Archive for September, 2009

Coming Soon to Your Local Grocer

Some foods I would like to create and market:

I Can’t Believe It’s Butter!
Unlucky Charms
Fish of the Land canned chicken
Bacon spray
Pre-roasted marshmallows
Orange pulp in a shake-top carton
Tortillas with branded-on burrito/fajita making instructions
Triangular loaves of bread (triangular prisms, to be precise)
Peanut Butter Or Jelly (one or the other, but you don’t know until you buy and open [...]

Gruntled and Whelmed

I know this sort of thing has been mentioned by others, but I feel it’s worthy of a few lines here as well. I want to start using the root words of words that only ever appear with some sort of prefix. Sometimes people would know what I was doing, and sometimes it would sound [...]

Rethinking Speed Limits

It has occurred to me that our enforcement of the speed limit system is completely ineffective. In fact, I think it accounts for a good portion of the total road rage experienced on a daily basis. Allow me to identify the issues:

Many are way too low. 55 on a major highway/expressway is ridiculous.
There are usually [...]