Super Easy Brandy Butter Ice-Cream with Pomegranate Seeds. Woot!

Yes! I haz attained it! Proper ice-creamicity without an ice-cream maker! >.> Actually without much of anything.

How to make lusciously creamy icecreamies!

  1. Get milk!
  2. Whisk in an equal volume of cream!
  3. Add whatever flavourings you like (to taste). In this case I put in about 100g of brandy butter from the jar.
  4. Pour mixture in soup dish/casserole dish. (Just needs to be flat and shallow.)
  5. Pop in freezer.
  6. Whisk every 30 minutes to break up the pesky crystals that show up as the stuff freezes.
  7. Once the stuff is the consistency of thick cream, drop in the pomegranate seeds (or chocolate chips or whatever).
  8. Whisk a few more times, until you can't drag the whisk through the mixture anymore. (It usually takes me about 6-8 rounds of whisking, so that's about 3-4 hours.
  9. Ignore till next day.
  10. Ta-da! You haz icecream!

To achieve optimal ice-cream fluffiness, let sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes. Build up a nice little ball with an ice-cream scoop by scraping a little bit of the softened icecream at a time.

I don't like my icecream very sweet, so the sugar in the brandy butter was more than enough for me. If you do like it sweet, then just add sugar syrup to taste. You can probably use condensed milk, though I'm not sure what happens if you try whisking sugar directly into the mix.

Noooooooooooooooooom!

Ze Web Design, UX & IA Portfolio of a Nugget

Having set my illustration house in order, I figured it was time to do my web design/UX/IA one as well. While I used to hand-code and maintain my own site, I've found that I'm way too lazy to do all the updating that goes with it. Hopefully with my new Posterous based webby portfolio, I'll actually update it more than oh... once every new job. ;)

Here's a webnugget for you!

P.S. Can you spot the punny domain name!

The Nugfolio

Since I intend to apply for a job as a photoshop artist at Boomzap in the next couple of months, it occurred to me that I didn't have a website that showcases my illustration work, and nothing else.

This nugget comes in many flavours (skillsets) you see, and that can be a pain if you're only looking for one specific flavour.

Sooooo... here's where you can check out the Illustration Flavoured Nugget.

The Villainy of Galrath (Hard mode)

For the route to Galrath, see the The Villainy of Galrath. He is surrounded by several groups of level 30 bandits. Careful pulling of these mobs is essential to avoid being overwhelmed. Be aware that the mobs tend to aggro simultaneously, so be prepared to conduct long pulls to string them out.
via wiki.guildwars.com

While I wouldn't exactly say this quest is horribly hard, it is horribly annoying.

Oh look! A bandit! And a bandit! And another bandit! And yet another identical bandit! Over there! A bandit!

...what, they all have different classes and skillbars?

XD The worst part of this mission was watching for the healing skills and then trying to CLICK ON THE RIGHT BANDIT after identifying it as a pesky healer.

Quest difficulty rating: Somewhere between LOL and sheesh!

Well who'da thunk. Elric might have been right after all.

This long and appealing trend may be coming to an end. Dramatic developments in cosmological findings and thought have led some of the world’s premier physicists to propose that our universe is only one of an enormous number of universes with wildly varying properties, and that some of the most basic features of our particular universe are indeed mere accidents—a random throw of the cosmic dice. In which case, there is no hope of ever explaining our universe’s features in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

It is perhaps impossible to say how far apart the different universes may be, or whether they exist simultaneously in time. Some may have stars and galaxies like ours. Some may not. Some may be finite in size. Some may be infinite. Physicists call the totality of universes the “multiverse.” Alan Guth, a pioneer in cosmological thought, says that “the multiple-universe idea severely limits our hopes to understand the world from fundamental principles.” And the philosophical ethos of science is torn from its roots. As put to me recently by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg, a man as careful in his words as in his mathematical calculations, “We now find ourselves at a historic fork in the road we travel to understand the laws of nature. If the multiverse idea is correct, the style of fundamental physics will be radically changed.”

via harpers.org

Because Wikipedia is always right. >.>