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Air France Commercial 2011 – L’Envol
fantastic commercial using my favorite Mozart piece
mamma mia
Learned during a trip to Italy: Italians really do say “mamma mia!”
i am a tool of the machines
As I stood in line at a local restaurant the other day, holding my coupon in my hand, it suddenly occurred to me that I was being used.
Let me backtrack. I received a special offer for the restaurant by email. The coupon that I printed out had a special code to make sure I couldn’t use it more than once. Maybe it identified me by email address or serial number or something.
As I stood in line, I realized that when the cashier scanned my coupon, presumably the cash register would contact some central database, look up my coupon code to identify me, and decide whether or not to approve my coupon. So really, all I was was a conduit or messenger for one machine to transmit a message to another machine.
It’s a bit primitive and inefficient, if you think about it. If the machines are going to take over the world, they need to come up with a better plan. But then again, they managed to get me to act as a messenger and deliver their message. Maybe it’s already too late…
fireworks factory fire
It’s like one of those car accidents you can’t pull your eyes from, and then at 2:18, everything changes…
FDIC insurance
Hmm…I agree with stupidityfordummies’ rant about people’s ignorance of FDIC’s insurance limits. Most people don’t realize that despite what all the news is saying, the FDIC does insure some accounts for over $100,000 per person. That drives me nuts, too.
