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May. 23rd, 2006 06:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Nice phone time with MM. I'm looking increasingly forward to the top of July... it'll be here before I know it! I hope Newtie's on better behavior than he was with Kev. I may be heading to Dragon*Con at the top of September this year, too, if everything works out as well as I hope.
Bad Phone time with Bro. looking to mooch - asked about places to sell plasma.. I don't sell it, I donate it. wanted to drive me around for gas money... I told him it'd cost him more in gas to drive his truck up here. He needs to just get the heck out of Hollywood.. every time he goes there, he goes back into his old patterns.
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pilarcruzLeave your name and:
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
Okay, 8 is totally optional.
Added Bonus, Sedef will be in town in September, and hopefully the Weezle, too!!
Glad I waited on watching last week's Dr Who with this week's.... a two parter. Quite well done, too. Hooray for Zeppelins, Parallel Earths and Cybermen! (The Term "Maximum deletion" is rather silly, though.)
I'm going to give Tarpo's scavenger hunt a try next weekend. (I'd prefer to be going to Balticon, but that doesn't look likely, with work and such... My boy EN is off to Idahos, so I've got to snag his shifts if I can't fob them off on anyone else.)
Moment of Lyric - mp3
Well she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina,
She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize,
She'll take you for a ride on a slow boat to China,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Steal their Seoul in South Korea, make Antarctica cry Uncle,
From the Red Sea to Greenland they'll be singing the blues,
Well they never Arkansas her steal the Mekong from the jungle,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe,
Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!
Well she'll ransack Pakistan and run a scam in Scandinavia,
Then she'll stick 'em up Down Under and go pick-pocket Perth,
She put the Miss in misdemeanor when she stole the beans from Lima,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Oh tell me where in the world is... Oh tell me where can she be?
Ooh, Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam,
Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu...!
Well she glides around the globe and she'll flimflam every nation,
She's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery,
Her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations,
Tell me where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Ah, my idea for a coffee bomb has been reproduced in nature. Those Wolfgang Puck self-heating lattes are being recalled. Sometimes they catch fire, explode, and/or dump the heating chemicals into the coffee itself. It seems one can in five is bad.
Once considered the “next big thing” by excited coffee lovers and technology buffs alike, the Wolfgang Puck Self-Heating Latte is being withdrawn from shelves because of concerns that many of the innovative cans are defective, and possibly dangerous.
Last month, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. sent a letter to its licensee, Newport Beach, Calif.-based BrandSource Inc., demanding it ask retailers to remove the 10-oz., artificially-sweetened coffee drinks from shelves so that product defects could be reviewed. The recall demand came after BrandSouce CEO Robert Groux informed Puck’s company of a growing number of complaints from retailers and consumers alike.
Launched to great fanfare in the spring of 2005, the lattes quickly made it to the shelves of thousands of stores, including large, end of aisle displays in Kroger and Albertson’s supermarkets and Sam’s Club warehouse stores.
But in less than a year, the team that produced the innovative product has fallen apart. The can’s design and manufacturing team is suing BrandSource, the company that licensed Puck’s name in order to bring the product to market, and BrandSource is facing the possible loss of its celebrity partner.
Groux, however, says the problem stems from the faulty construction of the cans themselves, designed by OnTech Delaware, LLC., which is based in San Diego.
Consumer complaints have ranged from the product’s failure to reach an appropriately hot temperature to it actually overheating, spurting product from the can, leaking out of the can, or the calcium oxide heating mechanism adulterating the coffee itself, according to Groux.
“We have reports of chunks of white product, which we believe to be calcium oxide, that was found in the product, which means the heating element most likely leaked,” Groux said. “We have complaints of can meltdowns, curdled product, sour product, leaking cans.”
Last month, a Las Vegas woman named Dee Harris claimed she had been badly burned by one of the drinks when she activated it in her hotel room. She claims it overheated and then blew up, sending her to the hospital.
“I went to pick it up, but it was too hot,” Harris said. “I pulled my hand off of it, it exploded. It was just sitting on the counter, no one had touched it. It just blew all over everything.”
