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Friday, March 27, 2009
Celebrating A Different Kind Of V Day
Friday, March 27, 2009
I recently saw on Neatorama that "Tough Times are Good for Vasectomies". Apparently the current economic rough patch has more and more folks turning to the "cheapest form of permanent birth control".
So in addition to an increase in sales of frozen peas, I guess this means we'll also be seeing less of these:
And more of these:
I think my favorite part on this one is the random sombrero: like the doctor would come in, consult his clipboard, and say, "Ok, Mr. Smith, I am going to need you to remove all your clothes... but feel free to keep that bitchin' sombrero on."
And on a personal note, my hubby John would like to remind all of you fellas out there that the ol' snip-snip is only the cheapest form of birth control if you do it without general anesthesia, which, according to him, "would totally have been worth the extra two grand".
[eye roll] Men. A little scrotum-puncturing and tube-cauterizing and they turn into such babies.
Liz P., Michael W., & Jessica G., Ole!
Note: The "We have a runner" cake is by the fabulous Cakeworks - be sure to check their site for more hilarious designs.
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- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Oh the last cake, that disembodied hand holding the scissors looks suspiciously like his cojones!
- March 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Wendy said...
I'm thinking maybe the sombrero is a reference to Speedy Gonzales?
- March 27, 2009 at 9:38 AM
I know it's a wreck.... but that "We have a Runner" is just CRACKING ME UP!!!!!
- March 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- stonesoupjewelry said...
The little sperm on that first cake are pretty cute. Less terrifying than dismembering a baby-shaped cake. But probably not something I'd want at a shower with my grandmother...
- March 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Maybe Ted ran across the border for a cheaper V
- March 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- utaduta said...
darn i never thought about getting my husband a cake when he got sniped! i don't remember him rockin a hat though?.....
- March 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Joan said...
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- March 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I love these cakes, they are the great! Great Friday morning material. Altough based on subject matter, can these cakes really be wrecks? I don't know if there is a gold standard vasectomy cake against which they can properly be measured. :)
- March 27, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Baking and Mistaking said...
Oh dear.
And they say romance is dead. - March 27, 2009 at 9:48 AM
The wreckiest aspect of Cake #2 is not the subject matter, but that attempt to pipe writing on traditional German Chocolate Cake icing.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- joyce said...
Wow---wish I had gotten a cake when I was 'fixed' but I am afraid to see what a tubal looks like for a woman after a c-section on a cake. My poor husband watched, 'cause I was "out" but he assured me...
- March 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Jentry M. said...
I especially like the fact that the guy on the sombrero cake has one skinny arm and one really muscular one...plus, the sombrero is rather awesome!
- March 27, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Miranda said...
I had a hysterectomy. No sympathy for the scaredy boys. NONE.
I agree with Wendy on the sombrero. LOL
Erm, the last thing I wanna eat, on a cake or otherwise, is sperm. X( bleccch! - March 27, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I don't know if I could eat a cake with sperm on it....
I hope they don't have cream filling! - March 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM
"We have a runner" is from a comedy sketch by, I think, The Kids in the Hall. A woman gives birth and the baby takes off at great speed. The doctor yells "We have a runner" and another guy informs the parents that some babies are born to run and they get sent to Mexico where they have organized baby racing. That might explain the sombrero on the cake. Just sayin'.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Neen said...
The "We have a runner" is one of the best I have seen. I wish my huuby wouldn't be such a wimp and get the Big V. And here I thought Marines were supposed to be brave.
- March 27, 2009 at 9:56 AM
- Trevor said...
Thanks for a good smile today. I needed one, and you gave it to me!
I'm shocked you didn't comment about keeping the air brush away from some of the decorators though! - March 27, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Good morning all,
I know that today's post will inspire many of you to post a comment in this section which is, as always, great. Before you comment on whether or not the cakes are "wrecks" though, please read the sidebar on the main page and take note of Jen's definition of what constitutes a wreck.
Today is more about the subject matter and less about the construction.
You guys are the best.
Wreck On!
john - March 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Malibu Niki said...
I love that guy's chest hair. Very Burt Reynolds, don't you think?
- March 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Skye said...
Wow, the sombrero-wearing-runner cake has to be one of my all-time favorites!! The ridiculousness of the sombrero, the great "suck it up" inscription, and the occasion itself make for an awesome wreck!
WV: scrucur: a post-vasectomy scrotum - March 27, 2009 at 10:02 AM
You know I really love that last cake...the sombrero totally makes it for me. As a frame of reference, I had to ask my hubby one time how much it hurt and he took on that ultra-manly grin and said, "It didn't hurt a bit." Which to me says he took a LOT of Vicodin, or this is much like his hunting stories and he doesn't want me to know how it REALLY went.
But above all else, this is once again proof that cake makes ANYTHING better. - March 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- amylu said...
Wish I'd thought to get my man a cake when he did the V...I think the best part was seeing him all trippy on the Valium they had him take. He doesn't remember much about the day, so having a cake would've helped make a memory. Great wreck material!!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Wow, there really is a cake for everything. So why haven't I gotten birthday cakes the past few years? And why didn't I have a weird wedding cake? I feel gipped! Maybe I need to start celebrating other occasions in my life to get that cake...
You know, I'm OK with the fact that not all Wrecks are bad and some are just, well, off the wall. - March 27, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Lizzy Leigh said...
I rather like the first cake the best. Happy little sperm! Shouldn't be there be an egg on there too? Oh, and I've never heard of a man getting general anesthetic for getting snipped, unless they're a big baby. ;) Usually a local is enough.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:15 AM
- March 27, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
I had absolutely NO sympathy for my man's complaints during and after the V. I've had three kids for him and I DON'T. WANT. TO. HEAR. IT. You have absolutely no conception of how many minor and major aches and pains go with 30 combined months of pregnancy, three births and three years of breastfeeding. The cake is right, suck it up.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I see naked guy in a sombrero t-shirt in our future.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - March 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Christina Kim said...
vasectomies are reversible!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM
These are hilarious!!!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- El Comodoro said...
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where putting ANY internal organ (or um, material, in this case) would be appropriate. I'm still just not getting there.
And I applaud the completely unnecessary but hysterical sombrero use. Cake decorator dude/dudine, I salute you.
But I can't help but feel that I'd be sorta weird having a party, complete with cake, mind you, to "celebrate" my snip snip. - March 27, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Those cakes are hilarious. I think the first one is really cute, but those little swimmers sure are shiny. I think I would be requesting an edge piece.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Tabitha (From Single to Married) said...
ha!! Awesome!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Until I read the first comment post, I thought those WERE his "man parts" wow. Thanks for opening my eyes Courteous Chihuahua
P.S. he kind of looks like Chuck Liddell(UFC...anyone?) - March 27, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Hungarican Chick said...
On cake #3, is that a little bit o' ball we see peeking out? EW! It brings me back to the days of HS when my gym teacher would make us sit on the gym floor while he walked around in his shorts and we were horrified to look up and see corners of his furry bubblegum peeking out from his running shorts. :::GROSS:::
- March 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM
"Kids, this is the story of what happened after I met your mother."
- March 27, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Unknown said...
In reply to Jill's post, the phrase "We have a runner" is from the 1976 feature movie "Logan's Run" (don't know if it was in the novel that the movie was based on...). High-tech sci-fi movie that pre-dated Star Wars, and packed a wallop of a message that is still timely. There's a remake scheduled for 2010. Perhaps it will spawn a new line of cakes :)
wv: thotis -- "I thotis was a great movie!" - March 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM
I think the sperm on the first cake would be less creepy if they didn't have eyes. I agree with "The Courteous Chihuahua" that the disembodied hand with the scissors looks like his cojones! I had to look at it a few times to see what it was. Love the sombrero!
WV: reelly. really. - March 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Too funny!
My husband just had to have surgery on "the boys" last Friday and has been a mess ever since.
They just don't manage pain the same way women do, even the surgeon had to agree. He said women are just tougher!
http://vertigobcooks.wordpress.com - March 27, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Hilarious! LOOOOOVE the site! It gives me as many giggles as the usual webcomics I read
- March 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM
that last cake is FUNNY!
- March 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM
My poor hubby didn't get a cake for his big V day...last month. However, you have just given me such a great idea for when we get the go ahead after a "clean" sample...*evil laughter*
- March 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- Charity and Darcy said...
"...the corners of his furry bubblegum ..." *snort*
- March 27, 2009 at 11:37 AM
- Vee said...
oh man i'm soooo going to get the long swimmer cake if i get knocked up!
- March 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Kara said...
Oh my god, the disembodies nuts/hand is hilarious... even if that's probably not what that was supposed to be.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM
I'm totally sharing these with my husband. Absolutely fabulous.
- March 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Once again, I am crediting Cake Wrecks for keeping me on the straight and narrow as I strive to become my city's Biggest Loser! lol
- March 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Mandy said...
Creative, yes. How exactly does one act when presented with one of these? I can only imagine!
- March 27, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Unknown said...
Those are the funniest I've seen this week! Thank you for the laugh.
I love the last one, though don't understand that sombrero. Run, man, run!!
~Amy B. - March 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- sues2u2 said...
totally LMAO & ROFLOL!
- March 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Sharon said...
I notice cake #2 is German Chocolate.
Comfort food indeed. - March 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Hmmm....on the last one, I thought "cajones" too, but it looks like they're sitting on two spoons. That confused me until I read the first comment!
- March 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM
the runner cake is, hands down, the best cake evah!
- March 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Hey! said...
"We have a runner"
Best.Cake quote. Ever. - March 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- Pink said...
I think the first one is pretty cute. ^^
- March 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Mella said...
I like the first one .
The rest not so much - March 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- The Sikorski Family said...
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- March 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- Thistledew Farm said...
I just had to read the comments on this one. I just can't figure out where you would order a cake like this - obviously one would do it on the phone? because I'm trying to picture myself standing in Walmart at the Bakery explaining it. I'm coming up at a loss here!
- March 27, 2009 at 1:11 PM
HAHA. This amuses me greatly because I am about to drive my husband to the urologist for his snip. I check the wrecks everyday and just figured I'd do a quick scan before we leave. I even showed him. Now he wants german chocolate cake!
- March 27, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Candice said...
#3 could almost belong on passive-aggressive notes, too. :P
- March 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
Mom and all five of us kids went to the hospital with my Dad when he had his vasectomy.
Love the runner reference, and baby races in Mexico. - March 27, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- MetalRose said...
You know, I'm suprised that no one made a joke about spitting out the cake, or swallowing a piece. But that's probally to low isn't it?
- March 27, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- The Sikorski Family said...
Not only does the guy in the last cake resemble my father-in-law, but my father-in-law's name is Ted!!! *shudder* EESH!
- March 27, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Vasectomies also have failure rates. I have twins to prove that fact!!
- March 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Hilarious! I'll have to make or get my hubby a cake when he gets his done. Although if he starts whining about needing general anesthetic, I might need to tell him maybe we should save money by doing it at home with no drugs whatsoever like I did with our 3rd and 4th babies. That should shut him up.
--Wendy - March 27, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- Amy Ellen said...
I love these cakes, ahahhahahah especially #3. Too funny. And as someone who had 6 kids without meds and then a nurse who forgot the pain shot so I woke after having tubes tied with now pain killer. I don't have much sympathy for men getting snipped. So I would have to agree with the statement on the last cake, LOL
- March 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- vespabelle said...
I love the sombrero dude, but I'm thinking that if my husband gets snipped, a cake that looks like a bag of frozen peas (maybe even a CCC) might be appropriate as well.
- March 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM
AWE-SOME-NESS! So funny! Hey all you crazy couples out there: Intrauterine devices can be hormone free and they're good for 10 years! cheaper than a vastectomy in the long run and if you change your mind you can always get it taken out!
- March 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM
- somethingwitty said...
"bitchin' sombrero"
Possibly the funniest caption I have read on this site. I laughed out loud. - March 27, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Lisa Chin said...
The last one is SO FUNNY! I've got a good belly laugh going from that one! Oh baby, that is funny!
- March 27, 2009 at 2:33 PM
On the middle one: that's supposed to be individual sperm cells right?
Because the pic looks like gobs of semen with a "no" sign drawn through.
GAH! - March 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM
"Feel free to keep that bitchin' sombrero on" is my new personal motto.
- March 27, 2009 at 2:51 PM
that first cake is just disgusting. any cake featuring sperm is disgusting. actually, these all fall into that category. glad i didn't read before breakfast!
- March 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- jackie31337 said...
Sharon said I notice cake #2 is German Chocolate. Comfort food indeed.
And appropriately enough, it's topped with chopped nuts. ;) - March 27, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- JH said...
I hadn't even thought about getting my husband a cake for this!
. . .Er, not that I am now, of course. - March 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- Charlene said...
The sad part is that if any of those cakes are from Canada, the cake cost more than the vasectomy.
- March 27, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Wow, that last cake was a riot...what were those floating body parts?? if that's what it looks like, the doctor cut more than he / she was supposed to. Just sayin', Ted may need an additional surgery.
- March 27, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The third cake is signed at the bottom. True art.
- March 27, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- Scritzy said...
My stomach is hurting, and I'm trying to get over a coughing fit from the last cake. Everything about it is just hilarious, from the bitchin' sombrero to the expression on the guy's face.
Spouse refused to get the snip & clip. I got the tubal instead, and later I had to have a total hysterectomy. Hey, pal, I suffered more than you did, and I didn't even have to go through childbirth. Suck it up, dude! No sombrero for you! - March 27, 2009 at 3:51 PM
I am literally CRYING over these comments...you CW readers are hilarious!!! At one point, somewhere in the middle of reading the comments, probably about when I read "corners of his fuzzy bubblegum", I completely lost it...then everything else was punch drunk funny.
Thanks for the pick-me-up guys! - March 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- zigspective said...
"The wreckiest aspect of Cake #2 is not the subject matter, but that attempt to pipe writing on traditional German Chocolate Cake icing."
Yeah the piping over that icing makes my stomach a little queasy.
Oh, and I've never heard of a man getting general anesthetic for getting snipped, unless they're a big baby. ;) Usually a local is enough.
