Archive for December, 2004

Tale of the runt Diet Coke can

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

Here’s a letter I sent to the Coca-Cola company via their contact form:

I recently purchased a refrigerator 12-pack of Diet Coke. One of the cans was only one-third full and badly dented (though still sealed). Fearing that the defects are not merely quantitative and cosmetic, I won’t drink it.
As a frequent Diet Coke and Fresca […]

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Recommended reading

Monday, December 20th, 2004

Yesterday I finished Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. It was decent. I was a little disappointed that the protagonist didn’t die in the end. I like my sci-fi morbid, like 1984. (Before you object that Winston Smith didn’t technically die in 1984, I’ll say that in the end he loved Big […]

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