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Fun Stuff => CHATTER => Topic started by: ackblom12 on 06 Apr 2008, 11:53
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Yesterday was my birthday and we were also having our weekly gaming night. Normal geeky things were abound and we were enjoying ourselves.
Now my fiance makes me a birthday cake every year and she always makes it some amazingly geeky theme that I always love. Here are some examples:
The Invader Zim rubber piggy:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/Katspictures017-1.jpg)
Tentacly Goodness:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/CthulhuDepths.jpg)
Cthulhu again:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/Cthulhu.jpg)
This year she made me the Portal cake.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/MoistDeliciousCake.jpg)
Now, this cake was awesome. A friend went to cut the cake and Kat ran to the computer and hit play on Winamp...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/TheCakeisaLie.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/Cakes/RickRollCake.jpg)
I can't possibly explain the look on people's faces, but god it was amazing.
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OH MY GOD, RICKROLL BY GATEAU
No one will ever love me that way. Hold on to her forever.
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You have the world's greatest girlfriend.
Get proposing!
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my fiance
Sounds like he has.
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You have a keeper, it seems. :lol:
P.S. - How was the cake?
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So goddamn awesome. I'm actually in shock. I want a girlfriend like that.
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When people write fiancé without the accent I always pronounce it 'fee-anse'. It's really annoying.
Also fantastic birthday events! Thank you for reminding me of something as well.
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You have the best gf ever. Can I borrow her for my birthday?
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Am I the only person who actually loves that Rick Astley song and listens to it non-ironically?
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Quite probably.
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You are not alone.
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Man, that is the most glorious birthday cake scheme of all time.
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Guys the dude is the fiancé. The lady is a fiancée.
Seriously, though, dude, keep her. Hog tie her if you must.
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That's just inappropriate, Katie.
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Just... I love this so much.
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Am I the only person who actually loves that Rick Astley song and listens to it non-ironically?
Definitely not! Before I knew it was a meme I thought it was so nice that people liked it so much that they were linking it everywhere.
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Am I the only person who doesn't quite understand how that one worked?
Like, was the Portal cake just a shell overtop of the Rick Astley cake or something?
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You are not alone.
Except where it counts.
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Heh, my friend made this for one of her friend's birthdays -
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/pixiewolfe/Artwork/Food/timcake.jpg)
Needless to say, my passion for her is boundless.
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Alright, the important question is, who here is going to come make me a cakethulu?
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Dammit, now I want cake.
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I guess Duff Goldman can give up now.
I don't care how much fondant he uses, he will never top that.
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So, last year we had a project on the JFK assassination.
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/ironoxide887/IMAG0018.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/ironoxide887/IMAG0019.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a46/ironoxide887/IMAG0021.jpg)
So we made a cake.
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My mother was in the room when I scrolled over the Kennedy Assassination cake. We both started laughing in the "That's so wrong" sort of way.
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As I just said on gabbly, that thing is made out of pure win.
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P.S. - How was the cake?
Delicious and Moist
Seriously, though, dude, keep her. Hog tie her if you must.
I'm only 7 weeks from forcing her into a contractually binding relationship actually!
Am I the only person who doesn't quite understand how that one worked?
Like, was the Portal cake just a shell overtop of the Rick Astley cake or something?
The Portal cake was a Hat Box that she cut down to a more reasonable size and beat on to make it look a little less perfectly shaped before frosting it.
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I knew the cake didn't look quite right, but I did not expect to see someone get rickrolled by a cake.
edit: And man... I tried to listen to that song just now, got one minute in before giving up.
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What happened to all the frosting and stuff on the hat box? Did someone lick it off?
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So, last year we had a project on the JFK assassination.
So we made a cake.
Best usage of "Life" pieces ever.
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Am I the only person who actually loves that Rick Astley song and listens to it non-ironically?
It's on my list of music I know is terrible but I listen to anyway because I love it. It's right there with Heat of the Moment and Safety Dance.
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Man, a birthday cake with the Marathon logo would totally do it for me.
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That song is awesome. I like what his newer stuff is too. Yawta check it out.
