ray kurtweil reviews her and thinks “samantha herself i would place at 2029, when the leap to human-level AI would be reasonably believable.” if high waisted pants make a come back now, then that might enough time for them to come back again given the shorter and shorter trend recycling. so we could really be sitting around in high-waisted pants, falling in love with siri and cortana which some will name clippy with a retro digital hipster sensibility. it will take about that long for google to relent and rebrand its avatar from glass to t-800.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Perfect Purple Moon Ice Cream!
some might recall i’ve been concocting purple moon ice cream which is my 100% organic homage to the froot loopy blue moon ice cream without the artificial food coloring, or other mystery ingredients. it took a few iterations but i’ve finally perfected the recipe.
nearly everyone – young and old – who taste it, loooooove it ( you can’t win everyone over ). if they’re familiar with blue moon they say it’s even better than the original, which is not terribly surprising given the delicious organic valley dairy ( yes, i’m the ov milk and cream brand manager and i’m biased. but really, the quality of the ingredients always matters, and with ice cream they might matter even a little bit more. ) and real fruit and citrus flavors. if they’re not familiar with blue moon, then they just think it’s super great ice cream with a bright fruity flavor and a smooth mouthfeel ( thanks to the heavy whipping cream and vanilla pudding ).
a few unsolicited remarks:
get out of here! this is the best ice cream i’ve ever had!
are you kidding me? how did you make it sooooo good?
omg. you need to start selling this.
i didn’t do anything magical. i think most people are just used to mediocre ice cream and using the best ingredients really highlights how extraordinary ice cream can be.
of course, odin is the only critic that matters to me. he loves it and says it’s his favorite ice cream. that’s all the praise i need to put it into permanent rotation.
basically, after the original experiment, i tried a bunch of things that didn’t work and the final recipe is close to the first with a few key changes. the quantities are doubled to make a full batch in standard ice cream mixer. the amount of raspberry juice was tweaked to give more natural color and flavor and maybe most importantly, the vanilla pudding is added after scalding the milk, not in the last 5 minutes of mixing. let me tell you from hard won experience, a little vanilla pudding is good. too much is not 🙂
ingredients
1 cup organic valley whole milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup organic valley half-and-half
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla oil
3 cups organic valley heavy whipping cream
6 teaspoons vanilla pudding mix
2 cups frozen raspberries, pureed and strained through fine mesh sieve ( makes about 1 cup of juice )
2 teaspoons lemon flavored oil or 1 teaspoon lemon extract
directions:
1 cup of milk scalded in pan.
add 1 cup of sugar and 1/2 tsp of salt. stir till dissolved.
add 1 cup of half and half.
add 3 cups of heavy whipping cream.
add 6 teaspoons vanilla pudding mix, slowly. mix well.
add vanilla, raspberry, lemon flavoring.
chill in fridge till very cold.
put in ice cream machine for 20 minutes
transfer to a freezer safe container and freeze for at least 4 hours.
enjoy!
two of frida’s favorite things.
frida wonders, “we going for a walk?”
“oh, not going for a walk? ok, but rub my belly!”
odin wuz here.
a mouse randomly moves around the house to this spot and that spot. next to the coffee pot, or the water filter, or the radio, or the tooth paste tube. it’s been happening for longer than i can remember. i think it’s odin’s funny way of reminding us he was there and thinking of us discovering the mouse in the house.
the traveling driftless beer.
two anonymous gifts left on my desk. the beer today, the coaster 7 years ago. while i’d love to drink the driftless brewing company beverage, maybe i’ll give it away and someone can take a picture of it so it can become the flat stanley of beers. #travelingdriftlessbeer
the future of real-time facial recognition and a augmented (dating) reality is here, it’s just not even distributed.
the launch of the unsanctioned google glass real-time facial recognition app nametag has, unsurprisingly, spilled much ink on privacy implications of combining real-time facial recognition with a early emphasis finding a date. for now, google has banned facial recognition apps from the app store, wanting to stay out of the fray of creepy dating apps and whatever the nypd ( and others ) could imagine doing with real-time facial recognition. but i think the future is inevitable. while i’m appalled at the privacy implications, with my horrid name/face recognition skills, about the only reason i’d wear google glass is to use an opt-in app that gave me a little supplemental information about those in my surroundings. it’s interesting that most of articles i’ve seen on ibeacon focus on location-based marketing, but the soon to be ubiquitous peer-to-peer technology embedded on all ios 7 devices can be used to create a, you guessed it, dating app, “you can envision all sorts of exciting peer-to-peer interactions. Imagine a hook-up app like Tinder for the bar you’re in, with Bluetooth facilitating the flirting before you even say hello.”
giving blood. the surrealist edition.
due to cancelled blood drives on account of inclement weather, the red cross is short 38,000 pints of blood in the midwest. give blood!
in a scandinavian themed church basement, when asked why i made the trek to give blood in inhospitable wintry conditions, i almost made the nurse cry when i told her about all the the transfusions odin received in the nicu. and after giving blood ( the the rarest blood allele ), as i was helping a co-worker who passed out ( it happens! ) i was told i look like charlie sheen. on a tuesday.
giving blood. 1st nurse: "you look like charlie sheen." 2nd nurse ( without missing a beat ): "on a tuesday." i *think* it's a compliment?
— Eric C Snowdeal III (@snowdeal) February 17, 2014