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Kejardon

2010-08-04 11:47:47 pm

Embarrasing Fact: Power suit made by lowest bidder

Speaking of crazy identity conspiracies

Quote from windy:

you're exactly the same.

Quote from arkarian:

when i talk about how someone acts i don't take the obvious differences like those into consideration.

Poision Envy

2010-08-04 11:58:32 pm

Club 27 Goals

Ark go for a number 9. Large soda (free refills, eat the other stuff there while drinking the soda, then when you're done and you're going to leave fill it back up again), crunch-wrap supreme (BEST thing TB has) and a Taco. It's the only thing I've ordered from Taco bell for the past few years (I don't go to Taco bell all that often though :/)

arkarian

2010-08-05 12:32:51 am

red chamber dream

i don't buy the meals because the value menu is way cheaper. go 99 cent 5-layer burritos. usually i get one of those, a chicken burrito, fiesta potatoes, and nachos + cheese.

crunchwrap supremes are pretty great though.

arkarian

2010-08-05 01:52:16 am

red chamber dream

this is amazing: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1552007/merrill_howard_kalin_cooking_with_retards/

Opium

2010-08-05 03:06:01 am

The last few times I attempted to eat taco bell ended with me throwing it all in the garbage and asking myself: "What was I thinking when I bought this disgusting crap?!"

I have enjoyed Taco Bell more than once in my younger years when I hit the drive-thru window on the way home from clubbing, but as I got older I'm not sure what changed more: my palette or the food. Regardless, I cannot eat that crap today. Absolutely disgusting and undoubtedly toxic as hell. Taco Bell = Toxic Hell

arkarian

2010-08-05 03:15:28 am

red chamber dream

lol well of course it's bad for you; it's fast food. but i knew that already.

Opium

2010-08-05 03:23:44 am

It should be noted that it's so much easier to bitch about how unhealthy it is when it happens to taste like shit as well.

arkarian

2010-08-05 03:25:46 am

red chamber dream

true. but it's like my favorite place to eat so i guess i disagree with you there. can we agree that kfc is gross?

Kejardon

2010-08-05 03:29:13 am

Embarrasing Fact: Power suit made by lowest bidder

I used to actually really enjoy kfc. The last... I dunno. 8 years or so I guess? kfc hasn't had very good chicken.
I do like their mashed potatoes though.

Opium

Edit history:

Opium: 2010-08-05 03:39:58 am

2010-08-05 03:38:42 am

KFC is the best example I can think of when it comes to a company letting their product go to shit. The quality of their food has gone WAY down. It used to be fucking delicious! Now it's like something that even Stouffer's wouldn't put their name on.
Domino's Pizza is another example. They used to be #1 in the highly competitive pizza game (are you old enough to remember the 'Noid?), and over the years they have almost completely vanished. Within the last year or so they actually listened to consumer opinions on the matter and went back to the drawing board. They basically admitted that they let their product go to shit and that they were going to make it good like it used to be. I bought a couple of pizzas from them a few months ago to see if it had improved and it definitely had. They had changed it back to the way it used to be, but didn't need to increase prices in order to do it. I think sometimes these huge companies just get popular and then start taking everything for granted.

KFC is the best example I can think of when it comes to a company letting their product go to shit.  The quality of their food has gone WAY down.  It used to be fucking delicious!  Now it's like something that even Stouffer's wouldn't put their name on.  
Domino's Pizza is another example.  They used to be #1 in the highly competitive pizza game (are you old enough to remember the 'Noid?), and over the years they have almost completely vanished.  Within the last year or so they actually listened to consumer opinions on the matter and went back to the drawing board.  They basically admitted that they let their product go to shit and that they were going to make it good like it used to be.  I bought a couple of pizzas from them a few months ago to see if it had improved and it definitely had.  They had changed it back to the way it used to be, but didn't need to increase prices in order to do it.  I think sometimes these huge companies just get popular and then start taking everything for granted.

arkarian

2010-08-05 03:40:25 am

red chamber dream

yeah domino's for the fucking win. i hadn't had their old recipe much but their new one is delicious. might even be better than papa john's which is really saying something because p. john's has always been #1 for me.

nate

2010-08-05 03:42:51 am

i opened the door just now to drive in to campus to check my mailbox and something very large crawled inside.

it took me several minutes to figure out what it was. i guess i expected it to be something like a june bug only bigger and so i was preparing to get something to spray it with to neutralize it when i realized i should make sure it wasn't a spider before doing that. so i turned on all the lights and tried to make my worthless eyes resolve it.

it wasn't in a shadow or anything - it was right in the middle of the floor - but i had a very hard time seeing it. i'm not sure how much of it was due to my eyes but its camouflage was definitely very good against the cheap carpet in this apartment. finally i stopped trying to resolve the body and just looked at each leg one at a time and when i counted four on one side i went to get the camera. i also thought i could get better pictures with the camera than with my eyes and i was right.

i could tell that there were things sticking out of the abdomen but i couldn't tell what they were. i thought that it might be carrying young, and that made me wonder how i was going to get it back outside. i didn't really want to be pushing it around with things when the young would be crushed against the mother's body or would crawl up the instrument and crawl on me.

finally after taking a few pictures my eyes were able to see that the objects sticking out were probably not young. they were just too big. this also confused me because i didn't know what would be sticking out of a spider that wasn't hair or needles or young.

did i mention how big it was? it was the biggest spider i've ever seen irl. but it still moved faster than i could track with my eyes, so i would suddenly realize it was no longer there where i had been looking at it and had to look around to find it again. this also made me wonder whether i could herd it back outside - how would i know whether it was outside if i couldn't see it moving?

