Dreaming of Summer

Photos of previous summer gardens...

Cholesterol

Had my first physical in a decade and the doctor told me my cholesterol is so low I should be bragging about it.  This is me bragging.

The diet is 99% vegetarian + dairy + moderate weekly red wine + daily latte + lots of whole grains, olive oil and raw onions.  Yeah, and toothpaste.

Awesome Salad

I just ate such an insanely good salad I had to write about it.  It had:

A big bunch of mesclun greens from the CSA's greenhouse

Apples from the CSA, don't know what kind, sliced thin - super sweet juicy crunchy

The dressing was:

Olive oil

Spoonful of organic lemon juice

2 spoonfuls of the awesome apple butter from the CSA

Leaves from a few sprigs of fresh thyme also from the CSA

salt, pepper

All thrown together and practically inhaled it was that good.  Just picked up a box of veggies today and they are amazing!

What This Consumer Wants - Feb 1 09

Better online TV.

I understand that online ads have a very limited reach - nobody in their right mind ever clicks on them to look at anything.  Who wants to waste their time with that?  Not me.  Unless I'm shopping.  Which I don't do much anymore.

Now when I go online, I'm not going to Amazon and buying books - I'm going to Hulu.  Or CBS, or Fox, or any other network that posts online episodes of my favorite shows.  Bravo?  Forget it.  All they ever have are 2 minute clips of Top Chef and other shows that do absolutely nothing to entice me to tune in on a certain day at a certain time in a certain location where my tv happens to be, to spend 20 minutes out of my hour long show watching crappy ads.  Get your episodes online, and I'll watch them.  On my laptop.  Whenever, wherever I am.

Hulu's new thing is giving you options for your forced advertising.  You can either watch the 40 minute episode with about five 30-second commercial breaks, usually the same commercial five times, or you can opt to watch a 2+ minute movie trailer first.  I go for the movie trailer every time.  Why?  First of all, commercial breaks of any kind suck.  Second of all, I love movie trailers.  I remember going to the Neptune theater in Seattle with my mom to watch a 3 hour showing of movie previews.  Another time it was a 5 hour showing.  Awesome!  Movie trailers are the only thing that get me out of the house and to the movie theatre to pay way to much money to watch it on a really big screen with really really loud sound.  So with Hulu's movie trailer option - I'm not only happier in my online viewing, I'm also easily convinced to go spend money elsewhere.  Keep it up, Hulu, and please - work on getting more stuff and getting it sooner.  You're my favorite content site, hands down.