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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sumer-lovin-2025

So tell me, Wreckies, how are you enjoying your summer?

Sorry, I mean, "Sumer?"

Or is it "Sumeer?"

You know what, just to be safe, let's sell both versions.

And then make this one the store display, so everyone can see it:

I like to be happy, summetime.

Well, however you spell it, I hope you're taking this time to enjoy a little sun.

Or a large, red-eyed spider crawling out of your cake.

And that you're working on your tan:

Or dismembering Edward Cullen. (Hey bakers, where's the glitter?)

Of course, the only acceptable foot wear right now are flip-flops:

Emphasis on the "flops."

And every meal should end with a hefty slice of watermelon:

Preferably the seedless kind. Unless you're expecting...to be expecting.

(See what I did there?)

And since these are the lazy days of summer we're talking about, you should be taking lots of breaks:

Stickin' it to the man. Or in this case, the customer.

Maybe visit the pit of despair community swimming pool?

"Watch out, kids, I'm about to throw another one down."

Or just spend a few quiet evenings walking the beach, looking for seashells and/or body parts:

Who wants ribs?

Thanks to Cassie, Brian B., Molly S., Jill V., Tina, Jaemie G., Lindsay W., Elizabeth & AnneMarie, & Anony M. for the disarming finds.

*****

P.S. If you actually go to the beach, then clearly you need a mesh tote bag that's in such high demand they couldn't even get one for the photoshoot, and had to photoshop it in (badly) later:

Oversized Mesh Beach Bag

Oh yeah, bad Photoshop is how you know it's good. Well, that, and the 2,000+ 5-star ratings. Turns out this thing is actually pretty awesome, and also comes in blue, gray, or white. Grab yours before the manufacturer tries to snatch the last one up for a re-shoot.

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sumer-lovin-2025

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like many in today's society, i HAVE been meaning to catch up on my calmness

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July 21st, 2025

July 21st, 2025: I'm in LA today to see the premiere of the Fantastic Four movie! It is my first and probably last time on a red carpet, so be sure to look for a lot of photographers saying "uh who's this guy" as I strut out!!

– Ryan

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https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2801

Today I finished Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. It’s an incredible book about life after a global pandemic. It was written in 2014, so well before COVID. The writing is compelling, the world building is creative, the characters likable and it is (for a post-apocalyptic book) quite hopeful.

There are more books set to in the “Mandelverse” and I look forward to reading more.

https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2801

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-villain-edition-2025

Convention season is starting up again, and I am READY, y'all. So since I've got major geekery on the brain anyway, I thought I'd focus today's Sweets on - what else? Geek cakes. But more than that, I've decided to feature geeky villain cakes. 'Cuz geeky villains are cool. (It's the outfits, am I right?)

First up, the horniest Loki cupcake you will ever see:

Submitted by Sarae B., made by Nerdache Cakes

*snerk*

It takes a special kind of couple to have a Predator/Alien-themed wedding cake:

Submitted by Kenkire, made by Black Cherry Cake Company

Specifically, a couple who should be friends with me. (Oh, and to whoever decided to put a tiny top hat on the Predator: Bravo. BRA...VO.

I am deeply ashamed to admit that I've never read Dune, but I'm going to assume the giant sandworms fall more on the "villain" side of the spectrum:

Sub'd by Rebecca A., made by Jana's Fun Cakes

(I'm sure you guys will correct me in the comments if I'm wrong.)

Also, this is another wedding cake, if you can believe it. Check out all the tiny teeth!

Now here's a classic villain from my childhood, so I know him well:

Sub'd by Nick B., and made by Truly Scrumptious - the same folks behind that jaw-dropping standing Cyberman I featured last April.

It's here to EXTERMINATE your hunger, haha! (Sorry; obligatory Dalek joke.) I like how Dalek dresses are all the rage at conventions now, too. Who knew killer robots wielding bathroom plungers could be so chic?

Speaking of chic, here's the best-dressed villain in today's post:

Yes, really - she's handmade, and edible! (Check out another closeup here.) By the always-amazing Highland Bakery.

I have to take a quick break from the villains to show you the best Stargate cake I've ever seen:

By Stacked Cakes

WOWZA. Look at all that detail on the gate! And the watery texture on the event horizon! Seriously, this cake is encoding and locking ALL my chevrons, IF ya know whatta mean. (Stargate humor. Heh. Aheh. Heh.)

Ok, back to the bad guys:

Sub'd by Kat B., made by Cake O'Clock

I'd like to thank Cake O'Clock for going easy on the raspberry syrup. Thank you.

