As a raging geek, it may be my responsibility to be enamored with Star Wars. Unfortunately, that is a subject in which I am severely lacking. To compensate, I love Star Trek. While I don't know the episodes by numbers, nor do I have the engineering schematics of the USS Starship Enterprise, I have seen every single episode of TNG.
To satisfy the Trekies out there, Thinkgeek is offering these badass Star Trek switchplates. I want them. I want them bad.
As you've no doubt guessed by now, I'm a big nerd. Back to the Future is one of my favorite movies. Michael J Fox makes my eye twitch, but the characters and the story more than make up for it.
So, the fine fellows over at ThinkGeek have come up with a replica flux capacitor, the main component that makes Dr. Brown's De Lorean travel through time (1.21 jiggowatts!?) And it flashes! Ooh, soooo pretty.
Unfortunately, now that I've seen this, no driving experience will be at all satisfying until I have one of these installed.
Arguably one of the best movies of all times - and certainly the best Cary Elwes movie of all time - the Princess Bride is romantic, thrilling and heartbreaking...kinda. It's one of the only stories I've both watched in movie-format and read in novel-format and been delighted both times. They book and the movie perfectly compliment one another. You can imagine how excited I was when I saw that Thinkgeek had come out with a line of Princess Bride t-shirts.
I want this shirt.
And this shirt. This is my favorite quote in the movie. I work in reproductive medicine, so "inconceivable" is a word my office regularly uses. At least once a week, I get to say, "You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Aaaaand...I want this shirt.
I think I could probably live without the "man in black" action figure. But it's cool nonetheless.
So Mom, I know you're reading this. You get those shirts? At Thinkgeek? Every day is a good day to buy me presents.
2.7 billion | grains of unbleached all-purpose flour |
600 thousand | granules of sugar |
167 million | granules of table of NaCl |
83.5 million | granules of C4H6O6 |
250 million | granules of NaHCO3 |
4000 | drops of buttermilk |
1000 | drops of milk |
1 | large gallus domesticus ovum, separated |
2 | tablespoons unsalted butter, melted |
1. Mix dry ingredients in medium bowl. Pour buttermilk and milk into 2-cup Pyrex measuring cup. Whisk in ovum cytoplasm; mix yolk with melted butter, then stir into milk mixture. Dump wet ingredients into dry ingredients all at once; whisk until just mixed.
2. Meanwhile, heat a large flat ferrous sheet to approximately 464 degrees Kelvin. Brush the sheet generously with oil. Pour batter onto the ferrous sheet so that the batter disks are no closer than 3cm apart. Flip the pancakes when the bottoms are the color of Pantone-472C, approximately 150 seconds. Cook for an additional 90 seconds. Re-oil the skillet and repeat until your supply of batter has been depleted.
