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Seahawks block title game ticket sales to California – NFL.com.

Coming to you from the ‘probably-legally-questionable’ department, today we bring you a ridiculous scenario: a team not willing to have opposing fans in the stands.  Not just opposing fans, anyone who ISN’T a Seattle Seahawks fan.  You know what, not even that.  Only people who are from the area.

This is a very interesting scenario.  I am not a lawyer of course (and I have no law background) but I don’t understand how they can deny people the ability to purchase a ticket just from where they are coming from.

Anyone care to chime in?  I am really at a loss here.  I guess you could still buy through the NFL Ticket Exchange, but those prices are going to be vastly different than the original ticket price.  This seems like artificial price inflation at the worst.  Again, I don’t know.

I guess we’ll see how it pans out.  It’s early on since the news has been announced.

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A few days ago I found a link for One-Pan Pasta circulating around on Facebook and said I have to give it a shot.  It looked tasty and sounded damn simple.  The original link is available here: Lottie + Doof.

I modified it slightly when I cooked it and I must say, it came out AMAZINGLY well.  It was absolutely delicious.  I had a long weekend and let me say, it does make a difference as opposed to keeping everything separate.

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Today we bring you yet another bad driver of NJ, though it appears he’s really from NY.

Please people, remember to check your blind spots. Using the rear view and side view mirrors is not enough. You can seriously injure people and create a backlog of traffic, and no one wants that.

via ▶ December 17th’s Idiot Drivers of New Jersey – You Have Blind Spots! – YouTube.

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▶ December 16ths Idiot Drivers of New Jersey – YouTube.

Today we bring you another edition of Idiot Drivers of New Jersey!

This time we have a school bus driver running a red light to make a left turn.

The lead up (which you can’t see of course because it’s out of frame) is the approaching a yellow light at 35-40mph in order to run the light.

Very safe for the children, don’t you think?

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This is a recipe I shamelessly stole from Steve Caruso from Facebook during a power outage last week.  I modified it slightly because I had a surplus of apples.  It’s a delicious breakfast pudding that can be modified to be sweet, savory, or a base for other things.  Enjoy!

Kitchen Stuff Needed:
– Cast iron pan
– Range top
– Oven

Ingredients Needed:
– 3 large eggs
– 1 cup milk
– 1 cup flour
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– Enough oil to coat bottom of pan and then some (I used olive oil, about 2 Tbsps initially and then poured out about half of it)

Optional Ingredients (used for the apple version):
2 teaspoons sugar
1 tsp cinnamon / pumpkin spice
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 medium apples, sliced to medium thickness, then chopped into 4ths

Alternative Ingredients:
Or herbs and spices
Finely chopped prosciutto or porkroll
Veggies

If you use whole sausages in it it makes Toad-in-the-Hole. It’s versatile. The one above is “plain.”

How To:

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
  2. Whisk/beat eggs, milk, flour, salt, sugar, cinnamon/pumpkin pie spice & vanilla together in a bowl until thoroughly mixed.
  3. Set down batter to rest for at least 10 minutes.
  4. While batter’s resting, put cast iron pan on the range with the oil in it and heat it slowly over the 10 minutes, making sure it doesn’t *quite* reach the smoke point for the oil you’ve used.
  5. When time’s up, pour the batter into the pan.
  6. Gently place apples into the pan also at this time.
  7. Place pan in oven.
  8. Bake for 15 minutes (10 minutes if you don’t like a crispy crust). If your oven does not have a window, DO NOT PEEK during this time. It’ll fall like a soufflé.
  9.  Turn temp down to 350 and bake for another 10 minutes.
  10. Check it. (If you don’t have a window, peek *quickly*. If too much steam escapes and it’s not ready it’ll fall.) It should be crawling out of the pan. That means it’s done. It won’t crawl as high if you added toppings.
  11. Pull it out and pierce it with a knife where there are obvious bubbles, otherwise as it cools it’ll shrink.
  12. Serve immediately in the pan, cut like a pizza.

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Nutrition Information:
Recipe Totals:

  • 1,184 Calories
  • 45 Grams of Fat
  • 43 Grams of Protein
  • 158 Grams of Carbs
  • 14 Grams of Fiber
  • 59 Grams of Sugars

Per Serving (1/8th of recipe):

  • 148 Calories
  • 6 Grams of Fat
  • 5 Grams of Protein
  • 20 Grams of Carbs
  • 2 Grams of Fiber
  • 7 Grams of Sugar

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There have been a lot of changes to Youtube over the years.  Early users of Youtube may remember that, for a time, Youtube was all but free of advertisements.  It was a place of sharing content (both legitimate content and illegitimate content alike).

And then the great copyright wall fell.  Ads became prevalent on almost every video.  People started to get takedown notices and copyright ‘marks’ resulting in videos and channels being shut down.

Surely, the commercialization of Youtube has had a marvelous effect for people who spend their time making content available to the masses.  People now make channels dedicated to gaming and get to monetize their hard work.  This is a good thing!  I review games too.  I review technology in general.  But there’s big changes happening recently, and it’s killing the very core of Youtube.

Angry Joe rants about this here (a little over 18 minutes long; NSFW — LOTS OF CURSING – this is Angry Joe’s style):


The problem in a nutshell is this: If I review a game, who is entitled to whatever monetary gains are generated by this review?  Me, as the author of the review?  <Game Developer House>, as the big name behind the game itself?

It seems that the answer is now <Game Developer House>.  Youtube is placing copyright claim marks against users who place reviews of video games, movies, and music online – and then monetizing the content for the original artists instead of the people who have put in the effort to make the reviews.

Forbes has an interesting article about it here as well. Forbes Article

It’s kind of disheartening to see what Google is turning Youtube into.  It’s not at all encouraging.  There was a spectacular backlash during their ‘enhancement’ of Youtube by forcing linkage to your Google+ profile:

Violet Blue via ZDNet wrote an awesome piece about this.

Cory Doctorow via Boing Boing had a bit of a response – but it wasn’t helpful at all (though they have since ‘rectified’ the spam issue).

Paul Tassi via Forbes notes this uproar as well.

So, is Google trying to kill off Youtube with tons of ‘bad’ changes to the site?  Possibly.  Likely? No.  They make a shit ton of money from it.

Are the changes lately for the better?  Only for big wigs and big execs at companies.

“You can make money without doing evil.” || “Don’t be evil.”

Hah.