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1. My mom and 3 of my aunts are having a girls road trip up to Chicago to visit their respective daughters, some of which are also traveling into the city as a meeting point. If you live in Chicago and feel the weird shift in crazy, no worries- it's just us.
2. My cousin requested Italian the night before our Sunday race (5k for me, half marathon for her). I love going to a nice Italian spot and enjoying a fabulous glass of wine. But funny thing- one of my favorite types of wine is sauvignon blanc. However, I rarely order it in a restaurant because "sauvignon" is a word I simply cannot seem to say. Chardonnay it is…
3. Has anyone watched "Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America" on the Travel Channel? I'm hooked. And I now need to go to The Fifty/50 to try their showcased sandwich. It involves wafflized mac and cheese. On the sandwich.
I've been to this bar before. Their vodka is exceptional. But now, I'm all about THE SANDWICH.
4. There's a little feeling of regret in how I named the blog post today. My friend Mon often refers to her lady parts as her "lady bits" and it really grosses me out. Right up there with the word "moist". Shudders all around.
5. The new job (started this week) is going great! I very very much miss my old coworkers. However, people in my new office are nice and I'm already on a project! It's intimidating and scary. But in a good way.
6. My roommate is completely to blame for me getting sucked into this season of Teen Mom on MTV. No idea how she did it. But I feel as if I'm digressing as a person.
7. After a few days of my new life as a public transit commuter, it seems I've added a little more than a mile of walking to my daily routine. This makes me oh so happy. The commute isn't as comparably shorter as originally thought, but I'm not sad because I spend that much time getting to be active. Because for reals, guys- who couldn't use a little more movement in their day?
8. Time to walk out the door and get to work. Because there are important things to do before an office-wide hacky sack and coffee break. Yep. You read that right. This is my life now.
Happy Friday, kiddos!
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Skip and Patty Hickman of Portsmouth, Ohio, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on April 6, 2013. They were married on that date in 1963 at First Christian Holiness Church in New Boston, Ohio.
Skip is the son of the late Walter and Della Hickman and has been employed by the Glockner Family of Dealerships for the past 37 years. Patty is the daughter of the late Ernest and Ruby Merideth and has been employed by the Sherman-Kricker Insurance Agency for the past 30 years.
The couple has two children. A son, Gregory (Nora) Hickman of Myrtle Beach, S.C., and a daughter, Tiffany (Ted) Newsome of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have two grandchildren, Lindsay Erin Hickman and Maxwell Holt Newsome.
Friends are invited to attend a reception hosted by Skip and Patty's family at Cornerstone United Methodist Church, Offnere and Nineth Streets in Portsmouth, Ohio. The reception will be held Friday, April 5, 2013, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Omission of gifts is requested.

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It's been a couple of weeks since July 11, the start of this year Badwater Ultramarathon (Badwater). I have been thinking quite a bit about this year's race. Our soggy Pacific Northwest summer has turned my thoughts to warm deserts and searing heat; wishing I was somewhere warm and sunny. Part of me is envious of the 81 Badwater finishers; the part of me that thinks about […] [Read More]
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Originally posted by Tierless
OP must really be a coward! This attitude is why PvP put me off.
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For me it was probably back in Everquest 2, roaming around the opposing factions city zone getting my first taste of open world pvp.
This was my first foray into the MMO space and everything was so new to me; I had this massive immersive game world to explore and it was a sensation like nothing I had ever felt before. The thrill of coming across enemy players only added to this and gave the world a real sense of danger and opportunity.
I remember often attacking players a number of levels higher than me and it was such a rush chasing them around the zone, trying to get that victory. Sometimes they would make it to a griffon tower and fly away, but I would be right behind them in pursuit, chasing them back n' forth across half the zone, both myself and them picking up stragglers along the way, and having the fight slowly evolve into a tug of war between two medium size groups,, all happening dynamically out in the open world. That's what pvp was all about and I was hooked!
Mmo wise - my first mmo - after that it was all the same story Right now even though its not an mmo " Ths Last of Us " will get you emotionally invovled. Minimize any thing that be distracting to you and make sure you have a good headset. I promise you will feel emotion to the least.
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I dunno, like at least several times a week for the past 3 months? I'm playing an older version of a favorite MMO and I chose to level up my character for a significant portion of his life in the open world frontiers where I could be ganked at any moment. (and on some occasions was)
But then again, there were a few times I came across the enemy first, and if so, they went down if I could make it happen. No regret whether being the ganker or the gankee, everyone in the open world area knew the risks so no harm, no foul.
Now that I'm up near the top, I regularly go out with my guild and we do whatever it takes to harass our two enemy realms outside of gray kill, just not something we sanction.
Back when I played EVE there were some real adrenaline rushes, every time I snuck into low sec to complete a mission, or trying to get through gate camps between high sec and 0.0. Nothing like trying to bring a 3 or 4 billion in ship assets back in to high sec 1 ship at a time and trying to make sure never to get caught. Most times I pulled it off, but sometimes....oops...boom I went.
So point it, there still are MMO's that can provide that same feeling in a game, but if your experience has been largely more modern theme park games (because you can actually get that same rush in PVE if its designed right) then you probably can't relate to the above experiences.
In my day MMORPG's were sooooo hard we fought our way through dungeons in the snow....uphill both ways.
