OK Its official! I want a Kindle. I’ve been looking at multiple videos online and it seems that books look great on it. I also love how the small size fits neatly in your hand with a nice little cover. It seems so neat to carry around a library of books with the ability to wirelessly get thousands more, anytime of day! I also think its super cool that you can browse the Internet for free and get daily newspapers delivered to your handset. The only stopping point is the high price tag. At 400 dollars the economics become a little blurry as to what am I truly gaining from having the Kindle versus its paper counterparts. I bet if I were you calculate the savings from (getting cheaper books and not paying shipping costs + wireless Internet) 400 would probably take me about 2-3 years to pay back.
I’ve decided to start a charity. I’ve noticed how poor hip hop has been lately, so its inevitable that all these new “stars” are going to broke some day. What better time to start collecting for their retirement than while they are still popular. You like Soulja Boy’s Crank dat? then donate a dollar to his future.
No one wants to see a poor old man trying to super soak that hoe.
When you think fucked up Chinese hygeine and safety practices couldn’t get anymore loose. Check out this article on how chinese are recycling used condoms into hair ties. Great!
Allow me to stand on my soapbox for a second. One thing that particularly upsets me when shopping at grocery stores or drugstores are the use of customer loyalty cards. I’m so fucking sick of being asked if I have my Safeway/albertsons/CVS card in hand when I’m shopping. What is the purpose of this other than to lock you into shopping only at one store. If you want to do me a favor, just keep your prices low all the time and save me the charade of raising prices then lowering them when I present your particular card. I know I’m not really saving $5 on that box of Triscuits (don’t even get me started on how fucking weird is the name Triscuit, its the combination of biscuit and what? Tris? what the fuck is that!) I know that Albertson’s isn’t charging $7 for a box.
Seriously! who has the time to collect these fucking cards and carry them 24/7 just on the off chance of stopping somewhere to purchase something. Should I keep them in an baseball card holders and file them in three ring binders? Don’t even get me started on the follow up question when I explain I don’t have the card on me. “What’s your phone number?” Like its that simple, Hmm. Let me think, which number did I sign-up the card under? Could it be the home phone number for one of the 8 different places I’ve lived at in the past 8 years, or maybe the number for my cell phone, or work blackberry, or work phone number, or grand central number, or one of the two burner numbers I’ve used when my cell phone wasn’t working. Hold on, let me just manually try each of these 14 numbers (if I can remember them) just to get 1.50 off that laundry detergent.
Anyone other than Japa looking to take the other side of a bet on how long it takes before Japadamus purchases The Washlet? I know he’s going to be all over it.
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Kurobuta Pork for Tonkatsu Kurobuta Boneless Pork Chops for Breading and Deep Frying Tonkatsu is a traditional and authentic Japanese way to prepare this supreme quality pork.
Snake River Farms American Style Kobe Beef
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We are all defined by who we love, who loves us, and those loves that are lost. Tupac had Kato, Dre had Tyrie and I have Crock-P. We had a lot of good times together. Many a bowl was shared with her in low and slow style.
New York Times is reporting today that the former director of Chinese Food and Drug regulation has been sentenced to death following a series of scandals as a result of substandard drugs being sold abroad. In light of the recent pet food scandals it appears that industry in China is left to manufacture and sell products without any oversight. This poses a big problem globally as China emerges as a world power. In most cases it seems that a Chinese drug maker added a dangerous chemical to some product either to cut costs. The United States really should step in and begin testing these imports from China to issue safety before allowing these products on the market. I’m currently worried that purchasing a food or drug product in China might kill me down the road unless someone steps in to ensure its safety. Maybe this is a great idea for a private business?
The consumerist is reporting that Costco chose to recall the TKO punching bag sold in hundreds of stores across the country because the bags apparently were being filled with used underwear. I have no idea if this story is true, if it is TKO would have to be pretty dumb to think that’s an acceptable business practice.
Well, Mother’s Day is almost here and its time for us to start doing the annual scramble for gifts. I myself this year planned ahead a put togather a gift basket of sorts containing a few items purchased from my usual haunts (costco, trader joes.) I always dread having to remember these fake holidays that mean so much to family members. I dont know why it isn’t acceptable to just agree to a non-gift policy that way when the special day comes around we can rest easy in knowing that “I planned ahead.”
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems announced plans to roll out a high end cellphone built on the Java platform. The phone is expected to compete with other all-in-one devices like the iphone and Blackberry. The phone will feature a full desktop operating system.
This “innovation” by Sun seems to me like a sad attempt at boosting its stock price. Sun as a company has been in the doldrums for years. Java never really took off like they expected it would, and with the introduction of all these Web 2.0 applications, it looks as those Just-in-time computing via a java applet is going to be a distant memory. If it wasn’t for its huge debt load, lack of new product growth, diminishing margins in the server business, Sun probably would have merged already with a larger, sexier company. I’ll be following the jphone closely, but my guess is that its not going anywhere.
NY Times ran an article confirming a Google Phone project in the works. With iphone on the horizon for a launch in June, this new mobile phone entrant is going to have to be really good to get any love….Unless they make it free!
I’ve always pondered the question: What is the best Spam Musubi construction? On its face this question might not seem complicated but take a second and think of all
Well, Mother’s Day is almost here and its time for us to start doing the annual scramble for gifts. I myself this year planned ahead a put togather a gift basket of sorts containing a few items purchased from my usual haunts (costco, trader joes.) I always dread having to remember these fake holidays that mean so much to family members. I dont know why it isn’t acceptable to just agree to a non-gift policy that way when the special day comes around we can rest easy in knowing that “I planned ahead.”