In which my cold medicine speaks to me of transhumanism

Yesterday I was heavily into "think I'm getting a cold, although it hasn't gotten me yet" territory. I did Zicam a couple of times, and then tried Airborne for the first time in the evening... woke up this morning well-rested and not feeling virus-ridden at all. Go Airborne!

Its packaging also has an interesting pledge on it. A lot of products are proud of remaining static ("just like Grandpa used to make it in the North Woods", that style of advertising), so reading this surprised me: WE PLEDGE to our customers to continually upgrade the AIRBORNE formula as improved technology avails itself, thereby offering the finest, most effective health formula possible.

That's fascinating and brave -- maybe not a favorite with folks who are really sensitive to small changes in the formulation of medicine, true, but in good accordance with the way I want to live my life. Circumstances may change and my own preferences and judgement may change... it makes sense to pledge to not become too static, to continually build some things up and let others go in order to offer the finest, most effective flexagon possible. I just want to know when the implantable memory chips are coming out.

And for you cereal killers out there

This is freaking awesome -- you can have customized cereal mixed up and shipped to you from http://www.meandgoji.com, at least as long as you have Javascript enabled. :) The best feature of the site is the nutritional information that constantly updates itself as you add and remove ingredients.

Warning: earlier today someone laughed at the idea, said "what's the value add?" and then wound up ordering from my computer after I showed them the site. Me, I never pretended to resist; they had me as soon as I saw their huge selection of fruit and nut mix-ins. I have cherry-blueberry-almond muesli on the way to me right now, and (if it's any good at ALL) when summer comes I'm gonna get me something more tropical. Maybe muesli again, but with dried pineapple and coconut and macadamia nuts.

Om nom nom nom.