On The Interstate

I 84 must have been paved by monkeys...or five-year olds. (Or maybe ODOT just doesn't give a crap when roads suck.)

My sister and I left town at about 7:30 on December 23. We took the Gorge because we didn't want to deal with bad weather over Santiam Pass. Ha! It rained cats and dogs all the way from Portland to The Dalles. The glare on my windshield became impossible to see through. I can only assume that there is some kind of de-fogger on the window from years ago or something because the defroster wasn't curing the issue. After we departed The Dalles and headed south toward Bend, the rain finally let up.

On the trip back, everything was fine but since we weren't hydroplaning down I 84 it became very noticeable how many potholes, seams, patches and ruts are present. To top it off, it was windy as hell. Fun trip!

Baby Blender

A faithful commenter pointed this out to me.

Quite hilarious.

Making Fun Of Political Correctness

The Muffinless

http://www.muffinfilms.com/harold.html

haha

Journalism At Its (Insert Adjective Here)

I obtained this "article" from a blog I regularly read. It is about whether or not journalists should be licensed in order to curb what kinds of stories are being put out there. To use the author's own term, it isn't fair for the media to "exercise" all these different perspectives on people. The shame---how dare they!?

Check it out. The comfort to me is that no matter what happens to journalists, there will always be a need for editors. There are no less than five mistakes of varying kinds in the short piece.

Cycle 9

America's Next Top Model, this "cycle," was one of the most predictable thus far.

Everyone knew from the start that Saleisha was going to win. After all, she went to Tyra's little model camp, and she was a guest model on the Tyra show.

But I still have to admit that for a moment, I thought they were going to pick Chantal. After all, they could only say good things about her during the final judging, and she at least has a neck and decent hair. (Speaking of that weird Tutti doll hair, what were they thinking cutting it like that??? Wow.)

Anyway, I'm still looking forward to "Cycle" 10.

Absurdity

Miriam-Webster has declared a word of the year. No, you will NEVER guess.

"w00t"

Yes, those are two zeros.

I didn't know that "words" containing numbers could either be pronounced, or considered words at all.

Utter ridiculousness.