This is a recipe that is so easy you don’t have to have a special occasion to make it.  The assembly of the pie litterally takes less than ten minutes.  However, you are supposed to chill it before topping with Cool Whip, so that adds some time.

Recipe - Pineapple Pie

• 1 large package of instant Jello vanilla pudding mix (5.5 oz)
• 1 Tablespoon of sugar
• 1 small (8 oz) can of crushed pineapple in its own juice - DO NOT DRAIN
• 2 cups of sour cream.
• A graham cracker pie crust (don’t consider this in the mixing)

Mix ingredients in order listed.

Pour into graham cracker pie shell.

Chill the pie in the refrigerator.

Take out when chilled and top with Cool Whip.

Enjoy!

Let me know what you think or if you have any other suggestions!

If you are having trouble finding the graham cracker crust, you can always make on following this recipe.

Recipe - Graham Cracker Crust

• 1 and 1/4 cups of graham cracker crumbs
• 3 Tablespoons of sugar
• 1/2 cup of butter or margarine

1. Combine crumbs and sugar then mix.
2. Add melted butter and mix until thoroughly blended.
3. Pack mixture firmly into a 9 inch pie pan.
4. Chill for one hour before filling or bake in oven at 350 degrees F for 8 minutes.

Apparently my sister thinks I look like Hunter Parish.  Last night we watched Freedom Writers–it really wasn’t half bad.  Hunter Parish makes a pretty big appearance in that movie so she went IMDBing him or something.

Anyway she sent me a photo and I had to dig to find one of me with short hair.  Sorry I wasn’t smiling–this was me June 1st, 2007.  My hair wasn’t as long then.

Seriously, if you are a designer and you are not following Felipe Tofani on twitter or you haven’t seen this guy’s showcase website http://pristina.org, then you really are missing out.

He not only showcases some of the best designs out there–and I’m not talking just web design, like design and art in general–he makes really cool digital art too.  Check out his personal site http://ftofani.com/ and you will be blown away by the quality of his work.  I love his designs for the Salomon Snowboard contest.  Plus I ride Salomon, so props.

He is also a pretty nice guy–he has taken time to answer email questions I have asked and if I @ him on twitter, he always seems to hit me back.  So check him out.

I passed this on my way home today and had to stop and get some pictures.

There is a really high curb right there but I am not sure how the van got stuck on the other side of it.  Maybe coming out of the body shop the person driving didn’t turn tight enough.  But you think they would stop going if they hit a curb before this happened.

My other thought is that they were coming down the street and tried to turn in where it is blocked an this happened.  I don’t know, anyway it is a pretty funny failure.

Enjoy!

Several months ago I saw this cool bottle design at the grocery store.  I liked the simplistic nature of the lable and how it worked well with the clear bottle.  I snapped a few pictures of it on my cell phone and went on my way.

Yesterday I was going through my cell phone pictures while at the grocery store and I came across the picture of the bottle.  I remembered that it was in the organic food isle and I saw from the picture that the drink was called ‘hint.’  So I moseyed over to the isle and quickly came across the drink again.

I saw that it was flavored water and I decided to get a bottle to try.  I picked up a ‘mango-grapefruit hint’ and took it home a put it in the fridge.  Now I have gotten around to drinking it.

Let me say that upon opening the bottle, the drink smells great.  A first sip and I was dissappointed.  It had just a hint of flavor–hence the marketing–and a really bad after taste.  After a few more sips it got a little bit better.  But after I went to collect the pictures of the bottle and design, I took another drink and it was really bad again.

I would say stay away from ‘hint.’  Or at least try some of the other flavors.  Viatamin Water of Gatorade would be a good alternative and in the same 1.49 price range.

So I have decided that making a twitter compilation post everyday on my blog is probably super lame, so I will stop that from happening from now on.  It doesn’t really add any good content and just spams my facebook notes with my twitter posts each day.  Who wants to read that?

I also made a decision about school yesterday.  I decided to drop my management class and sign up for a photography class.  One because I like photography and am always pissed that I don’t work more at it.  Two because I couldn’t get into the class at Drexel because it was filled and I really didn’t have an SLR camera at the time.  Three because I want to do something fun, and who knows, maybe I will be able to make money at it some day.

