Random Thoughts inside Alan's head
madness
Things that make you go “aigh!”.
Internet lie: “in stock”
0Apparently, on the Internet, the term “in stock” means something completely different than it does in the real world.
What was I saying?
2Now that I am married and have two kids, I find that I have to edit my stories down to under a minute and a half. Otherwise, the end of the story just never makes it out.
“Hi Honey, how was your day at work?”
“I have to tell you about this new tool we discovered today. We were installing our network software on a cluster of machines, which is usually pretty tedious and time consuming. And then one of the guys pulls out this live CD, and …”
“Daddy, is rice a vegetable or a fruit?”
“Hey kids, put that stuff down and wash your hands and face… now!”
“My friend Drew says that Megan won’t talk to Carter because his sister is mean!”
“I think the dog just threw up.”
What was I saying again? Oh yeah, 90 seconds. Sigh.
23 cubes in a bottle
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17 years
Normally, I do not allow my children to have soft drinks. Occasionally, I will let them have a diet soft drink, just so it won’t be considered a forbidden fruit. But most of the time, they drink milk and water. Sometimes they have diluted fruit juice.
Today, they asked if they could use their own money to buy a soft drink from a vending machine. So that’s what we did. I was shocked to see how much sugar was in there.
The label says that there is 34 grams of sugar per cup of Sunkist. And then it goes on to say that there are 2.5 cups in the bottle. Apparently, you are supposed to share this drink with 1.5 friends.
So that means that one 20-ounce bottle contains 84 grams of sugar. That does not sound like much… after all, a gram is pretty small. You know, they measure stuff like medicine using grams, right?
So we got out the postage scale and started stacking up sugar cubes until we had 84 grams. How many cubes would you guess? I would not have guessed it… 23 sugar cubes!
Now imagine fixing yourself a cup of coffee and dropping 23 sugar cubes into the cup. Yuck!
A culture of deception
0This morning, I got some yogurt from the cafeteria at work. All of the containers were in an ice bucket, so all I could see were the top foil wrappers. Clearly, all of them were strawberry flavor.
However, after opening the container, I was surprised to find that it was, in fact, blueberry flavor!
I’m sure some accountant at the Dannon factory suggested that they save a penny by using the same lid for all flavors.