Whoever invented the ridiculous daylight savings time policy probably mused...
Oh you know what, I will make them suffer for the major part of the year and then make them feel a little bit better on a single day before the wretched winter sets in.
Well, DST masochist, thank you for today. But know that I have hated you a lot since March.
metalpeter - 11/07/11 17:14 The Thing is you don't gain an hour... The only way you gain an hour is if you have a clock that has an alarm and sets its self back. You still sleep just as long and then when you wake up you are up it isn't like you really get that extra hour. In fact someplaces it makes you lose an hour... Say you work the night shift or what ever like some bars will do this at 2am they turn it back an hour and then they get to stay open another hour yeah you would get paid for it but you are just up later....
AfroJedi - 11/06/11 07:31 His name is Benny Franklin...and I, too, am basking in the boon of the recaptured hour.
It makes you think, though. The gov't. is so gangster that they can tell you what time it is, even if the rest of the world is different.
11/06/2011 01:04 #55453
Cocoa Butter Vs. Soy Lecithin Category: eating in
Good way to find out if your chocolate is filled with the phony filler substitute for cocoa butter (otherwise known as soy lecithin): Hold it in your hands for around 30 seconds.
If the chocolate starts to melt and smear your hands a bit, it has at least some amount of real cocoa butter (or if you were careful you bought one completely made of cocoa and cocoa butter).
Else, you just bought a chocolate with fake soy lecithin. I wish they had never found this stupid filler. It somehow makes the sugar in the chocolate more prominent than the cocoa. And that is a sign of a bad chocolate.
metalpeter - 11/07/11 17:10 This does bring up an interesting question I have that maybe you know... For years M&Ms used the catch phrase "Melts in your mouth but not in your hands" But then why does the dye from the shell stain your hands or maybe more like fingers a bit?
11/05/2011 22:30 #55452
What a piece of transformed crap?! Category: music
That was the first expression that came to mind listening to Steve Jablonsky's soundtrack for the 3rd installation of the transformers movie.
I admit that I watch movies sometimes mainly because I like soundtracks so much. Who cares about storylines? I can't keep most of them straight anyways.
The first transformers movie was spectacular on that account. The music was simply spellbinding. I actually watched it in a record time of a week because a friend had booked tickets to Transformers 2 and shocked that I hadn't watched the first one, insisted that part 2 wouldn't make sense if I had not seen part 1. So I did. And the music hooked me in.
But it didn't matter. Transformers 2 was a colossal mess. I swear I had to resist the urge to exclaim "What just happened there?!" multiple times throughout the story. I also had issues about how the main lead got his clothes all torn and messy at the end of the crazy chases and whatnots but that actress who wore an immaculate white get-up did not have a single grease smear or dirt track ANYWHERE on that vast expanse of white even after several tumble-chase sequences down some of the grimiest and dirtiest of pyramids in Egypt. The music was still okay. Not as good as T1 but still pretty good in general.
I caught around 15 minutes of T3 flying from NYC to Buffalo. It just convinced me not to spend any more time on it. I had hopes that maybe the music would redeem T3. Was I ever more wrong.
T3 music is such a careless and horrible recycling of T1 and T2 themes, it seems like an insult to those soundtracks. I bet the crap music set the tone for the rest of the movie. I read that the sequels stop with T3. Thank goodness for little mercies.
Going back to my T1 soundtrack now.
metalpeter - 11/07/11 17:08 There was Music in T3? Oh yeah Linkin Park is still good but they kinda mellowed a bit I'm more... Yes the music in "Till the end it doesn't event matter is pretty good" But I'm More of a fan of the singing and screaming like "SHUT UP! SHUT UP! When I'm talking to You".... Now in terms of that band I love that It is Mr. Hahn's band yes The DJs not the guys on guitar not the rapper not the singer but it is the DJs Band and he does most of the art for them.....
AfroJedi - 11/06/11 07:37 Agreed, on all accounts..especially the bit about Ms. Fox's wardrobe.
I fear for Linkin Park's legacy.
~.~
11/05/2011 15:16 #55450
God bless America Category: eating in
and carrots.
and tomatoes.
and squash.
and kidney beans.
I am appointing this opera as my signature tune this weekend.
Yeah, those ruins are not the point (Why play Scarlatti/Bartoli over some monastery in ruins?! Beats me.) Someday, I want to enroll in voice training and sing this opera.
tinypliny - 11/06/11 00:48 Hmm...I don't know. The subject matter of the song is definitely not very saintly. And those ruins are apparently an old Spanish monastery...
metalpeter - 11/05/11 14:16 The Ruins make perfect Sense with out knowing what the song is about... Oprea is old European and Classic like these buildings... Looks like some kind of church or building of a church like maybe a town run by the church?
The Thing is you don't gain an hour... The only way you gain an hour is if you have a clock that has an alarm and sets its self back. You still sleep just as long and then when you wake up you are up it isn't like you really get that extra hour. In fact someplaces it makes you lose an hour... Say you work the night shift or what ever like some bars will do this at 2am they turn it back an hour and then they get to stay open another hour yeah you would get paid for it but you are just up later....
His name is Benny Franklin...and I, too, am basking in the boon of the recaptured hour.
It makes you think, though. The gov't. is so gangster that they can tell you what time it is, even if the rest of the world is different.