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This thread got me thinking. I have been bouncing around from MMO to MMO over the past few months, and realized I only ever felt this way in one MMO. DF:UW; can't recall why I quit, probably frustration, but this post just got me to resub :-DDD
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To me anxiety and adrenaline rush are the cheap emotions on the gaming spectrum, so not something that is remarkable. Many PvP situations fall in this one from early Diablo1 and UO days to AoC.
I do remember feeling joy, elation and sadness, even having tears rolling down my eyes while playing Journey on PS3, it was a very emotional experience for me.
There was a chronicle quest in Rift that had me choked up and it was completely unexpected, really caught me by surprise - it was the one where you go to Sanctum and as you are walking all the guards started bowing down to my character saying thanks, it got me.
Lots of moments of happiness too - I remember smiling and feeling so happy when I raised my first mount from a little pup in ArcheAge, or just riding around feeling a sense of awe looking at amazing world XL built in AA.
I think this varies greatly from person to person, I was emotionally shut down for most of my life (the whole men don't cry upbringing), but about 8 years ago it all changed. Being able to express and feel things naturally without judging myself has been one of the most liberating changes in my life.
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Isn't it a bit ironic to claim you don't get emotionally vested in an MMO while being emotional about me ganking someone in a FFA PVP MMO? That seems a bit contradictory. Have you ever PVPed, or better yet, played an FPS? I have a sneaking suspicion you have played an FPS at some point or another. Did you kill other characters in that game? By your logic that would make you a psycopath.
When you decide to play a game like DF you accept you WILL be on the losing end of that situation many times. It's part of why we play those games, the constant threat is exciting. Risking everything your carrying every time you step out is exciting. Your statements and lash back about killing a character in a FFA PVP game make me believe you have trouble differentiating between real life and video games which I find far scarier thank a gank.
I was emotional because I wasn't good at PVP and the only reason I found him was that I was running for my life. I saw him, saw he was near death and attempted to take advantage of the situation just like 99% of other FFA PVP players would.
It was my first kill in DF and it was intense, not because I was murdering an avater, but because I knew the other players would be coming along behind me shortly. On top of that the mobs in that area were nearly 2 shotting me. On top of that (judging by his gear and him mauling 3 mobs at once) he was WAY WAY more powerful than I was. He probably would have 1 shot me had he gotten the chance. On top of that I had to snag his loot because it was all upgrade stuff for me (as a scrub it was like the lottery, I even got a 2nd mount!) before the people chasing me arrived and mauled me. They did appear on the horizon and I had to mount up and run away again, the entire time fearing I would lose my life and loot before I could get to the bank. It was literally a 20min run and I dodged arrows the entire time while they were msging me saying I would regret not letting them get me now and that they would make it worse for me later if I didn't stop (they may in fact have been psychopaths)!
All that risk and I accomplished my first DF victory and got great loot in the process! There was a lot more to it than ganking. Ganking doesn't excite me. Beating a higher level player with great gear that you obtain, yeah that's pretty exciting for most MMO players with a pulse. In fact, showing no emotion in that situation might mean your a psychopath, because most psychopaths DONT FEEL OR SHOW EMOTIONs in those situations.
You can pretend that you don't get excited about things like getting an epic loot drop in an MMO. Maybe it's "cooler" to pretend you are a robot that doesn't get excited about entertainment but I have a suspicion that you do get excited in games, that you do have fun, if you didn't you wouldn't play them. Emotion and entertainment are linked. If you had no emotion, if you had no care for the entertainment, it wouldn't be entertaining would it?
I will agree with you that players that play MMOs just to gank, and gankers that do it compulsively probably do have some stability issues. Like I said, I love PVP despite not being good at it, and can't tell you how creepy I thought it was being corpse camped for DAYS, or going to the same road and finding the same ganker there every day for months. That is just creepy lol.
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Originally posted by DamonVile
Hah! I just started playing WoT's again, and I can relate. Mostly it's rage...because there are SO MANY @$$hole$ in that game.
Just had a match a few days ago where I was the last team member in my Medium Vk 36.01 (Because the rest of the team did the usual...you know...no tactics beyond rushing out trying to get the highest kill count and getting picked off 1 by 1) against 3 Heavies, 2 Mediums, and a TD and won. Had my heart racing pretty good and was great fun.
But on topic...EQ1...and never since.
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Originally posted by Shadowguy64
Twi'leks in Star Wars Galaxies were the worst bro let me tell ya!
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Maybe not like you experienced, but mine was January 1st, 2011 playing EQ (live version). This was a PvE experience.
My Bard, level 18 at the time, was soloing in Crushbone. I cleared out the Orc Slavers and decided to pull Retlon Brenclog. During the fight, my health was dropping fast. I decided to high-tail it out of there and be in a better position to zone if I needed to.
Near the entrance, his pet rooted me. I decided to make a stand. His pet kept rooting me which was both bad and good. Bad that I could not run away, yet good that it was not damaging me :)
(Video is of the last 2 minutes of the fight, rooted near the entrance.)
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Beating the Airship fight in the FFXI expansion pack COP. The time limit was something like 45 mins. We beat it with a couple minutes to spare. There were several times we almost failed. One of our party members even died, but he had reraise up.
Originally posted by Electro057
I think you have a deranged view of excitement in games if you feel that killing someone in game has any basis on someones excitement to kill someone in real life. You, and people like you are why we have to argue that GTA does not equal wanting to hurt someone in real life.
