November 2, 2011
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More randoms..
iCan iDownload OS X Lion so that I can play with iCloud. iCan, ican and iWill! It will be nice to have my computer music sync with the iPad. One day i'll go ahead and get the Time Machine and the squeezeboxes and everything all on one server and it'll be all beautiously organized and yeah.. one day..
And now to the tune of Elton John's Daniel.. Daniel the beagle.. you were eu-hu-thi-nized.. but you.. survived. Ok, forget the singing.. but seriously. So apparently a dog was put down (along with a bunch of other dogs). I somehow assumed that this was always done through lethal injection, however it isn't.. dogs are put in a gas chamber. No, I kid you not. Anyhow, in October in Alabama a dog was put in such a chamber with 17 other pooches, and when the door was opened after the carbon monoxide was supposed to have killed them all, a beagle walked out..
Now everyone wants to adopt this un-killable beagle. What I don't understand though is that in all the press i've seen, no one seems all that bothered by the fact that this dog SURVIVED it's own euthanasia. It watched 17 buddies die. It was exposed to gasses that should have killed it. Now i'm not a huge animal person.. but doesn't this just seem wrong?!? So while we can all be amazed at this AMAZING beagle, shouldn't we question the fact that something went wrong and this happened? Sure, perhaps he was near an air pocket.. but why then are there air pockets? Also, the headers all say that Daniel was rescued. Um, no he wasn't.. he was put down and he saved himself. Or a puppy God saved him. Do dogs have 9 lives too?
At the gorcery store last night I noticed this..
WTF?! Is this for people who can't slice a cantaloupe themselves? Am I missing something here?
Alright, well I have some commuting woes I could blog about--like how yesterday my subway line wasn't running at all in the morning and so I ended up walking to another station where there were SO many people waiting that I decided to take a train the wrong way, get on the train going the right way two stops away, and then be on the train while millions of others squeeze on back at that station that had the millions of people. Needless to say I got to work late.
Today I was happy to see that the trains were fully functional again. Unfortunately the people on them weren't.. I noticed while waiting for the doors to open that there was someone behind me very wound up and anxious to get on the train. I know that New Yorkers have terrible subway etiquette but I try to be good. Really. I let people exit before I enter, I scoot all the way in most of the time, I'll give up my seat to the elderly.. So I get on the train and walk to the middle of the car and grab onto the bar. The woman behind me bulldozers her way through, knocking into me sighing loudly, knocks my bag off my shoulder and ends up standing closer to the next door over. I think I said "Really?" or "WHY?" or something like that in my half-asleep-but-what-is-this-clown-doing moment.
Because i'm me.. and thus somewhat evil.. I stared her down for a bit. If looks could kill.. she may have smoked. She noticed after a subway stop or two at which point I looked away and that was that. I forgot she existed. UNTIL.. it was time for me to get off the train. I get out at the first stop in Manhattan and so a lot of other people exit there as well. The conductor announces the stop and I turn to get out. It is fairly crowded but doable. Behind me I can hear her "sigh sigh sigh OH GOD sigh sigh". Almost meltdown like. Not in a 'help me' way, but in a 'I can't effing believe this train and why isn't there a freakin' red carpet laid out for me right here' manner. Now.. what is her deal? I mean, the trains are often crowded, but find yourself a spot, stand in it, and then say excuse me and squeeze off the train. It ain't rocket science. If this woman actually has some sort of disease.. claustrophobia or what not.. why is she taking the subway in NYC at rush hour? A cab from where she got on to where she (i think) got off (based on her sighs) costs maybe $16. Somehow it didn't all seem worth the stress.. and MAN, was she stressed.
Yeah, NYC sure has plenty of the crazies. Even if they look dressed for their corporate job and seem fairly well put together. I hope people didn't let her off the car easily. Cause again, i'm evil like that
Happy Humpday!
Comments (14)
crashing hard here after 1 am, and will have to return to read the rest, but I did want to comment that I suspect the cantaloupe thing is two halves from different melons, with icky rotten bits cut off and then repackaged as one melon at a value-added price...(at least I suspect that here, where it is common to find many fruits sliced and diced and peeled and re-wrapped....)
the beagle story is disturbing, but you're right. that's not a rescued dog. It's just a lucky dog.
Daniel probably suffers from PTSD.
And I'm not sure I would have thought about taking a train the wrong way and then coming back.
Dude, I have no idea who you are in real life, but apparently we are xanga friends so I have to salute you on this post because I am over here (in the grand PacNW) laughing me ass off.
Not me ass off. I'm not Irish. Well, maybe 5 generations back. Laughing MY ass off.
Al Gore should get that dog for an advertising campaign:
"Keep putting CO in the atmosphere, humans. I'll survive. Will you?"
I hate when people say they "rescued" a dog. Um, you got a dog from the pound, that doesn't make you a superhero. It makes you a consumer.
Btw, please tell the fellow in plaid to stand behind the yellow line. Rules are rules, even in Brooklyn.
i worked for the salad bar for years for Hyvee & a year for consentino's... Sometimes they slice the melons so people can see if they are ripe enough inside. BUT never once have we sliced them like that and kept them half hole with skins on them! WTF?
Public transportation seems to render at least 75% of its users temporarily insane, stupid, or entitled. As a car-less person who has been using public transit for a lifetime, I can say that this is unequivocally true. Probably most of those people are fine when they're not riding the train, but riding the damn train they're heinous excuses for humanity.
@elmolicksyou - how about in Queens?
my theory on the pre-sliced melon is that they take fruit that is half rotten and half fine and slice off the rotten parts and CHARGE YOU MORE for the convenience of it being pre-sliced.
I feel sad for people who can't slice a melon... and absolute awe that you can stand that kind of commute at all!
dogs are put down in a gas chamber? that's horrific.
don't they cut up the fruit and melons so you can see the insides, but that particular melon isn't for sale?
@x_naomi_x. Damn it! I took a chance and was hoping you'd have a "holy shit, is this guy stalking me?" moment. You mentioned you worked in finance and that you got off the first stop in Manhattan. That told me you we in either Brooklyn or Queens. I figured Wall Street and guessed 2 or 3 train. Guess I should have been thinking...um...N-Q?