Category: Daily Life

Santa came to the pack meeting

Looking for an ergonomically correct mouse pad that may not be politically correct? Look no further! Chest Rest is the product for you!

Which of course could be a good complement to your Hizamakura lap pillow.

Unless you are a woman, then you have your boyfriend pillow.

A day or two ago (break into song with me!)
I thought I’d run a light [yellow]
But instead I stopped
And did it just in time.

But a guy in the other lane
Two whole car lengths behind
Pressed down his gas peddle
And ran the red light.

For me the light did change
And I drove the speed limit
Making it to the next light
To have a big surprise.

There sat the other guy!
He risked his life and others.
He caused great distress.
He saved himself no time.

He sped like demon.
He got nowhere real fast.
On top of that he wasted,
He wasted much gas!

He risked his life and others.
He got nowhere real fast.
He wasted much gas.
He saved himself no time….

This morning I was the lead car at a stop light. The light turned green and the other cars continued to come, and come and I went ahead and accelerated and they came. Had I the gumption I could have driven straight through the pack of cars continuing to blatantly run the red light. Does this mean we need red light cameras. Let me exclaim "Hell no"! This happened at the intersection of Kington Pike where the state troopers office sits. What this means is a state trooper or city officer needs to stand in the grass in front of the state troopers office and flag down and ticket the offenders.

We live in a cove. It has 7 houses on it but sometimes this cove (a straight stretch and a circle) seems like a speedway. We are off the beaten path but for some reason we are the world’s turnaround. Sometimes I park our cars obnoxiously in the street so that the strangers are slowed in their efforts to turn our nearly private street into a dragway. Always seems to help at least for a bit. Blogging Baby points our a much more creative solution.

Student: I cannot catch up.
Master: Start over and you will be caught up today.

East of Cherry St live.

Cherry St at I-40 live.
Traffic Cameras provided by TDOT SmartWay (per linking policy)

These are the cameras that you see around town. These are not red light cameras. The red cameras have not been installed yet.

A tractor trailor crash has shut down part of I-40

The following content reposted from June 22, 2005.

I’m an observant person. I watched the traffic cams get installed by TDOT. For a long I have intended to call TDOT and ask, "are those cameras available to the public?" Ironically, being a web guy, I never bothered looking online until one of the local news stations mentioned the 75 cameras are online (though by my count I only see 66). Have a look at a picture of a TDOT SmartWay camera.

Additional information about the TDOT $20 million SmaryWay system is available including cameras statewide and information about Tennessee 511 a service that provides traffic information from any phone. TDOT is also in Alabama.

From the Smartway FAQ:

Other benefits include:

• Providing live video to local television stations that is used during their rush hour traffic reports
• Website access to current construction and incident information.
• Shorter crash response time by emergency response agencies including TDOT HELP trucks
• Using the system to assist in AMBER ALERTS
• Radio reports of current construction and incident information available on the highway advisory radio (HAR) system.
• Use of the system to complement Homeland Security evacuation plans

Now when you want to leave the house you can check to see if I-40 is jammed or not!

Snopes has updated the status of the Christmas Light Show to "true"!

Hmm

Student: I can’t beat these odds!
Master: Change games.

Kids, vibrating pajamas, and chickens. Add the word "choke" in there and someone’s naive good intention is going land people in jail.

But I can prove I never touched ____

All joking aside, this is really cool and puts us so much closer to true virtual reality experiences!

Singapore scientists looking for ways to transmit the sense of touch over the Internet have devised a vibration jacket for chickens and are thinking about electronic children’s pyjamas for cyberspace hugs.

233 is not an integer

Ok. I took one of those tests. It was the T&A and Cuteness test. See results. Like horoscopes, I think the results of this test could have said most anything and you would nod your head and agree.

Cute & Small Boobs Raw score: 44% Big Breasts, 45% Big Ass, and 68% Cute!

Thanks for taking the T and A and C test! Based on your selections, the results are clear: you show an attraction to smaller breasts, larger asses, and sexier composure than others who’ve taken the test. Note that because you scored small on breasts but large on ass size, it might appear you like girls bottom heavy. That’s probably not the case. What’s more likely is that you notice curvy, voluptuous butts, and you don’t like big, fake boobs. Big real boobs are even worse because of the sag. Anyway, my third variable, “cuteness” is a mostly objective measure of how innocent a given model looked. It’s determined by a combination of a lot of factors: lack of dark eye makeup, facial expression, posture, etc. If you scored high on that variable, you are either really nice OR you’re into deflowering teens. If you scored low, you are attracted to raunchier, sexier, women. In your case, your higher than average score suggests you appreciate a cuter, nicer look. Kudos! Recommended Celebrity: Hilary Duff, because she is the ultimate in cute! Especially since she lost that baby fat!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 37% on tit-size You scored higher than 39% on ass-size You scored higher than 79% on cuteness

Link: The Tits, Ass, and Cuteness Test written by chicken_pot_pie on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

This interesting article labels Walmart as "progressive" and good for the poor citing that Walmart’s $200 billion-plus assistance to consumers rivals federal programs such as food stamps ($33 billion) and earned-income tax credit ($40 billion).

If critics prevent the firm from opening new branches, they will prevent ordinary families from sharing in those gains. Poor Americans will be chief among the casualties.

Another interesting tidbit is that the "average Wal-Mart customer earns $35,000 a year, compared with $50,000 at Target and $74,000 at Costco."

Oh the things I wouldn’t know if not for blogs! I was looking in on Drawn! this morning and discovered some interesting tidbits.

Flickr is for photos

[Flickr] want[s] to assert themselves as a site for sharing photographs, and any accounts that are extensively non-photographic in nature (ie illustrations) will be rendered NIPSA, or Not In Public Site Areas. …your images will not show up in searches or tag results, and this includes any legitimate photographs in your account as well.

Stan Berenstain dead

While there are no official press releases yet…

Richard Scarry Gets PC

I’m sure everyone has this book in their house. Now check out the changes from 1980 to 1990.

Student: I am not looking forward to today.
Master: Will you brood over it tomorrow?

Student: I am dropping my greatest vice cold turkey!
Master: What’s wrong with cold turkey?