April 3, 2007

More About the Chocolate Jesus

Some of you will remember my post last week about the Chocolate Jesus:

I spent a couple of hours at the hated Wally World this afternoon getting various foodstuffs for the weekend. I need to run to the liquor store in Carrollton tomorrow or Friday for beer and perhaps a few other sundries. I also need to get another load of mulch, but I am pretty much finished other than that.

Whilst I was wandering the aisles of the wondrous warehouse attempting to avoid large asses with cartloads of screaming curtain climbers and rug rats I came across the EASTER CANDY AISLE. Of course I had to get some Ferrero Rocher chocolates. While perusing I ran across nothing other than a chocolate cross, in white and milk chocolates of course. I never could find the chocolate Jesus to go with it. I am assuming that they sold out and that’s why there was still such a glut of Easter Bunnies there.

Maybe come the holiday season at the end of the year I can pick up a chocolate nativity scene. With all the folks that are usually in the Nativity, I could spend a week or two eating the little buggers.

I particularly enjoyed Mr Fabulous’ comment in my entry:

It would have been cool if they had a chocolate Jesus. Then all you would need is some peppermint nails…

No doubt. What I was not aware of at the time is what a damn fuss was just starting to go on about another Chocolate Jesus as reported by the Zero Boss as well as a shitload of other bloggers and news sites. Damn, I wish I had thought about this one first. I would melt down the Easter Bunny in a heartbeat to mold my own savory savior. I was back over at The Zero Boss this morning looking at the Sugar Rush and came across this site called the Chocolate Deities comments/z7shysterical.gif Oh my. A veritable godly amount of theobromine just for me.

Internet Servers and Remote Code

I am so tired of having slow loading times because of other people’s crappy servers that I will spend some time this afternoon copying any images that are supposed to be hosted remotely to my server and host them here, with just the link to the other site, and then remove some of the items that are holding things up at load time. Some of the code I have to keep unfortunately, but it still should help out.

I can keep several of the items such as my blogroll on a separate page and then have them load via a lightbox so that you never leave the page. That should help things out a little bit anyway.

Rosie Shows Why She’s a Surrender Monkey

Just checking out some of the sites this morning and over at Blue Star Chronicles I came across this post: Rosie’s Flying a Flag and Backtracking. Apparently Rosie has a new post up at her blog backpedaling from her support for all of the 9/11 conspiracy wackos.

9/11 affected me deeply, as I know it did many Americans. The falling of the twin towers served to remind me that many of the assumptions Americans have about their lives are rooted in false feelings of security. In light of this reminder, I have begun doing exactly what this country, at its best, allows for me to do: inquire. Investigate. America is great in…

The whole post is up over at BSC and you can also check it out at Rosie O’Donnell’s (sp?) site as well. Comments are closed. I suppose whe doesn’t want any of her wacky readers calling her out for the chicken-shit she is. Now I certainly don’t have anything against stepping back from a certain view and changing your tune when you are wrong. When something is wrong it’s wrong but it this case it is obviously wrong from the start so if you are going to spout idiotic convictions you should at least stand by them. emoticons/shake.gif

Scheduled Posting with Movabletype

I put together several of the posts for today first thing this morning, and scheduled posting seems to work OK except for the fact that when Movabletype publishes the post it doesn’t bother re-indexing the site and so the post doesn’t appear until I have done another one or someone comments on a previous post. Very weird.

Updated – OK, I just needed to add a cron job in my cpanel to run the periodic tasks. I’ve never done that so it was sort of weird.