No Jamba in 1985

Here is a picture of Burli and his favorite fruit: Jamba Juice. Today I asked if they could put a little of JK's acai supercharger in a small cup, and voila! A baby Jamba Juice. How come I didn't know about this sooner?

In other thoughts, JK asked what we would be doing right now if it were 20 years earlier. Maybe we would be reading books instead of reading blogs, I guessed, just "watching tv" instead of googling things as we go. [With only 2 channels that come in well, you have to upgrade your experience. Tonight, for example, we are watching 20/20, and I've googled American Apparel (very appalling) and BabyPhat (not sure what to think) while also looking at pictures of a friend's pre-Halloween party in Austria (they used nice stripy pumpkins rather than the overbred, generic orange things you get here).
I found a blog called "Martian Anthropologist". I didn't read much of it, but in one post he talks about Wu Wei, which is a Toaist concept that my students learned about in MMW3 (if they were paying attention).] So, 20 years ago, that would have been 1985. According to wikipedia:
The Ford Taurus was released. (I've never owned an American car. Just 2 Toyotas.)
December 27 - the Rome and Vienna Airports were attacked. (It is always unnerving to arrive there and see the military with machine guns. It is especially unnerving when you realize that they are all about 19 years old and serving out their obligatory military duty and spend their freetime drinking beer or visiting their sweet mothers who wash, line dry and iron their uniforms.)
It was the year of New Coke. And of Coca-Cola Classic.
There was a big earthquake in Mexico City.
Some of the movies out: Back to the Future, Goonies, Witness, The Color Purple. Not a bad year for movies. Maybe we would have gone to the movies. The average price of a movie theater ticket was $3.55. (According to NATO.) It is about $9 here at the moment.
On that thought, good night.