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Those cakes look even more delicious than my dreams of a life-size Jesus made of marchpane. You may truly consider yourself lucky.
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So, last year we had a project on the JFK assassination.
(fucking awesome)
So we made a cake.
My favorite is the close-up of the Kennedy car. Bonus points for splatter.
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The Portal cake was a Hat Box that she cut down to a more reasonable size and beat on to make it look a little less perfectly shaped before frosting it.
Wow, that's... there's no real word for the ingenuity there, actually.
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man no kidding i read this thread a few times and went to make a cake.
its kind of boring looking so i wont post pictures, but it was a double layered sponge filled with rasberry jam and marshmallow fluff.
how much longer before the Baking Is A Craft! thread gets strangely busy??
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rickrolled by a cake, priceless
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I made this cake when I was twenty:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/0bsessions/DSC01618.jpg)
Not nearly as impressive as those shown above, but it tasted fantastic. It was golden cake with chocolate frosting lined with strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups.
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Best usage of "Life" pieces ever.
If I make the movie I imagined where the blue piece confronts the pink piece when more pieces appear in the car, shouting "I thought you were on the pill!", would I win?
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Am I the only person who actually loves that Rick Astley song and listens to it non-ironically?
Definitely not! Before I knew it was a meme I thought it was so nice that people liked it so much that they were linking it everywhere.
Same here.
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So, last year we had a project on the JFK assassination.
(fucking awesome)
So we made a cake.
My favorite is the close-up of the Kennedy car. Bonus points for splatter.
The splatter was my idea!
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I love how there's even the tiny little bit of blue frosting. That was an extra special touch, I thought.
in b4 fbi
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Your fiancee (I don't know how to make the accent, sorry) is an amazing woman. I am in awe. And happy birthday!!
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If I make the movie I imagined where the blue piece confronts the pink piece when more pieces appear in the car, shouting "I thought you were on the pill!", would I win?
Yes.
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Your fiancee (I don't know how to make the accent, sorry)
alt+0233 result in é.
I also know how to do ü, ¿, ™, and ® off the top of my head.
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alt+0233 result in é.
For á, é, í, ó, ú for some reason, you can use the easier Alt-Gr + vowel.
Paul
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æe→ø↓
Nope.
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...for some value of keyboard and locale, I guess (I am UK).
Paul
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Yeah doesn't work for me either. :\
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I google the word in question and then copy and paste the letter with the mark.
Fiancé/Fiancée.
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Do you guys (meaning those of you with English keyboards) not even have a button with ´and `? What the hell? I'm gonna go google a photo of a keyboard to figure out what you use all the keys for. We even have three extra letters that have their own buttons..
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We have a ` button, that with shift goes to ~, but it looks odd to use it, like e`, see? looks odd.
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Yea, but they're not combining. The Alt+number or cut and paste are pretty much the only ways. It's one of the ways the computer industry has gone backwards; in the early 1980s I worked for a company* whose keyboards could be used for all European languages, and generate all the special letters and accents (even the weird ones) in a simple and mnemonic way. Their pre-Internet email was pretty cool, too. Of course, they no longer exist in a recognisable form :~|
Paul
* @Ladybug: they were Norwegian...
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Well, my keyboard is Norwegian, so that makes sense. The button with ´and ` combines if certain characters are pressed after it, like é, á, í, ó, ú.. Also ñ is pretty easy, same with ç, æøå (of course) etc.. It just seems weird to me to complicate things. That being said, brackets and curly brackets aren't as accessible as on English keyboards, which is sort of annoying when programming, I guess, but I'm used to it.
What doesn't exist anymore? The keyboards (if that's what you mean, it sounds like any Norwegian or maybe Swedish or Danish keyboard would do at least mostly what you're saying) or the company?
ETA: After re-reading your post, I'm guessing you meant the company, so nevermind.
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I realize localization has something to do with it. My brother, for example, sets his keyboard to portuguese because he got used to the portuguese settings while on his mission, as he was down in Brazil. It's possible to use control + alt + shift and all that other sort of jazz to easily type accented characters, but you have to set your keyboard to do it.
tl;dr
character maps are fun.
