Beware the Twitter Follower Scam

Internet, Twitter

While browsing through various tweets, I saw this one. Intrigued, I clicked through. There, I was presented with a video explaining how, if I joined this website, I would get thousands of followers *AND* get paid. Of course, my “scam alert” sirens went off immediately. Here’s the basic run down. First, I would give them my Twitter username and password. (*siren blares*) After that, everyone who had previously joined the system would be automatically set to follow me and I would be set to follow all of them. Next, for each person that I convinced to join, I would be paid $10 per month per user you convince to join. (*siren blares*) And how much for this “wonderful opportunity”? Only $1. (*siren stops blaring but only because it has overloaded and exploded in a humongous fireball*)

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Cooking with TechyDad: Mock Crab Cakes

Cooking, Food, Photos

I’m always on the lookout for new recipes or meal ideas. Many times, though, interesting recipe ideas are rendered too difficult due to our kosher restrictions at home. So when Moomettes twittered about posting a mock crab cakes recipe using zucchini, I was intrigued. This might be the perfect chance to make “crab” cakes without the unkosher crab. I couldn’t find Moomettes’ recipe, so I did some Google searching and hit upon this recipe. Now I was determined to serve up some crab cake goodness.

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Aloha Friday: Harvest Time – The Devouring

Aloha Friday, Food, Gardening, Photos

Are you detecting a pattern yet? In my Wordless Wednesday post, I showed some photos of my harvest. In my Tell Me Thursday, I posted the story of my harvest. Well, today we devored our harvest. Ok, not the entire harvest. As I mentioned yesterday, I made Peanut Butter Jalepenos and Peppermint Tea. For the cucumber, we decided to go a simpler route. I sliced it up and had a taste test with a store bought cucumber we had on hand. We were pleasently surprised to find out that the home grown cucumber was sweeter than the store bought one. Alas, split amoung the four of us, the cucumber was gone all too fast. We’ll just have to keep an eye on our cucumber plant to see if any more cukes mature. Have you ever grown anything to eat in your garden? If so, what did you make with it?

Oh, and while you ponder your answer, here are some photos of the cucumber being prepared for devouring.

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Tell Me Thursday: Harvest Time

Cooking, Food, Gardening, NHL

Yesterday, I posted about “Harvest Time.” Back in the Spring, we did some plant shopping and decided to get a few potted vegetables to grow. We bought two tomato plants, one zucchini plant, and one cucumber plant. I bought one Jalepeno plant to be “mine.” While doing so, I joked that the spicy peppers would keep the local rabbit away from our plants. NHL, meanwhile, chose a peppermint plant because he liked the way it smelled. We decided not to plant all of these in the ground, but rather to pot them. Plants potted, we waited for the warm summer weather to help them grow.

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