To further that, the OP did not ask you to relate to his specific instance he shared. He asked a much simpler question which you obviously failed to grasp.
Originally posted by tedgar
LOL I remember theifs stealing from the mobs and me clearing them out after. However I never had a theif turn around and get me afterwards. But man that was a bummer lol.
Originally posted by craftseeker
I pretty well much did the same thing in Darkfall the first time I played. It was also the only time I did it too. It was just testing the boundaries of the game. And it was actually intense. They nearly got away. They were more experienced then me but I got the jump on them. Not normally like me to do that kind of thing, but it was fun. I did have people attempt the same on me after. It actually made the game more fun. It made it intense. I would be working at getting some decent weapons, having a good time killing off enemies only to have someone try and sneak up and take it all away. The escape to safety/help was awesome. Such a bummer when I failed, but it made it all that more intense to play.
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Darkfall PvP sub-topic: I loved this. Most of the rush comes from the question of whether or not you will make it through, not so much that you are ganking someone. Are his/her guildmates just around the corner? Will I survive? I remember a 1 vs. 1 fight that lasted 2-3 minutes because we kept self-healing as we fought. We started in a valley and ended on the mountain tops. Afterward we lol'd and told each other good job. Getting killed in Darkfall PvP isn't something to ragequit over. It's status quo.
More recently...I'd have to say in Guild Wars 2 WvW about a year ago, and I still get that feeling in death matches in several games I play.
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raiding or pvp'ing in salem gives massive adrenaline rushes
(full loot permadeath open-pvp sandbox)
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Originally posted by Tierless
When I play WAR and when I play dota 2
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Every time I've passed from hisec to losec in EVE has been an exercise in testing the limits of my arrhythmia.
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Originally posted by AlBQuirky
Nice job. That brings back fond memories. I was actually kind of nervous watching the video lol.
Ahhhh...the days when fights were down to the wire. Now you can gung-ho into a group of mobs and destroy them pretty easily. =/ Where is the fun in that?


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LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State volleyball takes its second victory over Fresno State defeating the Bulldogs 3-1 at the Pan American Center, Thursday, Nov. 4.
The Aggies started out slow in the first set with Fresno holding NM State 3-3, but the Aggies quickly pulled ahead of the Bulldogs with a kill by Whitney Woods bringing the NM State into a 7-4 lead.
Six consecutive points for NM State brought them into a strong lead half way through the first set at 15-9. The Aggies continued that lead with the assistance of Kayleigh Giddens and Amanda Tonga both having five kills for NM State. The Aggies finished the first set 25-20.
NM State started strong leading the Bulldogs 4-1 at the start of the second set. The Aggies cooled off allowing Fresno State to jump ahead 7-5 during the set. Junior middle hitter Kelsey Brennan with the kill turned the set around for the Aggies making a kill that helped bring the NM State back up to 7-7.
The Aggies continued to trail close behind the Bulldogs throughout the beginning of the second set tying again at 15-15 midway through the set but were unable to gain a lead falling 22-25.
NM State pulled ahead of the Bulldogs 12-10 in the third set after continuous tying throughout the beginning of the set. Kills by Ellen Miks and Brennan brought the Aggies into a strong lead for NM State at 20-14. The Aggies sustained a strong lead finishing the third set 25-15.
The Aggies trailed the Bulldogs 7-4 at the start of the fourth set. Outside hitter Whitney Woods with consecutive kills for the Aggies pulled them close behind the Bulldogs at 14-12 halfway through the set. NM State exploded after winning the set 25- 21 with Giddens posting a match-high 23 kills for the set making it her seventh match this season where she tallied more than 20 kills.
Eight total blocks from Woods posted the highest number of blocks for any Aggies this season.
"I though we played very well for the most part," head coach Mike Jordan said. "Whitney Woods and Ellen Miks both had a great game and now we just continue and keep the train rolling."
The Aggies next match will be this Saturday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m (MT) against the San Jose State Spartans at the Pan American Center. The game will be broadcast live on KSAM 570 AM.


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I need Tasso
My recipe for Jambalaya calls for Tasso & Andouille Sausage. My local Luckys butcher "never heard of Andouille" so I dare not even ask about Tasso. Has anyone been able to find it in the Bay Area or must I order online?
I've gotten it here in the past. You can call but I would be surprised if they don't carry it.
Taylor's Sausage
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Taylor's Sausage
907 Washington St, Oakland, CA 94607
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I just called them and they no longer carry it! Thanks for the quick response! ♥♥
The Bruce Aidells Farmer's Market stand at the Marin Farmers Mkt (and probably others) usually has tasso if you ask. Also, I think their andouille sticks (not the packaged links) are pretty good. I've not seen either of these items in stores.
Try contacting the Fatted Calf store in SF. I'm *pretty* sure I saw some there the last time I was in. Marin Sun is another good idea (as noted above). You might try calling their Rockridge store to see--I don't remember it being there when I was in, but I wasn't really looking in the part of the case where I would expect to find it. A long shot option would be Star Meats (located in Star Grocery) in Berkeley's Claremont neighborhood. A possibly even longer shot is the recently opened Local Butcher Shop* in the Gourmet Ghetto--I haven't yet been in, so I have no idea if this is the sort of thing they prepare and/or sell.
