Michael Rice

For years I have not had any kind of soda pop. At some point in my life I started noticing I would get a bad stomach ache after drinking a soda. I never really thought much about it… I just quit drinking them. Well a couple of years ago I started getting sick a lot. I went to my regular doctor and nothing was obviously wrong with me. I started thinking about the feelings I got when I felt sick.. it reminded me of when I would eat peanuts which I am very allergic to, it also reminded me of how I felt when drinking a couple of sodas. This made me think.. So I went and got tested for allergies again. I had not been tested since I was about 12. This time I asked that they only test me for food allergies. As it turned out I am allergic to soy, and corn too. Aha! No wonder when I would drink a soda I felt so sick. All the sodas seem to be sweetened with that nasty high fructose corn syrup crap.. Well bummer for me right.. no one makes soda with sugar these days right.. WRONG!! I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing because now I am re-addicted to soda again. I started looking around and found that Mexican Coke was still made with sugar, then I found out that the Dublin Dr Pepper plant still made Dr Pepper the original way using Imperial Sugar, next I start looking hard for all kinds of sodas that are made with sugar and to my pleasant surprise there are TONS out there. We now keep Mexican coke, Pepsi throwback, Dublin Dr Pepper, and many many others at our house. They all come in glass bottles too just like they should (except the Pepsi.. wth Pepsi..). I have found TONS of delicious Root Beers made just like it used to be made “back in the day”. I find most of these sodas at Central Market, and Whole Foods. The Mexican Coke and the Pepsi ate the cheapest at Costco from what I have found. I also found this AWESOME stuff called Bubble Up that is a lemon lime soda, it is made with real sugar and with Lemon and Lime oil extracts.. It is SO much better than Sprite or 7up could ever dream of being..

Wow so its been a little over 5 years since my first post. What a ride its been! I wonder what the next 5 will bring? With any luck the winning numbers to the lottery so I wont have to work any more

Please be safe while celebrating this holiday season and dont drink and drive

I freakin hate when there is an ad for something and they show a price and in tiny microscopic print they put “after pain in the ass to get split between 4 companies mail in get screwed on rebate” Why dont these companies stop doing this and they be the ones to deal with the mail in crap. I want my discount now, and I dont want some technicality like me forgetting the correct department to ship it too to end up costing me my nice discount that made me buy the item in the first place…

Next why are all these computer makers still pumping out PCs and shipping them with a 32b os? Then to top it off when you call them to get a copy of the 64b so all the memory your computer came with will be used some of them are telling you to bad. Seriously.. why would you sell me a laptop with 4G of ram then put an OS on there that will only report 3.25 of it as usable. Thanks. Should I just throw the other 768 in the trash? Why not just put a 64b system on there to begin with and make everyone happy.

So I got this thing in the mail the other day from this cancer research center. It had a nickel in it. On the front it said “Find out how this nickel can save the life of a child”. Im thinking to my self… If this nickel really can save the life of a child why did you just send it to me? I don’t need it… So I put it back in the mail “Return to sender. Please use said nickel to save a childs life”

I have recently gotten into this awesome show called The IT Crowd. Its really funny. I thought I would share with you a really funny clip from season 1.

Well the guys at South Park did it again. Here is a classic clip from a recent episode of South Park

• @Ponderous76 Killer choice!! in reply to Ponderous76 #
• watching south park episodes on http://southparkstudios.com/ #

• Just left frys in austin #
• Envy me. Just left the salt lick #
• @Ponderous76 Yeah I picked up a new 1TB drive and a new video card while I was there. Frys is my walmart super store in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @Ponderous76 I thought about you and Joe while I was eating my brisket in reply to Ponderous76 #
• @calebgroom It was amazing. I love that habenaro sauce they have. We need to take a field trip over there some afternoon in reply to calebgroom #
• I think I am fixing to order an asus p5q3 delux and a q9550 and build a media center pc that will also be my new file server.. over kill? #
• ended up going with the Asus P5Q SE/R and the Intel Q8200 & 2GB of RAM #
• RMS is coming to town in April: http://tinyurl.com/dng9r4 Im planning on going. #

• getting ready to head to Mr. Luckys for a few hours of tattoo fun and excitement. My arm sure is gonna be sore tomorrow #
• Getting inked at Mr Luckys #
• home at lat. my arm feels like mush #

• Why cant IIS be as easy to configure and trouble shoot as Apache? #
• standing in line at chachos #
• just finished watching semi-pro. not as funny as I hoped. I think Ill hack on some python code for a while #