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- October 5, 2011
- RIP, Steve Jobs
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- September 1, 2011
- Carls Jr. Misleading Ad...Fail!
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I was watching TV yesterday when a Carls Jr. commercial came on, advertising 2 Western Bacon Cheeseburgers for 5 bucks.The only burger image that is ever on screen is an image of their Six Dollar Burger (the western bacon cheeseburger version), which is NOT part of the promotion. I paused my TV and snapped an image with my Android.Here's the image, along with their shameless disclaimer, "Six Dollar Burger shown. Six Dollar Burger is not part of the promotion".
I don't know about you, but I thought their usage of a more expensive product image was pretty lame! Apparently, others agree as Carl's has agreed to pull the misleading ad.This Carl's Jr. commercial reminded me somewhat of how the auto industry commercials typically advertise some monthly lease amount that doesn't match the actual car they show you (because of upgrades and options, etc.). But, for some reason the food image one bugged me more...not sure why.What do you think?
- March 10, 2011
- Red Hot Foods helps Rosemarie create her own special hot sauce » Ventura County Star
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Rosemarie Mildengren of Thousand Oaks always wanted to cook and sell her homemade hot sauce as a way to make extra money.
But when she looked into bottling her tasty sauce, which she cooked up in her kitchen, she found that the rules and regulations would make it almost impossible to accomplish her dream.
"Three years ago, my family and friends told me to make the sauce and sell it. I tried to get a permit, but I was told I could not make it in my home," Mildengren said. She looked for someone who could help her bottle her hot sauce, but the minimum orders were for 5,000 cases, which was far too expensive.Someone told her about Red Hot Foods.
"I was just desperate to make this. The recipe is really good. Then I found out about those people at Red Hot Foods and they made this happen," Mildengren said as she gestured at the bottles she had on display at the Westlake farmers market where she now sells her hot sauce.
A native of Sweden, Mildengren said she had always been fascinated with peppers and the way they made her food taste. She experimented with making salsas.
"After my family and friends commented to me that I had found the right flavor and consistency for my salsa, they encouraged me to create a hot sauce where the flavor would not disappear, but linger from mouthful to mouthful," she wrote in a piece displayed at her booth.
Butch and Burma Baselice of Red Hot Foods said they helped Mildengren understand the bottling process, as well as comply with the regulations governing food manufacturing. They said they enjoyed working with her in developing her product.
Mildengren had one batch made in October, and it has been selling well.
"It's very pure and fresh. I use Fresno and habanero peppers, which are washed and cleaned and put in a mixture with just a few other ingredients," she said.
She said she sold about seven bottles at the Westlake farmers markets on her first outing, and she's been selling them at the family business, Hockey Alley in Newbury Park, where she has sold six boxes.
She said her experience with the Baselices couldn't have been more pleasant.
"I feel like they are my own family," she said.
Rosemarie's Hot Sauce is $9.95 for an 8-ounce bottle. For information, call 796-6092.
via vcstar.comMy friend, RoseMarie was in the Ventura County Star today, with her new, awesome hot sauce!
- February 2, 2011
- The Brads - How to build a corporate website
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via bradcolbow.comSo funny, and so true! I'd be much richer if I had a dollar for every time I've been involved in projects like this!
- February 2, 2011
- At Last, You Can Send the Yellow Pages to Hell
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via gizmodo.comFinally, we can opt out of getting the Yellow Pages (unless, of course, you want to continue to use it as a door jam or something...).
- January 24, 2011
- #NHL #LAKings + Super Heroes + Tattoo = ?
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Check out the new tattoo that my fellow awesome Blue Lady Kings teammate, Kristina Morgan, got over the weekend! Now THAT is fan loyalty! Wow....cool tat! I hope she wins the contest! (http://kings.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=66642)
Read the complete article from live.comicbookresources.com.
[update] View pics on Flickr of the tattoo process
- December 28, 2010
- Kings Goalie Quickens Vezina Pace - Versus
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Bill Meltzer
December 28, 2010If the Vezina Trophy was awarded for the first half of the season, it would be a two-horse race between a pair of American goaltenders: Boston's Tim Thomas and LA's Jonathan Quick. Thomas' extraordinary comeback this season has been well documented, but there has been much less attention paid on the national level to Quick's play. That is almost always the case for Western Conference players, especially those playing in the Pacific Time Zone.
After last year's playoffs, many critics felt that Quick -- who had a strong regular season, but was previously an unheralded young goaltender -- had his weaknesses exposed in the postseason. If that's the case, the 24-year-old has done a mighty good job at covering them up again this season. Following his 24-save shutout of San Jose on Monday night (his fourth shutout of the season and second in three games), Quick lowered his goals against average to 1.86 (second best in the NHL) and raised his save percentage to .932 (third best in the league). He registered his 18th win of the season (third most in the league) in his 26th game.
Although the 4-0 final score of the Sharks-Kings game makes it seem like Quick had a relatively easy night in goal, the game was scoreless through two periods and Quick had to make several difficult saves to keep the scoreless through 40 minutes. Finally, the Kings exploded in the third period, solving San Jose goaltender Antti Niemi four times.
Perhaps the challenge of having highly regarded young Jonathan Bernier pushing him for the starting job has helped Quick elevate his game or perhaps he has simply continued to mature as a goaltender. He's allowed fewer big rebounds and short-side goals than he did a year ago, and he rarely has let one mistake snowball into a series of miscues. He's shown this season that he's tough to get to commit early in one-on-one showdowns with shooters, and he's always known how to use his big frame to make it tough to score in close.
There's nothing deceptive about the numbers Quick has put up so far this season: He really has been that good.
via versus.comGo Jonathan Quick! It's been great watching him play this year. Especially the 51-save shutout vs. the Red Wings earlier this season.
