So I am driving down the road, kind of stuck behind an SUV that is doing about 10-15 under the limit… I finally get around her, and I see that she is chatting on her cell, add to that her dog is in her lap and in her face as she keeps taking her “free” hand off the wheel to get the dog out of her face…
Sometimes the stupidity of people just makes you go all WTF!

sorry about the quality, but it was dark, and I did wait until we got to a stop light to take ghe picture..

The first part of the video looks almost feasible, but then as they are pulling in the power, the cords they pull in to power the array seem kind of skimpy to power 49 microwave ovens.

Then you take a look at timers, a lot are those pseudo analog timers, that I don’t believe are all that accurate, and they are only set able in 10 second intervals.

Then there is that big gap in time from when the fire them up walk away and turn out the lights.

The last thing is that when the timers go off on the ovens that appear to have clocks, it seems that when the timer goes off so does the clock…

Yes I am probably over analyzing it, but what else do I have to do…

I hope that when the merger is complete that the way that XM programs their music channels is the way the new entity programs it’s music, MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC, with the occasional station ID, and the elimination of the annoying DJ’s and the shilling to buy another radio constantly.

In my book, when a DJ come on and tells you that you should buy an additional radio, that is a commercial…

I totally understand the need for commercials on live talk shows, it is hard to sit there and talk for several hours at a stretch with out a break. I cannot understand the need for commercials on any of the channels that are playing taped items, such as any of the comedy channels. The comedy channels have almost become unlistenable due to a near constant barrage of commercials, and the seem redundant like playing the same one twice during a break, and its not like there is someone queueing up tapes on the fly, the system at Sirius is totally automated, and I don’t think there is any human intervention required after the audio is loaded in the system. 

I don’t listen to any of news channels, because I am pretty much over broadcast journalism, so I really can t comment on the amount of commercials there….

So come on guys lets drop the pushing of radios during the breaks on the music channels, because that is really a commercial, and get rid of them completely from the programming that is not live, and limit them on the live shows, at least 15 minutes of commercial and bumper on Bubba the other day. I don’t think Howard has taken that long of a commercial break, even when Artie was going ballistic…

P.S. If your an NAB shill, don’t bother with one of those boilerplate Satellite Merger is bad comments, because it will not be approved….

So now this comes out that DHL has assisted in making the largest drawing in the world (well it’s not, more on that later), to make this alleged largest drawing, the “Artist” shipped a GPS with big ass batteries, with the exact instructions (Just like my packages) on where the package needed to go, and 55 days later, the GPS showed back up, with all the Data to make the picture. Then the guy breaks out a map, a pen, and tracing paper, and using a lot of artistic license, proceeds to connect the dots.
I am very skeptical when it comes to this based on past experience, as recent as last week, that only took 4 days to straighten out.

Now to the biggest drawing claim…
Since when is a drawing on D sized paper, the biggest drawing in the world? For it to be what the artist claims, wouldn’t there need to be a large ink line all over the world? Because what he has is just a representation of a GPS track, and that is only 110k kilometers, what about that picture that NASA is constantly drawing, that is track of the International Space Station ISS, jeez that has to be billions of miles/KM, since an average shuttle mission does millions of miles. So as far as I am concerned, unless I can see big lines on google earth, I ain’t buying the Biggest Drawing In The World claim, at least he could have done is draw it on a really really big piece of paper.

I remember that when the whole thing started with the drought out west, and that hotel visitors should d their part to help save water, from the shower flow restrictors from hell, to use less towels thing, by hanging them up and we wont replace them thing. The hotels spent a lot of effort in trying to get guests to do their part to help save water, or guilt you into it. Now we fast forward a few years to the late ninety’s, and on top of the never ending drought that now has every hotel in the country doing their part to end, the hotel operators in California have a new problem to solve, it is the lack of power generation capacity due to the new spiffy de-regulation of the California power companies. So suddenly, hotels are brought in to help, they remove all nonessential lights, in some cases I had seen brighter caves, and on top of this they also add a $2 to $5 a night “Power Surcharge”, and it didn’t take long for hotels elsewhere to also impose this surcharge, including locations where power was/is abundant and cheep. As I understand it, this charge has pretty much gone away. I guess I am confused by the whole “less for more” philosophy that governs the hotel industry.

So now lets go forward, and by the looks of all the little placards all over my room last week, that the hotel industry has saved us from the drought, and is now moving on to save the world from global warming, because that cards no longer talk about saving water for drought purposes, but now it is the whole spectrum of cleaning the room linens and towels. The cards told me of how much energy is expended in the laundry process, and that all this laundry and cleaning is increasing my carbon footprint, and that I should do my part to help.

Enough is enough guys, stop acting like you have some kind of green soul, and you hugged the trees that were chopped down for paper to print all those USA Today’s that are delivered to every room, not to mention all those silly little placards. Why is the outside of most hotels lit up with big bright lights, thats not very green.

If you want me to help you save money, that you can apply to the bottom line, why don’t you just say so. Give me the option to stay in a “Green” room, without a big TV, and reduced lighting, and where the towels and linens will only be replaced every third day, and charge me less… I’m sure that will go over real big…
Don’t treat me like I am as dumb as dirt (or you), and plaster my room with all the propaganda on how socially conscious your company is, when you are really not, you are in business to make money, but you should at least be honest about it…

Okay one last thing, I had a sign like this in my room, never thought about hanging stuff from the fire sprinkler, but I wonder how many people have gotten a surprise shower, apparently enough flooded rooms to motivate hotel chains to start posting these signs….

But it is not as nearly wrong as this…

And to see the wrongness in action

As well as group wrongness

But all is not lost, and the most egregious wrongness is addressed via the
Memory Mod…