Texting?

As I look back over the years of innovation, we have truly seen some remarkable steps forward. Television, fax machines, overnight deliveries, computers, the internet, CDs, DVDs, digital music, and, of course, the personal communication device known as the cell phone.

There is one developement that defies logic... text messaging! Why are so many people so excited about this form of communication? Tapping out your message with two fingers on a mini keypad is counter progress. Would you be so excited if you were told that we were doing away with all keyboards and computers and going back to typewriters and the US mail? I'm guessing you'd complain about going backwards... kinda like anti-innovation.

Kinda like - text messaging!

Water Displacement #40

We've all heard of WD-40. I'm sure every household has a least one can sitting on a shelf somewhere. I was amazed that folks use it for something more than lubricant. Don't act like you've tried some of these. I know you didn't know any more than me. Ready?

It gives floors that just waxed sheen without making it slippery
Restores and cleans blackboards
Removes tomato stains from clothing
Keeps the bathroom mirror from fogging
Removes all traces of duct tape
Spray it on your arms, hands and knees to relieve arthritis pain (OK that's weird)
Keeps pigeons off the balcony - they hate the smell (So do I)

There are plenty more. The one that weirds me out?
It keeps flies off cows!

Flies off cows? Who on earth discovered that one? I'm thinking that guy is hanging out in the barn just a little too much.

Who counts?

Here's a silly thought that popped into my head. Does anyone actually count? I mean like when you buy a roll of paper towels and it says 90, two-ply sheets. Has anyone ever counted the sheets? How about over-the-counter pills? The bottle says 100 pills but has anyone actually opened the bottle and counted them?

Companies could be ripping off Joe Consumer! Just think, if the company that supplied America with the 100 pill bottle, actually put only 99 pills in... One-hundred bottles later, they'd have an extra 100 pills. That would be enough to fill one more bottle! (with 1 pill to spare.)

Makes you wonder, doesn't it.

39 days...

Thirty-nine consecutive days of above average tempertures came to a crashing halt yesterday. The green grass turned white with ice and snow. Winter has finally arrived. My drive to work was filled with unplowed roads and very slow cars.

Well, except for one idiot who just had to be going faster than the rest of us sane people. All we saw was a blur of slammed on brake lights and fishtailing. And then he was gone...

I'll never understand why people like that exist but I'm sure they are the same ones that continually push the "close door" button on the elevator!

Bowls For Everyone

I love College Football as well as the next person but I think the bowl thing is out of control. It used to be right around New Year's we'd have the best teams play in the Cotton Bowl, Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl. Now we have added so many bowl games that they start on December 19th and finish up on January 8th. Yes, there are now 32 bowl games played. To help pay for the giant affairs, we've commercialized the names. The Outback Bowl, Capital One Bowl, GMAC Bowl, and my new favorite the MPC Computers Bowl. Who?

Here's the frosting on the cake - Minnesota with a 6-7 record (only 3-5 within the Big Ten) gets to go to a Bowl Game. A losing record gets to go to a bowl game! How did that happen? Did someone say, I know these guys must be better than that. Besides they look good in uniform.

The sad part, the Gophers of Minnesota almost won the game. Please no more additions to the already over exposed bowl scene or we'll have a bowl for everyone in America.