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Actually, Ladybug, my keyboard does the same thing. Combines 'with the letters that combine with it I guess. I am constantly havign to press space after the ' key. because I am Australian and I don't need accents very much.
Also, i really love the Invader Zim piggy cake. I could never have been the first person to cut it though, it's just too cute.
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Or you could all get macs. Option + e gives you ´, and then you hit whatever letter you want to accent.
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And then I can still play all of my PC-only games! Oh wait... Well, I could get boot camp, but that is a lot of money I don't want to spend.
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with windows:
alt+ 160 =á alt+ 130 =é
alt+ 161 =í alt+ 162 =ó
alt+ 163 =ú alt+ 164 =ñ
alt+ 168 =¿ alt+ 173 =¡
As a spanish major I have all these memorized at this point. I know there's easier ways if I messed with macros or my keyboard language settings, but I prefer just knowing these by memory because then I can easily use them if I need to type something up on another computer if I'm on campus or something.
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And howzabout those Turkish letter accents like "ğ" "ç" "ö", etc?
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Some quick trial and error with the alt codes found these:
alt+ 135= ç
alt+ 148= ö
If you just go from alt+ 128 thru about 165 you'll get most of the vowel alterations.
Also, I found this: (http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/ALTchrc.html)
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guys, this isn't even remotely an interesting conversation.
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I'm guessing you meant the company, so nevermind.
Yes - it was the second largest company in Norway briefly - Norsk Data.
Paul
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so.... cakes?
Or you could all get macs. Option + e gives you ´, and then you hit whatever letter you want to accent.
Quoted for truth
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I miss my old Mac lappy. She died 'cause of the shitty power here. I am getting an iMac when I leave here.
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I have a gut-level, almost irrational hatred of Macs. I don't know why; it's not out of some PC snobbery (in fact, it would be easily provable to say that Mac users are the bigger douchebags when it comes to haughtiness levels.)
I guess it's that most of the worthwhile programs for Macs are available for PC, albeit not quite as high quality. The same is true of things like Microsoft Office for Macs, but there are still tons of programs for PC that Macs just can't do. And a couple (really cool) art and music programs aren't enough to make me go for a bland interface, mind-numbingly dumbed down technology and myriad more tiny quibbles (those goddamned mouses!) that, when added together, become a deal-breaker.
Fuck. I hate Macs. (prepares for flames.)
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Hmm. So that whole post actually wound up being one really huge example of PC Snobbery.
Interesting, that.
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Goddamnit people, cake.
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I packed a Simnel Cake baked by my wife to take to my son in Germany. Unfortunately we went to Heathrow Terminal 5 on the day it opened, and my luggage, with the cake, got left behind. The day we came back it was sent by lorry to Milan; yesterday it went to Frankfurt; and my case arrived home (including cake) about an hour ago (but not my wife's, yet...). The balls have fallen off the cake with all the travelling, but I'll stick them back on later and upload a picture.
Paul
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A friend of mine got a bust of Optimus Prime made out of candy from his girlfriend this past Valentine's day.
I have to say that when they broke up I was pretty upset.
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Anyone here ever had watermelon cake? (I get the vague feeling this has been discussed before.)
Raspberry sorbet as the "Red" part, with chocolate chips as seeds, whipped cream as the whiteish part, and lime sorbet for the green.
Looks a lot like
(http://www.debbiescraftsnthings.com/WatermelonCake.jpg)
this except with more green layering, and..not gross.
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And a couple (really cool) art and music programs aren't enough to make me go for a bland interface, mind-numbingly dumbed down technology and myriad more tiny quibbles (those goddamned mouses!) that, when added together, become a deal-breaker.
Considering the fact that I fully intend to feed myself off of, well, making music, and considering the fact that Macs are just plain easier to use (and don't fucking freeze for no good reason every two days, and also don't get viruses), it's kindof a deal-maker.
