damn its hot.
It occurs to me I did not properly introduce exactly what the "quotes of the day" were. because yes, they are more than just quotes picked randomly for the day. about a block away, I pass it every day, at least twice, usually 4 times, (fear my mad use of commas) exists a crosswalk. this crosswalk is special, because on either end of it, where one steps off of the sidewalk onto the crosswalk, someone had the brilliant idea of saying "hey, lets make those two little areas at the ends of this crosswalk brick instead of normal sidewalk concrete. and hey, lets make it interesting, lets have people write down cool little phrases and put one on each brick!".
so they did.
so now each and every one of those bricks has a persons favorite quote (or just something they thought up at the moment that they thought would be cool to have on a sidewalk brink) engraved into it. thus, until I run out of readable bricks, I give you the daily brick quote.
brick quote of the day: "eccentricities we hold dear practiced here"
current project: GIVE ME FOOD OR GIVE ME DEATH!
current real project: how the hell am I supposed to secure UDP connections... damn stateless protocols! *reads up endlessly*
its really surprising how much money you can spend just getting a decent sized lunch sometimes. $14 and all I got was a sandwich, drink, and salad! oh, and a little andes chocolate mint. mollie stones is wonderful in that it gives little andes chocolate mints with every sandwich.
today I have also discovered that I am getting up too early. the bart comes every 15 minutes, but the caltrain only every 30, which means I could be getting an extra 15 minutes of snooze time! this is a significant amount.
yesterday late afternoon I was just bored enough (Nichole actually awarded my boredness a score of 9.4 out of 10, an impressive feat) to decide to do quite conceivably the most pointless thing I have ever done.
~*~*~please excuse any derogatory comments made against any given race, color, or creed. they were not intended as derogatory. however, if you feel it is, and are unable to excuse it/take it personally/feel you need to start a personal vendetta against me for it, just sit in your computer chair with an angry look and brood. I find stress balls to also be helpful. just dont bother me about it.~*~*~
Did you realize there is a strange phenomenon in the fast food industry known as Church's Chicken? thats right, a mysterious competetor with KFC in the fired chicken industry. I completely failed, however, to understand how they survived given that they WERE competeing with KFC. thus, I set out to determine just how. the first test was a side by side taste comparison. it may be nessisary, in the spirit of scientific method, to note that the KFC was slightly on the cold side. ok, more like lukewarm, as it was the one that had to be toted to the other establishment. in the taste test, the KFC was undenyably superior to that of the Church's. second criteria was cost. as I didnt have any kind of weight measuring tool on me, I eyeballed it. for similar amounts of food, I found KFC to be substantially cheaper by almost, and sometimes more than, $3. from the taste and cost criteria, I then moved to impromptu interviews (I grabbed some form or another, put it on a clipboard, acted important and asked people questions while doodling on the random form) to determine the opinions of others. note that all interviewees were Church's patrons as I did not have this brilliant idea until I was finished with my food. its true, you do think better on a full stomach.
results:
I still cannot bring myself to accept that Church's is capable of surviving in competition with KFC. However, given the fact that they DO survive, I am force to attribute it to 2 minor factors and 3 major factors. you get to hear the minor factors first, cause I like suspense. the first minor factor came to light when several Church's patrons asserted that Church's was much closer or easier to get to or more convenient than the closest KFC, so we'll call this reason "Luck Of Location". the second became obvious when some Church's patrons attempted to claim that Church's was cheaper. this, I have plainly disproved, But I did not point it out to them. this reason we shall call "Customer Ignorance".
onto the primary reasons. the first is quantifiable and undeniable. Church's biscuits are FAR superior to those of KFC.and I dont mean far as in over there, I mean FAR as in half way across the universe in that general direction. the other two primary reasons were exposed by interviews. individual of african-american lineage almost unilaterally expressed a preference for the name "Church's Chicken" as opposed to "KFC" or "Kentucky Fried Chicken".
individuals who considered themselves a part of the continuing counter-culture movement (hence forth knows as 'hippies') expressed concern that KFC was a bad evil corporation that was destroying the rainforest. as the two previously mentioned groups accounted for the majority of the Church's patronage, they have achieved "Major Reason" status. it should be noted that in response to the question "do you prefer Church's over KFC? is so, why?" not a single patron claimed that they preffered the food. the guy working the counter did, but we're not counting him. he works for church's. they'd prolly fire him if he said anything different. we cannot assume he was speaking of his own free will.
I would also like to remind the hippies of two things: 1)KFC is a franchise, its not all one big corporation. 2)do you know what CHURCH'S is doing to the rainforest? no, I didnt think so.
As a side note, I would like to mention that chinese salt and pepper chicken wings are superior to both KFC and Church's be a magnitude of several powers of 10.
that concludes my KFC/Church's field study. I wonder how much KFC would pay for those few basic observations?
