The Good Thread
My boss and I met with some potential clients today, and I guess they wanted to impress us just as much, if not more, than we wanted to impress them. So we met for lunch at the Ingomar Club, née the Carson Mansion. I only really got to see a small part of it on the inside, but damned if it wasn’t swanky - I felt pretty out of place and insufficiently dressed in my standard “business casual” work garb.
But the meeting went pretty well. We may have just snagged ourselves another good-sized web job.
I gritted my teeth and checked my work email today (I’m not actually going back until Wednesday).
Good morning Garrett,
I’ve been wanting to let you know that I have had/continue to have about a zillion contacts from the new improved website. You are a genius!
Thanks so much for all of your efforts on my behalf! Hope you’re enjoying a long weekend, jake
Of course, it would have been better if she had CCd my boss so I don’t have to look like a braggart forwarding it to him, but…
I won a contest by being a smart-ass!
Also, a new haircut. It’s back to “fuzzy” style again.
Pepsi to release “Throwback” sodas later this year (for a limited time) made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Sweet. (Pun intended.) I wonder if I’ll really be able to taste the difference, though…
Albright:
Pepsi to release “Throwback” sodas later this year (for a limited time) made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Sweet. (Pun intended.) I wonder if I’ll really be able to taste the difference, though…
I’ve never tried it myself (and I don’t drink soda anymore, anyway), but those that have claim that soda sweetened with cane sugar is much tastier than soda sweetened with HFCS.
Gun fight with the feds in Big Sky Country?
The proposed law aims to exempt firearms, weapons components and ammunition made in Montana and kept in Montana from federal gun laws. Since the state has few gun laws of its own, the legislation would allow some gunowners and sellers in the state to skirt registration, licensing requirements and background checks entirely.
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House Bill 246 sailed through the Montana Legislature, but Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer has not yet offered a position on the measure, which awaits his action.
The federal enforcement agency for gun laws has also not taken a firm stand.
I hope their Gov signs it - he just might, from what I hear - I’d love to sit back and watch that fight.
Whatever the outcome, the people of Montana should soon gain some insight into whether their governor’s true loyalty lies with them and the Constitution, or with his party and president.
If he does sign it, we’ll get to see the same thing about a whole lot of people in DC, the Media, etc…
Amazon MP3 has the new Silversun Pickups album Swoon - it just came out today - for only $4. You can bet I bought that sheezy.
I tried a “Throwback” Mountain Dew today. But peeking at the ingredients, I noticed that the sugar wasn’t the only difference - whereas standard Mountain Dew includes concentrated orange juice, the Throwback version omitted it. However, an “artificial flavor” was added to the Throwback’s ingredient list which isn’t in the standard Dew. What’s up with that?
Anyway, it seemed to me to have a definitely different mouth-feel, to borrow a word from wine snobs. The sweetness seemed to have a different “flavor.” If I had to guess, I would say that the sugar isn’t doing a good a job of covering up the bitter flavor of the caffeine as well as the corn syrup does, so you taste a little more of it.
Not bad, but I think it’s disingenuous to pretend to be returning to a more classic recipe when you’re replacing orange juice with artificial flavoring, fer crissake.
My attempt to lose some weight seems to be slightly successful so far. I bought a bathroom scale with a dial, but when I brought it home, I realized I can’t really read it very well because my eyesight sucks and most of the lines and numbers are too small. But I do remember that when I first used it, I was about halfway between the 16 and the 18, and now I’m only about a quarter of the way. So that’s good.
I came across a book called Skinny Bastard at Borders today and had to pick it up. It’s sort of a male-centered diet advice book, though it’s written by two women - apparently it’s a sequel for a woman-targeted book called Skinny Bitch. That aside, it does a decent job of appealing to a male mind, I think Some excerpts:
“If you’re filling up on 16 ounces of liquid Satan [soda] at a time, chances are you’re not getting your 64 ounces of water a day. Water is vital for keeping your body clean and detoxified. It literally flushes out all the shit and toxins your body stores from your horrendous diet. You might be fat ‘cause you don’t crap enough.”
“If your nose is running, your body is trying to rid itself of something through your snot. But you, drama queen, take cold medicine to stop your runny nose. Now you’ve gone and fucked up everything.”
Chapter 4 is entitled “Meat: Rotting, Decaying, Decomposing Flesh,” and the first section makes a case against Atkins-style diets with a title of “The High-Protein/Low-Carb Pile of Bullshit.”
Okay, maybe it’s juvenile. But it made me laugh; not a reaction I’d expect from a book about health and dieting.
