Spot the preggo
Two people in the Sagara household had breakfast this morning. Well, three, but Homer has the same thing every day, so for the purposes of this discussion, we’ll exclude the culinary bliss that is Chicken and Rice kibble.
The two bipeds in this house had breakfast this morning:
* Person 1 had a fried egg sandwich on toasted sourdough bread, covered with copious amounts of Tabasco and mustard, accompanied with a side dish of kimchi.
Contractions!
But rated on a Mexican food scale from Mild to Cocky White Boy Special, they’re Mild.
So, she’s got that going for her.
Bacon Popcorn
Rad:
Nosheteria cooked up this batch of Bacon Popcorn by first frying up some bacon until it was nice and crispy, then using the leftover grease to pop the corn, ensuring a bacony taste in every bite of popcorn. Imagine having that at the movies!
The only thing I’m imagining right now is Kaiser’s cardiologists hunched over with evil grins on their faces, tapping their fingers together and saying, “Good! Good!”
Twitter twitter'd
Yesterday, on the recommendation of Paul Watson, I signed up at Twitter. AFAICT, it’s a stream of consciousness communication medium, sort of like IM, but it’s geared toward the SMS crowd.
Anyway, since I signed up, I’ve had nothing but trouble accessing their site. Apparently they have become too popular too quickly. Hopefully they get it resolved soon, because I’d really like to test it out. It seems like a cool idea, and I’d hate to give up on it because they can’t figure out how to scale their application.
Quote of the Day
My friend Matt, while discussing how he categorizes wines by quality, describes the “best” category:
This is the stuff we’ll drink on special occasions. To paraphrase my father-in-law, this is the kind of wine that results in kids.
Brilliant.
$370 Million
Better stop at the Kwik-E-Mart and buy some lottery tickets on the way home tonight:
Mega Millions officials also raised the estimated payout at midday from $355 million to $370 million, if taken as annuity. The jackpot’s estimated cash option value was $221.1 million, before taxes.
The odds of winning: about 1 in 176 million.
Let’s look at some other odds*:
Getting hemorrhoids: 1 in 25 Death by shark attack: 1 in 300,000,000 Being killed on a 5-mile bus trip: 1 in 500,000,000 Having a meteor land on your house: 1 in 182,138,880,000,000 Finding Rosie O’Donnell attractive: (Really? Do I have to go there?)
Artested
Sacramento Kings star Ron Artest was suspended indefinitely following his Monday morning arrest on domestic violence charges at his Loomis home.
The Kings announced Monday afternoon that the star forward has been excused from play indefinitely, though the team said it would continue to monitor any updates in the case. […]
Deputies who responded to Artest’s home found a woman who had called 911 and, after interviewing her and Artest separately, arrested the Kings player.
Hack of the Day (IE7)
Are you sick of IE7’s default search box, especially since you already have Google Toolbar installed? Fret no longer. This handy little guide will show you how to disable it for good.
It worked for me on Windows XP SP2. I have not tried it on other versions of Windows.
Bye-bye, Honda
Kelly said goodbye to her 1991 Honda Accord on Wednesday. It was her first automobile, excluding the infamous “Town Car”. She got the Honda as a senior in high school, and it served her well throughout college and the beginning of her teaching career. It was stolen twice, but like a fiercely loyal dog, it somehow managed to find its way home both times. I’m still unsure whether that was a good or a bad thing. But, as eventually happens to all creatures, Honda’s time had come. We poured almost $1000 into repairs over the past year, so when it inexplicably developed a penchant for aperiodic revving, we decided it was time to move on. Honda will spend its golden years as a compressed cube of metal in a local scrapyard, where they have nightly bingo and unlimited creamed corn.