hair from his chest hair. Merboy got some serious testosterone there!
- May 30, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Irish carrots!! YAY!!
- May 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Jessica Samantha said...
Hey Jen! Have you ever thought of changing your layout?
- May 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Snyder Central said...
Why did Christopher Lowell always insist on dressing in women's clothing during his show intros.. a bit off the deep end for me! The merman cake is pretty funny!
- May 30, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Huh? Does that strange duck/lobster anniversary cake have tiny autumn leaf sprinkles around the outside?
I kinda enjoyed the merbehr. - May 30, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Gilsner said...
You know... I've had the feeling, lately, that something was missing from my life and today, thanks to you, I finally figured out what it is... cakes with hair on them! Fake hair, of course, not real hair... I do still have my (low) standards.
If that's how the Irish carrot kisses I only have one question... is he single?!?!? - May 30, 2009 at 11:42 AM
How Bizarre
How Bizarre - May 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- wundermary said...
I think that's Ron Jeremy as the construction worker/merman. Not that that makes it any less disturbing...
- May 30, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Dawn said...
lmao. That carrot is so hilarious and cute! I have tears in my eyes.
- May 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Mountain Mama said...
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- May 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Mountain Mama said...
My thought on the carrot cake: Irish people sometimes have red hair and are, therefore, carrot tops.
Got nothing for the merman in the hard hat. - May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM
LOL on all counts. Your horrified carrot commentary make me giggle like a schoolgirl.
- May 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- Unknown said...
Umm..I always thought Mermen were supposed to be unnaturally beautiful, like their female counterparts? That one's repulsive!
The carrot and the lobster cakes just are inconceivable.
~Amy B - May 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
What amazing sights to wake up to!
Now, then. I do not believe that there is such a being as a "merman" C'mon, face it! Guys are too, er, "fond" of their ("er" again)..."STUFF"...to be hiding it inside of what amounts to a scaly, legless pouch with fins attached. I do WANT believe that there IS such a thing as a fat-bellied- construction worker-eating WHOPPER of a fish; this one appears to be having a very hard time of getting his "catch" down...*gag*
As for the duck/lobster affair (ain't love grand?), well...to beach his own...
=^><^= *cough*
I got a bigger boot outta the signage behind the ice cream cake. Did you see that? What the hell is "Aussie Vanilla" anyway? Vanilla with an unintelligible accent (like the ads for the "Outback STIKEhouse"?) And the "Mix-Ins"! "White Freddo Frog"? "Freckles"??
Better be obscenely yummy for almost $40 smackers..hate to think you're just paying for "cute."
On to Mr. Carrot. All I can say is that the poor thing's sign ought to read,"PLEASE PUT ME OUT OF MY UGLY GAPING MISERY" instead of "Kiss Me." - May 30, 2009 at 12:11 PM
WTH with the construction worker merman????? My eyes!!!!
- May 30, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Unknown said...
An IRISH carrot?!?! Shouldn't his HAIR be orange instead...? So cute anyway, but so weird!!! HAHA!
http://uberfoodnoob.blogspot.com/ - May 30, 2009 at 12:16 PM
a bear is a large hairy gay man.
i'm not sure why he has a tail though - May 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Deray said...
Maybe the duck/lobster couple is in reality Duke/Lauren or something like that?
1 year anniversary...correct
12 month anniversary? I don't think so.
Merman is totally disturbing. The only reason I would buy the Irish-carrot cake would be to take a picture and send it to Jen, jajajajaja. - May 30, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- Buffy said...
That last one looks like Mr. Hanky with jaundice.
- May 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- MaryBe said...
Wouldn't it be easier to say "Happy 1 year Anniversary"?
- May 30, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Aussie Vanilla instead of French Vanilla maybe? (You know, when we went through that Freedom Fries stage?)
- May 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
Anonymous said...
"Aussie Vanilla instead of French Vanilla maybe? (You know, when we went through that Freedom Fries stage?)"