When it works, the coffee heats when a seal at the bottom of the can is pushed in, releasing a small amount of water that, when mixed with the calcium oxide in a cone within the package, causes an exothermic reaction that heats the liquid to a toasty 140 degrees.
Groux blames his can suppliers for designing and manufacturing defective products, and his company is currently involved in litigation with OnTech, which trumpeted its design of the self-heating mechanism and subcontracted its manufacture on behalf of BrandSource.
“We’re just the marketers, and the name,” Groux said. “We don’t make the can, we don’t fill the can, we don’t make the heating elements or the components or anything.”
But OnTech CEO Jonathan Weisz made it clear he believes the problems with the cans are a smoke screen for Groux’s financial problems.
“They owed us a lot of money – over a million dollars – and this is purely a retaliatory move,” Weisz said.
Both the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Products Safety Commission are investigating problems with the product, according to Groux. Representatives of both agencies refused to confirm those investigations. Weisz confirmed having been contacted by the FDA.
The letter from Puck Worldwide requesting the recall indicated that the company had become aware of what it termed “government scrutiny” of the lattes, among other issues.
According to Puck spokesman Robbie Vorhaus, the consumer complaints have become a large enough issue for the company to consider withdrawing BrandSource’s license to use Puck’s name to market the product.
“The product is not at the place where we, as the licensor would like it to be,” Vorhaus said. “What we have told Bob is, and what we’ve made very clear, is that with the quality and the standard that we expect, that there is always extra scrutiny. We suggested to him that he look at this more carefully.”
Featuring the name and reputation of the famous, Spago-owning Puck, the lattes debuted in the spring of 2005 to praise from mainstream news outlets and food-and-gadget-centric web sites alike. But complaints began to trickle in to BrandSource in the early fall, Groux said. They eventually became a pile several inches high, he said, and they were soon accompanied by returns of damaged and unwanted products from beverage retailers and distributors.
Lewis Hershkowits, the COO of Big Geyser, a New York-based beverage distributor, said his company stopped carrying the Wolfgang Puck product after about two months.
“I don’t think it was the right item for us anyway, but there were a lot of complaints from our customers,” Hershkowits said. “Retailers were complaining – their customers were saying they didn’t work, that sometimes they were sour or they just didn’t work.”
“The girls in our office liked them, but every fifth can was bad,” he added.
OnTech reportedly spent $45 million over 11 years developing the self-heating technology. In December, the company launched a similar line of self-heating coffee drinks under the Hillside Coffee label. The company also manufactures self-heating soups, hot chocolates, and teas.
OnTech’s launch campaign for the self-heating product is “It Does What?”
“It takes time to educate the world to what [self-heating] is about,” Weisz said.
While the move to develop Hillside was not a response to problems with the Puck partnership, Weisz said, the relationship had nevertheless soured because BrandSource had not been willing to pay for the increase in production costs that have accompanied rising oil prices.
“We’re not willing to ship any more product to them,” he said. “Right now, the cost is a bit high. I had hoped that the Wolfgang Puck relationship would have survived, but we’re very excited about what we have going on right now.”
OnTech has filed suit against BrandSource in a California court, seeking payment for the products it made for the Puck partners.
BrandSource, and Groux himself, is planning a counter-suit against OnTech and the two companies that have been part of the manufacturing process, claiming it has lost millions of dollars because of the defective products.
“They cut me off when I stopped paying, because they refused to stop issuing us credits for returned product,” Groux said.
A beverage industry veteran, Groux says his credibility – and his bottom line -- is in shambles as a result of the problems that have resulted from the problems with the cans.
“I wake up to a nightmare every day,” he said. “I have retailers calling me, suppliers calling me, I have to let half my people go, and I’ve been devastated all around.”
