Wow… It’s been awhile since I posted. It’s been a very long and tiring week. Several days, I didn’t leave the office till 11pm. Though I did go in after 1pm on several occasions. Anyway, I was pretty much burn out and fell asleep in front of my computer a few times. But thank god it’s the weekends and I don’t think I have to go in this weekend to play catch up, though I’m still behind.
I saw this article on Yahoo!: Americans work more, seem to accomplish less and I have to agree that’s how I feel like some of the time. “Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically,” said John Challenger, chief executive of Chicago-based outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. “We never concentrate on one task anymore. You take a little chip out of it, and then you’re on to the next thing,” Challenger said on Wednesday. “It’s harder to feel like you’re accomplishing something.”
Random Crap:
Students Suspended for Snowball Fight – Two Ramona High School students were suspended for bringing dangerous objects to school — snowballs. HAHAHA. Next thing you know, students will be suspended for bringing teddy bears to school because there was a teddy bear fight!
Winning Powerball Ticket Found Under Bed – After hearing of a newspaper account of an unclaimed $853,492 Powerball ticket from October, Steve Jones decided to do a little housecleaning. Of the three tickets he swept out from under the bed, one wound up being the prizewinner. *goes searching underneath my bed* Doh! I’ve never bought a Lotto ticket. Oooooh! That’s where toys went!
Customers Cook Up Trouble With Fake Penis – The incident unfolded late Thursday afternoon when a man and a woman entered the store and the man asked the clerk, “Can you microwave something for me? It’s a life-or-death situation,” according to an account the woman later gave police. The man asked for paper towels, wrapped an object in them, and had the clerk microwave the item for 20 seconds, said McKeesport police Chief Joseph Pero. When it was finished, the clerk handed the item back to the man and saw what she thought was a severed penis, Pero said. … According to the woman, the couple stopped to warm the device in the microwave so the urine would “pass the body temperature test,” Pero said — that is, be warm enough to not arouse the suspicion of those administering the test.
Psycho Path Voted Wackiest Street Name – Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation’s wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names. The entire list is as follows:
10. Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Texas
9. The intersection of Count and Basie in Richmond, Va.
8. Shades of Death Road in Warren County, N.J.
7. Unexpected Road in Buena, N.J.
6. Bucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Ariz.
5. The intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston
4. The intersection of Lonesome and Hardup in Albany, Ga.
3. Farfrompoopen Road in Tennessee (the only road up to Constipation Ridge)
2. Divorce Court in Heather Highlands, Pa.
1. Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich.
Iris scanners enroll in elementary school – A small elementary school in New Jersey is one of the first in the country to test new iris scanning technology in an educational setting. The Park Avenue Elementary School in Freehold Borough recently installed a US$370,000 system paid for with a grant from the Justice Department. What do they use it for? Opening the front door. Overkill? Seems like that money could’ve been spent on a lot more useful stuff.
Cable employee allegedly steals Verizon pamphlets – We’ve recently reported on the growing animosity between the cable and telephone industries, but this is ridiculous. From the Woburn, MA police log (via DSLReports) comes a bizarre story about the harassment of a Verizon contractor who was distributing leaflets. On Thursday, February 16, at 3 p.m., an unidentified man in a black car (naturally) began stealing the contractor’s material. Story wasn’t that interesting, but I found it hilarious that some cable guy is following these telephone guys around picking up pamphlets in order to secure their job.
Poor artists thrive in Copacabana sands – On Rio de Janeiro’s crowded Copacabana Beach, poor artists carve out a living from Carnival tourists who pay to snap photos of their magical cities and seductive women shaped entirely of sand. All I can say is that sand castle/city looks AMAZING!
Clothes maketh the man of the people in China – Getting the most out of clothes is somewhat of a tradition among China’s Communist leadership. The article wasn’t particularily interesting, but getting the most out of your clothes isn’t a Chinese Communist tradition. All Chinese people I know try to get the max out of their clothing, starting from father to son, cousin to cousin, hand-me-downs for 3 generations.
Injured woman can sue Postal Service – A woman who tripped and fell over letters, packages and periodicals left on her front porch can sue the U.S. Postal Service for damages, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. American laws regarding suing really needs to be revamped. It needs to add a big fat disclaimer: DOES NOT APPLY TO STUPID PEOPLE! Honestly, the hardest concept that I can never grasp ahold of is why Americans are so afriad of taking responsibility when they’ve made a mistake instead of pushing the blame onto someone else.
