This post was originally published on Awesomeopolis.com on May 5, 2009.

Experimental Cooking Tuesdays a is a regular feature where I attempt to cook and create something edible. I’m not a trained chef at all, and I hope that by sharing my experiences with you, that everyone can learn a little more about cooking.

Experiment #4: Bronco Trolleys

Bronco Trolley’s are Homestar Runner‘s favorite snack. It’s a Triscut topped with peanut butter and a slice of orange. And they’re delicious.

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This post was originally published on Awesomeopolis.com on April 28, 2009.

Experimental Cooking Tuesdays a is a regular feature where I attempt to cook and create something edible. I’m not a trained chef at all, and I hope that by sharing my experiences with you, that everyone can learn a little more about cooking.

Experiment #3: Strawberry Smoothie

I tried Jamba Juice for the first time this past summer on a trip to California. My thoughts: tasty, but overpriced!

You can make your own smoothies at home with a blender, all for pennies on the dollar that you would spend elsewhere.

Here’s a super-simple recipe for creating a fat-free smoothie for both you and a loved one. Ehhh, on second thought, just drink it all yourself, because it’s DELICIOUS. Then tell them to go make their own!

How-to after the jump:

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The Stouffer Dutch Auction is a yearly event held at Stouffer College House, my former residence when I attended Penn, which is a fundraiser held in honor of Melissa Sengbusch, a former Stouffer resident who passed away from leukemia.  Money raised at the event goes towards the Melissa Sengbusch Inspiration Scholarship Fund, a scholarship awarded to a student in the School of Nursing at Penn.

Each year residents put up goods and services to auction off in both a silent auction and a live auction, and this year, like every year, was a lot of fun.  Here are some pictures from the event. For some more pictures that aren’t mine, check out Alyssa Rosenzweig’s Picasa album of the event.

This post was originally published on Awesomeopolis.com on April 21, 2009.

Experimental Cooking Tuesdays a is a regular feature where I attempt to cook and create something edible. I’m not a trained chef at all, and I hope that by sharing my experiences with you, that everyone can learn a little more about cooking.

Experiment #2: Congo Jack’s Chicken

Congo Jack: Yes. And I have a message for you from Colonel Mitumbay! He says this … [He pulls out a spear.] … is from Congo Jack.

I don’t know why I named this dish after an obscure scene in an episode of Futurama, but I did, so you’ll have to deal with it. Anyway, this dish is what he would have made if he made a chicken dish.

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Each day I am becoming more and more of an old man, because I find that if I miss Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, I am usually very grumpy for about three hours afterwards.  This is one of my primary reasons for not getting a job in investment banking out of college because I know I would never again see my beloved shows.

However, tonight I made it home with plenty of time to watch both, and I crushed Final Jeopardy tonight.

Tonight’s Final Jeopardy Category: “Colleges and Universities”

Answer: “This two word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935.”

Question: “What is Ivy League?”

I knew this because I may or may not have read the wiki page on said answer many a time.  I wonder how many questions Jeopardy pulls off of Wikipedia?

Only one guy got it right.  The other two guessed “Seven Sisters”.  FAIL.

Screenshot.  And by “Screenshot” I mean “I took a picture of my TV”:

Also, a guy from Temple won $100,000 on Wheel of Fortune tonight.  Wooooo Philly!

This post was originally published on Awesomeopolis.com on April 13, 2009.

I hope that I am like most people in saying that I enjoy playing with the paper shredder at work. Sometimes, when I’ve printed out something that I don’t need anymore, I COULD just put it in the recycling bin. But no, it definitely has to go through the paper shredder. I look at it as my way to help make the recycling process easier by already breaking down the paper into more manageable slivers.

With this in mind, I present a series of videos about different machinery that can crush and pulverize everyday objects.

Blendtec Blenders – “Will It Blend?”

Blendtec has been running a series of YouTube videos for a few years now showing how great their blenders are by blending up everyday items like marbles, baseballs, golf balls, and crowbars. I think this is a fantastic marketing ploy because when it comes to blenders, how many of you can name a specific brand of blender? I can only think of Blendtec. Here are two of my favorites.

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I was walking down the street to dinner today, Easter Sunday.  I spotted a SEPTA bus running down Chestnut street, but something was off.  On the LED sign which usually shows the route and the destination, the bus was rotating the sign between the route number and a “HAPPY HOLIDAYS” message which was flanked by Christmas trees.  While I greatly appreciate the sentiment, shouldn’t the message have been at least flanked by Easter eggs or maybe even a bunny instead of using the trees?

As a follow up to my past post on hitting 100,000 miles, this past week I hit 111,111 miles on my car.

This picture is also the picture of the day on my Project 365 site.

Woooo!  Still waiting to hit 124,274 miles.  We’ll see if my baby holds out that long.  At this pace, it’ll take until June 2010 to hit.

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on a side project with a group of friends.

The idea was to provide a platform to accomplish two things:

• Share great things that we find on the Internet
• Create original content based on topics that we’re all interested in (like video games, science, food, etc.)

And after chipping in some spare time every now and again, I’m very happy to introduce my new project: Awesomeopolis.

http://www.awesomeopolis.com/

My good friend and roommate Matt has penned the first post, and (hopefully many) posts by me will soon.  I’ve got my first post completed and it will be published on Sunday.

So what does that mean for my own good ol’ blog at coreyhulse.com?  Well, I’m going to keep this going as a place to post personal pictures and rants about the trips I take, while awesomeopolis.com will be a new place for things like my plinko odds post.  Think of this site as a place to go for people who know me already, and the new site for content that would potentially be interesting to people who don’t know me.

I enjoy traveling whenever I have the opportunity.  I’ve decided, mainly for the preservation of these things in my own mind, to plot out points on a map the places that I’ve been to.

I’ve set up a new static page on the site where I embed a Google Map I’ve created that plots out the places that I’ve visited since I started college.

http://www.coreyhulse.com/places/

I’m pretty sure I got all the places, but knowing me I’ve forgotten at least a few.  If I have, let me know.