8927 - Wednesday

[scottobear]

Gummi Chicken feet. They're tasty and disturbing.

I neglected to mention the taste sensation that BHK and I enjoyed throughout last night's movie. (Amy chose to stick with M&Ms.)


Gummi Chicken feet.

Pretty dang good, actually. right thickness and texture for a good gummy candy - fruit flavored. Grotesque to look at, but still nifty. (ours weren't in this cool packaging, but rather just a big plastic bag, which is all the more cool, as far as I'm concerned.

Who thought that it was a good idea?

Who hired a sculptor to carve chicken foot molds for candy?

I wish that I'd counted them before eating - I wonder now if there were an even number to account for 2-per chicken, or if one of the Gummi-creatures was a pegleg.

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via evandorkin -

A plan to sell classic novellas in retro cigarette packs via cigarette vending machines after a U.K smoking ban in enclosed public places goes into effect. At least I think they're going to (try to?) sell these in actual vending machines. Whatever the case, they're called Tankbooks, and are being produced by Tank, a think tank, creative agency and publishing outfit. Dunno if this is a P.R. stunt, an art project, an honest effort to sell books in an interesting manner, or all of the above. Nifty-looking packages, whatever the case.

I think that decks of cards would be cool, too. Standard Decks of 52, or even some Fluxx flavors, maybe? Possibly a Barfly version of Munchkin ? Speaking of which, BHK won at Munchkin Bites tonight.

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For future reference, as I think it's pretty generally known right now:

LiveJournal was unavailable between approximately 2pm and 9:30pm PDT on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. Apparently, they weren't the only ones with a power outage issue. Sites that are affected include CNET, Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp and all Six Apart properties, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox. I didn't even notice, as I was at work and at the movies - I wonder how many people too the opportunity to breathe a little fresh air and feel sunlight on their skin?

See what happens when you don't have geographically split clusters? I wonder how hard it would be to back up all of those guys... there's got to be a monster amount of data there.

I find myself looking forward to being snowed in at home, with BHK, the kitties and me all playing card or board games in the living room. I think that maybe we can call a "virtual snow day" at the house sometime where we can just do that very thing, without waiting for a total power outage.

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Netflix must think we're insane. "We've received Apocalypto - and have sent out your copy of My Super Sweet 16: The Movie"

Adam's off to his missionary work in Guatamala -A quick summary of his itinerary:

6:30 PM tonight - he arrives at the Hope of Life Mission Center.
Tomorrow- Sr. Center, plant flowers and trees, painting
Friday- mostly off-site construction
Saturday- visit orphans
Sunday- Boat Trip
Monday- More construction, painting, etc.
Tuesday- Food Distribution/Evangelism
Wednesday- more painting, hand out meals
Thursday- arrive home

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For work, I'm doing a distillation of a few hundred pages of documentation into bite size bullet-point chunks for next week... Tricky, but not impossible.

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Farewell, Weekly World News. I'm glad you lasted for as long as you could. I hope that the website will at least continue for a bit.

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1 year ago - break in dream, barometric pressure?, ogden nash, wtc movie, I'm a lucky, lucky boy, no danny, cost of being poor, hide the navstrip, food delivery, paintbot, times are changing

2 years ago - secret agent dream, teachers, dan reads wee free men, humor-type, vnc2swf, magic, don ho shock the monkey mp3, v for vendetta trailer, blood cholesterol, travel journal gig, net times journalist trouble, survey, scary villain picture

3 years ago - candy, incense, my mental room, cannibals, ka-boom, CoH

4 years ago - viking on newtcam, hulk adds my graphic to his journal, starmark, poop, Chinese food, mage knight

5 years ago - ISS, bear-lynching, beauty, Conroy books

6 years ago - bro's breakup, cej, exhort, more majestic, mailing tardiness, news, Dr. Ernest Freaky Bootygrabber, Radio, time for life poll

7 years ago - Friends assessment, Spiritual Beliefs

Comments

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Neato Chicken feet, not a fan of gummi food myself, but it is a bizarrely cool idea indeed, and that box is way groove. Flying feet indeed.

I think the cigarette pack book idea is a cool, though unless UK cig packs are considerably bigger than US ones thats gonna be one tiny book. Kinda like those pocket new testament bibles I used to see as a kid I guess.

No more Weekly World News! But who will I keep up with the exploits of bat boy? And speaking of bat boy I wonder why he hasn't really aged over the years?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I bet they'd make "chicken feet" out of chicken-nugget filler, if there was a market for it... comes with honey-mustard dippin' sauce!

stick a toe in!

I guess they could make the print a bit bigger than those old gideon bibles.... I sort of liked those when I was a kid, though I wished that the old testament was in there, too.

Fortunately, it looks like WWN's website will live a bit longer, so you can track our favorite kirk langstrom-spawn with the internets!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Cool Icon!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

like I mentioned to JB below - I wish I could take credit for the doodles in the icon - it's from a sheet of 26 squares available as a poster. I'll see if I can get the artist's name for you! I really like the images...and enjoy making noises along with it!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Nifty indeed and very fun to look at, my favorites are B, C, E, F, G, I, K, L, O, R, S, & T
Apparently I have a lot of favorites.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'm especially partial to Lunk, OooO and Uraga, m'self!


Your top 12 of 26!

[vanillabeani.livejournal.com]

candy love!!! i think weird foods are awesome (actually i think anything weird is awesome).
i have to explore this issue more and purchase some just for the hell of it :)

i was also wondering yesterday if it maybe was a good thing that LJ was down. i spent more time reading. i have a stack of books that i keep running out of time each day to absorb. shame on me!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I suspect that LJ is best taken in smaller bites, too. Harder to keep up with everyone, but easier to devour books and other outside worldly things!

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Best icon ever! I can't stop looking at it!

Couldn't eat the chick'n feets. Well, maybe I would try one, but I would be a must that I do it with my peeps closed. :0)

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I wish I could take credit for the doodles in the icon - it's from a sheet of 26 squares available as a poster. I'll see if I can get the artist's name for you! I really like the images...and enjoy making noises along with it!

Old Cigarette Vending Machines

[ameliarose.livejournal.com]

Here in the states there is a project www.artomat.org. They have artists create art that is the size of a cigarette carton or will fit inside a box the size of a cigarette carton. The artists then get a commission from the sale.

Re: Old Cigarette Vending Machines

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

very groovy... I'd forgotten about that!

Is there an art-o-mat near you?

Re: Old Cigarette Vending Machines

[ameliarose.livejournal.com]

There is one in Cincinnati, which is where I work everyday, but it would be about an extra half hour drive and into downtown. I'd like to stop by it sometime, but I'm not sure when I'll get the chance. I think it would be nifty to be a contributor to it though.

Re: Old Cigarette Vending Machines

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I want ot hit the ones in DC, VA and maybe Philly. :D