Totally useless opinion of the day
Why does anyone eat peaches in heavy syrup? Extra light syrup is more refreshing, and it's like 5/8 the calories.
In honor of Brian Riggins, who may be the only person who reads this blog besides my wife and I, here's five foods that you can get away with eating the lowfat/low-cal version of:
1) Fricking milk (down to 1%, of course -- not no stinkin' skim)
2) Canned peachlets/mixed fruit (see above)
3) Cottage cheese
4) Potato Chips (Baked Lays -- mmm)
5) Lunch meat (just buy the turkey, please, instead of the ham)
And five foods you can't
1) Ranch Dressing (all lowfat ranch tastes like ranchesqe white paint)
2) Real Cheese (not Cottage)
3) Mayo
4) All snack-cake-like dessert treats
5) Ice Cream (I'm looking at you, sherbet)
Thought of the Day: People with photographic memories should be kept out of bookstores by congressional law, to guard against possible copyright violations.
Copyright is, clearly, the most important crime issue in America today, judging by how much of our FBI resources go to protecting it. It's not drugs, abortion, terrorism, burglary, organized crime, massive amounts of date rape, child molestation, the Dallas epidemic-level car theft problem, or Christina Aguilera's sense of style -- it's copyright violations. Thankfully, the people sharing their collections of material with others over the internet are being prosecuted. What would we do if there was public access to art without having to pay inflated prices for it?
Side note: I just "borrowed" a book from the library, at no charge. I have to give it back, sure, but I get to read it for free. Is this the America our ancestors worked tooth and nail to build? Shouldn't somebody be profiting off this? I'm taking food out of Big Publishing's executives' kid's mouths, for Pete's sake.
But seriously, read between the lines of the campaign to demonize file-sharing and you'll see that the RIAA probably views libraries as terrible, terrible loopholes in the legal War on Content Restriction. And that's kinda all you need to know when you pick which side of the debate to be on, isn't it?
In honor of Brian Riggins, who may be the only person who reads this blog besides my wife and I, here's five foods that you can get away with eating the lowfat/low-cal version of:
1) Fricking milk (down to 1%, of course -- not no stinkin' skim)
2) Canned peachlets/mixed fruit (see above)
3) Cottage cheese
4) Potato Chips (Baked Lays -- mmm)
5) Lunch meat (just buy the turkey, please, instead of the ham)
And five foods you can't
1) Ranch Dressing (all lowfat ranch tastes like ranchesqe white paint)
2) Real Cheese (not Cottage)
3) Mayo
4) All snack-cake-like dessert treats
5) Ice Cream (I'm looking at you, sherbet)
Thought of the Day: People with photographic memories should be kept out of bookstores by congressional law, to guard against possible copyright violations.
Copyright is, clearly, the most important crime issue in America today, judging by how much of our FBI resources go to protecting it. It's not drugs, abortion, terrorism, burglary, organized crime, massive amounts of date rape, child molestation, the Dallas epidemic-level car theft problem, or Christina Aguilera's sense of style -- it's copyright violations. Thankfully, the people sharing their collections of material with others over the internet are being prosecuted. What would we do if there was public access to art without having to pay inflated prices for it?
Side note: I just "borrowed" a book from the library, at no charge. I have to give it back, sure, but I get to read it for free. Is this the America our ancestors worked tooth and nail to build? Shouldn't somebody be profiting off this? I'm taking food out of Big Publishing's executives' kid's mouths, for Pete's sake.
But seriously, read between the lines of the campaign to demonize file-sharing and you'll see that the RIAA probably views libraries as terrible, terrible loopholes in the legal War on Content Restriction. And that's kinda all you need to know when you pick which side of the debate to be on, isn't it?
posted by Mike Pape @ 5:52 PM
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