Down and out for nearly two weeks! It’s been frustrating. But I’m finally out and about.
Man!
Apparently, the pneumonia is going around though. Another friend just came down with it. What?!
Pneumonia is the worst.
This sickness swooped in out of nowhere! I’ve been out of action for 7 days and counting now!
Daily social media digest for June 2nd
A summary of things I’ve shared around the Internet today.
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The World Cup is guaranteed to be exciting if for no other reason than Argentina coach Diego Maradona’s antics: http://dave.ly/maradona [rockbandit]
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Shared My past AT&T data usage.
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Published Blu in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Why so much negativity over AT&T’s data plan pricing changes? I know it’s the fashionable thi… http://gdg.to/a3DGaz [rockbandit] |
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Shared Cleavage on Cool Hunting.
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It’s like a photographic pun! “[…] the cleavages photographed are actually the butt cracks of men and women.” http://dave.ly/notcleavage [rockbandit]
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Published BP parody billboards.
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RT @huffingtonpost: WOW: Pitcher loses perfect game with controversial call in 9th inning. http://huff.to/amEIv3 (via @HuffPostSports) [rockbandit]
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This often happens…
I get the strangest email.
There is a group of people who have me mixed up for someone else and keep sending me email. I’ve replied and emailed them on numerous occasions that I am the incorrect person, yet I still receive weird and even awkward emails.
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Err… what? Here’s another gem. Names blocked out.
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Yikes! I feel bad for the poor little dude, whoever he is. That said: Reply to all -> “Hi, I think you have the wrong person.”
A few weeks later, another email.
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Ahhh!
What did Grandpa just say?!
“David is a whore…”
That’s not something you expect to hear at a family party, let alone come out of your grandfather’s mouth.
I’m in Southern California for the weekend to celebrate my grandmother’s 80th birthday with family and friends. Since I’m traveling light and with my new toy, I decided to bring along my iPad.
After arriving and saying our hellos, I gave the iPad to my Grandpa, who was sitting at a table with a number of his friends. He briefly looked at it and passed it around. After getting it back, he opened up the Notes application and read something off the screen.
“David is a whore…”
What?!
Everyone started laughing, and I did too. I knew my Grandpa was a funny person, but I’d never heard him make a joke like that before. I was pretty confused and wondered if we’ve crossed some new line of humor with my family. He looked at me and said, “No, really. That’s what it says!”
He handed the iPad to me. And sure enough, I saw this on the screen:
It turns out that my sister had apparently used my iPad without my knowledge and decided to leave me a special message that I might find at a later time.
Well played, Sister. Well played.
Grocery divider etiquette
Are you constantly confused on who is responsible for putting a grocery divider down when in line at the check out stand? It’s a dilemma that I often find myself in as well. Stephen Pastis breaks is down.
I am constantly confused by the rules of etiquette for the little plastic dividers you use to separate your groceries from the other guy’s groceries on the conveyor belt at checkout.
I never know if it’s my responsibility to lay it down behind my own groceries, or if it’s my responsibility to lay it down behind the guy’s groceries ahead of me.
Sometimes I end up doing both, guarding the front and the rear. That makes me mad, because it means someone in line has shirked their responsibilities. It’s people like that who deserve to pay for my wandering Wonder Bread should it stray across our shared border.
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But yesterday, I decided to do something new. Rather than set the divider down perpendicular to the conveyor belt, thereby neatly walling off my groceries from everybody else’s, I laid it down parallel to the belt, right down the middle of my own groceries.
Picked up a new bike!
I picked up a new bike this weekend from someone on Craigslist! A ~1995 Schwinn Passage in perfect condition. It’s a great little touring bike and I’ve already put 25 miles on it.
The Haitian Earthquake
Photo via the United Nations photo stream on flickr.
The latest news and the images coming out of Haiti are absolutely tragic and indescribable. My heart goes out to those affected by the earthquake. I wish there was more that we could do. For now the best thing to do is donate toward the relief and recovery efforts. Google also has a pretty comprehensive page for Haitian disaster relief.
You can see some of the latest images from Port-au-Prince here (via flickr).
Photo via U.S. Department of Defense on flickr.
Photo via U.S. Air Force on flickr.
