10 posts tagged “wade”
I didn't forget about the photoblog, I just haven't been taking and processing many. This weekend I've forced myself to go through a lot of photos of me and a lot I've taken. So here's a big batch from Amanda's surprise bridal shower! We threw it for her at Dragoncon 2008 and it was a lot of fun.
I didn't do much editing on these because they are more for the memories than the beauty of the shots. Also a big portion were taken by Michael, not me! Confusing isn't it?
It's been so many months since we actually went... man, I'm behind!
Here is part 2 of our Vegas pictures. I was once again too lazy to rotate some of them.
Whew! First batch of 1,000+ pics taken last weekend
Photographer: Me
Costumer/Model: Allison
These pictures below were taken at the convention.
Photographer: Wade
Model: Amanda
The day after Wade's party, we slept in, ate at Moe's, then crept over to Disney's part of Orlando for some entertainment.
Fantasia golf turned out to be really fun. Most of the holes were decorated really nicely and had sound effects and water hazards. Overall just a really fun time. The end score was quite close too.
I should also mention that each hole had its own poem which, when read aloud by Rob, only increased our entertainment.
Afterwards we went to Downtown Disney for some shopping and goofing around. Pictured here are two lovely Princesses showing off their self-made crowns.
We did more looking than shopping, but maybe that's because of the trauma caused by witnessing the new Princess STAR dolls (Sassy, Trendy, Always Right!) and the new Disney Princess Bibidi Babidi Boutique. Actually these two evils aren't really on par with one another. It's perfectly normal for little girls to dress up as princesses, but please don't buy them dolls who claim "Always Right!" as a virtue.
Wade would like to thank all of those who attended his party by this amazing display of refined posture.
The following is a very long list of pictures and events taking place at Wade's grad party. They aren't even in order by time or person, because it's not worth the effort.
Enjoy the slideshow of insanity! I put more work into this party than any other since A Lake Claire Halloween, which is truly saying something!
Wade, you are a master! And we've got the Nerds on a Rope to prove it!
Not pictured is T-Rex banner we made for him. Some interesting well-wishes were left on the back; I had no idea that God and Wade's mom were both at the party.
Firefox 2.0. Despite approximately 500 hours of shopping that Amanda and I did to prepare for this party, she still did a really good job making her computer costume.
My fairly bad Linux costume. Still, the geek points earned by dressing up as an Operating System cancel out any technical shortcomings, most would say.
Well, are you feeling lucky? Somehow Michelle and Spooky never met the entire night, which is truly mystifying since nobody was intentionally preventing this. He must not have been trying hard enough to seek her out.
iRob: for when you need something stolen in the hippest of manners?
Laina and Brian show up as mortal foes.
This is a picture of Heather's chest, which sounds pretty horrible. But look! It's all electronic and stuff, and really works! Her brother and her programmed it to say several phrases like "Congratulations Wade!" and "Segmentation Fault."
Also, her boyfriend was a working calculator. I can't emphasize enough the hilarity that the CS people came with better costumes than the costume makers.
More pictures of the amazingness:
Carol ann and Studmuffin Alex show up dressed as a Cyber Pimp and a cyborg chick.
The amazing cake! It took a lot of work to swindle this from Publix; apparently some stores frown upon the use of black and white images because they won't turn out black and white. Except that they can. No one said anything about the copyrighted Grimlock I disguised by photoshop filter though.
Even getting the image to begin with was a chore; it's a screencap from one of Wade's test videos for school. Haha, I snuck on your computer Wade!
Wade cuts into his glorious face detection cake.
I remained faithful to Wade, at least until I dropped his face on the floor later on in the night. Wade took catbagel home. It's hard to say no to a catbagel.
Here's what Craig and Jess looked like when they arrived, and what they looked like when they left. You can see how much of a difference a few hours makes! They're practically different people!
Here's our Bratty Pinata being a bad influence on Andrea.
