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Think back to the last time you did an all-night coding session. What kind of food did you eat? Those vending machines don't exactly sell health food.

I want to know why the hell not?

I sure wish the big, fancy refrigerated, robotic soda machines at my job carried a couple of rows of dilberitos instead of another forty 20oz bottles of pepsi.

I'm sure there are other healthy foods that could be put in vending machines. If they can have vending machines with egg-salad sandwidches (yeech!) they can can have them with salads and other flavorful, but healthy foods.

Considering how diet-conscious the country is, I can't understand why such things aren't common place. Instead, it seems like a miracle when the soda machine has even just one flavor of diet soda among like 400 bottles of liquid sugar, much less a healthy snack or meal substitute.

Mozilla's strategy seems to be give away the browser and capitalize on the brand. This is close to the same business model as most comics you read in the newspaper: the goal isn't for Scott Adams to live off his syndication fees, the goal is to make Dilbert recognizable enough that we are willing to spend tons of money on Dilbert books, mousepads, mints, Burritos, etc. The problem that the Mozilla foundation faces is making FireFox free enough to gain popularity so that the brand has value while still maintaining legal ownership of the brand so that they can cash in on the value later.

Dilberito - Natures perfect food!

You mean the Dilberito.

I don't get it. Where are the "eats for the desperate computerist"?
I thought that this was a comment on something like the Dilberito.

Rustin

Hey, Scott is one smart fellow. There are some cool philisophical and scientific insights in his book, the Dilbert Future. He talks about stuff like chaos theory and quantum physics, and it's quite interesting. Knocking the guy's intelligence because he draws cartoons is elitist and, dare I say, bad karma ;)

...And his line of yuppie vegan burritos is dil-tastic!

Scott Adams has been busy creating Dilbert and selling out.

Oh, the OTHER Scott Adams. He has released a new game last year called Return To Pirates Island 2. You can also
play online version of his classic games.

One word: Dilberito.

"From Dilbert Creator Scott Adams comes a totally new, delicious meatless, hand-held meal that will change the way you think about convenience foods."

Wait just a minute... what's this about daily requirements?? Here's the excerpt from the Indian Dilberito page:


Total Fat 5g 8% 8%
Saturated Fat 0g 0% 0%
Cholesterol 0mg 0% 0%
Sodium 630mg 26% 28%
Potassium 230mg 9% 10%
Total Carb 53g 18% 21%
Dietary Fiber 3g 12% 12%
Sugars 4g
Protein 8g


While the page *does* say that it provides 100% of many vitamins and minerals, the above is clearly not 100%.

Also, note that Total cereal DOES THE EXACT SAME THING in their marketing. You've seen the ads where they scroll down the Nutrition Facts and everything says 100% - that doesn't count the PROTEIN you need, it's only the vitamins and minerals.

If something with "100% of your Daily Requirements" were the ultimate geek food, Total would be much more popular than ramen.