Miscellaneous

A few very random thoughts

By jeremyblachman

-- Teaser for tonight's 11:00 news -- "find out which snack bag is the loudest" -- as they show someone opening a Sun Chips bag.  Is this really something that news resources need to be deployed to investigate?  A quick Google search tells me that, yes, this is something in the news: Sun Chips bags are apparently too loud, but, really, this is an important news story?

-- Also saw a commercial the other day for something that appeared to be called "Kellogg's Frosted Mini-Wheats Littles," smaller versions of mini-wheats, as if "mini-" didn't already mean small.  Will they start calling the regular ones maxi-wheats?  This seems to be the opposite of every other food trend in the U.S. -- instead of getting bigger, mini-wheats apparently need to get smaller.

-- Saw a sign in the library: the best way to avoid overdue fines is to return materials on time.  Uh, that's also the only way, isn't it?

-- My wife and I are going to Israel next week, for ten days. (If anyone has any recommended sites / restaurants / etc., I'm all ears)  So I downloaded an iPhone app put out by the Israeli Tourism Ministry with information about tourist attractions.  For each attraction, the app has the address, phone number, and some slightly-confusing categories like "Banquet Halls," which seems to refer to whether the attraction has a bathroom or not, "Animals," which seems to be about whether you can bring your pets, and "Target Audience," which, for every attraction I checked, was "Jews."  I clicked on a Bird Observatory, and under Animals it said "Irrelevant; Prohibited." Of course, animals seem like ought to be both relevant and permitted at a bird observatory.

Full post as published by Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog on October 06, 2010 (boomark / email).