Be Lambic or Green

From the McGill events calendar, happening today:

Analysis of the polymorphic transitions in cocoa butter.

Sounds to me like an excuse for some students to smear goo on each other.

My wonderful wife gave me a hand blender as one of my xmas gifts which prompted me to explore the world of smoothies. No longer do I need to drag the big blender out of its hiding place and deal with its eccentricities. The hand blender is a perfect tool.

My first smoothies have involved chunking up a banana and throwing it into a large yoghurt pot along with some frozen berries, then adding some orange juice and/or milk and/or yoghurt then finishing it off with an extra bit of sweetness with some honey or maple syrup. Whizz it all up with the whizzy hand blender and I have the perfect breakfast drink; tasty, filling and healthy.

I plan to experiment with other smoothie ingredients such as different fruits, coconut milk, chocolate, egg nog, and alcohol.

Happy new year everyone, time to take a look back at 2005.

Top 10 events of 2005

• Jen getting pregnant
• Jen having a baby
• Surprise parties (giving and receiving)
• Finishing the cupboard
• Making new friends
• Learning to play euchre
• Achieving my ATM
• Teaching a Unix course
• My first Ebay purchase(s)
• Managing to keep this blog going for the whole year

Top 10 Music of 2005

• The Killers
• Modest Mouse
• Arcade Fire
• Rise Against
• Green Day
• Jack Johnson
• The Shins
• The Gorillaz
• Motion City Soundtrack
• Ben Kweller

Top 10 Movies and TV that I saw in 2005

• Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
• Bad Santa
• Garden State
• Doctor Who
• Motorcycle Diaries
• Serenity
• Lemony Snicket’s Unfortunate Series of Events
• Lost
• Little Britain
• Battlestar Galactica

Discoveries of 2005

• Hospital food is even worse than I imagined
• Online poker is addictive
• Changing nappies isn’t as scary as it sounds
• PVRs rock
• I know more about Canada than many Canadians
• Firefox (or did I discover that in 2004? hmm)
• The Battle of Wesnoth
• I can be funny sometimes

Worst things of 2005

• C-sections
• Dubya
• Rising transit prices
• Overly credulous people
• Everyone having parties when we can’t make them
• Missing every single YULblog meet
• MySpace
• Accidentally using salt instead of sugar in a cake mix
• Bureaucracy getting in the way of progress and creativity
• Loved ones getting sick