And now, perhaps the most iconic villain of all...

Sub'd by Elizabeth A., made by Crazy Cakes

Vader!! Shiny, shiny Vader. Seriously, I have my own Vader helmet at home (don't ask), and it's not half as shiny as this cake. I think this cakes looks better, too. Seriously amazing.

Of course, we can't have Vader (or at least his helmet) without an official Storm Trooper escort:

By Amanda Oakleaf Cakes

"Hi."

That, my friends, IS the dessert you're looking for: a life-sized Storm Trooper cake!

Don't believe it's cake? PROOF:

Oooh. Stabbed in the back - that's cold.

We haven't had enough comic book villains yet, so...how about Venom?

Sub'd by Gayle G., made by Chocmocakes

And an adorable stylized Harley Quinn?

By Dream Day Cakes

I love this style SO MUCH. I only wish they had a matching Joker cake, too!

It's amazing what some bakers can do with just buttercream; check out this Sauron's Eye cake:

Sub'd by Claudia S., made by Emily/ emzstar

"I SEEEE YOU.

"So stop picking your nose. Srsly. That's disgusting."

And every evil disembodied eyeball needs a giant evil tower, right? Right.

BEHOLD!

By Cakes by Erin

This cake - yes, CAKE - was over two feet tall, and set on a One Ring cake base. Look at all the crazy detail in there:

I'm at a loss as to where - and how! - you'd even BEGIN to cut this. Care to weigh in on that, Erin?

Well, that's it for this week's Sweets, guys! Happy Sunday!

*****

If you love geek cakes as much as I do, then I bet you're someone - or know someone! - who needs this book:

Alien Next Door

Talk about the perfect hardcover gift book for Alien fans, listen to this: "From facehuggers to feather dusters, discover how the perfect killing machine relaxes after a day of scaring space marines."

******

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-villain-edition-2025

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https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2800

I've been thinking for a while about putting some RGB LED strips behind the peg boards on my office wall. Aiming to recreate this effect on a larger scale. As part of that effort, I'd also like to route power to the various little gizmos on the board, like the ADABOX glasses, my Hackerboxes SAOs and my logic boards.

Things went off the rails quickly, though. I wanted to figure out how much power I'm going to need. The LED strips use WS2812B addressable LEDs, 60 per meter. They run at 5V and at full brightness will draw about 60 milliamps each. I'm looking at maybe 3ish meters, so budgeting about 12 amps for this bit. Not that I plan on running them on full brightness much, but better safe than sorry.

Then I decided to play with my USB power meter. First, the glasses seem negligible:

The full adder board has a micro USB port for power, so I thought I'd measure it next. But the port broke off the board!

I'm pretty sure I soldered the breakout board to the main board, but I don't think I soldered the port to the breakout board. So I decided to be ambitious and solder the port back to the breakout board. It didn't work. And thus ended my power audit.

Kiddo and I did make a Micro Center trip, but I got to thinking about other things.

I've been missing my Pi Kubernetes cluster and haven't gotten around to replicating all its functionality. This means some of the little joys in my life, like the music display on my desk have been offline. A Home Assistant installation (using Home Assistant OS) would provide all the bits I need, but after taking the cluster offline I tried an install and got mad at it for mandating internet access to install.

Today I decided I'm willing to grant it internet access if it gets me to a happy place where I have mqtt and esphome and zwave again. So the pi with the zwave stick in it is now running Home Assistant and with this in place, perhaps I'll take another look at lighting up my project board.

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/9-oddly-specific-apology-cakes-2025

Far be it from me to ever condemn an apology made with cake.

However....

Today's cakes do make me question being quite so specific about it.

Hey, I just realized this should have been the #1 apology cake for my Go-Go song!

And maybe these were the accompanying cupcakes?

(It says, "Sorry you fell in my pee.")

Now I know why most funeral receptions only serve pie.

Anyone else getting a passive-aggressive vibe here?

Very funny, Dad.

Oh, sure, THIS you can spell. Forget "congratulations," forget "birthday," "GONORRHEA" is the word you get right?! I just...I can't...I don't even...

And what are you smiling about?

This is actually adorable. Assuming it's a joke, of course.
If not, then it's adorable *and* hilarious.

This was a dispute between two chefs, kids. Chefs who are overly fond of their cookware. Honest.

Gentlemen, you know how sometimes you know you need to apologize, but you don't know what to apologize FOR?

This works.

Thanks to LW, Jacqueline P., Michelle B., Michelle M., Andrew C., Andrew F., Heather, Ian S., and Anony M. for taking the lower high road.

