I've realized that I tend to favor the right side of my mouth when chewing. Is this a coincidence, or is it a physiological preference like being right-handed?

This is addicting. It took a few times to get through it to the "boss stage".. it's a good time killer. Give it a try: http://www.kongregate.com/games/Uchiha/distopix

My current high-score: 1724

I find it difficult to shop for fruits and vegetables. Unless I'm making something like a stir-fry, or salad, or soup, I have no idea what I should be stocking up on so I can snack on it whenever the urge hits. Carrots are easy. Apples, also easy. But it's much harder to "impulse buy" when it comes to real food.

Without colorful packaging, aggressive logos, and cartoon characters – I have no way to really choose between 2 types of the same product. What if I didn't know what an avocado was good for? Avocados would be completely unapproachable by me if they didn't have a cartoon avocado on their packaging with a clever slogan like "I may be ugly, but I make guacamole!" It could even be wearing a sombrero.

Can't someone genetically engineer fruits and vegetables to have recipes on their skin/shell? Can a society that lacks such knowledge and technology truly consider itself to be advanced?

I'm a huge fan of ranch dressing. It's good on all kinds of things – vegetables, fried cheese curds, breadsticks, french fries.. and burgers.

There are currently only 2 ways I know of for getting ranch on a burger. The first is just that, putting ranch dressing on a burger – but you never really get enough with each bite. The second is dipping the burger in the ranch – but that can get messy depending on the burger and the container the ranch is in.

I propose a third method: putting the ranch IN the burger before cooking the meat. Instead of using actual ranch dressing I like the idea of using those packets of ranch dressing seasoning, or ranch dip seasoning. In a powdered form it would be much easier to mix in.

I'm not sure what the ideal ratio of seasoning to meat would be, so that'll come down to trial and error. But I think I'm going to have to test this one out soon… it just tastes way too good in my head.

And once it's perfected, it's only logical to crumble up cooked bacon and add that into the burger too.

Just now, both going up and coming back downstairs in the elevator, the darn thing opened up as I was walking towards it. No sound of it coming from another floor, no one inside, no glowing light like if someone had pushed the "Come Here Elevator!" arrow button and walked away. It just opened its doors as I got near.

I still haven't figured out what to call this thing – in the magical source code I just refer to it as "sparx Niche" – short, simple.. incredibly non-descriptive.

A description, since I've referred to it several times now – basically, I create a new page, giving that page a title, write up a bit of content so the search engines smile at it a little more, and a keyword search. When someone views that page the script goes out, asks ebay for a list of items matching the keyword search, and displays that list of items to the visitor. If someone clicks on one of the links and signs up as a new user on ebay, bids on the item they clicked on, or wins any other bids – I get a commission from ebay.

The difficult part is trying to find markets and items that many people search for, but that there aren't a lot of pages targetting. The idea is that someone looking to buy "widget x" would use google (or another search engine) to search for "widget x" and that's there's little enough competition that one of my pages would come out in the top search results. The searcher would click through, find something that they wanted listed on my page, and then go and buy it. The commission from ebay is kind of like a "finder fee", since I'm helping someone find something that they might not have found, or found through a source other than ebay.

Does it work? Yep. I've got 2 test sites up, one that I'm actively working on, testing, and promoting.. and it's actually making some money.

When I started this, I thought that using WordPress as the backend would make things easier, and especially simplify setting up new markets and pages within them. Unfortunately, I was wrong. By using WordPress I was able to get to the testing phase faster and find out that my idea actually worked, but now it's becoming a bottleneck. So… eventually I have to remove WordPress from the mix and write a bit more code to make this thing completely standalone. The best part is – I love that part.

I posted a few weeks ago about the problem involving my car's engine misfiring. Well, I guess it wasn't fixed. Yesterday I got to spend the entire morning waiting for it to be fixed – which is a problem when the car refuses to act up when it's being looked at and the onboard computer suddenly starts claiming that everything is fine. Long story short (I'll type up the full deal later, maybe tomorrowish) I drove off to work in my newly fixed car and everything was good. Until I stopped for food and my check engine light came on. The car isn't acting up, but the light is on again, which means…

I'm taking another half day today and driving it back in for more fixin. I have a strange feeling that when I get in my car in a few minutes, the engine light will be off and I'll be grumpy.