A Week's Worth

2-22

Neither Santa Cruz Oatmeal Raisin nor Sanibel Snickerdoodle cookies (Pepperidge Farm soft baked) are worth their price or calories. 

This is ADORABLE! I don't like that kind of cookie either. Not my picture

~Disappointed Consumer



2-23

 It's funny to think that I used to play Battle for Middle Earth I and II.  It's just odd...makes me sound like some gamer.  I miss playing Sims2...making my own and my friend's families, making the Sims look like those real people, making random people whose names I picked out of a phone book by opening and pointing...   Numerous times I've wanted to reinstall it on some computer, but....I talk myself out of it every time because I know there are so many more meaningful things I can do.

2-24
 
Wow, Oreo Bliss....Oreo Blast...Oreo Mess....(whatever that is!) at Jitterbugs is totally lame and not worth its price or calories!  I was told it was ice cream with oreo pieces and a shot of espresso. Subtract the "cream" and that's about what it was.





If I was wrong would you show me...(?)
 ...'Cause you can shoot me straight
-Mat Kearney

Whose to show us we're in the wrong besides those we love and who love us?


 2-26

I ate 18 ounces of berries in less than 36 hours....I just find that amusing...
Better berries than chocolate.

2-27


I want to see this: October Baby (link to movie trailer)


2-29


I recently bought Green Mountain Organic Decaf - it smells amazingly fresh & lovely.  However, I combined it with...probably...5 month old Folgers. (My coffee connoisseur friends would flip out about the words "old Folgers.") I decided to smell the Folgers since the Green Mountain smelled so good. Bad idea. Plastic.

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Unfortunately, I don't think this decaf is healthily decaffeinated...but....it's a step in the right direction, right? Maybe getting off caffeine is a horrible idea during a busy semester...I'm already prone to migraines.


After reading so many friendship studies in peer-reviewed journals, I'm starting to really want to be part of some study!  I could have taken that opportunity last semester, but I decided I needed my time more than I needed the Psychology Department's money =(

A Solution

Absolutely.

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 >     This was written by a 21 yr old female who gets it.  It's her future 
>     she's worried about and this is how she feels about the social welfare big
>     government state that she's being forced to live in!  These solutions are
>     just common sense in her opinion.
> 
>     This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX , Nov 18, 2011
> 
>     PUT ME IN CHARGE . . .
> 
>     Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash
>     for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
>     blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want
>     steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.
> 
>     Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women
>     Norplant birth control implants or tubal legations. Then, we'll test
>     recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or 
use
>     drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.
> 
>     Put me in charge of government housing.  Ever live in a military barracks?
> 
>     You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. 
>     Your home" will be subject to inspections any time and possessions will be
>     inventoried.  If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
>     own place.
> 
>     In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week 
>     or you will report to a "government" job.  It may be cleaning the roadways
>     of trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you.  
We
>     will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo
>     and speakers and put that money toward the "common good.."
> 
>     Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all  of
>     the above is voluntary.  If you want our money, accept our rules.  Before 
you
>     say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem," consider
>     that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing
>     absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
> 
>     If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at 
>     least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices.  The current 
system
>     rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
> 
>     AND While you are on Government subsistence, you no longer can VOTE!  Yes, 
>     that is correct.  For you to vote would be a conflict of interest.  You 
will
>     voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Government
>     welfare check.  If you want to vote, then get a job.

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Not my picture

Maybe that should say, "If you want to vote, then don't be receiving government assistance"? 

Otherwise, that would exclude retirees, or those who are rich enough to not need jobs.

A Week's Worth

2-12

So if people don't respond to a email, text, etc - or respond in a neutral way that can be interpreted negatively - does that mean to never send/say that to that person again?  Too often inadequate communication leads to assumptions...

For example, the other day I was thinking, "So & so either didn't get my voice-mail, doesn't want to to call me, forgot to call me, or had their phone taken away." 

Oh...it was none of those.

Here's to less emailing, even less texting, and more calling.


2-13

What if we could donate fat cells the way we can donate blood cells? That would be awesome. We could donate to those who are too light to donate blood and to starving people!

2-17

"Life is short, eat dessert first" could totally just be changed to "Life is short don't make it shorter" - so could so many sayings about doing dangerous or unhealthy things since life is so short.

Don't Use a Phone While it's Charging

This is gross. I've done this a number of times & never knew it was dangerous! (Well, well, well. All the pictures are missing that accompanied this post.)



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FROM THE  UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL .....VERY SERIOUS  WARNING... People do this  all the time!


A person was recharging his mobile  phone at home.

Just at  that time a call came in and he answered it with  the charging Instrument  still connected to the outlet.

After a  few seconds electricity flowed into the cell  phone unrestrained and the  young man was thrown to the floor  with a heavy thud. As you can  see, the  phone actually  exploded.

His  parents rushed to the room only to find him  unconscious, with a weak heartbeat  and burnt fingers.

He was  rushed to the nearby hospital, but was  pronounced dead on arrival.



Never use  the cell phone while it is hooked to the  electrical outlet. If you are charging the cell  phone and a call comes in, unplug it from the  charger and outlet.




Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/cellcharge.asp

Update on "Feeding the Earth?"

