If These Carrots Could Talk: A Carrot Retrospective
Miscellaneous, HumorThe other day (Nov 6,2009), a few of us at work decided that it was well past time to empty out our mini-fridge so that we could de-ice it and give it a little once over with some cleaner as well. I really wish I had had the forethought to document this entire process with photos as there were some other visually funny moments along the way.
Thankfully, I did happen to catch this beautiful item unearthed from the depths of our time capsule of a mini-fridge. What you see below is a package of Earthbound Organice Carrots with Ranch Dip dating back to October 2004! (that is what the expiration date was).
These pics are frustratingly poor quality, but I hope you can tell that the carrots have biodegraded to almost nothing...just some brown/green mush.
So, naturally I started to wonder what was going on in the world when these carrots last saw the light of day.
Most of October 2004 news is full of conflict in Iraq, bombings, and other non-humerous events. So I will just pretend that these carrots weren't traumatized by that news, and only heard about the cool stuff.
October 3, 2004:
Todd Zeile of the New York Mets Major League Baseball franchise hit a home run in his last at-bat of his career.
October 4, 2004:
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne reaches an estimated altitude of 112.2 km (69.7 miles), lands safely and wins the Ansari X Prize.
October 6, 2004:
Mark Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon, is denied parole for the third consecutive time.
October 10, 2004:
Christopher Reeve who played Superman in the movie passes away.
October 16,2004:
Expedition 10, carrying cosmonauts Salizhan Sharipov and Yuri Shargin, and astronaut Leroy Chiao, docks successfully at the International Space Station. Chiao and Sharipov will be relieving Mike Fincke and Gennady Padalka from Expedition 9, and will spend six months aboard the station.
October 18, 2004:
Early voting begins in Florida and ten other U.S. states for the 2004 U.S. presidential election, which officially takes place November 2.
October 20, 2004:
Ubuntu released its first version of the Linux operating system, called Warty Warthog (4.10). It is based on the Linux distribution Debian.
October 27, 2004:
The Boston Red Sox win their first World Series title since 1918 — and break the "Curse of the Bambino" — by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3–0 in the fourth game of the 2004 World Series of baseball.
source for news items: wikipedia
Hulu opens to the public March 12th!
General, Humor, InternetIn honor of Hulu.com officially opening up to the public (tomorrow), here is one of my favorite SNL clips.... PUNCHED!
Hulu.com has partnered with, among others, MGM and Sony to offer full-length television shows, clips, etc.
Meat Cake day at work
HumorToday we were very fortunate... a co-worker was generous enough to bake us a meat cake! Yes that is mashed potato icing, with red and green bellpepper decorations. Very festive.
Just in case you were wondering, meat cake is very tasty and quite satisfying. :)
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Funny custom made Linux machine
HumorHA! I stumbled across these pics on digg. I like how he keeps his screwdrivers inside the case.
Thomas and a Dragon...wow
HumorSo there I was, reading a book to my 2 year old when lo and behold, I discover one of the funniest pictures I have seen in quite some time.
The book: Thomas And A Dragon. A story about Thomas the tank engine, and his friends. Thomas delivers a paper dragon to a carnival...and apparently, he picks himself up a little treat of his own.
The picture: I saw this, started cracking up and knew I had to capture this for the world to see. I have not doctored this image in anyway. The profane "thing" that seems to be frightening Thomas is a little guy's hand. His very uncomortable looking hand.
Allow me to introduce you to my pig dogs.
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We are getting a new fence at the house, so the need for walking these FAT dogs has increased. Luckily for you I happened to take my cell phone with me one of these times.
Now, these dogs are seriously fat. They are pretty old now, so we just kind of let them be. I don't know if the camera is going to be able to really portray the true-life scene, but trust me...fat!
The strangest thing is, that these dogs don't eat that much (I swear!). They share one medium sized bowl of dog food between them. They don't get any table scraps or a ton of treats. I just don't get it. One of my theories is that they have some how figured out how to get fat from drinking water...I don't know, just grasping at straws here.
The white dog is a Rat Terrier. This breed of dog is supposed to be small, energetic (maybe even "bouncey"), but ever since I got her she has been somewhat of a special-needs pet. The second night I owned her, she was barking all night long and then puked,pooped,or peed in my apartment (can't remember which) so I put her out on the balcony so I could clean up. That was when she decided to see if she could fly. All of the sudden there was no more barking. First thought, "ahhhhh, sweet silence". Second thought, "Oh #@#$ where did she go?!" I ran out to the balcony, looked down, and saw this little Rat Terrier laying there (just stunned, but I didn't realize it). From that day forward she start having seizures, so she has been on some kind of drug or another for years. (all of which have some kind of water retention, fatassedness side-effects I'm sure).
Now, the Beagle has no excuse except for the fact that it is a Beagle I guess. He is seriously hugetastic. When he walks he sounds like a pig. If you walk too fast he lays down on his side and refuses to move. Seriously...fatty.
The story on this guy is that we rescued him from the local animal shelter, and of course he had had some tragic story of bad previous owners. The result was a dog who eats weird stuff, not unlike a goat. If you were to catch him on the odd chance he is actually up moving around, you might be able to spy him munching grass in the yard. (?!!).
An intertaining side-note to this adoption, the Animal Shelter requires you to neuter animals you adopt, so between the time I adopted him, and the date for the neuteration he knocked up the Rat Terrier.
What can I say, I am awesome at pets.
What do the offspring look like you ask? Well the one puppy that was kept in the family, (my mother-in-law took him) is just as fat as, if not fatter than, his parents. Those are some good genes right there!
Here are some pics:
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