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When I compare the last 4 years to the previous 18, I have been much happier with a Mac than I had been my most of my life when I used a PC. And you can buy a mouse with two buttons! They make them, you know, and work the same way! Wow!
But cakes. Cakes are amazing. I want to make a Lego cake. Like this:
(http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/legocake.jpg)
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A lego cake would be even more awesome if you could build stuff with the pieces.
"Oh man, this is the most delicious castle, EVER!"
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that is by far the best cakes i have ever seen.
never give her up
never say goodbye
never gonna turnaround
and desert her.
you have by far one of the best women in the world.
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This got me all excited, searching the intertubes for more nerdy cakes. In the process, I found these step-by-step instructions for a Yoda cake (http://sandra-socake.blogspot.com/2007/04/yoda-cake-instructions.html). If the last line of the post was not "It took about three and a half hours to decorate," I might have considered spending my day off tomorrow making an edible Yoda. Also my oven's broken.
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Simnel Cake, as promised. This was only 6 inches diameter, because we were taking it on the airplane, and we couldn't fit the proper 11 balls on it - so it only has ten. If it looks a little disheveled, remember it has travelled round Europe for a holiday...
(http://cassland.org/images/SimnelCake.jpg)
Paul
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Wow.
DEFINITELY a keeper. :eek: :lol:
Anyway, those of us in the US don't have AltGr. We just have right Alt, which doesn't work as AltGr, unless you remap the keyboard.
So, unless you've remapped your keyboard, or are running Mac OS, it's alt-codes for you. (Actually, alt-codes don't work on anything other than Windows... not sure how you'd do it on a *nix, other than remapping right Alt to AltGr.)
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For my 18th, my brother made me an Achewood cake that was pretty dang good given that he didn't have drawing icing.
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/uhekjq003.jpg)
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That is most excellent.
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What we need more of here is cake!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v663/Lapuz/caake.jpg)
This is an orange poppyseed cake with orange and lemon glaze. It may not look like much, but as no one else in my family ate any of it, I finished that whole cake and didn't get sick of it at all.
Nom Nom Nom Nom
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And a couple (really cool) art and music programs aren't enough to make me go for a bland interface, mind-numbingly dumbed down technology and myriad more tiny quibbles (those goddamned mouses!) that, when added together, become a deal-breaker.
Considering the fact that I fully intend to feed myself off of, well, making music, and considering the fact that Macs are just plain easier to use (and don't fucking freeze for no good reason every two days, and also don't get viruses), it's kindof a deal-maker.
The more people get macs, the more viruses there will be, while OSX may be more secure, I don't know that for sure, and I do know that there will be security holes in it, just not enough people use it to make it worth making lots of viruses to go after them. I say that Linux is probably the safest, because as soon as a virus comes out, you will have hundreds of people working on fixes, while Microsoft doesn't want you screwing with the technical aspects, that is what Linux is for.
My elementary had Imac G3s (those are the ones with the big bright colored monitors, right? That is what I remember best) for a couple years while I was there, I am pretty sure they have upgraded them sometime in the seven years since I was there, I don't remember seeing them last time I was there. They still had apple IIs as late as '98 or '99, though, so there is no guarantee. I remember really liking them then, but I also know that I did not try doing anything complicated with them at all, mostly what I did was play Oregon trail and... there was one where you played as a fish, trying to eat the smaller ones while avoiding getting eaten by the bigger ones and the herons.
It is the games that are most important to me, I have good antivirus software and spybot S+D, and I don't do stupid stuff, so I am usually fine, though I would like to find a free firewall better than the windows default one, which only seems good for blocking my video games when I first set them up.
And I plan on getting a degree in Computer Sciences, so if I don't know how to use windows, I am SOL.
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Guys, seriously, PC vs Mac debates are annoying as hell even in the goddamn proper forum section. Stop the fucking dick waving and make a shitty thread about it in the Computers & Video Games forum.
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Tasty delicious cake!
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Well thank you all for all your kind comments. You're makin my head all big. ( not to mention giving me a defense for the next few months... "but hunny the internets said I was great... you can't be mad..")
