Cooking for Engineers

This site is right up my alley...

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Simple Human Kitchen Designs

As part of the dinner divas and life hacks part of the blog, I spotted today the most perfect, well designed dish rack that's just the thing for enuwy. Now I wonder if she's looking for a dish rack.

What I love about it - it comes with a drip tray for water to run into the sink, looks beautiful and is compact enough for small spaces.

http://www.simplehuman.co.uk/products/index.asp?cat=5

Dog Names

Woke up this morning with a brain wave of names for my next dog...

I reckon dogs don't come as individuals anyway, they come in packs. Therefore, they need pack names in the variation of a theme.

Colours are popular:

• Blue
• Gray/Grey
• Pink
• Scarlet
• Maroon
• Blanc
• Matt
• Noir
• Hazel
• Cream
• Mint

Pairs:

• Bonnie & Clyde
• Mills & Boon
• Heckler & Koch (probably good names for Dobermans)
• Ernst & Young (maybe Ernie...)

Food:

• Cookie
• Butter
• Peanut
• Almond
• Dough
• Sugar
• Candy
• Honey
• Carrot (Had a dream I had a Westie called Carrot which made everyone laugh)
• Cabbage (I have spoken to a real person whose name is Cabbage. Found it hard to keep a straight face.)
• Peach
• Apple
• Cheese
• Toast

Miscellaneous Items and Brand Names (I can never tell which):

• Mac
• Milo
• Horlicks
• Nokia
• Sony / Sonnie
• Heinz

Numbers, popular ones being:

• Three
• Seven
• Eleven
• Five

Positive Emotions:

• Jolly
• Happy
• Cheery
• Smiley
• Naughty

Culturally Aligned:

For Westies and Scotties

• Macduff
• Macbeth
• Tartan
• Mac (just Mac)
• Douglas
• Doug

I did say that I won't be getting another dog until I can figure out what their names are. That was the case with Beanie, but Beanie's rather an individual dog name, and I had trouble pairing it with anything else. I have to say that just for laughs, Toast is quite high up on my list. I'm also rather keen on Muppet but fear that the name would create a self-fulfilling prophesy.

If you have suggestions (and they don't even have to be good) drop me a comment to let me know. I'm hopeless at names.

Otherwise I just might go with Toast, Muppet or the first name of the Maroon 5 lead vocal.

Deja Vu Redux Again

london cycling,
originally uploaded by lomokev.

How's that for putting two and two together? I was browsing my favourites on Flickr and just realised that my first fave photo (taken by lomokev) was actually of Imogen Heap.

Not that I liked that many of her songs, but she was just recently mentioned in a blog comment I came to after some time.

Soundtrack of My Life

In an answer to a question posed a long time ago, if you had 13 songs that made up the soundtrack of your life, what would those songs be?

And curiously (this disturbed me a little) - there were a lot of song titles with the word "dream" in them. Entirely coincidental, I convince myself.

1. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
2. The Cranberries - Dreams
3. KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See
4. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
5. James Blunt - 1973
6. Heart - These Dreams
7. Bread - Goodbye Girl
8. Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
9. Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 am)
10. Indigo Girls - Love Will Come to You
11. Craig Armstrong (Liz Frazer) - This Love
12. Sarah McLachlan - Good Enough
13. Bent - Private Road

Oddly enough, these are nice songs, not all of them are my favourite, but all of them are very apt.

--

Gave it more thought and came back to this one. I can't wait until I turn 30, because there'll be 3 decades of music worth mentioning at least in my life. I break them up into phases -

Decade 1: 0 - 10

Where the music influences of your life really depends on the music other people are listening to at the time.

1. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
2. Erasure - A Little Respect
3. Depeche Mode - Somebody
4. Whitney Houston - The Greatest Love of All
5. Bread - Goodbye Girl

Decade 2: 11 - 20

The longest, most mixed up mix-tape possible.

1. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
2. The Cranberries - Dreams
3. Heart - These Dreams
4. Indigo Girls - Love Will Come to You
5. Sarah McLachlan - Good Enough

Decade 3: 21 - 30

Progression...

1. Anna Nalick - Breathe (2 am)
2. Craig Armstrong (Liz Frazer) - This Love
3. Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
4. James Blunt - 1973
5. Bent - Private Road

Youth is a funny thing. When you have it, you spend your time wishing that you don't - and when you don't, you spend the rest of your time wishing that you did. I guess the same could be said of many other things better seen in hindsight, but it's the one thing regret cannot touch.

Ou est Christophe Willem?

This one for Enuwy - the "turtle" winner of France's version of American Idol - Christophe Willem has 4 albums!! And I don't have a single one... a sure one to look out for next time I'm at Gare du Nord!

And while I'm at it, Yael Naim is not too shabby too: Check out Too Long: http://www.deezer.com/track/314819

Another one on the playlist of life

This one has been in circulation over the radio and somehow made itself into my in-the-car playlist.

I also wanted to use this time to demonstrate the use of some cool technology. Clicking on the link takes you to a permalink on Deezer with the song so you can hear how it sounds like in case you don't know.

Not that there's much relevance to the music, but I'm planning on going back to previously tagged blogs and adding the songs if they're available!

Stop and Stare - One Republic

Stop and stare...
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're 'here' not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can u see what I see...

And then I came across Love Song which I've been humming and didn't know who the song was by...

"I'm not gonna write you a love song..."