I'd forgotten about that one--good theory...in theory!
My personal vanilla doesn't have an accent, so I don't know if it's PC or not. BTW, are we still *mad* at the French? I'm tired, and grudges get heavy after a while...
=^~-^= - May 30, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Stephanie said...
You didn't even mention the fruity pebbles surrounding the ducky and lobster cake.
- May 30, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- Miranda said...
I think I can (maybe) explain the duck-lobster cake. Supposedly, both ducks and lobsters mate for life. (Or at least, geese supposedly do; I'm not sure about ducks but I'm guessing the designer thought so.)
So there you go. Animals that mate for life = subject matter for weird anniversary cakes. - May 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Angie said...
"WTH" is all that comes to mind on all of these. That, and a big full-body-shudder thanks to Merman. Yikes.
- May 30, 2009 at 2:27 PM
A cross between a mermaid (or in this case, merman) and a bear. Bear meaning, slightly stocky muscular hairy type. - May 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Muum said...
AAAhhhaaha ha! this is even funnier than usual. love the mermaid, and the insane Irish carrot, especially. You made my day complete!
- May 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Tauney Owl said...
I rather suspect that the Merbehr thing is a joke having to do with the cake giver's name (probably Mary, being called Mare all the time...my friend Mary actually gets called Mare-bear, kind of like Carebear...) Or his/her last name might be Behr. So you put it together...Mer being the prefix for sea-dwelling mythical creatures, and Bear actually referring to a large and hairy homosexual man. So you get a creature that is half merman, half bear. A Merbehr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(gay_culture) - May 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- GJC said...
Miranda...but do ducks mate with LOBSTERS for life???
On a related note, this reminds me (in some incredibly jacked-up way) of something my ex-husband was discussing with his co-workers.
"I mean," he said, "it's like...If you saw a guy running down the street, naked, on fire, with a turtle hanging off his backside...What would be your first question??? Because you just KNOW there's a story there. SEVERAL stories, in fact---but which one do you ask him about first??"
("I'd put out the fire, first," I interjected, as he told me this story. "Well yeah," he admitted, "but I mean, after THAT.")
These cakes, to me, are the individual gastronomical equivalents of the guy running naked down the street on fire with a turtle hanging off his backside.
(wv: redrabbl. The low-budget bakery could only afford to hire the redrabbl of the culinary school; that's why their cakes are so wrecky.) - May 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Unknown said...
Christopher Lowell did what?! I'm so glad I missed that one - years of therapy would've been necessary for me to think of that again. Wow.
As for the cakes...um...huh. Yeah, I've got nothing. It's just so strange! - May 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM
phoenix316 - just how is a carrot irish?! perhaps a potato (a cake with a potato on i'd have to see) i understand but a carrot?
weird and weirder! - May 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM
I want to see a picture of Christopher Lowell dressed as a mermaid!!
- May 30, 2009 at 4:10 PM
I'm guessing that two people nicknamed Ducky and Lobster (for his big hands?) had an anniversary. Either that or the images represent each one's distinctive interest. Something tells me that the stock design is meant to combine any of various images for such a purpose.
Still no excuse for "12 month anniversary."
WV: dityrmin -- I am dityrmined not to get a wreck myself. - May 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- sarah Fravel said...
I think the duck/heart/lobster cake really means:
Happy 12 Month Anniversary
to Ducky
Love Crabby
Happy 12 Month Anniversary
from Ducky
Love Lobster, or Lobby, or Crabby
That's my favorite, "Crabby" because we all know that the cake person was messed up anyway, so I think they thought the lobster was really a crab!
JMHO--Sarah - May 30, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- Morgan the Muse said...
okay, I must admit, I love that carrot. Its the eyes, man. And look, they thought it was good enough to make at least one more!
- May 30, 2009 at 4:34 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
@ Gladys:
About the (weird but funny, by the way) story of the guy running naked down the street on fire with a turtle hanging off his backside...