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/9-oddly-specific-apology-cakes-2025

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July 18th, 2025

July 18th, 2025: T-Rex is working on himself and he's trying his best!!

– Ryan

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https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2798

We ordered Indian food the other night, and tried some chili potatoes we'd never had before. They were tasty, but didn't really pair with the rest of the Indian food. Jamie suggested they felt more like they'd go with a barbecue and so bought some coleslaw. Then today I suggested we have steaks with it too. We've been trying to eat less meat and have done pretty well. But we're not trying to cut it out entirely, so this felt appropriate.

So this evening I grilled the steaks and a mushroom/onion/goat cheese concoction and we had that with the chili potatoes and coleslaw and it was excellent. And Jamie was right: the chili potatoes did pair much better with barbecue than with the Indian food. Wonder if it's a recipe we could figure out.

Now I go play soccer. I think I left myself enough time to digest.

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Posted by Sharyn

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/pass-the-purell-2025

I don't know about you guys, but it seems like everyone I know has gotten sick with something contagious recently. Because knowledge is power, I think you ought to know just what the nasties that are causing all this misery look like. We rented a powerful microscope -- hey, we spare no expense for you, our dear readers -- put samples of the germs under the microscope, and magnified them 5000 times. Here's what we found: Let's start with...

Flu

...and landed very, very badly.

("Shhh! It's trying to communicate.")

("Yeah, and it's saying, 'OUCH.'")

You've probably heard of e-coli:

Be careful around this one -- it makes you feel like crap.

I'll bet you think this is the common cold:

Well, it's not.

Most of us are familiar with Strep:

You know, the one that makes you a little hoarse?

And finally, there's Staphylococcus:

Which is the disease that killed Sigmund Freud.

(Actually, it's not. But wouldn't that have been deliciously ironic?)

We hope you've managed to avoid getting sick, because no one wants these in real life, or in cake form.

(If you were "lucky" enough to get one of these, feel free not to share, m'kay?)

Let's spread thanks to Kara W., Tiffany W., Jan Y., Kerrie C., and Katie P., for their infectious senses of humor.

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/pass-the-purell-2025

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/tmi-celebrations-2025

While I agree that no celebration is complete without cake, I also think some celebrations should maybe be a bit more private than others:

Please tell me you invited the in-laws.

Ahhh, that sweet, sweet moment when your wife throws you a surprise Vasectomy Recovery party:

I hear if you buy two they throw in the bag of frozen peas for free.

(OH YES I DID.)

I looked it up. It really is a thing. So I have two questions: who are you getting this cake for, and how will that not end badly for you?

Of course, nothing will lead to a round of denials as much as this:

C'mon. Does anyone ever admit to watching this show?

But for the ultimate "I-just-learned-something-I-never-wanted-to-know-about-you" dessert, we have this:

So many puns, so few of them safe for work...

Let's all give a hand to Heather M., Alison K., Laura W., Helen J., & Nicole A. for today's wrecks.

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Funny story about that last cake: it was commissioned by none other than Mr. Bill Murray during the filming of Moonrise Kingdom as a joke for one of the guys working on set. (Cameron was turning 21.) Nicole worked craft services for the movie, and was responsible for fetching the cake from a local bakery. She tells me Murray also insisted on taking Cameron out for his first drink, and was fantastic to the whole crew, and I am insanely jealous of all of them. :)

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July 16th, 2025

July 16th, 2025: I don't know what flabbers look like, but I suspect them to be slightly rude.

– Ryan

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https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2795

Jamie spent some quality time today enhancing her blog and I enjoyed providing occasional tech support. To quote Jamie: "It’s fun to solve problems together."

One thing I appreciate is that one of her categories is called "tabs" which is where she puts things from browser tabs she has open so she can close them. I occasionally do the same (or just declare tabruptcy) but her approach feels more thoughtful. My tabs are becoming numerous again. I should do some housecleaning. But it's bedtime.

Looking through postponed entries, I found one titled "Omaha" with just this quote from kiddo: "Mama, look to your right. There’s nothing!" Said while driving through Northeastern Colorado.

https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2795

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/clean-up-on-aisle-4-2025

Too often I've been accused of making you readers hungry with my steady parade of candy-coated misspellings and butchered bakery goods.

Well, NO MORE!

Or at least not for today.

Here, I'll ease you in slowly, in case you're mid coffee-sip:

This is your spleen...or possibly a giant tumor...on cupcakes.

Any questions?

