Archive for December, 2009

Holiday Dinner Extravaganzas

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

Christmas Eve Dinner: Three dozen oysters, scallops with wine and veggies, a five-pound lobster, clams, snails, langostines, shrimp, salad, half a dozen baguettes, seven types of cheese, fresh fruit, creme anglaise, homemade meringues, candied kumquats, chocolate, coffee, red wine, white wine … and a few things I’m forgetting.
Chrismas Day Lunch: Two geese, sausage and giblet [...]

Free: Cool Tiling Textures / Website Backgrounds

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Here’s a little Christmas present to anyone who might be looking for some free tiling textures for use with 3D Modeling, Video Game Level Design, Web Design, or similar projects. All of these were made in Photoshop from various pieces of photo source, and tile without seams both horizontally and vertically. I’ve included “low resolution” [...]

Merry “It’s Cold Out but At Least There Are Presents” Month

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Ah, December … best of the winter months, because sure, it’s freezing and gross out, but at least a huge chunk of us get to huddle together with our families for warmth, drinking lots of booze and feasting on sugary treats while tearing open our many gifts. This year I’ll be doing that in France, [...]

Albums of the Decade – 2000 to 2009

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Since this is my blog and I can thus do whatever the hell I want with it, I thought I’d take a few moments to rank my favorite albums of the past ten years. I’m not going to claim that I have the greatest taste in music ever, nor that I’ve listened to every single [...]