Monday stuff

[yendi]

Quick weekend update: I read Elayna's copy of The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, which was quite cute, more so as a result of the wonderful Reader's Guide at the end by Lemony Snicket, which is a perfect parody of those horrible ones that get shoehorned into otherwise good books to make them all pretentious-like. The book was apparently Daniel Handler's favorite book as a child, and he used his clout to get it republished. The main novel itself isn't nearly as snarky as the Snicket books, but you can see the influence in terms of nasty things happening, no one being safe, etc.

Last night was gaming -- jet_li_wannabe, Gerry, one of jet_li_wannabe's neighbors, and I played Betrayal at House on the Hill, which I adore. Alas, things get slightly messed up when it turned out that the neighbor failed to note something in the traitor's rules that would have changed the course of the game, but we caught it in time for the heroes to win. I can't recommend this game highly enough -- varied gameplay, nifty concepts, quick learning curve, etc.

After getting home, I meant to go to sleep, but my Tivo lured me with its new episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. I haven't raved nearly enough about this series -- so damned good. And now, for the first time since I've started watching, we have a true goddamned cliffhanger. Grrr.

Burger King is unveiling a new breakfast sandwich that will have two eggs, a sausage patty, two slices of American "cheese," and three strips of bacon on a bun. It'll have over 700 calories. I'm torn between being appalled, and wanting to know if the mini-BK on Emory's campus will start serving it. If only they added ham, because everyone know that three types of pork are better than two on any sandwich.





The odds of NHL hockey happening this decade seem to keep diminishing.

Finally, in news that should shock only the most naive folks out there, it turns out that the TSA lied about protecting our data. I'm shocked. Shocked and appalled. I'm sure that Rumsfeld, Bush, Ashcroft, and others are just sitting around, scratching their heads and wondering how this could have happened.

Comments

[eyewrist.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I need my hockey!

grr.

[eyewrist.livejournal.com]

http://www.uscho.com/news/2005/03/24_010460.php

dude.. *sigh*

[yendi]

*nod* I saw that news last week. I'm still speechless.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Sheesh. And to think, over here, at least, McDonalds are trying to bring out 'lite' fair. When will the fast food trade get a clue?

Oh, I forgot. There will be people who will buy that BK heart-attack-waiting-to-happen and then sue the company when they gain weight, have a heart attack, etc.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a friend of write wrote a research paper on US-Visit recently for a computers and society class. As a French native living in the UK with an American fiancee, he's kind of interested in the subject. (France is behind on machine readable passports. For him to travel to the US, he either has to pay the US Embassy for a visa or pay the French government for a new passport when his old one has four more years left on it.) Anyway, he discovered the data taken from 'foreigners' entering the US is kept for 100 years!

[moocowrich.livejournal.com]

That sandwich defines Heaven.

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

700 calories? Child's play!

I checked out the nutrional information for Jack in the Box breakfast items (http://www.jackinthebox.com/ourfood/dynamic/nutrition.php?cat=5) to find out what the damage was in my beloved Supreme Croissant (croissant with egg, Canadian bacon, reg'lar bacon, cheese and mayo) and found it was only 475 calories (40 grams of carbohydrate, though -- bugger!)

But they have a Sausage, Egg and Cheese Biscuit that weighs in at 970 calories! It has 68 grans of fat!!

Yee haw. *glurk* *collapse*

[rafaela.livejournal.com]

How treif? So treif.

I miss my hockey. I am going to go into mourning for my beloved Maple Leafs....

[nishar.livejournal.com]

I am shocked the NHL didn't do what the NFL did in the same situation... play with scabs. Let the games be played and allow team members to play that wanted too... and not pay those who don't play.