That's what I was thinking. Pretty much all the men I know who have gone through with a vasectomy have been fine, a little aspirin, possibly some ice and they are fine. Of course the one's that go in for the procedure thinking it's going to be absolutely "awful" are the ones who do have a rougher time of it. I'm pretty sure it's a bigger psychological issue than pain issue for most. - March 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM
- Amber Schmidt said...
Oh... my. I think I nearly peed myself laughing at this!
- March 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Ahem. We'll be seeing fewer of these. Not less.
Persnickety begets persnickety! - March 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM
OMG, I absolutely love these! I'm sitting here laughing so hard. What's really funny (to me) is that my own hubby is having one in a couple of weeks. LOL!!
- March 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Am I the only one that really wished the sombrero was being held just below the waist on cake # 3?
I know, picky, picky. - March 27, 2009 at 6:06 PM
- Mary said...
This made my day!!
- March 27, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Melinda said...
You know, my dad's name is Ted and he had a vasectomy. I wonder if we got him a cake for the big snip and I just suppressed the memory.
- March 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
I don't think anyone else has mentioned the fact that the middle cake has coconut icing similar to the CCC Curious George Tribute cake! EEK! It's scary for that reason alone.
I find it interesting that some women were so offended by having cartoon-like sperm characters on a cake, (the first one). Man....it's far less offensive than those horrible "giving birth" cakes. Those would make ME vomit. - March 27, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Bilby P. Dalgyte said...
Lol that is one pretty awesome cake. But that's a very sensitive part of the body, women just don't understand what it's like being kicked there even lightly. At least women only give birth a few times tops...
- March 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM
- Chris Z. said...
I should have requested a cake with my snip, what's another few bucks over my $200 deductible?
- March 27, 2009 at 8:42 PM
- Uncle Big Steve said...
The second cake is a wreck for an entirely different reason. I'm color blind. I can't read it. I'm guessing it would be easier in person or even with a 90 degree camera angle but I'm not sure. Contrasting colors people, contrasting colors.
- March 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM
- Das Mutter said...
I'm just PRAYING for a chance to recreate that first cake. I love it!
- March 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM
"A little scrotum-puncturing and tube-cauterizing and they turn into such babies."
BWHAHAHAHAHAhahaha!!! Gawd, I live your site. I have to catch my breath now. - March 27, 2009 at 9:46 PM
- HellTygr said...
Everyone is so distracted by the sombrero, nobody has mentioned the black socks? My favorite detail on that particular cake. :)
- March 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- Unknown said...
Poor Ted! It's not the operation he's so upset about, those scissor things are about to snatch away his bitchin' sombrero. I'd run and cry too if I was him!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:04 PM
A vasectomy costs how much in the US?!!!
We Brits are spoilt with the NHS, I know (though we do pay for it through taxes) but I really can't imagine any man paying to have the snip! But if it's free... - March 27, 2009 at 10:30 PM
- Erica said...
We have a runner!
Cream filling!
Chopped nuts!
OMG! I'm crying from laughing so hard. - March 27, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
my hubby did it with valium only and said had he known how darn easy it was he woudl have done it three kids sooner!
- March 27, 2009 at 10:46 PM
- Liz Darner said...
Ohmygoodness, thank you for the V Day cakes! So apropos as it was my hubby's v day today. And now I think I am a bad wife for not getting him a cake...
- March 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM
- Ghost Rider said...
Anyone else see the first one as having severely disabled octopi on it? They should've moved the eyes!
- March 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM
diopsideanddiamonds said...
"Kids, this is the story of what happened after I met your mother."
OMG, I was rolling on the floor after that comment. So appropriate, esp since the last cake's made out to Ted... - March 28, 2009 at 1:12 AM
- DM Donna said...
...are you sure that guy is Ted? I could have sworn it was Bono...
- March 28, 2009 at 1:22 AM
- Bald Outing said...
too precious!
- March 28, 2009 at 4:13 AM
Oh my God! Happy Sperm! Someone put Happy Sperm on a cake!
I, too, thought that Sombrero Ted's "guys" were off to he left side of the cake there. And I couldn't help thinking "no wonder he's running, his doctor is not so good at this vasectomy thing. That was a little bit more of a cut than you were supposed to make there, Doc." Then I realized it was just supposed to be the doctor's hand. - March 28, 2009 at 4:20 AM
- *~*Lis*~* said...
I love the last one - but yea what's with the sombrero?
- March 28, 2009 at 8:19 AM
A lot of vasectomies are done in the office with just a local. However, I'm an OR nurse, and I've done a lot in the OR with a "twilight" sleep aka patient doesn't remember a thing. I bet it depends on insurance and what the patient really wants.
That third one really cracks me up somethin' fierce. - March 28, 2009 at 8:36 AM
You American guys have the option of having a general anesthetic or even Valium with your vasectomies? In Ontario, we may have this office procedure paid out of our taxes, but no one is ever offered more than a li'l freezing in that *ahem* area. Our ruff, tuff Canadian boys get to drive themselves home afterwards, on our dogsleds, in our canoes or on our snowmobiles.
- March 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM
- ♥ Angela said...
Happy V Day! :D ha ha ha
- March 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Gotta love a cake with chest hair...
- March 28, 2009 at 6:56 PM
There truely is a cake for EVERY occasion!
- March 28, 2009 at 7:08 PM
"We have a runner" has to be the best cake caption ever!!! That was one hysterically funny cake!
- March 28, 2009 at 9:58 PM
- sweetartist said...
I LOVE those cakes! I wish I knew someone getting the procedure, JUST so that I could give one of those cakes!
- March 29, 2009 at 2:09 AM
- Carolin said...
I am fairly sure that the sombrero was put there to cover up something. Probably a wrecked inscription.
- March 29, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- HogsOfOldDC said...
I love the idea of the random sombrero, because the doc just went "south of the border" on that poor dude.
Yeah, my wife gave me 4 kids and I know I can't begin to imagine that sacrifice and pain, but all you have to do is threaten to harm to doodads and men start cringing....they're sensitive ladies....SEN-SI-TIVE..... - March 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM
- Das Mutter said...
Can I ask, anyone know where the first cake here came from? I'm definitely going to recreate this and wondering what those little guys are made from....royal painted in gel? Hmmmm....
- March 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM
It's cheaper to get medical procedures done in Mexico. I'm assuming that that's what the reference is to...
Awesome cake!!! Would have loved to hear the conversation between the baker and the people ordering it! - March 29, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Whitney G said...
Our insurance paid for my husband's Big V, so it was DEFINITELY the cheapest form of birth control. I just wish I'd thought of buying him a cake. I bought him a girlie mag instead.
- March 30, 2009 at 12:57 AM
My husband got a vasectomy done here in Canada, and it was covered by healthcare.
Yep, it was free.
He had it done with lasers, too, so it healed pretty quickly. - March 31, 2009 at 5:59 PM
- Bridget said...
Oh how I love that bitchin sombrero - so awesome
- April 3, 2009 at 7:27 AM
I think the best part about this is that it was posted on my son's 5th birthday, so matters procreational were on my mind. Shame I didn't see it until now!
- April 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Lol, sorry I am laughing so hard right now...my friend pointed me to this website because of this cake...this cake I did. I work at a bakery where we do custom cakes and cartoon on them. Thats right, we hand draw cartoons in icing...instead of pencil.
