Monday, March 16, 2009

Corn nuts

Many fond memories that I have from my childhood are from lunch time at school. I never went to public school, so for the most part sack lunches where my only option. The closest thing that we had to cafeteria food was food purchased from local venders, that was marked up and sold during lunch. One of the problems for me growing up was that I loved food a little too much. So in order to fulfill my ever growing need for food I started to buy things from the school on top of the sack lunch I was already bringing.

Knowing that I could only get fifty cents to and extra dolor from my parents each day, I started to try and find what I could by that was the most filling for what I was paying. The snack that I ended up deciding was the food that gave me the most bang for my buck, where corn nuts. The school sold them for fifty cents a piece. That meant at minimum I was going to get at least a bag of nuts to eat after my meal. One the cool days that I got a dolor, I would either get another bad of nuts of a can of soda; which also cast only a dolor.

The cool thing about the corn nuts where that they came in a variety of flavors. They came in salted, bbq, ranch, nacho cheese, and other flavors. The flavor that I got the most was the ranch style. This was because I really like the stuff they used to season it. Later in life when girls started to become more important, I stopped with the extra food and stated to play organized sports. My affection for corn nuts faded away as well.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Bud-Light + Coors Light =Boors Light?

Two of the largest Beer manufacturing companies in the US are the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company and the Coors Brewing Company. They both produce a wide variety of different products ranging from ales, lagers, wheat beer, and other types of beer. One type of beer that both of these companies produce is a light version of their lager. Both of these light lagers are top sellers within the companies. Another thing that they have in common is that when canned they have similar labels.
The labels on the Coors Light can and the Bud-light can are very similar in design. For instance both labels share silver backgrounds. This silver is not printed onto the can, but are in fact bare stretches of aluminum. Another aspect that both of these cans share is that both labels only use four different colors red, black, white, and Blue. The last similarity that the two cans share is that both cans make use of wide mouth technology. Wide mouth technology is when the mouth of the can is stretched horizontally, in order to allow for faster consumption.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Econimic Spin (aka Bull Shit)

The recession that the United States is currently experiencing, is actually making it a stronger country. On the surface it may appear that nothing good will coming will come from this crisis, but there are a lot of positive things that will come as a result of this recession. When times are good in America, there is often waste. Waste that gets ignored because of the plentiful recourses that this country enjoys. Yet, when things go bad in this economy, it is the greed of capitalism that will be the saving grace.
Capitalism is a system of government that depends on the accumulation of wealth by individuals to be the catalyst for the economy. So when the profits of those people start to wane, they are the ones who must find the answer. Not the government. One of the ways in which the people find ways to solve this problem is by eliminating waste within the society. One way that this is done is by streamlining production lines. This may eliminate some workers in that production line, but the end result is cheaper production of the same product. Couple that with the same action in many other industries and the cost of living will be driven down overall. Lower living costs make the money that employed workers still make more valuable. This in effect is another way of generating more wealth for Americans as a whole.
The main draw back for this, is that often when business owners are trying to streamline their business they try to lower the wages of the people they still employ. The best way to address this is the forming of unions. Unions have the power to keep wages up even in harsh economic times.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Some love for my boy Sonic.

The 1991 Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog, is still considered one of the most popular video games of all time. After this release, the writers at Sega were faced witht the task of meeting growing expectations. In order to meet these expectations, the writers at Sega just decided to build off of the privious success of Sonic. So they created Sonice the headgehog 2.
In the second instalement of the series, the creators gave sonic new capabilities upon which to comlete his all new mission. An example of one of the improvements was new spin camabilities that Sonic possesed. In the first gam Sonic was limmited to just running jumping and spinning. Yet in order to spin in the first game, sonic was forced to build up speed before he cold tuck and roll into his spin. So to fix this, the creators gave Sonic the ability to croutch and wind up into his spin. This simple change gave sonice much more freedom to speedily move about his world; and helped Sonic the Headgehog 2 decome even more of a success than its predisesor.