If These Carrots Could Talk: A Carrot Retrospective
Miscellaneous, HumorThe other day (Nov 6,2009), a few of us at work decided that it was well past time to empty out our mini-fridge so that we could de-ice it and give it a little once over with some cleaner as well. I really wish I had had the forethought to document this entire process with photos as there were some other visually funny moments along the way.
Thankfully, I did happen to catch this beautiful item unearthed from the depths of our time capsule of a mini-fridge. What you see below is a package of Earthbound Organice Carrots with Ranch Dip dating back to October 2004! (that is what the expiration date was).
These pics are frustratingly poor quality, but I hope you can tell that the carrots have biodegraded to almost nothing...just some brown/green mush.
So, naturally I started to wonder what was going on in the world when these carrots last saw the light of day.
Most of October 2004 news is full of conflict in Iraq, bombings, and other non-humerous events. So I will just pretend that these carrots weren't traumatized by that news, and only heard about the cool stuff.
October 3, 2004:
Todd Zeile of the New York Mets Major League Baseball franchise hit a home run in his last at-bat of his career.
October 4, 2004:
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne reaches an estimated altitude of 112.2 km (69.7 miles), lands safely and wins the Ansari X Prize.
October 6, 2004:
Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, is denied parole for the third consecutive time.
October 10, 2004:
Christopher Reeve who played Superman in the movie passes away.
October 16,2004:
Expedition 10, carrying cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin, and astronaut Leroy Chiao, docks successfully at the International Space Station. Chiao and Sharipov will be relieving Mike Fincke and Gennady Padalka from Expedition 9, and will spend six months aboard the station.
October 18, 2004:
Early voting begins in Florida and ten other U.S. states for the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which officially takes place November 2.
October 20, 2004:
Ubuntu released its first version of the Linux operating system, called Warty Warthog (4.10). It is based on the Linux distribution Debian.
October 27, 2004:
The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918 — and break the "Curse of the Bambino" — by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0 in the fourth game of the 2004 World Series of baseball.
source for news items: wikipedia
The Elusive Thomas At Action Canyon
Miscellaneous
UPDATE: We did receive the toy. So there really is hope after all!
If you have a son who is an absolute Thomas the Tank Engine fanatic, then you no doubt have fallen prey to their clever (or blatant!) advertising of the apparently amazing toy set "Thomas at Action Canyon". Problem is, it is impossible to find right now! (unless you want to pay upwards of 200 bucks on eBay or Amazon)
My wife went so far as to start posting some want-ads on craigslist. Luckily for us, some good samaratin grandmother shared this little tidbit of info with us. PayPal has a shopping site where you can do a search for items to purchase. We were able to find this toy on toysrus.com even though searching directly on toysrus.com turned up zero results.
No idea how/why or even if it still works as of your reading this post. But, if you want to give it a try give this search a try Thomas At Action Canyon
UPDATE 2: Success!
Fedor VS Brett Rogers
Miscellaneous, Cool VideosI'm a big fan of the Adam Carolla podcast, and one of his recent guests was MMA fighter Brett Rodgers. I don't really follow MMA very closely, but after listening to Brett I was really interested to hear how this fight turned out. Fedor Emelianenko is the #1 ranked fighter in the sport, while Brett just defeated Andrei Arlovski (who according to Brett's trainer was ranked #2).
The fight was carried on CBS over the weekend (Nov 7, 2009) and it turned out to be a pretty good one in my opinion.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot I had this blog!
MiscellaneousTwitter + general laziness has effectively killed my creative blogging juices. It is just way to easy to post a link and blurb in a tweet. Now, I don't think I am ready to abandond Twitter altogether, since it seems to be the way many people are sharing relevant tech info (among other things), but I have decided to stop "tweeting" as much and focus my energies to creating blog content.
That said, I need to update any readers that happen along that I am going to be repurposing this particular blog to be include more of my "life-stuff" in addition to any tech-related content I feel the need to share.
In closing, here is a bunny with a pancake on its head:
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MiscellaneousJust in case anybody stumbles across my blog here in the next couple days please be aware I am re-skinning as I go. (yeah, that includes battling IE!)
Thanks for reading!
AJL
Reading is fundamental: AJ's Summer Reading List
MiscellaneousHere is a list of the next 10 books coming up from my list:
| Title | Author |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Slaughter-house Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| 1984 | George Orwell |
| The Republic of Plato: Second Edition | Plato |
| The Brotherrs Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger |
| The Wealth Of Nations | Adam Smith |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
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