The story behind this was he was going to mexico to get snipped, and he was scared, its a cartoon. Im sure you can understand the humor now...seriously. - April 4, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Alright so....obviously most people don't get the cake...he's getting snipped in Mexico! What people order is what we do, we have had some messed up orders but what customers want is what the customer gets...try a naked lady sitting on a dead guy playing with his you know what...she was becoming a mortician! That's what happens when you do custom cakes!
- April 4, 2009 at 12:23 AM
- Christine said...
I should have had a cake made up for my hubby when he went for The Big Snip. It would have been so funny!
My hubby is the world's biggest baby about pain and such. But he went ahead with the snip anyway, and now he says that "it was nothing".
I love what the snip doctor said to him - "better a little pain in the balls now than a big pain in the a$$ forever!" - April 4, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Can we please get the sombrero-wearing runner on a shirt???
- April 21, 2009 at 12:20 AM
I've looked at these cakes at least three times, on different occasions - And only today have I realized that the thing next to the scissors is supposed to be a hand and not something else... which would have explained the running away, screaming.
- May 5, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- Amy said...
It took me a minute to realize that the "big-V" on the second cake was for "vasectomy". I thought maybe they were celebrating this poor cad's virginity.
- May 18, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
Burt Reynolds, eat your heart out! lol xx
- October 13, 2010 at 10:23 AM
the best thing about decorating a cake like the runner cake(which I decorated a while ago) is the customers who have such a great sense of humour which makes my job so much fun^^ I loved all the comments
- November 22, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Holy sunuvabitch...
I've had TWO children, gone through TWO labors, TWO c-sections, and TWO recoveries, and no one's ever even *thought* to bring me a cake...! But let a fella go in for a 15-minute in-office minor procedure, and it's suddenly a celebration! ;0P - January 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM
Well I guess we know where Miranda stands on the old spit vs. well you knoiw... question LOL
- March 4, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Where DO you find these gems?
- March 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM
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Always turned out in carefully chosen outfits and matching jewelry, she knows what's best for everyone. She often shares her views in the form of hand-written letters that rhyme. She is always right. She plays the violin and is a studied card sharp. She knows her way around a dirty joke. She makes brisket and strudel like no one else and though she tried to teach us her recipes no one can quite replicate them.
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Here's one called "Firelight Cottage."
And Jennifer's cake:
This shirt is too cool: "Doc Franklin's Miracle Tonic"
But Neli's cake is even better:
You can see closer detail shots at the link. So cool.
Vina did an awesome job of bringing the design to life:
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Cora's cake based on the design is just as fun.:
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And the rainbow pools are chocolate ganache mud cakes? Yeah. I'm so there.
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Cheese recipes
The first four recipes were provided by Zivney Cheese in Minonk. The others were provided by the St. Louis District Dairy Council.
Zivney's Overnight Ham & Cheese Breakfast Casserole
6 slices bread, cubed
1/2 pound ham, cooked and chopped
1 small onion, cooked and chopped
1 cup grated Zivney's Baby Swiss cheese
6 eggs, lightly beaten
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dry mustard or prepared
A couple dashes of pepper, garlic, paprika, Tabasco or Worcestershire (optional)
The night before baking, layer bread in a buttered 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Over the bread, layer the ham, onions and cheese.
In a bowl, lightly beat eggs, milk, salt and mustard. Pour over ingredients in baking dish. Refrigerate overnight.
In the morning, bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until set.
Serves 6. Per serving: 363 calories; 24.4 grams protein; 20.3 grams fat (50.4 percent of total calories); 20.6 grams carbohydrate; 1.1 gram fiber; 256 milligrams cholesterol; and 1,224 milligrams sodium.
Spinach and Dill Havarti on multigrain bread
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 cup cooked, chopped spinach, drained and squeezed dry
8 slices multigrain bread or 1 piece of focaccia (about 12 by 15 inches), cut horizontally
8 ounces dill Havarti, sliced
In a heavy nonstick skillet over medium-low heat, warm the garlic and 1 tablespoon of olive oil, then add the spinach and cook together to warm through.
On 4 slices of the bread (or the bottom layer of the focaccia), arrange the cheese, then top with the spinach and a second piece of bread (or the top of the focaccia). Press together to seal well, then lightly brush the outside of the sandwiches with the remaining olive oil.
Brown the sandwiches in the skillet, weighting them, or in a panini press over medium-high heat. Cook until lightly crisped and golden on one side. Then turn and brown the second side. When cheese is melted the sandwich is ready. Serve immediately. Cut diagonally.
Serves 4. Per serving: 477 calories; 22 grams protein; 26 grams fat (48.8 percent of total calories); 39 grams carbohydrate; 5.3 grams fiber; 54 milligrams cholesterol; and 630 milligrams sodium.
Zivney Ham & Cheese Stuffed Meatloaf
2 pounds ground beef or meatloaf mix (beef, pork, veal)
2 eggs
1 cup bread crumbs (up to 1 1/2 cups)
1/2 cup grated Zivney Asiago cheese
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 tablespoon black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 onion, diced
1/2 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 cup milk
8 slices Ziveny Provolone cheese
8 slices ham
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine ground meat, eggs, bread crumbs, Zivney Asiago cheese, herbs, garlic, onion, ketchup, Worcestershire. Mix well, gradually adding the milk (if it seems too moist, add bread crumbs until it is a consistency that will form a loaf with flattening).
Spray a large baking or roasting pan with a nonstick spray and press the meatloaf out.
Layer Zivney Provolone cheese slices and ham, covering the center line of the meatloaf, then close it together and tuck in the ends, forming a loaf which is oblong.
Bake for 35 to 45 minutes or until a meat thermometer registers 160 degrees. Let rest 15 minutes, then cut and serve. Gravy is optional.
Serves 6-8. Per serving: 697 calories; 45.9 grams protein; 44.4 grams fat (57.6 percent of total calories); 28 grams carbohydrate; 1.4 grams fiber; 205 milligrams cholesterol; and 1,552 milligrams sodium.
Reuben Roll Ups
1/4 cup shortening
1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon caraway seed
1/2 teaspoon salt
2-3 tablespoons cold water
1/4 cup bottled Thousand Island Dressing
3 ounces sliced corned beef, finely chopped
1 cup (about 4 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese
1/2 cup sauerkraut, well drained
For cream cheese pastry: Cut shortening and cream cheese into a mixture of flour, caraway seed and salt. Sprinkle in water 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing with fork until flour is moistened. Divide into halves. Roll each into a 11-by-9-inch rectangle on a lightly floured cloth-covered board. Spread each rectangle with half of dressing.
To assemble: Mix meat, cheese and sauerkraut. Top each rectangle with half of this mixture. Fold in ends. Roll up beginning at 11-inch side. Pinch edges to seal. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 450 degrees until golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Cut each into 4 servings.
Serves 8. Per serving: 271 calories; 9.3 grams protein; 19.6 grams fat (64.9 percent of total calories); 14.5 grams carbohydrate; 0.7 gram fiber; 39 milligrams cholesterol; and 456 milligrams sodium.
