http://akosut.com/log Sun, 04 May 2008 22:19:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 What is it about Limited Edition M&M’s this spring? This is the third one I’ve come across. I found RaZZberry M&M’s today at the Rite Aid at San Antonio Shopping Center (along with single-serving bags of Mint Crisp M&M’s on sale for 50¢ each!). These are enlarged ... http://akosut.com/log/2008/05/04/razzberry-mms/ Tonight at Walgreens, I ran into a stack of Mint Crisp M&M’s bags. A tie-in with the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, these green-and-white M&Ms are mint-flavored like the holiday mint M&M s and crispy like the now-defunct crispy M&M’s. I’ve missed crispy M&Ms ever since they were ... http://akosut.com/log/2008/04/08/mint-crisp-mms/ I discovered a bag of “Wildly Cherry” M&M’s at Target today. They are, as near as I can tell, exactly the same as the “Cherry Cordial” M&M’s that I enjoyedd this past Christmas. The same size, color, taste, everything except the packaging. I’m not sure if this means that ... http://akosut.com/log/2008/03/23/mms-wildly-cherry/ Saw this one floating around LiveJournal (first from R.J.): Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be. How many songs total: 3452 How many hours or days of music: 8.7 days Most recently played: “Seven Drunken Nights", Bill Craig, The Wild Rover Most played: “I ... http://akosut.com/log/2008/01/30/itunes-meme/ Since May 2005, I have watched… 6 series… 30 seasons (and 10 movies)… 224 DVDs… 726 episodes (and 10 movies)… 33539 minutes (i.e., 23 days, 6 hours and 59 minutes)… …of Star Trek. Whew. I finished the last episode of Enterprise last night. Not quite sure what to watch now. http://akosut.com/log/2008/01/09/these-have-been-the-voyages/ I mentioned in my previous post that I had been looking for mint M&M’s; they’re available only during the holiday season, and I hadn’t happened to find any at any of the stores I had looked in the last few weeks. After Christmas, I happened to be in a ... http://akosut.com/log/2008/01/03/found-mint-mms/ Was at Target the other day looking for mint M&M’s (normally available only during the holiday season), and while I didn’t find any, I did run across M&M’s Cherry Cordial, oversized dark chocolate M&M’s “with a hint of cherry flavor.” They turn out to be quite good; I recommend ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/12/24/mms-cherry-cordial/ Great quote from Aaron Sorkin from the documentary In Depth: The Evolution of Studio 60, one of the special features on the DVD set that came out last week.: I have a theater background, and in theater nobody ever asks is it a drama or a comedy, just is it a ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/10/24/is-it-a-drama-or-a-comedy/ Just finished watching the first season of Enterprise. If nothing else, this show is a lot of fun to watch. I started watching Star Trek DVDs back when Enterprise was first on the air; the theory was that if I watched all seven hundred-odd epiosodes of Trek back-to-back, ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/10/16/enterprise-season-one/ I picked up some sushi at Whole Foods earlier, and I got a little concerned when I took a bite of my cucumber roll and discovered a soft texture when I was expecting crunchy. Turns out I picked up a package of avocado rolls instead of cucumber. Oops. ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/10/15/mistaken-iden-maki/ Stupid question of the day: To describe more than one MacBook Pro, should one write MacBook Pros, MacBooks Pro or MacsBook Pro? http://akosut.com/log/2007/10/13/what-is-the-plural-of-macbook-pro/ For only the second or third time in recent memory, I have remembered to inflate the tires on my bicycle before they’ve gone completely flat, and without damaging the tire or bike in the process. So therefore I wish to remind my fellow cyclists to check your tires and ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/10/07/public-service-announcement-keep-those-bike-tires-inflated/ After writing that most of the Star Trek animated episodes seemed to have a direct tie to an original series episode1, I was interested to see that most of the next set of episodes (from the late first season and second season) are more stand-alone. The last episode of ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/08/19/the-counter-clock-incident/ Finished the second disc, so now I’m at episode 12, more than half way through the series. I’ve been enjoying it; like the original show, but more cartoon-like in appearance. One thing that is notable compared to the original: There are far more internal references. Of the dozen shows ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/08/15/more-on-star-trek-the-animated-series/ I finished watching Star Trek: Voyager last week. Overall, I enjoyed the final few seasons of the show, which I had never seen before (except for the series finale, which was not spectacular). Even the parts of Voyager I had seen before I thought were much better than ... http://akosut.com/log/2007/08/12/finished-star-trek-voyager-now-watching-star-trek-the-animated-series/