eviljim.com: the mac days

I think that envelopes have suffered from extreme price inflation. I thought envelopes were, like, free last time I bought them. Or maybe a dollar or something. But I bought some today and the smallest pack they had was almost seven bucks! Seven bucks! For envelopes! I don’t get it. Prices of envelopes should be going down. Maybe more research needs to be put into more efficient envelope creation technology, to reduce the cost to produce them. Or perhaps lickable adhesive is getting more expensive?

Can you sue a type of RAM? Apparently, yes, in the US, you can.

Why there is no cure for cancer.

So VistaPrint was offering free business cards (with free shipping), so I had to do it. I’m going to win me some lunches.

This is awesome. Read this news article which basically is a bunch of people saying “hey, we stumbled upon something which broke the first law of thermodynamics. We rule.”

It’s all vague and pointless, but the pay-off at the end is awesome. The last paragraph:

“We put in a small amount of mechanical energy and we get a large amount out … but until this thing is validated by science we won’t be doing anything commercial with it,” he said.

Yeah. They need it validated. Validated by science.

Wendy’s has recently introduced a Vanilla Frosty. Vanilla! That’s crazy. All materials which spoke of the year 2000 mentioned flying cars and teleporting machines. Nobody saw this one coming. No literature suggested even a potential of choosing between two flavors of frosty. I believe truly Dave Thomas couldn’t have imagined this shift of paradigm.

Canon A620 (about $230)
Canon SD600 (about $270)
Canon SD700 IS (about $400)

Sunday I ended up with Aarthy in Ballard trying to get some tea, and instead, there was some kind of festival. This resulted in me buying $5 worth of curly fries (“Wow,” you might say, “that’s expensive for curly fries!” You would be incorrect, as I received an entire fryer basketfull of fries. Maybe like 8 pounds? Actually, to more accurately portray the amount, I’ll just say this: I couldn’t finish them).

Anyway as part of this trip we went into this dollar store, where everything was priced between $1.29 and $1.89. I dunno. They were selling Colgate in a very suspicious box. It didn’t say the amount of toothpaste or any of the typical things for packages to have. The reason is it has, apparently, become cheaper to import colgate from South Africa than to buy American toothpaste.

Suspicious.

Though it was only $1.59.