Fool for Meteors

So Michael told me we need to go outside in a couple nights and check out the Lyrids meteor shower. It's supposed to hit it's high point just after midnight on April 21st. I love a good meteor shower, so I'm all about it. I've gotten myself up at 3 am, driven half an hour and sat outside in a cold forest to go see one in Portland! That was the Leonids in 2001 and it was the best I had seen at that point and since.

So last night, we were just chilling out in the jacuzzi and it wasn't even totally dark out and we saw the best meteor, EVAR! It was slow, low and had a long tail of fire. It looked like someone had shot off a giant bottle rocket! It looked different than any meteor I have ever seen. Usually the light blends together and it like a single entity. This one last night though was white and had a tail of orange flaming debris. It was fantastic, so I can only hope that at its height, this meteor shower will go off!

Fools for YouTube

OK, I admit it, I watch the Today Show. It's silly. It's not really news no matter how much they try, but it entertains me. Anyway, they have a great fascination with showing videos from YouTube that exhibit fast food workers behaving badly. Then they do the same little dance with the video:

They always preface with, "You may want to turn away because this may turn your stomach."

They show the video.

Then they possibly talk to the stars of the video, their bosses and their embarrased family members.

Then always the worker says, "It was just a prank, I never knew it would get this big or be on TV," with a fake surprised tone in his or her voice.

Then Meredith and Matt come back and say, "Well you've got to be careful with what you put on YouTube (plug, plug, plug...the videos are always from YouTube) and I don't understand why someone would do such a thing. Don't they understand they're could lose their jobs?"

Screw the crappy fast food jobs at Dominoes or Jack in the Crack; they're a dime a dozen! They want to be on TV with Matt and Meredith! So as long as the "news" keeps playing those stories, they'll keep coming. There a plenty of fools in America. So stop playing dumb. Everyone knows that morning TV shows aren't creative enough to come up with interesting stories. I mean look at your target audience...people who aren't working at 9 AM. So you'll keep broadcasting the most dim witted of the country, of which I am obviously a member because I keep watching anyway.

Illegal Pies Strike Pennsylvania

OK, so first off, I can't believe that it has been since last September since I've posted. Michael has been begging me to do so with the intended result that I will stop complaining to him about all the random things that piss me off.

So I was reading the WSJ online yesterday (the free sections) and read this story about homemade pies being illegal in Pennsylvania. These aren't pies being sold in shops or at fairs. They are being sold at church dinners as fund raisers. Yes, these are donated pies baked by old church ladies. The health inspectors are cracking down on pies not cooked in licensed kitchens. Of course, the old ladies can pay to have their kitchens licensed, assuming the kitchens comply with whatever ridiculous rules the state has in place. These ladies aren't selling their pies for profit and they aren't concealing that their pies are homemade. So what next, outlawing potlucks?