Zorac's LiveJournal

Dear Mr. Sainsbury,
I frequently purchase from your supermarkets small packets of minced beef with which to make my exciting cuisine. Alas, of late, said item appears to be all to often out of stock, reducing me to the lazy-man's option of a ready meal. On the subject of ready meals, You seem to be making more and more of them that are for two people. Isn't that defeating the object of the exercise? Not to mention discriminating against those of us with only one mouth to feed.
Yours Unimpressedly,
zorac

Dear Sandwich Vendors,
Lettuce belongs in salad, and even then requires a nice vinaigrette dressing. It is not nice in sandwiches. Please stop putting lettuce in virtually every sandwich you make, just for the hell of it. And don't tell me to pick it out if I don't like it - even if I do, that limp lettuce taste remains. And don't even get me started on lettuce in with burgers or other hot things...
Yours Frustratedly,
zorac

Dear Apple,
Panther has the best (and most useful) eye candy ever. You rock.
Yours Fanboyishly,
zorac

Amazon.com have a new feature which allows you to search inside books. They don't have the entire stock online (apparently Voldemort only appears in non-fiction :-), although that's down to copyright issues as much as time to scan entire books in. It supposedly allows you to look at the pages on which search results appear, although that doesn't seem to be working for me at the moment.

On Saturday, we didn't get up until quite late, so I only ended up seeing one talk in the morning, although I did do some browsing of Kompulsive Alley. Lunch followed much the same pattern as Friday - low scores for the food (a cottage pie and Bertie Bott's) and high scores for the speaker. Ari Rapkin gave a very interesting multimedia talk about how ILM work some of their magic - the cloth simulation being her particular area of expertise. Plenty of nifty clips, including Dobby out-takes and naked!Yoda.

In the afternoon I only went to one talk - a very enthusiastic Steve Vander Ark and angiej on the Past, Present and Future of the Wizarding World - see The Harry Potter Lexicon. I also actually did some shopping - picking up a copy of the Gnome TossFling game for $5, a couple of books (one HP related, one not) and a magic wand - soon to appear in an icon for voldie_zorac. There was also the entertaining Fandom Squares for those of us skipping the Founders' Feast.

In the evening, hermorrine and I took advantage of our money-off coupons for the buffet at Gulliver's - which was nice, particularly in getting to have multiple desserts! I got bullied into putting footwear on by the safety-paranoid staff (it's a fair cop) and had my photo taken with Goofy. Later on, we hosted a game of Trivial Pursuits, where I showed off my lack of knowledge of American Sports and History and expetesso showed off her strength at snapping corkscrews (the one we were sent up was obviously a touch flimsy - on the second attempt, the hotel sent up a Cast Member armed with a more heavy duty one).