2 posts tagged “food”

As an information worker, I like to keep up on what's out there in terms of social networking, business networking, news, etc.  It's fun.  I've created a lot of accounts, just to explore the various sites out there and see what they offer.  Many of these accounts I have canceled or just let lapse.  Some of these sites I enjoy (Vox, Facebook, Flickr, LibraryThing), some I do not (MySpace, Friendster).  Today I discovered twitter.

Once you sign up, you can tell people (in few words) what you are doing.  You can make your posts public or specific to your friends, and, well, that's it.  It's OK-- I mean, sometimes that's all you want to do is dash off a line or two about a scary business meeting you're going to have, or how you're watching Little Einsteins with your kid-- but it just seems... there's so MUCH already.  I mean, at the computer labs at the libraries at this University, people will just sit there for hours, blogging and social networking.  And they are cross-posting to several different sites.  Now, I admit to exploring different blog platforms (for instance, when I asked about Vox vs Others, I investigated some Others) but, aside from a site specific to certain friends, I only keep one blog-- this one.  Yet, one underclass student at My Library explained to me, in the way that you do when you're humoring those old twenty-somethings, that she has to put her blog entries on eight blogs.  Plus, she said, "Facebook and Friendster and Myspace and..." My brain glazed at that point. 

And now, there is twitter.  I haven't figured out if you can import twitter messages ("tweets"-- really) anywhere, though there are RSS options.  Yet another way to zip off quick messages to "friends," if they know your twitter URL or username or whatever.  Yet another computer-sitter time-waster.

And damn, if it isn't addictive.

Also check out twittervision.  It's twitter alerts paired with Google Earth (or something similar-- I'm too tired to look it up again).  It's mesmerizing.

Dubliner Cheese

The website for Kerrygold Dubliner cheese says that the cheese "has a hard texture, not unlike a cheddar, but with the sweet, nutty taste of a swiss and the piquant flavor of an aged Italian-type cheese."  Ah.  That explains why it tastes like it can't make up its mind what the flavor should be.  Honestly, my first reaction was "Ew."  But I tried another piece, and the second wasn't so bad.  I later figured out, after experimentation, that this was because the first piece inured the taste buds to the second. 
It really does taste like a hodgepodge of everything. I did not care for it at all. I think I'll stick to Voxers' recommendations and the gourmet store from now on.

I just can't eat it.

Sure, it's chocolate, plain old milk chocolate, and chocolate is good.  And I'm NOT a picky eater! As long as food is essentially Kosher, I'll try anything once.  Chocolate is essentially Kosher, this chocolate actually is labeled Kosher, so I should be good to go, right?  What is stopping me from eating it?

The shape.

I've tried to get around it.  I keep telling myself "It's just a candy bar.  It is only an oddly shaped candy bar.  It's chocolate.  I like chocolate!  I should eat!"  And yet, I can't.

I just can't.

I cannot eat a foot.  I cannot eat toes.