I have also decided that I don’t want to work behind a desk for the next thirty years of my life.  But that is neither here nor there because I really hope to be financially independent in about 15 years, which really means I should get cracking on that.  Real estate is the way to go, and that is what I am going to do.  Hence the business classes this term.  Will I like them?  I don’t know.  Will I get my degree in it?  Maybe.  Do I look forward to doing accounting or financial work for the next 15 years.  Lets just say I really have no plan to.  Studying business is just the flavor of the month until I really figure out what I want to do.

Another decision was to mess around in Wordpress today and make this nice Office theme.  I am using an image from Mandolux.  To fully appreciate this theme you have to have your viewing resolution at 1900 x 1200.  I know that is big for some of you, but suck it up and get a good monitor already.

In other news, I finally got a job and will begin hating it tomorrow when I have to go into training.  It really wont be that bad because I worked there three years ago and have a very good understanding of what I have to do already.  Plus I will only be working 2 days a week at most, because of school.

This year is getting interesting already.  Althought whenever I watch the olympics I get this feeling of how small I am compared to some movements, ideas, and people.  I really get depressed and feel inferior.  I want to travel, see new things, go new places.  That has to happen sometime soon or I am going to explode.

• Source. #
• I can feel the pain and the unacceptance. #
• @alexknowshtml twerps. #
• Being really lazy until school starts? I know I shouldn’t. #
• Alright we are on the nth Windows system and there is still no alarm built into the lower right clock? Common! #
• I never meant to hide anything but I never tell the truth. #
• Failing at life? #
• @anniemal Is muxtape gone? #

• Business is business. #
• Olympics. #
• Her hair starts at an appropriate place. #
• @eac822 Fail whale. #
• Elisha has forty two kids mauled by bears because they called him bald in Second Kings 2. #
• I am employed. #
• @hexxd1 thanks. #
• Just chilling. Some Source then maybe some reading. #
• @eac822 At a place downtown. #
• @eac822 so you got the virtual disks working then? #
• @litensko At a library. lol #
• @eac822 See I told you that you would want to play with it. I’m glad the directions were thorough. #
• If there was ever one thing that “embodied” what I want to learn, it is this http://www.playgroundblues.com/ #
• @judsoncollier I can get gas here for as low as $3.36. whats coming in the mail? #
• Reading. #
• Five Guys for dinner. Not eating fries. #

• Trying to get on the phone with Sprint. #
• Happy Birthday. Its not too late. #
• A pepper and bread. #
• My phone works when it wants to. #
• Church was good today. #
• @eac822 I will have a birthday present for you in less than 16 hours. #
• I love getting ICQ messages when I’m not online. Yeah. #
• @eac822 Now your present is arriving in less than 40 minutes. #
• @eac822 Could be as soon as 45 minutes. Getting quicker. #
• @eac822 Ack I meant 25 minutes. #
• @eac822 It is coming to me. And I had the same problems last night. They cant do anything about it. I was on with them for 45 minutes. #
• Awake but I’m to tired to play pretend. I’ll suffocate until the end. #
• @eac822 Aaron from sprint wont be able to fix your texting. #
• @eac822 Got the present. #
• I have two computer running facebook. Hmm. Overkill? #
• @alexknowshtml Heart Attack. #
• I have read 6 of these books. http://tinyurl.com/6d3655 #
• Micro blogging is ruining regulr blogging for me. #
• @eac822 Total value of your present $966.99. Happy birthday. #
• Exercise. #
• I like that the Last.FM scrobbling is now dynamic instead of weekly. Although this comment is kinda old. #
• Going to party it up with the old folk. #
• Eating icing off of cakes. #
• I was going to be pissed if I had dead pixels. #

I had this idea as early as May this year, but I never got around to publishing it.  It has just been a thought that sat in my Wordpress Drafts waiting for me to give it a write up.  Anyway, you might be able to guess what the idea is from the title.

I, like many other people I know, get tired of using head phones, especially those ear buds.  They just get on my nerves after awhile and depending on how loud you listen to them, they are damaging to your ears.  That is why I had the idea for the iBubble.  It really is the iPod meets Back to the Future, but hey I can dream right?

The iBubble would essentially be just what it says, a bubble of sound around you.  However, it would have to be self contained.  With in 3 or 4 feet from your head, that way you aren’t distrubing the neighborhood like a radio does, and don’t have the burden of headphones.

I don’t think the iBubble should be a physical item either.  Perhaps it could be done with a device that emits some sort of wave, like oh, I don’t know, brain waves, that are only emmitted a few feet before dying off.  Perhaps it would just be easier to hot wire your brain with a device that you plug an SD card holding your music into.  Then the music just plays inside of your head.  Maybe it will never happen.