As you may know by now, we’re engrained in the Organic Culture. We try to get organic whenever possible, with a 90% success rate. Yes it’s slightly more sometimes (slightly less others), but we eat 3 times a day and care about our health and the quality of the food we eat, so it’s worth it.

We also love Round Table Pizza. If you know me, you know this. No secret. Well, of course they use quality ingredients, that’s why it tastes better than Dominos or any other brand I’ve had. But do they use organic? Probably not. So we figured we’d remedy that situation the same way we remedied brownies, cookies, steak, and everything else: make it ourselves!

Because of course all you do is fling some dough around, put tomato sauce and cheese and pepperoni on it and cook, right?

WRONG WRONG WRONG! Talk about eating crap. WOW. This pizza blew. We figured we were failures in more ways than one, first being horrible pizza cooks, and also using the wrong crust recipe…

Well it turns out we were right, but it was sorta not our fault. Pizza’s involved! Found this thread whilst looking up the recipe for RTP’s crust. We had no idea that pizza-making was such an involved process. 14 pages in, and these guys still can’t get it right. And they seem to know what they’re talking about. Hell if I do. And if you know me, you know something right away: I’m too damn lazy to go through all that for a pizza that’ll last <10 minutes on my plate.

Obviously, Round Table has a customer for life.



Cast Away
Watched this movie last night after we got home from Denny’s (more on that later). Was tired, wanted an easy movie to watch that I could fall asleep through and not miss much, yet still be entertained whilst I was awake. I think it was a good choice.

It’s a good movie. I know it can be kinda boring in some senses, corny at times even (I have made FIRE! - shut up...), but it does a good job of focusing you on a certain select few issues/emotions, and staying with them. Such as, what is lonely? That is lonely. He was lonely. And what would it feel like to be him? I mean for me and possibly many others, the thought of being trapped on a tropical island? No problem, huh? But here we are, peaking in at the reality of it, and maybe it’s not all that great. I mean yeah, he was totally alone, but I can imagine being there with the one other person I’d want: Marisa Miller. OK OK, The Girl… Would we be OK? It’d surely be a nice vacation for a few weeks. But after that? Would we grow tired of it? Would we crave modern society? I just don’t know.

Especially considering that we’re two people who are actively considering not having kids. Would we keep that mentality when presented with life alone on a deserted island? Would we have kids to have company? To take care of us? To build a society? To form unions and Social Security?

Just don’t know. I guess I’ll have to crash a plane to find out for sure. But it’s an interesting internal debate, and I think processing the reality of it could probably make a lot of so-called loners realize they’re not that into being alone after all.

It’s a good movie. And I didn’t even touch on how it points out all we take for granted, and how far removed we are from all that survives us. Another day perhaps.



Capitalism at its… Best?
Recently decided that I could use a larger iPod, say a nano or something of that nature. Nothing outrageous, just something with a screen (my Shuffle has none) and thus the ability to easily navigate more than one playlist, and play the music I’m in the mood for when I'm in the mood for it.

The brand new nanos are a little bigger than I care for, and they place an emphasis on the screen I don’t care for either (thanks, I have a 52” HDTV for watching movies, thank you very much). So the older, 2nd-gen. nanos seemed like a good fit.

Until, that is, I tried to price them out. They’re not made any more, so limited supply, coupled with their apparent appeal, and you have older equipment that is 300% more expensive than the current-gen. Amazing. Yeah, sorry, but I’m not paying $450 for an iPod. It better… well, it better do unspeakable things for me for that much coin, if you are pickin’ up what I’m throwin’ down, as the kids say these days.

I could get one of them iPod Touches for that much money! Sh!t! Maybe I will!

Probably not.

Peace.

Tags: Entertainment, earth conditions