My parents never taught me how to cook anything. If I asked them, they would happily tell me how things were made but I never asked.
By the time I got to college, I still didn’t cook anything. I lived in the dorms the first two years which meant that I ate in the cafeteria all the time or ate potato chips in my room. By my third year in college I moved to an apartment which meant that I had to start figuring out how to feed myself. I think all I ever bought at the grocery store were varieties of microwave foods like hot pockets, pizza, and frozen dinners.
I tried cooking twice. One time I made some pork chops which were disgusting. The recipe made some oily gravy and I think I cooked the shit out of it. The second recipe I tried was some stew with meat and potatoes. That went horribly wrong because I guess I didn’t stir it or something and just left it simmering forever. This caused something to burn in the soup and there were flecks of ashes from something swimming in it. Every sip tasted like an ash tray. Of course I didn’t try to eat much it and dumped it. I made a huge amount.
After that I completely stopped trying to cook for a very long time.
Now I try to cook several times a week. It’s nice to have someone to cook for. It’s not really fun cooking for yourself. When you cook for yourself you cut a lot of corners and don’t try as hard. When you cook for someone else, you’re trying to do a good job. If I get salmonella, I don’t care. I’d care more if I gave Mandy salmonella.
I had a Palm Treo for like a year. I bought it because I had a soft spot in my heart for a Palm Pilot because I used to write some programs for it several years ago. I even bought it instead of the IPhone. Of course the Iphone just came out recently at that time.
I’m still on the e-mail list for PALMGEAR, one of the first Palm Pilot software hubs, and they sent me some promotional info about “new products.”
Right now IPhone developers are creating amazing apps, check out what’s coming out for the palm pilot:
That’s right. That’s Alice in Wonderland on your Palm Pilot for 3 dollars.
Here’s an app that logs how long your phone calls are.
It’s kind of weird that these are their fresh apps considering they really hyped up the Palm Pre not too long ago. The Palm Pilot is going to go bankrupt in about 2 years.
“Each 60-minute episode of Hoarders is a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control that they are on the verge of a personal crisis. Whether they’re facing eviction, the loss of their children, jail time, or divorce, they are all desperately in need of help.”
Some of the people on the show definitely do have a problem parting with their belongings. For example people might collect a bunch of junk like pill bottles because they think that some day someone will need them for something like a bead collection. Or they’ll get as much scrap metal as they can and put it all over their front yard because they think it’s like savings for their grand-kids but for the most part, it’s worthless. Those types of people are truly hoarding. But I think sometimes that show can’t find a real hoarder for the week so they’ll find people who are just really dirty.
For example, there was this family that had like 3 kids and several cats and dogs. Their house was trashed with trash. Not things they were trying to save because they thought it had memories or that it was worth something. It was just trash, like food wrappers and wadded up paper and things like that. But even that didn’t make them not hoarders to me. The key thing for me was that there was dog shit everywhere they wouldn’t attempt to clean. People may hoard animals and stuff, but people do NOT hoard shit. There was one episode where one guy wouldn’t clean up his dogs hairs because he had this superstitious belief that once he did that his dog would die. That’s different. That’s an irrational type of hoarding. These people who would not clean up their animal’s poo were just LAZY. You’re telling me that all 5 people in this family, including the kids, are can’t part with dog poo? Just scoop it up and throw it outside or something! You’re just lazy!
They’re so lazy in fact that the kid started sleeping in the shed instead of trying to clear a space in his own room. People who live by themselves are true hoarders. If you live with someone else, there’s at least one person in that house that’s just really really lazy.
I wasn’t the first person who owned the domain tommybear.com. I actually emailed the first person that had it and they said I could offer them money to take it over. I forgot why I even bothered all those years ago. Of course I refused to pay any money but I did notice that their ownership was going to expire in a few months if they didn’t renew. The guy who owned the domain didn’t do anything with it. It was always under construction or something.
A few months later I checked back and indeed that guy had let the domain membership elapse and I took it. I have had people actually call me and email me about wanting tommybear.com. But they offered me something ridiculous like $100 which is way less than I’ve spent over the years on messing around with my stupid blog. It actually used to also be the web front for my Palm software. Of course the Palm Pilot is horribly stupid now and since Go Daddy is so cheap, I can just make a new website every time I release an Iphone app.
I figured the people who have called me in the past about my domain were small change. I just googled tommybear.com a few minutes ago and I noticed there was a tommybear.com.tw. The tw meaning Taiwan. Surely this Taiwanese company would like to offer me a substantial amount of money so that their web interests won’t have to type in an extra .tw. Tommybear.com.tw, I want at least 10k for this domain and you can have it scott free.