I asked someone I love & trust to read "Feeding the Earth?" and give me feedback. I never thought of how expensive it would be to tear down factories/industrial buildings; and I never thought about contaminated ground. I like how I need other people's views. <3

This was their response:

In short your ideas are very utopian. Truth is if you like capitalism, you like science because those two things are the tools of progress; they naturally build off each other. Those are in fact (outside of whatever role you think God has played) the only two reasons why the world's population as skyrocketed in the past 300 years. You have what's called a feedback mechanism: Scientific innovation allows us to cure disease and grow food in larger volumes more efficiently - thus more people can be fed and population grows - thus new jobs are required and we must spread out to avoid overpopulating any one area - thus more capitalistic/industrial growth is required to provide jobs and transportation (for people, food, manufactured goods etc) - Thus the economy grows and wealth is created allowing more investment into science/industry - and the cycle restarts. That's not necessarily an all inclusive cycle with every possible detail, but you get the point. You can't shut down factories that provide preserved food, because, even though its unhealthy, it allows food to be shipped all over the place keeping people alive. You can't shut down factories making chemicals and what not because those are the same chemicals used in hospitals to keep people alive and in science laboratories used to create the next generation innovations. Also its nearly impossible to shut a factory down and convert it to farm land, because factories often leave behind contaminated ground. It can cost millions of dollars to tear down a factory and purge the ground of contaminants and no one wants to pay for that and even then the ground may not be useful for farming. Basically what the world has locked itself into a cycle where if we try to reverse it, a lot of people will die, because we all depend on the world we've built in order to survive. If we don't reverse the cycle we will eventually overpopulate; it's a mathematical certainty that eventually the world will reach its carrying capacity if the population continues to grow like it is. So whether or not you're a conservative and a believer, or a liberal and an atheist, you have to take that into account. The only argument is how high that capacity really is, and I really have no idea. And I'm not sure anyone really does. There's really only 2-3 things that will "cure" the problem. Another world war over natural resources where tens or hundreds of millions of people die, global disease pandemic which wipes out that many people, global natural disaster of some sort, or God coming back. Hopefully the last will happen before overpopulation becomes an issue, to the point where governments impose birth limits.

Feeding the Earth?

I've heard a bit about Earth's large population, our supposed inability to feed all the people on Earth if/as population increases, and the supposed impossibility for everyone to be vegetarians. (I'm not advocating the whole world turns vegetarian. It really doesn't concern me at this point, but they'd probably be healthier.)

I don't believe the world is overpopulated, and how can people claim that Earth cannot feed all its inhabitants when American's waste 96 billion pounds of food every year?! That's horrendous. I wish I could collect all the food thrown out by Wegmans, Walmart, our dining halls, Tim Horton's, etc and feed the hungry with it. I know Wegmans gives leftover food to at least one charity, but....I want more to be done, less to be wasted. =(

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On top of that, there are - what...millions? - of obese people on Earth.  Wouldn't waste and obesity have to be eliminated before anyone could possibly claim that Earth can't be farmed to feed all of us?!


Someone I trust told me we couldn't all be partially or fully vegetarian because those foods are full of water and we're having water shortages. But what about all the water our meat eats? What about all the water used to grow the food for our meat to eat? What about all the water used for the whole process of the cow going from the womb to our plate?! I'm clueless as to what that whole process is and how much water that takes!
And what about all the water we waste?!

I'm curious about this book title I ran across a couple months ago...: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability.  Here's an interview with the author that gives a small gist of the book. However, I am in no way inclined to believe Lierre Keith just because I've read a short interview. The fact that she believes Earth in millions of years old and makes a comment about a "christian Taliban" incline me to not believe her! I also don't understand this comment of hers:  "The truth is also that life isn’t possible without death, that no matter what you eat, someone has to die to feed you."

My communications classes have also stirred my thoughts about these issues and wasting money.
First, let me say: I agree with capitalism. No, it's not a perfect economical/governmental situation, but it has been the one that has worked the best. We'll never have perfection because we're imperfect people.
That said:

• What if we had fewer (none would be awesome too!) factories manufacturing imitation foods?
• What if we had fewer (none would be awesome too!) factories concocting harmful, chemical filled cleaning products, beauty products, etc?
• What if we had fewer companies spending billions to persuade people to buy their products when they're unneeded?
• What if farmland replaced those factories?

Yes, that would leave a lot of people without jobs. So, what if they farmed? What if we had more farmers so that we wouldn't have/need mega-farms that ship all over the world, and that get controlled politically (the way Food Inc talks about)? (Ya, I know, shipping food around the world is nice. I'm sure I appreciate many foods that don't grow near me, or only grow during certain seasons. So I'm not all against that.)

Maybe some of my ideas are a little utopian? Maybe there's some huge problem with the world having too many farmers? I have no clue, but I'd like to learn.

A Week's Worth

1 -30

I just posted an email I received which suggests that we ask telemarketers to "hold on" and then just walk away from the phone until they hang up. I'd rather just start talking to them about Jesus! =P

1-31

I accidentally selected the "EZ Tip Calculator" on my phone this morning. Never noticed it, cared what it meant, or checked it out in the 6 months I've had it. First reaction? "Haha, that's hilarious/cool!" Second reaction? That's really lame, this means people can't use the regular calculator on their phone (or a pen & napkin!) to figure out their tip!
Blimey cow affirmed my thoughts: Messy Mondays: My Smart Phone Made Me Stupid
I pretty much love his phone & fake communication rants.

2-2

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ASL Has got to be my favorite class! It's so practical for communicating with anyone! Even those who don't know ASL, or those of different nationalities would probably understand a majority of it! I feel like I'll get such a wrinkled face - either from my looks of confusion or from being told to furrow my eyebrows with so many signs. Ha..


2-3

Fun country song I just line danced to!  It was the only legit country sound that we legit-ly line danced to when I was there, but it was awesomely fun =)