I wanted to find some quantitative comparison of the various sour candies available. I thought it would be nice if there was some measure of sourness like the Scoville scale for peppers but it doesn’t seem there is. I wonder how hard it would be to develop one.

What I did find was this blog called ‘Sour Candy Reviews’. The blog is run by a woman named Robin and she also has a YouTube channel featuring video reviews of various sour candies. The video reviews are great to watch so if you get a chance search YouTube for sourcandyreviews and watch them.

One of the candies that Robin reviewed is called Toxic Waste. And she gave it a rating of Ultimate Sour so it seemed promising. I didn’t know where I could buy these around here so I went to the manufacturers site and found that they were available at Walgreens stores. I drove to the nearest Walgreens and they did have them so I picked up a package of Toxic Waste and I also picked up a package of Warheads candies which are another extreme sour candy.

I decided to document my experience in the following video. In this video, I try two different Toxic Waste flavors and then a lemon Warheads candy. If you are looking to see a crazy sour face, I would say the third one is really the money shot. It also seems that I’m not the only person who has done this, because there are quite a few videos of people doing the same thing in my related videos. So this could be a youtube phenomenon that hasn’t quite taken of yet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxeUuzsnYsg

Hope you enjoyed that.

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Here are a couple of videos I put together from the cruise. The first one consists of scenes of New York shot from the balcony of our stateroom when we left. We were on the starboard side, so as we left we got a good view of the Statue of Liberty.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4ZUNY0c8dA

The next video consists of highlights on the whole cruise. You see our dinner at the Tepenyaki Japanese restaurant on the ship, and various shots from our stops. The shots of the cave are Harrison’s cave in Barbados. Check out the “Ben and Marco’s” bar/restaurant in St. Maarten that looks like the “Ben and Jerry’s” ice cream logo which is funny.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoR2eTcxPlE

That’s it for now. I’ll probably be posting more as I edit them.

• How to Set Music to Film Using Markers & Timewarp in Cubase 4

January 14, 2009 – Good tutorial for Cubase users. I think the information here might be useful to users of other tools, such as SONAR, though you would have to be already somewhat familiar with how to do the same techiniques in those tools.

• Epiphany in Modal Scale Theory

January 14, 2009 – I think the discussion in the comments section of this article is informative.

• McRib Locator Helps You Help Me Get a McRib [McRib]

January 14, 2009 – This is pretty funny. It is probably against your best interests to locate a McRib, but if you want to, here is a tool to make it easier.

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• iTunes Wants $250 To Upgrade My Music Collection (Or the Deal's Off) [ITunes]

January 14, 2009 – Here is another reason to hate the iTunes music store. I’ve found Amazon’s mp3 store to be much better.

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• Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

December 29, 2008 – Pour me another drink. I’ve got decisions to make.

• Photo frames bundle malware with holiday cheer

December 29, 2008 – Did you get a digital photo frame as a gift this year? Better check if it contained a virus.

• Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible

December 29, 2008 – Pour me another drink. I’ve got decisions to make.

• Photo frames bundle malware with holiday cheer

December 29, 2008 – Did you get a digital photo frame as a gift this year? Better check if it contained a virus.

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• Garrigus.com Announces Sonar 8 Power! — The Comprehensive Guide

December 29, 2008 – This is the definitive SONAR reference–Now updated for SONAR 8

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• ISP tells RIAA piracy protection doesn't come free

December 23, 2008 – ISP’s don’t seem eager to do the RIAA’s bidding for free.

• Cockos updates REAPER to v2.54

December 23, 2008 – REAPER is a newcomer in the DAW space. They seem to turn out new releases often and respond quickly with bug fixes and new features.

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• Cakewalk releases SONAR 8 Trial Version

December 23, 2008 – Cakewalk released Sonar 8 a few months ago, but now they have updated their trial version.

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• First Impressions: Saint Guitars Messenger Baritone and Aracom Amps RoxBox

December 21, 2008 – Good review with audio samples.

• Digidesign Releases Pro Tools 8

December 21, 2008 – New Pro Tools version is out.

• Cakewalk updates SONAR Home Studio to v7.0.1

December 21, 2008 – Cakewalk has released a free update to users of SONAR Home Studio 7.

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• Official Nvidia Mobile GPU Drivers Available Online [Software]

December 20, 2008 – Nvidia is now making mobile GPU drivers online. I wish ATI would do this, since Dell hasn’t posted updated drivers in over a year.

• 8 Easy Steps To Better EQ

December 20, 2008 – Here are some excellent tips for using EQ in your mixes.

• 20 Worst Music Videos of All Time

December 20, 2008 – Some of these are hilarious. Be sure to check out the Billy Squier one.

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