Have you seen those neat Hallmark butterflies? They come free with Hallmark cards. The first time I saw one was at a friend's birthday party. There was a group card going around the table, and when it came to gift opening, the card was presented to the birthday girl. Having been busy chatting away during dinner, I piped up and said "Oh, I haven't signed that!", so I took the card and opened it to finish it off. Little did I know there'd be a vicious MONSTER clipped between the folds of the card... so as soon as I opened it, I half freaked out as a snarling creature of paper, wire, and a rubber band came flying out and attacked me mercilessly!! Anyway, I immediately struck my knifehand out Karate-style to protect myself from its threating spiral, and all was good. The truth of it was that I noticed how everyone at the table had pent up laughter building up inside of them, and I chose to release that pressure to protect them from any discomfort. Mission accomplished.

Short post. Ninjai.
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Fast food restaurant are great. In light of the single BSE incident that caused the Canadian beef industry to go through misery, fast food chains like Burger King, McDonald's, and A&W are supporting the beef farmers by making their beef burgers 100% Canadian Beef burgers. McDonald's supply had been 80% Canadian beef prior to their announcement to help out Canada farmers. Not only that, McDonald's has a day promotion that states: Buy one beef burger and get a free voucher for another beef burger. So I did my part today by purchasing a Ciabatta burger and a Big Mac for lunch. Go Canada!

For real. What's up with the gas prices? A while ago, when the price for crap-grade gas hit 80.9 cents/L, I was taken back. Today, as I drove it to work, it was 89.9. This is silliness, and I won't take anymore of it! I'm a launching a revolt. My campaign will involve me putting my finger up my nose and holding it there until gas comes back down to a reasonable price! Who's with me? ... WHO'S WITH ME?!!?

Blogging is becoming a chore. I'm finding that these brain farts are giving me little to work with. I'd rather browse around to other people's blogspots and comment on their pages. Bummer, huh.

Haven't blogged for a while now. More than one week. Today's interesting story comes from the Vancouver Sun's Business section:

"Lenient Laws have made our B.C. bud a growth industry"

In short, an economics professor at SFU estimates that pot accounts for 3.5 percent of the B.C. economy. Through some "excellent detective work", "reasonable assumptions", and "fancy math", he estimated that B.C. residents grow about $4.8 billion worth of marjiuana annually. In comparison, the fisheries and aquaculture industry contributes only about $600 million annually (~1% of the provincial economy).

When all said and done, a lot of the illegal income ends up going back to the BC economy through purhases of houses and merchandise, and in retail stores, retaurants, and travel.

Bottom line: Help the economy and smoke weed.

Jones is lame. Jones Soda Co. is a small pop company that produces a colorful assortment of carbonated pop. Their bottles are clear and look much like those for beers like Shaftbury or Sleemans, and the flavors aren't bad. But, the packaging is ridiculous. I have a bottle of Cream Soda in front of me. On the front, there is a picture of two guys in a car wearing helmets. Off on the side, it reads:

"Send us your photo, if we like it we will put it on our label"

Bad grammar. Retarded photo.

On the back of the label:

"Ya gotta make a living somehow; we chose the beverage world. At Jones, we want you to buy a lot of soda and recycle the bottles. The labels are kinda like our minds - always changing. Run with the little guy... create some change. www.jonessoda.com"

Underneath the cap:

"Children will play an important role in your life."

Furthermore,
"We swiped these quotes from actual fortune cookies. Send your quotes to us at www.jonessoda.com."

Granted, I think the concept is kind of neat - to have consumers decorate their soda bottles with submitted pictures and other - but they need to filter some of the submissions. And I think they also need to get a new writer for the back of the label.

My two cents.

Woohoo! Just got back rollerblading around False Creek and I learned to jump! I saw some guy speeding by me and he was making little hops over bumps and stuff. And it kinda pissed me off that after blading for so long (7 years?) I couldn't jump. I had tried a little in the past, but it never felt quite right - so I stopped. But today, I forced myself to try jumping over and over, and Eureka! it worked! I think I can do as much as jumping over the concrete slabs in front of parking stalls. Yay for Kevin.

No comments on my blogspot anymore. And here I've blogged 4 times today. I must be bored.

Isn't it sad? I'm sitting here with a can of Minute Maid lemonade, and it says on the front of the can "Made with Real Lemons". The fact that a lemonade (which if it weren't so called, would be called "lemon juice") vendor can state that it makes lemonade from real lemons as a marketable feature is purely ridiculous -- made with real ridicule. Some 100 years ago, all fruit juices were made from real fruits. Today, we're happy when there's 20% juice from fruits in our fruit juice. Soon we'll be buying foods like chicken breasts "Made with Real Chicken!". How sad is that.

I think I need to visit more places in Canada. I don't feel like I've absorbed enough of our great nation. Aside from Greater Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal, I haven't really been anywhere else. I should head out East... far East, and wake up to an Acadian breakfast. "Sure, I'd like the two eggs, side by each, parallel to the bacon, and a pair of toast with a orange glass of juice." Or maybe I'd go to McDonald's and get an "apple turn'em'over" and a "Pespi pop." So much to see and experience, and it'll probably never happen. How sad.

I got a Snack Pack (20) of Timbits this morning, and wondered "how do they make these?" Do they have a little line-up of 3rd world kids in the back rolling the dough into little balls, deep fryin' by hand, sugarin' and glazin'. They could suck a little grape jelly into a straw from the jar, stick it into the sugar powdered ones and blow it out to fill 'em. I noticed that some of these Timbits are irregularly shaped too... I'm glad Tim Horton's isn't discriminant against the disabled and disformed kids who can't roll proper balls (what, do I have to be PC all the time?). I should really know more about what I put into my belly.