I found this in a collection of images in a file collection site that I’m not allowed to talk about (“The first rule of {site X} is that you don’t talk about {site X}“). I thought it might be interesting in light of the previous entry…
Author: Joey deVilla
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Notify Morgan Spurlock!
[Morgan Spurlock is the writer, director and star of Super Size Me]
The sandwich pictured above is the “Monster Thickburger” being introduced by the hamburger chain Hardee’s. Its ingredients are:
- Two 1/3-pound burgers
- Four strips of bacon
- Three slices of process cheese (a.k.a. “American cheese”)
- Buttered toasted sesame seed bun
All this makes for a sandwich that has 1420 calories and 107 grams
of fat. For the typically recommended 2000-calorie diet, the maximum
recommended total fat is 65 grams, and only 20 of those can be
saturated fat.
On the other end of the scale, a Hardees spokesperson says that they
will soon introduce a barbecue chicken sandwich that has only 300
calories and 4 grams of fat.
Maybe it’s all those Dukes of Hazzard shows and Three Stooges movies I saw as a kid, but I find the video of this dumb guy, his ’69 Mustang and a shovel [3.3. MB Windows Media] high-larious .
[This has been cross-posted to The Farm]
There’s just too much interesting stuff to do, and as a result I’ve
been over-caffeinating and under-sleeping. The end result is that
although I’m spending more time coding or learning some new
programming
tools and techniques (and with closures, Laszlo, Cocoa, all kinds of
ideas for Blogware and so on, there’s no shortage) as well as doing
some non-geeky reading, I’m actually getting less coding and learning
done.
I already knew that getting a good night’s sleep was essential to
being
productive, but it really hit me while reading the foreword to Aaron
Hillegass’ book, Cocoa Programming for Mac OS
X.
In it, he offers a bit of advice that I’ve never seen in any other
programming book: that getting eight hours’ sleep is important. He
goes
so far as to say that when learning something new and complex, one
should get ten hours’ sleep. He caps off the advice with a fact that
many of us know, but ignore:
Caffeine is no substitute for
sleep.
So that’s my plan for the next little while: to stop fighting the urge
to read “just one more chapter” or “just one more web site” or do
“just
one more thing” and get some proper shut-eye. I’ve been doing it for
the past couple of days and already feel a little sharper.
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R.I.P. Harry Lampert
Harry Lampert was the creator of one of my favourite DC Comics superheroes, The Flash — “The Fastest Man Alive!”
Here’s the Flash as Harry created him:
Jay Garrick, the original Flash. Click the image to see his bio.
And here’s the modern-day Flash:
Wally West, the current-day Flash. Click the image to see his bio.
So long, and thanks for all the comics, Harry!
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Yeah, Right.
Neither this ad nor the tactic would work today:
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There’s Hope For Us Geeks Yet
For no apparent reason — other than stumbling into this picture while
riffling through a place on “the internets” that I’m not allowed to
talk about — here’s a photo of a young, nerdy Jennifer Garner.
“Uh…would you like to program some sprites on my Commodore 64 after school?”
The moral of the story: teenage geekiness does not necessarily doom you to a life of adult nerd style.
If you really need a refresher on what Ms. Garner looks like today, here’s a photo from her from a recent appearance in Arena magazine. Happy one-handed browsing, boys (and 10% of girls).
