Thorax Cake

Rather gross-looking. So maybe NSFW or NSToLookAtWhileEating (although I am).

This year I decided to go the whole hog and make an entire thoracic cavity cake. The plan was for each organ to be made out of a different kind of cake and to secrete a different color of fluid when it was cut into. Previous heart cakes have bled fresh, homemade raspberry sauce. This year I made raspberry, strawberry, kiwi, mango, and blueberry sauces. Sadly, the organs didn't bleed as well as I had hoped when I cut the cake, as each organ was relatively small and couldn't hold much sauce. Also all the moving around after filling the organs made it hard to keep the sauce contained in the little cavities I hollowed out. The heart bled pretty well, but the other organ fluids weren't very dramatic. On the bright side, there were lots of leftover sauces, which were all quite delicious.

Mallowmars sound scary.

That's okay. I'll have wee fists of fury and a cowgirl to protect me.

I do now remember that Times article.

This year I decided to go the whole hog and make an entire thoracic cavity cake.

HMOG.

Oh thank goodness, I just came up with a good project for my bored staff person. I hate being this kind of boss! I'm just not good enough at figuring out what work she can do.

Speaking of cake bakers with entirely too much time on their hands:

Discworld Cake, which is just spectacular -- and fully edible!

If there is to be an October Surprise, some think it might happen this Friday: [link]

Do you like October suprises? Is there a big bang coming to hit the markets? If you believe that those in the know use insider information before major events then you might be interested on the HUGE number of October 6th put options for the big indexes. Check out the concentrated puts on the Diamonds DOW Trust (DIA).

Ditto for the S&P Depository Receipts (SPY).

And the NASDAQ (QQQQ).

Even the Market Vectors Gold Miners has significant puts for October 6th.

Make no mistake - something wicked this way comes, and the smart money has already taken preventative steps.

(The above quote has lots of links, but they all require a fidelity.com login. Anyone?)

And, [link]

A put option, as explained to us many years ago by Distinguished Professor of Economics John Steed, gives a stockholder the right to unload his shares at a specified price within a specified time; it is, in cruder terms, a bet that the value of the stock is about to plummet.

BTW, Tep, you created a monster with Tom. Now we have pumpkin butter AND pumkin granola. Not that I'm complaining.

And yet he denies you chocolate macaroons? He IS a monster!

Distinguished Professor of Economics John Steed

So I guess this was has day job when not fighting crime with Emma.

Stoopid internets ated my post.

Re: the Amish... there's various types of Amish/Mennonite/Brethren, who appear similar from an outsider perspective, but have varying opinions on technology and whatnot. My mom was raised in a Brethren church, and when she was younger they wore bonnets and the like, but that practice has largely disappeared, at least from their corner of it.

Aaaand now I want to watch Witness.

ION, iTunes is making me cranky. I just want to listen to a freaking podcast, for the love of all things holy. t /whine whine

I wonder if the number of "puts" will cause the market to fall, just because of the expectations they create, you know? See: voodoo economics.

Why does GG keep having Kirk subplots?!?!?

Also, Eureka finale vs. VM premiere?!?? not fair.