As I was surfing the web for sweets, I stumbled upon this lady’s blog: “Culinary Concoctions by Peabody”. She makes some incredible looking dishes and I’m sure they taste amazing. And she seems to have been cooking and blogging for quite some time. I haven’t gotten through all of her posts quite yet, but hopefully will soon. On top of all of that, the photos she posts on her site are AMAZING. I don’t know if she takes them herself or what, but she’s definitely a pretty good artist (culinary and photographer). Her photos are so good, that it makes me want to eat every single dish she has posted.

So far, I’ve only found one recipe I really want to try out: “Peanut Butter Blondies with White Chocolate and Pecans”.

Bored yet again … hopefully will entertain you for at least a little while. Again, found these through Flickr:

Men, do not stand, please sit down.
Men and Women.
Act your age!
Unisex Bathrooms … careful.
Creepy alien people with gender signs stuck to their heads.
Please don’t fish!
Just creepy …
Hmmm…ya think?! Please stop pulling the door!
Wobbly leg syndrome.

I don’t cook. I want to cook, but I’m seriously too lazy to cook. We either go out to eat or Jeh cooks dinner and he’s great at it. I, personally, like to bake. Partly because I LOVE sweets, but also because it’s so precise and I don’t have to guess since I usually have the recipe in front of me. But sometimes I have strange urges to try something new and I try to look for good recipes online because God knows I’m not a chef and can’t whip something up from scratch. Two of my latest urges has been Omuraisu and Pineapple Fried Rice. I’m addicted to Fort St. George’s Omuraisu (Japanese ketchup rice omelette) and to Noppakao’s Pineapple Fried Rice. I found recipes that look and sound similar and I REALLY want to try it … if  ever get the guts to try them. If I do and it’s good to go, I’ll post the recipe here.

Apparently the company Handango had sent out a newsletter that XPERIA X1 will be launching with their InHand service. Handango’s InHand service is basically a download client (for Pocket PCs and MS Smartphones) that allows you to browse their catalog of software on your phone without having you to connect to the network. They also mentioned something a little more exciting: “The XPERIA X1 will launch in mid-September 2008“. Of course, we don’t know how official that is. Things like that seem to change…so we’ll see. Personally, mid-September is TOO far away! I’ve waited far too long for a “real” phone. I’ve had a free phone since high school (about 9-10 years) and it’s time I get something new and worth paying for.

Ever since I tasted fresh bread out of a home bread machine in high school, I’ve always dreamed of getting one myself. They can be pretty pricey and was more of a luxury item that wasn’t really needed. Here I am 12 years later, and I’ve saved enough POINTS to get one for free — well sort of free. I just had to make sure I clicked on every single “bonus mail” MyPoints sent me to get 5pts each time. Anyway, after redeeming enough Linen ‘n Things gift cards I was finally able to get a bread machine — one that is pretty well reviewed and is only 1lb. size loaf since only me and Jeh would be eating it. The first loaf I made wasn’t really what I was hoping for. My second loaf didn’t turn out…at all. So after looking around the web for a good bread machine recipe for a 1 lb. loaf, I came across this recipe: Sweet Honey French Bread. I made it last night and it’s SO DELICIOUS! The recipe calls for 2 tsp of honey, but as one of the reviews mentions they added 2 Tablespoons of honey, so I was hoping it would make it sweeter and more delish. I kept everything else the same and just upped the honey and it has this wonderful honey flavor and aftertaste. The texture of the bread was perfect. The only thing I was confused about is that it’s called a “french bread” and her recipe said to cook it for only 3 hrs. My Zojirushi bread machine’s regular with light crust setting is about 3 hrs and 30 mins (which is what I ended up using). But the crust wasn’t anything like the crunchy french bread. The color of the crust was perfect, but wasn’t very hard and crunchy. My bread machine also has a “French Bread” setting which I was going to use, but then I saw that her recipe said to cook for only 3 hrs and the french bread setting cooks it for 5 hrs. I guess I’ll have to try that setting to see if I can get the right crust. Hopefully the rest of the bread will turn out moist and delish as the last time I made it.

