Category: Curiosities

Move over MasterChef

This my friends is a McDonalds meal. But not an ordinary McDonalds meal. If you’ve ever marvelled at the difference between the picturesque presentation of a burger on the menu and the burger in hand then this site takes things to a new level.

If I hadn’t sworn off fast food for a year I would try this. It’s a post from this is why you’re fat.

Here are the instructions for converting a Big Mac into what is known as a McSteak.

Ingredients:

  • 1 McDonald’s Big Mac Extra Value Meal (#1) with a large fries and large Coca-Cola

First deconstruct the Big mac into its parts(sing along now) two all beef pattiesspecial saucelettucecheese,picklesonions, and a sesame seed bun… plus the french friesice, and Coca-Cola. Dice the cheese, cube the middle and bottom buns, and extract the sesame seeds from the top bun. Take the french fries and some pieces of bun and purée them in a food processor with water (melted ice), then top it off with the diced cheese. Rinse the onions and lettuce in a colander and garnish it with “croutons” made from cubed bun pieces. Slice the beef patties, and then garnished it with sesame seeds and top it off with slices of pickles. Serve on a white rounded square plate with a dollop of Thousand Island dressing (the special sauce)serve the Coca-Cola in a wine glass.

Ninjamobile

If there’s one thing guaranteed to make your infant grow up safe, secure, nightmare free, and well balanced it’s a ninja mobile – where the ninjas are staving off the attacks of nasty pirates. They’re available from Etsy.

Art with crayons

Crayons. We all grow up drawing with them – and then most of us graduate to pencils and other less waxy implements. Who knew that you could create such high brow pieces of art with Crayolas. Here they are masquerading as pixels

A bunch of links – July 3, 2009

Pandaing to the masses

Elephants used to be big in Thailand. Figuratively not literally. They’re still physically imposing – but Thailand has apparently gone crazy over pandas. And the elephants are jealous. So they played dress ups.

A is for Awesome Alphabet Aid

How do you make sure your son learns the alphabet good and proper? With this fantastic series of letter helpers.

The series is up to T.

Here are my favourites:



Found here.

A novel solution

I started writing a novel once – well, a few times – and one of the problems I came across was settling on names for characters. This is why I think many authors stick to historic fiction. Sadly, others have issues coming up with the right plot devices – this will be a problem no more thanks to this great character reference card

2B or not to Bee

Sculptures made from lego. Awesome. I remember when I was young going to big lego expos in shopping centres. These are cool.

There are more impressive sculptures that didn’t fit with my clever title.

Found here.

Pac Mini

Pacman gear doesn’t get much classier than a painted Mini Cooper.

A bunch of links – July 2, 2009

A bunch of links – July 1, 2009

Mr Fix It

If you’re handy(wo)manning skills aren’t up to scratch and you need some inspiration check out There, I fixed it. It’s truly inspirational.

A bunch of links – June 30, 2009

Grammar Nazis and homophones

Yeah. Take that you “your/you’re”, “its/it’s” and “there/their/they’re” grammar nazis.

Everybody makes mistakes. Especially with homophones. Maybe words that are homophones should have little pink triangles inserted into the spelling. That’d keep you Nazis happy. Wouldn’t it. Anyone who dares to write things online should be sent to “concentration” camp…

A bunch of links – June 29, 2009