"The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."
-Helen Rowland
Some things that don't suck:
Burglar gets caught by stolen computer, besides keeping track of our schedules, emails, and finances...now our computers can catch criminals for us...Mac computers have a sweet feature that lets you find your stolen computer if it is ever connected to the internet again...and the case mentioned in the article they were able to take a picture of the criminal with the built-in camera ON THE STOLEN COMPUTER and simple take the photo to the real police.
Coolest tool set ever, is 1470 tools excessive? no, not if you need them. And now that Craftsman is selling this mega tool set comprised of their 10 Professional Series Sets there is a decent chance that you will need something out of here...while one could argue that $8600 is a little steep, I would say that you cannot put a price on the peace of mind that comes with knowing you can fix everything, or at least have the tools to break it worse trying...
Democratic primary race nearing conclusion, with the momentum shift in super delegates after Obama's victory last Tuesday (BO 144 from the magic number) this thing could be over before we know it...Hilary has even toned down her hate campaign--positioning herself for the #2 spot on the ticket. Some say this long primary has worn on both of the democratic candidates and weakened them for the fall election...but I (and the author of this article) say otherwise...Obama has weathered some pretty serious storms and is now a hardened pro candidate...this should get good.
Cars that Fly? Nope...Planes that drive, It is the year 2008 and we still do not have flying cars and that is a little sad...finally a couple of MIT grads (they are so clever) decided to take a different approach to the problem...they just build a plane which could fold up and drive on the highway...
$5000 a month to stay in bed, so maybe we do not all have the credentials to be astronauts...but we can all work for NASA...they are still trying to figure out how the long trip to Mars would effect the human body, so for their latest study, they are paying volunteers $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days!! Sounds like a hell of a summer job...
Wrigley Seating Guide, If you have spent much of any time in Wrigley then you know that there are a couple of seats with a great view of a giant steel column or the bottom of the upper deck--and not much else. Luckily for those of us not Wrigley savvy enough to avoid these terrible tickets and potentially falling cement on our own there is this great resource to get to know your seat before you pay for it.
Faster Lines at Midway, in an effort to cut wait time in airport security, Midway has borrowed an idea from the ski slopes and marked lines with a green circle--beginners, a blue square-intermediate travelers, or a black diamond-advanced passengers...Now the regular business travelers shouldn't have to wait for the family of five trying to get everyones shoes off--but just like the slopes, they will have to wait for all of us overconfident intermediates crowding their line.
Some things that do:
Banned Books, banning books is dumb...not quite as dumb as not teaching evolution in schools--but it is getting up there. I found this list of the most commonly challenged books the other day, and it kind of upset me, because I like at least 10 books on the list. Further, there is a special notation in the last column for if the book is also on the "one hundred most important books of the 20th century" list...
Crazy Volcano, as nuts as it is that a volcano erupted...one could never have predicted the insanity that followed in its wake locally...I will admit that I have had my fair share of strange theories about things, but so far there has not been even one case we have looked into which has not supported our (Ward 402) hypothesis that the volcanic ash in the atmosphere made women--at least temporarily--lost their minds. In the 48 hrs following the eruption, all of our girlfriends got very mad at us--yelling and crying--over very trivial things...as the hours ticked by we heard more and more reports of irrational girlfriend behavior, "insane wives", and arguing on cell phones all across campus...Maybe we are way off on this one, but next time there is a volcano in the news I am turning off my phone, locking the door, and taking a long nap...
Hybrids don't make much noise, so it is hard for kids to hear them coming...hence more and more people are getting hit by these silent killers, haha...sorry...Obviously there is a down side to everything, and while amazing fuel efficiency and reduced emissions is great for the environment...when Hybrids kick into EV mode they are pretty stealthy, and apparently this mode also paralyzes the neck muscles pedestrians in the general vicinity so they are unable to turn their heads to see that there is a car coming before they cross the street...
Postage on the rise, another year, another price hike...$0.42...pretty soon I won't be able to afford all of my mail correspondence anymore...oh wait, it isn't 1950--email is free...really though, I wish I wouldn't have thrown away all of those 1-cent stamps from last time this happened.
Mother's Day Tornado, this one sucks...powerful storms swept across the Midwest and Southeast, killing 22 on Mother's Day morning.
Until Next time,
-Chance Kelch
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