http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
The difference between $500.07 in food expenditures per week:
and $1.23 a week:
Friday, June 15, 2007
Coke is the Universal Food Product
TIME did a great slideshow feature on what the world eats:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
The difference between $500.07 in food expenditures per week:
and $1.23 a week:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
The difference between $500.07 in food expenditures per week:
and $1.23 a week:
Friday, June 08, 2007
GMail Chat with Colin
From Jenny
Hehehe I found this photo while trying to find a new picture to put on my Facebook profile (yes, I've succumbed). So I feel like I'm really out of the loop with your new grad school and career plans, what are you up to this weekend or next? Let's do dinner and maybe see the Bodies exhibition:
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html
I am almost recovered from my ailment!
Colin Gause to me show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
That looks really interesting. This Sat. I have to go to Leela's going away party (I don't want to but she's leaving for 3 years min., or indefinitely), Sun. I have to play golf then go to my soccer game but Fri. I am free. What do you think. semi-interesting tangent:
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Here's a funny little story. Firstly, you'd be surprised that MD and D.C. have like a billion golf courses. Somehow there are three within 4 miles of my house here. Anyway, I drove to one to use their pro shop to buy headcovers, and the place looks really good, everyone is white and 55+. In the shop I tell him my friends and I are always looking for cool places to play and ask if this is a private club. He says unfortunately yes, its very old (1800s) and traditional, he said when he started out he was at a semi-private place where membership was only $2,000 a year. I asked him what it was there. He says, I shit you not - 30. 30,000 dollars to be a member of a country club. I said theres no way I could do that unless I was retired and rich and he says "yeah, I mean unless you can get out here at least every other day it wouldn't be worth it for you." Then I go to pay with my CC and he says they only take cash and that most of the golfers don't even bring money, they just sign something and get billed at the end of the month so that they don't have to carry around a wallet, etc. I can imagine some guy getting insulted at the idea of being asked to pay, 'i'm not good for it? how dare you' etc. High rollers.
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- C
Jenny Kim to Colin show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
Hmm Friday I have to see my parents off at the airport b/c they're
going on vacation together for a week. Maybe next weekend then?
Some people have too much money.
Colin Gause to me show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
Throw a massive party at their house that gets way out of hand. Then, when their vacation has to get cut short because of some work and they call you from the airport (and Cindy picks them up) we will all (everyone passed out on the floor, all over, etc.) from the party will have to get up, some will go shopping for replacement things, some will stay and clean for hours, Cindy will pretend to get lost on the way to buy us some time, then drive real slow on the way home and just as they pull into the driveway, like 15 people sneak out the back door and out of sight, as they open the front door the last person is closing the back door. Then everything is fine and your mom says "Huh...I remember this placemat being aquamarine not teal...[you start panicking and/or sweating]...ugh, guess I'm just getting old. Jenny I'm going to go take a nap". You sit on the couch and wipe your brow.
ROLL CREDITS
Alternate Ending: After you wipe your brow, you hear a scream as your mom opens her bathroom door and finds some guy sitting on the toilet with her robe on reading Sports Illustrated and smoking a joint (or something similar, ie. two naked ppl laying on the bed in on top of some cocaine - you forgot to check that room because you rarely go in there). Your eyes are closed until you hear "JENNY!!!!!!!" and you sit up and open them and gasp.
ROLL CREDITS
Next weekend is fine too.
Hehehe I found this photo while trying to find a new picture to put on my Facebook profile (yes, I've succumbed). So I feel like I'm really out of the loop with your new grad school and career plans, what are you up to this weekend or next? Let's do dinner and maybe see the Bodies exhibition:
http://www.bodiestheexhibition.com/bodies.html
I am almost recovered from my ailment!
Colin Gause to me show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
That looks really interesting. This Sat. I have to go to Leela's going away party (I don't want to but she's leaving for 3 years min., or indefinitely), Sun. I have to play golf then go to my soccer game but Fri. I am free. What do you think. semi-interesting tangent:
----------------------------------------------------
Here's a funny little story. Firstly, you'd be surprised that MD and D.C. have like a billion golf courses. Somehow there are three within 4 miles of my house here. Anyway, I drove to one to use their pro shop to buy headcovers, and the place looks really good, everyone is white and 55+. In the shop I tell him my friends and I are always looking for cool places to play and ask if this is a private club. He says unfortunately yes, its very old (1800s) and traditional, he said when he started out he was at a semi-private place where membership was only $2,000 a year. I asked him what it was there. He says, I shit you not - 30. 30,000 dollars to be a member of a country club. I said theres no way I could do that unless I was retired and rich and he says "yeah, I mean unless you can get out here at least every other day it wouldn't be worth it for you." Then I go to pay with my CC and he says they only take cash and that most of the golfers don't even bring money, they just sign something and get billed at the end of the month so that they don't have to carry around a wallet, etc. I can imagine some guy getting insulted at the idea of being asked to pay, 'i'm not good for it? how dare you' etc. High rollers.