1 year ago - superhero meme ,Wayne Dyer not my thing, alien invasion from the ocean tv themes, vader 20Q, Tofu flavored like human flesh (for the vegetarian cannibal), It only makes me laugh, walkabout graffiti pix, tiny tiny text!,
2 years ago - S&W apart, Dawn of the dead, Saw Shrek 2 last night, palm doodle, walkabout pictures, lilo & stitch experiments, pre-inca graveyard found, silly snape / puppetpals, Apeshit, bro
3 years ago - wants, slashdot blocked, best family guy line ever, nig newtie-eyes, book meme, rain
4 years ago - I was compared to Travis Tritt, an image of MyCn18, a broken link or 2,genetic music, Sleestak music, fresca and goldfish crackers, got thecomplete prisoner TV series on DVD, I restocked some clothes,discovered line-through deleted journals on bio-page.
5 years ago - - propitiate, chaplet, sweetheart went out for ice cream, I've got naughty thoughts, brasilein, friends only review of new work arrivals. (all but one of whom still work at FMM.)
6 years ago - April interviewed for Barnies, EMAGE goes downhill, my first "who I am" post. I was friended by sunusku, meemee & christin, and first thoughts about developing Newtcam.
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Date: 2006-05-23 10:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-23 10:08 am (UTC)yeah, my dad had small texts, so... y'know.
Carmen Sandeigo
Date: 2006-05-23 10:25 am (UTC)My mother used to watch soap operas..well not really watch but have them on tv everyday. Finally I told her one day that we should watch something educational every afternoon.
I used to change the channel over to Where in the World is Carmen Sandeigo. One day when I shifted the channel to that show she spouts off with, "Do we have to watch Where in the Hell is Carmen Sandeigo?" I about fell on the floor laughing.
She was in her 80s at the time.
Thanks for triggering that funny memory for me Scotto.
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Date: 2006-05-23 10:36 am (UTC)Also do the meme you know my name ok it's in the LJ name.
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Date: 2006-05-23 11:12 am (UTC)Anyway being the egocentric person that I am I'd like you to do the meme for me but I'm not likely to repost it.
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Date: 2006-05-23 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-23 12:17 pm (UTC)And thanks for the tiny text links!
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:19 pm (UTC)Re: Carmen Sandeigo
Date: 2006-05-23 12:25 pm (UTC)I would *so* tune into "Where the hell is carmen sandiego?"
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:41 pm (UTC)2. I challenge you to get well soon!
3. a sparkly green slytherin sort fo hue
4. you're ever growing, ever moving to a better position, without sacrificing people
5. see six years ago today!
6. I associate you with a Hello Kitty sort of kitty kat.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:42 pm (UTC)7 - how do you feel you've grown the most over the last 5-6 years!
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:47 pm (UTC)1. You make sweetcorn on pizza sound tasty.
2. I challenge you to have a great day today! :D
3. Corpse Gray and Cthulhu mottled green
4. You seem to be a genuinely nice guy and haven't given up on the idea of love
5. A positive review of the D&D movie on Necro boards. I was dumbfounded, but you turned out to be such a nice guy, despite our different opinions on bad guys in blue lipstick.
6. I know the whale is a long-time fave of yours. :)
7. what's that sneaking up behind you?!!
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Date: 2006-05-23 12:53 pm (UTC)2. give your puppy a kiss for me! :D
3. the shade of your fair hair
4. you're honest and straightforward
5. phone number distribution drama
6. an otter. a sexy little otter.
7. what brand of cigs do you smoke... when did you start?
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Date: 2006-05-23 01:05 pm (UTC)2. record your radio show, so I can hear it during waking hours!
3. purple (from your young young dani icon!)
4. You are the Awesome, and the Scott Baio Ham Incident (tm) Proves it.
5. your mom being a badass and going to get your stuff from that moochy disneyland guy, years ago. (sorry to bring up jerky memories, but your mom was quite awesome.)
6. SQUIRREL!
7. If you were allowed to write one thing indelibly on the forehead of one person without fear of repercussions, what and who would it be?
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Date: 2006-05-23 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-23 02:20 pm (UTC)Ok.. Scavenger hunt..
