Unique and Interesting Websites

Half of the IHB will think I've gone fruit loopy. The rest of the IHB knows I'm already there. Here we go anyway.



<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/">http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/</a>



I'm not going to do this justice, so I'm going to just plagerize the LA Times and let them do it:



<blockquote>Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. But there's nothing accidental about the success she's built combining those two.



Drummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although not due out until Oct. 27, it is currently at No. 1 on Amazon's preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world.



Each month, roughly 2 million women -- and her readers are mostly women -- flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her "how in the world did I end up here?" story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant -- and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen's goings-on. (A recent cake recipe used 53 photos -- 53!)



The heart of Pioneer Woman is its food corner, the Pioneer Woman Cooks. There are canning instructions, and one perennially popular entry is a step-by-step "how to" on cooking a steak. And there are hundreds of recipes. Recipes, though, are almost beside the point.



This is one food blog that is as much about the lookin' as the cookin'.



"I hear from readers, I know a lot of them love to look at the pictures. I'm not sure what that says about the rest of it," Drummond jokes.



She never intended to live on a cattle ranch. Though Drummond was raised in Oklahoma, she fled just as soon as she could, heading for Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. "There was just something about Los Angeles. It was the biggest city I could think of to go. I couldn't wait to get there," she says.</blockquote>


The website is just beautiful. Her photography is very good. The stuff she cooks looks lovely ? and stuff a scrub like me can absolutely take on. Her writing and humor are fun. I had no idea Oklahoma was that pretty. And I got a lot - no, TON - of respect for somebody who lives 45 minutes one way (including 5 miles on a gravel road) from the closest grocery store. You gotta check it out.
 
Darn you, NoVas. Now I can't stop reading Pioneer Woman. (<em>Adds desktop shortcut icon... adds Cauliflower Soup, Welsh Rarebit & Caramel Apple Sticky Buns ingredients to shopping list.</em>)
 
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<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/">http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/</a>



The website is just beautiful. Her photography is very good. The stuff she cooks looks lovely ? and stuff a scrub like me can absolutely take on. Her writing and humor are fun. I had no idea Oklahoma was that pretty. And I got a lot - no, TON - of respect for somebody who lives 45 minutes one way (including 5 miles on a gravel road) from the closest grocery store. You gotta check it out.</blockquote>


I loved the website and can't wait to try her recipe for lasagna!
 
Waymarking - A scavenger hunt for unique and interesting locations in the world.



<a href="http://www.waymarking.com/">http://www.waymarking.com/</a>



Waymarking is an activity in which people can locate and log unique and interesting (and some mundane) locations around the world, usually with a GPS receiver and a digital camera. Waymarking differs from geocaching in that there is no physical container to locate at the given coordinates. Waymarking identifies points of interest for GPS users. There are many categories of waymarks, from pay phones through various restaurant chains, covered bridges, churches, places where one can take a factory tour and places of geologic significance, to name only a few.



If you google Peace Pole in Irvine CA this is what you'll get.



<a href="http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM42EJ_Peace_Pole_at_University_Park_Irvine_CA">http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM42EJ_Peace_Pole_at_University_Park_Irvine_CA</a>
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1253795389]Half of the IHB will think I've gone fruit loopy. The rest of the IHB knows I'm already there. Here we go anyway.



<a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/">http://thepioneerwoman.com/confessions/</a>



I'm not going to do this justice, so I'm going to just plagerize the LA Times and let them do it:



<blockquote>Ree Drummond likes to call herself an accidental country girl and she considers herself something of an accidental cook. But there's nothing accidental about the success she's built combining those two.



Drummond writes the Pioneer Woman blog and gets about 13 million page views a month, enough to spin off a cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Although not due out until Oct. 27, it is currently at No. 1 on Amazon's preorder list in the Cooking, Food & Wine category. Technorati ranks the Pioneer Woman on its list of the 100 most powerful and influential blogs in the world.



Each month, roughly 2 million women -- and her readers are mostly women -- flock to the blog to live vicariously as Drummond unspools her "how in the world did I end up here?" story of a would-be city girl who now finds herself a wife and mother of four living on a ranch in the middle of nowheresville. It is by turns hilarious, romantic, poignant -- and always illustrated by a gasp-inducing number of photographs that verge on the erotic as she chronicles her kitchen's goings-on. (A recent cake recipe used 53 photos -- 53!)





Ive been reading her site for gosh a couple years already. Shes pretty cool, but in a million years Id never, and I mean NEVER thought it is a site you would be interested in. Course I hardly know you... but Im just sayin



The heart of Pioneer Woman is its food corner, the Pioneer Woman Cooks. There are canning instructions, and one perennially popular entry is a step-by-step "how to" on cooking a steak. And there are hundreds of recipes. Recipes, though, are almost beside the point.



This is one food blog that is as much about the lookin' as the cookin'.



"I hear from readers, I know a lot of them love to look at the pictures. I'm not sure what that says about the rest of it," Drummond jokes.



She never intended to live on a cattle ranch. Though Drummond was raised in Oklahoma, she fled just as soon as she could, heading for Los Angeles and the University of Southern California. "There was just something about Los Angeles. It was the biggest city I could think of to go. I couldn't wait to get there," she says.</blockquote>


The website is just beautiful. Her photography is very good. The stuff she cooks looks lovely ? and stuff a scrub like me can absolutely take on. Her writing and humor are fun. I had no idea Oklahoma was that pretty. And I got a lot - no, TON - of respect for somebody who lives 45 minutes one way (including 5 miles on a gravel road) from the closest grocery store. You gotta check it out.</blockquote>


In a million years Id never have thought youd look at that site! Course I dont know you very well.. but its been bookmarked with me for a good couple of years.
 
