News You Can Bruise for 2005 April 14

Planet Organics had blood oranges on their list. I've loved blood oranges ever since I had blood orange juice from a Tetra-Pak Susanna brought back from Romania. I ordered two pounds of oranges for an exorbitant $4.00. As a tribute to the old Romanian aristocracy, I would bathe in the blood of oranges!

Well, it turns out two pounds of oranges is six oranges. Furthermore, that six oranges when squeezed yield about a glass of juice. So I spent $4.00 (of Sumana's money) on a glass of blood orange juice. I was enraged, but then we drank the juice and it was really good. Also, if you go out to a nice place for breakfast around here, a glass of non-blood orange juice costs $3.50. So $4.00 for fresh blood orange juice is doable as a one-time thing. I wonder if you can get those Tetra-Paks here, though.

How do I keep getting sucked into these things? It must be my instatiable greed for latinum. I'm now in charge of revising a third chapter of the Python book. Soon I'll be an expert at everything!

Almost Immediate Update: Perhaps I spoke too soon; the original author is going to try to make time for the revisions.

I showed this cartoon to Kris and he vowed revenge. "Gil's goin' down," he says.