MmmmmmmmOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Well, St. Louis Bread Company (Panera for everyone not in St. Louis) has decided to take a quantum leap forward in customer satisfaction. Now, instead of bland opaque lids for their to-go soup bowls, they now offer a lid emblazoned with "CONTENTS HOT" around its circumference.

And I, for one, say it's not a moment too soon. I can't tell you how many times I've bought a bowl of soup there and burned myself. Every time I wonder Why is this hot soup that I'm eating hot?

Up next: a fork with a little warning on the handle that reads "Do not place in children."

Me < French Toast

Kirsten and I went out for breakfast this morning at a joint called First Watch, a breakfast-and-lunch-only restaurant (hence the name). The food is fine, the atmosphere is kind of dinerish, kind of Bob Evans-ish, and Kirsten got herself some raisin bread-based french toast.

For some reason, Kirsten's one of those crazy people who puts butter and syrup on her french toast. I'm not sure what's up with that. Syrup goes only on pancakes and waffles. See this handy chart:

How to Decorate Your Breakfast

• Pancakes: Butter with syrup, or fruit preserves


• Waffles: Butter with syrup, or butter with honey


• Belgian Waffles: fruit preserves, butter with syrup, or butter with powdered sugar


• French Toast: butter with powdered sugar, or fruit preserves


• Toast: butter with honey, peanut butter, jam, or cinnamon and sugar

Some of you may question the honey on waffles, which is fine, but it's quite good. One thing you may notice, though, is that there's no syrup option for french toast. So there.

Anyway, I asked Kirsten what she'd choose if she had the option of taking either french toast with syrup or me, but not both.

She picked the freakin' bread.

Random Facts for the Day

-After World War II, Emperor Hirohito became a marine biologist.

-The last female emperor of Japan was Sakuramachi, from 1762-1770

-Blood turns brown as it dries because it's rusting.

-I have no real work to do.

Fashionably Late

Yeah, so I admit I occasionally do those stupid quizzes that pop up in livejournals and blogs that I come across. For instance, "What movie star would you be?" (Sam Jones III), "What kind of fruit are you?" (Eggplant), and "Where do you belong?" (Bangladesh).

Basically, it's all pretty random. Anyway, I just did that damned "Dear Santa" one a few minutes ago.

Just read the first line...

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In June I bought porn for fuzzypeachy (10 points). Last Wednesday I donated bone marrow to redsnapdragons in a life-saving procedure (300 points). In April I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In October I gave change to a homeless guy (19 points). Last Friday I committed genocide... Sorry about that, anneski (-5000 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-4747 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich! Sincerely, shapu

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

Oh, yeah.

Shameless Gloating

I recently found a pretty good page of Google hacks, little toys that use Google to do neat things.

One of them is a page ranker - it takes a phrase that you type in, and the website on which that page is found, and determines the Google score of that particular page based on that particular search criterion.

Here's the link.

For example, let's say I want to know how AOL.com ranks if I search for the word "mail." I fill in the form, and I get a return that AOL.com is the number 24 website, according to Google, that contains the word "mail." The number one, by the way, is Mail.com.

Using that hack, I learned that if you go to Google and type in the words "baseless opinions," I'm number 1. That's right - nobody, but nobody, operates in the total absence of facts as well as I do.

So there.

That's kinda sad.

I've recently become hooked on the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans game, which is kind of sad figuring how old it is and how cheesy the graphics are. The game first came out in 1995, and has those weird top-down but kinda perspectivized graphics (like these).

It's not really re-playable, but I haven't beaten it before, so my going around killing stuff for the first time is an interesting diversion.

Anyway, the original game was the 2,360nd most-sold game on Amazon.com yesterday, beating out its own sequel, at #3539.

So sad that this is what I do rather than remember what sunlight is.

You Don't Know Chuck

I just discovered one of the greatest websites ever - Chuck Norris Facts.

In an unrelated note, Tomatillo's is now a sit-down restaurant. With menus and waiters and everything. The Taco Salad still kicks ass.

EDIT: I thought I'd let you know some of my contributions to the Chuck Norris site...
"Remember when Superman died? Chuck Norris."

"Chuck Norris created Tuesday to have an extra day to kick your ass."