So there’s this candy/snack here in Norway called Smash that’s basically crispy Bugles corn snacks coated in chocolate. They’re pretty tasty, but more than the taste, I think it’s one of their commercials that endears them to us: The ad has been running at the cinema for ages. So now it’s reached the point that [...]
Since we now have a decent stash of California wines to work our way through, we decided to open our last bottle of wine from our visit to the Margaret River, Australia wine region: Our “Bling Bling Shiraz” We spent a while at Windance trying their excellent reds and chatting with the owners. “Bling Bling [...]
We’ve been back from San Francisco for two weeks, and I’ve finally gotten the chance to post something! A technical glitch with my blog, followed by a poor attempt to fix the problem by upgrading the software meant that I haven’t even been able to post for a while. (And I was stuck with that [...]
I posted a link to Cake Wrecks once before, but I just love this blog! To make it even better, the daily update seems to show up in my RSS feeds sometime in the afternoon Oslo-time, so the daily Wreck is often a much-needed afternoon pick-me-up. Anyhow, I felt compelled to repost today’s cake for all [...]
One of the more entertaining aspects of software development (on a general level, since geeks tend to have a different definition of fun) is the codenames products and releases get during development. In our last project, each of our internal releases was named after a major hurricane. The rationale for this was something along the lines [...]
Lucas and I quote stand-up comedy the same way some people quote movie lines! (Okay, I admit I quote movie lines, too…) In case you haven’t seen them, here are links to a few things that we watched when Erin & Mike were here: Stephen Lynch Nothing like getting a comedy singer stuck in your [...]
A few days ago, I came across a particularly entertaining blog to share: Cake Wrecks When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong. The blog is a gallery of professionally decorated cakes (and cake sculptures) that all have something fundamentally and amusingly wrong with them. In some cases, it’s the fault of the client, who requested [...]
I mentioned in the post about Lucas’s birthday that we used one of our exciting musical flower birthday candles from Beijing. In case you’ve never been privy to a demonstration of these fantastic contraptions, I will try to describe them well enough to do them justice. You start with a large blossom-shaped blob of pink [...]
We have a habit of brightening our afternoons by running next door to the supermarket for a bottle of soda, a snack, or just a chance to get out of the office for a few minutes. I was very disappointed last year when the shop stopped carrying Diet Coke with Lime (apparently it’s not available [...]
Yesterday was Lucas’s birthday, so I enlisted Cassie’s help to make a Lego birthday cake. We left work and headed straight to the grocery to buy supplies. We didn’t want to put in hours making a cake from scratch, so we bought an imported cake mix for a ridiculous price ($9 - Don’t you love Norwegian prices?) and [...]