Archive for March, 2007|Monthly archive page
Letter to Pepperidge Farm.
Leave a CommentI was frustrated and decided to e-mail Pepperidge Farm. They never answered. This is the letter I wrote up:
Last week I went to my local Duane Reade store and went straight for the cookie aisle with hope that the Dark Chocalate Brownie cookies with the chocolate chunks in them are somewhere on a shelf. I was very disappointed to find that the cookies weren’t there. I came back a few days later and to my deep disappointment the cookies were absent from the shelf yet again. I stomped my foot in anger and disbelief and yelled out an expletive that I choose not to say here. And yet several days later I came to Duane Reade again on my way from home and felt a twinge of hope that there may be, somewhere on one of the shelves of the store, there may be a lonely box of cookies waiting for me to bring them home. To my extreme misfortune, you can guess that the cookies were once again a no-show. So I write to you now, in hopes that you will hear my cry and plea, and deliver more cookies to the Duane Reade on the corner of Kings Highway and East 14th. (Yup, the weirdest block in Brooklyn, NY). Thank you guys once again, and I will be forever grateful to you if the next time I come to the store to find a box of cookies that I can finally buy to enjoy.
Maybe they didn’t reply because I misspelled ‘chocolate’.
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Reciting the alphabet backwards
Leave a CommentI’m very baffled by police officers. I haven’t been pulled over yet in my young driving tenure, but I’ve seen TV shows & movies and I heard stories that when cops pull over a driver they suspect is drunk, they will subject him to several tests, one of which is reciting the alphabet backwards.
I tried reciting the alphabet backwards once. I got up to V. I thought some more. Then I got mixed up somewhere around the R-S-T combo. I failed miserably. Maybe I was drunk.
Or maybe that test is ridiculous. A sober person would need to think hard in order to recite the alphabet backwards. The only way I could recite the alphabet backwards is if I carved it out on my forehead with a switchblade and used a reflective surface to read it back.
Cops might as well ask the suspected driver to bunny-hop across a pool filled with alligators on a unicycle while balancing a stick which has on the end of it a spinning basketball.
It’s all nonsense. All they need is a breathalyzer and they could possibly ask a person to walk the length of a straight line. If they pass, they’re sober. If they fail the straight line walk test, they’re either drunk, or just plain stupid.
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GTA IV Trailer
Leave a CommentUSPS.com Makeover
USPS looks completely different nowadays. They’re celebrating 30 years of Star Wars by making their website totally awesome. I’m not a Star Wars fanatic (yet- I just started watching the movies) but that website looks pretty cool. If you refresh it, the image on the right changes.
TheForce.net also says that the postal service will be decorating mail boxes as R2-D2. I guess they look alright, if you want to feel like a robot that looks like a garbage can is eating your mail every time you want to mail a letter. [source]
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Other news.
Other stuff that happened recently:
:Adobe CS3 is priced. I’ll give you a hint, it’s expensive as hell.
:Yahoo announces unlimited storage by May 2007. 1GB is probably enough for me. How much more is infinity?
:Sony releases PSP firmware 3.30. When are they going to release something worth downloading? Download here.
:Harry Potter Book 7 gets a cover. Amazon
:A $1,000,000 (one meeleeon dollars!) laptop was created. I think it’s so expensive because you can live in it, drive it, and it feeds you. No but seriously, it’s because of a Blu-ray player and diamonds. Pfft. [Source]
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Rachel & Monica Kiss
I gotta figure out how to embed YouTube videos. It’s not as easy as it looks. Anyway, here you go.
Probably the least exciting lesbian kiss ever. I would rather watch two turtles, both with broken legs, race uphill against a strong wind. No matter how boring it was, it was still every Friends fan’s fantasy come true.
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Getting back some hard drive space.
Here’s two ways you can get back some of your lost hard drive space. I did this and got (if I remember correctly) around 3GB back.
Recycle Bin
1. Right click on your Recycle Bin, and click Properties.
2. Where it says “Maximum size of Recycle Bin (percent of each drive)” with a slider over that, drag that slider to something like 1% or 2%. This essentially makes your Recycle Bin smaller, so it can’t hold as much.
After you lower the percentage from 10% (I think that’s the default) to say 2%, that means your Recycle bin will use up 8% less off your hard drive, meaning that space is now yours to use in other ways. My Recycle Bin is set at 1% because either way, when I send something there I’m going to delete it, so what difference does it make how much it holds?
System Restore
System Restore is a way for your computer to go back to a previous state in case of a failure[#]. Your system (I know this is on Windows XP, I don’t know about other OS’s) automatically creates restore points for your computer. But you probably don’t need so many of them, unless you plan on going back to a point several weeks in the past. System Restore points take up a lot of space on your hard drive. Here’s how to get that space back:
1. Right click My Computer, and click Properties.
2. Select the System Restore tab.
3. Under Disk Space Usage, there is another slider which I believe is at 10%. Drag it down to 2-4%. Mine is at 2% (637MB).
I checked how many restore points I have [Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore>Restore to a previous point] and I have around 12 in this month alone. That’s way more than enough for me. Again, I got back around 2GB of space on my hard drive.
And that’s all there is to it.
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2 New Transformers Posters
WOW. I can’t wait for the movie even more!!!
Those are two side by side. Bigger version here.
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Hugo Weaving = Megatron
Another movie I can’t wait for this year is Transformers. I just developed an obsession with it out of nowhere. I recently started watching the animated series, Generation 1, Seasons 1-4.
Today comes the news that Hugo Weaving will be doing the voice of Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons (the bad guys) Megatron. The announcement was made on the clandestine Transformers website, SectorSevenOrg. (By the way, this website shows up in the trailer during the playing of a recording at the Pentagon. The top right corner says Sector Seven Org).
When you get there, log in with NBETWO, then click the scorpion icon on the bottom, and read the newest e-mail.
I think this is great news for the movie. Hugo Weaving is a great actor, even when he’s not on screen. His performance in V for Vendetta was amazing, even though we never even got to see his face. He was also very sinister and convincing in The Matrix trilogy as Agent Smith. I think that he’ll do a great job as Megatron.
Also, check out the website for the Transformers video game, in which you can protect the earth with the Autobots or destroy it by being the Decepticons.
Transformers: The Game
Transformers Trailer
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