It would seem good to post a Conan clip in honor of Larry King, seeing as how King made a huge number of appearances on Conan's various shows. But the problem is, I can't think of a good one. I mean, there are a number of good clips, but I know of no definitive highlight. So here's one:
But since this clip has been recommended to me by Youtube relentlessly for weeks, it seems kismet that I should share this also.
Over 15 episodes and 2 years, this youtube series has attempted to discover and re-create Colonel Sanders' original recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken. I see no record of it on the blog but I've been following this series for years. And now it's the final episode where they've reached a conclusion. Whether it's a satisfying conclusion is another question.
I have mixed feelings. I appreciate that we have a definitive, somewhat authoritative answer. That's the best we could hope for. But the secondary objective of trying to reverse-engineer the recipe is to be able to try it myself. But with the non-reveal of the exact amounts of ingredients, that becomes impossible. I don't think I can get a large sack of powder shipped from Ireland. Marion Kay Chicken Seasoning 99X is available though. I just need that industrial fryer.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? I'm here to say I think we've been lied to.
When I was a kid, I remember getting Cinnamon Dentyne or Big Red gum and it burning my mouth with hot fire. It was a quite a dilemma because what can you do? On the one hand, I want the pain to stop, on the other, I don't know where my next piece of gum is going to come from. But when you eat the spice cinnamon it doesn't do anything close to that level of setting your mouth on fire.
Cinnamon is tree bark from a certain variety of tree and it does contain a certain amount of a hot compound similar to capsaicin called cinnamaldehyde. When it's ground up and sitting in a jar, it loses a fair amount of kick which explains half of the discrepancy.
Well, then I guess making cinnamon candy hot is technically fair game. Nonetheless, the hot candies seem to be creating different amounts of concentrated oil in order to magnify the sting. Big Red stole my childhood.
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In High School, one of my "Multimedia" projects was to make a roulette game in Macromedia Director. We had to pick a casino game and I picked roulette. The rules of roulette are so simple that I really was taking the lazy way out, programming-wise. But man, figuring out how to programatically spin the wheel to a random spot and animating it was very tricky. I don't remember why.
