Once again it is Saturday and we get to recover a bit from the Thanksgiving relatives and food. And, that will take some recovering.
Meanwhile, an old and predictable scene is playing out at my house. We bought a new HDTV. It isn’t a huge one but it replaces a tube TV, which can only be described as having a very fat behind. It is also too heavy for only one man to move and I am no help in that endeavor. Hubby, as always, promised that he will dispose of old fatso at the dump, where there is a shed for no longer wanted but none the less usable stuff. But, he is conflicted. Throwing working things out is a sin. And so, old fatso is presently taking up valuable space on the bedroom floor.
He wants to give it away, but no one wants it. We will argue. We will trip over it. It will be an unused reminder of our place in this disposable society. Maybe it will be moved to the basement where it will be in his way and will keep company with other unwanted but possibly usable stuff, cramming that space and making the space itself useless. Eventually, of course, it will make its way to the dump, but by then it will be so old that there will be no chance that someone else will take it.
On this Thanksgiving weekend I am thankful for many things, family, friends, blogs and a new president among them. Old fatso, however, does not make the list.
Uh oh, little granddaughter who is visiting, is awake and wants breakfast and attention which she is very good at getting.
Gotta get going. Have a good one!
I don’t remember the last time I fell asleep before 9:30. I’m up early now and ready for a full day of….something. Oh, and I’ll be looking at a new rental place before noon. That’s always fun :barf:
Union Responds To Death of Long Island Wal-mart Worker
Demands Federal Safety Agency and Nassau County Prosecutor Investigate
QUEENS VILLAGE, NY (11/28/2008; 1514)(readMedia)– United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, New York State’s largest grocery workers Union, has called for an immediate investigation by Federal, State and Local authorities into the “avoidable” death of a Wal-mart worker at the Valley Stream, Long Island Wal-mart. Specifically, the Union has called on the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the New York State Department of Labor and the Nassau County Prosecutor to investigate Wal-mart’s failure to provide a safe workplace.
“This incident was avoidable,” said Bruce Both, President of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500. “Where were the safety barriers? Where was security? How did store management not see dangerous numbers of customers barreling down on the store in such an unsafe manner?” asked President Both. “This is not just tragic; it rises to a level of blatant irresponsibility by Wal-mart. UFCW Local 1500 will demand a full investigation by all levels of Government to ensure both justice for the surviving family members and to ensure the safety of current employees and the general public. This can never be allowed to happen again and those responsible must be held accountable,” Both concluded.
http://readme.readmedia.com/news/show/Union-Responds-To-Death-of-Long-Island-Wal-mart-Worker/308889
breakthrough in optical nanotechnology
I’ll probably never understand this shit.
Federal health officials have changed their guidance on the health risks of melamine in infant formula, saying trace amounts of the industrial compound alone are not harmful.
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration said it was “currently unable to establish any level of melamine and melamine-related compounds in infant formula that does not raise public health concerns.”
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Sundlof said the new assessment was not based on new data but on existing animal studies showing that high levels of melamine alone do not harm laboratory rats. He said the FDA cannot set a safe level of infant exposure to melamine combined with cyanuric acid and other related chemicals because there hasn’t been enough research.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802108.html?wpisrc=newsletter
I can’t wait to feed this stuff to some hungry infant. I’m sure it’s safe. The FDA, listening to Bushy’s gut, says so.
I wish you could rent the guest house in my yard, Travis. I guess it would be too far for you to drive to school every day. You’d be way better than guest house guy.
eya gang!
a gentle morning here, doggers snoozed out after their morning doggie bone hustle, Bgurl running the indoor farmers market this saturday, i’m sucking down good coffee and prepping for a quick radiator replace on the mustang.
life is good.
apple pie for brekkers is better!
SueP-fatso could join the old tube on the floor in our guest bedroom or the two now-useless old crt tubes sitting in our basement along with an old printer, two keyboards and some “mice”. Or better yet, let’s merge everything at your place. :doh:
Some artist needs to do a giant public art sculpture out of all the tv’s that will be discarded.
