I must be. Even though I am “fluffy“, it seems that I am a friendly looking person. Why do I say this? Well, as my last post mentioned a person had commented on a shirt that I was wearing. Well, today that same shirt (I’m blogging this) got me a conversation with my cashier at Publix. Not only was she cute, she was friendly and, it would appear, a big time Facebook user. And that type of thing does happen to me from time to time, even though I am not looking to have some sort of interaction with people, they just seem to find me somehow and start chatting.
Now, if I could only use this new found power and find myself a girlfriend. You know, other than one in Russia that wants to come and visit me after only 5 emails.
July 30th, 2010
This just goes to show that you never know what is going to happen on any given day. Now sure, I have had people that I work with comment, in a positive way, about shoes or shirts that I might wear to work. Things that I never really think about, but they are still interesting to others. However, I have not had a random person comment on a t-shirt that I have worn. I was wearing a t-shirt that said “I’m Blogging This” on the front. As I was walking out of my local Wal-Mart, someone that was walking into the store said “I like your shirt” as they passed me. I smiled and said “thanks” and continued on to my car.
I know that this is not any sort of earth shattering event, but I usually don’t get noticed when I am out and about. So it was nice to get a compliment from a random person. I hope that it also brightened their day.
June 20th, 2010
Alrighty, I am sure that most everyone here has heard something about the oil gusher on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico. And you may have seen some of the reports about how the oil could get caught into the “loop current” and take this oil all the way around Florida and up the Eastern Seaboard.
One of the things that bothered me recently amongst all of this, was a comment that I heard on a news broadcast. The reporter commented that sentiments voiced privately by citizens in Louisiana were now being voiced on the air. The sentiment that was mentioned was that if this was affecting the white sandy beaches of Florida, that the response would have been different. I do not know if that is actually true, but the people of Florida have always fought off-shore drilling off the coast of the state. Floridians have often fought to preserve one of their most popular attractions for both locals and visitors.
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June 6th, 2010
I have had my Nintendo Wii system for awhile now, and I also signed up for the Netflix streaming to the Wii. I’ve had the disk for the Wii for a little while, but tonight was the first time that I have used it. A couple of things for those that don’t have it, the first time that you use the disk, you will be given a code to register your Wii with Netflix streaming. Not a hard thing to do, but I recommend having a piece of paper and pen/pencil handy so that you can write it down and go to your computer. I was impressed with the quality of the stream even over my wireless setup. I did have an issue that my Wii remote went to sleep during the movie and I was not able to “wake” it up. I eventually took the batteries out and put them back in. I do not know if this is because I turned the remote away from the sensor bar so that the pointer wasn’t on the screen, or if this is a known “issue”. Further use and testing will tell I suppose.
Overall, I would say that if you have a Wii, and a Netflix account (with streaming), you might as well sign-up for the disk. It does not count against your total disks out, and you don’t have to return it. And if you are interested, the movie I watched was Wall-E. Yes, I have only now gotten around to seeing it.
May 9th, 2010
If you wander around the net today, you will probably see some references to “Pi Day” today. So what is it all about? well, if you look at the date for March 14th in numeric format, it is 3.14, which is the beginning of the Pi sequence.
So, how do you celebrate Pi Day? Well, the most obvious would be to have fun with circles, as suggested by Google’s Doodle today.
Google's Doodle for Pi Day
Although there are also some who advocate that we give Pi a rest on Pi Day, and do no math at all. So celebrate how you see fit. For me, I think it will be a Key Lime Pi Day!
See y’all next time.
March 14th, 2010
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