There are times I wonder if I have a slower form of ADHD. I tend to flit from obsession to obsession, but over a much longer time frame. It's this personality quirk that keeps me from signing up for anything with a monthly fee since it's almost a guarantee that if I'm really interested in something this month, it'll be in the trash bin of obsessions past within another month or two. It's not not like I won't become interested in whatever it is again some point down the line, but it could be months or even years. I've had fixations on various video game systems, fantasy novels, audiobooks, anime, musicals, dungeons and dragons, board games, etc. No matter what my interest is at any particular time, it sucks up a tremendous amount of my processing power but I'll readily drop it like a hot potato when the next mental fad comes along. My room is absolutely littered with the remains of past fandoms, leaving with it piles of assorted video games, unopened ccg packs, a closet full of shrink wrapped board games, and all sorts of minutiae.

All of that is merely background to the fact that I just ordered a popcorn-popper from Amazon. Yep, I've decided that my current obsessive interest, as far as food goes, will be air-popped popcorn. Like other things in my life, I tend to fixate on certain foods. When I was living in Chicago, I could go weekss subsisting ham and cheese sandwiches or frozen pizza or hamburger helper, or, as it looks like might be the case again, popcorn.



I've never liked microwave popcorn for some reason. It just tastes, feels, and smells 'wrong' to me. The fact that it almost instantly dissolves the minute it touches your tongue is incredibly disturbing and artificial as far as I'm concerned. Air-popping your own popcorn yields a far better product in my opinion and you can add just the right amount of butter and salt to taste. For a time in Chicago I bought an air-popper and would proceed to make terrifying voluminous bowls of popcorn, which I would proceed to eat for meals over days. Food-based obsessions tend to die away pretty rapidly due to the 'sick of it' effect and I haven't thought about popcorn in more than a passing way for years.

It popped back in mind recently as I contemplated a bowl of Shelley's leftover microwave popcorn. What could be a better food than popcorn? I spend most of my nights watching anime or otherwise fiddling with useless crap. Popcorn would make for a great snack/meal all rolled into one as well as being a non-messy snackfood I could munch while watching my videos and lounging around. Just like that, the idea took hold and I've been thinking about popcorn for 2 days now. I gave some minor effort to trying to locate my old popcorn popper that I brought back from Chicago, but God only knows where it is now. Instead, I decided to just buy another one tonight on the spur of the moment and according to Amazon it should be here by Thursday. On Thursday I will proceed to locate a salad bowl large enough to submerge (at least his head) and drown a man in and fill it with a ridiculous amount of air-popped popcorn.

It's going to be wonderful.

I was just browsing on Amazon and ran across something entertaining in my account's lightning deals.



I dunno what color ducks are in their part of the world but that's not a shade I've ever seen on a quacker. I do think it would be sorta entertaining to dye a duck hot pink and then just release it into the wild though.

If you zoom in a bit you can see the color is actually named Funky Flamingo, which means this might just be an ornithological mixup. What's really surprising is that it's selling so well. I would have thought that men bought most of the duct tape in this world and would likely avoid hot pink.

I've been seeing those commercials on tv for the Phillips home defibrillator and was curious enough to check it out. I was intrigued that they were choosing to sell it through amazon as opposed to direct mail or through some sort of hospital/clinic. I can't imagine most people would know how to really use one of these things short of watching old reruns of ER. Not to mention that I could see kids playing with it by shocking one another for shits and giggles. Anyway, I went to the website to took a look and found the damn thing costs $1,300! Holy crap. That seems a bit pricey for a glorified cattle prod, no? I'm not quite sure the average human life is worth 1,300. Maybe they should think about selling a home kit for $50 where it'll tell you how to hook someone's nipples up to a car battery and accomplish the same thing.

Don't you hate it when you want to order something from Amazon but it's not costly enough to qualify for the free super saver shipping? You don't want to just throw anything else into the shopping cart because it would sort of defeat the point of free shipping if you end up buying something you don't even want. So instead you sit around day after day and wait, and wait, and wait, hoping that Amazon will actually have something else on sale that you actually want to purchase.

I've been waiting for over a week now to buy Patapon for the PSP. I played the demo and absolutely fell in love with it. I'm not usually a big fan of rhythm games, mostly because I have no rhythm and thus suck at them, but this one has managed to worm its way into my skull and won't let go. I find myself repeating the drumming beats to myself at random times during the day. It's horribly addictive that way. Don't believe me? Take a look at the trailer.



It makes me want to round up my own little army and march them on to glory. If I ever become a despot, I'm going to make all of you my little patapons and make you march and fight for my pleasure. It will be wonderful.

Anyway, the game costs $20 and I can't find anything else I want on the damn site. There haven't been any good deals lately for anything I want. I've already played through the demo twice and I want to play the full game damnit. Why can't Amazon just put something else I want on sale so I can order it along with this and get free shipping?

Yay! One of the side-advantages of flipping those Wii's on ebay just arrived today. Since I used the Amazon Visa to make the purchased, I accumilated a hell of a lot of points redeamable for gift certificates. All in all, I've picked up $50 with some points left over to boot. Not a bad bonus considering how often I make purchases from amazon.

In a similar vein, I was over browsing The Consumerist site and ran across a blog which tracked the Wii prices on eBay over the past couple of months. The methodology is a wee bit suspect since he didn't seperate out bundles from just the consoles, but it does give you a short of idea about the fluxuations.



I might not be completely happy about how I made out, but a profit is a profit, right? I never did get around to tallying it all up but it wasn't insignificant.

It looks like my joy over the Senseo might have been a bit pre-mature. I was so happy that someone, anyone, bid on the thing so I could get it out of my room. If no one wanted it, I would have been more than satisfied just to chuck it out a window. So when it finally sold for a little over $15 (with $20 shipping) it was happy days. Right up to the point where the person hasn't payed for two days now and a search through their bidding history shows they won two senseos in the past few days. Feh. The moron probably overbid and is now trying to weasel out of paying. I keep sending invoices but there's been no response. It looks like I'm never going to get this piece of crap out of here.