So I'm a bit late this month.
Everything I thought
Tasted a lot like chicken
Really tastes like man.
This one is a bit interesting since he uses the word "everything." In my mind it has 4 syllables. I guess he says it differently.
YourGamerCards
So I'm sure most everyone has noticed by now the PlayStation trophy thing I have at the top of my blog. As of last weekend I am now the proud owner of that site. The original owners were having some troubles keeping it up and were burnt out from working on it. So after handing over a large sum of cash through PayPal to people I didn't know and then giving my logins and passwords to a friend I never met before I now own a mildly successful website!
I first came to the site at the request of one of the old owners to help out. I had complained about how ugly their card design was and he told me if I hated it so much come and make it better. I spent hundreds of hours making custom backgrounds for probably 300+ PlayStation 3 games. I also volunteered much of my time helping organize and track our efforts. Once the site went up for sale I decided to go for it and see if I can keep it alive and make it better.
The site is www.YourGamerCards.net and it is basically a trophy tracking site with reviews, guides, new and other stuff. For those not into gaming a trophy is something you earn when accomplishing different feats in a game. It's extremely addicting and there are tons of people who love tracking their trophies and keeping tabs on what everyone else is earning. We track the most users in the world >150,000 of them and are the #1 trophy site by far. Even Guinness wanted us to verify trophy related records for them! It's super exciting and hopefully it will work out great. If you have any interest at all in gaming, the PS3 or trophies go check it out.
Zombie Haiku
When it rains it pours, and by pours I mean you get two posts in one night. Then again these are short posts too, so more like you get a light drizzle or hailstones.
I figured I'd post a food related one since my other post was about food. Fortunately when it comes to zombies everything is food related!
A women screaming,
As I walk off the highway,
Begs me to help her.
She is still begging,
But no longer for my help,
She wants her nose back.
Food glorious food!
So a friend of mine at work must have been really bored because he started compiling everywhere we've gone for lunch over the years. Both he and I have been at Xactware for 5 years now so that's a lot of lunches in there. We do have some favorite places but here's the full map of most everywhere (we are still remembering and adding places) we've gone. It's kind of neat.
View LunchTime Review in a larger map
Zombie Haiku
So I forgot to post this on April 1st. Oh well.
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
-Basho
Haha April fools! It's not a zombie haiku and it's not April 1st. Haha me so funny.
The other other other white meat.
You know that other one, that isn't chicken, and isn't pork either, or cornish game hen. I'm talking about turkey here!
Growing up my family would often experiment with turkey are a substitution for other meats. Turkey is considered leaner, healthier and I think cheaper than things like beef or pork. I'm not sure if any of that is true but that's how it was marketed. The only thing I really remember from then is that ground turkey in spaghetti always tasted funny. Everything else is kind of a blur. Recently my wife and I have decided to test drive the whole turkey substitution thing again. Our thought is why not? If it tastes good then we found a new thing to eat. If not we don't buy it again. Here are the results so far.
Turkey burgers - This was the first turkey substitute product we purchased. We had just finished a large pack or frozen burgers and when buying more decided to give turkey ones a try. As for the healthy part it did seem these had much less grease oozing out of them while being cooked. This also caused much less of a mess being made when grilling these on the stove top. Unfortunately less fat content also means they burn to the pan easier, are dry and have less flavor. That may seem bad but they actually didn't turn out that bad at all. Definitely not a complete replacement for real burgers but I do occasionally crave a turkey burger. With the right seasonings and toppings they are pretty good. I'd definitely go for more in the future at the very least to feel like I'm eating healthy again.
Turkey bacon - Yeah I know, blasphemy. How dare I try to replace real bacon! I was wary too but turkey bacon is pretty awesome stuff. Again it has less oozing grease and noticeably doesn't get as crispy and shriveled as normal bacon but it tastes great. Better yet it still smells like real bacon. My bedroom and office tend to get all the cooking smells in them. The bedroom smell is nullified with some well placed Scentsy and candles but my office smells like bacon for days! That and I'm not a fan of super crispy (aka burnt) bacon anyway. I assume it tastes the same because most the flavor has to do with how it is cured anyway. Kind of like the whole 'tastes like chicken' thing. If you prepare it like chicken it tastes like chicken. If you prepare it like bacon it tastes like bacon. When in Rome do as the Romans. Once a thief always a thief. It takes one to know one. And so on.... Plus turkey whatever is 'healthy' so I can go back to my pack a day.
Turkey meatballs - This one was kind of random. We were out at Sam's Club buying mayonnaise by the gallon and decided to check out their lazy food section. We noticed that instead of their normal mystery meat meatballs they also had turkey ones. Again we said, "why not?" This was the end of good turkey products for us. These are just plain nasty. They keep with the no ooze and dry pattern but they also tasted horrible. Not sure how to explain it beyond lack of any discernible or desirable taste. It's just balls of bleh. Oh well can't win them all.
And for all you vegetarians out there, tofu stuff is disgusting. Go eat some tasty animals!
Motorcycle helmets are stupid!
Disclaimer: this in no way has any relation to my friend needing a heart transplant.
Thank you for your time.