Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
From the National Hurricane Center come word that a possible tropical system may be brewing out in the Atlantic on the last official day of the season. It might even become a tropical storm later today.
THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE LOCATED ABOUT 800 MILES EAST OF BERMUDA CONTINUES TO ACQUIRE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS BECOME MORE CONCENTRATED NEAR THE CENTER. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES…SUBTROPICAL OR TROPICAL STORM ADVISORIES MAY BE ISSUED LATER THIS MORNING.
Reading the newspaper really is educational! And I’m not talking about for just current events. No, you can learn all sorts of trivia from newspapers. In today’s paper, I learned that there’s a whole ‘ology’ devoted to studying flags. It’s called vexillology, and from the quick little Google search I did on it, it’s a Big Thing. There are whole associations devoted to studying flags of various types.
Never would have thought people would be so interested in flags to spend their time studying them.
I’m starting to think that the cake and cookie decorating industry is just one big scam to get us to buy horribly over-priced products just to make treats look good.
It’s the only explanation I can come up with why a 5 kg bag of sugar only costs $3, but a tiny little 63 g bottle of coloured sugar costs almost $2. That’s like more than 50x the price of regular sugar! I mean really, how hard can it be to turn plain old sugar red or green? It’s a scam, a total scam I tell you!
It’s probably a sign that people’s lifestyles have become overly hectic and busy, when convenience reaches the produce in the grocery store. That or people have just become really lazy.
There are all kinds of convenience foods in the store already. Frozen foods you just stick in the microwave for a near instant meal and canned stuff you pop open for an instant snack or meal. Cookies, chips, pop and all sorts of other crap to stuff in our faces.
Now you can find convenience in the produce section. Containers full of pre-sliced fruits perfect for snacking on. And then came the veggies. If you’re too lazy to slice your own onions or tomatoes, no problem! They come pre-sliced now! Just go to the store and pick some up. Carrots too! They come sliced or in sticks.
I expect pre-digested food will be next. Oh, wait, they have that already! It’s called baby food.
After unpacking our little Roomba and letting it juice up for a few hours, it’s scurrying around vacuuming up stuff. The first thing it did was a spiral pattern to do it’s room check, then after moving around a while, promptly got stuck under our couch. Not Roomba’s fault though. Our couch is old and has raggedy fabric hanging down and it got tangled up in that. After extricating it, we set it back on it’s merry way.
It’s not going to get deep into the carpet and suck out ground in dirt though but it actually works remarkably well at picking up surface stuff. And it’s very agile too. It was able to get itself out of a few tight corners in our apartment. And it has this funny Cartman waddle as it runs along a wall. It’s kind of funny to watch I think.
We spent a good part of the evening just watching it run around, bumping into things and seeing where it would go next.
Now I’m wondering if I should give it a name or something.