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October 7, 2010

Super Green from Juice Harvest has a smooth flavor

Filed under: Reviews — Tyler @ 2:22 pm
Super Green

Super Green

Super Green from Juice Harvest has a very smooth flavor. It is easily my favorite of the green smoothie drinks that one may find in the grocery store. It is made of juice that is NOT from CONCENTRATE so that is one of the main reasons why I think it tastes so good. Similarly to other juices in its category, “Super Green” has boost-like items inside it. These things include: spirulina, chlorella, blue green algea, wheatgrass and one I’ve never heard of before called, “Dulse.” It is supposed to be some kind of sea vegetable. I got this juice from Gelson’s and it was $3.99. So this is a similar price to other juices in this category. The main thing that I liked about Super Green, was that it tasted slightly sweet, but it was a smooth and relaxed sweet. And the texture was very good. One drawback is that the color looks more brown than other drinks like “Green Machine.” But perhaps that is a good thing because it shows that they don’t use artificial coloring. The taste of Super Green is excellent but the amount of vitamins in it is not very impressive. I think the green drink with the most vitamins out of those I’ve tried is “Green Goodness” from Bolthouse Farms. But that one doesn’t taste as good and it also uses juice From CONCENTRATE, and that doesn’t surprise me.

I drank this Super Green really fast. It was delicious. I was surprised that I had never had it before. For some reason the packaging of the bottle in front of me looks different from the one on the official website. They have a “Evolution” logo and the bottle I have says nothing of this. Perhaps they changed distributors or owners or something. Now the label has purple on it, although the only thing that is purple in the drink is the “Dulse.”

The wheatgrass flavor really tastes good. It is subtle and yet it connects all the other flavors together. You can definitely taste the mango and pineapple in the drink. It is supposed to have 3 oranges in the beverage but I wasn’t able to taste any oranges.

Super Green is Flash Pasteurized.

-Tyler

October 5, 2010

Snowball the Ghost Cat

Filed under: Original Writing — Tyler @ 9:13 pm
Ghost Cat

Ghost Cat

Here’s a spooky ghost story from my good friend Maile! Let’s continue to share fun ghost stories, dreams and nightmares for the haunted month of October!

A few years back a friend and I moved into an older apartment in Long Beach.  We never knew for sure, but based on the architecture we assumed it was built in the 1920’s.  On our first day moving in, my friend stopped as we entered the kitchen and gave me a strange look.  When I asked what was up she commented that she felt as though there was something blocking her, like a baby gate or something.  We both agreed that was a bit peculiar but generally accepted it.  Over the next few months we’d feel like there was something small in the room with us or see something out of the corner of our eye.  Not like a person, but more like an animal of sorts.  One night we had a few friends over and one of them casually turned to me to ask if the apartment was haunted.  I responded that yes, with a small animal.  He nodded and said it was a white fluffy cat.  Now that I’d acknowledge the cat, she seemed to respond to me.  Some nights I’d feel her sleeping on the bed and other times I’d feel her in the room near my feet.  I named her Snowball and she was a regular fixture in this Long Beach apartment.

I had two other big experiences when I lived there, both of which freaked me out a lot more than Snowball.  The first of these started with an oddly vivid dream.  I was in my room and I heard a noise in the living room.  I walked out and I saw these figures having a party of sorts.  Their wardrobe suggested the 1920’s.  In this dream I freaked out and tried to get back to my room, though I kept tripping over cords.  When I finally got into my room I saw a little blonde boy sitting in the corner watching me.  He opened his mouth to speak and in a panic I woke up from the dream.  He was hazy, but I could still see him sitting in the corner.  More ghost-like than before.  Young, maybe 10, with corn yellow hair and blue eyes.  My heart racing, I immediately turned on my light and he vanished.

The other strange experience happened one night when I was trying to sleep.  I had the television on and was listening to a show I knew well as I tried to sleep.  At one point I heard the voice of a small child.  A young girl.  My room was above an alley and my initial thought was that it was very late for a family to be in the alley.  It was well past midnight.  As the voice got louder, I suddenly realized that it wasn’t coming from the ally.  She was talking to me.  She told me her name and I felt my heart race.  I sat up, turned on the light and started talking to myself, tuning her out.

I moved soon after that.  Unfortunately Snowball did not follow me to my current haunted apartment.

Harness Your Inner Paladin

Filed under: Tyler's Mind — Tyler @ 8:39 pm
paladin

Paladin

If you do good deeds, if you hold the door for people, or if you drink bottled water, then you have an inner paladin. An inner paladin will push you to be lawful and good. My inner paladin encourages me to be kind to strangers and make friends with people. It is a little bit scary to meet new people, especially when there are so many personalities out there and you never know who is going to be offended by what. But my inner paladin says that if I am kind and courteous and remember peoples’ names then everything will be fine. So today I was at Peet’s coffee and I saw a dude that I know from Starbucks and I said hi to him and he is such a funny guy. He was asking about my science fiction story. But the thing is that he laughs a lot so it is never a dull moment. And he was with his friend who I barely know and when I said hi to him, he was like, “Who’s this guy?” And me and the other dude thought that was really funny. And then the other dude was asking about my dog and he said, “Forget your dog! I’ve got a business proposition for you!” And I was sipping my latte, which I wasn’t sure was a good idea because I’m trying to cut back on dairy products but hey, just one won’t hurt right? So I told him I was all ears and he said, “I’m talking about a ‘Hot Dog on A Stick’ in Corona del Mar!”

