the one where i talk about coke cans and barack obama.

i came to a couple of realizations today, and i wanted to share a third idea:

jeter. i prefer drinking coke out the can rather than plastic bottle (nothing beats the glass bottle, but that's a red herring right now). the reason is that the coke tastes colder, and tastes colder longer, out the can. i dont know if the fact that metal gets cold whereas plastic does not necessarily makes the coke inside the can colder and keeps it that way longer (id assume so, but im no rocket scientist; maybe the plastic insulates the coke whereas the metal does not). but i know that the can feels colder to the touch when i take it out the refridgerator compared to taking the bottle out for a spin. and once that feeling instantly travels up my arm to my brain, ball game's over man. my brain's gonna make that coke taste cold. (sometimes i even press the can against my forehead, to play up this effect; it's groovy).

when i take a plastic coke bottle out the fridge, i cant tell what temerature the coke inside is. if this is in a store, i have to feel other, metal products inside the fridge to know that the fridge is indeed cooling everything, and that the coke inside the bottle is prolly cold. it's a real crapshoot, lemme tell ya.

i dont want to play a guessing game. i want a sweet-tasting, tooth-rotting caffeine infusion. gimme the can, stan.

cano. using the edit html function when composing a blog post, rather than the compose function, is prolly analogous to driving with stick shift compared to driving with an automatic transmission. i say 'prolly' because i cant drive stick. but people who do claim it gives them 'more control' over the car and whathaveyou. it seems to me this is similar to the straight html function.

giambi. last wednesday, after the benefit concert which i already ripped apart here, i was talking politics with my colleague's sister. anyway, we were talking about stars of the democratic party, and she mentioned, as is inevitable in such talks, barack obama. my response was: 'barack obama is like snap bracelets.' i feel the need to mention it here because i just saw that she used it as her 'headline' on myspace, and i too would like to preserve it for posterity.

what i meant is that he's a fad. im sure he's classy enough, and hopefully he'll prove himself an enduring entity, and rise up the ranks, as the nation could always use another black leader. (and i would really like to see a black president, for many reasons.) but for now, barack is like snap bracelets. no one had heard of them or knew where they came from, then bam! - everyone had them, and thought they were the bomb. then they disappeared.

no one knew about obama and then he got some pub during the convention, he seemed classy, then bam. it all happened so fast. i doubt that barack will disappear - i hope he does not - but i think we need to give him a little more time to make his mark, before we annoint him our savior.