I have sorta thought about it.. I'll be posting the scavenger list tonight or tomorrow. You can search online or take the pictures with a digital camera. I do want everyone to be able to take part if they so choose.. Anyone who answers my sign up poll by the time I stop checking LJ on Wednesday night is in.. and I might accept a few late comers if suficient suckup is made..
Anyway.. some rules and info..
1) Each Picture is worth anywhere from 1 - 5 points. Submitting a pic is worth a point.. Simple as that.. the rest are depending on how original, funny, or interesting I find it..
2) Please name the files with the following Picture #, your LJ name so pictures 35 submitted by me would be 35Tarpo.jpg (feel free to put in more after that but I want the number and name for sure)
3) I'd prefer to have the pictures emailed to my gmail account (or one that I will make JUST for this to make things easier for me) but I can also accept them placed in a gallery of your choice (that I don't have to jump through hoops to see) or in your own webspace. Just email me the proper link to the gallery and unless I screw up huge it should be all good)
4) Duplicate pictures will give both submitters a 1.. unless its a REALLY funny picture then I may give a 2.. The harder you dig around.. the more points you can score.. I want to laugh or be surprised by creativity.. Googling "goatse" for "WTF!?" isn't surprising or creative.. and its gross..
5) If you have any questions.. Here is the place to ask them.. That way I can update and let people know what ever needs to be known.. understand? good.. because i'm confused.
6) Judging may take awhile due to me moving, and working, and finding a new job, and fighting with rl etc.. Trust me.. You will be judged.. GUILTY!
7) Prizes! Winner will get bragging rights.. and depending on if I am working or not you could even get a few months paid LJ or something else.. 2nd place gets to look at the winners butt and if the winner dies a freaky painful death 2nd place gets 1st.. If they submit a picture
8) In the event of a tie I will issue a mini hunt but lets not wait for that because really.. I have enough stuff to think about right now
9) I don't want any picures (online or RL) or dead animals, or people, nothing that makes me want to puke.. and if I see one picture of the inside of someones ass you are all going to die painful lonely deaths with the taste of crystal pepsi on your lips
10) Play nice, have fun, and be creative
Why I haven't returned to my homeland in a while
Date: 2006-05-23 02:22 pm (UTC)ADVERTISEMENT
The German animal protection agency in Bavaria described as "hysterical" the decision to kill the bear, which had at first been welcomed when it wandered across the Austrian border at the weekend. But authorities were adamant.
"It is now a problem bear," Bavarian environment minister Werner Schnappauf said. "A man-bear encounter could occur at any time. It cannot be allowed to roam freely. We will ask hunters to shoot the bear."
Joern Ehlers, a spokesman for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), told German radio that it was unusual for bears, normally shy animals, to seek out food in the vicinity of humans.
"The WWF is trying to catch the bear alive," Ehlers said. "Initially we wanted to tag it so we could better track its movements, but now it looks as if this bear cannot be left out in the wild because it's simply too dangerous."
Top-selling German daily Bild plastered a big picture of the bear with a hunter's bull's eye on it on its front page, alongside the headline "Death sentence for German bears!".
In a full page article, the paper showed gory pictures of disembowelled sheep alongside their concerned owners.
"It gutted them and then just ate their hearts and livers," the paper quoted 42-year old farmer Anton W. as saying.
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Date: 2006-05-23 03:15 pm (UTC)Re: Why I haven't returned to my homeland in a while
Date: 2006-05-23 09:47 pm (UTC)You see when I first read this I saw it as one entity.
The Most Startling Forest Creature of All!
THE MAN-BEAR!
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Date: 2006-05-23 10:39 pm (UTC)#7: If it were one word, probably BUTTS on the forehead of George W. Bush. Not because I particularly hate him, but because he's the president and I think having butts written on the forehead of someone really visible would be pretty hilarious.
Re: Why I haven't returned to my homeland in a while
Date: 2006-05-23 11:45 pm (UTC)URSA, THE MAN-BEAR!
