So I was at Burger King today, and I got into a discussion as to whether or not a Whopper Jr. with cheese was nothing more than a cheeseburger with salad on top meaning that there would be no difference between ordering a plain cheeseburger and a plain Whopper Jr. with cheese except in how much it cost you.

In an effor to confirm this, I turned to the helpful nutrition information chart on the back of my tray liner. There I discovered that Burger King has discovered 10 calorie bacon strips.

According to their nutriotional information, a cheeseburger has 340 calories and a bacon cheeseburger has 360 calories. After comparing the ingredient list for both sandwiches, the only difference I could find was the 2 strips of bacon. This leads me to conclude that Burger King has developed 10 calorie bacon strips.

The issue of the Whopper Jr. remains unresolved.

For some reason, live journal neglected to inform my gmail that people had been replying to my last post. As I have not been on LJ for a while, I had not noticed this.

I would like to clear up some confusion or speculation that my earlier post may have caused.

Since I think more than half of the replies contained some variation of "Why are you looking up baby names huh?" I feel I should explain that this was due to an article on CNN proclaiming the dominance of Isabella as a baby name. This, combined with general boredom at work prompted an inquiry into previous top baby names which in turn prompted my questions, when certain interesting patterns emerged.

I'm sorry if I caused any disapoitment to a particular someone who seems quite eager to be called uncle *cough* raf *cough*

Just saw an article that said Isabella was the most common girl name in 2008 and Jacob for boys. Anyone have any good guesses why?
Some newcomers to the top 10 list in recent years like Hannah and Emma I can see from certain famous people, but these seem of to me. Unless there's really that many ppl watching Lost... Ethan is #3 for boys...

And why has Jenifer completely disappeared from the top 10, why was she so popular in the 80s and 90s?

I must admit, I was not aware that bird is the word...


but now I am.

I would once again like to reiterate my dislike of daylight savings time. My concept of time, and hence how much procrastination I can afford to do, is often governed by the amount of sunlight coming through the window. twice a year there's a sudden shift that exacerbates the natural gradual shift that already throws me off as is.
Guess 12 years of living further north isn't enough to compensate for 17 years living near the equator.
Sun has no business being in the sky at 9 PM... I hate summer.

I've been meaning to post this for a while.
A few weeks ago I attended a live taping of the longest running soap opera on cable television. World Wrestling Entertainment's Monday Night Raw. I've been a fan of WWE's shows since I was a small child, and Raw was my favorite spinoff. I had watched it from the very begining except for some years in teh middle where they introduced a bunch of new characters, the storyline went down the toilet, and a lot of my favorite characters were moved to the Friday Night Smackdown spinoff to boost ratings.

Now the show's back on the USA network where it started and they brought in a fresh batch of characters with some nice new stories and it's been quite enjoyable. Even K who first rolled her eyes at me when I started watching again will now at least ask for an episode synopsis if she doesn't outright watch it (all while complaining at Shawn Michael's (played by Michael Shawn Hickenbottom ) inability to kick propperly)

Generaly they don't have live tapings in our area so I was pretty excited to find out they were gonna be in Oakland, and not only that, but my all-time favorite character, The Undertaker (played by Mark William Calaway) was scheduled to make an apperance in this episode despite being normaly a regular on the Smackdown spinoff.

I went with kate and mrbungeebear who has also been a fan for a long time. We unfortunately had some pretty bad seats but it was still an enjoyable experince. Seeing the actors live was pretty cool. I must admit I got quite giddy as The Undertaker made his entrance. A lot of childhood memories were coming back as I watched him.

I also discovered that they have several performances before and after the live broadcast that are not aired. Some of them would mess with the storyline a bit if they were aired.

I had a great time and it was really awesome to have K there with me. I wish I could have brought vendross too, he would have enjoyed it.

the man does not age...

This is what I feel like today. No wait, this is what I've felt like for the last 2 years. I'm just feeling it more today because there appear to be complaints about designs not being done...

From LJ Pictures

I cannot even begin to describe how tragically accurate this strip is at describing my current situation. I kid you not, even the punchline.

I finished playing Dead Space a few days ago. One of the odd things about living in the bay area is that making videogames is a common occupation in the area. I keep forgetting that major game developers have large offices in this area. This is how I came to even play Dead Space.

People who know me know that Dead Space is NOT by any stretch of the imagination, my kind of video game. I decided to play it because eclipse_exe's dad was involved in making the game and thus had a copy I could borrow.

To my surprise, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the game. Aside from the difficulty of the required asteroid shooting minigame, there's really not a single thing I can really complain about in the game play. (Well load time cleverly disguised as elevators and doors that take a while to unlock, but complaining about load times in videogames is like complaining that the sun is out during the day) The absence of a BFG9000 equivalnet is commendable, and the fact that the game can be effectively played in its entirety with your starting weapon is a nice touch. Congrats to EA, I immediatey started the second play through after finishing it. 24 hours was just the right length. And thank you for the Easy setting, I would not stand a chance with anything harder.

Storywise, the game plays like going through a generic sci-fi space horror movie, which might explain why I enjoyed the game so much since it's been a while since I watched one of those. There were jumpout scenes to keep you on your toes, one very startling automatically closing door, and an ending that gave me the post horror movie jitters for a while.

Overall, fun enjoyable game :-)

Apparently it's all my fault. I heard about this happening in marriages, just wasn't expecting it this early ;-)