NANO ZEN

I love spicy food and use Dorset Naga Peppers (world’s hotest) in my cooking sometimes. I often remember that Simpson’s episode where they have the annual Springfield Chilli Cook-Off and Homer eats super-spicy chilli made by Chief Wiggum using a dangerous Guatemalan Insanity Pepper grown by mental patients.

Today thinking about lunch, I started to wonder what fictitious hot pepper and/or preparation method I could come up with for my own variety of pepper. Here’s one idea:

Start with peppers grown on the South Seas island of Bora Gora hand pick by 72 native virgin females, then dried on the thighs of Californian porn stars, while under the influence of Ecstasy, and vacuum packed (sans porn stars).

In preparation for cooking, the peppers should be rehydrated by wearing them strung around the neck, while dancing to heavy techno or similar high energy music in a night club for at least three hours and under the influence of several vodka-red-bulls (to taste). Only then are they ready to be used in the chilli pot or other spicy cuisine.

I was wondering what I would call this particular pepper. My buddy Steve F. suggested fuckaneros, but it lacks in subtlety what it makes up for in simplicity. All I could come up with at the moment was Tropical Red Porn Pepper.

I wonder what other people might call my “hot pepper” or how they would define their own. Leave comments.

For those who follow my technical exploits…

SnertSoft is happy to announce Private Wimp, a simple light weight mailing list manager, that is free to download. Private Wimp has been used to manage several mailing lists for past few months now.

It avoids the bloat of Major Domo, Mailman, and Ecartis . Completely written in C and so avoids the overhead of Perl or Python. Installation and configuration is short and simple; all list management can be done remotely by email; always confirms subscribe/unsubscribe requests and admin. commands; handles bounce messages (discard, forward, or removal of unknown users); provides support for four list types (announcement, trusted, closed moderated, open moderated); keeps track of users that unsubscribe; and provides a simple archive structure (similar to Ecartis).

The online documentation can be found here:

http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/wimp/

I just love Google and Wikipedia for research. I spent the better part of today learning about the Lunar Standard Time (LST) proposal and the Julian Day Number (also the Calendar FAQ is very informative).

I even wrote Javascript classes that implemented them. I thought it would be kind of neat in an odd ball off the wall sense, like expressing the speed of light in furlong per fortnight, to display them here on the blog (see sidebar right). I’ve even had an idea for a new RFC