The pinata, sporting a colorful saying from the yestreen's board game, beckoned Wade to join her corner of the clubhouse. She was full to the brim of mini liquor bottles that were quickly distributed amongst the crowd... a little too quickly!
More people taking out their aggression against the media's hurtful expectations for preteens. Bratty ended up quite wounded, and later dissolved in the pool.
Here's a little section of Rob moments which represent... something...
Amanda and I had decided to have an unprofessional costume contest in the middle of party, which turned out to be less unfair than I wanted it to be. The awards went as follows:
Least Effort: Daryl Surat, who looked the same as he always does
Best Hair: Victoria and a PS2 controller
Best Non-Theme: Spooky, a Detective is not a Computer, Scientist, or Wizard.
Best Scientist: Laina and her mustache/unibrow
Most Creative/Second place: The only legitimately good costumes, Team Heather
Finally, the Carol Ann Award went to: Carol Ann! Because it was her birthday after all!
The two most despised hats in our apartment somehow combined to make something rather special.
Quite possibly my favorite picture from the whole party, it really gives you insight into his personality.
Nevermind, this one is better.
What's this? A cover on the outside faucet? I wonder why they thought to install that...
Spooky: Are you Michelle?
Rob: If you want me to be!
Be that there a DNA strand I see? Or a gathering of nerds drowning?
Rob's elusive friends show up to the party, surprisingly! The one on the right is infamously known for the line "Less talking, more doing" from a party we held some time ago.
I guess they're really good friends because one was willing to be duct-taped to a lawn chair and thrown in the pool. Luckily Michelle thought this would end in death and he only got a typical fraternity hazing treatment. This had something to do with balls too, but I'm not sure what.
The following is a very long list of pictures and events taking place at Wade's grad party. They aren't even in order by time or person, because it's not worth the effort.
Enjoy the slideshow of insanity! I put more work into this party than any other since A Lake Claire Halloween, which is truly saying something!
Wade, you are a master! And we've got the Nerds on a Rope to prove it!
Not pictured is T-Rex banner we made for him. Some interesting well-wishes were left on the back; I had no idea that God and Wade's mom were both at the party.
Firefox 2.0. Despite approximately 500 hours of shopping that Amanda and I did to prepare for this party, she still did a really good job making her computer costume.
Well, are you feeling lucky? Somehow Michelle and Spooky never met the entire night, which is truly mystifying since nobody was intentionally preventing this. He must not have been trying hard enough to seek her out.
iRob: for when you need something stolen in the hippest of manners?
Laina and Brian show up as mortal foes.
This is a picture of Heather's chest, which sounds pretty horrible. But look! It's all electronic and stuff, and really works! Her brother and her programmed it to say several phrases like "Congratulations Wade!" and "Segmentation Fault."
Also, her boyfriend was a working calculator. I can't emphasize enough the hilarity that the CS people came with better costumes than the costume makers.
More pictures of the amazingness:
Carol ann and Studmuffin Alex show up dressed as a Cyber Pimp and a cyborg chick.
Even getting the image to begin with was a chore; it's a screencap from one of Wade's test videos for school. Haha, I snuck on your computer Wade!
Wade cuts into his glorious face detection cake.
I remained faithful to Wade, at least until I dropped his face on the floor later on in the night. Wade took catbagel home. It's hard to say no to a catbagel.
Here's our Bratty Pinata being a bad influence on Andrea.
The pinata, sporting a colorful saying from the yestreen's board game, beckoned Wade to join her corner of the clubhouse. She was full to the brim of mini liquor bottles that were quickly distributed amongst the crowd... a little too quickly!
Least Effort: Daryl Surat, who looked the same as he always does
Best Hair: Victoria and a PS2 controller
Best Non-Theme: Spooky, a Detective is not a Computer, Scientist, or Wizard.
