Christmas gift breakdown.

One of these Atari 10-in-1
High Fidelity DVD
The Evolution of Useful things (book)
Glow in the Dark Ghostbuster Driving glasses (the frames glow)
Easy Bake oven mix
Adbusters magazine
Muscular Anatomy Flashcards
miniature wooden art mannequin
medium wooden art Mannequin with skateboard.
Godzilla toy
Gag sale DVDs (\”an evening with anna kournikova\” [sam got me Anna Kournikova\'s workout video last year after I said I really don\'t see the attraction to Anna Kournikova]and the \”Hillary Duff music video DVD\” [I rented the Lizzie McGuire Movie and made the mistake of saying it was about as good as the T.V. show.])
LED flashlight
Small Sock Monkey
Ghostbusters II story book
Laundry Hamper
Gollum action figure that comes with a rock that says \”My Precious\” I\’m not sure why the rock says it… but whatever, it\’s cooler that way.
Moneys.
A drawing of Thalidomide Tex (I might scan it later)

-Dean

Lessee here, Went to Canmore With Russ and Megan and Jason and Dave (you are the rocks), Skiied at Sunshine for a day, hung out in the condo for 2 days, Saw Doug Inness, played some games, ate some cake. Helped John Campbell buy a laptop (installing some system software now.), ate some candy, got dates confused and ended up meeting mom and dad on the way home, and then driving back in the direction I just came from for an hour. Did the Rimbey Christmas thing. Ate some food.

I was going to take a photo of the Sweet LED flashlight I scored in the christmas gift exchange, but it looks like my dad pocketed it when he stopped by to check the furnace…. Check the furnace indeed…. Flashlight thief.

-Dean

Well I\’m back. I\’ll fill you in on details later. I somehow forgot my password for this blog, that\’s why I\’ve been so quiet while I was on the road. (It wasn\’t because I didn\’t have internet access.)

Anyway, here\’s a picture of me on my birthday for you.

Talk tomorrow.

-Dean

So my brother just called me. Well, he didn\’t actually call me. Have you ever had one of those incidents where someone\’s cellphone autodial goes off in their pocket and rings you up, and all you hear is muffled voices or scrunchy pants sounds? That\’s what happened here.

I shouted \”SEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAN\” into the phone for awhile till he finally hung up (Because I picked out his laugh when I was carefully listening to the random noise and trying to guess who\’s cell called me this time). A few minutes later he called me back and said \”Did I just call you?\”

They really need to put one of those \”HOLD\” switches on the cellphone like they have on MP3 and CD players.

I suggest, in future, if you can figure out who\’s cell just called you, and if you\’d rather it didn\’t ring you up again. Just set your phone down, off the hook, and walk away. I wouldn\’t suggest doing this to your brother, or a good friend. but if you had an obnoxious client who calls you a lot or an acquaintance who thinks they\’re your best buddy but you\’d rather not hang out with or something, Just someone you generally wish ill upon.

-Dean

I think I have a new logo

-Dean

I don\’t think this picture needs any explanation. Especially if you notice the red stars on the flags that Mario flies out of the castle when he beats a level in Super Mario Brothers for the NES.

-dean

Steph was cooking me dinner and she dropped the pepper in the pasta. Fortunately the camera was handy.

-Dean

So the weird 7-Eleven thing for the day is BAWLS

I\’m not sure this stuff is exactly legal in canada. Observe.

On the left we have a bottle I bought at the Edmonton west end Compusmart on the right is the one from 7-Eleven.

So here\’s the ingredient list on the Compusmart BAWLS. No French ingredient list, so there\’s a dead giveaway that it probably wasn\’t meant for sale here in Canada, let\’s continue. Canadian laws are such that caffeine may not be added to any beverage, unless the beverage naturally contains caffeine (examples: coffee, Cola, rootbeer) BAWLS actually has a high caffeine content WARNING on it, so that can\’t be Canada friendly.

Here\’s the ingredient list from the one I purchased at 7-Eleven. The label the importer slapped over top of the real ingredient list has no mention of caffeine at all, hmm…. that\’s kinda fishy. At least it has a french list on here.

What\’s up with the \”Caramel color\” ingredient? BAWLS is like a completely clear liquid.

The front of the bottle clearly states \”BAWLS Guarana: High Caffeine Guarana Beverage\” yet the back of the bottle has no mention of the caffeine on the ingredient list. Either BAWLS is advertising falsely (with claims of high caffeine content on the front of the bottle) or the people who brought this stuff to Canadian 7-Elevens aren\’t listing the true ingredients. Either way someone who\’s responsible for watching the laws on this stuff, is asleep at the wheel.

Now, I love BAWLS. it\’s some of the most delicious nectar ever bottled. But my girlfriend has a Caffeine allergy, and if this stuff is mislabeled, then I\’m kinda worried for her when she wants to try out some new thirst quencher. Just not good.

If someone from BAWLS were to send me a few free cases of free BAWLS though, I wonder If I\’d still feel obligated to keep this post online?

added later: Steph looked up Guarana. Apparently Guarana has a naturally ocurring Caffeine in it, so maybe that\’s the loophole they\’re exploiting. Who knows.

EDIT 2: What exactly is \”flavour\” are they allowed to just list an ingredient as \”flavour\”
If I were to throw an old shoe into the vat, could I get away with calling that flavour, or would I have to list it as \”Shoecrose\”.

If I were to have a parts list tattooed on my side instead of like \”Muscles, adrenal glands, Lungs\” I\’d just list that stuff to \”Meat\”. I guess that\’d cut my list down some \”Water, Meat, Bone, Waste, Nerve\” simple.

-Dean

boo, a new comic went up today, but the computer my Vegreville.net site is hosted on seems to have gone down again, temporarily I\’m sure, but it\’s still kinda sucky.

-Dean

So I was curious enough about traffic to this site to set up a counter yesterday. http://www.deanwelsh.com/bbclone/ (incidentally if you\’re looking for a PHP script that doesn\’t need an SQL database, bbclone will do nicely, It just won\’t tell you the search words people used to track down your site… yet.) Over 50 people have checked this page out since yesterday, that\’s kinda neat, I was expecting more in the area of 20.

I bought an electric eraser at the craft store the other day. People have made snide comments like, \”who needs an electric eraser\”. Those poor souls may never know the pure erasing power that lies concentrated in this gadget. I\’d seen Electric erasers before, but they were all like $70 and were essentially Dremel rotary tools with erasers strapped to the bit. The one i bought was $10, fits in your pocket, and erases like it was blasting out a stream of sub-atomic anti-pencil particles at the page.

Have you noticed that electric toothbrushes and stuff like my electric eraser have been getting way cheaper? I think it must have something to do with the demand for cellphone vibrators.

-Dean