I used to make crazy creative cakes, of much better quality, all the time, but now it is really just the once a year and it is always hurried. I have to say I can't believe the whole gaming crew fell for it. I cut the hat box down, but it was still huge. If it had been real it would have served 20 people easily.
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Stop the fucking dick waving and make a shitty thread about it in the Computers & Video Games forum.
Stop encouraging them, dammit.
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The more people get macs, the more viruses there will be
I happen to think that is a load of crap. This is only relevant to this thread because I found Mac cakes.
(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/02/iphone-mac-mini-cakes.jpg)
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I wonder what the CD is made out of. Pure frosting/sugar?
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Haven't you ever seen those hard sugar decorations on cakes? I'm guessing it's made of that stuff.
http://www.baking911.com/decorating/cakes_gumpaste.htm
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Yah, I've watched enough Ace of Cakes in my time to know that it's likely gum paste.
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GUM PASTE, MOTHER FUCKER
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Portal/Rickroll cake: there are not not words for how good that is.
JFKake: what? Brilliant.
And Lego and Macs. Works of art. But enough inarticulate praise.
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GUM PASTE, MOTHER FUCKER
Dude I wish that entire man were made out of cake. I wonder how they made that torch...
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Can I steal this idea? Seriously? The rickroll cake, I mean. My friend's birthday is in a month or two. This is so good.
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I wonder how they made that torch...
um, they bought it from the cooking supply store?
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Ok, necroing because Kat has joined a contest at a website called Instructables.
http://www.instructables.com/id/PortalRickroll-Cake/
She's absolutely annihilating the competition with over twice the views of the 2nd place cake.
Also, Instructables is a great site to mess around on and I highly recommend it.
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Ackblom, you were unsuspectingly helpful to me just now. I read your necroing comment and thought "but how can it be necro when it's only the day after the last post?" and then I realised that my computer clock is wrong.
Also, whenever I make cake it's purple, because purple is tastier. The trouble is that unless you mix the colouring perfectly, or use pale yolked eggs, the outside of the cake goes a nasty green colour. I'd show pictures but I don't have any. However, I do have these:
[img width= height=]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/barmymoo/Cakes/presentable.jpg[/img]
[img width= height=]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/barmymoo/Cakes/purple.jpg[/img]
Sorry they're so big, I'm trying to reduce them!
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Alright folks, I figured some new folks should be introduced to some wonderful cakes and besides that, Kat made a new cake for a friend's birthday! Labyrinth theme ahoy!
'ello!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/STA72305.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/STA72306.jpg)
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You have done a good deed. Also, having watched an inordinate amount of Ace of Cakes lately, what do those people have against buttercream? I mean, I quite enjoy fondant, but let's be reasonable people!
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That was pretty inane for a year old post.
ETA: Ohmyballs, I'm so sorry, I could have sworn I checked. I wish I wasn't such an asshole sometimes, sorry, SirJuggles.
And now on topic - I love Labyrinth! Is there any hope of a Ludo or Jareth themed cake? I can tell that's cotton candy for the antennae (or whatever the hell those were in Jim Henson's very-creative head), but is that popped rice for the body?
Very cool, compliments to the baker.
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Why the hate?
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He probably didn't notice that Stephen had res'd the thread on the previous page.
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OK goddamnit, unfortunate page break timing and necroing my own thread means I'm quoting my own goddamn self.
Alright folks, I figured some new folks should be introduced to some wonderful cakes and besides that, Kat made a new cake for a friend's birthday! Labyrinth theme ahoy!
'ello!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/STA72305.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/ackblom12/STA72306.jpg)
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(http://www.freewebs.com/mistysocean/ani130.gif)
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Come inside, meet the missus. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2xVZiGOw-o)
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I recommended Kat make a cake of Jareth's crotch. She opted out on the grounds that it was too obvious.
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Come on, no one wants to eat David Bowie's balls.
He has like 35 of them in the movie rolling around. You don't know where they've been.
PS - The cake was delicious, lol@u
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Come on, no one wants to eat David Bowie's balls.
so untrue in a non-literal interpretation