Era una cita…

Intrépido y acampanado conductor de Ferrari 275 GTB que nunca fue aprehendido y que fue contratado para recorrer las calles de Paris en 1976 en menos de diez minutos y filmarlo todo para “C’était un rendez-vous” de Claude Lelouch: Llámame.

Después descubriré que lo del conductor tan viril fue inventado, que se filmó de un Mercedes, y que Lelouch fue el conductor misterioso, pero el hecho que me haya dejado asombrar hoy me parece bien de todas maneras. Y si hay que usar ExtenZe, pues que se use!

Joining the world

…one tweet at a time:

http://twitter.com/jossbot

What’s wrong, baby?

This is what’s wrong.

Oh Craigslist, you’re always a good source for random encounters, cheap aeron chairs and free kittens… but this is a bit too obscene.

So, let’s all get the message together:
- First, it calls for an editor. Really? Of what: Craigslist ads so they don’t sound like this anymore?
- Then they want a writer with graphic design skills.
- Plus they want someone with a degree in journalism. And of course, in English (for the writing). And then in Arts (for the graphic part).
- Then then then they want skills in Adobe and HTML!! W-H-A-T! (Please adjust comment number 3 to add proper skills/degrees).
- “Experience with digital photography a plus” …………………..
- “Experience required: at least to years writing for a newspaper or magazine along with layout skills”… Oooh no. Is the trucking industry completely unaware that people can actually specialize in things?
- “Willing to help with administrative duties” …. here we go.
- Wait this is better: “Owning a car wouldn’t hurt” hahaha. If they had said “willing to work from the parking lot” or “willing to work from a toilet stall”, it might’ve sounded less shady.
- And on top of top of everything, this is a part-time job. Never mind your awesome awesome skills in writing, editing, designing, coding, driving and accounting; no no, you’ll still have to stay home half of the week.

……..

SRSLY! Do me a favor and let’s stop the exploitation!
If I wasn’t so mad I’d email them, but I have no idea how to address this. Do I say it nicely? Do I try to explain? Do I re-write this post without all the irony? Wait… do I apply?!?!?!
Right?!

Superlicious Milk Chocolate Toffee Banana Bread

In the kitchen again! And this week, honoring Passover and its 10-day fight with yeast, I decided to make some bread before the matzoh party begins on Tuesday. Although, in the Schwartz residence, matzoh party happens every day :)

Let’s do this, you know how: mix, bake, eat, clean, repeat step three, look at the pretty pictures.
This recipe makes one 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 in. loaf of bread, more than that is gluttony.

BUY/BORROW/STEAL THIS:
5 oz. sugar
3 oz. margarine
1 egg
3/4 cup mashed bananas (about 2 bananas)
1 oz. sour cream (or apple sauce)
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup toffee bits, walnuts or chocolate chips

DO/ORDER SOMEONE TO DO THIS:
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF
2. In a med-big bowl, cream sugar and margarine. If you don’t know what this is, read this. It’s basically to create air bubbles in the mix, to make the bread fluffier. Use room-temperature margarine. Beat by hand or mixer.
If you’re too lazy, do it with a whisk for a bit, and adding ingredients little by little; the difference might not be too much in this bread… I mess every recipe up and usually get away with it, so give it a try like this.
3. Add egg, mashed bananas and sour cream. Mix until blended.
4. Stir in vanilla.
5. Combine flour and baking soda, add to banana mixture.
6. Add toffee, walnuts or chocolate chips.
7. Pour into greased pan and bake at 350ºF for 35 to 40 minutes, but check it after minute 30.

EAT/GIVE/THROW THIS:

Mmm! plate from CB2, walnuts from Mexico, toffee bits from Hershey’s, flashlight from Home Depot.

The Jossbot Sprite Zero Rainbow Cake

My latest baking adventure.
Because the getting-a-driver’s-license adventure wasn’t so great of an adventure anyway!

The deal here is to make a white cake all Rainbow Brite using food coloring. Fun!
The thing is that I used Sprite Zero instead of oil, eggs and water (just like that) and it worked, you’ll just have to bake it waaay longer, so give it a try and eat an entire cake without so much guilt.

