I’m not sure who would buy this…or why, but I believe there are many other products out there for your hair that will work just as well as this. Seriously, who came up with this and thought it was a good idea!? The mere thought of placenta and hair…okay, I seriously just threw up a little in my mouth.
Thanks to Lindsey and MC for this one.
One of the problems with my office is that the AC is always running…always! Worse than that, the vents are directly above both my keyboards, so my fingers tend to freeze up about 2 minutes into each day. After playing around with the thermostat on the wall, and trying to crank it as high as it will go to no avail, a co worker explained to me that if you can wedge something in it, it will turn off. So, I MacGyver’d it, and just to be sure that everyone knew what the hell I was doing, I also labeled it. Thank you post-its, for allowing my office not to be like an igloo. I should try using post-its more often, like to fix my car. What could possibly go wrong?!
I’ve been a part of the twitter-verse now for about 2 weeks, and here is what I have learned thus far.
a) Some people have way too much time on their hands, and thus tweet every other minute. These people are likely the same people that update their facebook status every few minutes with small meaningless information.
b) Others, however, tweet based on their job, which I appreciate…however, it’s a lot of tweeting, which I don’t. I follow a lot of sports personalities because I love football, and since so much happens during the preseason, all of them tweet about 100 times a day. The downside to this is that I don’t have the time or energy to keep up with it. I had to “un-follow” some of them just so I could keep up with others.
c) It’s a great way to keep track of businesses and their latest news. As a video editor, my industry is constantly changing and evolving, so following some of these companies and products on twitter has really kept me in pace with a lot of them. I have known when patches and updates have dropped, I have seen examples of work as it’s being produced, and I have made a connection with industry professionals that I would normally have never met.
d) It’s hard to know where to respond to people now. With facebook, twitter, myspace, linked in and so on, it’s really hard to decide which is the best outlet to reach out to people. I feel that twitter is a bit more personal than the rest because you can get a direct response to a small and short question. Think of it like texting, while other I’ll send messages through facebook like an email. It depends on WHO you are trying to get a hold of, but a lot of my friends are everywhere, so I’ll need to narrow that down.
e) I found out some pretty cool things so far. I didn’t know that one of my all time favorite bands Ultimate Fakebook decided to put out a new album. Heck, they’ve been broken up for years, so how would I have known. I learned that Penn and Teller just tried out a new magic trick for the first time ever last night. That’s pretty cool!
f) Finally, I learned that the “suggestions” twitter gives you after you follow someone, aren’t always GOOD suggestions. What I mean is that when you follow someone, twitter then says “hey, you may want to follow these people with common interests.” So what happens when I follow popular rock band the Foo Fighters…twitter suggests to me that I should follow Shemale Love. Say what!?
In case you are wondering, I did NOT take the advice of twitter. What the WHAT, Twitter!?
This is slowly becoming my favorite time of the year. You see, this weekend was my one year wedding anniversary, pre-season football started up (with a win to the Redskins!), and Sam Adams Octoberfest hit the shelves. Now, mind you I was way more excited about our anniversary than anything else, but the other two just provide icing on the cake (topper). This is when I love the weekends, and the idea that fall is just around the corner. Fall brings the cooler temperatures back, the colors of the leaves changing, the delicious beers and pies that accent pumpkins, football games all day Sunday, and most of all it means my wife will start to make her amazing chili again. Nothing gets me more enthused about fall than that. She makes a huge pot of chili, and it lasts for days. It’s hot and spicy, and it warms my heart with every single bite.
Add onto that, the fall means so many things are on the horizon. Summer is fun, don’t get me wrong, but Fall trumps it all. I feel like life sort of slows down a little bit when fall hits. We’re not running from thunderstorms or heat waves, we’re not sitting in traffic trying to get to the beach, and we’re not aimlessly looking out the window during the work day wishing we were anywhere but here. Fall means life slows down, and we can appreciate everything around. Bring on fall, and football, chili, blankets, fire, beer, long sleeves, jackets, and all that goes with it.
I admit it, I don’t use my car horn nearly as much as I should. Actually, my wife yells at me to honk at people (when I should) but I simply will wait (or throw my arms in a frenzy) until they realize their mistake. Yesterday, while walking to lunch, someone decided to lay on their horn at the car in front of them. When I whipped my head around, I noticed the car that was being honked at was in a left turn lane that clearly had a red turn arrow, so in other words, he was obeying the law. The car honking was clearly upset that he had to wait at this red light, and decided to frantically honk until it turned green. This last for about a minute, straight.
So I ask, why honk here? It does you no good, and only turns your anger into anger spread across several people. It’s the same when stuck in traffic, and irritates me to no end. There you are, sitting in traffic that isn’t moving for one reason or another. We’ve all been there. We’ve all been frustrated. But clearly, traffic isn’t moving several miles ahead either. The guy next to you decides now is the proper time to use his car horn, and begins to lay it on thick and long. All of a sudden there is an orchestra of horns going off in response. Why? What is the point here? Its as if there is one car, far ahead, that had randomly decided to stop on the interstate, and was unaware he was causing a massive backup. If we all lay on our horns, maybe they’ll come to and realize “oh hey, I should should probably go now.” Please, stop the excessive honking, now.
Now, like I said, I am not a honker. I feel the horn is too harsh for a friendly “the light turned green and you didn’t notice it” so of moment. My wife has always wanted a car with two horns. A polite horn (the nudge), and the loud horn (the yell). I tend to agree. I would probably use it more often if I knew for sure the person in front of me wouldn’t get out of their car to scream at me when all I was saying was that his gas tank was open (yes, that’s happened to me). Either way, I thinking honking for no reason is absurd, and refuse to do it. If I honk at you, that means you should listen, because you have done something very very wrong.
On a completely unrelated note, while driving home the other day, we saw a man playing a flute while driving. Seriously…a FLUTE! I wish we had the camera at the ready, but alas, we didn’t. I want to know how he was driving fast than me while playing a chromatic scale. Jerk. HONK!
