Top n Reasons the Highland Market is a Neat Place

Everyone loves lists. Lists lists lists. So let's do one. Top n Reasons the Highland Market is a Neat Place.

How should I number this...? Binary.

00001:. The nonfat yogourt on tap.
00010:. Ben & Jerry's Pints (more flavors than like... Safeway, I swear).
00011:. The Deli has Smoked Gouda.
00100:. So many frickin' beverages at the Coffee Shop: coffee drinks, espresso drinks, italian sodas, chai, hot chocolate, blended drinks.
00101:. So many frickin' beverages in-store: water, flavored water, energy water, sparkling water, gatorate, tea, juice, fresh-squeezed juice, energy drinks, protein shakes, soda, Crystal Light, etc.
00110: The Fresh-Squeezed Orange Juice is the best I've ever had.
00111: We have a coffee shop.
01000: Eegee's.
01001: Patries.
01010: Frozen foods and two in-store microwaves.
01011: Free music. Anyone can listen!
01100: Breakfast burritos.
01101: Grilled sandwiches like the best philly cheese steak.
01110: Friendly (eh) collegiete (sp?) staff that has better teeth than (K).
01111: It reminds me of QT really.
10000: They take CatCard.
10001: They take Debit.
10010: They take cash... like even pennies.
10011: It's really close to where you live... if you live right there that is.
10100: I'm 20 years old (the same as this number in binary).
10101: This number is a palindrome (in binary).
10110: The cleanest bathrooms I've ever seen.
10111: Cereal comes at really cheap prices.
11000: I own that place.
11001: Cool drinks like the Red Bull Creation and the Monster Bite (ask for one).

And 25 is a nice round number... round like a woman's breast... So we'll stop there. Add comments with ur favorite things about highland. Or women's breasts.

Harry Potter "Choose 4 Names" Spell

OK, to start, this movie was pretty awesome with amazing special effects. I loved it. However, almost becoming a 20-year-old-sophisticate made me question quite a few things:

1: Why the hell are Dumbledoor and Magonagle (sp? I don't read the books) and others so baffled that bad things are happening? Like the attack at the Quidich (sp?) Tournament and the attack on the one head guy. MAYBE it's cuz you fucking enrolled Harry Potter, eh? Maybe its because the rat guy got away in the last movie? Or because the spooky "Chamber of Secrets, which has never been opened, was opened? Maybe it's because you can't seem to hire a good DADA (Defense Against the Dark Arts, of course) teacher? There are a few other things at play Dumbledoor. Figure it out!

2: Why the hell was everyone so grief stricken after the new character-they-just-introduced-in-this-movie-and-then-killed-off -and-who-didn't-see-that-coming died? They threw him into a pit with a Fire-Breathing Dragon. WTF? Would they have been as aghast if Kron slipped on some rocks and was set afire in front of that audience of hundreds? "Oh fuck... fuck he's on fire. Oh God, the first-years... Get them out, ah shit someone put him out. Oh God his father's here isn't... shit shit shit. He fucking set him on fire... I never saw that coming! Never! Alright let's just move to the next... Quick get Harry out and we'll wrap up the first challenge. Dangerous? No, he'll be fine. Should we have used a bigger stadium for Fire-Breathing Dragons than this one that only spans 100 feet across? No we'll be perfectly safe, as will the champions. A thicker chain around his neck? What are you going on about, a dragon could never break that simple bike-lock-thick chain." I mean, was no one worried that Harry would die when that ball "mysteriously" went berserk and tried to smash Harry's face??? No, I guess that never would have killed him, no one was really even all that phased. "See that ball? kinda weird, huh? Think it was cursed by one of Voldimort's followers in the stands?" "Nah, they just do that sometimes, try and squish a student's face all over the grass. It's kind of a mess to clean up, but no one's ever really phased by it and we keep playing."

3: Who the fuck chose that chain? Fucking idiots. That looked like a group of professionals who deal with dragons in boxes every day. Apparently not.

