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Dude, where’s my shower?

Posted by papi on January 14th 2008 in Random
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Overheard the following conversation in the men’s room of a Tahoe ski cabin, between Dude brushing his teeth, and Disembodied Voice from Shower (DiVoiS).

DiVoiS: “Dude, there’s a nasty bruise on the back of my calf, dude. It’s huge, dude.”
Dude: “How did you bruise the back of your calf, for cryin’ out loud? Did you take a fall on the halfpipe?”
DiVoiS: “No, dude. It’s on the back on my calf, how did I do that? Dude, it’s black and blue, dude.”
(Pause)
DiVoiS: “Doesn’t hurt at all, dude.”
(Pause. Vigorous scrubbing noises.)
DiVoiS (excitedly): “Dude, it’s coming off, it’s coming off, dude!”
Dude (slightly alarmed): “What? What’s coming off?”
DiVoiS: “The bruise, it’s washing off, dude.”
(Long pause)
Dude: “Dude, not to state the obvious, but you really need to shower more than once a week.”

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Ice cream

Posted by jcaldera on October 16th 2007 in Food & Wine, Humor, Random, Rants, Society
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We discovered not so long ago that our daughter Natalia is lactose intolerant. This has been an inconvenience because she seemed to develop this intolerance recently, and she loved dairy products. Since we figure out that she was lactose intolerant we’ve been buying soy based products for her. Tonite we bought soy ice cream. And I can’t be any more sorry for her that I am tonite. Soy based ice cream is likely the worse product I’ve ever tasted in my life. Maybe it is the brand or the actual flavor, but it was so terrible that it make me thinks it is just the way it is. The worst part is that Natalia ate it all and she seemed to like it. I didn’t have the heart to put it where it belongs: the trash can.

Thinking about it, at least I can understand why lactose intolerant people would eat it. Now, what in the world is going through the people that makes it a choice. I know likes and dislikes are subjective and sure, somebody must like it for there to be a product, but this is beyond any comprehension. This is an actual aberration. If there is any Vegan reader that can explain to me why they would turn down actual ice cream for soy based ice cream, I hope the answer is like: we don’t eat ice cream for that reason, that would make me respect them at least. But trying to justify that they actually eat it because they like it would be beyond any comprehension.

Since we are in the subject, I’ll give you another piece of information on modified ice cream. The writer of this blog has actually been on and off the south beach diet. As you may know this diet precludes eating ice cream both because of the sugar and because of the fat. So, my love for ice cream is so deep that I am forced to buy the sugar free versions of the ice cream. Agreed that at least this ice cream is eatable. The availability of splenda and the like have make it possible to create a version of ice cream that though doesn’t get to the actual full fat/sugar ice cream is ok. But don’t be fooled ice cream was meant to be tasty not healthy, and it should remain as such.

For those of us that have access to San Francisco and those that come to visit I must suggest Mitchell’s ice creams. Incredible ice creams - no sugar free or soy available… … Go and expect to be in line for about 30 minutes even in the middle of the winter.

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Hair Cut

Posted by anupcs on July 05th 2007 in Geography, Random
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Conversations with the stylist:

She: Any plans for the summer?
Me: Yep, Colombia
She: Cool, Canadians are nice
Me: Erm… sure they are but…
She: Is that near Michigan?
Me: What?
She: Colombia
Me: Not that close
She: I am sure you’ll have fun there
Me: Yes, Canadians are very nice

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Auld Lang Syne

Posted by anupcs on January 01st 2007 in Music, Poetry, Random
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I had a very sedate(d) new year’s eve (NYE) – a radical departure from the hedonistic celebrations of years gone by. Both my wife and I (also some friends) caught a viral fever of some sort during a trip on XMAS weekend. The holiday week was spent watching movies, reading books, and lazing about, in between coughing fits that could be heard as far away as Moffett Field. The good news is that I don’t need to pop any Tylenols as is custom on New Year’s day every year.

I don’t have the energy to call those near and dear to wish them a prosperous new year. How about a blog post instead? Here’s wishing all the English speakers (and others who celebrate January 1st as the first day of the year) a happy new year.

Auld Lang Syne is the poem most associated with NYE. Originally written by that esteemed Scot, Robert Burns, it became part of the official NYE celebrations when Guy Lombardo’s band first used it in 1929. A recording from Lombardo’s band is still played during the NYE Times Square celebration in Manhattan. Burns wrote the poem in old Scots and very few people can remember even the English translation. Here’s the full English version…
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Commuter’s stories: clever nature

Posted by jcaldera on September 15th 2006 in Auto, Cars, Humor, Life, Nature, Politics, Random, Rants, Roads, Society, War
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A couple of days ago, in my daily commute to work, in the usual company of fellow San Francisco commuters, with the usual boredom, one of the favorite topics came to the plate: dumb people (which of course is everybody that drives except whomever is in the car at that moment - no pun intended to my fellow bloggers and (some) acquaintances).

Bear with me in this line of thought and (un)reasoning. While talking about bad drivers, we sort of link it to the Darwinian mechanisms of survival of the fittest. So bad driving is really a natural mechanism for getting rid of certain number of people, which is, we suppose, one of nature’s problems: how to keep these annoying humans for growing larger and more powerful than nature. So we tied that to the fact that nature was very clever and was savy enough to embed human kind with some “stupidity” property, which comes small or large depending on the subject, and the geographical location (don’t ask me why but I suspect it is very true). Then nature decided that is not good enough because stupidity by itself won’t get rid of many people. So nature kept trying and decided to embed the “power” property in these human subjects (or objects for the OOP geeks). And then nature came with the master plan and based on probabilities, IT thought that eventually you could have one subject with enough desire for power that would take advantage of the stupid people. Chi chin! big win for nature, mathematically speaking, and we all know nature is about zeros and ones, this would guarantee the possibility of yielding enough stupidity together to raise to power somebody stupid enough, managed by people that desire power, that would cause the destruction of a lot of people.

Of course I am not referring to anybody in particular, or any sbject in particular.

Ahh! the wonders of commuting.

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What’s in a Name?

Posted by anupcs on August 19th 2006 in Random
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I was brought up not to make fun of people’s names. After all, my own name is corrected as Anus by spell checking programs. So there.

But my mother is not reading this blog and I am not technically poking fun. I merely want to point out that the current director of the WHO department of HIV/AIDS is Kevin de Cock.

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