bbc - penguins

magic

"it's magic. and like science, you don't actually have to understand it. you just have to believe it."
-Amanda from Ugly Betty

kung fu baby

the fart propellant is the best part

fruit cups

i'm missing 6 mandarin orange fruit cups. where did they go?

i am so jealous of this guy

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

funny baby

neti pot, part ii

over-salting a neti pot is much, much worse than not adding enough. instead of feeling like i was drowning, the entire front of my head burned in pain. i thought my eyeballs were going to fall out.

subsequently, my boogers were really salty for a couple of hours.

Echinacea

my brother (after i told him i'm getting sick): "Are you taking echinacea? I find it's a very effective placebo. Zinc & vitamin D, too."

happy koala

koala bears

oh, linnaeus. so judgemental...

“Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.” - Linnaeus, 1797

art

anderson cooper on romance

peacock spider

bach

pendulum

boeuf

i noticed today, while i was heat styling my hair, that it smelled like boeuf. i must've inadvertently dunked it in french onion soup last night.

Switzerland

my sous vide experience

i've been curious about sous vide cooking, and when i saw some vacuum sealed, pre-seasoned turbot at trader joe's last week, i decided to buy some and make good use of the lab water baths. since it looked to be 15mm thick, i cooked it at 61 degrees for 40 minutes. i was happy/excited until the smell of yumminess started wafting throughout the lab and i thought the bag had exploded or melted. i couldn't smell it in the water bath though, and nothing seemed to have leaked. the juices in the pack was turbid but the bath water was still clear. meh.

the fish turned out quite delicious, despite having cooled during my trek home. my stomach hurt right after i ate it and at first i thought i had accidentally poisoned myself, but it turned out to just be gas. if i were to try again, i might use a lower temp with a longer cooking time.

milk

back in march, shaw's/star market did a promotion where if you bought 6 gallons of milk within a month, you can get one gallon free. since i have a secret love for garelick farms' chocolate milk, i decided to partake. i barely managed to eke by when the promotion ended, and i was so garelicked out by then that i held off on redeeming my free gallon. plus, there was no apparent expiration date on the vouchers, or so i thought. i recently decided to come out of my milk coma and was about to redeem my vouchers when i noticed in the blurry 0.5pt font print that they had expired a week after the promotion ended. what!! i guess that's what i get for drinking 6 gallons of milk and not reading the fine print...