Flour Power

The Super Bowl is probably as famous for commercials as it is for football, and so there’s always a lot of hype and expectation about them. This year I managed to watch most of the match through a live stream on USTREAM.TV, and what ended up happening was that for the most part I wasn’t really watching it, but I never missed the ads.

Here are some of the ones I liked the most:

Pedigree

Budweiser

Doritos

Pepsi light

Heroes vs NFL Legends

Monster.com

CareerBuilder.com

There are a few places where you can see all of them, for those of you who have some of the video websites blocked at work (like I do). Lifehacker lists eight such places.

Me. Cooking. Fish.

Spooky…

It turned out really good, though. And it even tasted better than it looks.

And it’s so easy to do that I’ll even pretend I know something about cooking and share the recipe.

Cut one small onion into thin slices and fry them. Put it in the middle of a piece of tinfoil and drop the salmon on top. Sprinkle your favorite spices on the salmon. Salt, pepper and parsley are good choices, but I guess a lot others can be used. Wrap the tinfoil around it all, making sure it’s well sealed. Put everything in a pre-heated oven at 220º C for about 15 minutes (or around 25 if the salmon is frozen).

I don’t have to tell you how to make rice, do I?

I can barely believe this is finally going to see the light of day. It has been delayed more times than I care to count, and when it was finally done and ready to be released, a dispute between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. on who had the distribution rights threatened to delay it even more. Fortunately they reached a settlement in time for the March 6 opening of this highly anticipated movie.

The movie is based on the Watchmen comic book by Alan Moore (penciled by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins), who has had a few of his works adapted into movie form (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta) and always chose not to be associated with such adaptations.

For more information head to the official movie website or the always very helpful IMDB.

And here’s the Watchmen movie final poster:

Last Friday I was invited by Nuno and Ana for a get-together at their place. The plan included playing poker and testing the recently bough Nintendo Wii. That sounded nice, and after dinner I grabbed the six-pack of Tuborg and headed there, which takes less than 5 minutes walking from where I’m living.

We started off with the Wii, playing “Super Smash Bros” like maniacs, since no one knew how to really play it and so it was basically a button bashing competition. Just when I was getting the hang of it (after reading the instructions book), the poker session started. There were quite a lot of us (more than 10) so the players were split into two tables. I ended up not playing poker both because there was no money involved (and that kind of ruins the purpose of it), but mostly because I was really interested in fiddling around with the Wii.

So while the others were winning small pots with 4-of-a-kind right after checking the rule book to make sure that it was a good combination, I was happily competing with Ana in “Wii Sports”. It had been a long time since I had done some exercise…

All in all the night was good fun. The wine, beer and snacks were really good, but the best of all were the Pastéis de Bacalhau that Ana cooked herself with real (salted) codfish brought from Portugal. And the multilingual environment was great. I got to make fun of the Italian way of speaking, have some fun with the eSpanish accent and practice my French pick-up sentences (you don’t want to know which ones…).