Watch the future.

These crack me up.  On one hand it looks like it is failing miserably.  On the other hand, it’s amazing for a robotic arm to be able to work like this.  You could give me the next 10 years and I wouldn’t have a robotic arm this advanced.  The duct tape on the machine is hilarious.

As I was in line today in Dunkin Donuts I heard one person order a chicken biscuit and another an Oreo Cappuccino.  Am I the only one blown away by these selections?  It’s 7:13am and people are eating chicken and Oreo milkshakes for breakfast.

Now where I start to get confused is if I should be disturbed by the people or the establishments offering these choices.  My first thought was to blame Dunkin but this is incorrect.  A business primary function is to serve it’s customers and they are offering what the customers want.

Obesity Map

On to the customers.  Are the customers uneducated, know but don’t care, or just flat out oblivious?  You could make the argument that I know beer is not good for me but I drink it anyway.  If I order a beer at 9 am is that any different than this example?  For me it feels different.  This is because I rate my selection of drinking beer as one of my worst vices.  However, if you are eating an Oreo Milkshake at 7am, I have a feeling this isn’t your worst habit.

I don’t exactly know why ordering chicken at 7am is wrong but my instinct tells me it is.  My “wrong” instinct hits red alert.  Enough to make me want to post about it and try to (not) get opinions on the subject matter.  Does anyone else feel strongly about this matter?

I’m reading I Wear The Black Hat…again…and this is one of the most briliant interpretations I’ve read about NWA and their mantra:

There were lot of contradictions, and I like contradictions.  Fore example: The line everyone remembers from Straight Outta Compton is Cube’s defining Mantra, “LIfe ain’t nuthin’ but bitches and money.”  It embodied the ethos of the entire genre, and -over time- I’ve heard it sardonically applied to just about every possible situaiton life can offer.  Yet elsewhere on the very same record, Easy-E asks, “So what about the bitch who got shot?  Fuck her!  You think I give a damn about a bitch?  I ain’t a sucker.”  In other words, life is only about bitches and money, but even the bitches don’t particularly matter.  This is weapon-grade nihilism: There were only two meaningful elements within their entire worldview..and one could be totally eliminated without consequences!

My worst nightmare which is why I always double flush.

I very rarely leave a BM (as grandmom used to say) with only one flush.  The only way this happens is pinching one perfectly clean when you pretty much don’t even need to wipe.  Unless your diet is leaves and berries, this doesn’t happen often (don’t quote me on that diet either).  There are 2 main types of people who get away with one flush and they are:

1. People who clog the toilet with too much TP
2. People who don’t fully wipe

I’m naturally a clean person.  I’ll sometimes shower before I go to the gym only to shower again immediately after.  Being clean makes me feel better physically as well as mentally.  If I was sitting in filth right now, I’d only be thinking about getting clean.

With this understanding of always wanting to be clean, I don’t leave a bathroom dump without fully wiping.  This can require as many as 8-10 wipes but when I’m done, I’m done.  Most toilets don’t handle 8-10 wipes of TP  which would make any user grimace in its presence.  So I’ll usually wipe 3-4 times, flush, then do a secondary wipe.  Howard Stern insists that the only way to get fully clean is to use baby wipes but I’ve never bought into that theory.  Scott TP is good enough for me.  The people who get away with only one flush are either extremely efficient with their wiping, or they aren’t doing a good job.  Which one are you?