My garage is an electronics graveyard. You name it, it’s there.
Please, let’s not get anybody started on the working but not currently in use electronic items around the house. I’m not in the mood for a lecture tonight. 🙄
I’ll see your TV and raise you a DVD player and a microwave. Both of which still work, although the inside of the microwave bears remnants of meals long past.
And just think how many obsolete TVs are going to be lying around in February when we go digital. In the immortal words of Kelly Bundy, the mind wobbles.
I just tried to hook up my broken and dormant multi-function HP so I can scan some pix because I have a few scores to settle.
Damn you, Carly Fiorina! :fu:
Looks like we’ve got UFO’s again. Where’s Mulder and Scully?
Well, don’t throw those old electronics away just yet. The nasty economy we’ve just entered may cause some of you to look at them in a salvage kind of way. Think Sanford and Son.
Maybe you could “frankenstein” them together in some sort of hybrid kitchen appliance or surviellance system.
I went to the Desert Botannical Garden here this morning. Chihuly has an exhibit there amongst the flora. It’s pretty incredible. I love and hate that guy. I coulda been a contender!
We had a Chihuly exhibit at the de Young here a few months ago. Very nice. I would think some of it made it there.
Yes, some of those pieces are here now. A security guard was telling me about how they are packed and shipped. Because that is one of the first things I thought of after being awed by them, “fucking shipping nightmare!”
We’ve got a couple of fatso teevees and numerous now obsolete electronics cluttering up our lives as well. Several have already found their way to the electronics recycling store in the town where my son lives. They recycle anything electronic — you just drop it in their outside drop bin. I almost don’t want to know where it goes — I’m sure it’s to China to cause more pollution & bad stuff there which will end up back here.
It’s all such a symptom of the overconsumptive lifestyle we’ve been enslaved by. Guess it is time to change our ways. :tap:
Chihuly !
Man would i like to work with him in the studio!
amazing crew he has.
one of my favorites
http://www.birkbinnard.com/europeweb/images/Chihuly.jpg
There’s a Chihuly store in Cherry Creek shopping district in Denver. Don’t know how they’re weathering this economy altho I’d guess their customers aren’t hurting too much.
Hey I almost Kinneared Chihuly when I was getting on the plane to Boston last year. He was wearing pink pants and a black velvet shirt. I also saw him out in front of my house about 4 years ago looking for a potluck party.
I was pretty quick to indict hubby, and he is certainly guilty of holding onto used, bulky stuff, including, but certainly not limited to, electronic has-beens. But, honesty makes me confess that I have my own collections of once useful stuff. So, when I complain about tripping over fatso or any of his pals, hubby points accusingly at my junk.
I wonder why I am so attached to things I do not use, that crowd and foil me in so many ways. Just what would I lose by throwing out that Latin book that I haven’t looked at in 20 years and probably wont for another 20. I could give it away but I can’t throw it away. :fustrate:
giving stuff away is a blast!
Try living in a lower middle class house built in 1940. The only closets in this place are in the bedrooms and they are not walk-ins. There is a linen cabinet with 3 drawers in the hallway and that is it. You know a family of at least 4 lived here and if they can do it, I can do it. I just keep paring down. Just can’t be too sentimental. Right now I’m trying to pare down on the room mate. 😡 Then I’d have another room. But I gotta get this job first!
I still have a lot of that shit because I think in the right hands it can be rehabilitated and serve a useful purpose for someone. The older stuff is usually better anyway.
I wonder what the Matthews meter is on the likelihood of him winning? 3 likely, 9 not likely?
I see people veering to Tweety lately. I guess they don’t remember what a chameleon he is with his finger in the wind. He was a GW launching pad 8 years ago.
I think there will be serious consideration in Pa. Dem circles about his candidacy. I am guessing some consideration might be given to the Franken model.
#31 :omg:
:tinfoil: We have been living in the Cave!!! We are all prisoners! :tinfoil:
I always thought the Allegory of the Cave to be so perceptive on so many levels. It interesting to revisit it at this time.
This is a pretty nice version also too.
Thanks, Trav! :bow: