Mad Geek
Friday, October 22, 2004
Mother Nature has lost her mind.
Did I miss something here? When did I move to Portland?
It has been raining here nearly non-stop for 6 days now. For anyone who can't read the little blurb about me to the left, I'm in Utah . . . the second driest state in the nation. It hasn't been a heavy rain but it has still probably doubled our amount of precipitation this year, which means we will either have a very mild and wet winter, or a very cold and harsh one.
Winters in Utah are an odd creature; they don't actually start till maybe January. Things start to get cold early on, and we may get frost or something on the ground, but it has been the recent trend to have Christmas come and go by with little or no snow on the ground. Come the week after Christmas and BAM, it's like the end of the world has come and He has decided snow will be our demise.
What's funny is that despite all this rain we've gotten, people still can't figure out what to do with their lawn. On my way to school yesterday, I passed a lawn being watered by the sprinkler. Not the automatic ones (suggesting they were just lazy and never turned off the timer) but the rainbow kind you actually have to drag out to a certain spot and crank the hose on. This sprinkler is going on in the rain, on grass that is going dormant anyway, in a desert. Sorry people, you could water the thing till it looks like the local community pool, it's not going to get any greener!
While this isn't on the subject of watering the grass, I'm throwing this in here too. I am so tired of these advertisements for those stupid KidzBops albums. For those of you who haven't seen these, they are normally on early morning with cartoons or news and is a selection of modern pop songs all sung by kids for kids. I suppose the idea is a sound one, and I agree that parents should have their kids listen to music that they know is good for kids, but there is a major flaw with the application here; it's modern pop songs!
If MTV feels the need to bleep a word (or few) from a song, then having it sung by kids doesn't suddenly make it kid-friendly! It's the same song (whether you find it offensive or not) only now it sounds like it's being sung by a Primary class! It's sort of like those Christmas albums "sung" by dogs.
Ok, topic of discussion for today; the Post-Modern Era and how it is neither Post-Modern, nor an era.
It has been raining here nearly non-stop for 6 days now. For anyone who can't read the little blurb about me to the left, I'm in Utah . . . the second driest state in the nation. It hasn't been a heavy rain but it has still probably doubled our amount of precipitation this year, which means we will either have a very mild and wet winter, or a very cold and harsh one.
Winters in Utah are an odd creature; they don't actually start till maybe January. Things start to get cold early on, and we may get frost or something on the ground, but it has been the recent trend to have Christmas come and go by with little or no snow on the ground. Come the week after Christmas and BAM, it's like the end of the world has come and He has decided snow will be our demise.
What's funny is that despite all this rain we've gotten, people still can't figure out what to do with their lawn. On my way to school yesterday, I passed a lawn being watered by the sprinkler. Not the automatic ones (suggesting they were just lazy and never turned off the timer) but the rainbow kind you actually have to drag out to a certain spot and crank the hose on. This sprinkler is going on in the rain, on grass that is going dormant anyway, in a desert. Sorry people, you could water the thing till it looks like the local community pool, it's not going to get any greener!
While this isn't on the subject of watering the grass, I'm throwing this in here too. I am so tired of these advertisements for those stupid KidzBops albums. For those of you who haven't seen these, they are normally on early morning with cartoons or news and is a selection of modern pop songs all sung by kids for kids. I suppose the idea is a sound one, and I agree that parents should have their kids listen to music that they know is good for kids, but there is a major flaw with the application here; it's modern pop songs!
If MTV feels the need to bleep a word (or few) from a song, then having it sung by kids doesn't suddenly make it kid-friendly! It's the same song (whether you find it offensive or not) only now it sounds like it's being sung by a Primary class! It's sort of like those Christmas albums "sung" by dogs.
Ok, topic of discussion for today; the Post-Modern Era and how it is neither Post-Modern, nor an era.
:: posted by Zuke, 6:35 AM