*Entry doesn't yet exist in Chow's Places database -- http://thelocalbutchershop.com/
Star Meats
3068 Claremont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705
Fatted Calf
320 Fell St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Marin Sun Farms Butcher Shop
Rockridge Market Hall, Oakland, CA 94618
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Best to simply call Fatted Calf. Even if they don't have it one day, they might make some the following week. They probably make 2 dozen types of sausage but only sell about 5 types on any given day.
I let the San Francisco store know I was looking for Cassoulet ingredients, and sure enough the next week I was able to get the particular garlic sausage that is called for.
Fatted Calf
320 Fell St, San Francisco, CA 94102
re: SteveG
Right. I was just thinking of this as a check-down list. Fatted Calf seems like the most likely source for tasso, and they nearly always have andouille on hand (I assume because of its longer shelf life). If they don't have those on hand and don't plan to make any soon, then the OP could check the other places.
At the risk of further exasperating everyone, I'll also throw the Cafe Rouge meat counter into the mix. I would probably put them in the 3rd slot, after Marin Sun but before Star Meats, on my list.
Cafe Rouge
1782 Fourth St, Berkeley, CA 94710
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Thank you all for your suggestions! Since I had planned Jambalaya for dinner last night, I used a slab of ham and Louisiana hot links. It turned out great, but NEXT time I would like to make it more authentic and use Tasso and Andouille. I certainly have enough leads to do some hunting and will repost if and when I find these ingredients!
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^Oh yeah. Duh. Can't believe I forgot about them.
Searching my e-mail archive, tasso is mentioned regularly in the 18 Reasons newsletter, so you might call Bi-Rite in SF.
Fatted Calf's andouille is great. I've bought big packages of Aidell's andouille from Costco.
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3639 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94110


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Over the summer I made a few trips via ferry out to Gunnison Beach in Jersey. The dunes and wide beaches were a welcome diversion from the sticky hot city. As were the crowds of naked New Yorkers.
My first visit was with a group of friends — which was a great, sunny, nude day — but what I really want to tell you about is my second visit, when I went alone. It was a Saturday and the beach was packed with shiny naked people. People swimming, people sleeping, people kissing, people showing off their bodies, people gazing at others' bodies. I stripped down right away and took a walk along the beach, to survey the scene.
My end of the beach was a pretty even mix of men and women, and I stopped to watch a group of college girls splash around in the waves. I had to be careful not to watch their bodies too closely, not to notice the way their firm little breasts bounced as they jumped. I didn't want to get a hardon right there in front of them, a hundred yards away from my clothes, with no way of hiding it. I moved on.
As I moved down the beach the number of men increased, especially the number of groups of men. I started to notice men here and there staring at me, checking me out. They glanced down at my dick and back up at me, smiling. I didn't mind, so I just kept on walking, my cock and balls swaying softly from side to side.
At some point, the guarded beach ended and the people thinned out. There were only people like me left, strolling. I walked quite a distance down the beach, enjoying the sun and the breeze on my naked body. Enjoying the small thrill of passing people and thinking, I'm naked right now. They're naked. We just saw each other naked. I thought of what it would be like to pass the same people on the street sometime, and to remember what their bodies looked like without their clothes.
And then I came upon two guys swimming near the shore. They were laughing. One of them stood up and I saw that he had a full erection. I smiled at him and kept walking. I wanted to turn back and watch them. Something about his hardon and the other guy's presumed hardon was so fascinating to me. It was the juxtaposition of the public beach, the nudity and the arousal I think that got me so curious. I turned around, pretending to look back at something else, and the standing guy called to me, "Hey, you wanna take a swim?"
They looked a few years older than me, in their late twenties, and they had great bodies, for men. I walked back to them and said, "Sure, how's the water?"
"Oh it's great, dude. Jump in."
I dove into the cold Atlantic and swam around for a bit. We chatted as we swam. What we do, where we're from, etc. etc. They were nice guys. Definitely gay, definitely a couple. Am I gay? They asked. No, straight, I said. We swam some more, they gave each other piggy back rides through the waves. Eventually we all waded to shore and walked up the beach to their towels. They were both hard still, and I felt a stirring in my cock watching their boners springing as they walked.
"Here, use my towel," guy number one said once we made it to their spot. I took his towel and dried myself off. They, on the other hand, dried each other off, pausing to get each other's cocks nice and dry. I watched this and felt blood making its way down to my penis, against my will. I held his towel casually in front of myelf until he asked for it back for us to sit on. I handed him the towel and they both looked at my half hard cock. Guy number two smiled and asked if I wanted to sit with them for a bit. "Let's just walk up the beach a ways, where it's flat," he said.
We walked and their hard cocks bounced and mine became bouncier with each step, until it was fully hard. I liked the feeling of walking on a sunny beach with two new friends, naked, with our cocks nice and stiff. We passed a few people, most of them looking elsewhere or not paying attention, a few raised eyebrows and smirks. Then we passed by a group of four women in their thirties, topless, a little chubby. They smiled at us and looked at each of our cocks as we walked. I watched their breasts jiggle and sway. As I was staring at the cutest one's tits I realized she was staring right back at my cock. When we made eye contact I wanted to walk over and ask her to fuck me. We're both clearly turned on, why not?
