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Hoo Amazon! You tickle me Pink!

I told Reina I'd blog about my cat spinning the Chutes and Ladder spinner next, but, well, actually, I thought THIS was more interesting. Uh, if you don't want to click it, here's the gist.

I added these two items to my cart at Amazon.com:
50' RJ-45 Ethernet Cable
50 pack Maxwell High-Performance AA batteries

Here's what Amazon suggested:

Customers who bought the items in your shopping cart also bought:

* Belkin 25FT 10/100BT RJ45M/RJ45M Cat5e Snagless Patch Cable (Blue)
* Belkin A3L791-14-BLU-S RJ45M/RJ45M 10/100BT Cat5e Snagless Patch Cable (14 FT, Blue)
* Viking 128 MB CompactFlash Card (CF128M)
* Belkin A3L791-07-S Category 5e Snagless Patch Cable (7-Feet)
* Irish Spring Deodorant Bath Bar With Aloe, 4.5 oz - 3 ea

Three Network Cables, 25', 14', 7', a 128 MB Compact Flash Card and IRISH SPRINGS DEODORANT BATH BAR WITH ALOE. ha!

posted by Doug 5:13 PM

More Things You Never Knew.

On many an afternoon, I have sat on a couch in front of a television and come across a commercial in which a runner drinking Gatorade runs faster/farther than a runner drinking water and thought "Electrolytes? Bullshit." What could possibly be better than water? The entire principle of hydration is centered around the fact that you are replenishing what? Water. How would something that is not water add more water than water to your body?

This goes to show you how little I know about ... well, most things. Apparently it's not bullshit. In 1965, researchers at the University of Florida attempted to formulate a hydration-drink to ... what else, Aid the sorry-ass U.F. Gators. Get it? Gator-Ade. Gator-Aid. It's not like they named it Pepsi and you had to sit around trying to figure out where the hell they decided those letters would go well together. Anyway, apparently, in Florida it gets damn hot and damn humid and players in 1964 were having a hell of a time in the second-half of their football games. 1965, Gatorade introduced. 1967, Orange Bowl won. 1 + 1 begets 2. In 1968 or so, K.C. Chiefs were getting their asses kicked in Missouri, also because it is hot and it is humid. Gatorade to the rescue and badaow, 1969 wins a championship. Since 1973 University of Florida has received over $80 mil in royalties.

And now you know.

posted by Doug 8:57 PM

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