I just had McDonald's today...

MickyD's experiment

...I'm gonna go spew now.

The story

So I had a 30 minute break for lunch today. I happened to drive my car to work today (funny story in itself), so I decided to go find a Del Taco that I saw the previous night. With such a limited time frame and the price of gas being as it is, I couldn't drive around for too long. So my initial Del Taco run was unsuccessful and the only thing left on the way back to work was a McDonald's.

I hadn't had anything from there for about a couple years (no, really. It's been a couple years) so I figured that the previous trip's food was completely out of my system. So I decided to take my life in my own hands again and get some MickeyD's for lunch. After ordering the #10 combo (Chicken nuggets, fries, and Coke), I texted my sister that I was having a nice dose of nitrates from McDonald's for lunch. She said, "Eew".

And as I was eating my "food", I got curious and was wondering what a more detailed description of Nitrates were. So after finishing work and sitting at my computer for a while, I ran out of things to wonder, so I turned to my previously stated curiosity of Nitrates. After reading up on the chemical composition and properties of nitrates (this took my back to my Chem 111 days), I did a google search of McDonald's food and Nitrates. The first link took me to this video and I remembered the life threatening experiment by Morgan Spurlock from 'Super Size Me' (which, at the same time, got me excited to see his new film 'Where in the world is Osama bin Laden') and how bad McD's food really is.

Now I feel the need to get an In-N-Out burger just to tell my stomach "I'm sorry for betraying you to the Whore of All Fast Foods".

Funny Site to ask questions on all things McDonald's I especially love the questions about the chicken nuggets and how many times the full list of ingredients keeps getting listed.

Disabling IPv6 from Windows Vista

from: Chicago Tech
Unlike Windows XP, IPv6 in Windows Vista cannot be uninstalled. However, you can disable IPv6 in Windows Vista by doing one of the following:
I.
1. Run regedit.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tcpip6 \Parameters\DisabledComponents. If you don't see DisabledComponents, create it by adding the following registry value (DWORD type).
3. Change one or some values:
1 = Disable tunnel interfaces
2 = Disable 6to4
3 = Disable ISATAP
8 = Disable Teredo
16 = Disable LAN and PPP interfaces
32 = Set preference of IPv4 over IPv6
255 = Disable IPv6 completely

Note:
1) You must restart the computer for the changes to the DisabledComponents registry value to take effect.
2) This method disables IPv6 on all your LAN interfaces, connections, and tunnel interfaces but does not disable the IPv6 loopback interface. You must restart the computer for this registry value to take effect.

II.
1. Open the properties of the LAN.
2. Clear the check box next to the Internet Protocol version 6 (TCP/IPv6) component in the list under This connection uses the following items.

This method disables IPv6 on your LAN interfaces and connections, but does not disable IPv6 on tunnel interfaces or the IPv6 loopback interface.

FYI
Should I disable IPv6 on Vista
Q: My Vista have some incompatible issue with the router. Should I disable IPv6 on Vista?
A: It is not recommended to disable IPv6. If you disable IPv6,...

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The Square Root of 3

The funniest poem ever written.
This one's for the math nerd in us all...
SPOILER: THE ENDING OF HAROLD AND KUMAR2

It's better than the limrick:

read:
Integral z-squared dz
from 1 to the cube root of 3
times the cosine
of three pi over 9
equals log of the cube root of 'e'.

for more math fun: Click Here

So i moved to arizona, gilbert-ville. Its been warm and sunny and delightful. I seem to have overcome my fear of water (KAT!) and have spent more time by the pool in my apartment complex. It has nothing to do with all the bikini girls that hang out there (MARC!) but I think it has something to do with 'doing as the romans do'.

Some highlights have included, but are not limited to:
1) In-n-out burger within a stones throw from my apartment.
2) A golf course/driving range within 3 minutes of my apartment.
3) A new job within the same stones throw from my apartment.
4) My big ass bedroom that is the size of my last apartment's living room.
5) A walk in closet that's big enough to hold a full sized elephant.
6) Alice Cooper on the radio every night from 7 to midnight every weeknight on KDKB.fm
7) The concerts that have and that are going to be rolling through the Phoenix area.

So, as can be seen, I've been enjoying my time here. The only down side that I can foresee, my car doesn't have air-conditioning. It potentially could, I just ripped the A/C line years ago when I was driving to Utah and fell asleep at the wheel and steered my car into a roadside reflector. Since then, no A/C. But it could happen.

Anyhow, as I've had to opportunity to meet new people, I've come across a range of, shall we say, 'different' people. One of whom is my roommates g-friend. I feel this story needs to be told (with pictures) so as to preserve and define the long evolutionary road that we, as the human race, have taken since we first stepped out of the Primordial human soup.

While at our weekly Johnny Rockets getaway, my roommate Joe, Ritz, and I were joined by Joe's g-friend. In the midst of enjoying Soda Shoppe burgers and the BeachBoys, Joe's g-friend made the statement that she enjoyed ketchup. She REALLY enjoyed ketchup. She's always had a love for ketchup. So much so that she said she would drink it from the bottle if she could. This is all I needed to hear. I had to see this for myself. So in fine Jay fashion, I extended the challenge for her to put her money where her mouth is (rather, put the ketchup where her mouth is) and empty the ketchup bottle before we leave the table. After a little bit of harassment, the challenge was taken and the following pics were captured:




I was impressed, we all laughed, and Joe's g-friend promptly finished her diet coke.

LISTEN TO YOUR I.T. GUY !!!!!

...not your janitor.