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[ 2 Comments ]Posted on July 28, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Monday, July 28th, 2008Hopefully the author will live long enough to write part II
As I sat on my porch this morning at 5:30 am, smoking my cigarette and drinking my coffee, several things went through my mind, things like: “I wonder why I’m awake?”, and “Why don’t I just go back to bed?”. Then I remembered I’m an obsessive-compulsive who only sleeps four hours a night, and thought “Oh yeah”. But then for some reason I got curious about why cigarettes taste so darn good, and decided to look for some answers. First of all, if your preferred brand is Just Like Dad Bubble Gum Cigarettes from Archie McPhee, they taste good because they’re made of bubble gum and they’re not burning. If you smoke a harsher brand like me though (I smoke Dunhills or American Spirits), the answer seems a little more complicated. I’ll be doing a follow up piece for just that reason. For now though, I found a list of ingredients approved by the US Government for use in the manufacture of cigarettes that made me wonder: “What DOESN’T make my cigarette taste so darn good?”. Here’s the list: Acetanisole, Acetic Acid, Acetoin, Acetophenone, 6-Acetoxydihydrotheaspirane, 2-Acetyl-3- Ethylpyrazine, 2-Acetyl-5-Methylfuran, Read the rest of this entry »
FaceStat: “Hot or Not”, With Adjectives
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 25, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Friday, July 25th, 2008Let other vain people you don’t care about judge you by a photo that you upload, and get statistics that are about as useful as a Fox News viewer poll.
Are you a FaceBook user? Tired of making friends with friends you’re already friends with and asking them to plant imaginary plants for you? Maybe you should try FaceStat. It’s sort of like drive-by social networking. You only need an e-mail and a photo, and you’re off. The objective: judge others’ photos and let them judge yours. I made the mistake of using a real photo of myself, and offering honest judgements. Five hours later, all I had learned was that: 1.) I’m Definitely Straight AND Definitely Gay; 2.) I Need a Haircut; and 3.) People are just plain mean when they’re given the chance. I was pretty amused when a couple of women started insisting I looked like Tim Gunn, and that no, really – that’s okay. My “Word Cloud” by now consisted of “creepy”, “RISKY”, “wipped”, and “old”. That was it. All the results still weren’t in (the site said it would take about three hours, and it had been nearly six now) and already, people who’ve never met me were calling me creepy. Meh. Two can play this game. I went after male users first, because I’m intelligent enough to know (in spite of my low FaceStat intelligence rating) that men Read the rest of this entry »
Coldplay – The Hardest Part
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 24, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Coldplay gets their big break on 80′s morning show “Attitudes”.
Actually, the hardest part is watching this video all the way through. Harold and Maude, eat your heart out, here come Spencer and Barbara. As a friend of mine said: “This is like watching synchronized swimming, but without the water”. It’s getting harder and harder to separate fact from fiction on the web; this is either a clip from an 80′s show call “Attitudes”, or an elaborate scheme by Coldplay to get some exposure. Decide for yourself…
View full-size video on YouTube here.
Clover Coffee Machine: For 11 Grand IT Should Wipe ME
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on July 22, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Can the $11,000.00 Clover 1s coffee machine save Starbucks?
In spite of the meticulous engineering, net-connectivity, and overall coolness factor, there is NO WAY I would buy an eleven-thousand-dollar coffee maker that requires me to use a wire whisk and wipe the machine top as part of brewing my cup of coffee. For $11,000.00, it should whisk and wipe ME. Apparently Starbucks doesn’t feel the same way. Never mind the machine, they bought the company. Can it help them as they go down in flames? Do we care? Learn more about the Clover Coffee machine in this YouTube video, in which Le Gourmet TV stops by the Clover Coffee Company in Seattle.
Old People Are Fun
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 18, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Friday, July 18th, 2008The Beige Site. For everything you need to know about old people.
If that headline intrigued you, either get out your reading glasses or go to View>Text Size and click “increase”. There. Now that you can read this, I just want to make the observation that you never see stuff about old people on the web. Why? Well, the web is for young people, and young people, for the most part, are too busy friending people on MySpace and watching bottle-rocket-in-the-butt videos on YouTube to be bothered about silly things like old people. The problem is, someday you’ll be old, so you better learn about what it means. The Beige Site contains a wealth of information about old people, including: what is an old person? where can I find one? and how much does one cost ? Not sure if you’re an old person? Then take the test .