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If my maths are correct, then this August (10th), will be the sites 5th birthday...
Now i have seen a post celebrating each year of the bakery's life, however, 5 years is an achievement that perhaps deserves a little more recognition.
I propose something should be done to mark the occasion,
and we have approximately 3 months to decide what.
My suggestion would be a book, commemorating the first 5 years, including highlights from the best ideas, a bit of history etc.
However, i'd be equally pleased to see a huge croissant shaped statue erected in some appropriate location.
Any ideas?
Croissant Recipie
http://baking.about.../recipes/blbr13.htm
Bloody hell! No wonder the things are so hard to come by! [lostdog, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
An oven that might do the trick
http://www.wiretec.de/eppyr-b1000.htm
It even comes with guillotine doors. [RayfordSteele, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
This might actually work
http://www.lulu.com...n-demand-books1.php
[RobertKidney, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Halfbakery Book
http://www.halfbake...2f2_20bakery_20book
Suggested by [po], a wee while back. [MikeOliver, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Monument to the Halfbakery
http://www.delocorp.net/hb/
[ldischler, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
(?) World map of bakers
http://www.geocitie...adradish/halfb.html
for [swimr] [Worldgineer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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The Far Side?
Not sure i get it. |
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I think we have to wait until the 6th anniversary. |
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Does anyone know how large the world's largest croissant was? Might be an appropriate tribute. |
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Thought i'd be celebrating on my own for a while.
[world], if you can find it, i'd be willing to try and eat it! |
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Find it? I was talking about baking it. The trouble is finding an oven big enough, but I think I could design a temporary one. Then there's the issue of cost, for that I would just convince some small town that this would make them famous. It could be our secret that it's actually for the HB. |
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I happen to like the lounge [dent].
Could do with some food, and would anyone object to a little Tori Amos on the stereo?
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"I was talking about baking it", so we bake it, then i can eat it? |
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(edited answer)Thanks Mike, I'll work with your song, see what I can come up with. |
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I don't know Java either, but i know Tori Amos.
Suggests "baker, baker" as good background music, and more than a little appropriate (see my profile for lyrics).
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[WE] unless we make some kind of jigsaw criossant, a tiny part of which is baked in every kitchen of every Halfbaker across the world. A picture of a normal-sized pastry would be taken, an it would be dissected (pizza-slice style), and each participating Baker would be assigned a random slice. They'd have to bake a croissant that fitted the shape of their slice, and post a picture of the result. Some Photoshop tomfoolery would join the pictures together into one huge croissant, and, come the actual anniversary date, each slice would have to be eaten by the 'baker. T'would be a croissant that truly spanned the world, and the eating of it would take at least 24 hours. |
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Wow... that is a great idea [lostdog]. Simple yet effective.
Would need some instuction as to how to cook croissants, and a true photoshop master to piece it together.
It just might work though. |
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edit. Having read [lostdog]'s link, propose bakers have the option go buy a croissant and cut it to shape... |
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A good book with say 200 pages, and some history would
be cool. Ideas could be nominated and processed by a
group, plausable/good/funny ideas make it. Maybe a map
of the world and all the half bakers using this site would
be good. |
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Would be nice to hear [jutta]'s thoughts on this...
After all, it's her baby. Maybe now it's getting old, it'd prefer birthdays to pass unnoticed (bit like my dad)? |
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whether a giant croissant, a book, or nothing, Jutta
definetly needs a round of applause for this site. I can
safely say its the coolest site I've ever been to. |
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At my last job we used rather largish ovens (you can walk in them) to heat-test parts. Something like that might do the trick. |
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I would go for one of Farmer Johns clocks that works backwards on a 5 year cycle . |
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Isn't Michigan like Easten Europe? |
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I'd gladly render some photoshopping skills in the rendering this HB project. |
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Books can be collaboratively written and published at lulu.com for no cost at all to the authors. (With bakers as authors, this would be a disaster, I’m sure.) |
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//With bakers as authors, this would be a disaster, I’m sure.//
<neilp assumes a Mr Burn's voice>Excellent, Excellent</neilp assumes a Mr Burn's voice> |
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I quite like the idea of the book. I'd buy it. |
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No way... a monument has already been built! |
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Yep--I've got new wallpaper. |
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Do we need another Halfbakery
Birthday idea? Didn't you notice there
are already two? |
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The other two just say Happy Birthday.
This is an idea to celebrate a milestone in a special way...
For the record, if we are counting, check custard/cat/marshmallow ideas (to name but a few), cos there are plenty more than two of them! |
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