Jimmy Fallon made a comment about how although he was honored to be in the animation from Japan, he didn’t think he’d swing a blackjack in such a effeminate manner.
I saw this dumb treadmill on Craiglist. I think I saw it on the news before. It was going for $2500!
It’s a desk that has a spot for a treadmill and like five monitors. I have no idea why i want to walk slowly on a treadmill and use my computer. Work out. Be done with it. Then go to work. I seriously doubt I can get my heart rate up while trying to keep my mouse steady.
Based on Dilbert and other comic strips, it’s in bad form to clip your fingernails in your cube. One of things I like to do in my cube is floss my teeth. Is that bad? I feel like it’s not nearly as loud as clipping your fingernails but it does make a noise. Is it gross? If I don’t floss my teeth at random, convenient times like this I would probably never floss. I don’t floss right before or after I brush my teeth. I usually just floss as something to do sometimes when I watch tv or like I said, in my cube. I guess it’s gross if you think about the possible food particles that might fly around. It just takes a second though so I don’t know why anyone would care about the plucking sound for 30 seconds.
I feel like I should diligent about it too because the last time I was supposed to have a routine dental exam, I cancelled it and never rescheduled. I need to get that back on my to do list.
So my brohime is going to Haiti for 5 months. It was either there or go to Iraq or Afghanistan. For a second, I wasn’t sure if Iraq or Haiti was worse if you were forced to go somewhere. On one hand, Iraq has it’s American resources well established. They’ve had bases there for a decade and probably have a lot of American comforts. Haiti, on the other hand, is devastated to the point where people can’t even get clean water.
But even with all that consideration, just watch the movie HURT LOCKER and you’ll know in two seconds where you’d rather be.
I don’t think any civil war, warlords, looters, or diarhhea is as bad as worrying about getting shot in the face, kidnapped, stepping on land mine, or suicide bombs.
The other day I was scrambling to make some cheese deep for some anemic broccoli so I tried to mix a little bit of milk with some cheddar cheese slices. I threw it in the microwave and guess what? Of course, it was a horrid mess and did not melt together at all. Goodbye cheese!
Yesterday, I put some Velveeta cheese squares in a bowl with a little bit of milk and threw THAT in the microwave and guess what happened? A little bit of heaven came out of the microwave.
Here’s a famous bit of information about Velveeta:
“In 2002, the FDA warned Kraft that Velveeta was being sold with packaging that described it as a “pasteurized processed cheese food,” which the FDA claimed was false (”cheese food” must contain at least 51% cheese). Velveeta is now sold as a “cheese product,” using a term for items that contain less than 51% cheese.”
I guess it’s basically cheese whiz in block form. Accept no Velveeta substitutes when you need to dip!
I distinctively remember being in high school and hearing that Mark McGwire took Andro as one of his supplements. Andro, or more accurately, Androstenedione is “a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands and the gonads as an intermediate step in the biochemical pathway that produces the androgen testosterone and the estrogens estrone and estradiol.” Whatever that means. It sounds like it’s a steroid but during the McGwire era, it was legal and available over the counter. Of course, as it turns out, that wasn’t the only thing McGwire took. He’s recently admitted he’s been on and off steroids and HGH for 10 years. I remember even thinking about ordering some back then because they were in so many ads in Muscle and Fitness magazine. McGwire was a monster back then. Check out these stupid guns.
When I was in high school, I thought all these big guys I wanted to look like got that big, for the most part, naturally. I assumed any supplement they took wasn’t more than powders from GNC. It turns out none of these big guys are natural at all. Arnold Schwartzenegger was also another hero of mine but it’s widely known that Mr Olympia competitions do not test for steroids and the Governor has even admitted before that he has taken steroids in the past. I thought all those meat heads in weight lifting competitions were just hitting the gym hard. Of course you do have to hit the gym hard to look like that with the steroids but without it they would look very different. Hell, I don’t even think Van Damme’s early 90’s physique is natural.
Bruce Lee’s phyisque was clearly natural but he was a skinny as a rail. He’s probably my only childhood hero that wasn’t juicing.
I just drank out of a water fountain for the first time in a while because i was really thirsty and while I was drinking, I decided that water fountains are kind of gross and I’ll probably avoid them. It also brought up a random childhood memory for me. Have you ever seen a kid put his mouth right on top of the water fountain to drink it because he doesn’t know how to lap water out of the air? Or have you see people do the same thing because the water pressure is so low? I have! And does anyone really clean that spicket from dirt or slobber or mildew? I haven’t seen it. People normally just wipe the drain part. I hate to be that guy but c’mon, that’s spit and a lot of sickness is carried that way. I can wash my hands but it’s too late once I’ve ingested it.
