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Ingredients
1 medium uncooked onion(s), cut into wedges
2 medium uncooked leek(s), trimmed and sliced
1 medium sweet red pepper(s), sliced in half, stem and seeds removed
1 medium yellow pepper(s), sliced in half, stem and seeds removed
2 tsp olive oil
2 item(s) rosemary sprig
1/8 tsp table salt, or to taste
1/8 tsp black pepper, or to taste
1 1/4 pound(s) uncooked boneless skinless chicken breast(s), four 6 oz pieces
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Put onion, leeks and peppers into a roasting dish. Add oil and toss to coat. Add rosemary; season to taste with salt and pepper.
Place chicken on top of vegetables. Sprinkle with vinegar, season to taste and transfer to oven.
Roast until chicken is browned and cooked through, and vegetables are tender, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven and slice peppers. Serve.
The preparation is just like it reads, you will be placing the pepper halves in the dish whole. Then once the dish is done cooking, you pull the peppers out and slice them.
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| 6 Points, not counting the potato. |
This was a tasty dinner. If you can’t afford the points to add the baked potato, then just make extra peppers, or substitute another veggie to go along with it. The baked potato is 4 points, then instead of butter I used a tablespoon of Daiya Chive and Onion vegan cream cheese. It sounds gross, but its amazing. You can find it in the organic section of your local grocery store. 1 Tablespoon is 1 point. I love Daiya products. I’m not a vegan or vegetarian, but I try to stay away from dairy, this product is usually better tasting then most dairy, and you can’t beat the points!
1) One simple home screen – I love this. There is just one screen with the essential icons, all right at your fingertips.
You can still put whatever wallpaper you want and all that jazz. This is just a demo of the layout. I love having these icons like this on the screen. The bottom left is where you apps are housed.
2) Awesome app organizing – Smart Launcher will automatically put your apps in categories organized like this:
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| The apps are put into categories that are listed on the left. Categories like Communication, Internet, Games, Media, and Utility. All customizable. |
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| My favorite feature of the app organizer is the search feature. By just clicking the search icon, I can quickly get to what I’m looking for. I can’t tell you how many times I used to have to search through pages of shit to find the app I was looking to use. |
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| By clicking the “G” icon, all my apps staring with “G” appear. |
3) What about my widgets? Another thing that always bothered me about the standard android layout was the 5 pages of home page to scroll through. I like widgets, but I hated placing them all over the place. Smart launcher gives you an awesome option for your widgets further simplifying your experience.
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| Button for widgets |
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| (I have no idea who “The Prince” is, just clicked a random spotify artist for display.) The widgets page allows you to place as many widgets as you want thus giving you what you had before, but here you can get it when you want it. |
You have nothing to lose trying this out. If you don’t end up liking the layout, simply un-install the Smart Launcher app. There are other themes to play around with in Smart Launcher as well, not just the Ubuntu theme. One thing to note, is that the widgets page is only available in the pay version of Smart Launcher. It’s only $1.99, once I fell in love with the free version, I wanted the widget page so I just bought the thing.
Once you download the Smart Launcher app and Ubuntu theme for Smart Launcher, you simply open up Smart Launcher. It will prompt you asking if you want to use smart launcher “always” or “just this once’. Just click “always”, remember if you don’t like it you can un-install the app in seconds. Once Smart Launcher opens, your phone layout will change to the same format as the pictures, but different looking in terms of its presentation. Go into where your apps are stored and at the top right you will see 3 dots, click it. Its the “preferences” menu. From here it will show you the Ubuntu theme you downloaded with the option to click and install the theme. Click it and you are done. If you try this out, tell me what you think. Personally I love it.
(If you end up liking the free version of Smart Launcher and decide you want the pay version, un-install the free one first before getting it to avoid confusion.)
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First off if you have an iPhone, you can’t do this as far as I know unless your phone has been jail broken. The games in this example with be Super Mario Brothers (8 bit) and Sonic the Hedgehog (16 bit). For these we will need to separate emulators. Basically, one of your emulators is Nintendo and the other is your Sega Genesis.
