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Mountain Dew: Game Fuel Alliance, Horde

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Comments on two not-so-recent versions of Mountain Dew… er… Mtn Dew. Stupid rebranding.

Alliance (Boo-urns!)

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Alliance

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Alliance

I can smell the fake… sweetness. Smells like overly sweet, manufactured berries. Very akin to artificial blueberry flavoring added to medicine. And I know, it’s Mountain Dew, I should have expected such a smell, but especially for this version…

Sickeningly sweet. To me, it tasted a lot better with ice, since the sweetness is a little muted with the melting water. Nothing remarkable.

Verdict: Never again. Lame. And not just because Alliance sucks. ;-)

For The Horde!

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Horde

Mtn Dew: Game Fuel: Horde

Smells a lot like cotton candy.

Citrus Cherry Flavor? Eh. There’s a tiny bit of orange flavor, mixed with that fake cherry flavor. Why does everyone think that flavor tastes like actual cherries?

Definitely tastes closer to Mountain Dew than the Alliance Edition did.

It’s strange, but I thought that I had tasted this somewhere before. Turns out… it’s the same formula as the Halo 3 Game Fuel.

Verdict: Didn’t like the Halo 3 version too much either. Probably won’t be getting this one again.

Closing

Caffeine content: 121 mg per 20 oz bottle (6.05 mg/oz), which is more than a regular Mountain Dew, which is 90 mg per 20 oz bottle. So I guess there’s more caffeine, at least.

Conclusion: Bring back the Throwback. Pepsi Throwback was delicious. Mountain Dew Throwback was a bit weird at the beginning, but I grew to like it. Too bad I never sat down and did a review of those two… now they’re just memories.

This Past Weekend

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Ugh, it happened again. I keep over-writing. Keeping it short.

Good thing I have Twitter and all the past tweets of this weekend, because I don’t quite fully remember what happened this past weekend. Being up for at least 36 hours is never a good thing, although, somehow, I found the strength to keep going. (Her name is Caffeine. Our relationship was complicated, and now, it’s about to get broken.)

This past weekend was weird. I was up for at least 36 hours, doing such tasks like:

  • Drinking wayyy too much caffeine.
  • 44 oz MD + 32 oz Coke + Guru + Brain Toniq. Yeah, wired.
  • Scanning Bills and Receipts for preparations for the 1040′s. Hooray for Yep.
  • Works awesome with my scanner since Canon CanoScan LiDE25 software is a piece of crap: Awesome blog post on circumventing the idiocy.
  • Finding out that my MacBook Pro doesn’t like the 4 GB update. Should have read this, and all the Apple Support Forum stuff first.
  • I believe I got to crash #7 until I realized that it was the RAM.
  • To tell you the truth, I don’t think it’s the load on the processor. I’ve had mine crash when I had just Skype open. There’s something really wrong in the firmware or something.
  • Although, I did crash once after I replaced my old ones back in. It hasn’t since Sunday, so I guess this is a good thing.
  • Installed Windows
  • Kinda annoyed at the Samsung SC-MX20 issue with not being able to properly flag 16:9 videos.
  • This took the most time on Sunday. If I can get this done, I vow to make a donationware product through HanMeta for the other SC-MX20 users to enjoy (on the Mac… there seems to be a possible solution for PC users, but I can’t cling onto that). But that’s… we’ll see. So… much… hacking…
  • Learning that caffeine doesn’t actually help indigestion.

But the whole point of this post is not to talk about what I did this weekend, but what I realized I had to do. And I know, it was January, 11th… let’s keep that out of here as we talk about world domination plans.

I finally continued reading Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely. What came next was not caused by what I actually read, but what I took to heart while reading it. I don’t even remember what it was about… something to do with Bill Gates.

The realization was to be even more ruthless with my time. Even more so than I am. My ways of overthinking needs to end. A testament to this new way of life was how I went about writing this post. I just kept whittling it down and down until this post happened.

It must be because of prepping for a trip to Seattle this weekend, but I feel the need to accomplish something before then. Today has been a throwaway day because… I’m still recovering from the mess of this weekend.

But seriously, I need to blog more short posts. Make more things into multi-part blot posts, or something.

All-Nighters Suck

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And also, the night after sucks even more… because you feel like you still have much more work left to do for that day… but you know for a fact you’ll be more productive if you sleep it off at start fresh the next morning.

What ends up happening when I pull all-nighters is that either I crash and burn, or I either crawl and make it through the 48 hour mark. However, when I do crawl through that 48 hour mark, it’s usually a caffeine-induced insanity.

I really need to stop doing this. It’s not too healthy. And I’m sure the 2 liters of Dew I keep on forcing myself to drink isn’t all too great for the workout regimen either.

Time for some fruit. Yummy strawberries.

I’m currently trying to balance work and “play”, meaning blogging and learning more Ruby. I promise to have some good content tomorrow. Worthy of the 22 feeds subscriptions that somehow magically appeared yesterday night.

Someone or Something Lit Something…

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… under my butt.

It’s been a while, no? Lots of things little and big things have been keeping me busy.

I have no idea where this energy came from. And no, it’s not the Dew. I haven’t touched that stuff since the all-nighter I pulled on Thursday/Friday. (oh man, let me tell you, that was one awesome 3 hour nap in between…)

I think I might have to attribute it to the change in weather. It’s finally getting warm, and I finally don’t have to worry if I won’t be able get my car out of the heaping mountains of snow. I can finally step outside without feeling like I need to figure out the optimal path through warm heated buildings.

It might also have to do with the Issue(s) that have been plaguing my mind. Lots of relational issues have been resolved (at least, on my side). I’m not sure if I’m going to touch on this more publicly, but just know that a certain peace have entered into my heart, enabling me to let go of things that should have been let go and to learn things that should have been learned. Thank you, to those that have helped and listened and prayed. To sum up, just know that I’m continuing to fight the good fight, and striving to grow through it all.

It also might have to do with how my sister is now going to be coming to UIUC for her pre-law/philosophy major. I actually have to start looking for a small house/condo for us to live in… (*ahem*whichmeansImightbeherenextyear*ahem*) and I also have a feeling that our family might be looking to move towards Illinois, whether it be here or up in Chicago. Long story short, things have been set into motion.

Thank goodness for the realization that it’s time to keep moving, to keep forward.

Lots to plan tonight… if I don’t watch 300. Yikes.

Just in Case you don't know of this little thing called Digg

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Code Monkey

Code Monkey like Frito

Code Monkey like Tab and Mountain Dew

Code Monkey very simple man

With big warm fuzzy secret heart:

Code Monkey like you

So silly, and so true. I’ll let the Fritos pass, but… Tab? What male programmer in their right mind drinks tab? I thought it was a feminine drink? It should read like this:

Code Monkey like Fritos

Code Monkey like BAWLS and Mountain Dew

Code Monkey very simple man

With big warm fuzzy secret heart:

Code Monkey like you

Aw Yeah.

Tee hee.

Shortest Chicago Trip Yet AKA First All Nighter of the New Year

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I woke up at 5:30 AM, unable to sleep.

And Here I am, at 5:41 AM, the next morning.

Yeap, the first all nighter of the new year.

First Mountain Dew induced all nighter in quite a while. First video game (co-op splinter cell) induced all nighter in an even longer while.

For those of you keeping score… I count my days based on when I sleep. If I pull two all nighters in a row, that 48 hour period indeed becomes one day… and so I’m not late on my daily posting.

It’s just that, right now… my mind isn’t wanting to function properly.

Quick, to bed!