walmart, microwave ramen, bloody go, stumbleupon, blogger comment spam, more jpop

Looking at what kind of blogs I like to read, I found that the ones that are updated less frequently but in bigger chunks tend to be more interesting than the diarrhea-of-the-keyboard style blogs. This is my first conscious attempt at the "high-fiber" blogging style, haha. Ok. No more disgusting jokes, I promise. First, to relieve this blog's recent constipation, today at Walmart, I realized how good of an idea Walmart is. I know they take advantage of child labor, poverty wages, Mexican immigrants, cocaine-smuggling profits, ties to the international Triad Mafia, etc. but looking just at their marketing skills, I have to admit that I'm very impressed. Everything in Walmart is ordered in a logical, intuitive manner. I love Bloomington's Target like my own child, but for the love of me, I couldn't find a freaking pencil sharpener or overhead projector sheets. Also, Walmart has a very strong "store brand" system. The idea of a store brand in itself is ingenious. Walmart can copy the formula of any drug, label it as Equate, and sell it for cheaper w/o R&D or advertising costs. Same goes for Sam's Club labelled foods. In 20 years, threatened by the Internet, Walmart declares war on the Microsoft/Google/Apple alliance. MGA pools their computing power together, only to inadvertently create a sentient supercomputer that then goes on to destroy human civilization. You heard it here first. Also at Walmart, they now sell microwaveable ramen! "Chow Mein" is just a block of ramen in a plastic tray with dried shrimp and powdered and liquid seasoning. I bought a package for $.87 "EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS??? FOR RAMEN??? BOBO??? WHAT"S WRONG WITH YOU!?" you ask? Well, I bought one package for the microwave instructions. Now, I can buy $.15 ramen rectangles and cook them in the microwave! And any of you college readers are lucky, because I'm sharing this Walton family secret recipe with you as well:

1. Open container. Remove Liquid Seasining, Powder Seasoning, and Shrimp packets.
2. Open Shrimp packet and pour content in the space between Noodle Cake and Container. Pour 1 cup of water in the container.
3. Cook in Microwave oven (UNCOVERED) for 6 minutes or until noodles are tender. Let stand for 1 minute. DO NOT DRAIN: Some water remaining in the container after cooking is desirable.
4. Pour content of Powder and Liquid Seasining packets on cooked noodles. Stir noddles thoroughly. Ready to eat.

Now you know. I made a Go set! Major, HUGE props go to Kyrie and Lynn for the materials, expertise, and advice. The board isn't perfect, but since I didn't have to go buy a bigass board at Lowes, I'm not complaining! When I redid the grid, I didn't have clamps so some of the lines are a lil crooked, but still the board looks very nice. And the red and clear pieces are gorgeous. I would marry this go set if that were legal. Right now, my mom and I are working on needlework containers for the go pieces. I've spread the StumbleUpon gospel to Patticakes and Ayame, now it's time for the rest of you! What is SU, you ask? It's an extension for Firefox that "let's you channelsurf the best sites on the web." The best thing is that as you rate sites that you stumble upon, SU can figure out what kind of sites people like you enjoy. All of the links that I contribute to the linkblog (see left sidebar) are from SU. Try it now. (What is Firefox? Are you SERIOUS...go to http://firefox.com and talk to me after two weeks. You will be a changed person) Blogger blogs hosted on blogspot (say that 10x fast) are getting attacked by comment spam! See the entry before this one for some examples. Agh. I hope this doesn't become too prevalent. My gmail account has also been recently spammed a lot. Maybe I'll have to rush developing that php blogging script. And for a cool Jpop site, check out J-Revolution ("All Japan, All The Time"). I'm hoping that the AAA and China House sites can be a useful as J-Rev. China House is coming along. The content is 70% up. I need to work on layout a bit more. That's it for now. Wow, that was a craplo...I mean, that was a lot to spew ou...I mean, that was a lot.