That image should be made into a CAKE!!! Heaven knows the Wreckorators are MORE than up to the challenge!
And I had to think really hard--because it's fascinating, isn't it?--but I think my first question would be: "What kind of turtle is that?" Followed by: "Ick--it bit that burning guy's ass?" >^ee^< - May 30, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Is it possible that the construction worker merman is a reference to Zoolander?
Love this blog by the way. - May 30, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Do you know where I can get one of those Irish carrot cakes? It would actually be perfect for husband's upcoming graduation from air conditioning repair school... he's a redhead.
Let me know...
Thanks! - May 30, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Oh and my e-mail is email@example.com if you know where I can get that carrot cake for the graduation and if you know if they can do it for a babby shower too because its on the same day im pregnate
- May 30, 2009 at 6:16 PM
- Katie said...
anyone else thinking about zoolander right now? anyone?
maybe the 2nd cake's recipient's use the pet names "ducky" and "lobster" for one another.
and wouldn't the last one make a little more sense if it was a potato? i've never heard of irish carrots. irish potatoes, though, now that would make some good cake! - May 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM
ahhhhhh.. christopher lowell. i loved that show back in the day. he has a new show on somewhere.... still with the uplights don't know if he still wants you to paint your kitchen counters to look like marble.....
- May 30, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- Green said...
The Carrot Cake is so cute.!!!!
Thanks you for sharing.
www.ahacook.com - May 30, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- Rebekah said...
You do realize that the "Kis Me Carrot" HAS to be the next Wreckwear design don't you?
- May 30, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Anne said...
Wait, there's a Chris Lowell who isn't this guy?
It's also confusing that the "Irish" carrot is holding a coin bearing what looks like... the seal of the President of the United States? This is terribly confusing. I am in Ireland at the moment, and I can vouch that their coins do not, in fact, look like that. Nor do their carrots have bug-eyes.
This whole post makes my brain hurt.
Also, I think the mating-for-life explanation is correct on the second cake - it immediately made me think of a long-running joke on Friends where Phoebe always wanted to find her "lobster", because lobsters stayed together forever. It was very sweet, really. - May 30, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- pika23 said...
I thought that Merbehr was something to do with the Bear type homosexual male that is known for being hairy and macho....
- May 30, 2009 at 9:15 PM
- Catherine said...
My guess on the first one, as others' have said, is that its for a bear who likes to drag in mer-costume. Or is humorously being portrayed as a mermaid. It's a very popular combo here in New Orleans during Southern Decadence and Mardi Gras.
The carrot and the duckie lobster I cannot help with.
wv: get that carrot some anxiety medssm, quick! - May 30, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- LadyRhian said...
I'm surprised that no one by now twigged to the real identity of the merman- that has to be Captain Lou Albano, the 80's wrestler who used to glue rubber bands to his face.
http://laughloselive.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/lou.jpg - May 30, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Merman with a beer gut and a mullet. Lobster with a rubber duck fetish and sensitive carrots. Actually, in the right context the carrots would be cute.
wv...octry...where Country and Western Octopus fans go to hear music, the Grand Ole Octry. - May 30, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- Cute Things in Paint said...
all three: perfection.
- May 31, 2009 at 12:13 AM
- fuzzandfuzzlet said...
Oh gosh I am blind. Well no, but I may have nightmares.
- May 31, 2009 at 2:37 AM
- jackie31337 said...
Here is my theory. It is mine and I made it:
The duck/lobster cake is the result of somebody going to the bakery (or in this case, ice cream cakery) at the last minute. The duck, heart, and lobster are all separate stock cake decals (they all look like that edible printed stuff). Not finding any suitable stock cake designs, the purchaser picked two semi-random, although possibly personally significant images, put a heart between them, and called it an anniversary cake. Also, the "aussie vanilla" and the $40 price tag lead me to believe that this ice cream cakery may be in Australia.
