HUZZAH! now how many trips can we make....
Dunkin' Donuts Puts Winter "On Ice" by Heralding First Day of Spring With First-Ever Nationwide "Free Iced Coffee Day"
Dunkin' Donuts Restaurants Across the Country to Offer Free Iced Coffee All Day on March 21
CANTON, MA. (March 1, 2007) - Dunkin' Donuts, the largest coffee and baked goods chain in the world, wants to help customers put winter "on ice." On Wednesday, March 21, the official first day of spring, Dunkin' Donuts will host its first-ever all day, nationwide "Free Iced Coffee Day."
For 24 hours on March 21, customers can visit any participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurant in the country and receive a free 16 oz. cup of Dunkin' Donuts' premium iced coffee, which is double-brewed to ensure full flavor with every cup.
"We look forward to treating everyone to a free cup of our delicious, freshly brewed iced coffee to celebrate the arrival of spring," said Robert Rodriguez, Dunkin' Donuts brand president. "As the category leader, Dunkin' Donuts has been brewing iced coffee for more than 25 years and we are thrilled to be kicking off another iced coffee season with this all day, nationwide event."
Iced coffee is fast becoming as "hot" as the classic cup at Dunkin' Donuts. While iced coffee sales typically spike in summer months, Dunkin' Donuts has seen rapid growth year-round, including during the winter months. Iced coffee is the second most frequently sold product after hot coffee at Dunkin' Donuts.
According to NPD CREST data, Americans drank more than 450 million servings of iced coffee in restaurants in 2006 - a 16 percent increase from 2005 -and Dunkin' Donuts sold more than 150 million servings of iced coffee last year.
Millions of iced coffee lovers turn to Dunkin' Donuts because they recognize the quality of its iced coffee. Dunkin' Donuts has been at the forefront in developing an innovative process for brewing iced coffee, which has set the standard for the industry. The unique process, called double brewing, uses twice the amount of coffee when making the beverage to achieve consistent flavor and freshness that are never compromised at the expense of serving it cold. The result is a smooth, rich taste sensation - iced coffee that is never bitter or watered down.
For more information on Dunkin' Donuts' iced coffee and other products, please visit www.DunkinDonuts.com.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Saturday, March 10, 2007
you fucking hypocrite. i love the line "there were times I have fallen short". that certainly implies that you did it more than once you lying blowhard.
Gingrich admits having an affair in Clinton era
Former speaker who led impeachment push cites ‘periods of weakness’
Associated Press
Updated: 8:30 a.m. ET March 9, 2007
WASHINGTON - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.
"The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards."
Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity.
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."
Widely considered a mastermind of the Republican revolution that swept Congress in the 1994 elections, Gingrich remains wildly popular among many conservatives. He has repeatedly placed near the top of Republican presidential polls recently, even though he has not formed a campaign.
Gingrich has said he is waiting to see how the Republican field shapes up before deciding in the fall whether to run.
Reports of extramarital affairs have dogged him for years as a result of two messy divorces, but he has refused to discuss them publicly.
Private life in the public
Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than 20 years younger than he is.
His first marriage, to his former high school geometry teacher, Jackie Battley, ended in divorce in 1981. Although Gingrich has said he doesn't remember it, Battley has said Gingrich discussed divorce terms with her while she was recuperating in the hospital from cancer surgery.
Gingrich married Marianne months after the divorce.
"There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them," he said in the interview. "I look back on those as periods of weakness and periods that I'm ... not proud of."
Gingrich's congressional career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from Republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel over charges that he used tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
i saw this at borders this afternoon and laughed. at least someone has a sense of humor (most likely some disgruntled shopper)
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
stop
begin assimilation
stop
re-assimilate
stop
process
stop
compensate for spasms
stop
processing........
today's amusement (for me)
i've spent the last 2 days working with AM on installing our new fancy GFI Faxmaker which has all kinds of promise right now. it's pretty nifty, and when AM left this afternoon, i feel as tho i have a pretty good handle on the basics, and i understand what needs to be done when and how. so after exchanging good byes, AM left and i looked at our visitor log to see if he had signed in (as visitors are sposed to do). i saw that he had so i signed him out and the following exchange occured:
the players: LM - our receptionist, LC - not sure what she does, but it appears to be important, Molius - yours truly
LM: you didn't have to do that (sign AM out of visitor log).
Molius: that's ok, i figued i should anyways
LM: you like to do little things to annoy me.
Molius: (as i am walking away) yes i do.
LC: Molius is the man
LM: yes he is.
i couldn't help but laugh.
so today, which has been a long day (i'm still at work currently, finishing something up before i head home), has actually been a good day. productive, instructional with bits of humor thrown in for good measure.
