Belmont New York Style Cheesecake – ALDI – Food Review

01/28/2016 by
ALDI - Belmont New York Style Cheesecake

ALDI – Belmont
New York Style
Cheesecake

Is it?  Not really.  But it’s pretty darn close, and about as good as you’re going to find in a supermarket freezer.
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Starbucks Sumatra Whole Bean Coffee – Dark Roast – Food Review

01/26/2016 by
Starbucks Sumatra Coffee Dark Roast Whole Bean

Starbucks
Sumatra

Want your pee to smell like coffee?  This will do it.

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Trader Joe’s Aloo Chaat – Kati Pouches – Food Review

01/26/2016 by
Aloo Chaat Trader Joe's

Aloo Chaat
Trader Joe’s

Think of these as hot, hot pockets – but with a twist.  The first hot meaning spicy.  The second hot meaning, well, hot – as in more than warm.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Crazy Horse – Optimistic – Photography

01/24/2016 by
Crazy Horse Monument

Crazy Horse Memorial

The Crazy Horse Memorial, a dream of two optimistic people, Henry Standing Bear and Korczak Ziolowski.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Alphabet Food – Photography

01/19/2016 by
Plenty Of Letters Hidden In Food

Plenty Of Letters Hidden In Foods

Spaghetti-O                Cheery-O               green Ps

Potato I (eye)             Macaron-E             I of round

T bone                        Grade – A              Crisc-O

Tac-O                         Berr-E                   Hon-E

Q-cumber                    Pick-L                    Jell-E

Jell-O                          T(ea)                    Sug-R

Avacad-O                    P-nut                    Coff-E

Alphabits                      Alphabet soup

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Anti-gravity – Weight(less) – Photography

01/11/2016 by

Coming soon: Kickstarter project to scale up to human size.

Anti-gravity

Anti-gravity Scale

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Turtle Thursday – African Violet Monochrome – Guest – Photography

01/09/2016 by
African Violet Monochrome

African Violet Monochrome

Taken with an ASUS Android tablet computer and edited with Snapseed (downsized with Picasa).  The 1/15 sec exposure probably caused some softness.  But still, it’s an interesting experiment.

Colombia Supremo Whole Bean Coffee – Food Review – Trader Joe’s

01/06/2016 by

Colombia Supremo Whole Bean Coffee Trader Joe's

Cigarette butts and stale ashtray.  That’s the smell that came out of the can.  The message was clear, this is going to be different. Read the rest of this entry »

Clancy’s Microwave Butter Popcorn – Food Review – ALDI

01/06/2016 by
Clancy's Butter Popcorn ALDI

Clancy’s Microwave
Butter Popcorn
ALDI

Popcorn is the reason we go to the movies.  And we go to the movies almost every weekend.  That addiction extends to the home.

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Monochrome Light – Circle – Photography

01/05/2016 by

Circle

Circle

Here’s another example of “mundane” hotel furnishings.  This time a bathroom light.  The right circle is a large floating circular lamp attached to a large bathroom wall mirror via the left circle.  The dark area is the mirror.  Needless to say, the light was most interesting to at least one person with a camera.

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