Sunday, September 28, 2008

Hunt for Broccoli Cheese October

Highlights from Souplantation's "guest favorites month" menu, from today's coupon circulars ...
October 1-11: Classic Greek Tossed Salad, French Onion Soup, Carrot Raisin Salad, Spicy Italian Sausage & Peppers Hot Pasta, Loaded Baked Potato Soup, Chocolate Chip Muffins, Chocolate Lava Cake (after 4 p.m.)

October 13-18: Strawberry Fields Tossed Salad, Broccoli Cheese Soup, BBQ Chicken Focaccia, Four Cheese Alfredo Hot Pasta, Wild Rice & Chicken Salad, Shrimp Bisque Soup, Pineapple Upside-down Cake (after 4 p.m.)

October 20-25: Mandarin Spinach Tossed Salad, Classic Creamy Tomato Soup, Grilled Cheese Focaccia, Shrimp & Seafood Shells Salad, Albondigas Locas Soup, Roasted Eggplant Marinara Hot Pasta, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Cups (after 4 p.m.)

October 27-31: California Cobb Tossed Salad, Cream of Mushroom Soup, Banana Nut Muffins, Old Fashioned Macaroni Salad, Yankee Clipper Clam Chowder, Garden Vegetable with Meatballs Hot Pasta, Warm Apple Cobbler (after 4 p.m.)
I've emphasized a few items of interest. The Strawberry Fields Tossed Salad is one that I pile on to the point of overload. This time, however, it will compete for stomach space with Broccoli Cheese Soup.

The Souplantation to which us Hydrans go most often almost NEVER has this soup — even when the online menu says that it should be there. If they really do offer it this time, I might make a run at alliesglove's "Most Consecutive Days Going to Souplantation" record. If not, there will be some angry glares from me towards the soup that takes its place.

Why would a soup worry about that, you ask? If I'm mad enough, my laser vision might kick in and boil it all away. You think about that before you volunteer to sub in, soups!

Bonus reading: A while back, Monster Munching recommended the chocolate chip cookies.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ask The Hydra: Mega Man 9


O, blessed heads of The Hydra, I ask thee: what are your thoughts on the newly-released Mega Man 9? (trailer)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Goon City

A simple web page "powered by Google" sort of like Google Maps but instead is a view of an always expanding "fake" city named Goon.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Tap'dNY

Some coworkers/fellow-Hydrans and I were joking one day at lunch about taking the pretentiousness out of bottled water and just marketing a product called "tap water". Then, along came a link to a product called Tap'dNY (blog). I'm not 100% sure that it's a real product, since the site is so thoroughly tongue-in-cheek, but it's close enough to our idea that I'll say they beat us to market. The "Refills Available at Any New York City Tap" line and the custom Sigg bottles are particularly clever.

Friday, September 12, 2008

LHC Live Webcams ;-)

Now that the Large Hadron Collider is finally up and running here are some live webcams running at the site. The USA contributed $500 million to the project.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008