I’ve been a bit too serious around here lately, so time for a break.

CrunchGear has a video up of a very well done skit about the old Duck Hunt video game. They then linked to the following video of a skit about Super Mario Bros. asking which was better.

Personally, it’s a toss-up for me, but the ending of the Duck Hunt one may give it a slight edge.

And if after watching these, you get a bit nostalgic, you can go play some Duck Hunt or Super Mario yourself.

I have tapered of posting of recipes here, because I am redoing my food site and will pretty much be putting all recipes there. Well, eventually.

But I found this recipe tonight and just had to share it. I like to cook, and I am mmm… above average maybe. I have friends that are great cooks, some that are better at baking, and some that if asked will state that they can’t even boil water.

This is for them…

Like many people, I enjoy the moist aroma and sinus-soothing vapors from a pot of boiling water. But it is often difficult to get a roiling boil just the way you remember it as a child. In my quest to perfect boiled water I began by collecting a dozen different recipes ranging from family hand-me-downs to restaurant standbys. But none of these recipes produced a water boil precisely as I remember it. Some were too slow and too dilute while others were dense and tough. All of the recipes shared a few typical ingredients, such as water. But otherwise they had little in common.

Cooks Illustrated Recipe: Boiled Water [iwritefunny.com]

Long live the pickle.

Ok, this started a few days back. Eve, one of those people online that I have known for years but never met, posted a fairly abstract conversation on her blog that ended with me posting a comment with a shameless plug to my pickle recipe.

Then what do my wondering (wandering?) eyes come across today, but the one, the only, yodeling pickle.

I really don’t know what more I can add to this.

Electronic Yodeling Pickle could actually be useful [DVICE]

I originally wrote and posted the following on my website over 10 years ago…

Ok… I admit it. I’m a bachelor.

This was confirmed tonight when I went to clean out my fridge. (This was part of a grander cleaning of the kitchen that I do every few weeks whether it needs it or not.) Now, I didn’t go to my fridge expecting to have it confirmed that I am a bachelor, but when I was talking later to a couple friends, and mentioned a couple of things I found there, they both made it a point of telling me that I am.

Here’s a glimpse of some of the things I found. First, something I’m sure not just bachelors will relate with here, this is something anyone who’s had their fridge too packed for awhile to notice that little container in that bottom corner. And by the time you find it you have no idea what it was It’s now a dark greenish-grey color, but what color it was originally?

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Most guys my age remember Zork, one of the original computer adventure games. It was all text based, you actually had to visualize what was going on… you used a little thing called your imagination.

Then came Pong…and video games were born. Soon that little dot you were smacking back and forth across the screen was replaced with bigger and better games. But what to do with all those left over Pong dots? Well, feed them to Pac-Man of course, taking another major step in the evolution of video games. (Ok, I am taking a a bit of creative license here.)

But haven’t we all wondered what would have happened if there was no Pong? What if we got stuck in the realm of text based gaming? Have you ever imagined what Pac-Man would have been like in such an alternate reality?

Well wonder no more.

Pac-Txt is the game that Pac-Man would have been, if it had been done in the age of the Great Underground Empire. It starts out;

You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

From there you basically just move around the maze, eating the dots and avoiding the ghosts…

What, you thought there was more to it than that? It’s still just Pac-Man ya know.