Deep fried Mars bars!

No really, we actually tried it. Of course, Rocky's Beer-Batter Fish Crisp is probably not the ideal breading medium for this, but it was tasty nonetheless. Tay came up with the idea, after we were done frying up some tasty tasty fresh cod (as fresh as it comes in an area so far from the ocean) and having a whole lot of batter left over and nothing left to fry. So, a trip down to Shoppers for a Mars bar value pack and one pot of semi-boiling vegetable oil later, and we were working away on our first fried candies.

Honestly, as tasty as they were, this whole thing was probably not a good idea, what with the boiling vegetable oil in a pot and all, and not having a fire extinguisher on hand. Yay for cooking adventures!

I can't let you do that, Dave

Automated voice recognition menu systems piss me off. I'm calling the automatic menu system because I want to hear the options available and pick one, without having to announce what I'm doing to the rest of the office. If I have to speak into the phone, I want there to be a human on the other end, so that I can speak a full sentence and have it recognized. I especially don't want to read my phone number into the phone when there's a perfectly good keypad right there.

My response to hearing a friendly computer voice say "please tell me about your problem" or something similar is to hammer the zero button repeatedly. And to continue doing so until there is a person on the other end. Or a dial tone. Either suits me just fine at that point.

It might also be fun to talk nonsense to one of them, and record that conversation. One of these times I'll start feeding it one-liners from Star Trek. I wonder how Verizon's menu system would react to being told to arm quantum torpedoes and fire at will?

I feel a Rickroll coming on ....