I find it highly amusing that the Serenity movie website includes recipes inspired by the food they’ve eaten on the show. You can find them in the Dining Room with Shepherd Book.

I am tempted to try out a batch of Mudder’s Milk but where’s Simon’s protein birthday cake?

The article Confessions of an Engineering Washout sums up a lot of feelings I have towards my university years. I can attest for most of the experiences Kern talks about. Fortunately he got out of the program before things got really hairy; I wasn’t as bright as him.

It is no secret that I was a pretty bad engineering student. At the time the workload was overwhelming for me, and I could only barely keep up. I could give you excuses as to why it was so hard for me, but it all comes down to me making some poor decisions and not being able to catch up once everything started to come falling down.

Failing a couple of courses did not help either. Heck I even managed to flunk a bird course that everyone said was impossible to fail. I’ve come to terms with that blunder but there are still people out there who like to hold it over me. Three years later. Schadenfreude never gets old I suppose.

But I’ve done my time for my academic crimes, and I earned the right to wear my iron ring again. A lot of the theory I did not quite get back then makes perfect sense to me now. I had to learn them my way, which just wasn’t the way I was being taught.

I guess you can say I came out of there a pretty decent engineer, I’d like to think so. But I hated every minute of it on an academic level and that shouldn’t be the case.

A belated congratulations to Wendy and Joey on their wonderful marriage last weekend. I am happy to see that a Kippa and Barong makes a stylish wedding ensemble!

I did not know the tragic history of the Robertson Screwdriver untill Orneryboy pointed it out to me.

Also, when you read a bit of that webcomic, doesn’t Orneryboy and Dirtygirl sortakinda remind you of Toast and Marmy? They’re not exactly the same but the elements are there.

Someone forgot he has an early morning shift tomorrow. Infact he forgot he has an early morning shift all week.

5:00 AM wake up calls, d’oh. It’s going to be a rough Monday.

Slashdot links to the Hack a Day website (a great read by the way) which links to an article on how to build the Quintessential Sentry Gun. Kudos to him for taking on a fairly ambitious project. I’m sure creating the aiming program for the thing wasn’t a cake walk.

My favourite part of the piece is the paragraph where the author tries to justify the construction of this gadget.

There are a number of applications for a sentry gun like this that don’t involve putting holes in people. For example, I could put a camera on top and use it for wildlife photography. A squirt gun could be attached, and it could be used to discipline your cat when it tries to jump on the couch…simultaneously watering your couch. It lends itself nicely to a vortex gun platform, and that could be used to keep crows off of cornfields. . .

Come on … we all know you built it because its freakin’ sweet! No justification needed there man.

I spent my entire lunch hour playing around with The Grow Cube. This smart little flash game is quite addictive, and I’ll leave it up to you to find out why.

link via #!/usr/bin/girl.

While Noods continues to gush about The Seven Swords, allow me to gush over another movie related to the number seven. I’m talking about the DVD movie sequel to Final Fantasy VII, entitled Final Fantasy: Advent Children.

This is the movie every single FF fan was waiting for, the movie that should have been made instead of Spirits Within. All your favourite characters, in your favourite locations, defying gravity and physics with their special attacks. Cool poses, nifty weapons, crazy monsters rampaging through the country side. It had it all and more then you could ask for.

Okay … maybe a better story line, but in light of all that fanboy service, everything is forgiven.

If you’ve never played the game before, don’t bother with the movie. You won’t understand what’s going on, let alone who all these characters are. Do yourself a favour and play the game at least to the 2nd CD. Once you’re hooked and play the rest of the game through, then you can watch this movie and giggle with glee like the rest of us.

It has been a great week for the Nintendo fanboys. First we get a peek at the controller for the Revolution, Nintendo’s next generation gaming console. It really is a “revolutionary” design, and I’d imagine it would be quite intuitive. How many times have you seen a newbie videogame player pull their controller upward when they try to make Mario jump? Now doing that will actualy mean something.

Then there is the trailer to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I have always been a fan of Link and the Zelda series, even the Wind Waker episode that everyone else seemd to hate. After watching the footage of the latest game, I literally had shivers going up and down my spine. How can you not get excited about all that stuff?! Gah! Someone get me a green cap and a Biggoron’s Sword!

This weekend saw your favourite Super Group, the Go Team Action Bloggers, meet up in the real world for a mission into suburbia. I met up with Geek.ent, wNoodle, Marmalade Girl and TBIT at Fairview Mall for a quick lunch. From there we all climbed into my Little Jetta That Could and drove up to that mecca of Asian consumerism, Pacific Mall!

Ah Pacific Mall. If my memory servers me, it is a place of great wonder and excitement. Exotic treats, fancy bobbles, and of course thousands of “legitimate” DVDs to browse. The potential for deals is so high at the mall that locals have a saying for this mecca of shopping: “Always pay in cash!” Remember: “Always pay in cash!”*

After spending the afternoon there gathering assorted candied treats, we hopped back into my car and drove even further into the country side to stop at All-Star Wings and Ribs! We split 110 wings between the five of us, sampling 7 different flavours ranging from Nero’s Epilogue (Hot wings with Caesar Dressing and Parmesan cheese) to standard old dry wings with Cajun powder. It was a feast of kings my friends! Some of the spices were a bit hit and miss but with 80+ flavours you’re bound to find a few you don’t like.

All in all a good mission for the GTAB crew. My only regret is that I couldn’t find a toy kunai to feed my current Naruto obsession. Next time …

See Geek.ent for his “boring” retelling of the same events. His words, not mine.

* This was my attempt at impersonating Chairman Kaga as he describes the secret ingredient after it is revealed in Kitchen Stadium. It works better in person.