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Procter and Gamble buys NaturaPet

Just learned today that Procter and Gamble have a deal in place to purchase NaturaPet, the company that makes the California Natural Lamb & Rice (among others) that the dogs eat.

This news has caused a considerable amount of consternation among a subset of pet owners that really pay attention to what they feed their pets. P&G doesn’t really have a good reputation among this group anyway (animal testing) and among their pet food lines are Iams and Eukanuba. They’re ok foods, but generally don’t get a lot of respect from this group.

I’m still on the fence on this. Don’t really have any beef against P&G, and I can’t see them spending all that money to get into the high end pet food market just to turn it into crap. I’ll definitely keep a closer eye on the dogs though.

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Charleston Eats: Boulevard Diner

The Boulevard Diner‘s take on a chicken pot pie. Chicken pot pie filling (chicken, peas, carrots, gravy) between two disks of pie crust. An interesting interpretation. Almost sammich like. Pretty tasty.

Chicken pot pie from Boulevard Diner. The chicken pot pie is a bowl filled with chicken pot pie filling and topped with a circular disk of baked pie crust
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The future called. I’m a winner!

Found in my email this morning

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you over your success in the following official publication of results of the E-mail electronic online Sweepstakes organized by Microsoft Corporation ,in conjunction with the foundation for the promotion of software products,(F.P.S.) held this morning 230th November 2010 here in Jakarta-Indonesia, A winning prize of $2,500.000.00 (Two Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) will be issued in your name.It is important to note that your award was released with the following particulars attached to it.

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Return of the Spicy Tunas

Perhaps against my better judgement, I’ll be going back to Bushido next Friday (May 7) to attempt to finish off the Spicy Tuna challenge.

Won’t be doing it alone though. There will be a few local Twitter-folk looking to complete the challenge as well, so I’ll be in good company.

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Cliq: Almost month 4

Almost 4 months and two firmware updates later. Contacts list got corrupted somehow so I had to do a hard reset on it about a week ago. Before it was doing quite nicely with battery life, but now post-reset the Cliq is back to its old battery sucking ways.

I’ve gone through and changed all the notification frequencies of all the apps I could find to longer time intervals, which has helped some. It’s still not back to pre-reset battery consumption levels though. Will have to dig some more to see if there’s anything else I can change.

The number for the cell phone has been seeded in a few places and to a few people. At least I know the area code and prefix now.