I've been told there are no accidents in life; only learning experiences. If that's true, then we're all about to learn something very important:

Some bakers get sick if you feed them too many mini-marshmallows.

Also, we're not hungry. No, none of us. Now go away. Shoo.

Before you ask, this "cake" was being served at a buffet restaurant, and no, that's not mold:

It just looks like mold. Thereby saving the establishment literally dozens of dollars in their dessert budget, I'm sure. (Reminds me of the restaurant with candy sprinkles on their sushi rolls. Hey... do you think it's the same place?)

I'm not really sure what's happening in there, but it's a safe bet you're not getting your little plastic purse back.

The tag on this next one says, "Freshly made in store by our bakers."

And thank goodness for that! There's just nothing worse than stale vomit from some factory, am I right?

Also...are those...olives? (Deep breaths, Jen...deep...breaths...)

Baker by day, retirement-center barber by night?

EWWWWWWW.

Ok, I just made MYSELF gag. Urg. And no, I don't know what the "hair" is really. Let's just try not to think about it too hard, okay?

Hey, now, WHAT DID I JUST SAY?

Ah, well, don't worry. Someone'll just stick that on the clearance rack later.

You know, once it cools.

Thanks to Rob A., Emily F., Dani S., Andrea & Anne Marie, Mim & Vince, Lisa D., & Regina G. for the uplifting chucking experience. Who's hungry now, bee-yotches? HUH?

*****

For some reason this post is just calling out for butt-themed home decor, don't you agree?

2-Sided Bathroom Decor Box

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/clean-up-on-aisle-4-2025

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Posted by Jen

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/beware-the-con-rats-2025

Summer is the reward students get for successfully completing another year of educational excellence. Or for partying all year and flunking out. (Nobody said life was fair, kids.)

So while graduation season may be over, I think it's time our bakers had a little summer schoolin'.

Bakers? Welcome to "How-To-Spell-'Congratulations'-101."

I can see it's going to be a long day.

Alright, let's practice: C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S. See? Now you try.

I dare you to read that aloud.

("Comgratatum?")

Try again.

G, you shouldn't have.

No, really.

And don't think I'm not on to your latest scheme, bakers. You know, the one where you just pipe a heap of scribbles halfway through the word and hope no one notices?

Cheater.

The best part is how you can still clearly see those last two are misspelled. Next time just chuck some High School Musical flotsam on there.

At this point, even I have forgotten how to spell it. I would "COHGRADULITTE" you, bakers, but I don't think I can handle that level of irony.

Let's try a new approach: just shorten it to "Congrats!" That's easy enough, right?

*sigh*

What is wrong with you people?

For a wild, hopeful second there I thought this had something to do with comic conventions starting up week:

"Watch out for those Con Rats!"

...but then I realized I it was a different kind of "con." Rats.

Well, you've all failed the course, bakers. So, hey, get out there and continue collecting a paycheck for brutalizing the English language! Woo! Yeah!

Oh, and kids? Stay in school. Or don't.
Honestly, your bakery manager probably won't give a con rat's @ss.

Thanks to Nancy H., Jessica E., Julia L., Michelle W., Meghan H., Amanda N., Julie D., Elizabeth B., & Bailey for the pep talk!

*****

P.S. Here's a (hilarious) reminder that English is almost as confusing as these cakes:

P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

*****

And from my other blog, Epbot:

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/beware-the-con-rats-2025

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July 14th, 2025

July 14th, 2025: Thanks to everyone who came out to the signings - it's always great to meet readers and ESPECIALLY great to meet readers in a city I've never been to before!! I had a fantastic time and I hope you did too!

– Ryan

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https://www.esgeroth.org/log/entry/2793

We watched Pixar's Elio in the movie theater today. It was fun. I went in not knowing much about it other than there were aliens, but when early on they showed the Voyager Golden Record and then had Carl Sagan's voice, I got excited.

The movie is a fun story about belonging and I had a number of good laughs. It was also a bit heavy and scary, so kiddo had to hold onto Mama a few times, perhaps more than most similar kid movies. What I do wonder is if this will spark any interest in HAM radio. I know it made me want to pick it up.

One thing that struck me after the fact is that other than noticing that Pixar is still animating the human faces (and especially their teeth) in the style that (I think) started with Luca, I didn't think about the animation at all while watching. And the animation was good. It's just weird, since in the past being blown away by Pixar's animation was always part of the experience and now it's just there. Taken for granted. Weird.

We do love our local movie theater. This was my first time back there after going to the IMAX in Oak Brook, and our theater is just so much more comfortable.

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