URSA the MAN BEAR
Real Name: Original name unrevealed
Identity/Class: Human (Old West era), raised by animals-type
Occupation: Hunter/Gatherer
Group Membership: Former member of the Cheyenne tribe
Affiliations: Friends with a group of bears ("The Shaggy Ones")
Enemies: Red Wolf (Johnny Wakely), troops of Fort Rango
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: The Bearskin Brave (yes, really), Bear Brother
Base of Operations: The Old West, outside Fort Rango, @ the mid-late 19th Century
First Appearance: Red Wolf#4 (November, 1972)
Powers: None. Ursa was very strong and a reasonably skilled grappler (from wrestling bears, of course). He was also an accomplished horseman and was skilled with several basic weapons stolen from the Cheyenne tribe. He was willing to keep people or other animals to feed or defend his people, the bears.
History: (RedW#4(fb)) - The man known as Ursa was lost in the frozen wilderness as an infant, but was rescued and raised by bears. He became strong from wrestling them, and he learned their hunting skills, etc. He learned to speak the language of the Cheyenne by listening to campfire conversations, from a distance. He also stole weapons and learned to use them on his own.
(RW#4) - While trying to steal a pony herd and injuring a Cheyenne named Little Elkhorn, Ursa came into conflict with Red Wolf. Ursa pummelled the smaller hero and prepared to crush him with a large rock, but Red Wolf kicked him over the edge of a cliff, but he landed in water and so was not killed. Upon recovering, he raised a group of the Shaggy Ones and attacked, overpowered, and stole a Fort Rango provision train, including a small herd of cattle. This was mistaken by the soldiers as an attack by a tribe of Native Americans, dressed in bear costumes. Meanwhile, a group of renegade Cheyenne known as the Crazy Dog warriors blamed the white men for the previous theft of their pony herd. As with everything else, this threatened war between the red and the white man, and so Red Wolf headed off to save the day. He again encountered Ursa and the two struggled briefly until Red Wolf inadvertently knocked Ursa into a hot springs crater, apparently killing him. Red Wolf and Lobo then found the cattle herd, drove off the bears, and returned them to the men of Fort Rango.
Comments: Created by Gardner Fox and Syd Shores.
He was "mighty as An Ha Dei, the Bear."
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
* Ursa Major, Mikhail Ursus, the Russian mutant, @ Incredible Hulk II#258
* Ursla, the Priestess of the Northern Snows, or the Hyborian Era, who also works with bears, @ Conan the Barbarian I#48
--all of whom are presumably named after Ursa Major, the Great Bear, which is the Greek name for the constellation also known as the Big Dipper. I forget the back story.
* Bear Brother, one of the Tribe of the Moon, @ 8000 BC, @ Alpha Flight I#83
--although, they are all separated by time and could be from the same family line.
* Brother Bear, energy creature spawned by Kang's technology @ Avengers: The Man who Stole Tomorrow
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Date: 2006-05-24 12:08 am (UTC)Re: Why I haven't returned to my homeland in a while
Date: 2006-05-24 12:09 am (UTC)A motorcycle, maybe.
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Date: 2006-05-24 12:11 am (UTC)Re: Why I haven't returned to my homeland in a while
Date: 2006-05-24 12:12 am (UTC)Riding through the old west in a tiny red vest, a fez, and a unicycle!
FEAR HIM.
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Date: 2006-05-24 12:14 am (UTC)2. meditate on being loved for a full three minutes
3. I associate a soft blue.
4. you're really quite remarkable :)
5. doing silly story telling on the short bus
6. A sleek leopard
7. Why do you put dots in your entries, re: Patr.ick Sw.ayz.e?
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Date: 2006-05-24 02:51 am (UTC)2. will do!
3. i love blue.
4. awwwwwwwww!! thanks. that makes me feel fantasticalrific mwah!
5.
6. meeeeeeeeow baby
7. so when people search celebrities they don't link to my entry. i really should stop on lj but on the-enigma it helped a lot.
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Date: 2006-05-24 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-24 03:23 am (UTC)you and me did do this meme before, but i like it too! so go for it, me name is hahahhahah BUTTERFLY!
and, where is the poll, so i can sign up for the hunt!