after some deliberation i took a sheet of paper from an elle article fork sent me a few months ago and gently nudged the spider's legs. i could see the shadow of the spider on the ground appear in my peripheral vision and then my eyes would track to the new position a moment later. i herded the spider over to the door, opened the door, and then tried to coax it over the threshold, but the threshold was slightly taller than the spider and it wanted to walk alongside it instead of over it. after a few more minutes of back and forth in front of the door i finally convinced the spider to walk over the threshold and outside.

as far as i can tell it was unharmed. i can only imagine how much damage a spider of that magnitude does to the insect population every night. certainly she sometimes spawns many more spiders who do the same as well. in case you can't tell i really favor the spider side when it's spider versus insect.

now for the pictures. i know some people here don't like looking at spiders so i've spoiler'd them. keep in mind that this is a very abnormal spider. click at your own risk.

[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010662.jpg[/img]
[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010663.jpg[/img]
[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010665.jpg[/img]

i opened the door just now to drive in to campus to check my mailbox and something very large crawled inside.

it took me several minutes to figure out what it was. i guess i expected it to be something like a june bug only bigger and so i was preparing to get something to spray it with to neutralize it when i realized i should make sure it wasn't a spider before doing that. so i turned on all the lights and tried to make my worthless eyes resolve it.

it wasn't in a shadow or anything - it was right in the middle of the floor - but i had a very hard time seeing it. i'm not sure how much of it was due to my eyes but its camouflage was definitely very good against the cheap carpet in this apartment. finally i stopped trying to resolve the body and just looked at each leg one at a time and when i counted four on one side i went to get the camera. i also thought i could get better pictures with the camera than with my eyes and i was right.

i could tell that there were things sticking out of the abdomen but i couldn't tell what they were. i thought that it might be carrying young, and that made me wonder how i was going to get it back outside. i didn't really want to be pushing it around with things when the young would be crushed against the mother's body or would crawl up the instrument and crawl on me.

finally after taking a few pictures my eyes were able to see that the objects sticking out were probably not young. they were just too big. this also confused me because i didn't know what would be sticking out of a spider that wasn't hair or needles or young.

did i mention how big it was? it was the biggest spider i've ever seen irl. but it still moved faster than i could track with my eyes, so i would suddenly realize it was no longer there where i had been looking at it and had to look around to find it again. this also made me wonder whether i could herd it back outside - how would i know whether it was outside if i couldn't see it moving?

after some deliberation i took a sheet of paper from an elle article fork sent me a few months ago and gently nudged the spider's legs. i could see the shadow of the spider on the ground appear in my peripheral vision and then my eyes would track to the new position a moment later. i herded the spider over to the door, opened the door, and then tried to coax it over the threshold, but the threshold was slightly taller than the spider and it wanted to walk alongside it instead of over it. after a few more minutes of back and forth in front of the door i finally convinced the spider to walk over the threshold and outside.

as far as i can tell it was unharmed. i can only imagine how much damage a spider of that magnitude does to the insect population every night. certainly she sometimes spawns many more spiders who do the same as well. in case you can't tell i really favor the spider side when it's spider versus insect.

now for the pictures. i know some people here don't like looking at spiders so i've spoiler'd them. keep in mind that this is a very abnormal spider. click at your own risk.

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[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010662.jpg[/img]
[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010663.jpg[/img]
[img]http://nate.quandra.org/20100805 spider/P1010665.jpg[/img]
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windy

2010-08-05 03:45:33 am

gyrotechnic lollipop

that's so fucking cool! send the pics to mom!

the stuff on her back does kind of look like young to me.

Opium

Edit history:

Opium: 2010-08-05 03:46:29 am

2010-08-05 03:45:58 am

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!! Big crazy freaky wolf spider ftl !! That gives me the heebie jeebies AND the creeps. SUPER EW!

( Those are definitely spiderlings on its back )

nate

2010-08-05 03:46:38 am

oh jesus sarah i think you may be right. if i look now i see that there are three things sticking out ... and i think they are the bodies, the legs, and THE EYES of the young.

windy

2010-08-05 03:46:59 am

gyrotechnic lollipop

i don't think you're going to have an insect problem around your apartment. :3

Opium

2010-08-05 03:47:18 am

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/wolf-spider-carrying-offspring/20621

Poision Envy

2010-08-05 03:47:49 am

Club 27 Goals

get that thing out of your apartment NOW before all those babies jump off it D:

nate

2010-08-05 03:48:24 am

nice link opium.

windy

2010-08-05 03:48:46 am

gyrotechnic lollipop

ahhhh those pics are awesome

arkarian

2010-08-05 03:48:53 am

red chamber dream

fucking bad ass. you're right about the camouflage with the carpet -- really cool stuff. should have snapped some pics with a pen or something to compare its size to.

Opium

2010-08-05 03:50:03 am

You know, it would be a shame to miss the opportunity to kill them all while they're all together like that. I'm just sayin.

Poision Envy

2010-08-05 03:50:33 am

Club 27 Goals

oh, you did get it out of your house, derp.

Also those pictures are really awesome, and its kinda scary how it's eyes were glowing BLUE.

Too bad you didn't have a dollar bill laying next to it or something so we could see how big it was :(

windy

2010-08-05 03:51:08 am

gyrotechnic lollipop

Quote from Opium:

You know, it would be a shame to miss the opportunity to kill them all while they're all together like that. I'm just sayin.

no

arkarian

2010-08-05 03:52:53 am

red chamber dream

the eyes of the young are so fucking cool