The Meaning of Life
Figure it out for yourself.
August 29, 2010
August 23, 2010
Yellow Watermelon tastes different
Yellow Watermelon
BREAKING NEWS! Yellow watermelon tastes different from regular watermelon! I speak the truth because I just ate some of both kinds over the past few days. Here are some of the major differences. The initial bite of the regular green and pink watermelon tastes sweeter for the fleshy parts. But the juice of the yellow or golden watermelon tastes sweeter than the regular kind. Also yellow watermelon almost reminds me slightly of banana flavored popsicles. Does this sound weird to you? Another cool thing about yellow watermelon is that is has a slightly different texture. It is a bit squishier and more wafer-like than regular watermelon. The yellow watermelon I ate recently had black seeds. So be careful with the seeds man!
Personally I like cutting my watermelon into triangle shaped pieces without any rind. I get rid of the rind. It is a lot more fun to eat watermelon without having to deal with eating around the rind. It is less work. And less work is the key to a better watermelon munching experience. I love mixing up eating watermelon after drinking my coffee or latte. It is a similar experience to eating some ginger root after a few pieces of sushi. It cleanses the palate for another sip to be enjoyed. The only difference is that the watermelon is hydrating and mildly sweet.
I noticed that some people call yellow watermelon, “Golden Watermelon.” I don’t think it looks gold. When I think gold I think of the interior of a Goa’uld Mothership, not this kind of watermelon. Speaking of Goa’uld, DANG I love this Stargate SG-1 show! I can’t tell you how many slices of watermelon I’ve consumed and lattes I’ve sipped while watching episodes of this show. I’m only on season 5 and I am having tons of fun with it.
Wikipedia says that the flavor of yellow watermelon has a “honey” taste to it. I can agree with that to an extent. But I still think it tastes like banana popsicles.
-Tyler
June 21, 2010
Riots are often portrayed larger than they really are in the media
Note how the media makes unrest seem huge.
June 3, 2010
Overidon Laptop is Up and Running Again
Fortunately, the Overidon Laptop is up and running again! Big thanks to Device Repair for replacing the hard drive and installing Windows 7. They did a great job. Now I am running Windows 7 and it is quite faster than Windows Vista on this computer. One thing that I noticed is that Windows 7 uses these interesting transparent windows. When I click on the Start Button it looks pretty similar to Vista except that the right hand side of the window is translucent and I can see the window behind it. It is a really nice perk because you always have an idea of what you’re looking at. Also when I hover the icons on the taskbar, I can see small previews of the programs that are running. So when I hover over the Mozilla Firefox icon, I can see this post that I’m writing right now, and also my Facebook page. And I can easily select which window I want to view. Minimizing and maximizing and restoring windows is much easier now. By simply dragging the top of a window to the top of the screen, Windows automatically thinks that I want to maximize. It’s pretty amazing and very intuitive.
In order to get the wireless working again since I forgot my wireless password, I had to hard-reset my router. The router came with this graphically intense software for the Linksys. I remember when we first set it up, it took literally over an hour to install and configure the software, maybe even two hours. But this time I didn’t even have to install the software from the CD in order to get it to work. The router came with built in, web based software that I was able to access by being plugged into the thing and entering 192.168.1.1 into my browser. It didn’t take long at all to get back online. And this time I made sure to keep the wireless password information in a place where I remember.
It’s going to take a while to install all the software that I had originally on this laptop. But at least now I have a 500 gig hard drive to store data. Before I only had a 150 gig hard drive and that was barely enough. I’m not exactly sure how my old hard drive got bad sectors. But I am going to make sure to back up my data often in order to avoid problems.