I’m old enough to remember, “I want my MTV!” Now MTV streams music videos on demand over the Internet. Good to be able to call up some classics
Octopuses (octopi?) are a lot smarter than we give them credit for. He’d have a field day in my tank.
P.S. I would love to juggle some of my workmates.
The other day I ran into one of my favorite shows on TV, the Discovery Channel’s “How It’s Made”. This particular episode was of special interest to me because they showed how fortune cookies are made, and I’m somewhat fond of them. The production of fortune cookies was about what I expected it would be: ingredients mixed; cookies baked; fortunes inserted and cookies folded; cookies wrapped, boxed and shipped.
During the segment, they gave out two interesting statistics that I was hoping they would. This particular fortune cookie factory produces 4 million cookies per day, and uses 5,000 different fortunes, which means that each fortune printed is going to be duplicated 800 times per day. Afterward, the number 4 million got stuck in my head, and danced around in there as I tried to sleep. I’m not sure why, but it just seems like a very large number to me.
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Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome refers to the use of one of the words that make up an acronym as well as the abbreviation itself. Like “PIN number” or “UPC code”. I can’t believe it took till 2001 to give it an unofficial name.
Ever since I learned to tell time and wear a watch, I’ve done so on my right wrist. That may not seem that strange until you understand that I’m right-handed. The norm for a right-handed person, in civilized society, is to wear their watch on their left wrist, this way it is out of the way of writing and other right-handed activities.
The strange placement of my watch did bring about chuckles and ridicule from friends, colleagues, and acquaintances, and my response has always been something like, “That’s where I learned to wear it, and it’s too late to change now.” After all, it had been close to 30 years since I learned to tell time and wear a watch.
I knew it was weird, but there are a lot weirder things about me that are open to ridicule (see this entire web site for a few), so it wasn’t high on my list of things about myself to improve.
In early September, after enduring years of taunting and harassment about this odd behavior of mine, I decided to change. On a Monday, I put my watch on my left wrist and went about my day.
It was one of the strangest experiences of my life.
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Back in March, Dr Pepper promised a free Dr Pepper to everyone in America if Guns N’ Roses long-delayed album “Chinese Democracy” was released in 2008. It has a release date of Nov. 23rd, so if it’s actually released on that date, you can go to drpepper.com and get a coupon for one free Dr Pepper. I’m a big fan of Dr Pepper and will be there.
I used to be a big fan of GNR, but I probably won’t buy the album. In 1991, when “Use Your Illusion” came out, I was 18. I’m now 35. Besides, GNR without Slash is like Dr Pepper with a blend of only 10 flavors.
He’s married, with children, and will save $1,000.
Once in a while that something might be something interesting, profound, or even life changing. More often than not you learn just one more of your father’s strange eating habits. Forget about eating soup with a fork…pizza can be consumed without the crust, or the rest of the dough.
It’s a bad cellphone shot, but you can see from the picture below that the three upper slices are just dough…someone has stolen the cheese, tomato sauce, and bacon. The slice on the lower right is intact, but won’t be for long.
An eye opener indeed. I’m just glad he didn’t order a pizza the way he really wants it, “I’d like a bacon pizza, and hold the dough.”
The scariest thing is that I might turn out like him one day.
iVolume adjusts the volume of your music in iTunes so that they all play at around the same perceived volume. It’s similar to iTunes built-in Sound Check, but it does a much better job. It’s almost essential when listening to playlists made from different artists/albums and Genius playlists (which is a perfect name for them). I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s definitely worth the $13 that MacUpdate Promo has it for today.
Note: The sale is only good on Oct. 21, 2008 til midnight Eastern time.
It’s not quite the new lolcats, but it has potential.
Dexter from “Dexter” would make about $47,680. Don Draper from “Mad Men” would make about $41,379…but is that in today’s dollars?
Our galaxy, not the candy bar.
A nice shot of the candy bar can be found on Flickr.
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