The Cucumber Martini: 5 Simple Steps to Enjoying an Ice-Cold Glass of Fresh Air

I have many favorite summer drinks: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Stella Artois, iced tea with lemonade, iced chocolate milk, a yogurt smoothie with frozen berries and salt. Some weekends require a drink with more muscle, but that doesn't mean giving up summery flavors. One of my favorites is the Cucumber Martini, which when properly made is like drinking an ice-cold glass of fresh air.

Step 1: Grow a cucumber.

Step 2: Slice off 5-7 disks. Drop one in a glass with ice.

Step 3: Stack the disks and slice into them.

Step 4: Add disks, ice, and 2 shots gin and shake, shake, shake.
My favorite gin for this drink is Hayman's Old Tom for its aromatic flavor and sweetness.

Step 5: Pour, keeping the cuke bits out of your glass. Enjoy!

Facebook Is Designing an iPad/Kindle Tablet Device

I'm speculating wildly here, but play along.


Push Pop Press makes interactive ebooks. Their ebooks are more app or self-contained website than ebook, really, but it seems that this sort of convergence of web and book is one possible direction for the written word and its various formats.

The About page for the site has announced that Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press.

This can only mean that Facebook plans to join Apple, Amazon, Google, BarnesandNoble.com, Kobo, Sony, Motorola, and the rest of the technologized world in offering some device that lets you read ebooks!

If this seems like a leap, just think about what that device might look like: it would be a walled garden device designed to funnel all your Facebook-enable social network channels into one device. It would play Facebook video, have a built-in web browser (FaceFox?), and have a store where users could buy licensed music, movies, and ebooks through Facebook's App Store... or FTunes? Fbookstore?

Brand it how you will, Facebook's IPO will launch it into the socially enabled content retail business.

Valmont Bike Park Is Ole-Fashioned, Grinnin' Fun

I have just two things to say about the newly opened Valmont Bike Park because you should really experience it yourself.

1. It's got something for everyone.
2. I was grinning the entire time I was there. 

Ride it yourself! http://bouldermountainbike.org/valmontbikepark

I almost bit it on this stupid little thing. Man, am I rusty!