Man, am I ever in trouble! I wrote an entry back in May of '96 and I used the phrase "h!larity Ther*py" but somebody had registered that as a trademark a scant two years earlier. Silly me, I thought that I was the first one to think of it! Anyhoo, I offered to give him a link, and he considered it, but his lawyer said no, so I changed the two words to not interfere with his livelihood, and I added this to the entry, so as not to confuse people.... Update, 20 MAR2003... I have been informed that h!larity Th*rapy is a registered trademark, and I need to remove it from this entry, which I have now done. There. If you, perchance, have read this entry before, you must now submit your mind for proper cleansing. I will set up a PO box for this purpose, e-mail me and I shall send you the address.
The funny (?) thing is... there have probably been about five total hits on that entry. O'well. He has a legal right to that phrase. And I have a legal right and a moral duty to laugh my ass off at his pettiness. And/or the pettiness of his lawyer.
17:56...
My old buddy Herman saved the day! And the day, of course, is... *Lacees' Birthday!* And the part that Herman saved was... he had squirreled away some old Win31 programs, and I was able to get the little laptop machine that JD gave me about a year ago (and for which I finally got the power supply when we visited him in Houston) working!
And Lacee was pretty happy with it, even though she can't really do too much with it... for instance, no possibility of getting a modem to work with it... and I'm happy that it can be used for something. I was planning on just using it for DOS programs, like EDIT. But she can play the games on it, and write stuff and print it out.
So Lacees' party was over here, and not too well attended. Just Kim, Karen, me, Patrick and Brian. I had a piece of cake and some ice cream, and then after everyone left I had a can of clam chowder. I ate the whole can, since I thought that it only
had 25 carbs. When I was done eating, I looked again at the label, and it said that there were *TWO* servings in that can. Well, crap. I'm not even going to check the BS tonight, I pretty well know what it's gonna be, dammit. I've gotta start being more careful about that stuff.
I really believe that food labels should carry the totals for the package, and let the consumer do the math. If they're too stupid to do the math, so be it. Of course, there are those who are too stupid to read the label properly, as I have just demonstrated.
I was reading the label on a package of chips yesterday... "serving size approximately 7 chips" and then, "There are about 20 servings in each package" and "There are 10 carbs per serving..." That all means that there are 140 chips in the package, and that there are a total of 200 carbs per package. So each chip is 140/200=7 ... or is it 200/140=1.42857142?
Ahhh, just ferget it, I just won't eat the damned things anyway!
You'll notice that I didn't say anything about BabyBushs' war.
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