Posts Tagged Cold Stone

Making Of Sculpture Garden: The Trouble-Free Way

Posted by on Saturday, 23 April, 2011

Designing your very own garden according to your taste and style is difficult sometimes. But that is not an issue today; there have been a lot of articles and pictures in the magazine where one can dig up some fabulous ideas in creating your very own garden. If you don’t have enough time in detailing your garden style, there are group of people which you can hire with. Those individuals will be thee one to design a garden in accordance to your preferred setting. In addition to that, sculpture garden is also a good way to produce a garden style. Sculpture garden is inexpensive because the garden ideas will be full of sculptures in between the trees, in the middle of the grass, or perhaps the flower pots. The main look at the sculpture garden could be the giant and the minute cemented statue, or the monuments will just be an accessory to the green environment. Within playing for the color of the actual statue, environmental colors would suit best. The following sculptures are the recommended figures within adding splendid view to your sculpture garden.

• The endless flowing fountain is among the most impressive views in any backyard. There are different forms of fountains that give marvelous view. Ground level fountains create a remarkable design of the green place making it look like a rain forest view. Wall-mounted fountain is the conventional style of completing the image of serenity.

Sculptured benches or any kind of perfectly hand-carved wooden benches could perfectly fit the look of a green meadow. The additional seats are ideal for you after the long hours of work. The serenity of the place plus the cold stone from the benches complete the perfect second of restful stay. If you want to find for a perfect carved benches, you can go to the closest local estate auctions or any yard sales available in your town.

• The sweet sound from the wind chimes adds to the tranquility of your garden. Wind chimes are actually a moving sculpture that produces an audio when the wind starts to blow. The sound that the blowing wind chime produces is like music in order to everybody’s ear. You must add this particular to your lists for this will add to the totality of your dream sculptured garden.

• Flower pots should never be forgotten. Aside from the fact that this can add to the beautiful scenery, this can also keep the small animals out of the soil. In choosing flower pots, it would be best to pick those giant pots for giant plants. This can keep you easy in making another motif to your garden in the future. Small flower pots are unnecessary. It will simply consume the large spaces of your plot.

Always be reminded that within creating a style, simple yet elegant is still the best. Pick those colorful flowers as well as orchids. Flowers and orchids attract butterflies that suit the image of beautiful garden. Just be really creative in planning and these sculpture garden is already an edge. More details can be seen at http://sculpturegarden.org/.


‘LOL OMG’ license plate spotted at local Cold Stone!

Posted by on Friday, 21 August, 2009

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Man alive, look what I spotted at the local Cold Stone. That’s right, an automobile with this Internet-friendly license plate. LOL OMG!!!!1

I was thinking, man, what are the odds that I’d see a car with that particular license plate? Then it hit me: 1-in-however many cars there are in New York state.



Good deal: Plenty of those LucasArts games are $5 on Steam

Posted by on Thursday, 9 July, 2009

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You’ll find that most of the games that LucasArts just made available on Steam are no more than $4.99. (Battlefront II and Thrillville: Off the Rails are the most expense at $19.99.) The full list? Sure, why not?

Here you go:

The Dig $4.99

Star Wars Starfighter $4.99

Star Wars Republic Commando $9.99

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures $19.99

LOOM $4.99

Armed and Dangerous $9.99

Star Wars Battlefront II $19.99

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade $4.99

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis $4.99

Thrillville: Off the Rails $19.99

Supposedly The Dig is totally worth your time, but, again, I was never a PC gamer, so I’m only going by word-of-mouth here. Though, considering you can’t walk out of Cold Stone without spending at least $15, these are all probably fine, fine deals.



I did my part to help out radio today

Posted by on Thursday, 4 June, 2009

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It’s no secret that I think the radio business is doomed, and that “kids today” are more likely to listen to music via any number of online services—I’m part of Spotify’s U.S. beta, and aside from an unacceptable lack of Sleater-Kinney, it’s pretty great—than they are by tuning into some “local” radio station, where the program manager is a boob and the on-air talent is petrified of upsetting management. Anyway, sometime during the winter, I received a letter from Nielsen, the famous ratings company, that asked me to participate in a radio survey, helping them find out how many people listen to each radio station and when.

Oh, I filled out the survey, all right. In so many words, I told Nielsen, after checking every box that said “I did not listen to radio today,” that, because of the Internet, my music-listening habits, such as they are, have changed dramatically. Things like Spotify (well, at the time I filled he survey out I didn’t have access to Spotify), Imeem, YouTube, Beatport, iTunes, etc. are where I got all my music from. (And, to be honest with y’all, Usenet and What.cd.) I told Nielsen that the days of four-in-a-row-Friday, where the fourth cut is always live, are over, and that radio companies (CBS, ClearChanel, etc.) needed to embrace the Internet; the CBS Radio iPhone application is a great example of someone in that company “getting it.”

Now, whether or not my advice will make any difference at all, who knows. I assume some middle-management type read it, scoffed, then said, “What does this jerk know?” But at least I tried to help ‘em out, gosh darn it.

Today, Nielsen sent $22 for my troubles, I think because I count as a “minority,” which is so dumb but that’s how these companies think. I’ll probably spend it at Cold Stone, or, if I were in Chicago, the Ron Bennington cupcake from Molly’s.