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Monday August 5, 2002 |
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Blog Not that those sites aren't as full of stories as always, it's just that few of them were compelling to me to comment on. As I've said in the past, I'm not running a news site; if you want lots of links to potentially interesting stuff, check the sites I get my news stories from. In theory what I do here is comment on stuff in entertaining fashion, and if I don't have any interesting comments, I'll try not to fill up the space with typing for the sake of typing. Like I'm doing now, for instance. When in doubt, rate some kittens! (Or go look at cute pussy photos, whichever you prefer.) Cute RateMyKitten shots, as always. One weird-eared type of cat they have pics of a lot are called "Scottish Fold". They are undeniably-cute when in kitten form, but I've yet to see any adults of the breed. Do they keep the funny ears, or go out towards normal, or are they all slaughtered at a certain age, like veal? Unknown, and no, I can't be arsed to find out via Google searching right now. You can see some of these kitties on the site, usually in the top favorite photos. Example here or here or here, all taken from their current top 20. There is that other new type of cat, which are mutated to have tiny, stumpy legs. Which sort of cripples them; at least keeps them from climbing your curtains or leaping up onto the kitchen counter. I'm not sure, but this little piggy-looking kitten might be one of that kind. It's an ugly one, at any rate. Elsewhere on that site: I'd go to wrestling matches if this really happened, these two pose for photos better than most humans, and this is a pretty cat, but what the hell? And yes, I'm scrounging semi-comical updates from RateMyKitten.com; I've officially hit rock bottom on blog content, thanks for noticing. • One last kitten picture, though it's not from Rate My Kitten. It's the most popular shot on Yahoo News for Sunday, and is pretty cute. An especially tiny kitty, and the woman's weird face gives it a nice sense of scale, but at the same time I could really do without seeing her in that high of a magnification. • Speaking of weird looking people, here's some sort of freakish facial contortionist. Don't click if it you don't have a tolerance for freaking facial contortionists. It's about as wrong as a picture can be. I wish I hadn't seen it. He looks like someone in the undead bureaucracy offices in Beetlejuice; that's my only description. • Continuing our slow news day tour of popular Yahoo pictures; who the hell left Pamela Anderson in the oven too long? Is she taking massive UV ray bombardments as part of her Hepatitis treatment or what? Nasty. • Women's tennis is a highly-competitive sport, and it's all about winning and losing, not whether or not you look good. Right? Anyway, in the recent tournament Anna Kournikova played Jelena Dokic in the semi-finals. Jelena won and then got slaughtered by on of the William's sisters in the finals, but that's irrelevant. Compare Anna to Jelena (good lord). Too soon to say if there will be a changing of the guard in the "hottest tennis babe" rankings, but Jelena certainly has Anna beat in a few prime assets. So to speak. Unfortunately for Jelena, she actually tries hard to win, which results in photos of her looking like ome sort of ruby-lipped court carp. Not that being gorgeous or not is the real factor in determining the sex symbol race. Britney (see next item) is probably the most pictured woman on the Internet and she's pretty, but far short of supermodel looks; it's that she's young and has the whole slutty style, as well as being a singer and such. Being one of 50 gorgeous models isn't a real stand out position. Being the hottest of a bunch of pretty tennis players/singers is, especially if you have good PR. • Lastly, here's an interesting pic of Britney Spears with her little sister. The younger Spears is 1) not dressing like a whore yet, and 2) the spittin' image. She just needs a leather body suit and a "my first implants" kit, and she'll be on her way to fame and fortune. • Funny (since it happened somewhere else) and yet terrifying story about a guy in the Riyahd, Saudi Arabia airport who, when forced to open up his luggage, had around 300 cobras slither free. That would spice things up in the baggage check line, eh? The really scary part is that the guy flew in from Egypt! So he was on a flight from Egypt to Saudi Arabia with 300 cobras in his luggage. Imagine if he'd turned them loose on the plane, even two or three of them by accident? How'd you like to spend the flight in the overhead bin? Nice security at the Egypt airport, by the way. |
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Reminds me of sex. As for Sunday, it wasn't a real memorable day. I had to get up and go to work in the morning, and then ended up going nowhere in the evening other than food shopping. Buying groceries gets more complicated all the time. That's almost entirely my fault, I'll admit. When I was 20 I'd just go to one supermarket, usually Lucky, and get everything I needed. I would occasionally go to Price Club for bulk stuff at low prices, but that was the same crap I got at the regular Supermarket; just more of it. I now require four stores for my grocery routine, and it's partially due to my making much better stuff to eat, and requiring a wider-variety of ingredients. However it's mostly just me being picky and saving money. I go to the nearby Boney's for most of my produce, since they have a great selection and far lower than supermarket prices. I also get odd Mexican brand tortillas and chips and such there, that aren't sold anywhere else I know of. The tortillas are huge white ones, literally the size of a medium pizza, and very dry. They make awesome quesadillas. I get other food at Trader Joe's, mostly stuff like salsa, rice milk, nuts, popcorn, and cheese. All because they either have their own brands that are the best, or the cheapest. I still go to Price Club, but don't get much of the crap I did there when I was 20. Back then I'd get super packs of cookies and turkey dogs and soda and chicken pot pies. I don't really eat any of that stuff anymore, other than some soda, so now I get veggie burgers there, or dry Gatorade, or 20 lbs bag of baking potatoes. And lots of canned veggies, mostly corn, mostly for the rodents. Lastly I still go to the supermarket, and I'm glad there's not some cute cashier there I'm trying to impress, since she'd think I had the worst diet. I only get a few canned goods or semi-bulk foods there, or else cheese pizzas. I'd look like a weirdly-selective junk food eater if anyone there paid attention to what I buy. Today I got 3 frozen pizzas, all Fresciata four-cheese, 4 1lbs bags of egg noodles, 4 giant cans of vegetarian refried beans, and 2 cans of biscuits. I never get any produce there since it's much lower quality/higher prices than the fresh stuff at Boney's. I used to at least get Newman's Own pasta sauce at the supermarket, but I've been doing my own from semi-scratch the last few months, and I just buy big cans of marinara or pureed tomatoes at Trader Joe's, which I think stir from a bunch of veggies and mix in with. The prices on things are funny, since I'll get 4 or 5 bags worth of stuff at Boney's, and it will cost me $14.52. Then one bag at the supermarket will run me $22.70, and weigh a damn lot more to carry out. Of course that pales beside Price Club, where you can drop $200 in 15 minutes, $150 of it on things you had no intention of even considering for purchase when you first walked into the hanger-style edifice, and at least $50 of which will never be used at all. The net result of all that Sunday shopping (which included everything but a Price Club visit) was about 8 bags of food, which I put away, and then ate reheated Lasagne from yesterday, as well as some purple grapes. I'm not good at buying food and letting it go to waste, other than bananas, but I'm very good at buying a ton of stuff and having no energy/interest in turning it into an edible meal the day I purchase it.
I think today's blog is a vast improvement over yesterday's; since there wasn't any good line at the start (or anywhere else, for that matter), there was no resultant drop off afterwards. I'll strive for this level of steady mediocrity tomorrow as well, so something to look forward to there for sure. Actually I'm lying, tomorrow will bring content updates and other interesting things. I hope. Something more interesting than my shopping list, anyway. |
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