Keep it up, Quick!
- December 21, 2010
- 3-year-old disappointed in books for Christmas [video] - Holy Kaw!
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Gotta love how kids just say it like it is! ;-))
- December 13, 2010
- Random Bag of Crap from Woot!: Behind the Orange Curtain
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(click the photo to enlarge)
Okay, after trying for almost two years to actually get an order through for a "Woot! Random Bag of Crap", I finally did get an order and today I received mine.According to Woot.com, here are the stats for the RBOC from Dec 1:- Random Crap
- Current numbers (updated each minute)
- First sucker: jinanwow
- Speed to first woot: 0m 16.424s
- Last wooter to woot: davetonih
- Last purchase time: 4:35:09 PM Central Time
- Order pace: 0m 0.113s
- Woot wage: $97,037.95
- Woots sold: 2967
Here is the unveiling of my RBOC (refer to photo).1) Hot pink, very fuzzy and sparkly purse with giant pink sequins. I mean, who couldn't use this?!2) "Picture This" tree ornament -- put in your own picture and hang it on the tree!3) My very own digital photo frame keychain! That is HUGE! Holds a whopping 2MB worth of photos!4) A Sony Reader cover. Because, of course, I own a Sony Reader. NOT.and, last but not least......(drum roll, please).5) A Leak Frog. Comes with two in the box. Just in case I want to place them strategically in areas of the house that *may* accumulate water. The Leak Frog will alert me. Can't wait to hear what that might sound like! LOLAnyway, for $3.00 plus $5.00 shipping, I would say that my co-workers and I got at least that much in entertainment value. Did I mention that they sold over $97K worth of these things in about two minutes?!Dina
- November 11, 2010
- Kings vs Dallas...Go Kings!
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It's a battle out there! 
- November 4, 2010
- At Kings vs. Lightning
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Go Kings! 
- August 31, 2010
- Dancing Merengue Dog - Must See!
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via youtube.com
This is soooo cool. What an amazing dog.
- August 26, 2010
- Lucinda Williams
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Woooohoooo! 
- August 26, 2010
- JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys
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at long beach queen mary :) 
- August 22, 2010
- If Historical Events Had Facebook Pages
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via geekologie.comEver wonder what it would look like if Charles Darwin or Abe Lincoln had a Facebook page back in their days? Well, now you know!
- July 24, 2010
- Yay! Dexter Season Five Trailer Released -- Premiers Sunday, Sept 26th
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via sho.com
Woooohoooo! Love Dexter...can't wait for the new season!
- July 15, 2010
- Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living (via OwenKelly.net )
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At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are.
- Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
- Follow the three Rs:
- Respect for self
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions.
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
- When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Spend some time alone every day.
- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
- Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
- A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
- In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
- Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
- Be gentle with the earth.
- Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
via owenkelly.net
- June 1, 2010
- The unhealthiest restaurant chain in America - Food Business
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SalonWhat's the fattiest, most heart attack-inducing dish you can get at a restaurant chain in America? It isn't KFC with its much-talked-about Double Down, or Burger King with its Triple Whopper, and it isn't even TGIF with its heavily loaded nachos. The most unhealthy restaurant chain dish in America is brought to you by the Cheesecake Factory.
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Xtreme Eating Awards, which "reward" the American chain restaurant dishes with the highest calorie, fat and sodium counts, the Cheesecake Factory's Pasta Carbonara will saddle you with a heaving, gut-busting 2,500 calories and 85 grams of saturated fat. That's the fat equivalent of four days of heavy-duty meals. If that didn't shock you into swearing off the chain for at least a year, here's another analogy: Eating just one plate of Pasta Carbonara at the Cheesecake Factory is like eating five, yes, five Double Downs at KFC.
But there are other surprise winners. At California Pizza Kitchen, the innocuous sounding Pesto Cream Penne is worth 1,350 calories and a whopping 1,920 mg of sodium -- almost as much salt as you'd eat in an entire day. The Tostada Pizza, which sounds even healthier with its strips of lettuce, fresh tomato salsa and black beans, racks up an unbelievable 1,680 calories and 3,300 mg of sodium. Perhaps you'd like some unlimited Coke to go with all that sodium?
What's most striking about the Xtreme Eating Awards is not the calorie count itself -- we'd be fools to expect anything less in a land that throws up gems like Arizona's Heart Attack Grill -- it’s the way restaurants have managed to camouflage unhealthy meals as dishes that sound like paragons of healthful deliciousness. Most of us wouldn't touch a Quarter Pounder with a 10-foot-long fork, but wouldn't think much of eating P.F. Chang's Pan Fried Noodles instead (incidentally, 1,820 calories).
As the battle cries against obesity and overeating become shriller than ever, we've become adept at crucifying the most easily recognizable offenders -- red meat, fried chicken and sugary, fried foods. But our food education is woefully inadequate; many people still don't know what makes a meal genuinely healthy -- or that, for instance, a white-flour pasta slathered in cream sauce is just as bad as a plateful of cheesy fries.
With diners becoming increasingly calorie-conscious, more and more fast-food chains are promoting healthy alternatives on their menus. But as the Pasta Carbonara shows (described in Cheesecake Factory's menu as "spaghettini with smoked bacon, green peas and garlic-parmesan cream sauce"), what you perceive can sometimes be very far from what you eat.
via salon.comStill waiting for that healthy, fast food, drive-thru restaurant!
If the Veggie Grill (http://veggiegrill.com/) had a drive thru, and was in my area, I'd be eating there all the time. They have awesome food.
- May 11, 2010
- Went out on the balcony...
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