Just a short Buddhist outlook on life.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds our need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

I also know that dreams really do come true and you have my Best Wishes and my best efforts in those.

I stumbled upon this: Chocolate & Vanilla Guiness Floats. Fuck root beer, make way for guiness!  Probably the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen involving dairy products and alcohol (of which I am not a big fan).

Here’s some other recipes I’ve stolen from various sources on the internet for delicious holiday beverages.

delicious

• 100 ml Southern Comfort
• 100 ml Drambuie
• 500 ml Guinness stout
• Add Southern Comfort and Drambuie, top with Guinness (draught preferred but chilled bottle/can will work)

Drunken christmas (it’s green and red)

• 3 oz Midori melon liqueur
• 2 oz Irish whiskey (Tullamore Dew?)
• 1 oz Apple schnapps
• 4 oz Sweet and sour
• Ice cubes
• Maraschino cherry
• Mix and shake Irish whiskey, Midori, and Apple Schnapps with ice. Fill whiskey sour glass with ice. Strain mixture over ice in glass. Fill with sweet and sour. Garnish with several free floating Maraschino cherries

Hot butter rum or something…

• 1 lb butter
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 1 lb brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• teaspoon nutmeg
• quart vanilla ice cream (at room temperature)
• 1 1/2 ounces rum (or more. yeah probably more.)
• boiling water
• nutmeg
• Cream together eveything then put in the freezer until needed. To serve add rum, 2 tablespoons batter (or more) and fill with boiling water to fill cup. sprinkle with nutmeg.

And of course, egg nog.

• 12 large egg whites
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 12 egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 7 cups whole milk
• 2 cups light rum
• 1 cup whiskey (rye or scotch)
• 1 dash nutmeg

You will need 3 medium to large bowls.

In the first bowl beat egg whites until they start to thicken.  Add 1 cup sugar, beat until thick.

In the second bowl: Beat egg yolks and salt until thick.  Combine beaten egg whites with yolks and beat until mixed and thick.

In a third large bowl beat cream until it starts to thicken.  Add 2 tbsp sugar & vanilla to the beaten cream.  Add milk, rum & whiskey beating continually.

Combine all the ingredients, and chill.  Serve with a garnish of a sprinkle of nutmeg on top of each glass.

If you’re reading this you probably, at some point in your life, wanted to post an image on the internet. A forum, your myspace, whatever. While you can always sign up for Imageshack or Twitpic or just upload them to one of the billion other places you can, sometimes it’s nice to have something easier. That’s why I made the script for my image hosting. Just go, upload, click bam boom easy. No logging in, no thumbnails, no nothing.

Anyway, blah blah blah, here’s the cleaned up source code:

Easy PHP Image Hosting Script

I took out the random image generator, because that uses mysql to store the array of images to randomly cycle through. This is 100% standalone, it’s easy, and it works. Well, it works for me.  There you go.