For some reason I had a random memory come up the other day about the space shuttle, Challenger. Remember the one where the first grade school teacher ever was going to be in space?
I remember my class, I must have been 11 at the time, all took a break and went to another classroom where a tv was set up. I don’t think I really knew what was going on except we were going to watch a space shuttle but I remember quite vividly seeing that it blew up in a puff of smoke. I had no idea what I was looking at.
In the following video, you’ll notice that the people watching the take off live also had no idea what they were looking at. Even Christa’s parents just kept staring at the sky wondering if what they were seeing was normal.
What was kind of horrible is that you can hear the NASA play by play guy saying, “There has obviously been a major malfunction.” I mean what can you say? He definitely should say something.
Since I had no idea what I was looking at I had no idea that something bad had happened. I just remember the teachers turning off the tv’s and then we went back to class and then hearing the dumb jokes the next day.
I have not set the world on fire in my Iphone programming. I blame the fierce competition. But I am happy to say that I did get paid $175 last month for efforts from Apple. Now does that cover my $1k Apple laptop or other software expenses? Hell no! But my foot is in the door and now I feel like I’m just an idea away from getting some momentum. I probably just need more apps. The 175 for a few months is from basically 2 apps but the 2nd app, my sequel game, has been out in a shorter period of time than my first app.
My next app is a secret but I got a good one cooking.
I’ve basically received very positive reviews from my app. A few people are mad that the game is sequalized but damn, it’s only $.99! Part II does go up to $1.99. That’s because I want to get them while they’re hooked!
Here are some reviews:
So I do have a following. The problem with the fierce competition is that if you scroll for my games in my category, you can’t find it because I haven’t done any updates in a long time. You almost have to search for it by name or keywords to even find it but there is a market out there for this type of game if people only knew.
I’d probably prefer a brick and mortar business but for those of us that can’t afford a subway franchise, the electronic business is the way to go. If I had a soccer store, I would buy a soccer ball at wholesale price and than oversell it to the consumer. That makes sense to me. That’s tangible business. If I had a Subway restaurant, I would buy raw ingredients separately and then sell it to the consumer in a different state. I’m providing them with a service. That also makes sense to me.
Making a computer program is like making art but at least a painting is tangible. A computer game is basically nothing! It’s like just a thought in the brain conveyed to a person for the sake of entertainment. It wasn’t created from any raw material like paint or dough. It’s run on a hardware platform but it takes up no new natural resources. Anyway, the nerd in my finds that interesting.
I am very close to my next app which is not related to my two adventure games. I want to work on those adventure games more because I feel like I’m getting fans but those games take an enormous amount of time. I have to write the story, render all the art with and without objects in the room and what happens to the objects, and then I have to program. It’s kind of brutal. Oh yeah sound. I finally added sound to my first game but have ZERO sound in my second game which people are annoyed about. Maybe if I get another check from apple I can work on the game’s TRIFECTA.
This is actually pretty old but I’ve only seen it recently. I guess it’s Christian Bale that had the Chris Berman moment.
Here’s Boomer in cussing tirade because people are moving while he’s trying to do his segment.
I would think distractions like the crew moving would affect emotional actors like Bale more but I guess it would be hard to do what Berman does too with a lot of distractions. Berman IS the best highlight man in the game.
So as I just mentioned, I’m doing this low carb diet. Just a few minutes ago, I was at a salad buffet and I almost got this item that I always used to get because I was told it’s really healthy.
It’s called Quinoa. I had no idea if it was carby or not. It’s a grain I think so I thought I’d better play it safe and not get it.
Turns out it has a ton of carbs! Like 29 grams! I didn’t eat it.
So my cable company, which I won’t say by name because I don’t want to be blackballed on my internet service, is having another campaign where they say write to FOX because they want to charge you extra for getting their service through cable. These networks usually want about $1 per subscriber.
This has happened before where this cable provider completely dropped a network channel while they and the network channel played hardball with each other. I know there are hundreds of channels on cable and satellite but the channel that you can absolutely not lose is any of the major networks. DirectTv dropped VS and I could care less. It’s not like I need to see a hockey all star game or something. I do kind of miss the MMA league WEC though.
My point is, if I was still a subscriber I would gladly pay the extra $1 to keep FOX. I don’t want to miss Football, American IDOL, or Family Guy. I could do without the Cleveland Show which is unwatchable like American Dad. I also don’t want to change to rabbit ears whenever I need to watch FOX because I don’t think I can DVR it that way. I know these cable companies don’t want to give in to FOX because other network channels will probably do the same thing but an extra $1 a month or even an extra $5 a month for all my network channels is totally worth it. I don’t think DirectTv is having a FOX battle right now.
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