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Favorite Blogs of 2007 thus far

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Woostercollective — a celebration of street art. Self explantory. Here’s a picture to give you a taste :

PsyBlog — PsyBlog features topics that have to do with the brain and thinking, aka, “psychology.” An emphasis on neuroscience topics keeps me interested.

MyMoneyBlog — I’m interested in funky stuff like personal finance, and Jonathan over at MyMoneyBlog has all sorts of cool stuff you can do with your money. Everything from opening new accounts  for an occasional 100 bucks, to crazy stuff like setting up a treasury bill ladder. Very nice stuff.

flickr blog is a nice colorful dose of daily webertainment, and I’ve featured it in the past. They recently featured the Madison, WI- flickr group the other day, so hey, ya gotta give ’em some street cred.

In Berkeley, CA

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In the soon-ending search for a school to continue my studies at, I ended up out in Berkeley, CA. Greets everyone, it’s incredibly nice weather here. 75 degrees? Yowza. Granted it’s no snowy paradise, but I’ll give the sunny atmosphere some midwestern cred regardless.

Here’s a pic of the Berkeley Marina by my hotel in good ol’ camera phone photographic quality–

After the Graduate Program intro this morning, I went out to the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco to check out a few sites. Basically: gigantic park, lots of stuff to see, wish I had more time. I picked up a gyro right outside the park, and that was that. Great afternoon indeed.

Bacon Hot Dog

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In an effort to pair bacon with every known food to man, I concocted a bacon beef hot dog combo that is set to correlate itself with higher rates of heart attacks as well as increased happiness by those that indulge in the bacony-beefy-tastiness.

Ingredients are as follows

  • Oscar Mayer (or similar) All Beef Hot Dog
  • Bun (white or wheat)
  • Bacon strips (2 per dog)
  • Spicy Honey Mustard
  • Large, uncloggable arteries

Notice the lack of ketchup–in full Chicago dog style, this hottie has no ketchup. The sodium rich red-saucy sauce has been replaced by sodium-saturated bacon. The trade off is worth it.

Directions

  • After a hearty breakfast including a waffle, bacon and eggs, save a few slices of bacon for the future–place them in the fridge–nothing beats a good snack of leftover bacon even if you don’t make bacon hot dogs.
  • Cook up your dogs–preferably on the grill. Boiling or microwave will suffice as well
  • Scorch that bun if you’re grilling out, nothin’ beats a nicely toasted bun. Don’t forget to coat the inside (and outside if you’re so inclined) with butter. No margarine ladies. Margarine is bad for you anyways. Takes less than 1min on a hot grill
  • Take your bacon slices out of the fridge and zap em in the microwave until the sizzle like when they were first panned up
  • Place one slice of bacon on each side of the dog
  • Lay down the line–a line of mustard, that is.
  • Enjoy!

A picture for your eyes only–notice the carrots–those are a good side for those that are trying to stay healthy.

In(tense) Rochester

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With school starting relatively soon, and the GRE on the all-too-near horizon, I’ve been studying. Jealous? On that note, here’s a select few of my current work-in-progress goals (and yes, there are more, you have no idea).

Ongoing Goal of the Day: 100 new GRE vocab words, plus review of the previous days.

Side Goal of the Week: Research one new beer a day after studying vocab, then proceedingly buy-and-try [with friends] a sixpack/pitcher/bottle of one of the beers at the end of the week (aka, Friday).

Goal of the Month: Figure out what schools I will apply to for graduate studies.

Goal of the Year: Figure out 100 new (plausible and implausible) business ideas.

Goal of this Fall: Find two awesome classes to take Spring semester, neither of which have to do with the hard sciences, Math, Economics or ISyE.