March 2010

Mr. Beer, Week 10

by Lawrence 03.15.2010
Beer!

This weekend was a big one when it comes to the ongoing Mr. Beer Witty Monk project – the fermenting bottles were moved from their temporary home in the laundry room and into the fridge. Unfortunately, this wasn’t nearly as easy as I had hoped.

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Ben and Jerry’s Roundup: Chocolate Macadamia

by Lawrence 03.15.2010
Ice cream!

The latest flavor of Ben and Jerry’s to cross my path in my ongoing crusade was their Chocolate Macadamia. In a nutshell, the claims to fame for this flavor are its use of fair trade swirled chocolate and vanilla mixed with fudge-covered macadamia nuts. What made me pick it was not either the chocolate or [...]

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Ben & Jerry’s Roundup: Cherry Garcia

by Lawrence 03.08.2010
Ice Cream!

As much as I love ice cream, I’ve always been something of a purist when it comes to what I like in it. If we’re talking soft-serve ice cream, the only allowable additional topping/mix-in is (in my mind) rainbow sprinkles. If we’re talking hard ice cream, we’re talking almonds in chocolate ice cream and chocolate [...]

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Mr. Beer, Week 9

by Lawrence 03.07.2010
Beer!

I‘m now just one week away from moving the Witty Monk from the shelves in the laundry room to the back of the fridge and I have to admit I’m getting excited. On the other hand, I’m not too excited about hearing the complaints from my wife because, admittedly, the bottles will take up quite [...]

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Mass Effect 2 First Impressions

by Lawrence 03.06.2010
Miranda - Mass Effect 2

Last week, Mass Effect 2 showed up in my mailbox from Gamefly the same day I sent Bayonetta back to Pittsburgh. (No doubt a bit of good luck on my part and likely to never be repeated given Gamefly’s notoriously slow game shipping.) To begin, let me say that I have a very high regard [...]

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Goodbye to All That, Part 5

by Lawrence 03.03.2010
Hello Nurse!

I sat there for a moment, wordless and trying to comprehend what she had just asked. “Of course I shower,” I stammered. “Every day.” “Okay, then,” she went on. “Do you clean yourself after going to the bathroom?”

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Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.

by Lawrence 03.01.2010

To say I enjoy ice cream is an understatement. One of my first jobs as a teenager was in a small hand-made ice cream shop called The Creamery in the town where I went to high school, Goshen, NY. Besides having all their ice cream be hand-made, their other claim to fame was that their [...]

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