Tea For Me

Got some tea for Valentine's Day!



From left to right we have:

• Revolution Southern Mint Decaf
• Revolution White Tangerine
• Revolution Royal Plum Decaf
• Dallmayr Pefferminz
• Twinings (of London!) Earl Grey
• Twinings English Breakfast
• Revolution Bombay Chai
• Revolution Honeybush Caramel Dessert

I found the Souther Mint to be delightful, the White Tangerine to be too subtle, and the Earl Grey a tasty pic-me-up after a morning's chilly cycilng.

Sweet

Saw this YouTube Skittles commercial linked from reddit.

"I met a man on the bus today."

YOU might have seen it already, but I didn't.

Hate Skittles, love the commercials!

Zoom zoom

Zooomr is moving to Japan, so no images can be uploaded.

So, visualize a pic of a distorted barcode HERE.

Best I can figure, someone stomped on it with a stiletto-heel shoe and ground it around a bit. The lamination over the barcode seems to have shifted around a bit, but the lower level of print stayed put. I've never seen anything like it. These are what I think are called photocomposed barcodes. They looked like they are "printed" on photographic paper, and are quite sturdy, as compared to something I might whip out on the laser printer using label stock. Like I implied, this barcode was on an I.D. type (and yet not) of card that was hot-laminated.

Music for the day, in the vehicle, was Disraeli Gears. I swear there was a scent of patchouli oil in the air! Or maybe just the Fresh Mountain Scent of my laundry detergent...

Speaking of Lou Reed and friends, several people (and by that I mean no one) complained about my post yesterday showing appreciation for a drug-related song. Well, I AM something of a minor fan-boy of Lou and the Velvets, having several CDs, cassette tapes, and albums. Even went to a Lou Reed concert, back in the day. And that's something, I've only been to three rock music concerts! Plus one Ska performance.

My friend had a Lear 8-track stereo in his MG-TD. We used to blast through the neighborhood playing White Heat/White Light at quite a volume. I didn't care for it much, then, but eventually grew appreciate it, as I was sucked into the dark vortex of the hippy-dippyness of 1969-1970.

Repetition breeds!

Cookies

I mentioned the Hydrox thing to a couple of people. One said Hydrox was the inferior version of Oreos. I was outraged! The other said that Hydrox was the superior cookie. Greats minds, eh?

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There was something quite interesting in Time magazine (January 28, 2008) this week that I was going to mention, but now I can't remember what it was, and can't find it. So much for the great mind...

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I was listening to the KGB this afternoon while driving home. The Lou Reed song "Walk On The Wild Side" came on. Oddly, there was a skip in the song right where "that phrase" is. You know the one. They've been playing this song for, what, twenty years, and now have decided to censor it? I think that's just wrong. Don't play it at all, if you think it has inappropriate lyrics, is what I say. Don't cut the freaking song!

I always wondered why they would play that song, and not "Heroin", which is a better song, and is totally not pro-drug, unlike that stupid "Cocaine" song which gets endless air play. Unless one is so alienated it probably wouldn't matter much, anyway. It's certainly not the " Hither come and suck a pipe, turn thy brains to cheese and tripe!." sort of hippy-happiness.

To digress, the only time I've ever heard "Heroin" on the air was on Radio Netherlands on short-wave (Is there a regulation about how many times one can use "on" in a sentence?). I would provide you with the date and time, and decade, but I am too lazy to go out to the chilly garage and dig out the log book, which is not actually a book, but a clipboard of paper sheets.

Anyway, I blame everything, yes everything, on that Jackson woman.

News Flash

You already knew this, but I just found out.

The Hydrox is no more.

Check out this article: The Hydrox Cookie Is Dead in the Wall Street Journal. I always preferred the Hydrox over an Oreo. They seemed crisper, and more chocolaty. "Hydrox eaters tend to be independent-thinkers, favor underdogs and be skeptical of corporate marketing" says the article. Yep, that me! Pretty much.

I guess they have been gone since 1999, renamed Droxies, then in 2003 Kellog stopped making them. I stopped eating cookies, pretty much, around then, because of my pre-Sugar Sickness.

I'm always the last to know.

Just ForThe Record

For future reference:

Six Plus Three Equals Nine!

Apparently I have a problem with simple arithmetic...

Also spelling, as spell check informs me I mispelled "arithmetic" the first time around. Anyway, yesterday we got a check from another location. I totaled up the charges (several times), it looked like three bucks too much. So I wrote a LONG note to finance explaining my figures, and asking what to do about it. Finance says, you added wrong. I re-figured. and re-figured. Finally used a calculator. Yikes! Back to third grade for me!

Bombing Out

Finally finished a Minesweeper game at "expert" level.



And yet, SOMEONE who doesn't EVEN (as Bob Verley might say) live here anymore has high score!

The injustice!


See the pretty desktop image? That was taken by that high scorer.

UPDATE: I have been told that the desktop picture is from the Gigapxl Project. Sorry about that, Chief!