WHO SAYS I CAN'T GOLF

YUP - ITS ANOTHER CHEAP PIZZA NIGHT

A WORK IN PROGRESS

 A SLICE GONE TOO FAR ... !

BEST THIN CRUST PIZZA OF THE YEAR

WHAT WAS I THINKING??...ADDING SALAMI+GREENPEPPERS+SHRIMP TO A POOR ORDINARY PEPPERONI   PIZZA !!

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OVEN TIME 12 MINS.

Human-Like Brain Found in Worm

Human-Like Brain Found in Worm: "For the first time, a structure comparable to our cerebral cortex has been found in an invertebrate -- a humble marine ragworm."

Comic for September 2, 2010

Comic for September 2, 2010: "
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Kopi Luwak, Blue Mountain, Illy Coffee Tasting in Vivo! Gelato

Kopi Luwak, Blue Mountain, Illy Coffee Tasting in Vivo! Gelato: "
It took a long time for me to organize this fun event.

It was so long ago I can’t remember how it all began actually and how the discussions first began that led to us having two very exotic coffee. But we were glad that PinoyGourmet and Carol who went out of their way and gave us their precious coffee when I expressed my curiosity over the cat-poop coffee.

So I decided to make a fun event and invite Friends of Chowtimes to come and get to know one another over a few cups of coffee.



The turnout was pretty good and we get to know some of our readers. I think we had 10 people in all.

One of the problem in organizing this is to find a coffee house who is willing to host the event. I wanted a place where we could meet and chat for as long as we wanted. I also wanted someone who is willing to brew the coffee beans for us. He he he … I also wanted someone who will not charge me an arm and a leg too.

Well, Vivo! Gelato stepped forward and not only allowed us the use of their premises but they were extremely supportive of the event.

One thing I meant to ask the folks from Vivo! Gelato is why they call themselves “Vivo!” and not “Vivo”. Why that exclamation mark? I mean, how should one say the name? Like VIVO!!! gelato?



PinoyGourmet was the one who donated the cat-poop coffee. It is called Kopi Luwak or Coffee Alamid.

Did you know that Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world? It could cost up to $5oo per pound! It is quite accurate to call this cat-poop coffee.

Kopi Luwak is made by passing a certain type of coffee beans through the digestive tract of the civet cat.

If you want to try Kopi Luwak here in Vancouver, you can get it from the Spice Island Indonesian Restaurant. He he he … it is $60 per cup and I am not kidding you. See their menu here.

In this event the Kopi Luwak is free!



Carol gave us her precious Blue Mountain coffee when she heard that we had the Kopi Luwak and that we wanted to organize a tasting event. I am just so glad for supporters like Carol (thanks a lot Carol!).

The Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee is one of the most expensive coffee in the world and is very popular in Japan. It is grown only in the Blue Mountain region in Jamaica. Japan imports 80% of all the Blue Mountain coffee in the world. So the Blue Mountain coffee above is part of the 20% the rest of the world is left with. Nice!



And holding the fort against the cat-poop coffee and the Blue Mountain coffee is the very brand of coffee that Vivo! Gelato offers in store.

The Illy coffee is from Italy. It is distinctive in the way they package the coffee. Illy preserve their coffee in cans which are filled with inert gases instead of air pressurization.

Oh yeah … the comparison is on …
More after the jump. Click to read the rest of Kopi Luwak, Blue Mountain, Illy Coffee Tasting in Vivo! Gelato (375 words)

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UNLOADIN CELL PHOTOS

drunk dudes bbq

gotta eat at 3 am cuz thats the best time to have a quck BBQ !!!!!!!
veggies + a bita steak .

ONE DAY i'LL LEARN TO USE THAT MICROWAVE THINGY !!!!!!!!!! when I'm sober .....perhaps!

from FT.com - Europe homepage

: "UBS tells unit staff to avoid US visits

from FT.com - Europe homepage
UBS has told members of its former private banking team responsible for rich US clients not to travel to America, and has also made lawyers available to the more than 50 bankers involved"

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TED | Talks | List


some of the best talks / seminars you'll ever see or hear

VISTA CRASHER EXPOSED

NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007

from Engadget by Nilay Patel

SHAW TRYS LATER ???

