The greatest thing since I-don't-know-what!

I just found out that today is the centennial of one of the most innovative inventions of the kitchen. I'm speaking, of course, of the electric toaster.

Before the electric toaster, people probably performed alchemy on slices of bread by channeling the fire-demons. But holding a piece of bread in a campfire or wood-burning stove proved to be dangerous - after all, fire-demons tend to bite at mortal fingers.

Bill Watterson's character, Hobbes asks, "but where does the toast go?" Since we no longer rely on witchcraft, the bread is merely a tribute to the former sacrificial ways - yet the bread is still necessary. Without the bread, there would be a spacial disturbance when the toast appears.

Anyway, happy birthday, Toaster!

Your the greatest thing since I-don't-know-what!

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D. Phillips

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Happy 2009, folks! I suppose this is the primier post of the year on honeygarlic.blogspot.com, so without further delay:

F1RST!

Now that that's out of the way, here are my 2008 resolutions:

Every day, I will go out of my way to do at least one thing that makes me physically stronger.

Every day, I will learn something that makes me mentally and morally stronger.

Every week, I will have something creative constructed to show for my efforts throughout that week.

Every month, I will eat something I believe to be allergic to - just to see if I really am or not.

Not bad. I blew the first two in September, having moved back to Brantford and lost the will to excercize. As for the third, it was arguably lost around May/June. Not for any particular reason... I just lost the habit.

My final resolution was to eat something I believe to be allergic to. (Wow... that's bad grammar.) I did this once a month, every month, until now. (As I type this, I have four hours to eat a shrimp to keep at least that one resolution from last year. I found sushi! Got it covered! Uh oh, my throat's closing...)

Here are my resolutions for this year:

1. Re-try my third resolution from last year: Every week, I will have something creative constructed to show for my effots throughout that week. To maintain this, I'll keep a weekly record to be posted on my other blog, here.
2. Up my GPA by two points for next term. (This shouldn't be too hard. For our non-Laurier readers, our school works on a twelve point system.)
3. Be healthier in these respects:

• Eat less grease. (i.e. Switch to margerine instead of butter and limit my use of the deep frier.
  
• Make a five minute effort towards physically demanding excersize each day.
  
• Floss daily.
  

That's it for me. You may recal, Ryan's resolutions were 1280x768. I have reason to believe he's kept them. I'm sure our beloved readers can expect a post shortly from him.

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D. Phillips