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Jan. 8th, 2007 05:46 pmThis is sort of weird: I was just eating some corn chips with flaxseeds in them, and I noticed after a while of eating them in front of my monitor that the seeds generally seemed to align their long axes in the same direction. See? Isn't that odd? I can't think how the seeds could be deployed in a way that would keep them directionally uniform, or how cornmeal could have a property that would hold them there.
Anyone know?
Anyone know?
Riddick Sez: 'Don't wince!'
Nov. 24th, 2006 12:47 pmWe had a particularly awesome thanksgiving, with no stinking family and no canned waxy beans or football (even though a boy should watch it). We drove over to 343 & unpleasant's, trying our best to ignore the mysterious and unhelpful 'check engine' light, and cooked a bunch of stuff and watched a bunch of stuff and played a bunch of stuff and stayed in our pajamas all day.
Here is what my plate looked like initially.
Here are a couple of my better non-Dune-related Miis. (Here are some more. No promises about the Dune.)
And here is a Hitler mii that someone made. I made Girl Hitler, but that's different.
Here is what my plate looked like initially.
Here are a couple of my better non-Dune-related Miis. (Here are some more. No promises about the Dune.)
And here is a Hitler mii that someone made. I made Girl Hitler, but that's different.
I Live Cement
Nov. 2nd, 2006 05:49 pmI've just roasted some almonds, and they're sitting here in a bowl next to me and making little crackling sounds as they cool down. It's pretty neat. I sort of wish I'd thought to look up how to coat them in that sugary stuff that's on the ones you buy from carts in cities.
So... it's not that there were too many kit kat flavors, it's that they just all sucked.
I don't see what the problem is with having a lot of choice in mediocre britishy candy, inherently. I mean, I understand that if it sits around for months it won't be fresh any longer, but surely this is something of a solved problem for manufacturers. The article is really very evil-british (even though it is from the Wall Street Journal?) in that particular 'it was fine, but then you had to go and try to make too many interesting varieties!' way, and it very much equates the poor quality (seems generally that stuff is oversweet) of the candy with its variety, and that just doesn't make any damn sense.
[Addemdum: people always make this mistake: some company tries to do something new, but they do it poorly, and the lesson taken away is NEVER TRY ANYTHING NEW. That is what is pissing me off here.]
* I believe this was a mimi smartypants line.
I don't see what the problem is with having a lot of choice in mediocre britishy candy, inherently. I mean, I understand that if it sits around for months it won't be fresh any longer, but surely this is something of a solved problem for manufacturers. The article is really very evil-british (even though it is from the Wall Street Journal?) in that particular 'it was fine, but then you had to go and try to make too many interesting varieties!' way, and it very much equates the poor quality (seems generally that stuff is oversweet) of the candy with its variety, and that just doesn't make any damn sense.
[Addemdum: people always make this mistake: some company tries to do something new, but they do it poorly, and the lesson taken away is NEVER TRY ANYTHING NEW. That is what is pissing me off here.]
* I believe this was a mimi smartypants line.
Pleasing taste, some monsterism
Apr. 26th, 2006 04:35 pmI just ran down to CVS to pick up some junk, and behold! Look what exists now! Ice-cream-flavored skittles! Maybe it's because I've been trying to stay away from sugary stuff to some extent (and thus am no longer calibrated for good candy), but I picked up a unit of them and I find them not unyummy. Reasonably attractive color scheme, too.
Okay, 3/4 of the way through the bag and the sugar is getting to me. Although I remember this happening when I used to eat normal skittles, too; there'd be that point where suddenly they seemed so crystallised and the taste would sort of go away. Candy! Weird.
Oh, yeah, if any of you has a Peet's near you, they're doing some kind of promotional thing this month (I know, it's almost over, but I just found out) where between 1 and 3pm, they're giving out free tea and coffee.
And: It hit me yesterday that Lollicup, my favorite bubble tea place-that-is-a-chain, could be a 'lollerskates'-esque LOL-expansion. Haw.
Okay, 3/4 of the way through the bag and the sugar is getting to me. Although I remember this happening when I used to eat normal skittles, too; there'd be that point where suddenly they seemed so crystallised and the taste would sort of go away. Candy! Weird.
Oh, yeah, if any of you has a Peet's near you, they're doing some kind of promotional thing this month (I know, it's almost over, but I just found out) where between 1 and 3pm, they're giving out free tea and coffee.
And: It hit me yesterday that Lollicup, my favorite bubble tea place-that-is-a-chain, could be a 'lollerskates'-esque LOL-expansion. Haw.