4: NO ONE QUESTIONED WHY THE HAT CHOSE FOUR NAMES. Duh, well, i dunno, it kinda farts out like that sometimes. Gives three names. O well. What? Do I think someone put the "Choose 4 Names" Spell? That's proposterous. No idiotic spell like that exists. What good would it be? 'Alright students, we're gonna play some recreational quidich, harry you are captain of team 1. Aaaaand Choose 4 Names Spell! Ha!' No. No such spell exists. What? It does? It's designed spesifically for the goblet of fire? Well, you know what, some evil force is just fucking with us then, alright? Lets let it do its thing? It can't hurt. It's not gonna raise Voldimort from the dead or anything." HA! You thought wrong old man! You killed a boy AND raised Voldimort. Sucker!

5: The only child who has moved past puberty is, somehow, Nevel (sp?). He is the only one who wasn't bickering or having awkward moments with the opposite sex, and he had a good time at the ball. Fucking Ron who has never had ANY use, except for the lame chess scene, was a bitch to his date and Harry and Hermione (sp?) (But they just welcome him back into their lives as all teen relationships work out). Harry was just being a dumb boy, and Hermione (sp?) was being moody as all hell.

Other than that, bloody great movie.

"Not My President" Fuck That

Alright, after 20 Volumes of Things that Make Me Happy, i'm gonna rant. Those stupid "Not My President" stickers, badges, patches, shirts, pin, bumper stickers, etc. are crap. No one said he was your president. He was voted President of the US, where you live, fucker. Quit being a sore loser. Do you know how many more presidents will win that you didn't vote for? Maybe quite a few. Are you gonna be as hung up about that too or move on with your life? I don't particularly like the guy, but I've practically forgotten he's president. I've moved on. When the Brophy swim team wins state, do I act all butt sore and say Brophy is "Not My 5A State Swim Champions." No! They won! They're fuckin' fast as all hell. Bush won. Deal. If Germany or some country wins more medals in the Olympics, are they "Not Your Olympic Champions?" Does anyone care? Does Bush care? No, he probably wears a "Not My President" shirt to bed, just to chuckle to himself as he sleeps, about all the whiny bitches out there who think he's not the most powerful man alive. Ha!

I'm so tired I wanna take a nap so I'm done.

Things that Make Me Happy: Vol. 20

290.Costco Polish Sausage
291.iTunes Smart Playlists
292.warm towels
293.Montessori schools
294.predictive text
295.sushi
296.girls sleeping
297.high thread-counts
298.Ong-Bak
299.Highland Market
300.California Grill

Things that Make Me Happy: Vol. 19

271.New Balance color schemes
272.Formal undecidability
273.quick sets
274.Eddie Izzard
275.FF3
276.Linkin Park
277.Rubik's Cubes
278.Google
279.vampires
280.24oz Monster
281.Google paraphanalia
282.Wikipedia
283.smoked Gouda
284.corrugated fiberboard
285.heavy metal umlaut
286.French circumflex
287.the etymology of “candidate”
288.the irrationals
289.Google Earth

Things that Make Me Happy: Vol. 18

258.The British
259.Keeping Up Appearances
260.girls' smooth legs
261.Blind Guardian
262.Bobas
263.“And Then There Was Silence”
264.Yoda
265.Talespin
266.X-Trac Pro Mouse Pad
267.e^πi+1=0
268.Linguistics
269.0.5mm lead
270.The obelisk/dagger

Things that Make Me Happy: Vol. 17

241.sun chips
242.Pringles
243.balloons
244.Quoc
245.Cirque du Soleil
246.Freddie Boath
247.”Winter Overture”
248.Gentoo Linux
249.SkyOS
250.“The Most Dangerous Game”
251.girls' clean complexions
252.sideburns
253.“Niel Snusterman”
254.hummingbirds
255.wheat thins
256.gold fish
257.The Never-Ending Story

Things that Make Me Happy: Vol. 16

222.translation dictionaries
223.IBC root beer
224.Trader Joe's
225.Jones Soda
226.Costco
227.horizontal blinds
228.national flags
229.ping pong
230.dry erase markers
231.tortilla chips
232.Desert Storm Park
233.Missy Elliot's Lambourghini
234.“My Immortal (Full Band)”
235.Indiana Jones movies
236.Shortround
237.Jet Li
238.super balls
239.laser foil
240.LEDs