Nutrition Information Confusion

Today, I ate a candy bar. On the side was printed the nutritional information like you can find on every food product in the US. Also, like every other label, the information was given for a single serving. OK, fine... what is my point. Well, to clear up confusion, it specified how many servings were in a package, meaning the number of servings in a single bar. Sounds normal... okay... My problem is that it said there was 1.5 servings in the one bar.

There are two problems with this. First, why would you think that one candy bar was more than one serving? It is not made to be resealed. Its a freaking candy bar! Second, the bar was divided into four pieces! Lets all break out our high school algebra and figure out how many pieces of the bar make a serving. Hmmm....

4 = 1.5x, x = 4/1.5 = 8/3

OK, so if I eat two pieces and then eat two thirds of another piece, then I have had one serving. Wait, let me get out my scale and see if I am measuring this right. :-\

Well, you get my point. I suppose that they do this to make the calories, fat, and other such things that people want to minimize appear less, but it is blatantly absurd.

Arrogance of the Human Observer

Once in a while, I hear someone commenting on mankind by saying something like "humans do this" or "isn't it odd that humans do that," as if they were not human themselves, but somehow a superior being observing some lower life form. This always stikes me as profoundly arrogant. I find that I am somewhat hypocritical in this way, though. Every once in a while, I find myself thinking or saying something like this... maybe more than just "once in a while." For the record, I will say right now that any generalizations that I make about the human race in the future should apply to me too. I will probably skirt this by saying "most humans" instead, but at least it is a step in the right direction.

Adult Swim Marketing Faux Pax

I wrote this post on the day this event happened, but never published it for some reason. That is why it is out of date. Here goes anyway, though.

I could not believe this story. I hear about a terrorist scare in Boston, then I hear it was Cartoon Network's fault? What in the world??

Of course I would have recognized the Mooninite, so I would not have thought it was something dangerous, but aside from my familiarity with Adult Swim, I still think that the advertisements look pretty innocuous.

Here are the links:
Fox News
CNN
Turner Broadcasting Statement
Slashdot

I only included CNN because of the irony of this being a Turner Network mess.

He, he.

By the way, I believe that Faux Pax is French for "Screw Up." ;-)

More time.

Well, I have more time now, so I hope to get back to this. Maybe I'll tell someone it exists. :-)

Blogging from CNN center.

Wi-Fi is great!

Well, I have a laptop now, and I sit at this moment in Panera Bread, sipping coffe, and posting to my blog. This is nice. Now I don't have to be locked up in my abode, separated from society if I want to work on my computer. Now I can be isolated while simultaneoulsy being surrounded by people. I think that is an improvement of some kind.

Also, life has calmed a little and I can find a few minutes every few days to do this. Perhaps I should tell my friends that this blog exists now that I may actually update it. Food for thought.

Life is busy.

Life has been too busy to post recently. Seems like for a month now its been sick, holiday, busy, sick, travel, busy. That means I'll have stuff to post, but right now, no time to post it. That's not bad, though. Well, being sick is bad, but not too bad. Its been so long since I posted that I actually forgot my blogger username. Took me a while to get it right. That may be the first time that I ever remembered the password, but not the name.