Looks like the cafeteria at work made Super Bowl cookies with the logos of the Giants and Patriots. Is it a big surprise that most of the Giants cookies were bought, while a lot of the Patriots weren’t?
I find it interesting because, due to the sizes of the logos, the Patriots cookies are a better value since you get more cookie goodness for the same price.
This is just so wrong.
Your garden variety deli bag
Straight out of the “How Did They Land A Man On The Moon Before They Did That” Department comes Doritos Collisions, where some genius took two complimentary flavored Doritos and threw them in one bag. As soon as I saw a bag, I had to grab it to experience the thrilling evolution of Doritos. The flavors I grabbed were Hot Wings and Blue Cheese, and I’m glad I tried them.
You can easily tell the difference between the two flavors because the Hot Wings flavored ones look much redder than the Blue Cheese ones, which look just like the Cool Ranch flavor. If you eat a Hot Wings flavored Dorito (is that the correct term for a single chip?), it tastes just like you took a nacho and dipped it in hot wings sauce. Same for the Blue Cheese variety. If you eat one of each at the same time, it tastes just like you’d expect…a nacho chip dipped in hot wings sauce then dipped in blue cheese. In other words, not bad at all.
Will I get them next time I want Doritos? I’m not sure because it depends on the mood I’m in, but they definitely do not suck.
Overall rating: 7/10.
While trying to understand why Helvetica looks so shitty* on Windows at small sizes, I ran across this interesting article.
I can almost hear young designers now saying, “Helvetica? That’s that font that looks kinda like Arial, right?”
I’m no designer, but this sort of thing has happened in that youngsters of today may not understand that Greedo never fired.
* there is no other word that can quite describe how bad it looks!
Answering today’s question from Quofda:
This is a good question, and one that I have a long and weird answer to. To understand the answer, you have to know that I’m an only child who grew up in an apartment in Manhattan. Because of this, I didn’t have a lot of friends that I could play with growing up. Sure there were friends at school, and I would see a few of them outside of school, but growing up in the city means that you can’t just go next door to see “Billy” whenever you want. The “pop-in” is generally discouraged, despite what you see on Seinfeld. Getting together with friends required multiple phone calls, consulting both parents, consulting parents date books, and sometimes consulting a shrink. Sometimes it just wasn’t worth all the hassle.
Because of the above, I spent a lot of time by myself, and I became very good at entertaining myself. I still am. I value my alone time more than just about anything. I socialize as much as I can these days, but every once in a while, I’ll tell a friend that I’m just not in the mood to go out and would rather go home and be with myself (mind out of gutter, please).
Hot on the heels of my frustration with catalogs over the holiday season comes a possible solution. Catalog Choice allows you to opt out of receiving paper catalogs quickly and easily. I’ve tried to get companies to stop sending me catalogs by calling them, but that fails more often than not.
I’ve been cataloging the amount of catalogs I’ve been getting recently, and plan to see if this service works. I will follow-up with future posts. There might be hope yet.
According to CNN, there were two important breaking news stories today. The first was the emergency interest rate cute by the Federal Reserve, and the second was Heath Ledger’s death. I won’t get into why the second one is not important, but I just wanted to point out that CNN did not have a story on it so I went to one of my local TV station’s sites to see if there was an article on it. There was, and I was sort of interested in one particular sentence.
They’ll be installed in the East River, a la The Gates:
The project will require erecting scaffolding between 90 and 120 feet high in the water, then using pumps to force water to the top, where it will fall back into the river. The city said fish and aquatic life would be protected through intake pools in the river that would filter the water.
Aquatic life? What aquatic life? There’s something alive in there? Do they have pictures of it that were not taken by Dr. Robert Kenneth Wilson?
Update: Updated the link to point to the official project website. Not a big fan of Flash based sites, but this one is not bad. Especially like how the site “falls” as you navigate the pages.
The Giants win the third-coldest conference championship in history, and their tenth straight road game, on their way to the Super Bowl. The Giants took advantage of mismatches on offense and their defense did the job it needed to. Still, they got lucky, and luck won’t win the Super Bowl, especially against this year’s Patriots.
It would have been nice to see a Favre/Brady Super Bowl, and how weird is it that a Manning is in the Super Bowl but it’s not Peyton? My football season is still alive, and I couldn’t be happier.
Not only does it look like it’ll work, it also looks quite nice for a bottle. I hope it goes into production because I would definitely consider buying one, depending on the price.
When you watch English speaking shows, they have the Spanish audio on a SAP (secondary audio programming) channel. How come the Spanish channels don’t have English audio on a SAP?
Thinnest laptop, even fits in an interoffice envelope. It’s like the Kate Moss of laptops…you know…without the cocaine.
Woohoo! Dallas just dropped the ball and had more stupid penalties. The Giants really won the game with the touchdown drive with 0:41 left in the second. Next week they travel to the frozen tundra of Green Bay. Should be interesting.
In this case, his best friend happens to be a dead cat buried in the backyard. You definitely never see that kind of devotion in a droid.
There are about 32 college football bowl games, and they’re all sponsored by corporations. I’ve always felt that the corporate sponsorship missed the boat on them by not tying in more closely with the name and themes of the game. Below are a list of bowl games I’d like to see:
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