Popcorn Snobbery

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I've thought for years that microwave popcorn was nasty, and now the EPA is studying it. I'm a bit of a popcorn snob, and I swear by my Whirley Pop, which makes the best tasting popcorn you'll ever eat outside of a movie theater. Their pre-measured pouches are great, though the coconut oil will send you to an early grave if you eat them too often. I like to use peanut oil with some of their gourmet blue corn for the best non-lethal popcorn, but I break out the pouches on occasion, especially if we have company.

Validation

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I've been working on making this site validate as XHTML 1.0, but I've hit a bit of a snag with the Netlflix plugin. For some reason, it spits out different URLs on the movies they suggest for me with their little star icons, which wipes out the cover image and puts an & in the URL of the movie. This causes the validation to fail, but there doesn't seem to be anyway I can prevent it from happening. I filed it as a feature request with the author of the plugin, but I'm betting it's going to be beyond his control...

The Sopranos Return

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It's great to have new episodes of The Sopranos again, especially because I get HBO in High-Definition now. I think we're going to make Sunday nights a regular thing at our house for a few friends who don't have HBO but are still fans of the series. There's only one episode left of Curb Your Enthusiasm for this season, and I'm going to miss it when it's done for the year. I didn't "get" the show the first time I saw a few minutes of it, but now I absolutely love it. It's as funny as Seinfeld ever was, but they can tackle issues a lot more controversial than NBC would have ever allowed. The show matches my sense of humor quite well, it's usually inappropriate, but hilariously funny.