On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:11:31 -0700, Bob Terwilliger wrote:

> amandaF wrote:
>
>> Why do you people insist that I should l run my life the way you do?
> <snip remainder>
>
> Everybody who posted here has been laughing at you. We all know the perfect
> solution to your problem. We all freeze stock in our secret lightweight
> containers. But let me tell you, our secret lightweight small stock-freezing
> containers are *not* cylindrical; that's wasteful of space, and freezer
> space is a commodity we like to allocate with precision.
>
> Our secret small lightweight frozen-stock-storage containers are made of a
> material which grows but does not deform as the stock freezes, i.e., its
> basic shape gets bigger rather than bowing out at the sides, so that precise
> three-dimensional packing is optimized.
>
> We also have secret freezers which retract into the floor, keep inventory of
> their contents, and whose robotic tentacles can retrieve any particular
> frozen item when requested (via the freezer robot interface control
> module -- FRICM -- in our kitchen computers), so that we never have to go
> digging around in our freezers looking for something.
>
> But you do not want to run your life the way we do, so our secrets are not
> for you. Go your own way, Ai-Lao, and solve your own problems.
>
> Bob

wait a minute! they got them things at amazon?

your pal,
blake