I thought the idea was cool and funny at the same time. But then I said to the other dude, “Hey didn’t Hot Dog on a Stick go out of business in Fashion Island.” And he said, “Yeah man, I don’t know if that’s the best idea.” And I said, “I think it went the way of Sbarro and friends.”

Then I tossed out the idea of a Tanning Salon for Dogs. But that didn’t make a whole lot of sense because dogs have fur. So who is going to see the tan anyway, right? Kind of a waste of money.

Overall, the conversation we had was a lot of fun and I am glad that I took the time to talk to those guys. I always see them around town and they are cool dudes. But if I didn’t follow my inner paladin and be friendly to those dudes then I probably would have missed out on a lot of laughs.

Today when I went grocery shopping at Gelsons. I noticed a couple things. First, Gelson’s does some serious subliminal mind control pricing. Don’t believe me? Go in Gelson’s in East Bluff and take a look at the prices they have for their items. You won’t believe this but every 3rd or 4th item you find in the store is priced, “$3.99!” Everywhere I went, if I wanted a smoothie drink, it was $3.99. If I was looking for some Ivory Soap, it was $3.99. This obviously is part of some kind of conspiracy. They want to be like, “Oh! It’s only $3.99, I can afford that!” But then after you fill your shopping cart full of items that cost $3.99 then you will realize that you just spent your car payment at Gelson’s.

So I was in the soup isle looking for chicken bullion and then I found it. But there was a man who was searching around in the isle in that area and he was taking forever. And since I have better things to do than hang out at Gelson’s my inner paladin instructed me to say, “Hi, do you mind if I squeeze by there and grab some Chicken Bullion?” And the man briefly turned to me and watched me take a few jars of Chicken Bullion off the shelf. And then for some reason he picked one of the bullion jars up and in a gruff voice he said, “What’s so good about this stuff?” And I casually replied that it supposedly tastes better than the Knorr versions. And while I was walking away he said, “Hey! This stuff has got 300 milligrams of sodium!” And I tried not to laugh and said, “Yeah, that’s a real problem. You gotta watch out for that.”

What a funny couple of days.

-Tyler

October 3, 2010

The Social Network teaches some valuable lessons

Filed under: Reviews — Tyler @ 1:09 am
The Social Network

The Social Network

I just finished watching, “The Social Network” at the Spectrum theaters in Irvine. That movie taught me some valuable lessons. And it also reinforced some beliefs that I already had. This movie is more than a dramatization of an internet phenomenon or startup company. The Social Network has a message and a warning that any young business owner or entrepreneur should heed. The first lesson that I learned from The Social Network is that if you own shares of a company, those shares can be arbitrarily devalued. Walking into the movie I thought that shares in a company could only loose value if all the shares lost value. But from the film I gleaned that certain shares of stock could be targeted to lose value. That is a very scary idea. So I am going to think twice before ever signing anything about sharing stock in any of my business endeavors. So that was worth my $9.00 ticket price right there.

Another important thing that I learned from The Social Network is that you need to stay close to the people you are working with. This is especially true when a business is in its infant stages. In the movie, the character who made the initial financial investment into Facebook seemed to allow himself to get distanced from the project. He was concerned with monetizing too early, and he even paid his friend to live on the other side of the continent. He did this even though he saw that a potential threat was in California. The character, “Eduardo,” really allowed himself to be phased out of the business. It is important to stay close to your partners in the early stages of a project. If you are not in close proximity and tight communication, you can end up losing clout in your own project.

Something that got reinforced by the movie was how there is karma in business. Even though the main character made billions of dollars for himself. He still could not escape the dubious karma about the beginnings of his business. His initial notoriety and success on “facemash.com” (I don’t think this site exists anymore) was created at the expense of other people. And even though the main character, Zuckerberg made tremendous amounts of money in the end. The negativity of his beginnings will forever be immortalized in, The Social Network.

Overall, the film was an extremely pleasurable and interesting viewing experience. I haven’t had this much fun in a movie since I saw, “Inception.” There was one line in the film where Justin Timberlake’s character was talking about how he brought down the record industry. One character asked Timberlake about it and he responded by asking something like: Are you going to run out and invest in a Tower Records anytime soon? (Not a direct quote – paraphrase) I felt that the question summed up the whole movie and how individual people actually do have power. This is true even in a dynamic and huge system that we have today.

-Tyler

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