Ben Hesse

September 29, 2008

Kellogg’s Limited Edition Indiana Jones Chocolate Cereal With Marshmallows

Filed under: Humor — Tags: , — bhesse @ 8:56 pm

Indy the ol selloutNaturally and Artificially Flavored. Enlarged to show texture.

I know that the DJIA dropping 700+ points may be on your mind, but there are other important events afoot. Like the coolest anniversary present ever, which I am taste testing right now. My initial response was:

Wait… this is just Cocoa Puffs with some reject Lucky Charms marshmallows in it.

All it took was another serving and a bit more enthusiasm. Back in my day, this cereal would have come with a real bull whip inside, or at least a way to send off for the gold plastic deco bowl pictured on the box. But I’m not greedy. I live on main street, not wall street. A printed box containing premium cereal is prize enough for me. 

Anyway, I’m just warming up for a wiki how. I can sure as hell tell you how to eat this cereal.

  1. Pour the milk in with conviction.
  2. Marvel at the realism of the marshmallow skulls, hats, and torches.
  3. Sing the theme song to yourself while you eat.

 Crystal skull, Indy's hat, torch

See? With a little imagination, you can actually taste the dust, cobwebs, and precious artifacts. Indy, cover your heart!

September 15, 2008

Technorati

Filed under: Design — Tags: — admin @ 2:47 pm

I claim this Technorati Profile for the Queen of Georgia Drive.

That’s all I have to say about that, but I would also like to say hello some old friends with a CSS hack roundup. There’s the old voice-family Tantek route. There are IE conditional comments. Then there’s * html and *:first-child+html. Finally, this blather.

  • property: value; /* hello erbody */
  • #property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer */
  • _property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer 6, you dog…*/

I consider it a major victory to use none of the above, but I just had to untangle this last one, so I’m slapping this sticky note on my forehead. The octothorpe (#) filter can also be done with a period (.). Fun times.

September 9, 2008

Hummingbird central

Filed under: Birds — Tags: — bhesse @ 8:09 am

There are quite a few hummingbirds this week. Instead of the usual pair playing feeder-tag, there are dogfights going on right when walk out the door.
Note to next year self, compare migration pattern. Oh, and, baby cardinals. Again.

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