WELL , LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS ...

SHAW SPEED PROMO FAILS TO IMPRESS

they said I'll have 5MB d/l as of yesterday...yet this is not even 10% of that speed ...


this is so sad but what do you expect .... no delivery on this one !!

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TheStar.com | Ontario | $3 Casino Rama bet nets $8.9M jackpot

TheStar.com | Ontario | $3 Casino Rama bet nets $8.9M jackpot: "Mar 24, 2008 04:30 AM
John Goddard
Staff Reporter

Steady play on a slot machine for under an hour won Anna Falco a record $9 million on the weekend.

The 53-year-old woman from Woodbridge was playing the Megabucks machine at Casino Rama on Saturday. Her husband Franco arrived to share in her triumph.

The machine takes a minimum $1 bet but she was wagering $3 a spin to qualify for the jackpot, which starts at $1 million and continues to mount until there's a winner.

Falco had spent around $200 when lights flashed and bells sounded."

TheSpoof.com : NASA on Roswell incident: Conclusion - Alien space turds are edible! funny satire story

TheSpoof.com : NASA on Roswell incident: Conclusion
- Alien space turds are edible! funny satire story:

"'We have recovered what appears to be Alien Poo. We theorize that once the doomed craft were heading in at high crash speeds, the aliens pooped their spacesuits. We have recovered the turds from the wreckage in the immediate days after the crash. It was fresh, firm, and surprisingly fragrant!'"

John Denver classic provokes Thai karaoke gun massacre | The Register

John Denver classic provokes Thai karaoke gun massacre | The Register:

"A Thai rubber tapper who got rather tired of his neighbours' karaoke version of John Denver's Country Roads resolved the noise pollution problem by shooting eight of them dead, the Telegraph reports.

Weenus Chumkamnerd, 52, blew away a respected female doctor and seven of her guests at a rowdy singalong in the town of Hat Yai, close to the Malaysian border. He later recounted: 'I warned these people about their noisy karaoke parties. I said if they carried on I would go down and shoot them. I had told them if I couldn’t talk sense into them I would come back and finish them off.'"

Backronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Backronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A backronym (or bacronym or also retronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word or abbreviation, the abbreviation being an initialism or an acronym. The term is a false acronym, and sometimes used to refer to the initialism or acronym itself,^[1] but usually in those cases, it is a "replacement" backronym, the abbreviation already having an associated phrase. When the backronym phrase becomes more popular than the original, the word becomes an anacronym. (But other than that, backronyms and anacronyms have little to do with each other.)

The word backronym is a neologism, coined in 1983.^[2]

An example of a backronym from the word acronym is as follows.

Acronyms Condense Representations Of Neologisms You Memorize

In this example, because the word acronym itself is not an acronym, the phrase above is a pure backronym, not a replacement backronym. Since the phrase indirectly refers to the word itself, it is also apronymic. If this backronym helps you remember the word acronym or backronym, then it is also a mnemonic.

Angry Chinese woman sets 400 phones on fire - Engadget

Angry Chinese woman sets 400 phones on fire - Engadget:

"it's a crazy, mixed-up world we live in. If we aren't worrying about global warming or peace in the middle east, we have to be on the lookout for scorned women setting large quantities of mobile devices on fire."

DISSING COUSINS: OBAMA, CHENEY, BUSH RELATED - New York Post

DISSING COUSINS: OBAMA, CHENEY, BUSH RELATED - New York Post: "The Chicago Sun-Times revealed the genealogical link in early September, claiming that the shared ancestors were Mareen and Susannah Duvall, 17th century immigrants from France.

The newspaper, however, claimed that the senator from Illinois and the vice president were 11th cousins.

The Duvalls are Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, and Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, the paper said.

George W. Bush and Obama, meanwhile, are 10th cousins once removed - linked through a 17th century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole, according to the Sun-Times."