My next goal is to find a good 1 lb. King’s Hawaiian bread copycat recipe for my bread machine…I tried converting down the ingredients from a highly rated recipe, but it just didn’t covert right or something. I had to throw it out and it made my house smell…ew. Oh and I’m still searching for a good 1 lb. sweet brown bread recipe for my bread machine too (the kind they serve at Outback’s resturant). I doubt I’ll ever find one… =(

I swear…WALL•E reminds me of Johnny 5 (from movie Short Circuit) and R.O.B. (Nintendo’s robot). But WALL•E is seriously the cutest — along with the movie. They recently released a new trailer showing more than just WALL•E at the garbage dump, and apparently this movie is a bit of a love story. Check it out!

New Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/trailer_large.html
Funny Vacuum short: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/vacuum_large.html

This is probably one of the oddest looking game attachments I’ve seen yet…When I first saw this, I actually thought it was a joke — but apparently it’s not. The idea isn’t so bad, but I just can’t imagine playing this by strumming on the touch screen. Sometimes the screen just doesn’t pick up every move you make with the stylus (at least when I use it) and could miss a lot of notes. I don’t know, maybe I’m holding the stylus in a bad angle? In any case, I think I’ll be sticking with the real deal on our 360. Check out screenshots and a video HERE. I feel so sorry for the kids in the video…trying to look cool while playing on that thing just doesn’t work.

I love rock band. I love playing the guitar and love that they have such a huge song selection, including all the songs they put out each and every week that you can download and play. That alone makes this game hard to be played out. This week they’re having a serious update that enhances the downloading experience. It was pretty lame that you had to exit out the game to download songs that you can’t even preview. We downloaded a song that ended up being a lame version and we never play it again. Harmonix’s freakin’ awesome update will add the music store in the main menu to download new songs. You can preview the audio for each song, view album art, and it even shows difficulty levels for each instrument. There are a few other minor updates as well. You can check out IGN’s article HERE to read more.

Sony Ericsson FINALLY released more info on XPERIA X1! Unfortunately, there’s nothing about the carrier yet, but they released more information about the mysterious XPERIA panels. You can download the official white paper through this awesome site that’s dedicated to XPERIA X1: inxperia.com. Here are some of the details inxperia’s site points out:

1. Pre-loaded XPERIA panels:
* Sony Ericsson Panel - news, weather, finance, world clock, and app shortcuts
* Media Experience Panel - multimedia consumption and navigation
* Slideshow Panel - slideshow of recent videos and pics
* Microsoft Today Panel - standard Windows Mobile Today screen
* 3D Fish Panel - Aquarium with 3D fishes
* Custom Panels - user customized

2. Media Sharing - allows media sharing (DLNA compatible) via ActiveSync or WiFi

3. Video recording options
* MPEG-4: 30fps @ VGA
* H.263: 30fps @ VGA (U.S. model only at 24fps)
* H.264: 15fps @ VGA (not supported on U.S model)

4. Browser bundled is only Internet Explorer

5. Location services - Google Maps is pre-installed by default which provides real0-time traffic, driving directions, POI and GPS positioning.

6. Email
* Exchange Direct Push is built-in
* Set-up Wizards for Gmail, Yahoo, Live Hotmail
* POP3 configured automatically

7. Java ME pre-installed

8. MicroSD support - SDHC compatible

9. 1700MHz support is notably missing

I was watching “The Soup” TV show on E! and they showed the funniest Live news cast/morning show scene. Click HERE to see. The clip involves an anchorman and a reporter on a NY morning show. I have no idea why the anchorman demands the girl to come back and then has nothing to say except for smart-ass comments…I guess to just provoke the reporter. They obviously have issues with each other, but the video is pretty funny.