Miracle Fruit

The effects of the fruit can last from 15 to 60 minutes depending on the person.

Food tasting parties are a fun idea with these.

Some food ideas to try:
Lemons
Oranges/Orange juice
Kiwi
Grapefruit
Salted lemon
White onion
Tangerine
Strawberry
Persimmon
salt and vinegar potato chips
Radishes
Pickles
hot sauce
beer
Salad dressings
Chutney
Marinades
Mustard
Ketchup
Mayonnaise
Black coffee
Espresso
Cocoa powder
Green Guava
Starfruit
Pomelo
Gooseberry
Apples
pineapple
Goat’s cheese
Blue cheese
Sourdough bread
Tomatoes
Broccoli
Grapes
Cherry
Lychee

Other than the fun you can have, Miracle Fruit has helped diabetics taste sweet things again and cancer patients get rid of the metallic taste caused by their chemotherapy treatments.

Frooties a miracle fruit tablet that comes in various sizes is also available in many place on the web. According to an LA Times blog article “The general consensus is that the berry and tablet are equally intense, but the effects of the tablet wear off more quickly than the berry.”

Frooties - miracle fruit tablets

Pirate Party

The music industry has experimented with alternatives to copyright, such as licenses that allow unlimited, restriction-free file sharing in exchange for flat fees, maybe a $5 or $10 voluntary payment with your monthly internet provider bill.

When we build institutions to promote the abundance of knowledge, everybody wins. When it comes to knowledge, you can never have too much of a good thing.
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All I have to say about this whole thing is LOL. …Yarrrrr.

I like the general style. Don’t like that there’s a lot of fake elements and that even as a child in the magic kingdom I was not inspired by it. It’s simply not big enough to have a real castle feel.

Cinderellas Castle

Cinderellas Castle

Cinderellas Castle by Kinkade

Kinkades impression of the castle is more inspiring than actually seeing it in person.

Read my first castle post.

This is going to be my castle log. My search for the perfect castle for me.

Why, you ask, would I do this?

Several reasons:
1. I like castles.
2. Good motivation.
3. I watched too many Disney movies and now I’m screwed up just like everyone else. Where’s my Cinderella? Where’s my castle and my happily ever after???
4. Did I mention I like castles?

So, I’ll just start it off slowly with this castle:

Egeskov Castle, Denmark

I like this castle for lots of reasons… It’s not too ostentatious and it has many of the features I would want in a home/castle.
Moat is a definite plus. Arched entryway into the courtyard. House with separate side-house for my studio/office (I paint). It has a tower at one corner.. all castles need a tower of some sort.

Negatives: brick instead of stone, funky facade shapes near ends of roof, tower not tall enough.

It’s not perfect but it’s a good start on my search.

FINE Champagne Magazine Cover

Champagne Magazine Cover

Amazing, you get a copy of FINE Champagne Magazine when you buy a Bentley or a Maybach, when you get an American Express Platinum Card, or when you go to any Les Sources de Caudalie Spas around the world!

Great articles in the most recent issue of Champagne Magazine include “Decanting Champagne,” “Champagne Auctions,” and “Champagne as an Investment.”

Champagne Investment

At a price of 80 Euros for delivery outside Europe it’s a bit pricey for just a quick flip through.. than again, I think they are looking for a reading audience that wouldn’t miss a few grand if it just disappeared.

It would be amazing if FINE Champagne Magazine would send me a free subscription.
I promise I’ll share with all the rich people I know in NYC and Miami. I know several that LUV Champagne and would LUV to read it if they knew your magazine existed.

Also, check out the other “FINE” magazines like FINE Wine Investing:

Wine Investing

Marshmallow Peeps

Estimated number of Marshmallow Peeps that will be consumed around Easter this month: 800,000,000

Estimated number of pigs who died to make them: 125,000

So…  Happy Easter!

Raisin Bran Crunch

Not really much to say about this but I was at the grocery store and saw this stuff on sale cause it was new. Raisin Bran Crunch turned out ot be pretty tasty. Kinda a cross between raisin bran and honey bunches of oats, which are, next to lucky charms, probably my favorite Cereals.  So yea, Luv That. 

Rembrandt - 2 hour whitening kit

My thoughts? Well, it kinda works. Maybe noticed a bit of whitening. Not worth the $20 it costs at the grocery store. Oh, and the little whitening trays that you form to your teeth are useless unless you only want to whiten the fromt four or six teeth..  or you have a really small mouth. Definitely not large enough for a normal adult male mouth. Oh yea, one little “ampule” thing is enough to fill the top and bottom tray so you really get two uses out of the whole kit. Even so, it didn’t seem worth it to me.

After getting this and trying it out, of course, I checked out ebay and found I could have gotten the kit a good amount cheaper.

Additionally, I wish Rembrandt provided more details on the percentage of whitening power stuff the gel had in it so I could effectively compare it to other products out there.

I suppose I will be ordering something off ebay soon to test out some of these other home teeth whitening procedures, comtrptions, gadgets, and gels.

Bottom line is I don’t luv that. But I bought it cause I felt safer trying a product off the shelf first before trusting my teeth to some crap I got off the net.

The boat I want to be on!

Everyone wants to be on a boat, relaxing, enjoying the sun and freedom of the open waters. Fortunately, thanks to SNL and T-pain, we now have a theme song for that desire! The boat in the music video is more what I would call a yacht or ship, but I guess it wouldn’t work  as well for the song.

Some lyrics from the new “I’m on a boat” off the Lonely Island CD.

“Take a picture trick, I’m on a boat bitch,
Drinkin’ Santana Champ’ cause it’s so crisp,
I got my swim trunks, and my flippy-floppys
I’m flippin’ burgers, you at Kinkos straight flippin’ copies.”