right, even more rants about advertisements.
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Kellogg produces a brand of protein water. Ignoring the fact that it isn't as healthy as they claim, and the fact that purified nutrients usually taste disgusting (try eating protein powder), the name is what stands out to me. They call it K2O. this bugs me. I know they are going for the H2O thing, but corporations, and the american public just don't seem to get that that is a chemical formula. Now, I am not a chemist, but by changing even one Atom, you get a vastly different substance. Now, K2O really bugs me (more than the other Blank2O names usually do), because that is the chemical formula for potassium oxide. now, potassium oxide kinda EXPLODES when you put it in water (it actually decomposes rapidly giving off heat, but Explode just has so much more... umpf to it).
23.3.08
more ad rant.
happy easter!
happy resurection day for yahweh's zombie son/pedofilic magical rabit (why else would it give kandy to children?) day!
there is a 'this day in alternate history' episode that was perfect for this, but I don't want to dig it up.
18.3.08
class rings
today we had a salesman come around and try to sell us class rings. my immediate thought was that I wouldn't be buying one, not much of a jewelry/fondly remember my high-school years person. the salesman, being fairly good, wooed into considering it. Upon searching the catalogue, I found that the vast majority of the rings were fairly expensive, in the range of two to six hundred dollars. You could choose what metal you wanted your ring to be made of (white lustrium, gold lustrium, platinum, white gold, gold). now, lustrium had a little ® next to it, so I decided to do some digging. One thing lead to another, and this is what I have:
The rings at our school are provided by Jostens. they provide class rings to thousands of schools throughout the country. because they no doubt serve millions of students, you know that your ring is customized and unique to you. they have five plants just to handle their printing (though they do some custom printing). they where founded in the 1800's and have been making rings for over 80 years. I then dug around Jostens trying to see what kind of corporation they where like. this is in no way exhaustive, and I didn't even look at environmental track record, but they make all of their products in the U.S, and they have a fairly good track record as far as compliance with labour laws are concerned.
anyway, about Lustrium. I found that Lustrium is an alloy of nickel and Chromium, and a small amount of gold if it is of the yellow variety. I looked up the going price of nickel these days, and If I did my calculations correctly (supposing that each ring is 24 pennyweights worth of metal), then the metal in each $70 ring costs about two cents. that might be wrong, and it doesn't count "craftsmanship", but that seems like a good profit margin to me. nickel allergy is also somewhat common in my family (maternal), so that seamed like a bad idea.
final thought, most all of the rings available are gaudy in my opinion. they are either huge, and overly crammed with information (11 letters for the mascot, a picture of a mascot, highsschool name including the word High-school, a four digit graduation year and another symbol of your choice (such as debate or basketball) does not go on a ring without looking cramped. If they stuck it in as a QR code, that would be cool, but in plain-text, not so much) for most of the male models, or tiny and lacy for some of the female ones. there were very few plain metal bands with some letters in them.
bottom line, still not buying a ring. I might try to make my own though, that could be a fun project.
14.3.08
more commercial.
the ad is here
I hate to link to KFC's web-a-ma-page, but I was to lazy to find the video elsewhere. anywho, A) disregard the massage and buy nothing from them, and B) notice the direction of the grill about halfway through. the lines run front to back, but the lines on the "food" run right to left (or left to right). this is proof that they don't toast their subs, all they do is pretend to heat them, and use artificial colors to simulate the browning.
next up:
doe they realy think that they can make sticking it to the man equal buying sprint stuff. sprint is a huge telecom, and the U.S. telecoms are probably the manliest men to be sticking it to.
maybe my little blog thing will become a advert critique site. who knows?
9.3.08
happy net box
just tryin' out my new happy net box. feel free to browse the net through my webpage. there is no need to leave drivel ever! none! whatsoever! well, unless you want to see the right half of the web, then you'll have to go and download some sort of web browser, and install it on your hard drive, and learn how to operate it. that would take alot of work. so you should just stay here. besides it is only a matter of time before comcast starts to bandwidth throttle the right half of the web anyway. it's comcastic!