I’ve been doing weight watchers for a while, and it’s successful and easy to follow for the most part. I can also eat whatever the hell I want and still lose weight - as long as I don’t eat too much of it.
Er, as far as the water thing, that’s been debunked as a myth. There was an actual study done on it: Drinking more water just makes you have to pee more often. It doesn’t “flush” anything out of your system that wasn’t going to be flushed already. And any drink will do, there’s no reason it has to be water; basically your body knows what it needs and when you need to drink, you’ll get thirsty. I’d suspected this before seeing the study, because when I drink extra water it just makes my pee less yellow.
Also, my nose runs quite often because I have allergies. Yeah, my body is overactive and trying to rid itself of fucking mold or something. Don’t see how that applies to a diet book, but whatever.
If there’s a self-righteous chapter about the evils of the devil meat, then I’m glad I never bought the skinny bitch book.
Fata Morgana:
If there’s a self-righteous chapter about the evils of the devil meat, then I’m glad I never bought the skinny bitch book.
Oh, jay-zus, I didn’t know the extent of it yet. Chapter four made a somewhat compelling case that people are supposed to be vegetarian, but then ended on a note something akin to “…but if you can’t give up meat, that’s fine. Don’t give up on the rest of the advice in this book, though.” But then chapter five starts railing about milk and eggs, and how cows are given rBST (uh, not around here) and shit on their udders and stuff, and how chickens are kept in cages and have their beaks cut off and so on and so forth. And then chapter six does the whole Upton Sinclair thing and talks about how slaughterhouses are operated and how sometimes the animals aren’t unconscious before they’re beheaded and this and that. I ended up skipping through most of chapter six, but when I started on chapter seven, it seemed to mostly be about finding other sources of protein than meat - the joy of soy! Fuck, this isn’t a diet book, it’s an Animal Liberation Front tract! I want my fifteen bucks back.
SCENE: Man and woman are walking down the street, holding hands. In her other hand, the woman is yakking on a cell phone. As she is now out of hands, the man was carrying her purse in his other hand. Rather than let go of her hand so she could carry it, he was carrying it.
Now that’s love.
Albright, I just thought I’d reiterate that Weight Watchers really does work. I don’t go to meetings, either, I just do it online. If you’re looking to lose weight I highly recommend it. It’s easy to follow and it does retrain you in how to eat. It’s also easier to keep track of 20-30 points than it is keep track of 1,500 - 2,000 calories.
Do it online? I presume you still have to pay…
I went to their web site and they told me to turn on cookies and JavaScript, despite the fact that I have both of them enabled, thankyouverymuch. What is that load of fuck? Shit-ass browser detection pisses me off. (And JavaScript should never be necessary anyway.)
My parents and I went on a trip to the San Diego County Fair for the day. We walked around the place, rode the skylift, checked out the market booths and attractions, had lunch… Typical fair stuff.
The highlight of the trip, though, was when one booth was selling Song of the South on DVD. I bought a copy, and now I’m going to watch it later tonight.
So how did you like SOTS, Daikun? I haven’t seen that since I was a little, little kid (back in the stone-age, you know). Didn’t you know that film is racist, and must not be viewed by anyone anywhere for any reason? Of course, compared to the pc crap Disney cranks out these days it just might seem very good in spite of its racist overtones.
GrinfilledCelt:
So how did you like SOTS, Daikun? I haven’t seen that since I was a little, little kid (back in the stone-age, you know). Didn’t you know that film is racist, and must not be viewed by anyone anywhere for any reason? Of course, compared to the pc crap Disney cranks out these days it just might seem very good in spite of its racist overtones.
It’s actually a pretty good movie. I was surprised at how little animation there was in the film, though. There’s only about 27 minutes’ worth of animation in the whole film.
Yes, I knew that the film had racist overtones, but it’s such a rare film that I had to pick it up. Surprisingly, though, the white people get worse treatment in the film than the black people. The only worst that happens to two black characters in the movie is angry verbal abuse from a couple of bratty kids and a mother calmly telling Uncle Remus to leave her son alone. That’s it.
There are no slaves in the film. It takes place AFTER the Civil War, when slavery was outlawed.
There’s actually a lot of exaggerated spin on this film. Check out the user comments on its IMDB page (not just the one I linked to, but also the ones under it) to see a dissection of the myths circulated about this movie.
Housebound and bored, with no TV service to mushify my brain, I’ve been spending even more time on the puter than normal, bored and not capable of thinking too much. I re-signed up for Kingdom of Loathing after it crossed my mind for some reason. Ah, what fun… I can’t wait until rollover comes again so I can get some more adventures.
