3 IOTD for the Price of 1

1. Use white dinner plates so that you can see your food. If it looks pretty because you spent a little extra time to get it right, you will enjoy it that much more. If you don't want to see the details and so you eat on dark blue plates you have a problem. Food can be beautiful if you allow it.


2. It is great to go to a gym and be inside it, but that is only a small step. You actually have to know what you are doing to get results unless the results you want are hours logged in a gym. I just dont understand why people would not want to learn about how to use a gym. Its fun! Working on your body is fun if you do it the right ways! If you don't agree and dread the weight room, please, PLEASE let me show you how to actually utilize a gym - I promise I can change your mind.

3. Nervous? In 5 billion years the sun will burn out and nothing you did will matter. Feel better?

Just Chill.

Prechill your glasses in the freezer, heat your dinner plates in the oven. Everyone likes a warm plate when eating a hot meal, everyone loves a frosted glass when drinking water/milk/beer ect.

Its not really much extra work but people notice and appreciate it.



Joke of the Day: What did the leper say to the prostitute? Keep the tip.

Game of the Day: An Oldy But a Goody. Sockeye vs Buzz Bullets 2005

No-Look of the Day

You Make the Call of the Day: In or Out?

Kiwi

It turns out that you can eat the skin of the kiwi. Instead of pealing it before eating the flesh, just dig right in. This seemed really weird to me at first, but now it is normal... a testiment to how our brains adapt to new information.

Recently I bought 10 kiwis and have been taking one on the bus each morning. Halfway into the ride I pull out my kiwi, twirl it around a bit to ensure that everyone sees it and is paying attention, and then I take a huge bite out of it like it's nothing special. Knowing that this was REALLY weird the first time I saw it, I am sure that I am blowing strangers' minds every morning. I'd like to think that I single handedly make their day more interesting and inspire them to try something out of the ordinary.

Changing lives 1 kiwi at a time.



Jock of the day: 25 Pullups, pushups, situps, and squats before a shower make me feel really good.

Point of the Day: Dropped Pull in on the last point of the '07 Club Finals

Enjoy Your Cooking

The keys to enjoying cooking are as following:

• Buy quality ingredients.
  
• Avoid firm commitments for a specific time later: sometimes a sandwich turns into a 3 hour stock-making project.
  
• Start with a clean kitchen and an empty sink.
• You need 1 good, sharp chefs knife. You can make do without every other kitchen gadget, but don't use a shitty knife. If you have never heard the phrase "Forged, full-tang", there is a good chance you are using a shitty knife.
  
• Mise en place - even if that place is in the back of the fridge.
• Never be a slave to a recipe book. Think about your professors' lecture on plagiarism: the way to write the 5-page paper is to read all your sources, put them away, and then start writing.
• Taste early and often. Seasoning is a tricky thing.
  
• Do not skimp on butter. It is the secret behind 75% of all the things you have ever eaten and said: "Wow, that is delicious"!
• Clean while you cook. You will enjoy the whole experience more if you don't have a lot to clean afterwords. Thanks to my Dad for teaching me this one at an early age.
• Often, making a dish extraordinary is not that much more work but people skip because, its some extra work. Yes, the dish would be fine with regular onions, but its not that hard to use shallots - why not go the extra mile? Thanks to my friend Markus for teaching me this one.
  
• Don't overlook presentation, even if you are going to devour it by yourself while standing at the kitchen counter. A little garnish can do a whole lot for your own personal happiness.
• Eat without expectation. Taste your creation for what it really is, not what you thought it would/should be.
• Share.

Joke of the Day: A guy goes to the doctor with some serious problems. After a few minutes of the doctor examining the man, the doctor says, "Sir, you are going to have to stop engaging in...um...self love." The patient replies, "Why doctor?" to which the doctor says, "Well sir, because im examining you right now."