Fat President Tells Taunter "Shut Up!"

BBC

Politics in South America take a very entertaining, and somewhat concerning turn.
-Also after a second reading, the title of their article was almost as poorly chosen as my own, though at least mine describes the event.

St. Louis

While playing with Picasa, I discovered that I could use it to upload direct to my blog, so that's pretty much the only reason I'm posting this. Also, the trip to the top of the St. Louis Arch is in tiny, hospital-colored, oddly light, pods worthy of old Science Fiction movies. And the view is bizarre. You can lean into the window see the ground far under your feet. So, that's all for now.

Gapminder

This isn't much of an entry, but I just wanted to show off this awesome interactive visual graph at gapminder.

fancy pants phone

I haven't blogged in a long time, but now that I can do it from my phone I had to try. Typing on this sucks but I'm very excited about the possiblities. In 3hours I have been converted into one of those people who actually care about their phones features.

it's a blackberry pearl if any of you care. I wouldn't.

also I'm making 9+ lbs of spaghetti tonight and traveling back to berea tomorrow.

Eaties Cereal Bar

Eaties is for sale

Please buy it, so I can eat there. I'll love you forever.

It's probably one of most interesting hangouts in Asheville right now, and I don't want it to go away. Also one of your only opportunities to eat cereal in public. And confront the big bowl challenge.

They had plans for 'take out', but I always wondered if they would ever deliver. You might have to be the laziest person ever to get cereal delivered. I would love to be the cereal delivery girl. And not having to pour your own cereal and milk would be an amazing indicator of luxury. "I'm so rich I pay people to pour my cereal." Now if only I can institute a Louis XIV system where it is an honor to serve me cereal.

Trival Pop Tarts

For the first time since their invention, I have finally bought a pack of Trivial Pursuit Pop Tarts. As a fan of Trivial Pursuit and snack food with things printed on them it has long past the time that I should have gotten some of these. The flavor is "Quizberry", however I maintain that it is in fact strawberry. Well, poptart strawberry flavored.

First question: What is an adult glowworm called?

Good question. Answer: Fireflys. At frist I thought this was a riddle, but wikipedia says it's true.

Poptart number two. Question: What did Tinke Bell Like to sprinkle around?

I can only assume that they meant Tinker Bell and that I, in my craving for refined sugar - correction - high fructose corn syrup, ate the part with the 'r' before remembering my mission to type this. In any case, the answer is "Pixie Dust".

They also have nice, accompanying images between the question and answer.

There is a warning on the box "Careful: Don't eat the answer too soon!" Apparently there are "hundreds of tasty questions" so if there are any repeats in my box of twelve I'm going to be pissed. On the opposite side of the box, it says "over 200 delicious questions". While it doesn't contradict itself, it bothers me that they say the same thing, two different ways, 180 degrees from each other.

Sadly the box also informs me that a serving size is 1 Pastry and that pastry is 200 Calories. Surprisingly there are some vitamins crammed in there too. With 10% of vitamin A, Iron, Niacin, Thiamen, Vitamen B6, Riboflavin, and Folic Acid. Shockingly, the things contain "Two percent or less of... dried strawberries, dried apples, Dried pears." Wow, I'm surprised that there is some actual fruit in there under that "Hydrogenated cottonseed oil with TBHQ and citric acid (for freshness)".

No indication of what TBHQ is other than a footnote that says "Less than 0.5g trans fat per serving." That's comforting.

Hmm.

I barely ever update my blog. I consider this a problem.