Mad Skills

Apparently, my family and friends have caught on to the fact that I like to cook and bake. So every once in awhile I receive homemakerish type gifts. For example, for my last birthday, my sister Erin bought me an ice cream maker. This one, to be exact. This summer, I used to it to make a Vanilla Custard Ice Cream...it was delightful...so delightful, in fact, that my cousin told me that I had to make it every weekend from then on. My next attempt at ice cream will probably be for Thanksgiving next month. Erin would like to see, er eat, the fruits of her gift to me, so she has requested that I make a Pumpkin Ice Cream. So, I found this recipe on my beloved Food Network website.....sounds yummy, so I'll give it a go.

In addition, I have inherited the job of making my Grandmother's cole slaw for Thanksgiving (as well as for any other holiday or picnic it's requested), which I have been doing for the last few years now. I call it "Grammy's Famous Cole Slaw" because no one makes it like hers, not even Mr. Ron. Sorry, Mr. Ron.

And, finally, my friend Jon really likes Pumpkin Pie...I mentioned to him that my Mom-Mom makes them at least once every year, and will most likely be making some for Thanksgiving. His exact words were, "Steal me some! I'm serious." No need to steal! I'll just get her recipe and make it myself! He and my other buddy, (Jon's roomie) Tom, will just have to fight over it!!!!

Can You Say Random??

Let's start with the Philly Cheesesteak Thickburger from Hardee's...

It's a new sandwich just launched this week by Hardee's. I like to call it "Heart attack on a bun." This thing is layered with meat upon layers of meat. It has a whopping 930 calories, 63 grams of fat, and 24 grams of saturated fat...according to the above-linked article, this is "a full day's worth of the recommended amount of fat, and almost half the recommended 2,000 calories." YIKES.

Okay, it's time for some "Mentalrobics"....

I'm pretty much a geek when it comes to things like this...I find the brain very interesting, along with much of what I learned in the 3 Psychology courses I took in college.

I found a site called Braingle, where you can test your short-term memory (and also find many different types of brain teasers and puzzles). Go here to take the test...Basically, it tests your ability to hold pieces of information for short periods of time--testing you using either numbers or letters (you can choose). I was able to remember an average of 8-9 numbers at a time. You can read more about the hippocampus and its relation to short-term memory here. For more general info about memory, see this page.

Now it's time to fight for the end of women's suffrage!...

Well, so some girls think. It's such a shame...obviously these girls were set up, but still...suffrage doesn't mean what they think it means. It's actually a good thing!...the right to vote!! Yes, the word is very deceiving. So, in the following video, you will see a jokester who goes around a school campus getting female students to sign a petition to end women's suffrage. It's very much like what Leno does to get people to answer history questions on camera and then it ends up making them look stupid because they don't know the correct answer.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/suffrage.html

I wonder how many of these girls, afterwards, realized what they had done and then felt the need to smack themselves upside the head? Here's a question though...what exactly did the video-makers mean at the end of the video where they said "We rest our case." What exactly were they resting their case about? About suffrage being a misleading word?...uh, probably not. Hopefully they weren't trying to portray girls as having a lack of intelligence. Honestly, I'd be curious to see how many male students would make the same mistake. Obviously, what made it funny was the fact that females, themselves, were signing a petition to end their own right to vote...however, I just don't get the "We rest our case" part...any thoughts?

Thus ends the randomness of this post...Have a great weekend!