Toaster Strudels

You know, I've always thought that it was just a unanimous human belief that Pillsbury's Toaster Strudels were superior to Kellogg's Pop Tarts. I don't have anything against Pop Tarts. I like them just fine, but if someone were to ask me, "Would you like a breakfast pasty? Would you prefer a Pop Tart or a Toaster Strudel?", my instant response would be, "Toaster Strudel!" I wouldn't have to think about it. I thought that everyone shared my opinion on this pressing subject. But I have recently discovered that a good number of people actually prefer Pop Tarts to Toaster Strudel. Now I will proceed to tell you why their opinions are wrong.

First off, Toaster Strudels are frozen and that helps to preserve their fresh and delicious taste, not to mention that it slows that growth of bacteria. Toaster Strudels also come with a decadent frosting to lather across you're warm, buttery, toasty, canvas. With Pop Tarts you get this frosted 3 weeks ago in a factory deal, and about 40% of the time the machine straight up misses like half of the Pop Tart and you get a 1/3rd naked Pop Tart. The filling in Toaster Strudels is so thick and rewarding when you bite into it. When you bite into a Pop Tart, you usually just feel sad because you have to bite into the tasteless crust and wish that they had actually filled the entire thing with jelly.

Sherlock Holmes

The Sherlock Holmes movie was a bit different than The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night Time. However, if you look more closely, then you can see similarities between the two. Both Chris and Sherlock had mysteries to solve. Chris' mystery was quite different, whereas he had to try to find the murderer of his neighbor's dog. Sherlock had to find a real murderer that was at large and killing more and more people for some sort of "ritual".

But there is more that the two have in common than one might see at first glance. They are both incredibly determined to solve their mysteries. Even after Chris' father warns him to stop investigating, or he will get in trouble, he continues, because he wants to succeed. Sherlock is faced with death threats, being wanted by the law, and his best friend almost dying, but that still isn't enough to break his spirit. They are both also socially awkward. Chris was born with disabilities that make it difficult to meld with people in social situations. Sherlock on the other hand, is just strange and says and does things that people find to be odd.

Book Impressions

This book was interesting. Quite a bit different than the works of literature that I usually read in school. I persoanlly didn't care for the book. I liked the concept, but the story itself wasn't really something that I would choose to read. I couldn't really relate to any of the characters, and the writing style was to simple and boring.

Christopher Boone, a young teen finds his neighbor's dog lying dead on her lawn with a pitchfork in it. He decides that he wants to discover who killed the dog, and he begins writing a book about his findings and his investigations. His father warns him to stop looking into it and snooping. Eventually it is uncovered that it had actually been Christopher's father that killed the dog. After a physical confrontation between Chris and his father, Chris sets out to find his mother, whom he believed to be dead, but he finds out that she left Chris and his father and moved to London with another man. After taking a train all the way to London, Chris finds his mother, and Chris's father comes to London. There is tension between all of them, and Chris begins to pursue a higher education through advanced math courses in order to someday be successful and escape his difficult background.

Thoreau's Quote

"Henry David Thoreau believed that in order to live well, we must reduce the number of material goods we have. Otherwise, these things begin to dominate us. Take a position on this and explain."


You hear things like that all the time. "Money doesn't buy happiness." No. I guess not. Well, not directly anyhow. But money is always nice. And who doesn't like to have nice things? Of course, you can't depend on material possessions for happiness. That's where the people that you share your possessions and your life with come in. People make people happy, not mere items.


But it's always reassuring and comforting to know that you have things to call your own. I definitely don't agree with Thoreau. While yes, I agree to an extent that possessions aren't all there is to life and happiness, I don't think that they are a bad thing at all. I live rather well with my iPhone and my laptop, thank you very much.

Prime Numbers

"Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." - Christopher Boone The Curious Case of The Dog in The Night Time.


I've never been any good at math. I've always had to strive just to achieve mediocrity in math classes. It's because I can't seem to wrap my head around the rules, or why I have to do the things that I'm told to do in order to solve problems. If I don't understand the reason for doing something, then why should I have to do it? But Christopher is good at math, and working out problems and numbers in his mind. He can't however, interpret people or the world around him very well. So maybe to him, Life is just a strange concept that he can't quite understand, like math is to me.

I think life is simple. Have fun, do what makes you happy, and enjoy the people around you. Life doesn't have one goal, or any set of rules. In that sense I agree with Chris, but I do know that no one will ever know the true meaning for "life". I say, live it up while you can, and live for the moment.