Good find NoVas. I'm really enjoying the Photography tutorials. I'm hoping it will inspire me to get off my butt and go buy the digital camera I've been wanting for so long.
 
[quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254392885]Good find NoVas. I'm really enjoying the Photography tutorials. I'm hoping it will inspire me to get off my butt and go buy the digital camera I've been wanting for so long.</blockquote>
If you get good with it, I might hire you to snap pictures for me if I ever decide to go after some listings. :p
 
[quote author="USCTrojanCPA" date=1254398608][quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254392885]Good find NoVas. I'm really enjoying the Photography tutorials. I'm hoping it will inspire me to get off my butt and go buy the digital camera I've been wanting for so long.</blockquote>
If you get good with it, I might hire you to snap pictures for me if I ever decide to go after some listings. :p</blockquote>


Ahhh.. so now you want to pimp me too. JK. Sure, would love to join the Trojan family smorgasbord of services. I need a job for my daughter, too. She is constantly on my case about helping her find a job. And I'm like 'you're 10, I don't now what to tell you'. Maybe she could work your open houses. Who wouldn't want to buy from a cute little red head.
 
[quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254430440][quote author="USCTrojanCPA" date=1254398608][quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254392885]Good find NoVas. I'm really enjoying the Photography tutorials. I'm hoping it will inspire me to get off my butt and go buy the digital camera I've been wanting for so long.</blockquote>
If you get good with it, I might hire you to snap pictures for me if I ever decide to go after some listings. :p</blockquote>


Ahhh.. so now you want to pimp me too. JK. Sure, would love to join the Trojan family smorgasbord of services. I need a job for my daughter, too. She is constantly on my case about helping her find a job. And I'm like 'you're 10, I don't now what to tell you'. Maybe she could work your open houses. Who wouldn't want to buy from a cute little red head.</blockquote>
Don't you know, I only pimp the best services. ;) haha Wow, 10 years old and she wants to find a job already. If she was a little older I could have her be my file/paperwork coordinator and personal part-time assistant (this would be very helpful if I got another consulting assignment).
 
[quote author="SoCal78" date=1254436703]Trojan - if your pace keeps up, soon you will need your own assistant. McD would be an excellent choice.</blockquote>


Hell, after reading BK's post on the cost/benefit analysis of being a realtor, I think I should jump ship a become a full time realtard too. In my current profession, I have to comply with 2 professional organizations rules and the SEC, do a ton of continuing education each year, and I expose myself to huge liabilities, and not to mention the constant worry of being responsible for clients lifetime savings.
 
[quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254440652][quote author="SoCal78" date=1254436703]Trojan - if your pace keeps up, soon you will need your own assistant. McD would be an excellent choice.</blockquote>


Hell, after reading BK's post on the cost/benefit analysis of being a realtor, I think I should jump ship a become a full time realtard too. In my current profession, I have to comply with 2 professional organizations rules and the SEC, do a ton of continuing education each year, and I expose myself to huge liabilities, and not to mention the constant worry of being responsible for clients lifetime savings.</blockquote>


The biggest $$ return and almost zero liability for considering how little investment of time, education and experience put in. Why do you think that there are a dozen of realtors living in any given neighborhood claiming to be the neighborhood specialists? What is odd to me that homeowners rarely negotiate their fee down and accept it as face value. The same group of owners would nickel and dime other services instead.
 
The supply of new entrants in my profession is very low probably for the very reasons you bring up. I would estimate that for every 20 professionals ready to retire there is one young entrant to assume their job.
 
[quote author="Mcdonna1980" date=1254448480]The supply of new entrants in my profession is very low probably for the very reasons you bring up. I would estimate that for every 20 professionals ready to retire there is one young entrant to assume their job.</blockquote>


Kids entering into a career are seeking for the fast money with the shortest route. Your profession is based on old school of just hard work and years of experience. It is a job security for you as long the critical thinking is not being replaced by computers or oversea competitions.
 
So total waste of time site that makes me chuckle outloud:



<a href="http://www.totallylookslike.com">totallylookslike.com</a>



I particularly like "Samuel L. Jacksom totally looks like this llama" and "this yearbook picture of my friend totally looks like Bobby Hill."
 
[quote author="Minimorty" date=1255572118]<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/index">http://www.theonion.com/content/index</a></blockquote>


Did you read this article in the Onion? :eek:hh:



<strong>My Mistress Makes The Best Potato Salad</strong>



<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/my_mistress_makes_the_best">http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/my_mistress_makes_the_best</a>
 
[quote author="Cameray" date=1255574108][quote author="Minimorty" date=1255572118]<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/index">http://www.theonion.com/content/index</a></blockquote>


Did you read this article in the Onion? :eek:hh:



<strong>My Mistress Makes The Best Potato Salad</strong>



<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/my_mistress_makes_the_best">http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/my_mistress_makes_the_best</a></blockquote>




Man o man. There are some crazy articles in there.



I like the sports ones.



<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/miguel_cabrera_hits_dismal">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/miguel_cabrera_hits_dismal</a>
 
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