Another shot from the Fremont Solstice Parade This is of the dancers from the Hare Krishna group.
I discovered The Cha Doa Tea Company Yin Yang Black Tea and Coffee drink this weekend while searching for a lightly sweetened caffeinated beverage to cure my caffeine headache. While, I’m not usually the type to mix coffee and tea I decided to give the Yin Yang flavor a try. When opening the bottle my nose was great with a nice scent of tea, but then coffee, then tea, then coffee. My nose was very confused, but shortly after my palette was delighted by the subtle taste of finely brewed black tea followed by a light coffee taste. As far as sugar goes I would say it’s faintly sweetened as opposed to lightly sweetened. The drink only contains 36 calories/9g of sugar per serving. The sugar adds the sweetness that we all crave, but doesn’t over do it. The organic cane sugar only enhances the flavor of the fine tea and organic coffee.
Cha Dao’s Yin Yang is the perfect drink for a hot sunny day.
Tags: NO HFCS, Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Coffee, organic tea
Sweet Creek Foods is one of the few pickle makers to offer organic pickles with out any coloring. When I first ran across their items I wasn’t sire if they were a large company or a family farm. Later, I found out that they are a small family farm located and bottler located in Oregon. They produce all organic pickles, jams, salsas, and albacore tuna.
Their garlic dill pickles are amazing. Full of flavor, crispy crunch, and no extra dyes or additives. If you are in the mood for a good pickle and find these on the shelf give them a shot you won’t go wrong.
Tags: Organic, pickles, sweet creek foods
This weekend I set up my new work computer and got everything working on it. Today, the other work computer dies, but it’s desperately needed. This requires an impromptu trip to the nearest Apple Store an hour and a half away. New mac mini in hand, had to wait to have extra ram installed. Meanwhile, I had sushi at Blue C, and grabbed groceries at Metropolitan Market. Yum!
Sad news for Michael Jackson and Farrah Faucett. R.I.P.
I spent the evening playing with a few programs I’ve been wanting to test out for a long time. Here is my first attempt at using Photomatix 3.1.3 to create an HDR Image and Noise Ninja to clean up the noise.. Noise Ninja trial version accounts for the grid, and Photomatix trial version shows it’s watermark. I think I’m sold on both.
It was very hard to pull any contrast out the photo as it/they were taken on a very gray day. Also, does anyone use Noiseware instead of Noise Ninja?
Tags: HDR, Noise Ninja, Photo Fun, Photomatix, Space Needle
For the last 8 years I’ve been trying to make it to the Fremont Solstice Parade, and for what ever reason I would bag the idea once I saw all the traffic and parking issues. This year I didn’t. I was able to squeeze my way into the front row, and watch the parade. I’ll have more pictures of the fun event shortly.
Lens Day: Golden – Top of the Zoo Bomb Pile.
Miike Snow song Animals set to Manimal scenes. I discovered this song over the weekend, and found it hit very entertaining.
Tags: animal, manimal, miike snow
I downloaded the SnapFilter iPhone app. It packs a punch for editing iphone photos on the go. Best of all it’s free. Here’s a photo I played with while on the road. It was just a quick snapshot with poor lighting, but the snap filter app allowed me to turn it in to something a little more interesting.
Edited version:
Tags: filters, iPhone, photography, snap filters
Daiso is one of the leading 100-yen store chains, or hyakkin, in Japan. I often find myself at Daiso when I’m in need of writing utensils. They have some of the best pens for 1.50. Daiso has a mixture of products made in Japan and China, and of course the quality can usually determine where the product was made. On a recent visit, I purchased some pens, maneki neko bank, tabi, and sushi knife.
This particular Daiso shop was always staffed by Japanese ladies, but on this recent visit it was for of young Caucasian people. I wonder if this was a coincidence.
Tags: daiso, dollar store, federal way, hyakkin, japanese
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