Category Archives: RL

Topics not related to SL or virtual worlds.

Comment forms fixed

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

The Macophiles who read this site may have noticed that the comment forms on each blog post returned an error message. This problem is now fixed. The vast hordes of Mac users reading this can now comment as much as … Continue reading →

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Poutine-on-a-stick… with bacon!

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

As it’s Canada Day weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to prepare one of Canada’s favourite dishes. It’s the dish that originated in Quebec, is beloved by pub-goers all across Canada, and reviled by cardiologists everywhere. The dish is … Continue reading →

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Chocolate-covered bacon… on a stick

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

Truly, there is no meat more delicious than thick-cut bacon, and no sweet no richer than pure, dark chocolate. What meat-and-sweet pairing could be more natural than to combine the two? Today, I did it. I brought pig and chocolate … Continue reading →

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Northern Voice 2011: Day Two

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

My impression of Northern Voice might be incomplete since I arrived late, but here are some superficial observations of NV culture in bullet form: It is very popular and very packed. More bums than seats for some talks. Enthusiasm abounds … Continue reading →

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Northern Voice 2011: Why am I going?

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

Months ago, I signed up for a conference that I knew nothing about for reasons that weren’t actually clear to me at the time. It was, admittedly, kind of an impulse buy. I’d heard of Northern Voice, I knew it … Continue reading →

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Bacon chocolate chip bacon cookies with bacon

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

This recipe is actually almost identical to my regular chocolate cookie recipe, but substituting bacon for the eel meat. The Ingredients 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp salt … Continue reading →

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Oh my… USER

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

In the original Tron movie, the programs saw users as their gods, essentially. In that movie, when a program dies, he casts his eyes to heaven and cries, “Oh, my User!” Obviously, the concept of the user as a god … Continue reading →

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Get my Cubicle Dweller books for nuthin’

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

As everyone knows, I’m a very famous* author of all kinds** of books. Until today, my writing was only available at my Cafe Press store or Amazon.com and only in ridiculously obsolete paper. For those of you wanting to read … Continue reading →

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The Bacon Brownie Experiment

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Steve 'Cubey' Cavers

IN A WORLD… where meat meets dessert in a choctacular pigsplosion of flavour, two Second Life oldbies set out to do what few have ever accomplished before. Bacon fused with chocolate to produce the ultimate sweet and savoury creation. The … Continue reading →