It's a Cake!

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Neil's Texas Brownies
Originally uploaded by borderline.

Texas Cake, that is. Or Texas Brownies. Whatever you call them, they're delicious, unhealthy and fairly challenging for a novice to make.

We're having a big to-do at work with our board on Thursday and each staff member is bringing a dessert. So I thought I'd give these Texas Brownies a try, all the while knowing that failure could mean a hasty purchase of grocery store bakery items and scornful looks from my coworkers. I'm fairly confident that they won't cause food poisoning, though the frosting looks a little iffy. If I have a failing as a baker (actually I have several) it's making an edible frosting. I had some problems getting the powdered sugar to melt, but I think it'll be okay. Tomorrow night - snickerdoodles!

Local wackos take over blog!

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Big changes are coming for the Borderline gang. Try not to be afraid...be very afraid. Marginal fear is understandable.

Mechanical Turks

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"I make $1.45 a week and I love it" | Salon Technology

I saw this article today on Salon and already I am obsessed with the idea. The tagline says it all:

On Amazon Mechanical Turk, thousands of people are happily being paid pennies to do mind-numbing work. Is it a boon for the bored or a virtual sweatshop?

Intriguing, no?

Out with the old, in with the new

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Ah, ye old After the Show section: we hardly use ye! Well, until now.

As the brains of this operation, I've decided to switch this section of our site over to Blogger. You might be saying to yourself, "Why on earth would you do that, Neil?" The answer is pure laziness. See, I used to be the only one who could post stuff. So if Lynn or Danni wanted to put something up, they'd have to send it to me and I'd post it for them. Now all three of us can post, cutting out the middleman and hopefully meaning we can update this section more frequently. I've reposted our most recent entries, but if you've got a hankerin' to see some of our older posts, you can check them out here.

Building a better blog for you, Borderline listeners: one of the many things I've been hard at work on during our short hiatus. Enjoy!

Pioneers Park

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Pioneers Park
Originally uploaded by borderline.

I spent some time at Pioneers Park yesterday... it's one of Lincoln's largest public parks and since I've been cooped up in the house because of the 100+ degree weather lately, I thought it might be a good time to break out. Here are some pics that I took during my hike.