Or at least those who settle for buying Pepsi for $.55 out of the pop machine.
Check it out! I bought one, and Three came out. Top that, everyone!!! Ahhhahahhaha!!!!
posted at 11/27/2007
Dont let the book fool ya. The bread is rising up so that it may over through your authority in the kitchen. You gotta pound it back into submission and when it rises up again clense it with fire for 30-40 minutes
Hello my fellow readers. Wife, Parents, Naomi, Grandma, Secret Santas, etc etc. Here's the official list of stuff I want. I'll be continually updating this, so keep watch!
posted at 11/26/2007
Good evening all!
I'd be darned if I didn't say I wasn't excited to eat! I'm currently waiting for Jacinda, Mike and Aaron to get back from shopping (I would have joined, but I was practicing TKD with Josh). I threw together a crock pot of good ol' fashioned chili. This time, however, with some roast in place of hamburger. I also incorporated some cilantro to the mix. To top it all off, I made some corn bread for a tasty side dish. They better get home soon, or I might just have to eat it all myself!!!!
It's meals like this that make me glad it's cold outside.
posted at 11/23/2007
Lately, for say, the past two weeks, I've been dressing more business like. I've been really getting into it. It makes me feel a little more respectable and it is actually a bit more comfortable than street clothes, in my opinion. Dressing nice is something I've been wanting to do for a while, but really couldn't find any good motivation to. With the new job and location, I figured it would be a good time to start.
I've got a few dress shirts from over the past few years that I wear. I'm a tall guy, with abnormally long arms. I'm also pretty thin compared to most. Seems every shirt I have or have tried on does not fit quite right. It's like they are designed in a way that says I need to gain 30lbs. This also includes most fitted shirts. The back of these shirts puff out like a boat sail. I can't necessarily get a smaller size, either, since the smaller shirts don't have the correct arm length.
How is it, that I am more or less a healthy size and nothing fits? This may be laughable, but I actually did some Googling on the subject of how to find a decent fitted dress shirt, and most places I came across would forward a concern that America in whole is a bigger country than it was 50 years ago. The average American shirt size is a bit larger than it used to be and is also tailored baggier as more men find that comfortable. It only makes sense to tailor shirts based on an average demographic, but it leaves me with few options.
From what I read, these are a few routes I could go: I could get my shirts tailored at $8-10 a pop, or I could buy $80 Italian dress shirts. Both sound much less appealing than throwing $20 on the table for a shirt at JC Penny. I should have been alive in the earlier half of the 20th century, I guess.
posted at 11/17/2007
Here she is, and might I say, she is a beaut'. For the last... say a month, I have wanted to do a site update, but wasn't quite sure what route to take. I had started at least five different designs before deciding to take this route. I'm picky.
Now, a few things to consider with my new design. First of all, I'll probably be tweaking a few things in the next month or so as I'm experimenting. There are a few elements on my website that are definitely not going to work with older browsers. As you could probably tell, the header and other graphics are a bit heftier than my last design. Also, I decided to try a route that uses plenty more CSS than tables. The only places tables are used on this design is a couple asp.net controls that utilise them. Otherwise the skeleton is completely css.
I am also running my full-fledged Europa Content Manager. Complete with document share, blogs, page creation, etc etc. Pretty slick!
posted at 11/15/2007
w00t! Zune just released their 2.0 firmware. So far it's got a lot of sweet additions that I will be dure to take advantage of. First off, they caught on to the podcast movement, which (to me) is a very fresh experience that I will have to take advantage of. They also sort of revamped their "Social" aspect, allowing the Zune user to share music from Zune-to-Zune, but also off their new social network (don't quote me, I'm still running off of excitement). it kind of appears their social network is similar to that of last.fm in regards that it displays your last play. Anyway, check out my Zune card:
http://social.zune.net/member/nickcdavis
posted at 11/13/2007
Tonight, Jacinda and I finally rounded up the rest of the tools I needed to complete my birthday present. I recieved a kitchen timer and a thermometer to add to my whirly-pop popcorn popper, colander and 10lbs of Sumatra greens. Thus finishing my my new coffee roasting setup.
This has been something I've been putting on the back burner for a while (which I don't understand, the final few pieces cost me sixteen dollars), coffee roasting. I totally got into it, tonight, however. My first batch, I really hadn't had a clue what I was doing, beyond a page of instructions I found over at Sweet Maria's. I didn't keep track of times or first and second pops, I took them off the heat after my gut instinct kicked in (That or the smoke bellowing from whirly looked like I was a lone survivor on an island signaling for an airplane). Black. Black, but good. If I had kept them on much longer, they would have been toast. It made a really dark cup with a bite.
My second batch, however, I did actually write some statistics down to the best of my memory:
The second batch could possibly have stayed on a little longer. It is pretty much a city roast. tastes great, though. It's really smooth and mellow. Jacinda says it's fruity, which I'd probably agree. I'll have to screw around with the heat more, I believe, as my first and second cracks were seemingly way to early. Pratice makes perfect, I guess.
posted at 11/12/2007
As of November 2nd, it is official that Famous Davis is now located at the MinnWest Technology Campus. I probably should have blogged about this earlier, but it seems I've been keeping busy. How is the campus? It's great. I love absolutely everything about the new setup. The architecture is really cool, I now have a window, I work with people I am closest to and the actual work is great. So far, within the building we are located in, it's only us and two other businesses since it's only been open for rent not even a year. It's a huge building, to say the least. I'm unsure of the actual count of rooms, but it has to be up around a hundred. It'll be exciting to see it filled in the near future.
So far so good, people. Be sure to check out FamousDavispro.com in the near future, as I will be updating a vast majority of it.
Alright, so maybe it's more than a hobby lately, but I've really been enjoying my time baking. As I write this blog, I have some delicious wheat bread rising in the kithcen. I had made some last week, and it was amazing. If you've experienced anything that has been home-made, doesn't it maike you wonder why people don't make their own breads, pastries, candiesm, etc. etc,. etc.? Especially when you take the bread right out of the oven, it's soft, warm... ugh, I can't wait.
It's really a shame that cooking and baking in America is, for the most part, a lost art. We easily give up the home-made goods for something a little more preserved and processed in order to save a bit of time. We have machines do the work, and in the process, we are missing almost an entire page in the history of man. Sounds sappy, maybe, but it's true. There is no meaning behind buying a loaf of Sara Lee. There is no aroma to be remembered fifty years down the road when your children are talking about their home experiences.
Also, I cut my finger in the process of making the loaves that are rising (don't worry, no blood is in the bread). Ended up cutting my finger on a hidden knife when trying to reach for a spatula. Ah the war stories of a baker.
posted at 11/10/2007