The guys led me up away from the water into the dunegrass, laid out the towels and we sat down. Our hardons lined up in a row pointing at the sky. Guy number two sat next to me and I glanced down at his cock, which curved up and to the side in such a way that it pointed at my face. There weren't too many people around, just the strolling people really. "We're gonna take care of something real quick," Two said as he wrapped his hand around his erection. "Do you mind?"
"No, no. Not at all," I replied, trying to sound casual. Yeah, this happens all the time, don't worry about it.
They both started jacking off slowly, chatting about dinner plans while they did it. I saw a passerby staring, but the guys didn't mind. While they increased their speed I debated in my head whether to join in. I was very hard and the idea of jacking off on the beach in full daylight aroused me, especially with people watching, and these two guys jacking off next to me basically validated me as not being a complete pervert. So I did. With a husband and wife snickering and staring at us, I started to rub my cock.
With this, the guys included me in their conversation, which was predominately nonsexual. We chatted about restaurants in the city, about good used book stores, about the passersby watching us, all the while stroking our big stiff dicks. As we approached climax, the conversation turned more sexual. "You look like you're gonna cum soon, buddy," Two said to One.
"Yeah, I'm getting there. Having people watch always gets me there pretty fast."
"How about you, dude?" Two said to me between grunts.
"Oh yeah," I replied, squinting with pleasure. "I'm definitely gonna cum soon."
The three of us started pumping faster, rubbing our balls, tightening our abs. Two started to cum first. "Fuuuuck," he groaned. His first shot of cum landed on the towel right next to my thigh. One pushed himself over the edge next and came all over his stomach. As I watched them shoot their big sticky loads I pumped my cock hard, clenched my ass and let myself cum. As I shot cum all over my chest, I looked up and saw the thirtysomething women passing along the water. They were pointing at us and talking softly, smiling. My cock throbbed a few last times in my hand, and I closed my eyes to enjoy the sun beating down on my post orgasmic body.
One and Two got up and ran down to the ocean and jumped in. I joined them. Once I was clean I walked back to my towel on the other end of the beach and enjoyed the sun and the naked people passing by.


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"This cake recipe is the result of a discontinued, but wonderful box mix. It is a chocolate cake that slices to reveal a beautiful white coconut center. Yummy! The vanilla glaze can easily be made into chocolate by adding 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder."
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1/2 cup
1 3/4 cups
white sugar
egg yolk
2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
2 cups
sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 cup
unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon
baking soda
1 teaspoon
3/4 cup
cold water
1/2 cup
sour cream
egg white
1/4 cup
white sugar
1 cup
flaked coconut
1 tablespoon
all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
2 cups
sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon
butter, softened
2 tablespoons
milk, or as needed
I think I have a better filling for this cake it's like the coconut filling in almond joy and mounds candy bars. It's so easy to make and it tastes great! It has a great texture and bakes up great in a bundt cake. Mix together 3 cups of Bakers sweetened coconut, a can of sweetened condensed milk and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
When I was a teenager my mom made me this cake because I liked coconut. Now I remember making this cake mix a lot growing up until Pillsbury had the nerve to discontinue it. I have just made the cake from the recipe and followed it exactly except I buried my coconut ring of filling under some of the cake batter. Upon tasting the cake I noticed several things... The first was it was heaver than the original. It was also lighter in color. The coconut filling of the original was denser when it was spooned into the cake batter (which is why I believe it would sink while baking) the coconut filling was more finely chopped (almost minced?) and more of it. The coconut filling was more the consistency and texture of a thickish pudding. (sorry, best way I can describe it). Does anyone else remember this? I have been looking for a duplicate for that Pillsbury recipe for many, many years. Can anyone fine-tune this recipe to make it more like the original?
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I was short for time and tried this with a box. I used triple chocolate fudge cake mix. The box stated 1 cup of pudding in the mix. It was the perfect denseness and gooeyness. Will double the filling next time and actually try the cake part too. I was transported back to the early 70's, there was just something about that cake. Thanks!
I used a doctored up cake mix instead of the "scratch" cake. Overall it came out good, but my cake didn't cover the coconut ring (but I did double the amount of coconut mixture which I think is necessary). Next time (and there will be a next time) I will pour 2/3 cake batter, ring of coconut, then rest of batter to be sure it is surrounded by cake. I did make the glaze chocolate but will try it plain next time (maybe with some toasted coconut on top!).
I had been looking for a good recipe for this cake for YEARS and was so excited to make it. I followed the directions EXACTLY and against my better judgment did not alter the directions to put the "tunnel" of coconut filling in between layers of chocolate batter. The chocolate cake was good (a big like a pound cake in texture) BUT the coconut layer was never enveloped by the chocolate cake. Result? No "tunnel" of coconut filling but a crispy top (actually the bottom) of a crisp coconut egg-white mixture that we chipped off. We enjoyed the chocolate cake nonetheless, but I was very disappointed that there was no tunnel of coconut. I'll give it another go -- and next time will put half of the batter in and then the coconut mixture and then the other half of the batter.
The other point I'll share with y'all is that I used the new silicone style bundt pan and the cake took 90 minutes to bake (and no, it wasn't overcooked at all, by some miracle).