Monday, February 26, 2007
interesting
i saw something similar to this a few months ago, but it was pulled from the shelves (i believe it was Wolfgang Puck branded) for being too hot or something like that, but when i saw it in the supermarket saturday, i figured what the hell. i figured for $2.50, i'd give it a try, justifying it by saying it was the same as a dunkin'. M corrected me by reminding me that dunkin' costs less.
so i tried it sunday morning.
meh.
i wasn't expecting much to begin with, it was more the novelty of the self-heating that was interesting to me, but after waiting for the alotted 5-8 minutes, i was presented with a 138 degree cup of coffee. i poured it into a mug (against the directions on the label) and tried it. 138 degrees isn't much when you think about it, so i found it to be rather disapointing from a heating perspective. (by contrast, the dunkin' i got when i picked up the paper was 158 degrees)
it also looked like a darker brown than i was expecting (i was thinking color would be similar to the starbucks fraps). was a creamy consitancy, and the hazelnut flavor (artificial flavoring) was strong.
i prolly should have nuked it for 30 seconds to bring it up to a better temp, but only in my mug. they clearly state not to put the thing into a microwave (it's that metal/microwave thing).
overall coffee flavor was a little weak with the hazelnut overshadowing it. definitely something i'll pass on in the future. i'll stick to my dunkin'.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
heeheehee....
i remember hearing about this, but because of her ripping up the photo of the former pointy hat pontif, i never got to see it.
now i can.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
note to self: maybe getting this wasn't such a good idea. (nevermind the whole reduced fat thing. what the FUCK was i (not) thinking?)
Local markets pull Peter Pan peanut butter
Stop & Shop and Shaw's, two of New England's largest grocery chains, said today that they responded to reports of a salmonella outbreak by ordering their stores to pull all Peter Pan peanut butter off their shelves.
ConAgra Foods Inc. of Nebraska touched off national concern when it disclosed that certain jars of its Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter had been linked to an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened people in 39 states, the Associated Press reported.
ConAgra indicated that the outbreak was tied to jars whose lids bear a product code beginning with 2111, the AP reported.
Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. said that to its knowledge, no tainted peanut butter had been found in its stores, but as a precaution, company officials today ordered all Peter Pan peanut butter to be removed from store shelves, company spokesman Robert Keane said.
The chain has also programmed its cash registers to issue an alert in the event that a Peter Pan peanut butter jar had somehow eluded the recall and a customer showed up with it at a checkout line, Keane said; if such a jar were to be swiped over the scanner, the store employee at the cash register would be alerted that the product was not for sale.
Stop & Shop does not carry Great Value, another peanut butter brand linked to the salmonella outbreak, Keane said.
Based in Quincy, Stop & Shop operates 385 supermarkets in the Northeast, including about 120 in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, Shaw's Supermarkets Inc., a New England chain based in West Bridgewater, said its 210 stores were instructed to immediately remove all Peter Pan peanut butter from store shelves, spokeswoman Judy Chong said.
Any customer who has recently purchased Peter Pan butter at a Shaw's can return it for a full refund or exchange it for a comparable product, Chong said.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
- Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
- Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
- You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
- 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
- You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
- You watch the Weather Channel.
- Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."
- You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
- Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
- You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
- Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
- You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
- Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
- You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.
- Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
- You take naps.
- Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
- Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
- You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
- A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good sh*t."
- You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
- "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
- 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
- You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
- When you find out someone you know is pregnant you congratulate them instead of asking "Oh shit, what the hell happened?"
Bonus: - You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old ass.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
according to my little therometer thing, it's a cold day in hell.
had to take the picture w/o the flash - it kept putting a nasty reflection which made it hard to read.
Monday, February 05, 2007
the things you find sometimes...
a while back (tuesday, december 5th) i posted an entry where i explained how i came to love certain bands, and how it is usually a song that clubs me over the head.
one of the bands i mentioned was Curve, and how Coast Is Clear was that club. i didn't go into it other than to say Toni's voice. anyways, the combo of her voice and Dean's bass line, is what clubbed me over the head. i'm not sure what else to say about it, but i can now tell you when i first heard the song.
it looks as though altmusictv has a lovely archive of MTV's 120 Minutes playlists. and with some quick digging, i struck GOLD!
October 27, 1991
HUZZAH!
i remember watching that episode. how's about that!
nevermind that it's a goldmine for playlists. older shows (back when i was watching) tend to be a little spotty, but it's fun to see when i watched them because i'll recognize a few videos, interview segments, etc. a nice trip down memory lane, back when i'd stay up to 2am to see what was genuinely interesting.
Sunday, February 04, 2007
how frakking lazy do you have to be?
the filling is the EASY part. the hardest part is BAKING it properly.
(taken with my phone)
Friday, February 02, 2007
here's my $0.03 on the aqua teen bomb scare up here in boston.
(how stupid mumbles is)
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