1) Head over to the Google Play store and get the app “AndroGens” and “Nostalgia.NES Lite.” Both apps are free. The will look like this were your apps are stored:
2) Before we even open them up, we have to go get the ROMs (games). Disclaimer: “You should only download these games if you already own the original versions.” Head over to coolrom.com, they actually have a pretty nice mobile site and its easy to use. Do a search for “Super Mario Bros.” Hit cancel if you get any annoying pop up ads. You may get a bunch of versions, just look for the result under “NES” and click it. It will take you to this screen. Scroll to the bottom and it will bring you to the download link:
3) This is the tricky part if you are not familiar with the folder system in Android. Find out where your downloads go, its probably in the downloads folder which is default.
My phone setup probably looks nothing like yours, but I’ll get into how to do that in a later blog. The icon for “My Files” will be the same regardless. Then you want to click “All” so that you can see all the folders.
Scroll down to your “Download” Folder in your device storage (not your sd card storage). When you open it, your file should be in there. If you don’t see it make sure you check that you are in the right download folder.
4) Click on the file you downloaded, its time to extract it. You will be given the option to extract it when you click it. Click OK. It will extract the file into the same folder your in.
So now we know where it is located, lets fire up the NES App.
5) Just select the game you want to play and bam!
The Sega app works the exact same way accept you need to locate the file yourself once you open the app, so basically you would just select the file/game you downloaded and play. Good to go! If anyone has any questions feel free to contact me in the comments and I’d be glad to help. Tomorrow I will show you how to Ubuntu you phone out!
2 Lemons
1/2 cup Cucumber finely chopped
3 Tbsp of thinly sliced Scallions
1 Chili finely chopped
Pinch of suger and Kosher salt
1.5 pounds of boneless skinless chicken thighs cut into 1.5 inch pieces
Freshly ground Black Pepper
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp of fresh chopped Cilantro
1/4 cup plain whole milk Yogurt
1 Tbsp Vegetable Oil plus more for brushing
2 Garlic Cloves coarsely chopped
1 Tsp fresh cracked coriander seeds
1 Tsp Turmeric (optional)
Using a sharp knife, cut all peel and white pith from lemons; discard. Cut between membranes to release lemon segments into a medium bowl; squeeze juice from membranes into bowl and discard membranes. Strain juice into a clean bowl; reserve lemon segments and juices separately. Mix segments, 1 Tbsp. lemon juice (set aside remaining juice for another use), cucumber, 2 Tbsp. scallions, and chile in a small bowl. Stir in sugar; season salsa to taste with salt and set aside. Place chicken in a medium bowl and season with salt and pepper. Purée ¼ cup cilantro, yogurt, 1 Tbsp. oil, garlic, coriander, and turmeric, if using, in a mini food processor or blender until smooth. Pour marinade over chicken; toss to coat. Let marinate at room temperature for 20 minutes. Do Ahead: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes before continuing. Build a medium fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to medium-high. Brush grill grate with oil. Thread 4 pieces of chicken on each skewer. Grill, turning once and watching closely to prevent burning, until browned and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the meat registers 165°F, about 8 minutes. Transfer chicken to plates. Spoon lemon salsa over chicken. Garnish with remaining 2 Tbsp. cilantro and 1 Tbsp. scallions.
A few things about this recipe from the average Joe perspective. I changed the recipe a little bit because I couldn’t find the “Meyer Lemons” the books recipe called for. It stated that I could use regular lemons but to not use as many due to the tartness of them. So I used 4 lemons when making the recipe, which was way too many. 2 would be fine in the future. Also, I had never worked with coriander seeds before, so the way that I cracked them was by putting them between two sheets of paper towel and rolling over them with a rolling pin. Crushing them in a garlic press works as well.
