Dry Rub For Beef

3/4 Cup packed brown sugar 1/2 Cup paprika 2 1/2 Tablespoons coarse salt 2 1/2 Tablespoons ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1 Tablespoon onion powder Mix all of the ingredients together. … Read more

Red Rocks stairs

Short Stories

Here’s a link to an eclectic set of short stories: Textism The featured image (which may only be displayed on the index pages, depending on your settings) was randomly selected. It is an … Read more

Know Anyone Like This?

Hmm, so creative folks are often moody and exhibit behaviours reminiscent of a manic/depressive … this is news? STANFORD RESEARCHERS ESTABLISH LINK BETWEEN CREATIVE GENIUS AND MENTAL ILLNESS (January 2015 update: old link, … Read more

In the River!?

What a shame. Over 100 paintings and other stolen art objects, worth over 1 billion dollars, were destroyed in France by a mother seeking to protect her son, who had stolen the paintings, … Read more

Chocolate Pound Cake

Play an Accordion; Don’t goto Jail

This is a funny (in retrospect) story of what happened to a hapless hacker, who, as he prepared to fly to the US from Canada, ended up “fitting the profile.” Read how after … Read more

Packet Sniffing Yields Images

Hah! As if there weren’t already too many things I want to do and don’t have time for. Here’s another interesting hack: packetsniff your ethernet, and reassemble the packets that are part of … Read more