An Edible Piano? August 21, 2009

Mark Northeast, from West Sussex, decided to make four-year-old son, Oscar’s, meals more interesting than the average ham sandwich by sculpting them into cartoon characters. Sure enough using cucumber, celery and bread to make a snapping crocodile got Oscar eating, and the SpongeBob SquarePants made with bread, cheese, salmon and sausages went down a treat. In fact, all of his creations are good enough to eat, but with some – like the bread and ham piano with sculpted cheese keys – it almost seems a shame.

Mark said the arty sandwiches were a success with Oscar because the shapes and characters distracted him from what he was eating.
He added of the idea to create cartoon-style food “It was born out of the desire to turn an ordinary lunchtime sandwich into something a bit different to encourage children to try and eat a varied and healthy lunch.”
He now posts the images to his website FunkyLunch.com which is viewed by thousands of people each day and hopes to produce a recipe book featuring his creations.

Now you best give this parent credit. Gosh, I’d just totally force my son to eat it. What a loving, and very creative with a lot of time on his hands, father.

Babies and Swine Flu? August 4, 2009

sorry for the lack of updates, but I will try to update daily from now on lol. School will start in about a week and 5 days and 4 nights, but you know what? I have to live it up… And also I have to go finish my projects which I never started on yet. oh shiz.

In other news: Babies are being taught how to use sign language to tell their parents if they are suffering swine flu symptoms. UK and American nurseries are being encouraged to teach children the basic signs for things like “hot”, “cold”, “pain” and “ill”. It is hoped that the children could use the 30 signs to alert parents that they may have swine flu, before they would otherwise know. The children are also shown how to communicate that they want ‘more water’ or even a ‘hug’ to make them feel better. I’m sorry, but if I have to memorize 30 signs to see if my kid is alright, I don’t know if I can handle it. Just imagine the other 30 signs to signal that their T.V. show is on? Oh Lord.

Also, have you ever wanted an e-mail address for MySpace? Well now you can. MySpace has just started rolling out the beta for their MySpace Mail program. It will come in waves, with all users having access within the next few weeks. I think it’s doing this because MySpace is failing right now. I used Facebook more than MySpace, but MySpace let’s you customize everything, which I like. More info here.

If you thought having more than one lover was bad for you, then you are correct. A wife and three other lovers got back on a serial love-cheat, by gluing the man’s to his leg, a court has heard. The married man is said to have been lured to a hotel by one of the women he was sleeping with and blindfolded and tied to the bed, but when the blindfold was removed Donessa Davis saw his mistress was joined by his wife … and two of his other lovers. Police say the women then pointed a gun at him, quizzed him about his infidelity and super glued his to his leg, leaving him in a rather sticky situation and call to room service. Wife Tracy Hood Davis is said to have persuaded love rivals Therese Ziemann, Michelle Belliveau and Wendy Sewell to join her in exacting revenge on her cheating hubby.