Lack of posts

Sorry about the lack of posts this last couple weeks.  This last week in particular went by super fast with finals and all.  Hopefully that I will be able to kick back into my blog after the holidays.  I'll make it a New Year's resolution . . . . . Well Merry Christmas all!!

-- CK

Job Position

I think that a new job position that grocery stores should have is "Tall Guy".  At work today I was asked four times to help costumers reach products that were either too high or too far back on the shelf.  One of the times I was actually addressed as "Tall Guy" when asked for help, so that's where the name of the position comes from.  Either this, or new shopping carts should be made that have some sort of short ladder that can be extended out so shoppers that can't reach what they want won't have that problem anymore.  I wonder if I could actually make any money with this "invention", or if its just another day-dream at work.

Anyway, I was really surprised how slow work was.  I was sampling Popzels.  Popzels are pretty much spherical chocolate covered pretzels, so they look quite like a malted milk ball.  Given that my demo was chocolate I would have assumed that there would have been a mad rush to get samples, but I was wrong.  The insane thing was that I had 36 pounds of three different flavors of the Popzels to give away, and I think I only went through 3 pounds of each, at most.  Oh well, at least I got my paperwork this time, although most of my co-workers didn't so . . . . . .  Until my next post . . which my amount of posts are increasingly decreasing due to the fact that finals are coming up and I can't think of  much to say.  Hopefully soon I will start posting my comic as I am almost finished with the pre-drawings.

-- CK

I Gotta Question

Why does melted cheese always taste better than before it is melted . . . is there some chemical change that makes it taste different?

-- CK

Pizza Insanity

So I worked again today giving out samples at the local grocery store.  Today I was demoing Palermo's Pizza.  The pizza was good and went fast, probably too fast.  I mean it is like insane how fast that stuff goes.  You have to sit there for between 15 and 20 minutes while the pizza cooks.  All the while that is happening people are walking by asking when it will be done.  When it is finally done, you pull it out of the oven and immediately there is a line of at least 5 people standing there waiting for you to serve the pizza.  In the time that you finally cut the pizza and fumble to put the first napkins out on the table to put the samples on, the line has pretty much doubled.  The pizza is then gone in less than 2 minutes, depending on how fast you are at dishing out the slices.  And this isn't normal pizza slices where you might get 12 slices out of one frozen pizza.  No, you have to cut it into squares and get about 30 pieces out of it just so that you can serve as many people as possible.  And then you have to wait another 20 minutes to do the same exact thing.  It is totally insane.  Luckily I am not doing that again for awhile.  My next demo is pretzels, a nice peaceful ongoing sample.  That will be so much nicer. . . . although, probably not.  It will most likely be super slow.  Oh well, I can't complain (well I can), but the pay is pretty good.

-- CK

Headlights

If I got a dollar for every time someone has flashed their bright lights at me while I was driving, I would be rich.  And no, my brights were never on any of those times.  I gotta check if the angle on my headlights is off or something.  If not, maybe my headlights are just brighter than normal or something.  I get flashed at least once every time I drive during the night.  It is actually getting quite annoying.

-- CK

Computer Art

I was stumbling around the internet and I found a really cool site.  It's called doodleBug.  With doodleBug you get draw whatever you want to (aka a doodle) and then people will vote on your drawing after you submit it.  The one problem is that with this site, you are drawing with a mouse, which makes it harder to make good drawings.  One of the cool features about this, is that once you submit your drawing, everyone else can watch a playback of how you drew the picture, so they will see every line that you made, in the order that you drew them.  Other than the fact that I can't think of anything to draw, I think this site is amazing.  You should check it out.

-- CK

College Pride Skype Profile Pictures

I was on Skype awhile ago looking through all of the pre-made pictures that the developers made for Skype users.  Frankly I think that they are fairly pathetic.  Then I came to the one called "College Skype" and I thought, why not make a picture related to my specific college, and then I could show my pride.  I then decided that why not have one for every college so that current, or even graduated, students can show their own pride for their college if they so choose.  I decided that I was going to create a website where you can go, find your college, and then download the profile picture for free.  I was wondering about legality of that because I would be using the mascots of that school in the picture, so if anyone knows about that, please tell me.  Lately I had to slow down on the progress of this project because of how much other stuff that I have been doing, but I have made pictures for all of my friends so far.  If anyone would like to request a college I could make up a picture pretty quick.  Hopefully I can pick this project up again and get back to it.

-- CK