Colby Cobb Salad
2 cups fat-free plain yogurt, divided
4 large basil leaves
1/4 cup parsley, stems removed
2 tablespoons chopped chives
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon honey
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 tablespoons fat-free mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
1/4 teaspoon additional pepper (optional)
8 cups chopped romaine lettuce (1 small head)
1/2 cup halved cherry or grape tomatoes
1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
1 cup diced cucumber
2 slices cooked turkey breast, cut into strips
2 tablespoons bacon bits
1 egg, hard boiled and chopped
1 1/2 cups shredded Colby or Colby Jack cheese
For dressing: Place 1 cup yogurt, basil, parsley, chives, lemon juice, honey and pepper in a blender or food processor. Cover and pulse until smooth (dressing will be green in color). Pour yogurt mixture into a medium bowl; stir in remaining yogurt and mayonnaise until just blended; refrigerate until ready to serve.
For the salad: Place lettuce at the bottom of a bowl and sprinkle the tomatoes, onion, cucumber, turkey, bacon bits, egg and Colby cheese on top. Just before serving, pour dressing over salad and toss lightly.
Note: Dressing may be prepared up to 2 days ahead and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Serves 6. Per serving: 210 calories; 16 grams protein; 11 grams fat (47 percent of total calories); 14 grams carbohydrate; 3 grams fiber; 70 milligrams cholesterol; and 350 milligrams sodium.
Beef Burrito with Pepper Jack Cheese and Black Beans
1/2 pound ground beef sirloin
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 cup chunky salsa, divided
2 cups cooked brown or white rice
6 (9-inch) whole-wheat flour tortillas
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 (11-ounce) can corn kernels, drained
2 cups shredded Pepper Jack cheese
1/3 cup sliced green onion, including green tops
In a medium nonstick skillet, brown ground beef and garlic over medium heat, breaking meat into small chunks. Drain fat and stir in 1/2 cup of salsa; set aside.
Spread 1/3 cup of rice on center of a tortilla, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Scatter about 2 tablespoons beans and 1 1/2 tablespoons corn over rice. Spread 1/3 cup of the beef mixture and 1/4 cup of cheese over corn. Top with 2 teaspoons of salsa and a few pieces of green onion. Fold in 2 opposite edges of tortilla and roll up. Place seam-side down on microwave-safe dish. Repeat with remaining tortillas.
Place burritos in a microwave oven and heat 1 minute or until heated through. Serve with remaining salsa.
Serves 6. Per serving: 450 calories; 26 grams protein; 16 grams fat (32 percent of total calories); 59 grams carbohydrate; 8 grams fiber; 65 milligrams cholesterol; and 900 milligrams sodium.
Sirloin Pita Salad Sandwich with Herbed Yogurt Dressing
2 (8-ounce) containers plain yogurt
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced parsley
1 tablespoon minced chive
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 pound sirloin or rib-eye steak, trimmed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
4 (4-inch) whole wheat pita bread rounds
2 1/2 cups mixed salad greens (such as arugula, radicchio and baby spinach leaves)
2/3 cup crumbled Blue cheese
1/2 small red onion, sliced and separated
8 cherry tomatoes, halved
Spoon yogurt into a medium bowl and stir in garlic, parsley, chive and oregano until well blended; set aside.
Rub both sides of steak with salt and pepper. Heat a medium, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
Cook steak about 6 minutes on each side (for medium) or until desired. Allow steak to rest 5 minutes before cutting into thin slices.
Warm pita halves in a toaster. Into each pita half, spoon 1/4 of the yogurt dressing, mixed salad greens, Blue cheese, onion, steak and tomato. Spoon additional yogurt dressing over the top.
Serves 4. Per serving: 290 calories; 25 grams protein; 9 grams fat (28 percent of total calories); 30 grams carbohydrate; 4 grams fiber; 40 milligrams cholesterol; and 650 milligrams sodium.


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James Holmes in court Monday: What will his defense be?
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers are ready for a crucial hearing next week in which prosecutors will outline their case against James Holmes, who is charged with killing 12 people and wounding 70 during the midnight showing of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises" on July 20.
It starts Monday and is scheduled to run all week. At its conclusion, state District Judge William B. Sylvester will decide if the evidence is sufficient to put Holmes on trial.
The defense could waive the hearing but legal analysts said defense lawyers sometimes go ahead with the hearing to get an idea of how strong the prosecution's case is.
Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a former federal prosecutor, said preliminary hearings sometimes set the stage for a plea agreement as each side gets to assess the strength of the other.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder and hasn't been asked to enter a plea yet. His lawyers have said he suffers from mental illness.
Next week's hearing will give the public its first officially sanctioned look at much of the evidence against Holmes.
A judge imposed a gag order shortly after Holmes' arrest barring attorneys and investigators from speaking publicly about the case, and many documents have been sealed.
The University of Colorado, where Holmes was enrolled in a Ph. D. neuroscience program, has also been tight-lipped about the case. Investigators said he began stockpiling firearms and ammunition while taking classes in the spring.
In June, he made threats to a professor and on June 10 filed withdrawal papers after failing a year-end exam, prosecutors said. The next day he saw his school psychiatrist who tried to report him to a campus security committee, according to Holmes' lawyers.
Relatives of those killed at a Colorado movie theater rejected an invitation Wednesday to attend its planned reopening, calling it a "disgusting offer" that came at a terrible time — right after the first Christmas without their loved ones.
The parents, grandparents, cousins and widow of nine of the 12 people killed in the July shooting said they were asked to attend an "evening of remembrance" followed by a movie when the Aurora theater reopens on Jan. 17. They released a letter sent to the theater's owner, Cinemark, in which they criticized the Plano, Texas-based company for not previously reaching out to them to offer condolences and refusing to meet with them without lawyers.
"Our family members will never be on this earth with us again and a movie ticket and some token words from people who didn't care enough to reach out to us, nor respond when we reached out to them to talk, is appalling," the letter said.
Cinemark had no immediate comment.
The company announced last month that it would reopen the theater on Jan. 17 and invite people affected by the attack and other guests, a move that Aurora officials said has strong support in the community. Gov. John Hickenlooper plans to attend.
The Aurora Sentinel reported that plans filed with the city call for turning the theater into one of the company's "extreme digital cinema" sites that feature massive screens. It's not clear from the plans whether there will be a memorial to the victims.
The invitation was emailed to families by the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance, which said the offer was being sent on behalf of Cinemark.
It arrived two days after Christmas as Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the mother and stepfather of Jessica Ghawi, one of the 12 people killed, were housesitting in Denver.
They had left their home in San Antonio, Texas, on the advice of their grief counselor to avoid being where they typically would have celebrated Christmas with Jessica. Sandy Phillips said they picked Denver on purpose because her daughter, a 24-year-old aspiring sportscaster, had been happy there.
The Phillipses said the invitation could be a public relations ploy to help show the public that some victims or their families are willing to attend the theater reopening.
"It was a killing field. It was a place of carnage and they've not once told us what their plans are for the theater other than that they're reopening it," said Sandy Phillips. She would like the theater where her daughter was killed to be demolished, though she acknowledged that it was unrealistic to expect Cinemark to give up the rest of the building.
