At this time of the year zucchini squash is the number one garden commodity. People actually beg you to take some off their hands. You can't leave your car or house unlocked because if you do, zucchini squash will appear.
Well here's a recipe that will end all that. This recipe is so good it might even create a national zucchini shortage.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
1 3/4 cups Sugar
2 Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 cup Sour Milk
4 tablespoons Cocoa
2 1/2 cups Flour
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Cloves
2 cups Finely diced, NOT SHREDDED, Zucchini
1/4 cup Chocolate Chips
Cream butter, oil, and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, and sour milk. Beat with mixer. Mix together all the dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture. Beat well. Stir in the diced zucchini. Spoon batter into a greased and floured 9 x 12 x 2 pan. Sprinkle the top with chocolate chips. Bake at 325 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean and dry. Needs no icing. Cakes can be frozen for use at a later date.
Hope you enjoy this.
Tags: Recipes, Zucchini, Food, Cooking
Monday, August 01, 2005
Thursday, July 28, 2005
You're Nobody Till Google Indexes You
You're nobody till Google indexes you. Sounds ominous doesn't it. I can hear mothers telling their children, "Eat your vegetables or Google will index you."
Remember Skynet from the Terminator movies. It was a computer program that used the combined power of the world's computers and assumed control and tried to eliminate humans from the Earth. I can't imagine Google turning hostile like Skynet. It doesn't sound dangerous to be GOOGLED by a computer.
In Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's new book "Sunstorm", it's mentioned that a future worldwide computer intelligence evolved from the search engines of the late twentieth century. I can see Google becoming like the intelligence called Aristotle from "Sunstorm". But again, I think the name will have to be changed to something more serious sounding.
Google already gives us the ability to find just about any information on just about anything. It's got maps, mail, news, and is working on a million volume library (I can't wait for that one). I can type in a telephone number and find out who it belongs to. Need the answer to a math problem? Type it into the search box and the calculator function supplies the answer.
If I type in my alter ego nickname Phremind, I get a list of a lot of the places I've (and anyone else using that name) visited and marked. If I was paranoid I'd be worried, wouldn't I?
Will Google become the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent (sounds like God) computerized companion in our future? I'm pretty sure they are working on a replicator that will give them the ability to construct actual products for us right on the desktop. I read that on the Internet somewhere. And there's an implantable Google chip in the works too!
We are the Google. You will be assimilated.
Remember Skynet from the Terminator movies. It was a computer program that used the combined power of the world's computers and assumed control and tried to eliminate humans from the Earth. I can't imagine Google turning hostile like Skynet. It doesn't sound dangerous to be GOOGLED by a computer.
In Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's new book "Sunstorm", it's mentioned that a future worldwide computer intelligence evolved from the search engines of the late twentieth century. I can see Google becoming like the intelligence called Aristotle from "Sunstorm". But again, I think the name will have to be changed to something more serious sounding.
Google already gives us the ability to find just about any information on just about anything. It's got maps, mail, news, and is working on a million volume library (I can't wait for that one). I can type in a telephone number and find out who it belongs to. Need the answer to a math problem? Type it into the search box and the calculator function supplies the answer.
If I type in my alter ego nickname Phremind, I get a list of a lot of the places I've (and anyone else using that name) visited and marked. If I was paranoid I'd be worried, wouldn't I?
Will Google become the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent (sounds like God) computerized companion in our future? I'm pretty sure they are working on a replicator that will give them the ability to construct actual products for us right on the desktop. I read that on the Internet somewhere. And there's an implantable Google chip in the works too!
We are the Google. You will be assimilated.
Friday, July 08, 2005
Study: Hypnotism aids allergy sufferers
LONDON, July 6 (UPI) -- Swiss researchers say people can reduce their allergy symptoms by up to one-third just by thinking about a place that is free of allergens.
The researchers at University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, based their conclusions on 40 people they recruited and trained to hypnotize themselves for two years.
The researchers said the group showed one-third fewer symptoms while using hypnosis, a conclusion based on self-analysis and congestion tests.
An allergy expert told the British journal Nature that the results could have been influenced by patients' belief that hypnosis would reduce their symptoms.
Lead researcher Wolf Langewitz agreed that a larger study is needed.
"We felt that the results were encouraging enough to tell people to try it, because this intervention is free of side effects," Langewitz said.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
Article found at Science Daily.
Tags: Health, Health and Wellness
The researchers at University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, based their conclusions on 40 people they recruited and trained to hypnotize themselves for two years.
The researchers said the group showed one-third fewer symptoms while using hypnosis, a conclusion based on self-analysis and congestion tests.
An allergy expert told the British journal Nature that the results could have been influenced by patients' belief that hypnosis would reduce their symptoms.
Lead researcher Wolf Langewitz agreed that a larger study is needed.
"We felt that the results were encouraging enough to tell people to try it, because this intervention is free of side effects," Langewitz said.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved.
Article found at Science Daily.
Tags: Health, Health and Wellness
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Top ten people bloggers are interested in right now.
Here is a list of people, real (???) and fictional, that are in the minds of bloggers right now. From BlogPulse.
Click on the name and go to the blog listings about the person named.
1. Harry Potter
2. President Bush
3. General Grievous
4. Britney Spears
5. Michael Jackson
6. Padme Amidala
7. George Lucas
8. Donnie Darko
9. Danica Patrick
10. Natalie Portman
Click on the name and go to the blog listings about the person named.
1. Harry Potter
2. President Bush
3. General Grievous
4. Britney Spears
5. Michael Jackson
6. Padme Amidala
7. George Lucas
8. Donnie Darko
9. Danica Patrick
10. Natalie Portman
Open confession is good for the soul
"Open confession is good for the soul" Scottish Proverb
PostSecret is one of my favorite blogs. Like poetry, so much is said (and unsaid) in each of the short messages on the postcards. You'll see happy, sad, funny, and deep thoughts revealed. Some of the postcards will make you think about how the people around you have a need to express who they are... or confess what they've done.
Maybe you have a secret you want to share?
http://postsecret.blogspot.com
PostSecret is one of my favorite blogs. Like poetry, so much is said (and unsaid) in each of the short messages on the postcards. You'll see happy, sad, funny, and deep thoughts revealed. Some of the postcards will make you think about how the people around you have a need to express who they are... or confess what they've done.
Maybe you have a secret you want to share?
http://postsecret.blogspot.com
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