Gossamer Commons

Later today, I’ll be posting PLotW1 but before that happens here’s a different link that you should really check out. Gossamer Commons is a relatively recent webcomic, started back in March 2005 by Eric Burns and Greg Holkan. Eric writes, Greg draws. The premise is something like so; the main character, Keith, has saved the life of a fairy child. Since he did this while knowing that seeing the fairy would mark him for death2; the Fairies owe him 1 boon of Keith’s choosing. As Keith has longed to be a published author; he requests, as his boon, that the Fairies give him a muse so he can great the great American novel. A novel that will inspire generations to come and will be read by annoyed college freshmen four hundred years from now. 🙂 Mr. Holkan uses a variety of methods in his artwork on the strip and so far it’s working really well, but the thing that keeps me coming back and reading the new strip is the writing (done by Mr. Burns.). Since I’m not much of a writer myself; I charge you with looking at today’s strip for an example how good this strip can be.

Keep up the good work fellas, we’ll be watching you!

1 Pukka’s Links of the Week
2 Apparently in the GC world just seeing one of the Fairies will automagically mark you for death.

Ever since I upgraded CoffeeBear to the newer version of WordPress and my fancy new theme; I noticed that mozcc wasn’t displaying any Creative Commons info for my site. I’d thought it a bit odd but figured I’d broken the extension somehow and have been a bit too distracted to really look into it until this evening.

First, I made sure I had the current version of mozcc installed and that I’d freshly restarted Firefox so I knew I had the lastest version running. When that didn’t work, I checked the source code of my pages and realized that I’d completely forgotten to add in the license info when I did the upgrade. Whoops! I’ve since rectified the problem and now you can see that this site is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. The missing license info has been added in by using the WP-CC Plugin developed by Firas. So many kudos to him for this nifty plugin!

Here is the recipe from the Bed and Breakfast that Manzabar and I stayed at in Davenport. This one pancake can easily feed 4 people.

Honey Puff Pancake

    Ingredients (serves 4)

  • 1 c. milk
  • 1c. flour
  • 6 eggs
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 3 T. honey
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 3 oz cream cheese
  • 3T. butter
    Honey Butter Spread:

  • 1/2 c. honey
  • 1/2 c. butter softened
  • 1/2 c. powdered sugar
  • Cinnamon, to taste
    Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. In a blender, put milk, honey cream cheese, flour, salt, and baking powder.
  3. Blend at high speed until smooth.
  4. Grease a 10 inch pie plate with a tablespoon of butter.
  5. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in pie plate and add the batterto the heated pie plate.
  6. Bake 25 minutes, until puffed and golden brown.
  7. Pancakes will flatten after being removed from the oven.
  8. While the pancake is baking, make the spread.
  9. Beat together the ingrediants until smooth.
  10. After removing the pancake from the oven, spread the honey butter on top.

You can purchase this cookbook from Fulton’s Landing. The cookbook is Inn Dulgences Bed and Breakfast Cookbook III. This reciepe is on page 14.