We’ve had Bozzio for over 2 years but I’ve never drawn him before today.
I’m pretty rusty but I knew the sketch would go well as soon as I began drawing him.Sometimes you just have the feeling as soon as you make the first few marks on the paper that you won’t mess this up.
If only the model hadn’t gotten up and repaired to the other room before I was done.
That’s Bozzio’s morning routine and he sticks to it art or no art.
Month: December 2007
Absolutely the best Apple Pie,ever.
What a bold statement that is. But even more shocking was that this was my 1st attempt at pie baking. Obviously, I am a genius.OK,I can’t take all the credit.I did look up how to make a pie as I hadn’t much of a clue beyond that I knew I needed crust and stuff to put in a crust and then bake it.
What I really wanted to make was a crumble and apple pie combination.
I found a good recipe on epicurious.com that I used as a guide.
To start you will need a premade graham cracker crust or regular pastry pie crust and a 350 degree oven.
The apple filling:
6 Macintosh apples, peeled and cored and sliced into wedges.
2 tbs of milk.
2 tbs of white all purpose flour.
3/4 cinnamon
Dash of nutmeg.
Some pear juice, about 1/4 a cup.I used Looza’s pear juice instead of lemon juice.
dash vanilla extract
1/4 cup of sugar.
1/2 cup brown sugar (mine had gone hard so into the microwave with a cup of water and soon it was soft)
In a large bowl toss apples with all the ingredients in list above. Spoon into pie crust.
The topping:
4-6 oz walnuts in pieces or pecans (walnuts are better I think)
4 tbs butter
4 tbs brown sugar
2 tbs flour
little squeeze of honey
another little dash of cinnamon
Squeeze in the little bit of little honey, mix up and refrigerate.
After the pie has baked one hour take it out and spoon the topping into the center. As it melts it will spread out. If you want it to cover more pie spread it out-but be warned if you used a lot of wet ingredients for the filling, ie juice, the pie will probably spill over as it cooks.This happened to me but didn’t affect the outcome as it was the best apple pie I’d ever tasted.
Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin
I just saw a demo of how the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin could super enhance WP blog posts.I may not use it myself because I personally hate tooltips,which was a big feature.However I do like the option to convert a link to a badge that would insert a map into the text,making it look like a page a newspaper or magazine which is a look I p[ersonally really go for.Then at the bottom of the write post editing field is the flickr option.You select the pictures set you want to show and voila all your flickr photos relating to that post are in nice neat thumbs at the bottom of your post.
Pretty sweet.
Another Purehost Disaster
Thanks to Purehost and with a little help from me (I can’t shrug off all guilt onto Purehost…much as I’d like to) my father’s website was totally crippled during the short time people come to his website to make their Xmas orders.
Now my dad is also a little to blame,too.He should have alerted that me something was wrong when he noticed that the order rate dried up(sometime around Dec 3rd) the same time I launched the new paypal integrated shop,along with a new site and blog design. But it was not until yesterday the 14th with Christmas less than 2 weeks away that he let me in on this fact.
Despite my best efforts not to serve up 404’s due to the new design and site restructure(I’d used the url redirect tool Purehost offers, for each and every url that was being retired)-searches from Google were serving up blank pages.Not even 404 messages. Just blank white screens.Because I had directory browsing turned on-the browser went to the directory but couldn’t find the file. Of course it couldn’t. I had moved it. But I had used the URI redirect tool! I had taken every measure I thought I had at my disposal to protect my dad’s site from losing visitors.