Motivational Quote of the Day
“I once knew a man named Harold who preferred to go by Harry but everyone called him an asshole.” - Lord Hambersham, DDS
Cereal of the Day
Developed in 1953 by Nabisco Canada, Shreddies was acquired in 1993 when Post Cereals took over the brand. Post Cereals has itself changed hands a few times, but now operates as an independent spin-off brand. Or something like that. Shreddies is a Chex-like cereal but 100% whole grain wheat and produced in Niagra Falls, on the Canadian side of the water. It also has presented Frosted and Coco versions in the past, both "too tasty for geeks", but just enough for Sure-Eddie. Shreddies have also been considered school fuel, as well as having been knitted by nanas (an ad campaign that helped the brand during the early Facebook advertising days).
Like many cereals on the market, Fiber is a big selling point for consumers. According to studies, psyllium-enriched cereal is actually quite good for lowering cholesterol in humans. Instead of focusing on the health aspects, Shreddies instead stuck with knitting nanas from 2007-2015. In 2021 Shreddies employed British actor Nick Knowles in its new campaign stressing "Shreddie For Anything", whatever that means. It’s possible that Shreddies could be used for anything, but chances are it can only be used for eating. We don’t need a study for that. Put it in your mouth.
News From Earth
The metaverse (or, the Metaverse) thus far as a marketing term has been mildly successful. The switch from Facebook to Meta was the catalyst for creating a world akin to a few hours messing with the Second Life rendering program. Everything presented as “in the metaverse” is simply tech bros playing around in VR and pretending that somehow, meetings in VR are more exciting than meetings IRL. It’s all a bunch of hokey buzzword nonsense and to this point, is going nowhere. Yet, the metaverse seems to want to persist, at least in the minds of the tech bros attempting to will it into existence.
As much as news is still being written about the metaverse, at least it now comes with a grain of salt. It does not yet exist, not in its imagined form, and publications are finally making note of that in their coverage of it. Calling the 3D, VR world the metaverse is a disservice to what the metaverse could be someday, which is still undefined. Since augmented reality is the future of our digital interactions, more functionally than VR, the metaverse might never exist in its current theoretical form. So where does that leave us? It leaves us continuing to be subject to an onslaught of ridiculousness and slick grifters looking to profit off a buzzword. Jealous much?
Sandwich of the Day
From the proprietary sandwich generation tool:
Chicken Hearts & Podhalanski With Strawberry Jam On Puri Bread.
Ephemeral Erosion
We will spend the rest of our waking lives attempting to escape from this reality, even if it means escaping into a virtual, more boring reality. That’s how much we dread our demise and take for granted what it means to truly be alive. The only sense we seem to want to engage is our sense of apathy. For the betterment of humanity does not translate directly to the boredom of the masses. Virtual meetings drain our souls more than anything else we could possibly imagine as humans, yet that is what we strive for. There could be nothing left besides our faces floating around a virtual white board and there is a load of sadness that accompanies that image.
It’s that sadness with our mundane lives that pushes us to create virtual worlds that contain the same depressing aspects of humanity we seek to escape. All we are doing is creating new ways for our anxiety and pain to manifest in a bit more tangible way. There is nothing more exciting to a bored human race than virtual reality anxiety. It’s the mundane bits of life that actually fill out our days, and trying to move that to a virtual world only serves to erase what little time we have within this plane of existence. Life is short, virtually or otherwise.