Sunday: I did a few productive things.

Not much.  Enough to qualify as "did something."  I also have my youtube watch later list down to less than 75 videos.  I don't think it's ever been shorter than 75 videos.

I do need to watch the final episode of last season's Supergirl this week.  The new season starts next week.  More importantly, Black Lightning starts tomorrow.  It'll replay on the app, but I should probably dig out my cable remote to see if I can catch it live.

I wanted something easy and fast.  Pizza is about the closest food to my apartment.

• Good news!  The environment is going to collapse and kill everyone, so it doesn't matter that our government is corrupt and run by fascists!
• Yeah, I think "still cancelled" is the right response.
• Thanks, Becky.

Friday: 1,382.

Unless, obviously, everyone dies before then.

And today I threw out 40 Pokeballs, because I ran out of space.

I still only have 18 revives, which I really need more of.

• Some backstory about that asshole who got punched in the face today.
• This should happen because it's the right thing to do, so obviously it will never happen because Republicans hate doing the right thing.
• Gawker got me with one of their "read this other story in a vertical you don't care about," so next time I do that basketball thing, I need to note that Baylor is apparently an awful university.  Yes this story is about football, but since that's the only place I ever mention them, that's where it's going.
• A good dog.
• A bad bunny.
• Eight fucking bears.
• Bear emoji check.
• Fine, Shia Lebeouf.  You're forgiven.
• Nick Fury.
• A Super Story.
• These are good titles.

Ok, WTF?

I bought some pineapple juice last week.  It's been sitting there unopened, because I also bought a thing of lemonade, and that sounded tastier at the time.

I admit that I might have been thirsty while buying groceries last week.

In any case, it's this juice:

This is really happy to point out that it's organic.

I just had a drink of it, and it's super thick.  Almost like a smoothie.  I look at the ingredients:

• FILTERED WATER (SUFFICIENT TO RECONSTITUTE)
• ok
• ORGANIC PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE
• yep
• NATURAL GUMS (GUAR, XANTHAN AND SODIUM ALGINATE GUMS)
• WTF?

My immediate thought: what's in Dole pineapple juice?  My first search stumped me, as Dole apparently assumes you understand that their juice contains juice.  However, Dole licences their name for juices to the PepsiCo conglomerate, which is more than happy to tell you what it contains: 

• FILTERED WATER
• ok
• PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATE
• wasn't expecting generic juice to be organic
• ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C)
• because Dole hates scurvy.
• also: pirates.

WTF is wrong with the world of juice, if the soulless multinational...

What?

Really?

Oh. 

Nevermind, then.

Friday: Imbolc

Blah.

"I'm sorry, but Official Giant Globe Javelin rules clearly state that wasn't a valid move."

 BTW, North Korea, that is really a nice retro-modern giant globe.  Maybe you could sell those for some money?

Now I'm hungry.

• Only because I've been there, and it is kind of the most pretentious place I've ever shopped (probably NSFW).
• This would have been an awful idea, and I would hope people would have been fired.
• :( Unagi.
• I wrote a simulator for the pyramid scheme described here, but don't want to do math tonight.
• I did not make up that word.

Saturday: It turns out she was right

I had hoped that while I was on the mainland, I'd be able to get some proper doughnuts.  That didn't happen, because even though PHL has a Dunkin Doughnuts in the international terminal, it's outside of the controlled customs area.  That meant although I could see it, and see the doughnuts, I had no way of getting to them.  Crap.

So, I went out to get some today at the best place to get them locally:

Wait, that have one in McCully?  I don't have to drive to the airport to get them?

 I got a dozen, and then got one more, because I wanted to make sure that I would like the maple bacon one:

It turns out I did like it, so it was all ok.

 I also got a creme brulee doughnut:

Not quite as torched as I would have liked, but still super delicious.

Since I was already basically at the airport, and I had my NPR playlist set up on my phone, I decided to drive over to the other side of the island on H3.  I really like that highway, even when it's clogged with traffic because of an accident in the tunnel (it must have been reasonably bad, as the guy sitting on the side of the road looked really unhappy).  This also pointed out that even when you have piles of signs telling you that the right lane is closed, people still don't believe it until a cop blocks the lane.

I discovered on the other side of the island that we really are in a drought.  Here's the best comparison I can find at the moment:

Today.

May 29, 2009

Anyway, after taking the super long way home with a box of doughnuts, I decided that I should get something for lunch.  Dinner.  Whatever meal you eat at 4PM.

me: also: what do I want for late lunch?

Julie: you want Ramen

See today's post title.

Random animal!

"Hmm....let's see what's in the news today..."

• Yes, I knew this before reading the story.  That's why I spent $18 buying peanut butter today.  Holy crap.
• I'm surprised no one's started claiming that it's unamerican for the president to make his own beer when he could buy it from a company.
• Lie. All the time. About everything.
• I missed this story yesterday.  The fact that they won't be able to restrict voting in Ohio suggests the odds of Obama taking it are pretty good.
• Pika!

Ok, now to back-date this post like I did yesterday...

Wednesday: Skipping a day means catching up with piles of tabs

Yikes.  First, let's take a look at the katsudon I had for lunch, because lunch posts are best posts.

You may notice a few things about this one: a) no egg; b) no broth; c) random furikake.  I'm not saying it was bad, because it was super tasty.  It just wasn't what I was expecting from katsudon.  I also saw this sign at the lunch sushi place:

which ruined my plan to get unagidon instead.  I'd heard something about this on NPR yesterday, with a statement to the effect that unagi has spiked like 200% recently, due to problems with the baby harvest (they catch wild baby eel, and then raise them on farms until lunchtime maturity).  I hope this isn't a permanent thing, as unagi is one of my favorite things.

Ok, let's catch up on piles of links!

• Oh, hello, art deco!
• I'm tempted to get this, but I'd just make a workaround (store an empty box of something next to the bed).
• I now want heat sensitive tiles in my bathroom.
• Squirrels!
• I saw the original image, and was going to post it when I had nothing else to show, but there are news stories about it now: pizza with crust stuffed with hot dog.
• Fuck you, Verizon.  Just before I upgrade my phone, too.
• Pretty much the best comic I've seen this week.
• Ordinary Batman Adventures is hilarious, and it's disappointing when talentless hacks bitch that it's copying their shitty comics.  A) no one has heard of your crap. B) I may not be able to draw, but I don't make pseudo- 80's indie b&w comics and put them where people can see them. C) Don't be a dick. Edit to add: wait, his main character has four fingers.  How do you give someone the middle finger if you only have four?
• This is the point of babies, right?
• Best project acronym ever.
• I like this idea, but can't really make much use of it.  See link above, re: babies.
• Seriously, it's like the GOP is run by children.  First they couldn't be bothered to sign up for primaries on time, and now they're bouncing checks to pay for primaries they did sign up for?
• How long has it been since I've mentioned that Ross Douthat is a fucking idiot?