Ok, so:

1. One 12-oz can of Sprite Zero for one 18-oz white cake mix box. Mix mix mix until smooth, don’t worry about the other ingredients. (Or worry and use oil, eggs and water, it’s the same).
2. Divide the batter in 6/more/less containers and add food coloring to each to create as many colors as you want (4 drops of each color will do). I made 6 because I ran out of ideas and couldn’t figure out how to make more colors.
3. Pour the little mixes in a cake pan. Start with a color and pour the next one on top without mixing anything, they’ll settle around. Continue until you’ve poured all the colors and give it a little hit against your counter/table/toilet lid/cubicle so the batter settles in.
4. Bake for as long as the box says, but if you’re using Sprite you’ll have to bake it longer (in my case, like 15 more minutes), so check every once in a while.
5. Done! Take pictures, write about it and eat the whole thing. Tomorrow you’ll make another one using only blue and pink. Or black and orange. Or red, white and blue.

Here are my pictures. I’m sorry it looks so Easter gay, next time I’ll add more color.

Dreamy Camera Cases, Dead Pinky Toes And Rain

I’m at school blogging and Interneting because it’s rainy outside and because I think I don’t want to get wet… but the actual reason is because this weekend I almost killed my pinky toe and it hurts and I don’t want to walk.
This Sunday we were getting ready to leave and because I was surely thinking about gigantic cupcakes or desired pets or something, I hit myself with the couch leg.
I mean, the mean, evil couch leg. Snif.
My pink immediately turned red and big and now it won’t fit right in my shoes.

Actually, things have not only been escandalous and hurtful lately, this past month exciting things did happen: my visa was approved, I turned 21… 25… 2-? years old, I saw Freaky Friday for the first time, the new Tropicana design got flushed, I got an ice cream maker and I probably watched the entire NCIS.

So, regarding my newest accident, it’s OK… now I don’t have to work out, and I’ll have time to catch up with my reading, studying, listening, and blogging. Ha.

+ Today:

Dreaming Camera Case by Mi-Jung Ju from the MoMA Store.
So we can dream about buying bags and taking photos.

Aujourd’hui: Museum of Science & Industry And Creepy Blog Stats

This is the creepiest thing. Between yesterday and today my humble blog (your humble blog) got 1,249 hits. 663 yesterday, 586 today.

WHAT?!

This is way creepier than when I saw a car moving next to me and thought that my car was the one moving. Or that one time when I ran into someone from Monterrey on Michigan Avenue. Orrr, that other time when I was quoted saying “I’d never live in the US, that’s for foos!”

The funniest thing is that the post everyone in the Internet seemed to be so interested in, was this one. About the food pyramid! WTF :)

Anyway, after that awesome Internet moment (very possibly robot-made), here are my pictures from the Museum Of Science And Industry.
Now, things that surprised me from this city trip:

1. How far it really is from the Loop
2. How easy it is to get there if you don’t count the bus ride you have to take
3. The amazingness of the Fairy Castle
4. Their genetically modified frogs
5. Their gigantic enormous tremendous city of Chicago model
5. How unsurprised I was when I finished going through it

I did, however, took some pretty pictures and had a great time hanging out with Talia.

Today’s special: Bad typography and salmonella water

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Orray gotta go, I have to go write something about mitochondries and carbs.

Out And About In The Cold

Wow, I can’t believe it took me like 3 weeks to leave the apartment after coming back from Mexico. It’s just too cold. And snowy. And my levels of serotonin are all over the place- my birthday is coming soon.

Anyway, I went downtown for a bit and took these. Then I went to the Museum of Science and Industry with Talia and took some more, but those will come later.

be mine?

Webperiment posted on our building board after seeing it on littlebrownpen.

My notes:I posted the thing, it lasted 35 minutes there, and then someone threw it to the garbage.
I posted it again and this time it lasted for about 12 hours.
I posted it once again and now it stayed for like 3 days. Plus people took some of the little phrases.
Awww true VDay spirit.
[Barf noise]

En Mexico La Fiesta Es Mucha

Batch 2 of our December pictures.
I’m too lazy for my blog.

Click to go to Flickr for the real thing, I’ll keep posting fo sho.