The families of some victims have sued Cinemark. The father of the youngest person killed in the shooting, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, is among them. He didn't sign the letter but the girl's grandparents did. The Phillipses have not decided whether they will sue.


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Is there anything the U.S. can do to stop the wave of often violent demonstrations across the Muslim world this week targeting its embassies and those of its allies? The short answer is no; it will have to ride out the rage stoked by opportunists in Muslim capitals looking to profit politically from genuine popular outrage at a film insulting the Prophet Muhammad — and hope that no more diplomats or protesters are killed, thereby further escalating the confrontation.
Friday saw protests in countries as far-flung as Sri Lanka, Nigeria and the Maldives, as well as deadly confrontations in Tunis, where three people were killed after the U.S. embassy compound was breached, and in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, where one was killed after a similar breach. But Friday was always going to be a very bad day; as the Muslim day of prayer, it usually marks the zenith of any cycle of pan-Islamic protest, brings the global Muslim ummah together in mosques and affirms the bonds of a community of faith and submission to the God of Abraham. The Friday jummah prayer service symbolically reaffirms the community of the faithful, which can be used to remind them of the notion that an attack on Muslims anywhere, or on the symbols of their faith, should be felt as an attack on Muslims everywhere. Fridays, then, have in recent years always marked a high point in protests, whether against the invasion of Iraq, the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Israel's bombing of Gaza or the desecration of the Koran by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan or an obscure preacher in Florida. And, as in those previous rounds of protest, it's a fairly safe bet that the outrage over the Innocence of Muslims film will eventually abate — although the death of protesters creates new grievances that can sustain the issue.
(PHOTOS: Protests Rage in Middle East, Sparked by Mysterious Anti-Islamic Film)
But White House press secretary Jay Carney may have been overreaching when he insisted on Friday that the protests arose "in response not to United States policy, not to the Administration, not the American people [but] in response to a video, a film that we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it, but this is in no way a case of protests directed towards the United States writ large or at U.S. policies."
It's never that simple.
The reason a piece of "evidence" of American animus to Islam — the desecration of a Koran, say, or the dissemination of a video painting a grotesque caricature of the Prophet Muhammad — ignites rage toward U.S. institutions in so many Muslims is the way those Muslims have viewed and experienced U.S. policy. Direct insults of Islam such as those contained in the offending movie are such a powerful tool in the hands of those who would agitate against U.S. involvement in the Middle East — and against those in the Arab world who would work with Washington — because they function as a kind of narrative "gotcha!" motive that ties together all of the Arab world's many grievances with the U.S. Egregious insults like the Innocence of Muslims film would not be so easily translated into rage at U.S. power were it not for the simmering long-term rage at Washington over its invasions of Muslim countries, its support for Israeli governments and Arab despots, its drone strikes and more.
(MORE: What We Can Learn from the Attacks on U.S. Embassies)
Deep anger at U.S. foreign policy is the extended preexisting condition that geopolitical Obamacare has failed to significantly alter; the outrage at an offensive film is the opportunistic virus that, when combined with the preexisting condition, creates a crisis. Instances of American Islam-bashing are used to prove that the policies and actions of the U.S. that most anger ordinary Arabs are not simply discrete foreign policy choices driven by self-interest and other agendas but rather expressions of a deeper animus toward Islam itself — a proof that functions as a chemical catalyst that can bring residual anger to a boil.
Yes, it's always manipulated by cynical opportunists driven by narrow political agendas, but the outrage itself is real, and it's hardly confined to a movie. Without the pre-existing anger, in fact, the film would be like a detonator without dynamite. Only the combination of the two creates the explosion.
So in that sense, President Obama's Republican critics are not wrong in suggesting that this week's upsurge in protests represents, at least in part, a response to the Administration's handling of the Middle East or even to what vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan on Friday called "mixed signals" from the White House. But where Ryan and those echoing him are wrong — egregiously, spectacularly wrong — is in suggesting that the protests are a response to a retreat from "moral clarity and firmness of purpose," watchwords of the Bush era. On the contrary, the Muslim world was up in arms against the U.S. on a sustained basis for most of the Bush presidency, precisely because of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its unconditional backing of Israel as it pummeled Palestinians and the obvious hypocrisy of a policy of proclaiming democracy and freedom while coddling friendly despots. If the Arab world is angry at the "mixed messages" coming from the Obama Administration, that's because the President in Cairo in 2009 had promised a break from Bush-era policies yet failed on many fronts to deliver it. It's not the changes Obama's made since the Bush era that drive Arab anger; it's his Administration's many continuities with Bush-era policies in the Middle East. Ryan demands that Obama show "American leadership" by marching even more closely in lockstep with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That's going to calm the crowds gathered in front of U.S. embassies in the Arab world?
(MORE: The Making of Innocence of Muslims: One Actor's Story)
Thoughtful foreign policy wonks from hawkish heavy hitter Robert Kagan, a key Bush Administration adviser during the Iraq war, to liberal experts in Arab politics like the Carnegie Endowment's Nathan Brown concur in supporting a measured response that recognizes the political and social crises under way in the Arab world while seeking engagement with the emergent Islamist governments in order to push them in a more pragmatic direction.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt appears to have tried to signal, however clumsily, that it too seeks engagement and a new relationship with Western powers. But it can't ignore the stream of anger unleashed by the broadcasting on Salafist TV networks of clips from a crude video provocation. That's why it has called on its followers to protest the film but to do so peacefully at their local mosques. In other words, not at the U.S. embassy. Something tells me that such roundabout efforts to calm the situation by encouraging but also limiting protest — as two-sided as they may seem to an American media audience — may offer the best hope of changing the dynamic. Events over the past week in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen are a reminder that the region, and Washington's relationship with it, has entered uncharted territory over the past two years.
Neither bromides about "moral clarity" nor evasions of the enduring contradictions and ambiguities in U.S. policy offer much guidance. As the Arab world changes, it asks new questions of itself and also of the major superpower in its midst. That conversation, which will be anything but comfortable, is only just beginning.
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Three years ago Jane had a stroke which made her unable to speak. Her intelligence is unaffected, but she cannot find the words.
How can she use an Openmoko mobile phone to communicate with her husband when the words are gone? When her husband is on the phone, asking - What are you doing? Do you want to have lunch with me?
To answer his first question about what she is doing, she's using the Openmoko phone to send him a small picture, showing a cup of tea. And then, a second picture with a heart, and he answers he loves her too. Then he asks if they can meet, he want to have a cup of tea as well, and she answers by sending him her GPS location (the Openmoko phone is a GPS reciever) and he can hear the street address of the small restaurant where she is right now. If there was a phone that made all this possible, I bet she would want one. You've read a short story, capturing what this project is all about -- to build a very special mobile phone.
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It all started in the 90's, a friend of mine asked if I could make a Windows-program that he could use to connect his home pc to his office pc so that he could communicate with his son, suffering from Downs syndrome and unable to use an ordinary phone. His son knew pictograms and could communicate by sending small pictures to his dad. I made a system which I also took to HI. They found it interesting, but not mobile enough (a PC was a heavy box at that time) and restrictive because you had to have 2 PC's with the same software installed on both. The idea though was brilliant, and here we go again, with a new incarnation.
