Finally getting around to notifying you all about the pictures I took of the 2016 Boston Pride Parade and the Pirate Party marchers. If you are looking for other Pirate Party activities, Aaron James’ campaign for 27th Middlesex State Representative is going door to door today and the Pirate Picnic is Sunday.
Category Archives: Fun
Trifle recipe
Today’s trifle for work. Thankfully there are leftovers pic.twitter.com/UKLQhNMflk
— James O’Keefe (@jpokeefe) November 19, 2015
This is, roughly, the trifle recipe we have used and was passed down from my wife’s mother. I brought it in to work during the holidays and it was liked so much, I was asked to write down the recipe. Hope it brings you much enjoyment.
Ingredients
- 1 pound cake
- One 6oz or two 4oz packages of a fruit jello (Strawberry or Raspberry are good)
- Berries fresh or frozen. I used two bags of frozen berries and some fresh berries for the topping)
- Bird’s Custard Powder
- 1-2 Pt Whipping cream
Instructions
- Get a trifle dish
- Cut up a pound cake loaf into slices, maybe 1/3” wide
- Place the pound cake slices to make a wall around the bottom edge of the dish, then fill in the bottom of the dish with the pound cake slices.
- Make a fruit jello according to the instructions. I used one 6 oz package, but two 4 oz packages might have been better
- Pour the jello so it covers the pound cake. To avoid floating pound cake slices, you might want to make only 4 oz and pour it in so it covers the bottom layer, let set, then make the other 4oz package and pour that in.
- Pour in some berries. They should float.
- Let your jello set the required time. I did it overnight, but I think it only takes an hour or two.
- Make at least 1 Pt of custard according to the Bird’s Custard Powder directions
- Pour the custard into the dish so it covers the jello
- Let the custard set. I did it over night, but whatever the packaging gives as the right time should work.
- Whip your whipping cream and pour it in so it covers the custard and ideally reaches the edge.
- Decoratively cover whipping cream with fresh berries.
- Serve
Sunday PAXEast 2016 Photos
Friday PAXEast 2016 Photos
I posted some of the photos I took on Friday at PAX East 2016. I will be back on Sunday and will add those photos later. Here is a slide show:
Tis International Speak Like a Scurvy Pirate Day this day!
Tis International Speak Like a Scurvy Pirate Day this day! Arrrrrgh!
Here be a few links to help you celebrate:
Redesigned my blog
I have found that using Facebook and Twitter aren't allowing me the level of expression I want, so I will be moving more of my activity back to my blog. To encourage me to post more on my blog and because of my Pirate affiliations, I redesigned it. Additionally, I decided to merge several of my blogs, some of which I kept at arms length, into my main blog. A small part of personal transparency.
I have more work to do including updating the domain names and resizing images, but all in all I am happy with it. Expect me to post more here.
Links of Note, 1/7/2011
Quick hit: getting too close to power – Geek Feminism, sexist trolls and worse on the internet
NJ Public Pension Slugfest Reporting Omits 15 Years of Governors Stealing From Workers – Naked Capitalism, as Utah Phillips once said, The long memory is the most radical idea in America.
The Left Has Nowhere To Go – Truth Dig
Good Code– xkcd, a bit o' humor
Another Court Says It's Okay For Police To Search Your Mobile Phone Without A Warrant – Tech Dirt
US Air Force Intelligence Veteran Of Afghan War Explains Why He Supports Wikileaks – Tech Dirt
US Gov't Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked – Tech Dirt
Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’ – Juan Cole, via Naked Capitalism
More young scientists: 8-Year-Olds Publish Scientific Bee Study – Geek Feminism
Fed Plans to End Tough Sanction Against Predatory Lending – Naked Capitalism
Standard & Poor’s Triple A Ratings Collapse Again. The Question is Why? – ProPublica
Would You Be Bullish About A Country with Five Years of Negative Real ROE? – Naked Capitalism, not all is rosy in China
Living without Money | a Documentary Film via Mark Boyle
Does America really have the finest military in the world? – Salon
We Really Do Spend More Than $1 Trillion on War – Truth Dig
Feynman called a woman “worse than a whore” for not exchanging sex for sandwiches. – Geek Feminism
In praise of comforts (not quite an antidote to the last post)
Lucy Knisley, a cartoonist among other responsibilities, has a comic in praise of comforts, which isn't quite in opposition to my last post, but is a bit. The comic is rather small in the space available on my blog, so just click on the image and you will go to her page.
A quote that made me laugh
"I laugh when I hear the humanists whining about the reduction of people
to ciphers. What makes them think the destruction of men complete with
tricked-up names is any less inhuman than their destruction as a set of
numbers? I have already said that the obscure antagonism between the
would-be progressives and the reactionaries boils down to this: should
people be smashed by punishments or by rewards? As for the reward of
celebrity, thanks for nothing!" – Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Chapter 15 (Roles), Section 5.
More seriously:
"When people are overtaken by joie de vivre they are lost to leadership
and stage management of any kind. Only by starving the revolutionary
masses of joy can one become their master: uncontained, collective
pleasure can only go from victory to victory." – same as above, Section 6.
Happy Birthday to Us!
Today is my birthday. On the actual date of my birth Kyle Eastwood, American jazz musician & son of Clint Eastwood was born. I share a birthday with:
- Malcolm X
- Kevin Garnett
- Ho Chi Minh
- Mustafa Kamal Atatürk
- Mohammed Mosaddeq
- Grace Jones
- Nora Ephron
- André the Giant
- Joey Ramone
- James Gosling
- Pete Townshend
- Peter Mayhew
- Nicole Brown Simpson
- Pol Pot
Today is a weird day.