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McDonald’s Brazil introduces a bowl of cheddar for dipping your burgers

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 16, 2020
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I look forward to the day when the biggest threat to health and safety isn’t COVID-19, but instead is the melted cheddar dip that McDonald’s Brazil recently introduced.

Instagram photo by geekpublicitario. Tap to view the source.

The McDonald’s Brazil Instagram account asked a question that sounded more like a question one would ask in Wisconsin rather than Brazil: “E se a gente fizesse uma piscininha de Cheddar…?” — What if we made a pool of cheddar?

You don’t get a full pool with your order, but you do get 3.5 ounces of cheese. According to Delish:

That 3.5 ounces goes a long way, according to one Instagram account that showered their burger and fries in the cheese and still had half of the bowl left. Another account described the cheese pool as super creamy and yummy, and wrote that McDonald’s hit the nail on the head with this one.

Thanks to David Janes for the find!

America The Current Situation

Ted Cruz tries to own Canada; end up getting owned by scientists

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 16, 2020
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Want to see the worst kind of American exceptionalism, espoused by an exceptionally terrible American, say, Ted Cruz? Look no further than this recent response to Rex Chapman’s tweet that Canada is providing the new COVID-19 vaccine to every Canadian who wants it for free.

Ted, who plays Trumpism’s pathological zero-sum game of “I need to win and everyone else needs to lose”, and who apparently hasn’t quite gotten over being born in Canada, decided that he needed to take a dump on something good that would benefit millions of people and likely save lives, since it had nothing to do with the U.S.:

That’s great. Just out of curiosity, which country was it that developed the vaccine? Wonder why.

What he didn’t know is that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that Canada would make use of, was…

developed in Germany,
funded by Germany and took no money from the U.S.’ “Operation Warp Speed” project for its development, and
was developed by two Turkish immigrants (again, I remind you: Immigrants — we get the job done).

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Pictures aplenty for Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 15, 2020
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Christmas purchase of 2018, meet the Christmas purchase of 2020

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 14, 2020
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This year’s purchase is less pricey than the 2018 one by a factor of 20 or so. Tap to view at full size.

Cyberpunk 2077 just arrived today, but I’m not playing it until Saturday evening. I’ve got lots to do between now and then, including writing content for the Auth0 blog, revising the Auth0 native mobile “quickstart” kits, teaching the final 12 hours of an online Python class for Computer Coach, and giving a remote presentation for mDevConf 2020, a mobile developer conference in La Paz, Bolivia.

Internet Finds

Hey, Canadian cats! “Recreational Narcatics” is now available online!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date December 14, 2020
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Hey, Canadian cats: Are you looking for “the good stuff”? Recreational Narcatics, purveyors of the finest nepeta cataria, are selling their 100% organic catnip on Amazon.ca.

As they say on the human edition of their site (yup, there’s a feline edition too!)…

Recreational Narcatics doesn’t harvest its plants until they’re nice and mature because that’s when plants boast their highest levels of nepetalactone, as well as essential oils and blooms. Caturday night should be as interesting and mentally stimulating as possible.

Recreational Narcatics sells on Amazon.ca for CDN$11.49 for a 20g bag. Don’t you wish the human stuff came at that price?

Recreational Narcatics comes to you via my friend David Matte, whom I’ve known since the eighties. He knows his ’nip, and don’t just take my word for it — ask one of his satisfied customers:

What are you waiting for? Get your paws on Recreational Narcatics, available via Amazon.ca for CDN$11.49, today!

Recommended viewing

While I’m on the subject of catnip, here’s Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?, a hilarious catnip-themed parody of those old educational films warning us about the dangers of drugs: