Have to thank Laura for this one from a recent tweet. It made her smile, it makes me smile. I love the Discovery Channel. I really do. Makes cable worth it. I could probably watch it all day.

I’m wondering how many of shows you recognize from the clips. What? You don’t watch DSC? Stop. Right now. Grab a string. Tie it around your finger as a reminder to get to, and watch Discovery channel programming, as soon as possible.

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Since you enjoying playing the 3D version of Portal so much (and if you didn’t play it, stop reading this entry right now and go play it), I wanted to make sure you knew that there was a 2D flash version as well, compliments of an article at Evil Avatar.

I haven’t played more than the first level, so I can’t attest to the overall experience, but sometimes you gotta trust in fanboys (the designers, not me).

What’s even more exciting though, is that the developers of the Flash game have released a mappack with  40 levels for the original Portal game, based on the flash games’ levels. How’s that for circular design? This gives almost 3 and and half hours of new Portal content.

I’ve gotta delve into playing the custom Portal maps that are all available now.

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A few days ago, my wife had to deal with a nasty tick bite by going to the doctor and having the bugger extracted by a professional. It’s still swollen and irritated, and she’s been put on a preventative lyme’s disease medicine.

So, after getting the anesthesia shot and being poked and prodded, she decided that while she was at CVS getting her medicine, that the evening warranted some chocolate.

Unfortunately, what should have been a comfort food, was not. She opened her chocolate bar and found it all covered with white splotches and just generally stale and nasty.

That sucks.

When she got home and mentioned it to me, I told her that I had recently read an article on how to tell, by the secret codes on the candy, how old it was and when it would expire.

J: That would have been really useful to know about 30 minutes ago. You send me all the bullshit links by email all the time, and you didn’t think that information about chocolate should have been high on your list?

Um… I can’t say that I disagree with her.. I mean, I did file it away to be blogged about on a later date, I just hadn’t gotten around to it….. until now….

So here is the article from the Consumerist

I work at a small-volume store in the midwest, and the other day my supervisor asked us to check all of the candy in the checkout lanes to see if it had expired. M&M Mars and Hershey brand candy both had different, indecipherable codes on the back which tell the expiration date. After calling the 1-800 number and finding out what the codes meant, we discovered that most of our candy stock was expired by a year or more. We even found candy that went bad from 2004. I figured I should share the codes, so people won’t buy expired candy, because it’s out there.

I dunno.. Do you make a cheat sheet and keep it in your wallet? Should you take the candy back and get a refund?

And this article: How to Tell If It’s Good Chocolate

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