Friday, July 18, 2025

weird diet/food ideas

 Food and I...we go way back....and frankly we aren't very good friends. Anyways. I was at a theme park recently and was thinking....

Theme park diet

Eat crappy food...way too much....then just go on rides until you throw it all up,I guess it's a bit like bulemia I suppose, so probably not particularly good.

 

ok I don't really have a name for this one, but sometimes I want to un-hyper-palatize food. 

By this I mean, if there is a food I really like and of course there is sugar/etc trying to make it super addictive, sometimes I try to do things to it (sometimes subtle, like just change the flavor a bit) or sometimes a lot like add a strong sauce. Ultimately when you go to enjoy the item that lets say isn't so good for you, you make it not build or strengthen the memory as you eat it of it being really good.

Then with other foods that are actually good for you, don't do that, lol.

Random thoughts, but kinda an interesting business idea, like make a food item that is similar enough to a popular addictive one, but like really unaddictive and get people to buy it so they won't want to eat it.

So like instead of pop tarts you make up flop tarts, and the tagline is when you're craving a pop tart buy these, so you won't crave one next time.

Enjoy

 

Some AI generated cereal boxes (more to come maybe but here is #1)



 


Friday, July 4, 2025

an appless policy

 I operate under the goal of not having to install apps. My first reaction if I need something is to see if I can use a web page.


I broke my normal approach I installed the jellyfin app because I just didn't even think to check the web page. After probably a year of using it and having mediocre results because of some sort of bug related to playing some videos I happen to visit the web page on my phone And it worked great after that I uninstalled the app immediately.


I wish that more things were appless don't you?

million pixels

 I remember a time way back when where you could buy a pixel on a webpage. All the pixels available summed to a million bucks, kinda cool.


I came across this on hacker news the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456379

Reading the context was just fascinating.

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-checkboxes/

 It just reminded me of the million pixels, but I really loved that with a blank canvas people were doing some funny/interesting things!