Ever tried to drink buttermilk?

With all the leftover buttermilk I have from making pancakes and scones, I thought I'd be all clever and make my own yogurt drink with about two cups of buttermilk, a handful of blueberries, and 2 teaspoons of honey.

Talk about FAIL... it has kind of a refreshing texture but it's way too sour for even me to enjoy.  Anyone have ideas on how to fix it?

These cheddar biscuits seem like a much better use for buttermilk.

Good argument for non-English-speaking nannies

One of the executives here has the most adorable-hilarious 16-month-old who toddles around the office, and I think it's fantastic that he'll grow up knowing Spanish, even though he's British-Indian, because that's what his nanny speaks to him.

* Little boy toddling up to the water cooler and pushing on random buttons *

Nanny: Caliente!
Little boy: Noooo!  * continues to push *
Nanny: Si!  * grabbing him away from the cooler *

I guess that's why you usually have to do an extra little twist to get the hot water to come out of the cooler.

Thank you, DJ Muzzell

I've been obsessed with finding this song after hearing it on a video demo of the i draw girls guy doing a portrait of Natalie Portman. The guy credited a DJ Muzzell (he spelled it "Muzzle"), and it was sampled from "La Noyee" off the Amelie soundtrack, but that's as far as I got -- not like it was easily available on iTunes.  I posted a comment to the artist, hoping to get more clues, I searched on MySpace, I asked Garry to try using that iPhone app that recognizes songs... all to no avail.

Then, the other day, I get a personal message on YouTube from the slightly sketchy username, crack34:

here's that track your looking for: http://www.myspace.com/muzzell called shanty town
I did the track for wandans mixtape here http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=36053032&blogID=460016724

Turns out to be just the track I was looking for, and with a bunch of other great mixes from another UK hip hop artist called Wandan.  Kickass! 

How did I not know about this before?

I just saw a brief, tantalizing preview of this film after the Oscars.  Two of my favorite actors in the world, Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, team up for a romance called 500 Days of Summer. And none too soon - I've been craving a smart, well-made romance for what feels like years.

I could come just looking at them together (figuratively).  I've loved Zooey since her breakthrough role in Almost Famous, and I've tracked Joseph's every movement from, I kid you not, Angels in the Outfield, to the eccentric 3rd Rock From the Sun, to the adorable 10 Things I Hate About You, to his horrendously sexy move to darker stuff in Mysterious Skin and Brick.  Oh yeah, and years ago, he brushed within inches of me at my most favoritest bar in Los Angeles, the historic Cat & Fiddle on the east side of Sunset.  I felt a bit like that girl in The Lookout writing, "I made out with Chris Pratt!"  So we chose the same hangouts -- shows the guy's got good taste!

The only question is, how will I wait until July 24?

Finally added Google Analytics to my Posterous.

Apologies to Garry and Sachin for not realizing earlier how easy this was to do.  I guess it was such a pain to add the tracking code to my old blogspots that I just kept procrastinating even though I was curious to find out what kind of traffic I was getting on posterous.


Well, the boys have done it again!  They make it so simple, easy and elegant, that I think it's kind of tragic how long I've been putting this off and I now wish I could get back all those lost days of untracked blogging.  Here's the play-by-play:

1. Sign up for Analytics.  It's fast, easy and free at: analytics.google.com.
2. Add a new profile (towards the bottom of the management pane)
3. Fill in the domain and click "finish"!
4. Copy the domain ID (the UA-XXXXXX-X number)
5. Go to the "manage" tab of your posterous and click "Edit Settings"
6. Paste the domain ID in the box under "Google Analytics."

You're done!  I didn't even have to touch the tracking code at all.  Works so beautifully it brings a tear to my eye.

Now everyone can have a little fetus inside them

I was walking along, minding my own business at work when there, on an abandoned desk, I saw this.  A cookie-cutter shaped like a fetus.  I yelled, "whose is this!?"  And Tara's head popped over the divider and was like, "OMG, I'm so glad you found it!  Isn't it awesome?  Now everyone can have a little fetus inside them!"  She's currently expecting her first boy.

I had to take a picture.  They are $9 at stupid.com (wtf? for a cookie cutter!?).

From the website: "Hey, anyone can bake cookies shaped like circles or trees or hearts -- But it takes a special kind of person to make these babies. Just stamp your fetuses out of cookie dough, pop them in the oven, and then let them gestate for a few minutes. When they're done, your kitchen will be filled with the enchanting aroma of fresh baked fetuses."

10 (or 15) Things Google Says I Need

Seems like an old trick cuz I saw a lot of these lists as I went through the exercise.  Go to Google.  Type your first name, and the word "needs."  Put the query in quotes for best results.  List the top 10 (...or 15, like I did).

1. Stephanie needs some help
2. Stephanie needs to be in a family where there are no other children or animals
3. Stephanie needs a strong manly shoulder to lean on (preferably an alpha one)
4. Stephanie needs a behavior modification approach to deal with some residual effects and strong-willedness.
5. Stephanie needs rhinoplasty surgery
6. Stephanie needs to get the women together in an alliance
7. Stephanie needs to get a life
8. Stephanie needs you BAD
9. Stephanie needs a date for Valentine's Day!
10. Stephanie needs a family who can help her strive to participate in structured recreational and social activities
11. Stephanie needs a straw for her tea
12. Stephanie needs to improve but where's Alick?
13. Stephanie needs a sound proofed home to protect her
14. Stephanie needs to pay attention
15. Stephanie needs a training bra

via Reckon