Today is Memorial Day! It's freaking hot here and I believe that holds true for most of the country. For reasons unknown to me, holiday weekend and hot weather means cooking food on a scorching hot grill under the scorching hot sun in the thick-as-mud humidity. Yay?
It's also Meatless Monday. All Mondays are Meatless Mondays. Even if you aren't an awesome ova-lacto vegetarian like me, you can avoid eating meat for one whole day a week and make an impact in animal rights and environmental issues. If you follow Meatless Monday, you might see links like this one. It's pretty much the saddest barbecue ever. Most of their links and tips aren't this bad. I mean, really? Salad and grilled veggies aren't most people's idea of a good day.
Here's my idea.
Fruit + Salad. Not "fruit salad" in the traditional sense, but lettuce, mangos, apples, strawberries, carrots, and anything else you want to throw in. Depending on the blend of fruits and veggies you throw in, I'd do either a raspberry vinaigrette or an asian peanut sauce.
You could also toss either sauce on extra firm tofu and grill that shiz.
Or throw it on tempeh. I know, tempeh looks scary and moldy, but it's substantial and holds in flavors very well.
Tofu or tempeh are great as a main course with some grilled veggies on the side, or can be cooled and tossed in your salad. Hell, wrap it up with the salad for a summer wrap you can take on a picnic.
For desert? You know what's almost always meatless? Liquor. Take any leftover fruit and freeze it with some juice and put it in a blender. Liquor all over before serving. You know what makes you forget you haven't eaten meat even though you've been grilling all day? Being drunk.
Okay, okay, you wanted a burger? Make your own but for the love of god, it should involve black beans and rice, sweet potatoes, or some combination thereof. Boca Burgers taste gross.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
EA Games and The Sims Social
I promised myself I wasn't going to write about this, but I need to rant. If you don't feel like reading a rant I'd highly recommend skipping this post.
I love The Sims. Or maybe it's more accurate to say I used to love The Sims because I'm never playing it again. I have played The Sims since 7th grade when I went over to my friend Paige's house and she showed it to me. I've owned several editions of The Sims and countless expansion packs.
I was really excited when The Sims Social came out because I thought it would be a great way to play The Sims with my friends, and it was free!! I hyped it up to my peer group, and even got my boyfriend playing. And then one day I stopped cold turkey.
The Sims Social was buggy sometimes, quests would be announced but wouldn't show up, my skirt would appear and disappear, floors were missing, accomplishments wouldn't be recorded, but none of that is why I quit. I quit because one day I finished a quest and my game wouldn't load. I finished building a room in my house, and this completed the quest. A box would pop up telling me about it, and as soon as I'd close out of that pop-up, I'd receive an error message. Every time I logged in the same thing would happen.
After a few days I reached out to EA customer service. At first they were really responsive. I got a case number and a real human being emailed me (albeit with a form response) and I went though all the basic troubleshooting but to no avail. Clearly the issue was a bug in the software and not something on my end.
After a few days of emailing, my customer service rep told me he needed to escalate my problem to his manager, but after that I didn't hear back from EA. I gave it a few days, and then I emailed EA. No response. I emailed them again. No response. I went on their site and emailed their formal customer service system. No response.
After two weeks of this I emailed them again, explaining that I was upset with their level of service and that my game still wouldn't move past the error message. I told them I was quitting the game and would never play or purchase EA products ever again. And that was the end of it.
The end until today, when ONE MONTH after they stopped getting back to me they emailed me again with a survey and an apology. A month in a game that rewards you for each day you play? It's total crap. I'm more mad than ever and I'm standing by my commitment to boycotting their goods and services. Rant over.
I love The Sims. Or maybe it's more accurate to say I used to love The Sims because I'm never playing it again. I have played The Sims since 7th grade when I went over to my friend Paige's house and she showed it to me. I've owned several editions of The Sims and countless expansion packs.
I was really excited when The Sims Social came out because I thought it would be a great way to play The Sims with my friends, and it was free!! I hyped it up to my peer group, and even got my boyfriend playing. And then one day I stopped cold turkey.
The Sims Social was buggy sometimes, quests would be announced but wouldn't show up, my skirt would appear and disappear, floors were missing, accomplishments wouldn't be recorded, but none of that is why I quit. I quit because one day I finished a quest and my game wouldn't load. I finished building a room in my house, and this completed the quest. A box would pop up telling me about it, and as soon as I'd close out of that pop-up, I'd receive an error message. Every time I logged in the same thing would happen.
After a few days I reached out to EA customer service. At first they were really responsive. I got a case number and a real human being emailed me (albeit with a form response) and I went though all the basic troubleshooting but to no avail. Clearly the issue was a bug in the software and not something on my end.
After a few days of emailing, my customer service rep told me he needed to escalate my problem to his manager, but after that I didn't hear back from EA. I gave it a few days, and then I emailed EA. No response. I emailed them again. No response. I went on their site and emailed their formal customer service system. No response.
After two weeks of this I emailed them again, explaining that I was upset with their level of service and that my game still wouldn't move past the error message. I told them I was quitting the game and would never play or purchase EA products ever again. And that was the end of it.
The end until today, when ONE MONTH after they stopped getting back to me they emailed me again with a survey and an apology. A month in a game that rewards you for each day you play? It's total crap. I'm more mad than ever and I'm standing by my commitment to boycotting their goods and services. Rant over.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Maybe I Have 500 Page Views Because You Can't Look Up Pseudo Problem on Wikipedia Today
Today I reached 500 page views. Woohoo!
I was planning on writing something momentous when this day came, even though it isn't really that momentous and is actually sort of sad when you think about the number of people who read things on the internet and the tiny fraction of who have glanced at my blog.
However,
This post isn't actually about the number of page views I have. It's about SOPA/PIPA. I'm against these things. I have about a million links about this stuff, here are a few:
http://theoatmeal.com/sopa
https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/One-Page-SOPA_0.pdf
http://dyn.com/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-piracy/
https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
I'm not asking that you take action, just that you be well informed.
I was planning on writing something momentous when this day came, even though it isn't really that momentous and is actually sort of sad when you think about the number of people who read things on the internet and the tiny fraction of who have glanced at my blog.
However,
This post isn't actually about the number of page views I have. It's about SOPA/PIPA. I'm against these things. I have about a million links about this stuff, here are a few:
http://theoatmeal.com/sopa
https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/One-Page-SOPA_0.pdf
http://dyn.com/sopa-breaking-dns-parasite-stop-online-piracy/
https://www.eff.org/free-speech-weak-link
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technical-examination-of-sopa-and.html
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
I'm not asking that you take action, just that you be well informed.
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