My thoughts on the carrot cakes are that perhaps carrot cakes are their best sellers, and they didn't want to make a bunch of generic "yellow" holiday cakes that wouldn't sell, so they just decorated the carrot cakes. I like to imagine it was intended to be humorous, kind of like when we left the plastic rat Halloween decoration on our windowsill all the way until Christmas, and just put a tiny santa hat on it (my family is weird).
I've got nothing for the rest of the cakes, though. - May 31, 2009 at 3:50 AM
- jackie31337 said...
Gladys said "I mean," he said, "it's like...If you saw a guy running down the street, naked, on fire, with a turtle hanging off his backside...What would be your first question??? Because you just KNOW there's a story there. SEVERAL stories, in fact---but which one do you ask him about first??"
This sounds like the next Internet personality test meme. Somebody make it into an interactive quiz! Personally, I'd be most curious about the turtle. Naked and on fire are not quite SO bizarre. but the turtle really puts it over the top. - May 31, 2009 at 3:57 AM
At the risk of repeating genius that may already exist...
Mermen at Work? Eh? Eh? :) - May 31, 2009 at 7:32 AM
As the Wreckporter of the duck and lobster cake, I can shed a little light on it (well, not the lobster and duck). It's an icecream cake I found at an outlet of Cold Rock Ice Creamery. I don't know if the franchise exists outside of Australia, but they specialise in mixing bits of chocolate etc with ice cream on a cold rock. This cake was a display sample that had me and my boyfriend WTFing for a while, so we went back for a picture to send in to Jen. From what I can remember of this particular cake, it had about 3 kinds of chocolate and assorted lollies mixed in and was supposed to illustrate that you could have your own images- in relately high definition- on Cold Rock's cakes. I took the picture back in January of February and we never did work out the duck and lobster.
- May 31, 2009 at 9:15 AM
- Unknown said...
Mountain Mama, that's what I thought about the carrot cake, too. I never really understood that anyway, being that the tops of carrots are green.
On the bright side, at least they chose "carrot top" as the theme and not "ginger balls". - May 31, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- Beautiful World said...
Actually, in the right context the carrots would be cute.
- June 1, 2009 at 7:11 AM
- Bri said...
I kinda dig Merbehr. Not that he's hot or anything like that. Of course not.
Maybe the 12 month celebrators have nicknames for each other and the bakery stock images were simply very apt. Or maybe it's a weird fetish. Or maybe it just means to say that interspecies love is beautiful. - June 1, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Leslie said...
I want the carrot on a t-shirt. LOL
Fabulous... absolutely fabulous. - June 1, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- lawnajo said...
"Kiss Me, I'm a Cake Wrecks fan"
would make a great T-shirt. - June 1, 2009 at 2:04 PM
My fiancée is bummed, because she sent in a pic of a shocked carrot and didn't even get a half-mention. :(
- June 1, 2009 at 4:11 PM
What the photo of the Irish carrot doesn't show is that you can see the thumbprint of the decorator in the mouth of the carrot.
Really. I hope they washed their hands before making that gaping carrot maw. - June 1, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- Ann said...
I'm sensing that the duck & lobster cake is an inside joke. I actually know a girl whose nickname is Lobster. She used to date a girl who's nickname is Squirrel. Perhaps the Lobster I know found love w/ a girl whose nickname is Duck? Can't help you on the 12 month anniversary, though.
- June 2, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- kip said...
JEN! I sent you a picture of the same carrot but decked out for a birthday... check it out! it's got a pretty frightening tongue added too!
- June 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- A. Nonny Mouse said...
Kiss Me, I'm a Cake Wrecks fan could be the best new Cake Wrecks t-shirt. Especially with the psycho carrot guy on it.
- June 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM
That is definitely a Zoolander reference. Merman! Merman!
- June 2, 2009 at 9:57 PM
I read the comments and didn't see this insight, so thought I'd post. I don't think the Merbehr is wearing a construction hard hat. Rather, I think it is a fisherman's yellow rain hat, that would match the yellow wet gear fishermen wear. Google "souwester rain hat" to see pictures of a real one ... ("souwester" for a fierce Atlantic storm).
