Reverse Engineering Cranberry Trail Mix
While you were worrying about being able to decompile Java bytecode or .NET IL, I’ve been trying to figure out the recipe to Walgreen’s delicious Cranberry Trail Mix.
But it’s mostly pseudo-science; we used a small sample. Tawny and I opened three single-serving bags from the same 7-pack, and separated the ingredients.
Then I measured the weight of each on my USB scale (meant for estimating postage costs).
Here’s what we found, sorted by weight. I’ve placed the Nutrition Facts ingredient-list rank in parentheses where it varies from our findings:
- (#1) 28g peanuts (unsalted)
- (#5) 21g black raisins
- (#3) 21g golden raisins
- (#2) 18g dried cranberries (lightly sweetened; not as puny as Craisins)
- (#6) 14g pepitas (a.k.a., pumpkin seeds)
- (#4) 10g sunflower kernels
- (#8) 9g almonds (unsalted)
- (#7) 8g cashews (unsalted)
As you can see, there’s a bit of disparity between the ingredient list and what we actually counted. I’m sure some of the error can be chalked up to misclassifying cranberries vs. black raisins, or even rounding error on the scale. But I think it’s “close enough” for my use.
Legacy.dillfrog.com to disappear
The legacy is coming to a close. Dilly (the legacy.dillfrog.com server) is dying, his Internet service will be in flux, and it’s probably time for a fresh start. (Or a stale end).
Sometime mid-May, the stuff hosted on legacy.dillfrog.com will be temporarily or permanently unavailable. So if there’s any content you want to download/archive/etc, please slurp it within the next month.
Sites unaffected: all non-legacy.dillfrog.com stuff. Includes Sourceforge sites (e.g. salp wars, rockserv, frogjam projects), noise.dillfrog.com, blog.dillfrog.com, wurdles.com, funputer.com, etc.
Stuff that will probably live on (though with a multi-month blackout period): encoding tools, guitar chorder, rhymer, songfight explorer, hop to it, album tracker.
Stuff that probably won’t live on: everything else. Includes account system (your login ID, profiles, pictures, etc), forums, tetrinet server, rock 1/2/3, rejoinder, frogjam server, hang, and most of the other experiments.
If there’s something you really don’t want me to kill off, or if you’re looking for source code, please respond in the comments of this post. (But please be specific). I already have a pretty good idea which pages get the most traffic. If you’re a reader of this blog, you probably aren’t using those pages. 
Sorry for the inconvenience.
UPDATE June 2 2008: Want to be notified when the Rhymer tool is available again? Then I reckon you join the FrogMuse Announcement mailing list. The snarky-quiet mailing list with a stuffy name.