Plan your meals carefully

I just found this image in the NYTimes highlighting how much food is wasted every month by an average 4-person American family. I was initially skeptical in the numbers, but after some thought, it seems accurate. My wife and I find it hard to always eat our produce, also, we can never seem to keep up with our leftovers and they many times end up in the garbage. Knowing of the growing problems with food prices and shortages around the world, this fact is tough to digest...

UPDATE: Well, I didn't read the article carefully enough, it's saying that the food wasted by retailers, food service and consumers amounts to the 122lbs per month, one family doesn't throw away that much. Still quite shocking.

First Laptop!

My wife and I just purchased a brand spankin' new laptop yesterday from MicroCenter. It's the first laptop either of us has owned, pretty exciting. Great specs for the price. In case you're interested, here's the product link on MicroCenter's website, it also came with a free printer, which translates into more clutter for our office!
Now begins the Windows Vista learning curve and the tedious process of moving pictures, music, files, etc. Ah, the burdenbeauty of technology!

No words

For how awesome this website is.
Go to ManBabies.com right now. It's on par with the kitty captions at icanhascheezburger.com!
What more can I say, if you don't believe me, here's an example of the pictures you'll find there.

GET MORE AT ManBabies.com!

I'm da boss, I'm da boss, I'm da boss...

Watched two solid films this weekend I did.

The first movie was Son of Rambow, a heart-warming comedy about two boys who decide to make an action film with the main character playing the role of Rambo's son. It's a great story, the dynamic friendship between these two boys is well played out. There are some great characters, the foreign exchange student from France is an absolute scene stealer. 4/5 flying dogs.

I happened to continue my quest to see all AFI's top 100 films (see my progress on this blog's sidebar link) and watched Raging Bull. It was quite an experience. It was a hard-hitting (pun intended) boxing drama with Bob DeNiro as the leading man. Based on the true story of Jake LaMotta, Scorsese explored the dark, jealous nature of this legendary fighter and his relationships with his wife and brother along with his self degradation. This was a disturbing
film, the boxing scenes were quite graphic (even with the film being in B&W), but it was absolutely gripping. It rightly deserves its spot in the top 10 and I give it 4.5/5 TKOs!

Freaky Beast

Here's an interesting article in the New York Times about how they have decoded the genome of the platypus, one freaky animal. This is a mammal that lays eggs, has webbed feet, a duck bill, it has no nipples and also is poisonous! I want one as a pet. Here's a photo of one in case you never paid attention during science class.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia.