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All you can eat, plus a whole chicken
Sep. 22nd, 2007 07:34 amHere are a few things I'd been meaning to write about for the past few days, but just hadn't gotten around to working into an actual entry.
1. I recently got a spam e-mail allegedly from PayPal, with the subject line, "Your account has been randomly limited." Um...yeah, okay. There are some scams that are carefully constructed and I can totally see why some people fall for them. But do they actually expect people to believe that PayPal is randomly running through their list of accounts and limiting access for some of them without an actual reason?
2. In a dream a few days ago, I went with my dad to pick up the two Johns from They Might Be Giants from the airport (or somewhere along those lines; I don't remember any planes or anything). I don't think there was much more to that dream, which is kind of a shame.
3. Someone on the radio said that a company was planning on coming out with carbonated yogurt. Can caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit be far behind?
4. On Thursday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I got the Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster, and had some slow service. I think they purposely take their time getting the refills on the shrimp, so you won't be able to eat quite as much; but this particular waitress was slow even GETTING the orders. The food was good, though, and I think I ended up getting a good amount. I think shrimp and pizza are the two things I can eat the most of without getting tired of them, although that doesn't mean I don't sometimes regret eating so much afterwards.
5. I caught a brief bit of a news story about how Bush wants to veto a bill that would increase the funding for health care for low-income children, because it would be a step towards socialized medicine, or something like that. While this is not unusual behavior from this particular president, it just drives home how it couldn't be any more obvious whose interests he represents if he walked around wearing a T-shirt saying, "I (heart) Big Business!" I think it's kind of silly when people, often with politics similar to mine, act like there's some kind of conspiracy going in with the Bush administration, when most of the things that people complain about are pretty much as clear as day. What we have in our present government, as far as I can see, isn't a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but Vast Right-Wing Obviousness.
1. I recently got a spam e-mail allegedly from PayPal, with the subject line, "Your account has been randomly limited." Um...yeah, okay. There are some scams that are carefully constructed and I can totally see why some people fall for them. But do they actually expect people to believe that PayPal is randomly running through their list of accounts and limiting access for some of them without an actual reason?
2. In a dream a few days ago, I went with my dad to pick up the two Johns from They Might Be Giants from the airport (or somewhere along those lines; I don't remember any planes or anything). I don't think there was much more to that dream, which is kind of a shame.
3. Someone on the radio said that a company was planning on coming out with carbonated yogurt. Can caffeinated bacon and baconated grapefruit be far behind?
4. On Thursday,
bethje and I got the Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster, and had some slow service. I think they purposely take their time getting the refills on the shrimp, so you won't be able to eat quite as much; but this particular waitress was slow even GETTING the orders. The food was good, though, and I think I ended up getting a good amount. I think shrimp and pizza are the two things I can eat the most of without getting tired of them, although that doesn't mean I don't sometimes regret eating so much afterwards.5. I caught a brief bit of a news story about how Bush wants to veto a bill that would increase the funding for health care for low-income children, because it would be a step towards socialized medicine, or something like that. While this is not unusual behavior from this particular president, it just drives home how it couldn't be any more obvious whose interests he represents if he walked around wearing a T-shirt saying, "I (heart) Big Business!" I think it's kind of silly when people, often with politics similar to mine, act like there's some kind of conspiracy going in with the Bush administration, when most of the things that people complain about are pretty much as clear as day. What we have in our present government, as far as I can see, isn't a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, but Vast Right-Wing Obviousness.
