Sands of Lost Time

Whoa totally forgot I had this...

Anyway, some updates: LHC is broken for a long time, I quit McDonald's, and there is a lot of snow here. A LOT!
Since it's the "holidays" and there is a lot of snow I think I'll rant about something everyone loves. Gifts! Gifts are great. Christmas is great! Expecting a present under a tree from some random family member isn't. Gifts are supposed to be a surprise, not some commodity expected from someone. People die in giant riot-like mobs trying to buy stuff for Christmas. One year my sister got a present she didn't like. Her response to it was "That's it?!". Why do we keep doing something so vein, so evil, when it just comes up in disappointment? Because it's tradition. Our parents did it, so logically we should too.
Well that's just stupid. Break tradition. And I don't mean don't visit family or don't give back to someone in need. Don't give a gift unless it's unexpected and don't feel it necessary to go out and buy the next big thing. Give something meaningful that'll last.

A gift doesn't even have to be a physical object.


Soup of the Day: Beef Stew and Yellow Snow Cones.

Musings of a MADMAN!

We all know cigarettes are bad. They cause cancer and other bad nasty things. But what about energy drinks?
Caffeine. It's good! No! It's bad!!!! Coffee helps your heart, but the caffeine harms it!! RAH!
Personally, I think that it's bad for you, but not nearly as bad as nicotine. So, you might be asking yourself, where is torbergson (YAY! I've actually addressed myself!! WOO!) going with all this? What is he trying to say?
Here's my point: I'm addicted to this nasty thing called "caffeine". Every time I'm stressed I go for a soda or energy drink. Sometimes I'll want one for no reason. I've also noticed this with my generation. We drink soda by the gallons. It's addicting, the high amount of calories is really bad for you if you drink a lot. 25000% (Yes, 25000% in sparks) of your daily B12 cannot be good for you. So why is it that we keep drinking it? Caffeine. It's addictive, not so much as drugs (Those are no-no's kids), but it is addictive. It's my generation's cigarettes.
Back in the day (before I was born), there was this thing called the 80's. Weird isn't it? Well, it really started a long time ago, it's just easier to blame the 80's. Anyway, previous generations smoked. A lot. Smoked when they where tired, smoked in the morning, smoked when times were stressful, smokin' in the boys room, etc.
This generation: Drink a soda when your tired, drink some coffee/soda in the morning.....I think you know where I'm going with this. I dunno what's going on here, but it's a little fishy if you ask me.

So, what do you think? Are energy drinks and soda this generations cigarettes? Or have I just gone nutters?



Soup(s) of the Day: Did you catch my song reference? and Stress a la Addiction.

MAC!

Somebody decided to order like 6 quarter pounders today while we were behind on making them. It's not like he knew or anything, but it was kinda sucky.

In other news some scientist dude was all like "This planet is gonna crash into this other one!" and the others were all like "Holy macaroni!" ('Cause they aren't allowed to curse or else the head scientist will beat them with a meter stick.) "Quick! Use the LHC to heat up some popcorn!"

Then the LHC broked

Planet Crashing



Soup of the Day: Greasy Planet Breaking LHC a la French.

Lonely Desolation

Well, just recently I have been hired at my local McDonald's (Which means I get the lovely chance at posting about stupid customers! YAY!). Now of course there isn't much wrong in serving food in a fast manner. Nor is there any interest in a mundane work place.

However my previous job has been, let's say, a little bit more on the interesting side. While McDonald's is somewhat boring, working for the evil known as Vector Marketing was quite the adventure.

However, what is Vector Marketing? Well, they are a sub company that works for Cutco. Cutco makes knives and Vector sells them, much like Bungie did for Microsoft for the halo games. Nothing out of the ordinary. Yet.
What I did was call up people I knew and gave them the whole spiel and sold knives. Also nothing strange. If I didn't make a sale I'd still get a flat rate of $14.95. Ok, that's a plus. After that I'd have those people make a list of other people and call them. I'd make an appointment and do it all over again.