Best Scientist: Laina and her mustache/unibrow
Most Creative/Second place: The only legitimately good costumes, Team Heather
Finally, the Carol Ann Award went to: Carol Ann! Because it was her birthday after all!
The two most despised hats in our apartment somehow combined to make something rather special.
Quite possibly my favorite picture from the whole party, it really gives you insight into his personality.
Nevermind, this one is better.
What's this? A cover on the outside faucet? I wonder why they thought to install that...
Spooky: Are you Michelle?
Rob: If you want me to be!
Be that there a DNA strand I see? Or a gathering of nerds drowning?
I guess they're really good friends because one was willing to be duct-taped to a lawn chair and thrown in the pool. Luckily Michelle thought this would end in death and he only got a typical fraternity hazing treatment. This had something to do with balls too, but I'm not sure what.
Misha had to strip down to go in the pool, which turned him into quite a chick magnet.
Oh really? Tell me more about this. Preferably in the movie theater, with the door locked. ;p
Daryl finally flees from our party. I can't decide if he seems like he's in a rush or in a stupor. Anyways, it's always sad to see him leave a party sober and without tears in his eyes.
I'm just going to end this with a few outtake photos from when cooking wasn't the highest priority throughout the day.
Here you can see Wade, desperate for champagne and apparently moving too fast to be captured clearly (or perhaps that's a hand shaking issue, great photography!)
Exhibit two is Wade destroying a box of pizza rolls and had been graciously donated by Neo. Unfortunately, it was also an enormous box that blocked out our whole freezer. Wade had a manic moment in which he ripped the whole box to shreds. I'm not sure if this was more instigated by a protest against frozen food, or a desire to fill the freezer with frozen food he liked better.
Rob is a self described ham, and he took this photo of himself during a period when I put the camera down to do something else.
Dill weed. And some groceries and halloween things.
Overall I think our Thanksgiving experiment was a success, and worth doing. But I must say it was nice this year to actually be able to eat with my family, and have someone else, more experienced, do the cooking.
Sweet potatoes: This recipe was very simple: peel some yams, pour sugar on them and a stick of butter on top; shove it in the oven for awhile. They tasted like... sliced yams infused with sugar and butter. Looking at that stick on top kind of makes me feel queasy now; I used to add butter to my food all the time, but now I try to refrain.
Mashed potatoes: Peeled and mashed by hand! Rob's mom had a big hand in this one, I think he called her about ten times about the gravy. It had to be mixed with turkey juices or somethin. At any rate, I love mashed potatoes, so this was another highlight of the meal. We used two pots because we didn't have a single large pot.
Beer bread: The only recipe from Thanksgiving that I still occasionally prepare today! The first, most hilarious ingredient is Dillweed. Before this cooking adventure dillweed firmly belonged in the realm of Beavis and Butthead insults. Beer bread also contains dillseed, self-rising flour, cheese, sugar, and a can of beer. I'm not exactly a scholar at chemistry either, but apparently the beer takes the place of the yeast and the bread comes out pretty cool. I love bread anyways, so it's pretty fun to be able to make my own every once in awhile.
I'm getting anxious to finish this report, so here's three more parts of the meal.
Tomatoes: These turned out looking exactly like the recipe photo, but they tasted like absolutely nothing. The recipe seemed promising: tomatoes baked while covered in cheese, green peppers and almonds. I probably didn't use the right type of cheese or something. If I recall correctly, salt helped but not enough to really make them palatable.
Pasta Salad: Rob cheated and went with a meal-in-a-box. I can't say I really minded though, because pasta salad is delicious and with the way most of the other meal parts ended up, it was nice to know we could at least count on the salad to be delicious.
Stuffing: Wade certainly worked hard on this. First of all, nobody knew where to find the herb 'Savory' so we had to leave it out. (Yes, we looked extensively for it at the grocery store, and even asked!) But worse is the fact that the recipe seemed wrong; we never added any liquid to it because uh, it didn't say to. As a result the stuffing went into the oven with the consistency of breadcrumbs and came out the same way. Hardly edible, we ended up mixing it with the way-too-liquidy cranberry sauce and came up with something halfway decent.