So give this a go, but do alter the directions and do not leave the coconut topping on top of the chocolate batter. I also think that a box mix (gasp!) might be closer to the original cake than this one, although this one is very good and is VERY much like the chocolate pound cake at Starbucks! This cake, baked as a pound cake, with an espresso/cocoa drizzle would be excellent with a great cup of coffee or espresso!
When I was younger, we all enjoyed the Pillsbury Bundt cake too. It was my Mom's favorite. Yesterday was her 79th birthday so I made this cake for her party. It was delicious; however, we all thought there wasn't enough coconut filling so the next time I make it, I will double the recipe for the filling.
I poured some of the cake batter in the bundt pan, then added the coconut filling, then poured the rest of the batter on top. I also used boughten cream cheese icing which I added milk to to make it thinner.
This recipe is really good. It turned out just as advetised. I remember the original box cake from years ago and this is a good replacement. This brought back a lot of memories, thanks for the recipe!
Thank you! Thank you! When this was available as a box mix it came with a small recipe book which I have saved for years just in case Pillsbury decided to sell the cake mix again. One of my favorite varieties was a Chocolate Mint Macaroon cake which our family loved. Thanks to your wonderful recipe we have created it again. Just add 1/2 tsp peppermint extract and 6 drops green food color to the macaroon filling. Then, add 1/8 tsp peppermint extract and 3-4 drops food color to the glaze. It's delicious!!!! Thank you so much!
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Servings Per Recipe: 16
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** Calories: 346
** Calories from Fat: 108
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5.0 out of 5 stars lisping hate speech
Every so often a book comes along that blows the cobwebs out of some dark corner of my mind. "The Naked Ape", "Sperm Wars", "Guns, Germs, and Steel", and "The Mating Mind" for example;
each in its own way exhibiting our favorite species as a very different critter from the one we gawk at in the mirror.
I got a similar...
Published on July 9 2004 by Andrew Winkler
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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting But The Book Title Is Misleading!
The book is a interesting read but the title doesn't represent what the book is about. There is only a small chapter on painting and hacking, the rest is just essays on spam, startups & lisp. The book felt like a random collection of essays & opinions.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting But The Book Title Is Misleading!,
David Baron (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
The book is a interesting read but the title doesn't represent what the book is about. There is only a small chapter on painting and hacking, the rest is just essays on spam, startups & lisp. The book felt like a random collection of essays & opinions.
5.0 out of 5 stars lisping hate speech,
Andrew Winkler (rockville, md, usa) - See all my reviews
Every so often a book comes along that blows the cobwebs out of some dark corner of my mind. "The Naked Ape", "Sperm Wars", "Guns, Germs, and Steel", and "The Mating Mind" for example;
each in its own way exhibiting our favorite species as a very different critter from the one we gawk at in the mirror.
I got a similar feeling reading the first third of "Hackers and Painters", reading about the prisons we call schools.and the nursuries we call suburbia.
The discussion of economics contains fewer original ideas, but explains clearly some things that every educated person needs to understand, but maybe nobody ever told you. The first half of the book will make fun reading for your active mind.
You have to be a hacker yourself to want to read the second half. At this point the purpose of the book is revealed - subtle ad copy for a new computer language called "arc". The first half are the apologia ( well, prologia ) justifying the audacity of saying out loud that for some purposes, lisp might be a better language than cobol, and forefending the dreaded charge of hate speech.
This is not, however, the endless Holy War between the acolytes of vi and emacs, which was once quashed with "editors, what editors, when I program I just type into the standard input of the compiler".
There's some tantalizing evidence that he's right.
I once got into a discussion with a very bright logician about the nature of mathematics. He was arguing that mathematics is the same thing as set theory, I was arguing that mathematics is the study of interesting axiomatic systems. In some sense it's a stupid argument - one of definitions. In another it's a tribal war over intellectual territory. But it's also possible that it goes to the nature of things in some intrinsic way. From the experience of the last nearly two decades, we can't settle that debate. I don't know if I was right or wrong, or even how meaningful the question was. But we do know now that mathematics is much more than set theory - the theory of topoi, which arose historically from algebraic topology, via category theory and algebraic geometry, subsumes set theory, and is by now clearly a more appropriate foundation for mathematics.
Now that we know that the typed lambda calculi of computational theory are precisely the same objects as the topoi of mathematical category theory, we have the curious coincidence tha t a central foundational notion of logic is identical to the central foundational notion of mathematics. When you get to the same rich ideas from multiple directions, particularly when the roads remember centuries of hard travel, it's time to sit up and pay attention.The last time this happened on that kind of scale, Descartes ushered in the scientific era.
It's probably not outrageous to suggest that a language which has the expressive power of this intellectual Rome could be more useful than one that does not - a suggestion made with intelligence, insight, and expensive anecdotal evidence.
Time for me to get serious about lisp
5.0 out of 5 stars An astonishingly good book of essays,
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This is an astonishingly good collection of essays. In lesser hands, any of the 15 essays here could have been a book by itself --- each packs more content than you can find in a typical one idea business book, or a typical one technology book for geeks. Yet his book is not dense or difficult: Graham's graceful style is a pleasure to read.
But what is it? Is it a business book, or a technical book? A bit of both actually, with a pinch of social criticism thrown in. There are essays on business --- particularly startups --- and essays on programming languages and how to combat spam, and one delightful one on the difficulty being a nerd in American public schools.
