Hilarious CommericalFiled Under: Random Thoughts

Talk about tough luck!

Tags: Comedy, Commerical, Video, YouTube

Are You Neutral?Filed Under: Deafness, Politics, Uncategorized

A bud of mine, Travis Dougherty, posted a video on Facebook. I thought it delivered quite a powerful message. Facebook, of course, wouldn’t share the video to the public (being a “closed garden”). But I found a copy of the video on YouTube. It also is subtitled.

Just wanted to share it with ya’all, since I thought it had a very good message!

Tags: ASL, Deafness, Facebook, Obama, Politics, Travis Dougherty, Video, YouTube

My Name In Chinese!Filed Under: Personal

A friend of mine, Kelvin (whom I met on Facebook), gave me my name in Chinese. At first, he attempted giving it to me via Facebook. For some reason, my computer wasn’t displaying the Chinese font, so he attempted it via MSN Instant Messenger. The font still did not display (I assume it’s a global problem; I probably just need to install it, but I haven’t the vaguest notion of how to). He finally just made a screen shot of it and sent me the image. Here it is!

That translates to Donald Cullen. Pretty cool! Thanks, Kelvin!

Tags: Chinese, Facebook, Japanese, Kelvin, Language

Vegetarian Recipe: Fettuccine AlfredoFiled Under: Health

I’m always interested in good vegetarian recipes, and I found one on the internet that sounded good. I’m going to make this for myself and Jackie.  I thought I’d share this with you. If you know of any, share it especially if it involves fake meat, I’m up to it since I’m always on the look out for good alternatives that taste like meat but aren’t meat.

Fettuccine Alfredo
Vegetarian Recipe

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon oil
8 mushrooms, chopped
5 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup coconut milk
Vegan soy parmesan (optional)
Scant 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 – 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Salt to taste

Directions:
Saute the mushrooms and the garlic in a pan over medium-low heat, until it looks creamy. Separately bring the coconut milk to a boil over the lowest heat possible, and as soon as it starts boiling, add the parmesan (if using), nutmeg, and pepper, (lemon, if using – see note below) and remove from heat. Mix all together.

Add the coconut sauce to the mushrooms/garlic and simmer on low heat until the sauce reduces. Make sure to stir it constantly or mixture will burn. Stir until it comes to a consistency that looks like alfredo sauce, and serve immediately over fettuccine noodles.

Note:  You can also add some lemon juice to the sauce, freshly squeezed is best, or garnish with lemon wedges. Recipe serves 2-4.

Source: http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/veg/alfredo.html

Tags: Recipe, Vegetarian

You Voted, Now What?Filed Under: Politics

I voted this morning at 10:00 AM. My vote went to Obama. Many of my friends and a few of my family (most of them didn’t want to vote, they felt their vote was either irrelevant, or too much effort to vote, or didn’t trust either presidental choice) voted.

Now you, I, and everybody else voted.

Now what?

Now we reap the benefits of voting, of course! Did you know there’s alot of places that want to reward voters? I’ll share a list of those places with you – if you voted, go enjoy the benefits! If you haven’t yet, but you’re registered, GO VOTE!

Keep in mind, when collecting the rewards, you need to show proof you voted. A sticker that says you voted, or your voter stub, or a button that says you voted, etc, etc will usually be accepted as proof. Some places (especially in California) will give you the stuff for free anyway even if you don’t have proof, as long as you say you did vote.

Make sure you look at the hours it’s available so you don’t end up going at the wrong time and paying for it!

• Free ice cream scoop at Ben & Jerry’s (5p-8p)
• Free Krispy Kreme Doughnut at Krispy Kreme
• Free tall cup of coffee at Starbucks
• Free flu shot (www.voteandvax.org)
• Free chicken sandwich at Chick-Fil-A
• Free sandwich at Arby’s
• Free junior frosty at Wendy’s

There’s plenty other free stuff, if you’d like to know more, just go here:

http://lifehacker.com/5075721/election-day-freebies-roundup

If you know of any other freebies for election day, share ‘em in the comments!

Oh and if you’re in the Stockton, CA area and want to take advantage of the free coffee offer at Starbucks (yes, the free coffee is available ANYWHERE in the USA, I’m just saying), you should go to the Starbucks at March Ave and West Ln and say hey to Jackie. Tell her I sent you.