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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • Did you know that there are only two major canning companies in the US and the one that canned your Monster is likely to just be whichever had a facility closer to you? Did you know there are rivalries? Apparently Rexam is considered the cheaper and lower quality one. (And sadly the one nearest me when I learned all of this!)

    This tool looks like it could be moderately entertaining for a few minutes, though it seems at the moment it only supports Pepsi products and I don’t have any sodas nearby anyway.

    Note: I learned all of the above fun facts from an askreddit comment; not only that, but it was well over a decade ago. At the time I drank a lot of Monster and what the post said seemed to match up with what was on the can from which I was drinking at the time. However, I can’t guarantee it was 100% accurate then and certainly not now, many years later.



  • I have three cars: '24 Chevy Bolt, a '24 Ford Edge, and a '79 Corvette. Unfortunately, for some unfathomable reason, the Corvette doesn’t have an associated app or even any remote connectivity. However, as you observed, the Ford does; as I mentioned, so does the Bolt.

    The Chevy app I mostly use to make sure it’s plugged in before I go to bed. My Ford mostly stays outside of my garage, so the app primarily serves to start it remotely, letting the climate control run for a few minutes before I come out. (I also occasionally use it to honk because it amuses me, but I live in the middle of nowhere and am not bothering anyone other than maybe my wife.)

    Back before the world was what it is today, I used to have a used '19 Tesla Model 3 (I replaced it with the Bolt). There were good things and bad things about it, but disregarding any social issues for the purpose of this comment, the app was better-functioning than that of any car I’ve purchased since. I was grandfathered into everything, so nothing was paywalled, and most of the stuff worked most of the time, unlike the Ford or Chevy apps which usually require multiple tries and sometimes chastise me for trying multiple times.

    And since I’m writing about cars, I will say that the absolute best (for personal enjoyment, not external considerations) vehicle I’ve ever owned was a 2014 Ford Flex, Titanium Trim. There was no app because 2014, but goddamn if I didn’t love that car.