My favorite essay of the 15 --- and picking a favorite is itself a challenge --- is called "What you can't say". It is about heresy, not historical Middle Ages burned-at-the-stake heresy, but heresy today in 2004. And if you believe nothing is heretical today, that no idea today is so beyond the pale that it would provoke a purely emotional reaction to its very utterance, then read some of the other reviews. Graham's idea is not that all heresies are worth challenging publicly, or even that all heresies are wrong, but merely that there is value is being aware of what is heretical, so one can notice where the blind spots are.
Astonishingly good.
5.0 out of 5 stars Thus spake St.Paul ...,
S.RAMASWAMY "srsy" (Chennai, India) - See all my reviews
I have been reading Paul Graham's articles ever since he popped up on Slashdot a couple of years back. I was so excited to hear about the book, that I pre-ordered without waiting for the local edition that is 3-4x cheaper. I don't believe in objective reviews and ,strongly recommend this book to any above average nerd-types who have been suffering in silence in corporate software development environments. If you are deeply puzzled/frustrated with middle management, kool-aid languages/technology,etc., this book will provide you with deep insights into why things are the way they are.
The book is chockful of ideas and hints for getting out the nightmare, that a lot of dev groups are/have turned into. Start your own company , he says ! Why ? Because only in startups do measurability and leverage both ensure that you get what you are worth. In the typical corporate dev environment judging a person's worth or something more tangible like, contributions to specific projects is next to impossible for the typical IT manager. It doesn't matter how hard you work, since the average middle manager cannot measure your contribution. Forget leverage in large groups - you can do very little to alter the course of events in your dept. A few quotes from "How to make wealth" :
*'To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage.You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that decisions you make have a big effect'
*'Smallness = Measurement'
* 'Technology = Leverage'
* 'Economically you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. This pays well in technology, where you can earn a premium for working fast.'
This book is not crassly materialistic or anything of that sort - except for the chapters "How To make wealth", "Mind the Gap", and "Programming Languages explained" the other chapters are available on the author's website, and that covers a whole range of topics from LISP, the advantages of web based software, Design, etc.
The author does appear to paint with broad brush at times, but the book is overwhelmingly full of fresh insights ,and I think all the negative reviews are missing the wood for the trees.
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading even if you don't agree with it,
By A Customer
Paul Graham is an interesting character. He is both an outstanding hacker -- he created the software that became the foundation for Yahoo's shopping site and was an early advocate for Bayesian spam-filtering -- and an artistic painter. Mr. Graham sees no contradiction in all of this -- in fact he considers hacking and art to be nearly synonymous; hence, the title for this book (and an essay contained in the book).
*Hackers and Painters* is an anthology of some of Paul Graham's more provocative essays and lectures. The essays range from exploring the anthropology/sociology of hacking -- nerds (who as an earlier reviewer pointed out are unpopular) and the select of group of computer enthusiasts known as 'hackers.' The book also has his essays advocating the use of Lisp and Bayesian spam-filtering. The book also contains essays that can be considered social commentary (about academics, etc.).
I do NOT agree with all of what Paul Graham has to say. I do not think that Lisp is as useful a language as Paul Graham claims it to be. I don't appreciate his disparaging of concepts (and people) contrary to his own (e.g., bashing Perl, uncharitable remarks about computer scientists and mathematicians, etc.) Some of his social commentary seem ill informed or naive.
BUT -- in spite of all of that -- Paul Graham's essays are well worth reading. Where I do AGREE with him, I really appreciate his insights. I'm a big fan of his essay "Why nerds are unpopular" (contained in this book). With some reservations, I also admire his essays "Hackers and Painters" and essays on Bayesian spam-filtering.
Paul Graham is a great writer. If he wasn't so successful with programming in Lisp, he could have become just as successful with writing in the English language. Although his interest in writing is somewhat secondary to his many other interests, Paul Graham is extraordinary gifted in this arena as well. It's refreshing to see that -- contrary to stereotypes -- a hacker can be both a gifted artist and writer.
As for the complaint about Paul Graham's alleged disparaging of French lit PhDs. Frankly, I have heard many humanities types openly and crassly referring to scientist/engineering/technical types as idiots or worse, and vice versa. While I don't agree with chauvanism by left-brainers, make no mistake, right-brainers are also capable of narrow-minded snobbery as well. (BTW, what does comparing Paul Graham to some comedian have to do with anything? I prefer "unpopular nerds" like Paul to morons like the other reviewer from L.A.)
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking Essays,
Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) - See all my reviews
This book with its series of essays reminds one of similar O'Reilly books like The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which contained essays about Open Source and Peer-to-Peer : Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, a book containing essays about peer to peer networking. This time around, the subject of the essays is programming. The first essay about Nerds is dead on and reminds me of my junior high school days as one of the "uncool ones." The next one, "Hackers and Painters" comapres the two and shows how each are artists in their own right, a perspective I hadn't thought about before but one that makes sense, and one that other essays throughout the book refers to.
There are also essays about "ways to create your own wealth," and not from a standpoint of hot to get rich necessarily, but if that happens along the way, all the better. And related to that are Graham's thoughts on creating a succesful startup company, a "foolproof way" of getting rid of spam, what programming languages will be like in 100 years (and it makes one wonder if there will even be programming languages around then as we know them today), even a couple essays on how web based software could be the next "killer ap" and how Microsoft may get eclisped as the dominant company of today, just as they eclipsed IBM way back when.
