From the Mind of a Madman
1. When I see the new draft N wireless cards, I can’t help but think of the Gillette and Schick razor wars.. and moreover, The Onion predicting the 5-blade monstrosities we see today.. there’s bound to be a wifi antenna version of that..
2. When I buy groceries, I sort my groceries as I put them on the conveyor belt. Does anyone else do that? My thought is that I should sort them at that point because otherwise the bags at the other end will just get stuffed with whatever random collection of goods is sitting there. I might find my crack chips mixed in with my toilet cleaner.. and that just ain’t good.
3. I recently got basic cable because Comcast called me and told me it was now an available option and actually made my bill cheaper than without. I agreed solely to cheapen my bill. However, I can’t help but notice that in the block of 24-ish channels made available to me, almost half of them are pointless. I have several worship channels, shopping networks and local community channels; I think Comcast’s master plan is for me to buy worthless shit, find salvation, and donate the boxes to the Bloomington homeless.
4. The other day I was parked on the street in downtown Bloomington, and I think I must have slept through this topic in driver’s ed. I understand how to parallel park.. but I think the diagrams and figures are misleading. I found this cute animation on wikipedia:
The parking bit is fine. But they left out the part where you have been parked for an hour and the two cars parked around you have since left and been replace. Of course, the guy in front of you didn’t want to get blocked in, so he made sure to leave some space in front of his car, and well, the guy behind you wanted to make sure the guy behind him had enough space, so he left plenty of space behind his car. Leaving you with a scene more like this, with the meter woman stalking your car ready to blast a ticket on your windshield for not having left yet:
I think the end result of this scene is more along the lines of this:
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming..
March 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
You must have learned how to put groceries on the belt from me. What makes me angry is when I separate the frozen and cold items on the belt and still the bagger will mix everything together. I would much rather bag stuff myself to make sure the frozen stays with the frozen, the cold with the cold, and then the food stuff together, and the soaps with each other. How hard is to do that? As for the parking, I don’t remember teaching you that. I try to avoid that as much as possible. The animation was accurate though. Hope to see you soon.