Before I start grilling, I need to arm myself with a beverage. I decided to go with a bomber of Ale Smith IPA, a fantastic IPA from the West Coast and one of my favorite hoppy beverages.
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| The chicken marinates in the purée blend created. Super Tasty. |
This dish turned out awesome. My first grilling recipe from this book was a total success. Chicken Thigh meat is delicious on the grill and is incredibly juicy. The lemon salsa was really tasty as well, however my wife and I both agreed that the salsa without the side of wild rice that we added might have been a little too intense. Overall, this recipe was solid!
I love to cook. Actually I should correct that statement. I love to cook if its making pizza or grilling. Nicole had gotten me this awesome grilling book I wanted for Christmas called, “The Grilling Book.”
The book is gigantic and is loaded with amazing pictures from tons of grilling recipes. I’m making a goal to try and cook one of these recipes a week until I have cooked the entire book.
The first dish I will be making is “Chicken Skewers with Coriander Marinade and Lemon Salsa.” Stay Tuned, I should be cooking this sometime this weekend!
When I saw that this was on Netflix, I was super excited. First off, the people that made the trailer for this should be fired. The trailer was so hoaky, that even I had my doubts about the movie going into it. I was wrong. This movie was exactly what I could have hoped for. Arnold’s first full blown movie back from politics is nothing more than your typical Arnold action film. That’s all a guy like me can ask for.
One thing I noticed while watching this, was that it took me a little bit to get used to what Arnold looks like now. He’s not like other actors, where you didn’t really notice the ageing much because you have continuously watched their movies year after year. He was literally gone from movies for a very long time. The initial shock of how old he actually is goes away after a little bit. Once that leaves, its easy to get sucked into this simplistic but entertaining action thriller. It also helps that Arnold plays an old sheriff and isn’t exactly trying to be what Stallone makes himself out to be in the “Expendables” movies.
The movie’s plot is simple. Arnold plays an ex-cop from the LAPD who basically decided to go the simple route after being involved in some heavy shit back in LA. He is now the loved Sheriff in a wholesome little town full of old people, family diners, and hot country girls. Every girl under the age of 30-35 looked like a model in country clothes. The Police department consists of one Sheriff and four deputies. Johnny Knoxville also has an entertaining roll in the movie as a citizen of the town that is kind of whacky and just so happens to collect weapons (obviously). I think that this is were the trailer went wrong. It’s very Knoxville/Arnold heavy, almost as if its a buddy flick, when in reality, Knoxville isn’t even in it that much. Its like they made the trailer and didn’t care about getting the story across but only wanted to sell it by showing the only two stars in the movie in a sequence of scenes that made no sense.
The ball gets rolling when an escaped convict who just so happens to be very dangerous and has a racing background, escaped custody in an elaborate sequence of events, and is racing to the border of a bridge his men made, into Mexico. He is travelling in this modified Corvette that apparently has 1000 horsepower and can out run helicopters. So many of the scenes involving this car gave me flashbacks to the old Knight Rider show, I often laughed.
Of course on the way to this bridge that they made, the convict must travel through this town, where Arnold has just become aware of this guy and has basically told the FBI to eat it as he wants to handle it himself.
I enjoyed this film way more than I expected to! It was an awesome “welcome back” movie for Arnold and has gotten me even more excited for his future projects. The action scenes were awesome, the film was really violent, and the battle scenes involving Arnold were just as bad ass as they used to be. He’s still got it.
I definitely recommend this one.
This post by no means promotes the downloading of anything illegal, please use the information I provide here at your own risk.
I have been torrenting files for a long time. I remember when I first discovered torrents. This was around the time when people were using Napster-like p2p clients to download single songs. I remember the thrill I got downloading entire collections with the click of a button, all organized in folders by album. It was fucking awesome. I don’t swear much on this blog, but when I do, its warranted. Getting a decade of albums downloaded from a band in 5 minutes is indeed “fucking awesome.” Back then things were easier, nobody really knew how to fight the war on file sharing. Today its different. I am an advocate of file sharing to the fullest, but you need to take precautions before doing so.