Here's the first flag. I didn't get my first paycheck in full when they said I'd get it. In fact I got the rest of it almost a week later. When I asked about this they said it was a way to promote more sales in the seller. I asked other Reps about this and they said that they got their checks in full. In fact I was the only person to not get their check in full. Did my boss lie to me, I think so. I may be wrong. It could have been a mistake, but even then he still would have been lying to me.
Second flag. You get no peace or day off. You are supposed to call them every day between 6 and 8. If you don't call, they call you. This is supposed to take place of showing up at the office everyday.
Third flag, my boss encuraged us to work at a second job if we wanted to. So when I half heartedly applied at Target (I did it because I had to take a friend there who wanted to apply and I had nothing better to do. They wanted an interview with me and I turned it down because my friend really wanted the job and I didn't, I also had a job already) my boss didn't like that and thought I wanted to quit. I said that I had no intention of quiting (At that time I didn't) and no intention of even taking the job at Target. He still thought that I had betrayed him, the guy who said on day one that people take second jobs all the time.

So when I filled out my application for McDonald's I almost decided not to put Vector on there. I did anyway. I couldn't remember the address or phone number so I went to look it up online at there website. I couldn't even find the name of my old boss there. They had a picture of each regional office and on the one my boss should have been in wasn't even there (Or rather I couldn't even make out any of the faces and couldn't tell if he was there due to the incredible low resolution of the image).

So yeah, that was a fun expirience all in all. I could almost rename this entire site to Lesson of the Day bassed off of some of my more stupid expiriences, but I won't.


Soup of the Day: Cheeseburger Stew.

Friday Fun Day!

I was at my local Quizno's today with my mom waiting for my car to get a replacement tire at our local Les Schwab (Somebody thought it would be funny to slash one of my tires.) when my mom noticed on the cash register there are two buttons on it for "take out" and "eating in". When she questioned this the lady at the counter said she didn't know why. The other lady in the back said it might be for tallying how many people eat out and how many eat in.

So if anyone knows the definite actual factual answer please let me know. Personally I think one of them is the hidden self destruct button and the person working the register is only supposed to hit one button unless they need to blow up some stuff.



Soup of the Day: Whatever they sell at Quizno's.

Rant

I could not think of or find anything interesting today so I decided to rant about things everybody has already ranted about; Parenting.

Parents, it's not that hard to tell you kids what is bad and what is good. If your kid does something bad or wrong you punish them. If they do something good you reward them. It's not that hard.
So why do I see parents blaming video games and rock and roll for their kids behavior? Seriously, these things are meant to be entertainment not a baby sitter. If a teen goes out and shoots somebody because he saw it in Halo or Grand Theft Auto it's his own fault. Not the game. He's responsible! So they should be properly punished.

And parents, if you don't want your kids to play certain games just monitor them and the games they play. THERE IS A RATING SYSTEM FOR A REASON! I've seen parents look at a game and not look and the rating and later claim that they didn't know it was a violent game. It says on the front of the box "Rated M for Mature: Contains Violence".

I could go on for days, but I only wrote this a filler.


Soup of the Day: Parental Filler con Queso.

Blackhole Sun

Since everybody is doing it: Did the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) destroy us?

Apparently not....yet.

So what is this massive black hole making, earth destroying machine? Well, basically it's a giant tube which two protons are hurdled towards each other at very high speeds. Like near speed of light fast. Scientists are hoping that it'll reveal what happened at the Big Bang. I'm just hoping it'll swallow half or all of France.

Also it costs about 6 billion US dollars and it's huge!



Soup of the Day: $6,000,000,000 Black Hole

Introductions

Hmm. This is new to me. Took me a while to set this up because Blogger is stupid and kept f-ing up. So yeah, this is my blog.

You're probably wondering what this is and why it's here. Personally I think there are too many blogs in the first place, but I'll make the exception for me because I'm cool that way. Anyway, the point of this blog is much like a restaurant's "Soup of the Day" (Thus the name!). It's just a mix of whatever they have in the back of the kitchen.
For a while I've been wanting to do something to get on the internet with a bang, mostly because I love attention whether I admit it or not. I've crappy webcomics, jumped on the myspace bandwagon, etc. and haven't had much success or been able to do anything that's different. So when I decided to try out this blog thingy I couldn't figure out what to do. You see if you want to do some kind of specialty blog there are already tons of them; Kotaku for games, Gizmodo for tech stuff, Hack-a-day for DIY/Hacker, Life Hacker for DIY/Hacker/Tips, not to mention thousands of other blogs. So to come up with something original is a little bit hard.
What you see is the combined efforts of two brain cells: A hapazard varity blog about nothing. If I find something interesting, I'll post it. If I have an opinion, I might post it. You get the idea.


The soup of the day is: Introduction broth with some crackers.