short hiatus (hoping for under a week or 2)

sorry folks, no time to do reviews.  starting a new gig that’s kicking my ass.  will be back soon i promise.  in the meantime keep sending me the stuff you want reviewed/and or the oddities of the food world.  it’s fun to think how far we have come/slipped over the years.  see you sooner than later.

-the rabbit

i’ve lost my mind when it comes to groceries

i have. i used to be a hunter. i would have my list of what i needed (yes needed) to get, go in the store and make a bee-line for the products on the list. now i meander through the aisles and seek out “new and interesting” products, mostly to review here. it’s gotten so bad that my lady now does the same thing too. i’ve now crossed over to the dark side am now a gatherer. it’s a sad day in my world folks. i died a little bit inside when i came to this realization. to put it in perspective, i can take a 15 minute shopping trip and turn it into a 45 minute excursion and go over budget by as much as $25. now that’s poopy.

while we enjoy trying new things, sometimes it can be exhausting. like for example when it’s a saturday afternoon and you are fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with customers in tj’s or the local supermarket. occasionally i will do the whole asian-food-market thing and find some product whose language i can’t understand and have no clue what it is just to purchase and try out.

so i ask you all, since product reviews are some of the main reasons you come here: what product(s) do you want me to review? give me some ideas and i will totally roll with it. not that i am out of ideas, but i want to know what you want to see. also, since the review of the mcskillet burrito is so high on the charts, do you want me to go back an retry it? post a comment and let me know.

i’m back bitches…..

well that sucked.  i was sidelined while my laptop was being repaired.  that being said, i’m back and should have some new content soon.

-the rabbit

update: how to delete my facebook account

editor’s note: please do not send me your facebook details and ask me to delete your account.  i won’t.  on second thought i will, if you would like, but it will involve $500 cash in small, unmarked, non-sequential bills paid directly to me for my services.  instead, please see my original post about how to delete your account.  your mileage will vary.  best of luck bitches.

wow. okay that was way more difficult than it needed to be. apparently the privacy at facebook dot com email address is the one you need to use to get through. after the initial email spelling out my intentions my inbox greeted me with the following message:

Hi trixareforkids,

If you deactivate your account, your profile and all information associated with it are immediately made inaccessible to other Facebook users. What this means is that you effectively disappear from the Facebook service. However, we do save your profile information (friends, photos, interests, etc.), so if you want to reactivate at some point, your account will look just the way it did when you deactivated. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and expect their information to be there when they return to the service.

If you do not think you will use Facebook again and would like your account deleted, let us know, and we will take care of this for you. Keep in mind that you will not be able to reactivate your account or retrieve any of the content or information you have added.

what did you not get from my first email? did my title, permanent account deletion request, confuse you? how much more transparent can i make myself. i don’t give a shit what others users do and that they expect their information to be there when they return. seriously? people do that?

ah, wonderfully today i my inbox greeted me with a notification from the people at facebook telling me that my profile had been deleted and my email was removed from the login database. success. i am free. to mark fuckerberg: i will sleep better at night knowing that i contributed to undermining your $15B valuation.

*the author of this post is not one of those bullshit armchair quarterbacks who hates on the people who create technology because deep down inside they are pissed at themselves because they couldn’t come up with it on their own. i just don’t like how hard it was to do something that should be easy. and the use of capital letters is only from a cut and paste of the email. later bitches.

my predictions for 2008

the following are my predictions for what will happen in 2008 in no particular order.

• barack obama wins presidential election proving it is truly ‘bros before hos’
• starbucks adds more food items to their menu incroaching even further on mcdonalds. ronald mcdonald seen taking orders from yuppies for ‘extra shot venti non-fat latte with 2 splenda’.
• microsoft offers to give away copies of windows vista in hopes of gaining new customers. public responds by noting that they needed to be paid a large sum of money to use the software. settlement talks have since ceased.
• anthony bourdain is arrested and charged with the murder of rachel ray. evidence alleges bourdain’s clothing was splattered in e.v.o.o. and dunkin donuts coffee and there was his bloody fingerprint on one of her signature furi knives used in the killing.
• facebook flops after massive devaluation. steve ballmer sends goons to make mark zuckerberg personally payback the $240M investment from microsoft. in related news zuckerberg has been missing for weeks with unconfirmed sightings in denver, phuket thailand, and jaurez mexico. his location is still unknown.
• google unveils its new ‘embedded search technology’. the premise is to embed a chip in your brain that indexes your thoughts and feelings to help you easily find them, while serving up ‘discreetly placed targeted advertising’ right in your frontal lobe. privacy experts expected to be outraged.
• new study suggests that eating bacon will in fact increase your life expectancy. pork belly prices have never been higher. study later found to be paid for by national pork producers of america.
• red bull found to cause impotence. sales of striped shirts everywhere decline.
• wal-mart secretly found to be run by satan. yes, that satan. sources closes to the evil tyrant say that he is in talks with dr. phil to do a special “sharing his side of the story”.
• apple unveils the ipod poquito. the smallest device ever sporting music, video and wifi. measuring just .1mm x .1mm x .0001mm. consumers scratching head as to how they will watch or listen to anything on the device.
• aol apologizes for sending out billions of cds over the years trying to get the public to sign up for their service. they have video-taped an apology from ceo randy falco and are expected to send it out on cd to every household to ensure the nation sees the apology.