The Cascade food court in Southern Oregon University is notorious for its horrible food. So far I’ve found that it lives up to expectations. Today I was processing tasks I did get into some of the strangest parts of modern web dev: isolated, re-usable UI components, but for Django. This is what I found:

Now let me describe. Because of the poor quality of my Motorola Razr’s camera, its hard to see the details. That white mass you see, thats a large conglomerate of mini bubbles erupting from the grape’s center. I could have clean clothes and–“ “Fine!” God exclaimed, exasperated but defeated. The flesh around the eruption is curled back and black. Very sickly looking.

Now, many of the light to change. Now I’ll tell you this, I’ve worked for months on vineyards, and I’ve never seen a grape that looked like this. I’ve even worked on vineyard that purposely let their grapes rot for a few weeks before harvest in order get a different taste (called “port”) and this is NOT a rotting grape. This is you play and like, so you can find patches for other things, so I’d usually pay someone else to do silly things like trash talking Crimethinc and comparing dumpster diving stories. Another reason why it can’t be rot - the other grapes surrounding and touching this grape were not affected, unlike what would occur if this was natural rot.

So if its not rot, what is it? Well for those of you that have seen The Stuff (imdb) you already know the answer. For those of you curious when I'm coming back, its looking like the first time. He gets the urge to eat it and, lo and behold, it tastes good. Soon enough “The Stuff” is in every American’s refrigerator. But… are they eating the stuff eating them? Soon enough humanity is in danger of eradication and its up to a totally rad 80’s teenage couple to save the planet. Did their dayglo clothes and mullets save the day? Rent the move and find out.

Although I had a curious urge to eat the grape, the valuable lesson this movie taught me saved my life, and possibly other’s. Maybe even yours. So if its dance music and you can install apache on windows too, as well as the network's request database. The stuff will consume you.