Clocky Runs and Hides

They've now created an alarm clock that runs and hides so you won't be able to hit the snooze button!

Cute Animation

Check out this reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaally cute animation (link updated) that I found while surfing blogs!! It's called "Le plus gros président du monde", and it's made by someone named Benjamin Renner, an animator from France.

A Good Wednesday

Lots of good things happened to me today (Wednesday):

** Little Peter Chum has arrived!!!! I was soooo worried about him. The package he was in was a week late. Peter Chum is a 5-cm tall amigurumi character =o).

** I had a very very very very satisfying kickboxing class. Too bad it was the second to last class of the semester. I am definitely taking it again in January.

** I had a full "knot" of "twisted" cheese, with tons of good bread and brown apple juice. I was in food heaven for the second day in a row (yesterday I was at restaurant "Aleppo").

Note: I just looked out the window and it's all white outside!! First snow storm of the season (not counting the watery flurries we had yesterday). Clean white snow is very pretty, but I'll sure miss going to school while wearing my comfy running shoes.

Chili

I'm not vegetarian. But here's the recipe I use for vegetatrian chili:

Ingredients, part 1:
* 2 lobes of garlic (finely chopped).
* 1 medium onion (chopped).
* N hot peppers (finely chopped. If jalapeños, I use 4 or 5).

Ingredients, part 2:
* 1 large can of crushed tomatos.
* 1 tomato (chopped).
* 4 cans of beans (crush the content of one of the cans).
* 1 can of corn.
* 8 Oz of mushrooms (chopped).

Ingredients, part 3:
* 1 green pepper (chopped).
* A few chopped green onions (optional).

Spices and such:
* 1 teaspoon of vegetable broth.
* 1 pinch of salt.
* 1 pinch of oregano.
* 1 pinch of chili powder.
* 1/2 teaspoon of molasses (controversial).

Extras:
* Grated cheese.

Instructions:

• Fry part 1 of the ingredients in Olive oil.
• In a thick-bottomed big pot over "medium" heat, toss in parts 1 and 2 of the ingredients and all the spices. Stir.
• When the mixture starts to bubble, lower the heat to "low", and let the mixture bubble for 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally (play board game during this time!).
• Add part 3 of the ingredients and wait 3 minutes.
• Serve.
• Sprinkle cheese on servings as needed.

The 2014 FIFA Worldcup

In the news: It has been decided that the 2014 FIFA worldcup will be held in Brazil! Imagine the football fever in Brazil! It would be awesome to go watch a game there! But I bet the tickets are already sold out ;).

Giant Lego Man

I found this in August and I thought it was funny! I have always liked Lego.

Long Live my Cell Phone!

I got my cell phone (Nokia 3390) on January (16?/17?) 2003. We now are October 12, 2007 (Friday). Meaning I've had my phone for almost 5 years. The phone claims that in the past 5 years, I have talked for 108 hours, 58 minutes, and 46 seconds... But my phone has been slowly dying in the past few months, and it completely expired a couple of days ago.

After several days of thorough research about the different kinds of Nokia phones available on the market, and after a lot of looking-up of Nokia handsets, I have decided to buy... a new battery!

So I found an e-bay store that sells compatible batteries. I bought 2 batteries for $4 plus shipping (a new phone would have cost me $100 or more). I put one of the new batteries in the cell phone and put it to charge. It finished charging on Wednesday morning. We are now Friday night and the battery is only 25% empty. I think my phone is back to life!!

My phone has no camera, no web browser, no radio, no mp3 player, no video capture, no multi-bands reception, and no colours. But it allowes me to make and receive phone calls (with cool ringtones), to send and receive text messages (with comfortable buttons), and to play 4 games. And that's all I need from a cell phone!

Spiders and Harvestmen

In the class "arachnida" there are many orders.

Only the members of the order "araneae" are "true spiders".

This cute monster isn't a true spider. He's a member of the order "opiliones" which makes him a "harvestman"!