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I mentioned in the last post that there might be something of a government conspiracy regarding the relationship between lasers and tomatoes.  Think about it.  When was the last time you heard about an accidental death involving the consumption of tomatoes?  You already know that improperly prepared marinara sauce can cause impromptu laser light shows.  And that’s with cooked tomatoes.  What if you were eating raw tomatoes?  Grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes probably wouldn’t be too bad.  At worst, they could cause some blindness as they are used to focus the lasers in laser pointers and you definitely shouldn’t be pointing those into someone’s eyes.  There’s a reason why shining a laser pointer into the sky at an aircraft is a felony.  Don’t do it.

Anyway, if you don’t bite into a cherry or grape tomato properly, you might end up blinding someone, but that’s much better than frying your head into a crisp because you bit into an heirloom tomato.  People eat heirloom tomatoes all the time.  There are stories in the news ALL. THE. TIME. about how someone did something dumb.  Why aren’t these people also getting fried by lasertomatoes?  They are.  But the government doesn’t want you to know about it so they hush all those stories up.

But I have more proof.  You would think that lasers would be a pretty effective weapon against zombies, right?  I mean, obviously you should have a shotgun in your arsenal, but a laser would do really nicely.  You could fry the zombie’s head from afar.  Zombies don’t function as well without their heads.  So, lasers would be effective against zombies.  Tomatoes are integral components of lasers in terms of focus and eventual effective application of said lasers.  You would think that tomatoes would be something included in a game in which plants fend of zombies.  YET THEY ARE NOT.

Here is the almanac of all the plants in Plants vs Zombies.

Where are the tomatoes?

Note  that tomatoes are not represented.  They probably were at one point early on in game development.  I mean, it would be so obvious to have tomatoes fire lasers at the zombies.  I believe the tomatoes were taken out of the game due to government pressure.  They don’t want us to know about the relationship between lasers and tomatoes.  Think about it.  PvZ is a very popular, highly rated, cross-platform game.  It’s available on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, wp7, Xbox, PSN, DS.  This game has reached millions of people.  If PopCap had left the lasertomato in the game, too many people would find out about the tomatoes laser properties.  It’s a conspiracy.  And come Friday, I think you’ll see why the lasertomato has been kept such a secret.

Remember my post about the Pomodoro Technique?  I have been using it on and off.  The other day I decided to look for another timer app to use for the technique.  (ASIDE: I have a Samsung Focus which runs Windows Phone 7.  A lot of the following links will open the Zune software but will be marked as such.)  I had found one (opens Zune) dedicated to the Pomodoro Technique before, but it wasn’t really what I wanted.  I really just want a tomato timer that would tick.  This was a tomato timer that didn’t tick and had a bunch of other entry fields to put down what your current task was and stuff.  I ended up deleting it and going with a generic timer (opens Zune).

The generic timer worked well.  But…it is a generic timer and I really wanted a tomato timer app that ticked.  I would have liked a real tomato timer, but the constant ticking sound probaby would bother everyone else around me.  With a tomato timer app, I can either mute the ticking sound or just put headphones on.  Anyway, I did find one (opens Zune) eventually and I rather like it, but I also found others…including this one (opens Zune) that had this ridiculous tagline “become laser focused like a tomato!”  Um…what?  Maybe the author meant “become laser focused with a tomato”?  That latter would make more sense since pomodoro means “tomato” in Italian and the Pomodoro Technique is a productivity tool helping to become focused on your tasks.  Even then, it sounds kind of stupid.

But…what if it was an inadvertent slip?  I think there’s something here.  I think we may have stumbled upon a government conspiracy trying to befuddle and confuse the relationship between lasers and tomatoes.  The person who wrote the little blurb describing the app probably let something slip that he shouldn’t have.  My MLC and I speculated some about the lasertomato on twitter.  Here are some highlights:

MoosePhysh: Improperly made marinara sauce can treat you to an impromptu laser light show. #lasertomato

cherriebb515: Tomatoes belong to the nightshade family. They eventually rebelled against their family and turned to lasers. #lasertomato

MoosePhysh: Cherry and grape tomatoes are utilized to make laser pointers. #lasertomato

cherriebb515: Lightsabers are not made with the use of tomatoes because lightsabers aren’t lasers. #lasertomato

More on the conspiracy on Wednesday.

And here’s a doodle of a romantic spaghetti dinner gone wrong.

Shut up. I drew it on my phone. You're lucky it looks as good as it does.