Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately have focused on things we don't notice, or don't realize until much, much later than we should have:

1) The robotic voice on the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic Planetary" song is actually saying, "Intergalactic Planetary." Yeah, whoops. Didn't pick up on that til about a month ago.

2) For Mac users: the iCal icon down on your dock has the right date on it. Realized that today.

3) My house is populated with females, so I don't often notice that the underside of my toilet seat needs cleaning, b/c well... I never find it necessary to look at it. Apologies to the b/f :)

Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately:

1) Harry Potter world at Universal is pretty incredible. You can drink Butterbeer, buy a wand from Olivander, and eat at the Three Broomsticks. It made me think that NOT A DROP TO DRINK would make a pretty crappy theme park: It's 98 degrees today, there are 15,000 visitors in the park, and one water source. Here's your gun. Have a nice day!

2) I admit to being a bit of a gamer, but there's something that bothers me about most video games. You earn perks like bigger weapons or unlock cooler stunts and spells the better you get. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Why don't we start with the awesome stuff and prove our mastery by still prevailing over opponents when the cool stuff has been taken away?

3) In Ohio, you have to jump through many hoops to buy a gun (not trying to start a gun control conversation, btw). If I found a way to grow a gun tree I'd be in big trouble. But if I had acres of the highly poisonous Lily of the Valley, people would drive by and say, "Awwwww, pretty!"

Thursday Thoughts

Thoughts lately:

1) We've talked before about outdated universal hand signals, which fired another synapse in the BBC brain. When we want to silently signal to someone to stop what they're doing (talking on the phone, misbehaving, irritating us, etc) we tell them to cut it out by drawing our hand across our throat in a slashing motion. What we're actually saying to them is, "I'm going to kill you."

2) If you walk on the beach long enough, you get a free pedicure. Just an FYI, everybody.

3) The ride inside the Epcot ball ends with a view of Earth from space and a fantastic array of stars. On my second spin I was trying to figure out if they were accurately placed. Hard to do since I've never seen the night sky from a non-Earth angle. However, since Epcot is a science based place, it'd be pretty damn ironic if they weren't.