Graham clearly offers some interesting ideas and comments in his essays, ones that you might not always agree with, but ones you have to at least consider and respect.
4.0 out of 5 stars Read it carefully,
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews
Graham presents 15 essays revolving around computer programming. From his own background, he extols the virtues of breaking out on your own and forming a startup. If you are very capable as a programmer and you can find a few others (<10) of similar ability, and you then tackle a hard problem that afflicts many, great success might be yours. He cautions that of course, most startups fail.
Some of his suggestions are intriguing and have been said by others. Like when he suggests doing hard problems, because these act as a barrier to entry to your competitors.
He also suggest using Lisp as a development language, claiming that it gives you a productivity edge over someone coding in a different, less capable language. But he also says that large support libraries are also important. Well, in many applications, this latter factor may outweight using Lisp. For example, a Java programmer would not relish giving up her Swing graphics or the Collection classes, or have to recode these in Lisp if she can't find the equivalent functionality in an existing Lisp library. Likewise, a C++ programmer doesn't want to abandon the Standard Template Library.
His chapter on using Bayesians against spam is outdated from the moment this book was published. Since Bayesians started getting deployed by mail servers, spammers have responded by poisoning the Bayesians. They put words or entire sentences that have innocuous content. In fact, content that is likely to occur in non-spam messages. This has been happening since late 2003. (Just yesterday, 28 May 2004, the Wall St Journal carried an article describing the phenomenon.) The broadening causes two things. Firstly, it increases the chances that a spam passes through the Bayesian and into your inbox. Secondly, and worse, it increases the chances that a non-spam gets misdiagnosed by the Bayesian as spam. If it then gets put into your spam mail directory, you may never see it.
Overall, this book has some good ideas. But be cautious and don't accept everything in it.
5.0 out of 5 stars Nerds Take Notice,
Nerds will like the book, even if they feel defensive or irritated by Graham's comments that hit too close to home.
Hypersensitive types (pedants, "experts") should avoid the book -- Graham will gore your sacred cow, and the fact that such an insolent non-expert has cashed out with many millions will bother you. You'd best read something else.
If you are a programmer (who doesn't hack lisp), the book may really make you wonder. You may think that your favorite language is the best -- but do you really have enough experience to back it up?
Graham knows the languages you know. He chooses lisp. He and two other programmers built a $49 million company in 3 years. In the same time period, you didn't. In the "Fantasy Football" sense, you got whupped.
If this intrigues you, check out "On Lisp" (avail free online), by the same author, as it illustrates those things that a lisp master can do that you cannot.
5.0 out of 5 stars As Interesting for Non-Technical Types As Hackers,
Gina Bianchini "Gina" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
A friend of mine introduced me to this book and I am glad that he did. While I am not a programmer and, as a result, got lost a couple of times in the essays, "Beating the Averages" and "The Dream Language", I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
It clearly and crisply explains the art and science of programming and where it fits into a larger historical and social context. It also provides many thought-provoking insights for technical and non-technical folks alike.
You can see in Graham's writing style his passion for simple, succinct prose as well as code. It was a very pleasurable read.
5.0 out of 5 stars Real genius,
By A Customer
Paul Graham is a real genius who will only receive full recognition for his work very late, like the (now) famous people he talks of in his book. Rarely have I been enlightened on so many points, many of which are extremely subtle, in such a short time. I read rather a lot, but I have yet to come across an author who shares the fruit of his thinking so purely - I fully buy into the otherwise suspicious claim of pure curiosity as motivation.
Please keep writing, Paul!
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I haven't played EQ since around the Velious expansion, and randomly got nostalgic and wanted to give it a try again. Since I probably won't have time to start up for a week or two, I figured I would ask for some advice. I'm trying a free account, and I guess I have to buy the Necromancer class to play it (which is fine, it was my favorite class). I'm going to make a human because they're my favorite race.
Really, I think I just have three questions. First, assuming you still get bonus attribute points to spend at creation, where should I put them as a human (I know it's not a big deal later on with gear). Second, since I have to pick a deity as a necro, does my choice really do anything besides initial faction standing with certain groups? Finally, what sort of merc should I use, I don't know how the pet and spells factor in to the choice?
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Stam is best stat to stack because later on all your gear will be loaded with Int. Not sure on diety you should do. As for merc at the start you will want the tank. Later on you will want the Wiz if you use one you can root and dot and he will nuke for you. As a necro you really wont need a merc if your rooting and doting.
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"Kill me, my man kills you, that's how you lose."
As he stated, stamina is a good stat to do, if you cannot place all points in stamina, probably just do int after that.
Your deity will not have much impact on you as a necro. Maybe later on there may be some deity specific items, but nothing major or game changing.
Mercs early on to level the fastest use the warrior merc it will take you to the 50-60s easily.
Higher up it depends. If you are going to be kiting, you may want the rogue merc as it will chase the mob down and deal high damage from behind. However, you may need to press a lot of buttons to make sure it does not attack until you have agro etc and it may die if you lose agro.
The wizard merc may not be bad but root will cause it to attack your pet, so this will be fast killing as well, but you need to keep the pet healed.
You may even use a cleric if you want to just burn the target and let cleric heal your pet.
Or you could skip the merc and take all the xp.
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