Someone that is not familiar with using bit torrents might just waltz over to the Pirate Bay and start downloading. Maybe back then it was a good idea, but these days, you have to be smart. There are 3rd party companies that scour IP’s looking for idiots downloading cam videos of movies released yesterday only to offer them scary settlements or cease and desist letters. Here are some rules and guidelines to follow.
1) Don’t use Pirate Bay. Don’t get me wrong. The Pirate Bay is legendary and they are constantly fighting for internet freedom. The truth is, unless you are pretty experienced downloading torrents, this site can expose you to torrents riddled with virus’s, fake files, or torrents monitored closely for infringement.
2) Get yourself onto a private tracker. There are some really great private trackers out there. The problem with these is that its tough to find any with open registration. The only way to get into them is to be persistent and check every day to see if they open up registration. Another way is to get an invite from someone who is already a member. You can sometimes gain invites by being cool in a forum where someone might have a spare one for you. There are a number of great private trackers out there, just do a little research. I belong to “Iptorrents”. Another good one is “ilovetorrents”. Again, there are tons. The benefits of belonging to these are high speed downloads, and every file posted will usually have plenty of very accurate comments pertaining to the file of interest. You rarely find fake files posted or anything infected with a virus. One thing that you can’t be when belonging to a private tracker is a “leacher”. These are people who download files but do not share them. The trackers usually have a minimum ratio of download to upload that they want you to maintain. If you don’t maintain this requirement over a period of time, they will ban you from the community. This can sometimes be tough to do, especially when we get to my next topic.
3) Be careful what you seed. This won’t be popular amongst file sharing community, but if you are new to torrenting, don’t seed anything until you learn the ropes. You are probably thinking, “How can i get my sharing ratio up on a private tracker if I shouldn’t seed?” That answer is easy. Know and understand what you are seeding. Don’t seed anything new and popular as they are sure to be targeted files. Join a private tracker and download something obscure. A lot of the time, you can sort the search results for files that have a lot of people downloading them. Look for something obscure, even if its something that you don’t care about, you are getting it to increase your ratio. Another way to increase your ratio without uploading, is to “Donate”. Many of the private trackers will grant you a certain amount of Gigabyte downloads per dollar that you donate. The money goes towards server costs. Its a nice way to not seed, but to contribute without being looked at as a leach.
4) Get a VPN or Torrent Proxy….or even better..Both. These days, with the NSA nonsense, there hasn’t been a better time to get yourself a VPN. VPN’s are tricky. If you are not familiar with a VPN, its basically a service that gives you an alternate IP address other than your own. Everything you do online will go through the vpn first, kind of like a middle man. This in turn hides your IP address from prying eyes. Just recently, TorrentFreak recently published an article that was more of an investigative piece, where they went to all of the VPN services asking them about “Logging”. The article can be seen here. Many of them openly stated that they didn’t keep logs while some chose to not comment. The others simply said that they emptied the logs after a few days or daily, simply because they didn’t have the space to house that much data. When it comes down to it, this is the statement that carries the most validity. When it comes down to it, they could be lying, who knows. One thing that is probably true though, is that the amount of data to log every users activities is probably pretty ridiculous, and they would need to empty the logs. Regardless, you might as well go with one that promises complete anonymity. Torguard offers a VPN and specifically a torrent proxy, both relatively inexpensive. So basically I have my VPN and then when I torrent, my traffic goes through a proxy and then through the vpn, and vice versa. Can your activities be tracked if you use a VPN. Its possible, depends on how much they want to spend figuring out who you are and tracking your whereabouts. Again, this post isn’t promoting illegal downloading so this shouldn’t be a concern, but you should know your options when trying to stay private.
There is so much to learn about file-sharing, that your research shouldn’t end here. Read as much as you can about downloading and about current events with the copyright wars. It all directly effects file sharing and torrents weather you download illegal content or not. Always be educated and informed. Knowing is half the battle!
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