Every Friday marks one of my favorite - or shall I say flavorite - traditions that make working here at ASC so pleasant: group breakfast! At the end of the week, everyone in the office gathers in the conference room to chow down on the delicious treats that two of the ASC team have selected for the grand occasion.
This week, things became very interesting when James was in charge of bringing in the beverage.
Juice? It's been done before. Coffee? Boring; we have that all the time. Smoothies? A little too fancy, perhaps. And thus, everyone got to try something special, something new. Something so specific and unique that you'll know I can't be making it up. This week, the Actual Sizers were treated to something I can only think of calling Blue Drink.
Well, it was technically blue raspberry, if you want me to be specific. Now, if you're like me, your first thought is probably something to the effect of the following: "What...what...how do they even make that!?" Well, I did some investigating, friends, and it turns out they make it with ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup. citric acid, natural and artificial flavors, potassium sorbate, acesulfame potassium, sugar, neotame, sucralose, sodium benzoate and of course, (presumably a lot of) Blue #1. Nutritious, no!?
If you're still like me, your second thought is probably something to the effect of the following: "What does that taste like?" Again, friends, I've done the leg work for answering this question, so allow me to enlighten you. First, I have to mention that whe [removed][removed] n you pour Blue Drink into a glass, the specific color of the blue looks different than it does while in the bottle. Once in the glass, it is significantly lighter and brighter. Okay, so there's that. As far as taste goes, Blue Drink tastes exactly like a blue raspberry snow cone but without the shaved ice. It's the kind of thing where, as you drink it, you sort of wonder if your tongue is now going to become that color. It's very, very sweet, in both senses of the word - it is literally sweet (so much that it sort of makes your teeth hurt a little bit) and it is also awesome.
All in all, it's a very interesting beverage, particularly at 9 AM, but I'd say it certainly helped me to get my day going.
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Last week at Actual Size was an exciting and productive one! (Word on the street is it was so awesome because of a certain new intern...just repeating what I've heard.) In addition to meetings with clients, phone booth production (more on that later!), and delicious bagel breakfasts, James created a great new typeface for upcoming Pittsburgh Steelers projects. Let's just say that this typeface is so good that it too should have six Superbowl rings.
But don't just take my word for it: see for yourself! It's actually a pretty exciting process - who knew spray painting was involved!? Nice work, Dude!
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Nothing to report lately, at least nothing the general public is allowed to know about. See what I did there? I made it sound like we're working on stuff that you're not cool enough to know about! Now, in the back of your head, you think we're cooler than you did a few moments ago.
But seriously, we're talking to a few of our clients, and a few new potential clients, too. We'll introduce you once they are OK with everyone knowing that they're going steady with Actual Size. They've been burned before, and they don't want to get their mom's hopes up for grandkids.
In the meantime, we've been doing some renovating and painting, and also upgrading this very blog web page thingajig that you're looking at. You can now comment on what we're talking about and you can share our wisdom through the social network of your choice (I recommend Twitter, it's what the cool kids are doing, apparently). So poke around, let us know what you think.
When a trail of blood was discovered outside of Actual Size World Headquarters during what was supposed to be a safe and relaxing lunch hour, Mary put her inner-detective to work. With her nose to the pavement, Mary followed the trail to its source in the sports store around the corner. She questioned several would-be witnesses, but they refused to cooperate. The mystery remains unsolved, though it is widely believed that the victim bled then fled the scene by bus.
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