Today, I'm gonna put just a little twist on the "If you had to choose between being blind or deaf, which would you choose?" line of questioning...
You see, I've heard that question a million times. It's a good question, in that it makes you really consider the little things that we take for granted most of the time. I don't think I could live without music, and I don't think I could live without seeing. My answer? I wouldn't want to choose. If I had to, I'd flip a coin or something. Nobody wants to give up a sense.
Or, do they? Ponder these for a moment...
Would you give up one of your senses if, in return, you were able to read other people's minds? Keep in mind that you might not have total control of this... just like you might accidentally see a plumber's hairy butt crack, you might accidentally find out that everyone you work with is a pedophile. I'm not sure I'd be mentally and emotionally prepared for that.
Or, how about this... would you give up one of your senses for the power of invisibility? Or the power to fly? Or super strength? Is there a super power that you'd be willing to trade one of your current senses for?
Maybe you'd consider this... how about, would you be willing to be color blind if, in return, you'd be as smart as Einstein? Or Steven Hawking? How about if, instead of being smart, you'd have the body of Salma Hayek or Brad Pitt? Or Angelina Jolie or Vin Diesel? Would you trade color vision for that?
One last question... would you give up your powers of speech (to humans) for the ability to talk to/understand animals?
I'm curious as to what people will say...
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The last time I bought gas before today, it cost me $2.79.9 a gallon. Pretty damned high, don't you think? That was probably five days ago or so. At the most, it was a week ago.
So, you can imagine my surprise when I went to get gas today, and I had to pay $3.11.9 a gallon.
Now, the station I was at is notorious for having prices that are a little but still noticeably higher than most other places. So I looked at the prices at the station by our apartment, which usually has about average gas prices. There, it was $3.09.9 a gallon. Not a big difference at all.
I should note now that these aren't "premium" prices. These are the "regular" unleaded (87 octane) prices.
Did I miss something? When did gas prices decide to jump? And how come nobody's making an issue of it? I certainly haven't seen anything in the newspapers...
Don't get me wrong. I'm not shocked that gas is over three dollars a gallon... I'm just shocked that more people aren't pissed.
Let's do this again... how much is gas where you live?
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Just out of curiousity, who out there has seen the highest gas prices?
The place where I go to was $2.91.9 a gallon, but that was yesterday morning. It might have gone up since then. There's another place by my house that's $3.07.9 a gallon. I haven't really looked anywhere else, but these stations are usually about the average for what I can find (not counting small mom n pop places, like Bob's Gas or whatever). And now I heard on the radio that in some places, gas will cost over $4 a gallon...
next week...?!?!?
So. Let's find out what everybody's paying. Tell me where you're from, and how much gas is.
Update: I heard that some places in Atlanta, GA are charging more that $6.00 a gallon. Talk about looting...
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Joelle and I decided to do a little experiment. A TV watching experiment. Everybody's invited to participate. It'll be easy, trust me.
Here it is:
If you're gonna watch prime time TV, make note of how many drug commercials there are. You know what I'm talking about - Zertec, Zyban, Cialis, Vioxx, etc. You don't have to note exactly when you saw each one, but keep a tab running, in, say, half hour increments. Like, "From 8:00 to 8:30, I saw 7 drug commercials."
Also, make note of how many heartburn/diarrhea/constipation commercials you see, too... because that's the stuff that masks the reactions you get from... drugs (well, and fucked up food, too... most of us eat too much of that, too).
Other factors that you may want to jot down (but it's no biggie if you don't), what channel you're watching when you see these commercials. Obviously, ESPN will show more guy oriented ads (Enzyte, Cialis, whatever other boner pills). Oxygen will show more women oriented stuff. But, there's one thing they have in common - they'll both bombard us with drug ads.
I'm gonna be interested to see just how much the drug pushers advertise to us.
