The Student Government gang over at Rivier College finished their year strong by making themselves official members of the “Tom Krieglstein Fan Club” with name tags, signatures, and all. Thanks Kelsey, Chloe, Spencer, Jennifer, & Sarah! I hope you make me an honorary member .

[Update 6/5/13 - Our name changed to Student Launcher from AlumniChoose in Fall of 2012.]

Every student project that gets posted to Student Launcher needs to be verified by an official representative of the institution. It’s part of our larger quality control system for the site. Most people tend to reply with a simple yes, but yesterday my inbox got pinged with what is now my favorite reply to our verification email to date…

“The group and project is correct. As much as I’d like them to be zombies, they are actual hardworking students of the University.”

ACbert and I are now 17 days into our month long “relocation” in Utila, Honduras, and I thought it appropriate to start sharing some of the joyful oddities we’re discovering.

1) Do You Have a Costco Membership?

Once a week (Wednesdays) a boat arrives on the island filled with supplies from the main land that then populates the various store shelves. The funny thing is that most of the product sent over is Costco brand. On Wikipedia it shows the closest Costco locations are in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Florida. I can only image someone going to Costco to buy produce for an entire island of people. That’s one huge shopping cart.

2) 1976 Cornflakes

By looking at the box, you’d think it was made in the 1970′s, but this box is indeed a current box that is good to eat. The manufacturers must have just decided it wasn’t worth their time to update the design because, after all, the best designs happened in the 70s, right?

3) The Bootlegged Library

Believe it our not, our tiny little island has a library with books and DVDs you can rent out. The selection of DVDs is actually rather large and fairly current too. But you’ll notice, by the picture, that 90% of the DVDs are bootlegged copies. If your conscious can handle that, then this is a great resource to kill some nights at home.

4) What’s better than Rum? Cola Rum!

I don’t drink pop (soda for my east coast friends), but if you trick me by putting a little rum in there, I’m sold. Yes, that is a straw coming out the top that I drank it with. Free Cuba!

My dad’s in town for the weekend and we opted for a legitimate massage in Chinatown…

Related to my last post about Facebook thinking I own the Microsoft Facebook Page, now they think I own the Star Wars Facebook Page and Star Wars is not happy about it…

Unlike the Microsoft glitch where I wasn’t even an admin for the account, for Star Wars, I’m actually an admin and have full ability to do what I want with the account…

In fact, I am the sole admin…

I know that this isn’t a widespread issue with Facebook as I’m a unique case, but it sure is an interesting case study in how digital content never really is deleted as I thought this issue was resolved a LONG time ago.

Yes, there’s a story behind this. I’ll write it up soon to share.

…the candy aisle?