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Month: February 2002
Heinz is releasing chocolate-flavored french fries. This is wrong in so many ways.
“We asked the kids what would make them want to eat more French fries,” said John Carroll, managing director of North American potatoes and snacks for Heinz’ frozen food division.
One of the rejected ideas was Fruit Loops-flavored fries, Carroll said.
Found via Metafilter.
Designated President Bush’s energy policy in a nutshell?
“The biggest challenge is going to be how to best utilize taxpayer dollars to the benefit of industry, in my opinion.” – Mike Smith, assistant secretary for fossil fuels at the U.S. Department of Energy, speaking to the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, as quoted in the Charleston Gazette.
My thanks to Erik Wilson for passing this along.
God, I am such a geek sometimes. See, a couple of months ago, I started watching Farscape on DVD and almost immediately became a loyal fan. I can’t believe how tempted I am to actually buy a season worth of DVDs through Amazon UK. Even though, legally, I can’t switch between Region 1 and 2 encoding on my computer more than a couple of times before the choice becomes permanent. And even though it would cost me nearly $200 to buy the discs and have them shipped across the pond. Maybe I should just subscribe to the Sci-Fi Channel and hope that eventually they’ll re-run the second season. That would definitely be the cheaper route.
The Olympics stopped meaning much of anything to me, I think, when they first split the winter and summer games into separate years. I know they did this to make travel and training easier for the athletes from poorer countries — it’s not cheap to send that many teams so far, so often — and I’m sure it was the right decision, but it’s hard to get excited about the Olympics now that they’re so common an event. I remember how the 1988 games in Seoul and Calgary seemed huge and important. Maybe that’s just because I was an impressionable eleven-year-old boy who had never seen the games before, but I can’t find any of that same excitement for the Winter Olympics underway right now in Salt Lake City. It’s just a vaguely interesting alternative to all the other programs I don’t watch on NBC. Unless, of course, this turns out to be true. Wil Wheaton, on whose weblog I found this, and who would be in a position to know, so far hasn’t said. It sounds like a joke, but I mean, come on. What is Jonathan Frakes known for if not his ballast?