But really, most advertising nowadays is like drug pushing. You gotta have a Coke! You
need some Taco Bell right now! People would kill for a Klondike Bar! If you're feeling particularly disgusted with advertising, you could note every commercial and what they're selling. I don't know if that's something we'll do, but if someone does it, I'd like to see what the numbers tell us.
Yes, this is a totally unscientific experiment, but I think there's some merit to it. I mean, aren't you sick of all the drug commercials telling us what's wrong with us? Making us think we're sicker than we really are? Making us into hypochondriacs? I am.
Monday, August 15, 8:00 - 10:00pm
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I'm making this a sticky entry.
I have something to ask of all U.S. residents: take a picture of a deer crossing sign in your state and send it to me (or post it on Flickr and give me the link). Oh yeah, and don't forget to tell me where (in which state) you took the picture. WI people especially - I
need a picture of your deer crossing signs. Chicago people? Next time you're up there, like at the Dells or something, find a deer crossing sign and take a picture, please. And yanno, while you're up there, you may as well take a picture of the "Bong Recreation Area" sign, too. Just because, well... it's funny.
Here's an example of a "normal" deer crossing sign, as we're all used to seeing: [
here]. WI signs look different (well, at least they used to).
A-HA! There is least one other blogger who's noticed that WI deer crossing signs are different [
read post]. See? I'm not crazy. But, we still need a sign as proof.
And yanno what? I think a lot of people are having fun with this, so... what the hell... let's make a collection of any kind of crossing sign that's funny. Bear crossing. Deer crossing. Illegal immigrant crossing. And not just crossing signs. Falling rock signs are usually pretty funny. We'll get a collection together, and I'll make a bigass post, and we'll all have a bunch of laughs.
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Is it just me, or does everybody see random public nudity every once in a while? Let's see, in the past coupla years, I've stumbled upon a nude photo shoot in the park (at the Presidio), and I've seen people posing nude by the "Welcome to Nevada" sign on the way to Vegas.
Yesterday? I was downtown with my brother. He parked on the street, and I got out of his car, and the first thing I saw when I turned around was
this lady pulling up her pants. Not just a little... they were down past her knees. I saw full naked strange lady ass. I tried to get a picture of the front, but... well, I didn't wanna get caught taking pictures, for one (another reason - whoa, not that pretty).
Anyways, we were trying to figure out what she was doing with her pants down. My brother said that he saw a wet spot, so we figured that she just peed there (as if peeing on a streetcorner in the middle of the day is normal). But then again, she was begging for money from everybody who walked by, and there were two other guys there with her (out of frame), so maybe she was selling peeks at her cat. I dunno.
Does this kinda stuff happen to anyone else? Like, maybe you've seen some
road head or something?
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Now, I never thought of myself as much of a conspiracy theorist... I'll leave that up to Mr. Fin (he occasionally blogs at
Mouthfart, along with his wife, Ace).
But, yanno? I kinda wonder about some things... do you?
Like...
Do you think that the technology for more fuel-efficient cars is out there, but it's being quieted by the big automakers?
Do you think that technology exists to make non-fossil fuel vehicles? (hydrogen powered cars)
Do you think that there's a cure for cancer, but the drug companies aren't releasing it, because they're making too much money on "treatment"? (treating a problem for the rest of someone's life pays a lot better than just solving the problem, no?)
Do you think the government knows more than it's told us regarding extra-terrestrials?
What do you guys think? Could any of those things be true?
The reason I'm asking is because, well... have you heard of
Mexoryl SX? It's an ingredient found in European and Canadian sunscreens, and it's supposedly
by far better than any sunscreen in the US. So why isn't it sold here? Well, apparently, it hasn't been approved by the FDA. FDA approval could take years. But then again, this product has been out for years in Europe. So why are we so slow to get on the
bandwagon?
Because there's money to be made in skin cancer.
But then again, you'd only think that if you were a conspiracy theorist, right? So, are you?
Do you believe?
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