fredag, april 29, 2005

You can be obsolete too!

It 's comforting to say that 'practice makes perfect'....
You are 'Gregg shorthand'. Originally designed to
enable people to write faster, it is also very
useful for writing things which one does not
want other people to read, inasmuch as almost
no one knows shorthand any more.
You know how important it is to do things
efficiently and on time. You also value your
privacy, and (unlike some people) you do not
pretend to be friends with just everyone; that
would be ridiculous. When you do make friends,
you take them seriously, and faithfully keep
what they confide in you to yourself.
Unfortunately, the work which you do (which is
very important, of course) sometimes keeps you
away from social activities, and you are often
lonely. Your problem is that Gregg shorthand
has been obsolete for a long time.

What obsolete skill are you?
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onsdag, april 13, 2005

Warning: Read before you make your next PB&J

So, I was reading Dan Abram's blog today. You know that host of msnbc's "The Abram's Report" (come on, you know, that strangely attractive and amusing newscaster, mmmm tasty). Well he was joking around about Smucker's attempt to patent one way to manufacture a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Well, I've posted his comments below, and I thought they were pretty amusing. Next thing you know Donald Trump will try to trademark the phrase "you're fired." Oh, wait, he already did. Wonder what will be next, maybe i should try to patent breathing through the nose? $$$


Who knew you might have to pay to make a PB&J? I'm not talking about the $5 for the tub of peanut butter and $3 for the jelly. According to Smuckers, if you make the sandwich their way, you owe them a lot more than that.
Today, a federal appeals court began considering Smuckers' argument that it has a patent on what it considers innovative technology worthy of protection by the U.S. government: how to make a PB&J.
So, you ask, how has Smucker's so revolutionized the creation of America's favorite sandwich, such that they should get a piece of every sandwich you make?
Smucker's puts peanut butter on both slices of bread and then puts the jelly in the middle to prevent the fruity spread from seeping onto the bread. It then takes the crust off the bread and seals the sandwich to create the “uncrustable.”
I guess that means that I am entitled to a patent for what I like to call “Dan's grilled cheese. “ I put a slice of American on one side, a slice of Swiss on the other, and then I wait to put on the tomato and lettuce until after it's grilled so the veggies don't get hot.
Come on. What if the guy who first decided to add marshmallow fluff to the peanut butter sandwich thought he might be violating a patent? There would be no such thing as a fluffernutter. And remember those Reese's peanut butter cup ads where the guy with the chocolate accidentally falls into the woman with the peanut butter and alas, a peanut butter Reese emerges. No patent there.
Smuckers' arrogance over the “uncrustable” is not extending to claiming they invented PB&J—just that they perfected it. Smuckers credits American GI's fighting in World War II with the idea of first mixing the two together. Its legal case specifically targets Albie's Foods Inc., which also sells crustless PB&J in supermarkets. So maybe the rest of us with an uncontrollable appetite for the uncrustable are safe.
But lunch box lovers, be aware, stick to the basics. Slop your peanut butter on one side and jelly on the other. Let it seep, let it soak. And don't cut the crust off! And whatever you do, don't try and sell it at a bake sale, because that will make it a Smuckers sandwich. If they hear about it, you could be stuck with more than peanut butter on the roof of your mouth.

tisdag, april 12, 2005

A real post

So, not all that much has been happening in my life. Work, work, and more work. It is one of my good friend's birthday this week (the big 25), and we have plans to go to Asia SF for dinner. It is a tad expensive, but definitely worth it to celebrate such a wonderful life. = ) I am looking forward to it. Hmm... I'm trying to think of other things to talk about, besides just bitching about work. Fuck it. Work sucks, big time. I really hate the utter stupidity of the people blue cross of California has working for them. I've been working at my job for about six months now, and they are still making the same mistakes now as they did then. They have brains (at least I assume they do), so why don't they use them? Grrr.....

Oh yeah, all these pics I've been posting of late were all taken by yours truly, and I figured someone might just enjoy them. Or not, doesn't matter really I suppose. But there they are.

On another tangent, I've started a new blog with my buddy, Busty Wilde. It is for the most part (or at least until we decide to change our minds) various news articles that we find reported on the web. Check it out here. We're still in the process of working out all the kinks and formatting issues, but we finally decided on a theme. If you couldn't tell, the theme is drugs. What kind of drugs you might ask. All of them, that is right from marijuana and nicotine to cocaine and speed. There's even the possibility we might find some news report on caffeine worth reporting. We'll be posting amusing anecdotes, articles on drug policy, here and abroad, reports on drug crimes, etc... So, if you find any drug related material that warrants inclusion let us know.

Anyways, I'm at work currently, and I should probably get back to it.

Ciao.

måndag, april 11, 2005

How scandalous...

You scored as Caligula. Congrats! You're Caligula! You're a self-indulged, balding, incestuous, sex crazy megolomaniac. You probably had schizophrenia.

Elizabeth Bathory


40%

Caligula


40%

Geogry Pordgie Bushy-Wushy!


40%

King Henry VIII


25%

Czar Ivan the Terrible


10%

What Historical Fuckhead Are You???
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I wonder if I'm starting to display the signs of schizophrenia.

Groovy, baby!

I always thought x was my drug, now I have hard evidence to prove it.


HASH(0x8ca1f3c)
You are Ecstasy (aka: MDMA, XTC, adam...). You are
confused, you need everybody's support to feel
secure, you like to be around people, you have
your own fantasy world you run to every time
you feel helpless. You are classified as class
(A and B) illegal drugs.

What kind of Drugs are you? and how that reflect your personality?
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lördag, april 09, 2005

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