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Sharing is caring

Sharing gameplay between couples.  This is an article about a woman who shared a character with her boyfriend.  Only to find that he played without her when she went out of town.  And how annoyed it made her initially.

I’ve read similar articles about Netflix.  Where people are watching a series or have their queue of movies they want to see, one half of the couple is unavailable or whatever, and the other goes on without.  It’s an interesting thing.  Which is why I don’t share my stuff with the girlfriend.  She can have her own profile/queue/character.  I’m more than willing to do things together (game, watch movies/tv series), but you have to have your own stuff.  Even if you also have “joint” things.  Haha, same goes for bank accounts!

I’d consider it

Engagement ring shapes.

While the classic round brilliant cut is still the most popular, apparently square cuts are en vogue.  I’m aways away from considering any of this, and I’m a classic style kind of guy, so round brilliant still my preferred choice, but asscher cut very nice as well.

edit: After a little looking, it’s round, cushion, Asscher.  If the Tiffany Novo (below) wasn’t so expensive it might cut in before the Asscher.

Tiffany Novo

Girl Scout cookies

Here’s the Girl Scout cookies in order of healthiest to least.

  1. Cafe Cookies (five er serving) contain little saturated fat.

  2. Trefolis have 150 calories per serving (five cookies).

  3. Little Brownies (four per serving) are sugar-free.

  4. Thin Mints (four per serving) have the same amount of sugar and fat as two-cookie serving of Samoas.

  5. Do-Si-Dos (two per serving) are low in saturated fat.

  6. Tagalongs (two per serving) are high in fat, but it’s mostly the good, unsaturated kind.

  7. All Abouts (two per serving) are also low in saturated fat.

  8. Thanks-A-Lot (two per serving) have the same number of calories as twice as many Thin Mints.

  9. Lemonades (two per serving) have four grams of saturated fat.

  10. Samoas (two per serving) have high amounts of fat and sugar.

Via Real Simple via That’s Fit. 

Thin Mints and Tagalogs are my cookies of choice.  Not too bad on this scale.  I can do the Samoas to a degree, but not too much.  Not because they are apparently unhealthy, but more because I’m not a coconut guy.

In case you forgot what’s what in the world of Girl Scout cookies, here’s a handy dandy guide.

Easy as 1-2-3

J5 is back!

Not Jurassic 5, the Jackson 5.

The group, which included Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, and later younger brother Randy, stopped touring in the ’80s when Michael and little sister Janet became superstars in their own right. The Jackson Five officially disbanded in 1990.

The Jackson 5 didn’t officially disband until 1990!??!?!

Sideshow Bob’s an idiot

Varejao wants out of Cleveland – SI.com

First of all, it’s the BEST basketball situation he’ll likely EVER be in, playing with Lebron.  Second, no matter how important the Cavs told him he was, there’s not a single person on the planet, except himself, who thinks Anderson Varejao is worth anything in the vicinity of $10-11M/year.  Hell with what he brings to the table, he’s not worth half of that.  I’m all for paying guys who are glue guys.  Who do the things that don’t show up on the stat sheet, but are important.  But unless you bring something else to the table as well, forget getting anything like what Varejao wants.

Almost already missed a day

Jeez, the rebirth of (This Might Interest) Maybe just me was almost short lived.

Umm, here’s Gladwell’s latest piece from the New Yorker about criminal profilers.

What I take from it (gross oversimplification here) is that they are nothing more than palm readers.

Happy Thanksgiving folks.  If I bother finishing setting up my computer (I installed Leopard on my PowerBook last night) (i.e. download and installing ecto) perhaps I’ll blog over the holiday break.  Not to say no ecto prohibits me from blogging since I’ll have wifi accessibility.  Hmm, maybe I’ll jump onto Twitter for real this weekend, and figure out a way to update my twitter to my blog.  Since it’s easier for me to twitter via my phone when I’m not in a wifi hotspot, than to blog… ugh, already too complex.

edit: Kottke doing the Twitter already!  Can’t lift any more than I already do from the man himself, so no Twitter on the blog.

I want this

Dog cam.

This isn’t the first doggie cam.  And there’s a tutorial floating around the internet (a few actually) that show how to make one (though they cost about the same as this).  Or you could just buy a spy camera and attach it to your pet’s collar.

It’d be interesting just to see what Monty does all day.  If you see a new link to “Monty’s Flickr” in my header links, you know I broke down.