Archive for July, 2008
July 30, 2008 at 11:01 pm
How does something like this happen?
There’s a story in our local paper that talks about a Petland store in Pasco that recently sold four puppies that were sick with Parvo. Two of the four have died. Yikes!
Here’s the part I don’t get:
It’s unclear whether the puppies were infected at the store or before arriving in Pasco from a Midwest supplier, Washburn said. The local Petland no longer will take puppies from that supplier, she said.
A Midwest supplier? I guess I never thought about it much, but … a Midwest supplier? So, like, there are dog factories and distribution chains just like we have with food, toys, furniture, auto parts, and everything else? Do they ship these dogs in big 18-wheelers, too? I’m not one of those animal freaks all of a sudden, but that just seems strange to me. But I suppose pet stores need (animal) inventory just like any other place….
Still, when all of the animal shelters in the Tri-Cities are overflowing (wish I could find that link) with unwanted pets, what on earth are people doing buying dogs at a chain pet store that come from the Midwest?
This whole thing is bizarre … maybe it’s just me?
[where: 5109 N Road 68, Pasco, WA 99301]
July 30, 2008 at 9:33 pm
That’s the FedEx tracking record for my iPhone. Ordered it back on the 18th. Arriving tomorrow.
Me = Psyched.
July 28, 2008 at 1:28 am
I just remembered a week or two ago that I have a personal account on YouTube (in addition to the @U2 account and several other blog-related accounts). Since I recently bought the latest and greatest version of Apple’s iLife software, and since we recently got a puppy, I combined those two into my very first uploaded video on YouTube. (I’m such an early adopter.) It lasts a minute and there’s audio. Here it is:
July 27, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Mrs. McGee and I are doing our best to get rid of all credit cards in our possession. Unfortunately, it’s slow going because we did some pretty stupid things in our 16+ years of wedded bliss. But we’re making progress, and we’ll eventually get there. Everything will be purchased with cash or debit cards, with (I assume) the exception of homes.
Why?
Because we agree with this sentiment:
2008 Consumer Action Credit Card Survey Declares Credit Cards ‘Really !@$% Evil!’
Amen.
July 26, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I usually don’t think of London and baseball going together, so this seems a bit out of the ordinary: The Popular blog Londonist used a baseball photo of mine on a recent post about “International Baseball”:
Looks nice, doesn’t it? I think so. And here are a couple other places people have been using my photos:
July 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Thanks to a late flurry of activity, I think this week ended up being somewhat productive on the blog front. I’ll start with the most recent blog post I wrote…
U2Diary.com
@U2 Blog
The Fan
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Small Business Search Marketing
Turned into a pretty productive week overall, I’d say.
July 18, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Once again, something compelled me to re-find the login details for my old, unused sports blog. I actually posted twice there, so to honor the momentous occasion I’ll list those first in this week’s recap of my blogging activity.
The Fan
U2 - A Diary
@U2 Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Small Business Search Marketing
Hmmmm. That might be an all-time record for me.
July 17, 2008 at 7:23 pm
I was watching the MLB All-Star game with my 10-year-old son on Tuesday night, and somehow we got on the subject of the NFL. I said (as I always do) how excited I am for football season, and asked how soon it starts — a question I usually start asking about two weeks after the Super Bowl ends. (Seriously, shouldn’t the NFL season be year-round? How fantastic would that be?)
ANYWAY … that delved into a comparison of baseball and football, and I started doing the best I could to remember that old George Carlin routine about the two sports. Only remembered a couple lines, but I found it later that night on YouTube. How great is this?
Showed it to my son last night so he could understand what I was trying to remember, and he loved it, too. Nothing like George Carlin to help with some father-son bonding!
July 16, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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There are only three things we all need to know when watching the weather report on local TV news:
- How hot/cold did it get today
- What’s going on right now
- What’s it going to be like tomorrow and over the next couple days
That’s it. Three things. Heck, you could remove #2 from that because you can look outside and figure out what’s going on right now with the weather. (“…sun is shining, sky is blue, don’t see any cows sailing across the sky — nice day!”)
In my hometown, the weather guy/gal usually gets between three and four minutes out of the 30-minute newscast. I trust that’s the same pretty much anywhere in the U.S. On the station we watch most often, the weather guy fills his time with “tower cam” video shots that show absolutely nothing, satellite doppler-type stuff, water vapor outlook, jet stream data, cloud cover (even on sunny days), the three things I listed above, and then he ends by spending 30-45 seconds showing “weather photos” sent in by viewers and then chit-chatting about how nice the photos are (even when they’re not) with the chatty news anchors.
Oh, and he’s shown in a small box on the screen so that all this “weather plus” data (like temperatures of cities in Idaho and Oregon that I’ve never heard of) can scroll and rotate on the screen like CNN on steroids.
It sucks! For every 10 seconds of useful weather information, there’s 20 seconds of crap. And then they wrap it up with a nice smile and a corny joke.
Just give me the #%@%$# weather!!!!!!!
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July 12, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal has joined the growing chorus of people calling for Disney to promote Wall-E as a Best Picture candidate at next year’s Academy Awards:
“WALL-E” isn’t just an animated feature; it’s a great motion picture by any measure, and has already been hailed as such — by critics who’ve called it a masterpiece (I’m one of them), by audiences who watch it in a state of enthrallment (which is one notch up from enchantment). In keeping with its singular distinction, Pixar’s latest gift to movie lovers should be a candidate for the most prestigious award, Best Picture, when Oscar time rolls around.
I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed, but you already knew that….
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