I went to the pet store today with the intention of buying a $5 filter for my little tabletop tank, and instead ended up with a new 50 gallon system. I already owned the glass tank, but everything else is new. I haven’t had my big tank set up since 2003. Luckily it doesn’t leak after 6 years in storage. Very exciting!
Don’t strain your eyes looking for fish; there aren’t any yet.
Check out the iPhone app that makes you into a Terminator. It’s called TerminateMe, and it’s free, as it advertises the new movie (that looks really cool by the way).
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I don’t know if you’ve heard of the plant Synsepalum dulcificum or Miracle Fruit, but it’s basically a berry that, after you eat it, it dulls your sour sensing taste buds, thereby making many things taste very different. So today I had a little “Flavor Tripping Party” and had a few friends over to try odd foods after eating a dried tablet form of the fruit. It was pretty interesting! Here’s a picture of the spread I put together:
We tried:
Sour candy
Grapefruit
Lemon
Lime
Guinness beer
It was pretty weird; the Guinness lost a lot of its bitterness and I really liked the new taste (other friends who didn’t like Guinness to start with still didn’t like the taste). The lemon and grapefruit lost all of their sourness! The Lime didn’t change though and it was still pretty powerful. I really dislike grapefruit normally, but with this little berry first, I found it quite delicious. It was an interesting experiment indeed. If you want to try it, you can pick up the dried pill form from Thinkgeek.
I was in Florida all this week for vacation. Had a great time, although the day we scheduled to go to Disney was filled with Tornado warnings, so no Disney (with the exception of an evening game of Disney mini-golf).
As we were driving down the highway one day, I saw a digital warning sign saying something about a “Silver Alert” along with a license number and a car description. We weren’t sure what it meant. I knew that an Amber Alert meant a lost or kidnapped kid, but what was Silver? I joked that since we were in Florida, maybe it means an old person is lost. It turns out, I was right! I was laughing pretty hard, since it fits right in with Florida’s stereotype that 90% of the people there are over 60.
