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May, 2010 Monthly archive

You may have seen the same Wendy’s commercial I have.  It’s the one that starts “Real chipotle and red peppers…” or in the version above, “It starts with fire-roasted peppers…”

These aren't chipotles.

Only problem is, these aren’t f!#%ing chipotle chiles.  A chipotle is a smoke-dried jalapeno.  They aren’t roasted.  They aren’t fire-roasted.  They’re smoked and dried, and look like this:

These are chipotles.

Most of the time, you see them packed in adobo sauce, like this:

Chipotles in adobo sauce.

I’m tired of this bullshit.  Get it right or get a new slogan, because I do know when it’s real.

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This is pretty much for the combined scientific/engineering monstrosity which is AdamBrad:

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Met Ring

This is extremely cool.  Kind of a small video, you need to watch it a few times to see what’s really going on.

I wonder who did a huge portion of the mechanical and structural engineering for that thing?  : )

You’ve got a big crazy rotating stage, flying performers, video projected on the stage, the works!  Who’s gonna see it with me?  Well, atleast part of it, The Ring Cycle is VERY long!

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It’s already been posted just about everywhere else on the Intarwebs, but just in case any of the folks around here haven’t heard of it…

This is worth it for Aquaria and World of Goo alone.  Plus, you can pay anything you want for the bundle, and you get to choose where the money ends up.  Plus, the games work on Macs, Linux-boxes, or Windows PCs!

Win-win for all. Hop on it!

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I know that many of you have been expecting me to post on this subject for a while now.  This may be surprising, but I never really got that hot and bothered about.

Not that I agree in any way with the law (it’s ridiculous), and I am also not underestimating the impact of the law (heavy), but you have to understand things in an Arizona context.  In some regards, I found it somewhat ironic that nation wide opinion seems to be much more virulent than the local feeling.  Granted, the national media I follow has a liberal bend, and the local sources are admittedly more conservative, but I think that doesn’t quite explain the disparity.  There’s a certain amount of defeatism; something I’ll steal and call TIA (This Is Arizona).

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