This was Rob's first time eating stuffing, and it really didn't taste anything like real stuffing does.
Tomatoes: These turned out looking exactly like the recipe photo, but they tasted like absolutely nothing. The recipe seemed promising: tomatoes baked while covered in cheese, green peppers and almonds. I probably didn't use the right type of cheese or something. If I recall correctly, salt helped but not enough to really make them palatable.
Pasta Salad: Rob cheated and went with a meal-in-a-box. I can't say I really minded though, because pasta salad is delicious and with the way most of the other meal parts ended up, it was nice to know we could at least count on the salad to be delicious.
Stuffing: Wade certainly worked hard on this. First of all, nobody knew where to find the herb 'Savory' so we had to leave it out. (Yes, we looked extensively for it at the grocery store, and even asked!) But worse is the fact that the recipe seemed wrong; we never added any liquid to it because uh, it didn't say to. As a result the stuffing went into the oven with the consistency of breadcrumbs and came out the same way. Hardly edible, we ended up mixing it with the way-too-liquidy cranberry sauce and came up with something halfway decent.
This was Rob's first time eating stuffing, and it really didn't taste anything like real stuffing does.
Wade was given the task of creating a pumpkin pie. Of his three tasks, this one was probably the most successful.
Figure 1.) Canned pumpkin guts, because it's easier than mashing it up yourself. Look, it was ambitious enough for us to even attempt these recipes, no need to make every ingredient from scratch (yet?)
Figure 2.) Cream Cheese very slightly resembles the opening of a suit jacket, but that's enough to convince Wade he should pose with it. It's quirky moments like this that make me love him so much, actually.
Figure 3.) Adding some marshmellow fluff.
Figure 4.) Eating the marshmellow fluff. You can see how extremely on task Wade is.
Figure 5.) All of the ingredients mixed together with a blender! I believe this process was quite messy.
Figure 6.) The final mixture was poured into a premade pie crust. We didn't make the crust ourselves because I had previous experience doing a bad job at it. As a result, the pumpkin pie was actually very delicious.
Figure 1.) Canned pumpkin guts, because it's easier than mashing it up yourself. Look, it was ambitious enough for us to even attempt these recipes, no need to make every ingredient from scratch (yet?)
Figure 2.) Cream Cheese very slightly resembles the opening of a suit jacket, but that's enough to convince Wade he should pose with it. It's quirky moments like this that make me love him so much, actually.
Figure 3.) Adding some marshmellow fluff.
Figure 4.) Eating the marshmellow fluff. You can see how extremely on task Wade is.
Figure 5.) All of the ingredients mixed together with a blender! I believe this process was quite messy.
Figure 6.) The final mixture was poured into a premade pie crust. We didn't make the crust ourselves because I had previous experience doing a bad job at it. As a result, the pumpkin pie was actually very delicious.
Abandoned by our families, my two male roommates and I decided we would
cook our own fancy Thanksgiving feast. Three untrained chefs in the
kitchen doing something far beyond their capabilities? Sounds like fun.
Or disaster.
I have something like 200 photos of various parts of the process, but I'll start slow (and I don't really plan on posting them all!)
The top picture features Rob, apparently concerned about the stuffing.
Perhaps he witnessed some of Wade's unique ideas about cooking, pictured in the middle here.
This last photo depicts the final product; we created eight dishes. Some were bad and some were good, but we had fun and that's most important, right?
I have something like 200 photos of various parts of the process, but I'll start slow (and I don't really plan on posting them all!)
The top picture features Rob, apparently concerned about the stuffing.
Perhaps he witnessed some of Wade's unique ideas about cooking, pictured in the middle here.
This last photo depicts the final product; we created eight dishes. Some were bad and some were good, but we had fun and that's most important, right?
