The Deadliest Blog

Here's an awesome blog about Deadliest Catch. It's from a producer on board the Cornelia Marie. Really cool to get an insider's look. The is not a job for me.

Celebrity

There are not many celebrities that I hate. Here are the ones that I do.

• Billy Bob Thornton
• Bobby Flay- smug, ginger, tool
  
• That weird blonde guy on Fox News, you know the one who looks/acts gay but isn’t cause he’s on Fox News. Anyone know who I'm talking about?
• Johnny Depp – oooh, I hate that guy
• Let me get back to Billy Bob. That asshole redneck was so stubborn that he made Swingblade twice, and got lucky when it turned out to be really good. He'd been married 6 times. Douche. And now he has a band and doesn’t let people ask about his movies while doing his music interviews. As if he’d have any music interviews if he weren’t douche bag Billy Bob.
• Brad Pitt – don't hate him, he just wierds me out. Seems like he’s no longer in control of his own life. I might me the same way, in his situation. He is way overrated as an actor, though.
  
• Danny Bonaduce – a geeky fat kid that grew up to be a bully
• Tom Sizemore – don't do drugs on TV and expect me to like you
• Lee Scott, President and CEO of Wal-Mart
• Martin Lindtstrom, self-claimed branding guru

People I should hate but don’t:

• Bill O’Reilly – he plays his character well
• Rush Limbaugh – Pity
• Bill Mahr – he’s self serving, pompous, and talks to much. But he is God damn funny, and I agree with most everything he says.
• Nancy Grace - still on the fence with this one.
  

That’s it for now.

Organic or Not?

Here is an awesome article that prioritizes which fruits and vegetables you should purchase organic, including details on why.

For example, you should buy organic potatoes because they grow in the ground and have thin skin and therefore soak up all the pesticides. Bananas, on the other hand, grow high up and a have a thick skin and should be fairly well protected.

Cool stuff to help you save a little bit of cash while eating healthy. You're welcome, Mary. :)

Sharpton on Jackson

Harley went crazy with the MJ coverage last night. I just happened to pay attention long enough to see Al Sharpton talk about him. Al is good!

He makes you realize how much of a social force Michael Jackson was. Makes you remember that at one time he was rightfully so the most popular entertainer in the world. Almost made me miss him.

But still, poor Farrah Fawcett!! Some one should do a paper on how quickly she got bumped from the news. Who could that some one be?!? (Jen Simon, you up for it in the Fall?)

The New Silk Plus

Here's the old Silk Plus:


Here is the redesign of the Silk Plus line, which has Omega 3 for added nutrition. It no longer has the Plus but the differentiation is much clearer. They haven’t touched the base line, but I would assume that is coming to match this new design.



Silk is owned by a large, national company called Dean Foods, the country’s largest processor and distributor of dairy products. This is a massive company with a strong grip on the dairy industry.



Almost every brand out there has a behemoth company behind them, making sure the product is profitable. I'm all for successful business, but the more I learn about the food industry, the more I get the heeby jeebies. Bad things happen when business gets an unhealthy level of control on how the food is made. Branding is good, but it only goes so far. Then they look to cut costs on the "product." Capitalism must be checked.

More to come on this as I write my thesis.

Picture of the Day

On June 12th, just as Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano was erupting for the first time in 20 years, the International Space Station flew directly overhead. Astronauts had their camera ready and snapped one of the most dramatic Earth-science photos ever taken from space:


Researchers are studying this rare photo to learn about the early stages of powerful volcanic eruptions. A few phenomena stand out:

(1) The volcano erupted with such force, the plume actually punched through the atmosphere. Note how clouds around the volcano have parted in a circular ring--that is a result of a shock wave produced by the upward blast.

(2) The plume is a mixture of brown ash and white steam. A "dirty thunderstorm" complete with lightning could be in progress within the roiling cloud.

(3) The smooth white bubble on top of the plume is probably a mass of water condensing from air shoved upward by the rising ash column.

All thanks to Spaceweather.com.

The Super Market

We took a family trip to Stew Leonard's. Everybody loved it. The produce was great, cheap, and beautiful. The aisles snaked around like a maze, with plenty of samples along the way.

They had a guy dressed in a cow suit for the kids. Lilah did NOT want to say hello to the cow, but she pointed to every cow in the store from there after. Their logo is a cow, so we saw a lot of cows. On the way home and for days after, she kept saying that she wanted to see the cow, to talk to the cow on the phone. It became a bovine obsession.

They had "naked" beef (no additives, nothing artificial) on sale. I stocked up on porterhouses for $6.99 a pound and am going to have my first one tonight. Mmm...

What could have been the best part was the special parking that we qualified for. I love it when things work out.

P.S. I am an excellent parallel parker. I may have failed it on my first driver's test (not the second), but my time in NYC has taught me well. I fit into a tight, tight space on Sunday night and could not have asked for a better Father's Day present. Well, I could have asked but I didn't.