Geek alert: My first computer.
Introducing Derrie-Air, the airline that doesn’t exist, premised on the tagline, “The more you weigh, the more you pay!”
William Shatner and the Commodore VIC-20
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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can
Appropriate, I suppose, for the use — except for preserving freshness. 
Mr. Bailey blamed food costs, a minimum-wage increase and more consumers trading down to the dollar menu from premium-price items. Greg Watson, VP-marketing at McDonald’s USA, said while the Southern-market tests of the $1.09 double cheeseburger were granted at franchisees’ behest, they have less to do with commodity costs than a test of price elasticity. He also noted that double cheeseburgers have been tested in different markets for as high as $1.29, and occasionally with toppings for as much as $1.99, but the fast feeder generally has found $1 to be the sweet spot for the sandwich.
McDonald’s franchisees rebel against the dollar menu, which is killing their bottom line.
Feel chocolately, punk?
Occasionally, an IMDb perk of that-which-is-unbelievable arrives at my desk — in this case, for some work I performed for the Ultimate Dirty Harry Collection — from a salesperson who tells me about the challenges they had at the airport getting this back to Seattle, to which I wonder, “Does this fire M&M’s? I think not.”
Behold, the .44 automag, rendered in chocolate!
