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Rock Band Cakes

Posted by Andrew Jaques on Monday, April 27th, 2009

I decided to bake a couple of themed cakes for a Rock Band party at a friend’s place. The designs come from the instrument symbols used in the game, which are perfect for use as stencils. So using chocolate powder over the cut-outs, I iced the bare-cake areas and here are the results.

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The Silversun Pickups

Posted by Andrew Jaques on Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I’ve recently discovered a Los Angeles based Indie-Rock band named The Silversun Pickups. Their sound is dense, distortion-heavy and grimy. The vocals can alternate between gentle, softly spoken poetic lyrics and angst-ridden screaming.

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Yamaha XVS DragStar 125cc Motorbike

Posted by Andrew Jaques on Sunday, April 26th, 2009

This is a drawing of my Yamaha XVS 125 cruiser motorcycle.
It’s probably the most good-looking learner-legal cruiser you can buy and is one of three major-manufacturer L-plate V-twins.

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Silversun Pickups Live at KROQ FM’s ‘Weenie Roast’ Festival in LA.

Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - music

I’m settling in at 1AM to watch a Silversun Pickups live set at KROQ FM’s Los Angeles ‘Weenie Roast‘ event via webstream. It’s 5PM for them and I’m quite excited. Here’s my attempt at Live-Blogging the event.

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Avoid ‘orphan’ words in phrases that need to stick together with a Non-breaking Space

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 - design

A Non-breaking Space (nbsp;) is useful to ensure words that should always be seen next to each other don’t get broken apart in the wrapping of a web page.

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Rock Band Cakes

Monday, April 27th, 2009 - featured, food

I decided to bake a couple of themed cakes for a Rock Band party at a friend’s place. The designs come from the instrument symbols used in the game, which are perfect for use as stencils. So using chocolate powder over the cut-outs, I iced the bare-cake areas and here are the results.

continue reading

The Silversun Pickups

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 - featured, music

I’ve recently discovered a Los Angeles based Indie-Rock band named The Silversun Pickups. Their sound is dense, distortion-heavy and grimy. The vocals can alternate between gentle, softly spoken poetic lyrics and angst-ridden screaming.

continue reading

Yamaha XVS DragStar 125cc Motorbike

Sunday, April 26th, 2009 - featured, motorbikes

This is a drawing of my Yamaha XVS 125 cruiser motorcycle.
It’s probably the most good-looking learner-legal cruiser you can buy and is one of three major-manufacturer L-plate V-twins.

continue reading