I saw someone driving the other day in a vehicle with the license plate “YBU BME.” I may be wrong but that sounds like “Why Be You…Be Me.” In my estimation, this person must have an awfully inflated sense of self-worth. That’s something someone like Muhammad Ali, in his day, might have put on their license plate, if they could. You might as well have a plate that reads “IM GOD!”
Category: Zany (WTF?)
Grocery Store “Butt” foonery.
The last thing I want to see at the grocery store is someone sitting on the counter where I place my groceries prior to scanning them. But when there is some kid who looks young enough to still be in diapers sitting there, I am likely to want to hurl. What are people really thinking of? It is bad enough that so many people are “self checkout” incompetent but do they really have to put “poopy boy” on the counter too? They should have stools for the kids…
Scary, Inconsiderate Drivers
The other day while I was getting ready to take a left turn on a green light (not the green arrow), the fool who was across from me waiting to do the same thing, decided to go straight and cut right in front of me just when I was getting ready to make my turn. The next day, while waiting in the left lane of two left turn lanes (green arrow only), the guy in the right hand left turn lane decided to take his left hand turn (on red) just as the opposing traffic was starting across the intersection. WTF eh?
I Felt the Earth Move
I just got confirmation on the radio that we had a small earthquake this morning. After hours of tossing and turning in bed, I got up at about 0500 and was sitting at my computer minutes later when my whole building shook. Needless to say I was a bit puzzled but figured it had to have been an earthquake. It left me feeling a bit queasy actually.
I looked at the USGS website about 10 minutes later but saw nothing. It was only shortly after 0600 that I got the confirmation. Will wonders never cease?
My “Cat’s Eyes”
A couple of pictures of Hamlet. The color in his eyes is so weird. No Photoshopping going on here. I just took the picture with normal flash settings.
Why Are Eggs in the Dairy Section?
According to the Merriam-Webster Online, a dairy is a farm and/or facility “concerned with the production of milk, butter, and cheese.” I have never seen a chicken that could produce milk from which one could subsequently produce butter and cheese. So why are the eggs in the dairy section? Anyone…anyone?
Sl “apps” Happy iPhone Users
In the Washington Post article, “iPhone Apps for the Traveler,” dated May 16, 2010, Ross Arbes, endorses 15 apps for the iPhone using traveler. I will comment on a few of them.
- Maps – Buy a hard copy or print something out from Google or Mapquest or just access the sites on your iPhone. Do we really need an app to replace competent services that are available to us on our web enabled device? Familiarize yourself with where you are going before you get there. It is generally very beneficial.
- Cheap Gas (free) – First of all, cheap gas may be cheap but is is not free. No driving directions to the gas station so what is the point. What is that $1.50 savings per fill up in the wider scheme of things anyhow? Especially if you are out of town.
- ATM Hunter – ATM’s are everywhere…banks, fast food restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, bars, etc. Now an app for “Money (free)” would be cool.
- Sit or Squat, public toilet finder – Public toilets are everywhere…banks (just kidding), fast food restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, bars, etc.
- EveryTrail, records route, speed and elevation using iPhone GPS and incorporates photos taken into the route – This presumably requires that you use the camera on your iPhone. God forbid! Give my my Nikon D60 any day. Besides if you can’t remember where you took your pictures then they probably weren’t very good.
- HearPlanet Lite, locates nearby sites and reads articles aloud from Wikipedia and Wikitravel – Get the relevant real Lonely Planet guide and read about it beforehand. Bring the book with you to refine the experience on site. Avoid noise pollution be it by headphone or speaker, especially by speaker.
- Am I Safe (costs $.99), provides crime states for your area and classifies it as safe or not safe – Bam your mugged or dead. If you can’t figure that out by yourself or haven’t researched it in advance then you are effed. Sorry.
- iTranslate, can translate more than 50 languages and voice translations out loud – Sounds pretty good but how do you input the foreign language? Do you have to type it in? Can someone speak the foreign language in and have it output in the desired other foreign language?
It Just Isn’t Natural
I hate Tuesdays in the summer at my apartment complex because that is normally when the landscaping company comes in. The lawn mowers and blowers are so loud it is ridiculous. To make things worse, the company milks the situation often by mowing and blowing the same plot twice. There is no apartment management representative around to observe what is going on. Of course, were I working, I wouldn’t be present to observe the shenanigans myself…
Last Tuesday, I watched three guys, two with man portable gas powered blowers on their backs and another guy with a wheeled gas powered blower clearing the debris out of the parking lot, onto the dog walking/pooping area below my balcony, and then into the tree line. The blowers are so powerful that they flatten out the grass for about a 1 x 2 foot area.
In truth, I bet the three guys manning these gas powered tools could have raked all the debris to the tree line sans noise and petroleum burnt pollution in the same time it took them to blow the debris away. Meanwhile they stirred up a dust and pollen storm that forced me to close my balcony door and apartment windows.
Is it time to get back to the basics of yard work and employ some college kids for the summer? I don’t want to put any “immigrants” out of work but WTF?
How Do You Tell Your Girlfriend That You Are In a Cornhole League…
Face to face or from behind?
It Snow Secret
It has been a month since we had the last snow, 28-30 inches of it. Here is what we had:
Here is what I have left (click to enlarge):
Note the scooter at bottom left. I rode twice this week but we have rain coming in so I’ll have to take a break. At least the bike isn’t covered in snow anymore. It is hard to believe that we, in Virginia, got over five feet of snow as of 11 February this year and that, today, one month later, I was sitting on my balcony in a t-shirt reading the Washington Post as the temperature neared 70 degrees.