Right off the bat, I'm not criticizing the quality of the product. But, loathe as I may be to anger the ice cream gods (please, please don't cut me off! I need it!), I noticed something in my local freezer case that really chaps my ice-cream-enlarged ass. Behold.

Notice anything… odd, shall we say? Yes. Some of these containers are bigger than the others. It seems my good buddies at Edy's have found a new way to keep prices in control. That is: charge the same (notice the tags) for less ice cream. There are a lot of times when "less" is a good thing. Less pollution, for instance. Less crime. Less cancer.

Less ice cream is not one of those times.

Now, I figured I was already a pretty easy going guy, letting it slide that a "half gallon" of ice cream was somehow only 1.75 quarts. I got a degree in engineering and did some pretty far out math with differentials and such, but at no time did I ever find out how you make 2 directly equal 1.75. But did I lose my cool? Did I say "Yo! Where my other .25 quarts at, bitches?" Noooo. I didn't. But passing off one and a half quarts as a half gallon? It's time to throw down, motherfuckers. What's next? Shave off another quarter quart next summer? Shit, soon I'll be paying $4.39 for a novelty cup! I'll be telling my kids stories about them good ol' days when, yes, children, a half gallon really was 2 quarts.

This shit is simply … un-American! Everybody wants to know where bin Laden's hiding? I say check out Edy's HQ! I'm. So. Pissed. Right. Now.

If only there were some soothing, creamy confection to cool me off right now … ARGGGHHH!! YOU BROKE MY HEART!

Wow. Talk about knee-jerk over-reaction.

 The real shame here is that these self-righteous city officials who are really at fault for grandstanding and overstating the entire situation aren't going to be penalized. Turner will make some bullshit mea culpa and the two guy arrested will get fucked so the city prosecutor and mayor aren't made out for the dumb fucks they are. This is ridiculous.

This all makes me want to kick Richard Reid in the ballsack. No shoes, no water (no fucking beverage service on a lot of flights either, I might add!!!). Next, the terrorists will make exploding clothes (you heard it here first) and then we'll have to fly naked, because that's apparently how America rolls.

If I sound pissy, it's only because Amy's been pumping breastmilk ALL WEEK in Toronto. Yeah, this is going to work like a charm.

Terrorist douchebags.

August 9, 2006

If you ever think you ought to get a baby up in the middle of the night, chances are you should. I heard the little girl fidgeting in her crib around 2 this morning. She'd grunt and flop her legs around, then doze off for about three minutes. This went on for about 10-15 minutes. I fixed a bottle—knowing the tummy must be appeased should I rouse her—and went in. Her diaper felt quite full and I figured she was having trouble sleeping because of the wet diaper. Turns out the diaper was indeed full … of shit. Poor kid. I'm glad I went ahead and got ready and woke her; she'd only have gotten more and more agitated.

Yesterday I took Reed and Beks out to the library. Reed loves book (brag: he was reading independently at 2years, 9months!) so I've got Bek in the car seat stroller, Reed is holding one hand while "helping" to push with the other. Yesterday was also the primaries, and as such, the library was a voting location. As we strolled in, a candidate supporter with a sign said, "You're the first guy with kids I've seen all day! Everybody else has been women with strollers!"

Um. "Well, I'm a stay-at-home dad," I said. "It's what I do." That's me: trendsetter. Or the only guy who takes his kid to the library anymore.

Hmm. The rest of you guys are dicks.

At that moment, some small part of me felt I should have a minivan.

Later:

Speaking of minivans, I'm loathe to admit I felt my very first pang of minivan envy today. A woman with two children was exiting the grocery story as I went in. The kids hopped in, each with their own captains' chairs in the back, and she easily loaded all the groceries into the back. Shit. That's a lot of rolling space. I've got a full sized car, but for those of you without kids: car seats ain't made for cars. Wedging these huge hunks of plastic and padding into the back seat of a car is laughable … assuming you're not the one doing it. Upon trying to maneuver two of them in there, and having to shove my seat up a couple notches just to make everything work, I can see why so many families resort to the huge ass SUV or the minivan. Sadly, I also know that when the little girl outgrows the little car seat, she'll need to sit in the bigger car seat… facing backwards. Practically speaking, this is impossible in my car in this space/time continuum. Grr.

zefrank nailed it today. i woke up an email from roxy about the arrests in britain and couldnt believe the article i was reading.

according to cnn: "The plot was "intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale," London's Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson said."

what? really? because, from the rest of the article, it appears they were going to hijack 10 planes. granted, thats a really really bad day. im not making light of 3000 lives. (10 planes x 300 people a flight. give or take.) but i can imagine it. its bad. but its not ww3 bad.

bush went on to say that the us is: "at war with Islamic fascists."

thanks bush. 6 years in the white house and you havent learned to make statements that dont insult entire groups of people. why cant you just say that we are fighting terrorists and leave it at that? why bring religion into it?

and now, because of this, i cant bring water on the plane on sat. boingboing makes a great point — the liquids that are being confiscated are simply being poured into plastic tubs before you go through the xray machine. that sounds safe. since we are worried the liquid is harmful, why not dispose of it in the most unsafe way possible?

we are now reacting hysterically over theoretical attacks. and the government says 'be scared' and so we are. where is the line for people who are tired of this type of mentality? can i go hang out with people who behave somewhat rationally about the reality of the world?