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weetzien — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:34:37 +0000

This is what happens when I'm bored.

The Cake is Not a Lie.

weetzien — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:43:09 +0000

Long time without an update. Certainly not for lack of activity. A lot of things have gone on in the past month. I visited a Farm Sanctuary, went to the beach for a week, and lots else.

But today, my friends, I bring to you, the cake from Portal. I have to admit it's not 100% vegan. I *had* to have the fish-shaped crackers, if you know what I mean, and they have non-fat milk in their ingredients. But besides that, all is.

I don't feel like typing all the exact ingredients, but the cake is basically cocoa powder, a shitton of maple syrup, whole wheat pastry flour plus regular flour, and soy milk. The icing is a regular buttercream icing, with coconut milk substituted for soy milk. Since the original recipe calls for coconut pecan icing. I made 3 layers, icing in-between each. I pressed sliced almonds into the cake, and plopped maraschino cherries and fish-shaped chocolate crackers on top. Unfortunately, I had used all of my confectioner's sugar on the chocolate icing, and accidentally poured out the rest of my coconut milk before realizing I had to make some sort of whipped cream/white icing to hold on the cherries. So I compromised and smooshed the cherries into the cake.

The cake itself probably weighs about 5 lbs, and does not travel well. It's very moist, and won't allow me to wrap it in any way, so I'm hoping my two hungry boy roommates will make do with the cake ASAP. Basically "Hey, Portal cake in the fridge!" will be sufficient enough to get it eaten. Myself, I do not like chocolate cake nearly *this* much.

My awesome gaming system. 1337!!!

weetzien — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:43:21 +0000

So as you all know, I purchased the Sims 3 recently, and I was trying to run it on my Macbook. I really shouldn't say trying, because it worked, but not as well as I'd have liked it to. It was slow and choppy at times, I couldn't maximize the graphics settings, and fast-forwarding was a joke.

Brady had been offering to build me a gaming computer of my own, as long as I saved up the money, so I figured I'd now take him up on the offer. The only thing was that I didn't have the money saved up, but he had the Bill-Me-Later option with New Egg. So I'm using his account, and I'm the one paying the bills, but the computer has been worth it.

I don't really know the specs, except that it's Intel Dual Core, and the processor is like 2.69 gHz (technically 2.7, but it only sees 2.69.) It's got 4 gigs of ram, and sees all 4, since I'm running Windows 7 64-bit. (Gross, I know.) I also have a pretty good graphics card. I don't know the specifics, but Brady said it's slightly better than his. I have 600-something gigs of hard drive space, and I also installed a wireless card. Why - I have no idea, but it works.

Here's the awesome part. The case is pink!

It's small and compact, and has blue LEDs on the fan, and gives me a temperature reading on the CPU and hard drive. Mine's always hotter than the gauge in the picture, mostly because it's so darn packed in there. The graphics card takes up the whole left side.

So anyway, I'm pretty excited and I thought I'd share that with everybody. I also have a pink Logitech mouse with it, and a keyboard that glows purple! ^_^

New Things

weetzien — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:11:11 +0000

Today I got this:

I really want this:

I had to move upstairs from the boys' 48 hour LAN party, because the computers just got too hot. I'm listening to Loveline and enjoying Adam Carolla's return.

Alice Star

weetzien — Sat, 16 May 2009 04:38:20 +0000

So another thing about me is that I collect dolls. Not regular dolls, like ones that pee and poo and drink milk from a bottle. These dolls are very expensive, and essentially movable works of art. They're called Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls. Although other countries now make them besides Asian ones. There are dolls from Holland, Australia, the USA and others.

All of my dolls happen to be Korean.

Each doll ends up being a project. I'm not the one that does the painting of them. I pay other people to do that. Essentially I just like to stare at them. If you're interested, I have my dolls all laid out at another website.

But my next project is the character of Alice from the Resident Evil movies. Her head is made by Doll in Mind, and is a "minimee" head. Minimee is a service they provide where you can request that the mould a doll after a certain character, celebrity, or anything else. You can order 1-10 at a time. The more people you have, the cheaper the head is. Her head is obviously moulded after actress Milla Jovovich. I may end up buying her an orange wig as well to make her be LeeLoo from Fifth Element but for now, she's just Alice.

I don't have any personal pictures, but I'm borrowing the ones that were sent to me from the artist Miriam Bos who painted her. I'll be posting more of my own once I get her.

The eyes and wig being used actually belong to Miriam, but I've purchased some new ones for her to use when she gets in. I'll take pictures when I get her in with her eyes and hair. Unfortunately she doesn't have a body yet. I am going to order her one from Doll in Mind later, I just want to make sure I don't cut myself short. The body itself will be $311 total (which includes EMS shipping from Korea).

I'll be sure to post entire pictures of Alice when she's done. I'm excited to have her.