Women are *such* cows!

It would appear that women across the world might have a future as human cows.

First up is PETA. In this story, PETA is urging Ben & Jerry’’s to refrain from using cow milk in their creamy confections. Their solution? HUMAN BREAST MILK! That’’s right – moo juice is gonna be replaced with mom juice. (typing that made me throw up in my mouth a little bit) I do not even want to imagine the clever new ice cream names.

Across the pond, Chinese women are seling their breast milk in response to the baby formula scare. Wet nursing is nothing new, but this incident seems to have created a boom in demand.

If these two stories are any indication of things to come, we are in for a pretty weird future.

*EDIT* Chelsea from zomgnews.net suggested a new flavor for breast milk ice cream – “Nipple Ripple”.

2008
09/24
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Broken Big Daddy Update

If you were one of the unlucky few that received a broken Big Daddy figure with your Bioshock pre-order, this is for you.  Yesterday afternoon this little gem hit my gmail:

“The BioShock figurine replacement program is nearing completion after some delays due to production of the replacement figurines. We appreciate your patience and in order to speed things up, 2K Games is eliminating the step in which you are required to return the broken figurine (we”ve figured you”ve waited long enough!).

In the next two weeks, we will begin shipping out a single package containing both the replacement figurine and the art book to customers who enrolled in the program by November 12th. There will be no return box or need to return the broken figurine to our attention.

Thanks for your support and interest in BioShock, and for your patience during the replacement figurine program.
2K Games”

I cannot say enough good things about 2K Games and the way that they have handled this situation.  Given that sub-par customer service is pretty much the norm nowadays, experiences like this really stand out.  Whatever they are paying their customer service group at 2K is not enough.  Kudos!

2007
11/21
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September 25 is looking like a fun release day

Next week, Halo 3 drops. For some reason I never really got into the Halo series until recently. I remember seeing the footage from the 1999 Macworld Expo and drooling along with the rest of the geek universe. My excitement for the title almost lead to the purchase of a new iMac. When Microsoft bought Bungie in 2000, everyone knew what was coming next – no multi-platform support. Sure enough, they used the first Halo to drive the sale of XBoxes.  When I got my 360 last year, Halo was the last thing on my mind.  My little brother, however, had become a full-on Halo fanboy.  He bought me a copy of Halo 2 which sat on my coffee table for about 9 months.  It wasn”t opened until a few weeks ago.

While I enjoy epic first-person shooters, I really didn’t “get” the whole Halo craze.  The re are MUCH better FPS engines out there (Valve’s Source engine, the Unreal engine, the Quake engine…).  Did we really need another one?  And, forgive my fanboy raving, but *real* gamers use a mouse + keyboard, not some dual-thumbstick combo.

Maybe it was the Minibosses.  Maybe it was some kind of mass-hypnosis.  Maybe it was watching Omeganauts score sweet kills on giant overhead moniters.  Whatever it was, it lead me to my local GameStop where I pre-ordered the super-mega-deluxe-12″ Dance Remix (feat. P. Diddy) foil-embossed cover version of Halo 3. Worse comes to worse, I can amuse myself by making my cats wear the Master Chief helmet.

2007
09/19
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Use Headphones With Caution

For those of you that do not know me, I work for a very large global shipping company that has a affinity for odd color combinations. I also Absolutely, Positively LOVE my job.

One of the best parts about being a cube jockey is that headphones are allowed (and, in some cases, encouraged). The only problem is that headphone use can lead to potentially uncomfortable situations.

Waaaaay back in 2000 I was working for a dot-com, which meant that I had quite a few all-night coding sprees. One evening I was listening to Bree Sharp’’s “David Duchovney” and was overcome with the urge to sing. “I”m the only one here”, I thought, “So what’’s the big deal? I”m not bothering anyone!”

Turns out I was not the only one burning the midnight oil. Our (very very cute) project manager had snuck in to the office to follow up on some emails. So yeah – she never looked at me the same again.

The next time i was working for a freight brokerage company. Same thing, different song. “Woman” by Portishead. MUCH more difficult to explain that one.

The latest incident was today. I was running some queries during my lunch break and blasting techno. One of our other programmers happened to have skipped lunch and came into my cube just in time to bust me doing the Numa Numa dance. I have no idea how to explain myself.

Anyone else get busted in a somewhat embarrassing headphone-related incident?

2007
09/06
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