----------------------------------------------------
- C
Jenny Kim to Colin show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
Hmm Friday I have to see my parents off at the airport b/c they're
going on vacation together for a week. Maybe next weekend then?
Some people have too much money.
Colin Gause to me show details Jun 7 (1 day ago)
Throw a massive party at their house that gets way out of hand. Then, when their vacation has to get cut short because of some work and they call you from the airport (and Cindy picks them up) we will all (everyone passed out on the floor, all over, etc.) from the party will have to get up, some will go shopping for replacement things, some will stay and clean for hours, Cindy will pretend to get lost on the way to buy us some time, then drive real slow on the way home and just as they pull into the driveway, like 15 people sneak out the back door and out of sight, as they open the front door the last person is closing the back door. Then everything is fine and your mom says "Huh...I remember this placemat being aquamarine not teal...[you start panicking and/or sweating]...ugh, guess I'm just getting old. Jenny I'm going to go take a nap". You sit on the couch and wipe your brow.
ROLL CREDITS
Alternate Ending: After you wipe your brow, you hear a scream as your mom opens her bathroom door and finds some guy sitting on the toilet with her robe on reading Sports Illustrated and smoking a joint (or something similar, ie. two naked ppl laying on the bed in on top of some cocaine - you forgot to check that room because you rarely go in there). Your eyes are closed until you hear "JENNY!!!!!!!" and you sit up and open them and gasp.
ROLL CREDITS
Next weekend is fine too.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Multi-tasking media consumption
I've started a disturbing habit lately...caught between the indecision of either watching my latest Netflix arrival or delving further into my stack of summer reading, I've started to attempt both at the same time. Then I wonder why I can't remember what happened in either. Oy!
I should probably isolate the two stacks in separate rooms, TV in one, laptop in another, and books in the bedroom. Then they wouldn't all simultaneously tempt me. So while I'll put in the next episode of Deadwood, I'll also try to sneak in a few pages of "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006" edited by Dave Eggers. It's a collection of excerpts from blogs, websites, television shows, court cases, graphic novels, magazines, books, and other publications from the last year that collectively represent the broad range of writings from a wide array of modern media sources. And it's fantastic! Comics and the Iraqi constitution and Things You Should Know About Chuck Norris and Kurt Vonnegut...all in one book. It's like I died and went to ADHD-readers heaven.
Another series I've been enjoying lately is Slate Magazine's Blogging the Bible series. David Plotz is the author of a weekly series in which he reads, analyzes, and then write about each chapter of the Bible from the not so halcyon days of Genesis, to the John-on-an-acid-trip pages of Revelation. He's on Chronicles now, and every issue of this series has been both insightful, and hilarious. Highly recommended to queue up in your list of weekly on-the-job procrastination reading list.
While toggling between blog-haunting and occasionally working, I've been catching up on all the missed podcasts from this blog about Korea: http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/. I am a little ashamed to admit it, but I finally caved an bought an iPod. And...I think I love it. Harley don't hate me for it!
I should probably isolate the two stacks in separate rooms, TV in one, laptop in another, and books in the bedroom. Then they wouldn't all simultaneously tempt me. So while I'll put in the next episode of Deadwood, I'll also try to sneak in a few pages of "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006" edited by Dave Eggers. It's a collection of excerpts from blogs, websites, television shows, court cases, graphic novels, magazines, books, and other publications from the last year that collectively represent the broad range of writings from a wide array of modern media sources. And it's fantastic! Comics and the Iraqi constitution and Things You Should Know About Chuck Norris and Kurt Vonnegut...all in one book. It's like I died and went to ADHD-readers heaven.
Another series I've been enjoying lately is Slate Magazine's Blogging the Bible series. David Plotz is the author of a weekly series in which he reads, analyzes, and then write about each chapter of the Bible from the not so halcyon days of Genesis, to the John-on-an-acid-trip pages of Revelation. He's on Chronicles now, and every issue of this series has been both insightful, and hilarious. Highly recommended to queue up in your list of weekly on-the-job procrastination reading list.
While toggling between blog-haunting and occasionally working, I've been catching up on all the missed podcasts from this blog about Korea: http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/. I am a little ashamed to admit it, but I finally caved an bought an iPod. And...I think I love it. Harley don't hate me for it!
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