HFCS: effika’s blog

This past week I’ve been at the OSEHP conference. The designated hotel was the Marriott on 71st over in lovely Tulsa, OK. The conference was merely OK, but the Ag inspector guys rocked. They brought in random diseased organs as visual aids, handled them with bare hands, and got blood all over [...]

Sunshine is awesome. It’s an intense, well-written and well-acted movie. I think it’s going to be one of the best science fiction films of this decade.
Carl found the list of screenings for me, so Jay and I went for free. :-)
I might review it in more depth later, but we all know that [...]

I really want to see Sunshine but no theaters nearby are playing it. :-/
I hope it comes nearby when it opens in the US in September.

As some of you know, my trusty Compaq P720 (a rebranded Mitsubishi) has had some electron gun problems since a year or so ago. Until the monitor warmed up, it would crazily mis-shoot anything on the bottom portion of the screen. This portion grew with age from about an inch on my 17-inch [...]

Just a quick post for those who still haven’t found a good brand of pantyhose:
JC Penney’s Sheer Caress(tm) line of pantyhose has been the most durable and comfortable pantyhose I’ve found. They lasted multiple debate tournaments without snags or runs. I’m only on the second box of knee-highs (3pr/box) since I started my [...]

Bread: Rainbow White
Cheese: Borden American
Condiments: Grey Poupon Dijon, butter
Cooking Instructions: lay bread pieces in melted butter, then assemble sandwich and cook at the 3.5 mark on the range until cheese is gooey.
Verdict: Extremely good grilled cheese sandwich! I miss the tomatoes, though. Usually I put tomatoes on my grilled cheese but I [...]

I’ve decided to start documenting my sandwiches. I can never remember how I made whatever awesome sandwich I had 3 months ago, so hopefully this will help.
Bread: Sara Lee Honey Whole Wheat
Meat: Oscar Mayer Honey Smoked 99% Lean Turkey
Veggies: Fresh Express romaine, radiccio, and carrot blend; cherry tomatoes
Condiments: Grey Poupon Dijon
Verdict: Good sandwich, [...]

I love receiving free things in the mail. Recently I’ve received a couple of free razors: a Bic Mach-3 knockoff (for Jay), a Schick Quattro, and a Schick Intuition Plus. I can’t speak of the quality of the Bic, as I don’t believe Jay has used it yet. The Quattro, spoken of [...]

Short review: Needs more explosions (current explosion count: 1), and possibly a chase scene.
Longreview: A very spiffed-up powerpoint presentation given by Al Gore. However, Al Gore just plain lacks charisma and that human feeling, so the movie goes through parts of his personal life in order to humanize him. These stories [...]

Wednesday:
Secret, free, early showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest at the Harkins Theater. It’s not as good as the first movie, but it’s still pretty good. Also, if you hate movies that end on a “you must see the third movie to resolve the plot” note, you’ll [...]

Jay and I saw the third X-Men film at 12:10am tonight. When we went up 2 hours before showtime to get tickets we saw people dressed up as Beast, Professor X, Juggernaut, and Wolverine waiting in line for the doors to open.
I do not wish to spoil it for anyone, so this mini-review will [...]

Ok, so it’s not so secret since I posted it on both Livejournal and my Blosxom blog.
I feel so dirty using Wordpress. Dirty dirty dirty. You know what? Screw the post.php crap, I’m writing this in the new Vim and then just c/p’ing. Maybe thatt will make me feel [...]

Mozilla corrupted my profile after trying to view a quicktime movie of a Nike ad (said ad also caused a bluescreen). Since I was going to need a new profile anyway, I decided I’d give SeaMonkey a try.

SM is a lot faster than Mozilla at loading pages. The memory usage seems to be [...]

Prices: On The Border prices for stuff that’s worse than Taco Bell.
Environment: Decent. Fiesta-fake South of the Border.
Food: BLAND. Very, very bland. Taco Cabana and Taco Bell are cheaper and better.
Verdict? Stay away. Stay very far away.

So I was supposed to hang out with Dave sometime this weekend, but he never [...]

Establishment: Taco Bell, east side.
Item: Ranchero Chicken Soft Taco
Price: $1.72 (incl. tax)
Verdict: Amazingly yum.
The Avacado-ranch sauce is probably the best sauce they’ve ever come up with. It /made/ the taco. Just spicy enough, and just ranchy enough. I was very surprised with the amount of chicken I was given– a very decent [...]

It’s ramen review time!
In my efforts to find the perfect ramen brand that’s available at a Wal-Mart, I’ve purchased 3 brands:
Maruchan
Smack
Great Value
I’ve eaten at least one pack of each brand’s oriental flavor. Since I find it odd to eat something flavored “chicken” w/o any chunks of the bird in it I stuck to oriental. [...]