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Do you want to help create a unique phone? Start learning Erlang. The language is tailored to telecom applications by Ericsson. Erlang supports programming "soft" real-time systems, which require response times in the order of milliseconds. It has support for concurrency and 5 nines. When you have a basic understanding of Erlang, follow the Aphasia Development Tutorial to get acquainted with the overall architecture, and how to write a new service and add it to the Aphasia userland. Sign-up as a project member here.
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You want to take a look at what the phone can do for you, besides the trivial picture_to_sound service, which - as I said - is an old idea in a new package.
On top of the four basic services; GSM, GPS, Sound and Haptic, there are already quite a few High Order Services and more to come. What is most important here is not if this or that service is implemented, but that your doctor can install and remove services on your phone without you even have to know about it. And you know what, he/she can do it over the network so you don't even have to plan a visit. Just pick up the phone and the new functions are there. What we are offering here is applications available on the network, but made especially for you, as opposed to general web applications that should scale en masse and are made for nobody. Clay Shirky put a name on this, it's situated software.
- Each service has a location. Moving around is done by swiping in different directions, movie clip below.
- Another, cooler way to change service is to take a walk down the street. The GPS service is doing the swipin' for you, and the services for a certain location are showing up on screen when you move around.
- When you walk up to the bus stop the GPS service makes sure you have the clock and the bus traveling service at hand. What the bus traveling service should do is up to you and your doktor.
As you can see, lots of new services still remains to invent/implement. If you are a programmer or want to learn, please read the developer section above and get going. People with Aphasia, and their relatives, are probably the most valuable resources we could get as developers, so please sign on.
You, who is reading this page, please write your question here and I'll try to give you an answer. Never mind if you don't manage formatting your question, I'll do that for you.
Q: How did Jane find a picture of a cup of tea so quickly?
From an almost unlimited amount of small pictures she could find the cup_of_tea picture in only a few seconds. How did she do that?
A: The pictures available on the Openmoko screen depends on where you are. When Jane opened the door and stepped inside the little tea house the pictures on her Openmoko changed to a set of pictures with some relevance to the situation she had to handle at that location. Tea brands, Buy, Pay the bill, Restroom, Taxi, Sugar, Lemon, you got he idea. And the heart is always there for her loved ones.
Q: So everybody 's got to have an Openmoko phone then?
Can Jane talk to a regular mobile/house phone or does it have to be an Openmoko at both ends?
A: Jane can use her Openmoko to call or pick up a call from any phone - any brand. When Jane is touching a picture on the Openmoko screen a sound player in the phone plays a sound snippet associated to that picture. Pointing at the picture is starting a sound player in the handset. The person Jane is talking to can hear the sound from the file being played.
Q: How could Jane's husband hear the street address of the small restaurant?
How could Jane's Openmoko phone "know" the street address when all it had was the GPS position?
A: If you are familiar with Google Maps, you know that you can type in a street address and get the map and exact GPS location. Use that database the other way around and you get the street address if you handle in a GPS location, it's called Reverse Geocoding. A simple text2speech application converts the address to sound.


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NPR's Carrie Johnson joins me now with more. And, Carrie, what do we know about the extent of this gathering of phone logs on AP journalists?
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: Audie, we know it involves multiple reporters and at least one editor. And the AP says the Justice Department got access to information on 20 phone lines, including office lines, cell lines, home phone lines of reporters, and even a phone line installed in the press gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Now, to be clear, this does not include the content of those phones calls. This is what law enforcement people call tolling information. So it's the to and the from and the duration of the call. So how many minutes or seconds it lasted, no content there.
CORNISH: And what's known about the investigation that the Justice Department was pursuing at the time that led to go after the records?
JOHNSON: The AP says it's not quite sure. It only got notice of thise after the fact, late Friday in a letter from the Justice Department. But AP authorities, including an outside lawyer for AP say it seems to be a story that the AP wrote back in May 2012 about a thwarted bomb plot last year in which the AP reported that a bomb with a very sophisticated new design was in the process of being placed on an airplane headed to the United States but that the U.S. authorities have this bomb and were analyzing it.
CORNISH: But was this a case involving a judge's order or a grand jury issuing a subpoena for these records?
JOHNSON: Net necessarily, Audie. And that's one thing that's going to surprise a lot of people out there. Under current Justice Department guidelines, the Justice Department has the authority to do what it says on its own, so long as the attorney general himself signs off on the subpoena and so long as the DOJ can prove that they tried every other reasonable way to get this information in that in most cases they notify the reporter in advance unless it would undermine the integrity of their investigation. That's one of the things the AP is complaining about here, that they've received no advance notice at all.
CORNISH: Lastly, Carrie, what happens next in this case?
JOHNSON: The AP says it wants copies of those records destroyed. There are going to be lots and lots of questions for the attorney general when he appears on Capitol Hill Wednesday for a regular oversight hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. Already lawmakers from both political parties are expressing real concern about this. And interest groups on both sides of the aisle who are concerned about privacy are very concerned about the chilling effect this may have on reporters and sources moving forward.
CORNISH: Carrie, thank you.
JOHNSON: Thank you.
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The nation's jobless rate ticked down to 7.2 percent in September from 7.3 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday.
But just 148,000 were added to public and private payrolls. That's below the 180,000 economists expected. It's yet another sign that job growth remains soft.
We added much more from the report, as well as reactions to it, as the morning continued.
Update at 10:10 a.m. ET. "Solid" Job Growth, But Things Likely Got Worse In October, White House Says:
"While job growth remained solid in September, there is no question that the focus of policy should be on how to achieve a faster pace of job growth by increasing certainty and investing in jobs, rather than the self-inflicted wounds of the past several weeks that increased uncertainty and inhibited job growth," writes Jason Furman, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. He adds that "today's delayed report describes the economy more than a month ago. More recent indicators suggest the labor market worsened in the month of October."
Furman's reference to "self-inflicted wounds" is about what the White House views as the misguided move by some conservative Republicans to force a partial shutdown of the government. Earlier, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued his own statement that blames Obama administration's policies for the economy's troubles.
Update at 9:40 a.m. ET. Stocks Rise At Opening:
Figuring out why the stock market does what it does is never easy. But since stocks were up modestly after the opening bell in New York, it would seem that the employment report did not shock Wall Street. The Wall Street Journal says the early thinking appears to be that relatively weak news on the jobs front means the Federal Reserve won't be moving to scale back on the stimulus it's been giving the economy until next year. And at least some investors seem to like the idea of more money coming into the economy via the Fed's bond-buying program.
Update at 9:15 a.m. ET. Boehner Sees A "Troubled Economy":
"Today's report shows the president has more than a troubled website to fix — he has a troubled economy, weakened by years of failed 'stimulus' policies and excessive red tape," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, says in a statement emailed to reporters. "Add the higher costs and rising premiums of ObamaCare on top of disappointing jobs numbers and underwhelming wage growth, and you have a recipe for economic stagnation."
The White House typically posts its analysis of the jobs report on its blog. We'll add a highlight when it's available.
Update at 9:10 a.m. ET. If Job Growth Was Slow, Why Did The Unemployment Rate Edge Down?
Economists remind us every month that the BLS news is really two reports combined into one. The jobs figures come from surveys of public and private employers. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, comes from a survey of households.