~*~*~end disclaimer. feel free verbally assault me for anything I say after this point~*~*~
wait...am I going to say anything after the disclaimer? no, I think Ive said everything important. and Ive taken WAY to long a lunch break. back to work now.
so they did.
so now each and every one of those bricks has a persons favorite quote (or just something they thought up at the moment that they thought would be cool to have on a sidewalk brink) engraved into it. thus, until I run out of readable bricks, I give you the daily brick quote.
brick quote of the day: "eccentricities we hold dear practiced here"
current project: GIVE ME FOOD OR GIVE ME DEATH!
current real project: how the hell am I supposed to secure UDP connections... damn stateless protocols! *reads up endlessly*
its really surprising how much money you can spend just getting a decent sized lunch sometimes. $14 and all I got was a sandwich, drink, and salad! oh, and a little andes chocolate mint. mollie stones is wonderful in that it gives little andes chocolate mints with every sandwich.
today I have also discovered that I am getting up too early. the bart comes every 15 minutes, but the caltrain only every 30, which means I could be getting an extra 15 minutes of snooze time! this is a significant amount.
yesterday late afternoon I was just bored enough (Nichole actually awarded my boredness a score of 9.4 out of 10, an impressive feat) to decide to do quite conceivably the most pointless thing I have ever done.
~*~*~please excuse any derogatory comments made against any given race, color, or creed. they were not intended as derogatory. however, if you feel it is, and are unable to excuse it/take it personally/feel you need to start a personal vendetta against me for it, just sit in your computer chair with an angry look and brood. I find stress balls to also be helpful. just dont bother me about it.~*~*~
Did you realize there is a strange phenomenon in the fast food industry known as Church's Chicken? thats right, a mysterious competetor with KFC in the fired chicken industry. I completely failed, however, to understand how they survived given that they WERE competeing with KFC. thus, I set out to determine just how. the first test was a side by side taste comparison. it may be nessisary, in the spirit of scientific method, to note that the KFC was slightly on the cold side. ok, more like lukewarm, as it was the one that had to be toted to the other establishment. in the taste test, the KFC was undenyably superior to that of the Church's. second criteria was cost. as I didnt have any kind of weight measuring tool on me, I eyeballed it. for similar amounts of food, I found KFC to be substantially cheaper by almost, and sometimes more than, $3. from the taste and cost criteria, I then moved to impromptu interviews (I grabbed some form or another, put it on a clipboard, acted important and asked people questions while doodling on the random form) to determine the opinions of others. note that all interviewees were Church's patrons as I did not have this brilliant idea until I was finished with my food. its true, you do think better on a full stomach.
results:
I still cannot bring myself to accept that Church's is capable of surviving in competition with KFC. However, given the fact that they DO survive, I am force to attribute it to 2 minor factors and 3 major factors. you get to hear the minor factors first, cause I like suspense. the first minor factor came to light when several Church's patrons asserted that Church's was much closer or easier to get to or more convenient than the closest KFC, so we'll call this reason "Luck Of Location". the second became obvious when some Church's patrons attempted to claim that Church's was cheaper. this, I have plainly disproved, But I did not point it out to them. this reason we shall call "Customer Ignorance".
onto the primary reasons. the first is quantifiable and undeniable. Church's biscuits are FAR superior to those of KFC.and I dont mean far as in over there, I mean FAR as in half way across the universe in that general direction. the other two primary reasons were exposed by interviews. individual of african-american lineage almost unilaterally expressed a preference for the name "Church's Chicken" as opposed to "KFC" or "Kentucky Fried Chicken".
individuals who considered themselves a part of the continuing counter-culture movement (hence forth knows as 'hippies') expressed concern that KFC was a bad evil corporation that was destroying the rainforest. as the two previously mentioned groups accounted for the majority of the Church's patronage, they have achieved "Major Reason" status. it should be noted that in response to the question "do you prefer Church's over KFC? is so, why?" not a single patron claimed that they preffered the food. the guy working the counter did, but we're not counting him. he works for church's. they'd prolly fire him if he said anything different. we cannot assume he was speaking of his own free will.
I would also like to remind the hippies of two things: 1)KFC is a franchise, its not all one big corporation. 2)do you know what CHURCH'S is doing to the rainforest? no, I didnt think so.
As a side note, I would like to mention that chinese salt and pepper chicken wings are superior to both KFC and Church's be a magnitude of several powers of 10.
that concludes my KFC/Church's field study. I wonder how much KFC would pay for those few basic observations?
~*~*~end disclaimer. feel free verbally assault me for anything I say after this point~*~*~
wait...am I going to say anything after the disclaimer? no, I think Ive said everything important. and Ive taken WAY to long a lunch break. back to work now.