So I got a new hard drive for Christmas. It astounds me that something smaller than a standard paperback novel holds 1 terabyte of data. Even more astounding, it cost less than half of the six gigabyte drive I bought in 1998.
The future is now, and it’s truly awesome.
No kid should ever have to write a letter like this to Santa Claus. Never.
(Seen in local postal annex.)
[Yet another post in my occasional series “Tales from the Commute”]
The commute was ugly today. It looked like this most of the way:
It was fun fighting that, when you couldn’t read signs until you were almost on top of them, and people disappeared into the fog way too easily.
But at the bottom of my offramp, it looked like this:
Photo by retstak
Go figure.
Eating my morning snack of a banana, and this sticker made me laugh
So I’ve been trying to be more interested in nutrition labels to get a better idea of what calorie counts and other stuff are in my food. This has now become a game, in which I attempt to find the most egregious and/or crazy entries on the nutritional label.
Today brings us two entries in the WTF serving size competition:
1) Apparently, a serving size of Tic Tacs is one Tic Tac, with the extremely precise value of 1.9 calories per serving. (Sorry the picture’s kinda blurry, was trying to take it fast.)
2) I’d like you to try and eat just one-third of a muffin at once. (The whole muffin is 600 calories. OMG.)
Photo by retstak
I found this in the grocery store last night.
Me: I’m afraid to look at how many calories that has.
Jill: (flipping package over): Servings per package: 12. Calories: 200. Calories from fat: 90.
Me: Yeesh! That’s one-sixth of one cup per serving.
So I guess if you really like Reese’s, this might be worth it. Just keep in mind, one cup is more than half your RDA.
Caught this shot of a bunch of what appeared to be pigeons on top of a light pole. With the clouds, it made for a beautiful shot.