Zen Snow Shoveling

A week ago we got hit with about 2 feet of snow, and after the plows did their work my car was completely covered with snow. I mean you couldn't see one square inch of my car!! I started to shovel it out but after I had done just enough to make the parking sticker visible and make it clear that there really was a car under this snow bank I decided to take a little break. I was planning on taking the T to work anyway, so why shovel now when it's going to be warm and it'll just be easier tomorrow? Let nature do the work I reasoned, and continued to apply this logic throughout the week. I was very proud of my plan this morning when I went to shovel my car out. There was hardly any snow to remove! You might call it being lazy, but I call it being the most efficient shoveler on the block!! My pride was quickly tempered, however, when I found two tickets waiting for me. One ticket was for my inspection, which had expired 12/1/03, so technically I would have gotten it with or without the snow (I just accept the fact that I will always get a ticket when my inspection expires caus...how you gonna remeber that?). The other ticket was a Code 58, Violation Description = "Over 48 Hrs", Comments="Since 12 6 Snowbird". That ticket is just dumb.

Poll Age

I hesitate to call the first poll a total success, but it was a good start. The results were surprising with A, B, and C finishing in a dead heat with exactly one vote each. If you didn't vote in this poll, then shame on you. Imagine the power your vote would have had to propel either A, B, or C to victory! This is not politics people; your vote actually will make a difference on this website. Save your apathy for the presidential election and get ready to make a difference on this site! If you thought this poll was dumb, then I have news for you. I plan on having lots of dumb polls on my site for the next couple of weeks. Maybe a couple good ones. Probably one that is really cool. Then I plan on getting bored of polls and probably leaving the last one up for a couple months, until I decide to edit my template and delete it.

Not All Bad

I just realized that my last two posts may make me seem slightly cruel or uncaring. I'd like to point out that this is not true. In fact, just this morning I gave my seat on the T to a pregnant woman. See how nice I am.

Protection

I was just reading this article about how 15 major automakers have agreed to try and make SUV's less dangerous. It seems like common sense that an SUV would be more dangerous than a mid sized car, but SUV makers have tried to deny this claim for years. Obviously one of the reasons people like to buy SUV's is because they are safer. This saftety, however, seems to be gained by compromising the safety of smaller vehicles. The SUV essentially becomes the hammer, while the mid/small size car becomes the pancake. Now I'm not trying to hate on SUV's, but as a smaller car driver I don't feel that my safety should be compromised. It's great that they want to make SUV's safer, but do us small car driver's just have to wait idly by hoping that this will happen? I propose that while we wait for SUV's to make themselves safer, us small car owners should make ourselves more dangerous for SUV's. The idea is to eliminate the safety benefit of owning an SUV. If SUV's were just as safe as other vehicles you would really have to buy them for their towing or off road benefits. I'd obviously prefer a solution where everything was just safer, but making small cars more dangerous simply seems like an easier way to level the playing field.

I'll leave it up to the engineers to figure out the best way to make a car more dangerous for an SUV. The picture below is just one idea of a way to implement this plan. Notice the SUV deterrent device on top of the car. It is positioned at a height that would be harmless to small cars, while quite possibly inflicting damage on an SUV. In the battle for survival this has long been nature's way of saying, "Stay the F$@# away from me".

Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

I really like the new self check out lines at the grocery store. I usually just get a couple of things, so I can hit that check out line and be outta there in no time flat. The only problem is that not everyone is as efficient at self check out as I am. In fact some people are painfully sloooow. I think a good way to improve self check out would be to make the shopper stand on some kind of metal plate that would administer a painful electric shock if they were taking to long. It may sound a little harsh, but I bet you would see a lot less slow people and people w/ more than the max number of items in line.

Funny LOTR Poop

Lord of the Rhymes has some good stuff. I like Daeron's Summer of Love Mix at the bottom of the page.

You know what would make the final LOTR movie really great? It would be spectacular if right at the end when Frodo is about to throw the ring into the river of fire (whatever the river of fire is), Sauran (the bad guy right?) swoops in, grabs the ring, and kicks Frodo into the fire. Sauran then puts on the ring and starts raining destruction all over middle earth. The orcs all get some kind of mad power ups and begin to smash the good guys and bring down all the castles. Finally, the Shire would be burnt to a crisp along with Bilbo and the crazy book he is writing. The coolest thing about that ending would not necessarily be the actually movie; It would be watching all the LOTR geeks go nuts about how the ending was bastardized. As soon as Frodo goes into the fire jaws would be hitting the floor in disbelief!