Zycie w Blekicie ver 3.0 - Detective Meagen

Friday, November 29, 2002

I tried Pepsi Blue lately.. it doesn't taste like Pepsi (which is good). It doesn't taste like anything at all - that is, I can't really think of anything to compare the taste to. No, wait, on second thought... I used to eat those lolly pops a while back that were supposed to be "cola-flavour" and dyed your tongue blue. PB tastes a lot like them - and even has a similar effect. I'm willing to bet they used the same chemicals. Anyway my tastes seem to have changed and I didn't like the stuff.

So there was a good 1/3 of a bottle left lying around. And there was some Dew in the fridge from a few weeks ago when I bough a bunch but then went into a Coke-only phase. As you probably know, Mountain Dew is yellow and Pepsi Blue is, well, blue.

"What happens if you mix them together?", I wondered, possibly under the influence of my recent favourite site, And You Call Yourself a Scientist!. "Hypothesis: The resulting mix will be green, since mixing blue and yellow makes green." This was then immediately tested.

Carefully pouring the blue stuff into the yellow stuff did indeed produce an interesting color which I named "evil green" because it's a good color for an evil potion. In the spirit of true Mad Science, I immediately drank a few gulps.

The taste turned out to be more like Dew than PB. It makes sense, since the yellow of Dew is pretty pale compared to the cobalt blue of PB, so there needs to be more Dew in the mix to make it a nice shade of green. I do wonder if the fact that the Pepsi had gone flat while the Dew still had some buzz left was a factor. I may try this out with freshly opened Dew and Pepsi next time... stay tuned.
There is only one truth... 11:25 PM

Monday, November 25, 2002

I am an idiot.

All this morning, I reminded myself that I need to buy a refill for my pen before going to the uni. I even recorded myself a vice memo on my new cellpone (yup, it has voice memo too). And of course, when the time came to head out (an hour early, to make use of the comp labs), I happily went straight to the bus stop, rode all the way to across the tracks and was halfway to the building before I remembered.

This would not be that bad if it wasn't the second time it happened.
There is only one truth... 2:30 PM

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Checking my mails, I found I got an e-mail from someone who hadn't written to me for a while. The double "Fwd" tag in the subject line left no doubt: The message "what I think of you" was yet another chain letter. I opened it anyway - sheer curiosity. I paged down through the multiple headers (a spammer's gold mine, so many valid e-mail adresses...) and read some cute animated .gifs with the usual "you're by bestest friend" stuff. At the end was the old punchline: You've been chosen as a good friend, you have good luck, send this letter to eight people in the next five minutes or else.

This made me think. I don't know the sender really well, we only exchanged a couple e-mails a while back on Kamishibai. It's far more likely that she randomly pulled my e-mail from her adress book to fullfill the requirements. And that, somehow, made me feel extraneous. Like random filler stuffed in just to fill empty space. I deleted the letter as I always do, but in a fould mood.

Have you ever gotten a "you are my friend" chain letter? Have you ever stopped to consider that you might be on the sendto list just because the letter says to send it to as many people as possible? A forced display of fake affection, like the electronic equivalent of "go give Aunt Edna a kiss". And are the people you're sending it to really your friends? Would you pass those lovely words to them if you met them in person? On a nice, printed card that you paid for? Or even spent time making yourself?

Chainletters are bad. Chainletters that toy with people's feelings are even worse.
There is only one truth... 7:42 PM

Gah, I forgot my outer sweater! I was in a rush to get to the uni this morning...

Now I have to sit through six hours of classes in nothing but a t-shirt and thin lower sweater. So cold... so very, very cold...
There is only one truth... 9:11 AM

Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Added new link to Egon's blog. I write there too - check it out!
There is only one truth... 6:15 PM

Monday, November 04, 2002

First post for new month - October archive added.
There is only one truth... 8:27 PM

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