Green acres is the place for me.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square
You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Useless Mental Debate.....don't try this at home
Hitch and I were prerusing products on the 'web tonight. By blessed coincidence, I clicked on a product link by mistake and was brought to a page that sells coffee mugs and steins specifically for right-handed, left-handed, and ambidextrous users. I'd never seen this before. I then thought it was all a joke. Then I looked closer at the illustrations on the mug. That's when the trouble began. It fired off one of those pesky brain cells back in the back row.
By golly, the illustration on the mug is placed differently for each type of user. The "ambidextrous" version is directly opposite the handle, if you are wondering.
On to the useless debate:
What signifies the "handedness" of a coffee mug or stein? I had always assumed that when held properly, the emblem, picture, or saying that is plastered on your coffee mug should face away from you while you drink. That way it can entice/intrigue/disgust any innocent bystanders 'round the coffee machine. After a quick inventory of my mugs, I discover I've either got all left-handed mugs and I hold them wrong (I'm right-handed) - or - my assumption is wrong: The emblem, picture, or saying is supposed to face the drinker. Which made me wonder: Why? What purpose does it serve that I am the only one that gets to enjoy the emblem/picture/saying on my coffee mug?
Maybe I regard my mugs like I regard my t-shirts: a way to provoke reactions from the teeming masses. There is nothing like walking down the mall, through the flea market, or through the park and catching someone reading your shirt. But, as many people know, I am easily amused.
By golly, the illustration on the mug is placed differently for each type of user. The "ambidextrous" version is directly opposite the handle, if you are wondering.
On to the useless debate:
What signifies the "handedness" of a coffee mug or stein? I had always assumed that when held properly, the emblem, picture, or saying that is plastered on your coffee mug should face away from you while you drink. That way it can entice/intrigue/disgust any innocent bystanders 'round the coffee machine. After a quick inventory of my mugs, I discover I've either got all left-handed mugs and I hold them wrong (I'm right-handed) - or - my assumption is wrong: The emblem, picture, or saying is supposed to face the drinker. Which made me wonder: Why? What purpose does it serve that I am the only one that gets to enjoy the emblem/picture/saying on my coffee mug?
Maybe I regard my mugs like I regard my t-shirts: a way to provoke reactions from the teeming masses. There is nothing like walking down the mall, through the flea market, or through the park and catching someone reading your shirt. But, as many people know, I am easily amused.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Is it already a trend?
Like many people, I have an e-mail address. Several, actually. And while it's a light load, I get quite a bit of spam, just like everybody else. So, I've become quite sensitive about giving out my e-mail address.
This morning, I heard a commercial for a new contest from a large non-alcoholic beverage vendor (Coca-Cola). The contest itself is around the Dasani bottled water line. One of the requirements for entering the contest is a "valid e-mail address".
WTF?
So they can send you more marketing crap, more unsolicited e-mail. Just because I want to enter a contest does NOT mean I want to receive a bunch of e-mail from anybody.
Now, I've been on the intarweb long enough to know of websites that want your e-mail address for marketing, as well as membership verification. But this real-life contest (as opposed to intarweb only) requiring a valid e-mail address to enter. I say again: "WTF?" And yet, by the fine print, I'm sure it says in there somewhere that "no e-mail, no entry".
It just occurs to me that this sort of contest is biased in another direction, too.
If, like a large majority of the contry, you don't even have an e-mail address, you are not qualified to enter the contest!
Isn't that unfair discrimination?
This morning, I heard a commercial for a new contest from a large non-alcoholic beverage vendor (Coca-Cola). The contest itself is around the Dasani bottled water line. One of the requirements for entering the contest is a "valid e-mail address".
WTF?
So they can send you more marketing crap, more unsolicited e-mail. Just because I want to enter a contest does NOT mean I want to receive a bunch of e-mail from anybody.
Now, I've been on the intarweb long enough to know of websites that want your e-mail address for marketing, as well as membership verification. But this real-life contest (as opposed to intarweb only) requiring a valid e-mail address to enter. I say again: "WTF?" And yet, by the fine print, I'm sure it says in there somewhere that "no e-mail, no entry".
It just occurs to me that this sort of contest is biased in another direction, too.
If, like a large majority of the contry, you don't even have an e-mail address, you are not qualified to enter the contest!
Isn't that unfair discrimination?