- June 2, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Roxanne said...
There seems to be a strange sub culture of mermaid hybrids. I found this thing while on the jersey shore. It was so strange I had to take a picture
- June 3, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Shannon Brennan said...
I love the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake. How adorable for child's party!!
- June 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Unknown said...
Okay, let me say that I absolutely LOVE this site.
Now, on to the matter at hand. I think that I may have an explanation for the carrot St. Paddy's Day cake. At St. Patrick's Day parades (or at the ones I attended in New Orleans) they throw cabbages, carrots and potatoes to the people watching.
This does not, however, excuse the baker from using such an off the wall symbol for a cake! - May 30, 2010 at 12:23 AM
WOW. My friend made the MerBehr cake. Merbehr is a fat hairy gay merman that brings joy to the world! Some of my friends are obsessed with him. How did you find that photo?
- July 3, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Unknown said...
bwahaha it makes sense that the merman would end up on here. our Merbear (cake people misspelled it) can only be described as a deity sent to us to help us become more comfortable with ourselves, among other things. he is very sensual creature; grab a patch of back hair and sink into the depths with him, for he will show you many wonders that were hidden inside you all along.it is a magic helmet he wears, he is a wet-nurse for seahorses, and he lactates sweet dr. pepper. many christmas ornaments, glass pieces, and food items have borne his likeness. i hope this helps lift the shroud of mystery a bit...
- July 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM
I wanted to laugh so hard at these, but I couldn't because it is late at night and i don't want to wake the house, seeing as I'm the last one up. So I make do with falling off my chair while trying to hold it in. (recovered composure)
- July 26, 2010 at 2:02 AM
That construction worker-merman cake is my all time favorite cake on this site! It just doesn't get more absurd than that!
- July 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM
- maka said...
the carrot with its sensitive regions covered reminded me of this photo i took years ago (totally not a cake, sorry) of a rather malformed carrot with a bit of an upgrade performed by a former co-worker.
- August 4, 2010 at 7:09 PM
LOL at the anniversary cake... If you look at it's tin-thing it says its made by Cold Rock :O
As for the merman... *love* ^_^ - September 5, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Imao. That carrot is so hilarious and cute. Love it. xx
- October 13, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Actually, I think that construction worker is supposed to be a fisherman in one of those yellow fisherman hats. At least, I hope it is!
- October 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM
I know this is an extremely old post, but the merman cake? I'm pretty sure it's in reference to these: http://www.diamondsofthesea.com/december-diamonds-merman-ornaments.aspx ornaments. My sister gives me one of these ornaments every year for Christmas. It started as a joke, but ended up being a tradition. I actually have a construction merman.... hanging on my tree right now.
- December 19, 2010 at 12:54 AM
I knowim a little late on this one but
its Chicks Love Lobster
its an anniversary hint for guys - January 2, 2011 at 12:09 AM
- Therapist Beverly Hills said...
Is it me, or does the first cake look like the merman version of Devo meets Jesus? As cakes are mean to reveal a creative side, often you really have to ask yourself or them, what were they thinking?!
- March 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM
- Christy said...
"...but frankly I'm more concerned over this being a stock design. Just how many people out there are encouraging relationships between their seafood and bath toys, anyway?"
I laughed so hard I cried. It just makes no sense. And the carrot? What the!!!!!!!! Maybe a potato for the Irish but a carrot????? With a gaping maw for a mouth? Who made that and what drugs where they on?
WV: Powresso - When you're arrested by the whopping "POW" one of these cakes lets fly when it punches you right between the eyes! - April 27, 2011 at 6:54 PM
"Now pucker up, blue-eyes, or I'll sic my Carrot Jockeys on you."
You made me laugh so hard I almost dropped my laptop! I LOVE this website! - May 4, 2011 at 10:56 PM
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