The data from households show that the number of adults who said they were working grew by 133,000. At the same time, the number who reported being unemployed fell by 61,000. Meanwhile, the percentage of people who were said to be participating in the labor force (either because they were working or looking for work) held steady at 63.2 percent.
All those numbers basically point to the same conclusion: the households survey signals that there was little change in the situation — but that there was just enough to nudge down the jobless rate.
Update at 9 a.m. ET. Figures Are From Before The Shutdown, So Revisions Are Likely:
"The September payroll figure reflects the pay period that includes the 12th of the month, two weeks prior to the federal shutdown," Bloomberg News notes. It adds that "today's report doesn't include any late responses from employers, indicating the figures will be subject to revision as is typical each month."
Since the shutdown hurt businesses that deal with the government or depend on it being opened, it's unlikely the revisions would be to the upside.
Update at 8:57 a.m. ET. News Could Convince Fed To Hold Off:
As The Wall Street Journal writes, the Federal Reserve "surprised some investors by not starting a pullback in its $85 billion-a-month bond buying program after its September meeting. The central bank is not expected to make any changes until it can assess the full effects of the 16-day government shutdown and debt-ceiling fight on the broader economy. But a weakening jobs picture could force it to push out this date out further."
The Fed has been buying bonds to push money in to the economy and spur growth.
Update at 8:50 a.m. ET. Jobless Rate Lowest Since Late 2008:
At 7.2 percent, the unemployment rate is now the lowest since November 2008's 6.8 percent. The jobless rate is still about 3 percentage points above its recent low — the 4.4 percent of late 2006 and early 2007. The economy officially slipped into recession in December 2007 and didn't begin its slow recovery until June 2009. The unemployment rate's recent peak was 10 percent, in October 2009.
Update at 8:40 a.m. ET. Good And Bad News In The Revisions:
For the second report in a row, BLS sharply reduced its estimate of job growth in July. It initially thought employers had added 162,000 jobs to their payrolls that month. In a subsequent report, it pegged growth at 104,000 jobs. Tuesday, it said employers had added just 89,000 jobs in July.
But at the same time, BLS on Tuesday revised up its estimate of the job growth in August. Initially, it said there had been 169,000 jobs added. Now, it estimates there were 193,000 more people on payrolls.
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The crisis in Ukraine showed no signs of cooling Friday. Harsh rhetoric was flying:
-- "Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk accused Russia on Friday of wanting to start World War III by occupying Ukraine 'militarily and politically,' " Reuters reports.
-- "The West wants — and this is how it all began — to seize control of Ukraine because of their own political ambitions, not in the interests of the Ukrainian people," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged, according to The Associated Press.
Those sharp words followed this allegation Thursday by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who accused Russia of doing nothing to help implement last week's plan to calm tensions in Ukraine: "For seven days, Russia has refused to take a single concrete step in the right direction."
Kerry also renewed the charge that Russia is funding, coordinating and fueling the armed separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.
On Friday, Lavrov criticized what he says was Kerry's "unacceptable, accusatory tone."
The U.S. may move to increase sanctions on Russia and individuals close to its president, Vladimir Putin. President Obama said this week that new economic sanctions are "teed up" if Russia doesn't begin to cooperate on resolving the crisis.
Meanwhile, the BBC reports that:
"Moscow has tens of thousands of troops along its side of the border, and on Friday the acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Koval told the Interfax-Ukraine agency that they had come within a kilometer of the border. ... Pro-Russian separatists are occupying key buildings in a dozen eastern Ukrainian towns, defying the central government."
And in eastern Ukraine, government forces have relaunched an effort to root out those pro-Russian elements, correspondent Jessica Golloher tells our Newscast Desk. That brought more harsh words from Lavrov, who accused Ukraine of waging war on its own people.
For much more on how the crisis in Ukraine has unfolded, see our earlier posts.
Update at 7:13 p.m. ET. More Escalation:
As the day has progressed, there has been more escalation. For example:
-- Interfax Ukraine reports that a pro-Russian sniper fired a shot at parked Ukrainian military helicopter, resulting in an explosion. The captain of the helicopter was injured.
-- Col. Steven H. Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Russian aircraft have entered Ukrainian airspace several times in the past 24 hours.
"We call upon the Russians to take immediate steps to deescalate the situation," Warren said in a statement.
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Chinese protests against Japan have spread to more than 100 cities and now to the seas. The protestors are objecting to what they say is Japan's unlawful claim to a group of islands in the East China Sea. Today, the U.S. defense secretary visited Beijing, where he urged calm and restraint. But the Chinese defense minister says his country reserves the right to use force against Japan if the countries cannot negotiate a solution to the dispute over the East China Sea islands. NPR's Louisa Lim reports from the Chinese capital.
LOUISA LIM, BYLINE: This is the sound of humiliation. This morning at 9:18, air raid signals were broadcast in some Chinese cities. They mark the anniversary of the September 18th incident which began Japan's invasion of China in 1931. Today, it's a reminder of bitter historical enmity, now sharpened by another territorial dispute.
LIM: And it could get worse. According to television reports, hundreds of Chinese fishing boats are heading for the disputed islands, known as Diaoyu by China and Senkaku in Japan. They're being monitored by the Japanese coastguard, and Chinese government fishery patrol boats. It's the possibility of miscalculation and confrontation, intended or not, that concerns U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking in Beijing.
SECRETARY LEON PANETTA: It's in no country's interests for this situation to escalate into conflict that would undermine peace and stability in this very important region.
LIM: He was given the full ceremonial greeting by his Chinese counterpart this morning. For his part, the Chinese defense minister, Liang Guanglie, said he hoped the dispute with Japan would be solved peacefully, but Beijing reserves the right to take what he called further action.
LIANG GUANGLIE: (Through translator) What I want to emphasize is that the current escalation of tensions over this dispute was totally caused by the Japanese side. If we talk about who are concerned about this issue, actually Chinese people has every reason to feel more concerned, because it is regards as China's territory, after all.
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LIM: And that concern is being voiced loud and clear in cities around China. In a country where protest is tightly regulated, this state-sanctioned cry of rage is all the more notable. And that anger risks tipping over into something more frightening. Over the weekend, I talked to one young protestor who asked for his name not to be used. I asked what he studied.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken)
LIM: (Foreign language spoken)
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LIM: Auto manufacturing, he replies. I want to learn to make tanks to exterminate the Japanese.
LIM: And mob violence has occurred in some places, with vandals targeting Japanese businesses. Toyota and Honda are suspending production in China temporarily, Japanese shops here remain closed. In Japan, such violence has led to calls for a stronger government response, according to Koichi Nakano, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo.
KOICHI NAKANO: The Chinese police is not doing all that much to protect property and businesses owned by Japanese or, you know, safeguarding the wellbeing of the Japanese residents in China. So certain right-wingers, of course, say it's for Japan to show its muscle and trying to escalate the tension.
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LIM: This crisis is not helped by domestic political cycles. China's facing a once-in-a-decade transition of power, while Japan's two main parties are picking new leaders. Backing down will not gain any political points in either country. In this heady atmosphere, U.S. calls for calm are falling on deaf ears, for now.
Louisa Lim, NPR News, Beijing. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.