I'm cheering for the Col-Bears and other Notes
After paying attention to my first NFL game earlier this season (it was the Bears, of course), I commented that it would be really cool to see the Bears play the Colts. KP said, "It could happen if they both go to the Superbowl. This might just be the year for that." And it is! You see, my brother LOVES the Colts. And this was KP's first football season in Chicago, and he's a home-team guy. I can't bring myself to pick sides, really. So I'm cheering for both. The Col-Bears. I might cheer for individual players, Like Urlacher or Vinatieri. But the end of the game will be bittersweet because somebody has to lose.
I got a fancy new camera for Christmas. I've been taking pictures of everything. Lately, I've been taking pictures of animal prints in snow, my cat, fruit, cardinals, my parakeet, snowy scenes on my street, icecicles hanging from the Frank Lloyd Wright, and friends. There are so many settings on this camera, I'm really just learning how to make my pictures come out. But I'd like to put some up here. Drop me an email or comment if you know of an easy way to do it, K?
I was in the gym on Sunday and somebody had C-SPAN on the television (interesting choice for the workout, but OK). They were airing recordings of the previous day's campaign trail. I was there long enough to see the end of Hillary Clinton and the beginning of Rudy Giuliani. I couldn't believe how uncharismatic Rudy Giuliani was, at least compared to Hillary Clinton. Say what you want about either of them in terms of policy and platform, but Rudy is stiff and has little to say about the future and tons to say about the past (ironic because his mantra seems to be that the Republican Party is more hopeful than the democratic party). Rudy was on a stage in a traditional theater-like setting. He didn't seem to be connecting at all to the people in front of him. Clinton, on the other hand, was in a gymnasium with people all around her. She was talking to the people about concrete topics that concerned them. Though I'm not sure that I agreed with her on many of what she said, it seemed as if she genuinely cared about the people in the gymnasium. I was huffing and puffing on a treadmill and I was almost nodding my head in agreement with her!
Obnoxiously bright automobile headlights suck. Especially on SUVs. I hate driving along a road when a car with those awful headlights comes at me. They're not high-beams, so they can't even dim them for the oncoming driver. My choice is to a) not look at the road as I drive past, b) stop entirely and look out the passenger window, c) continue driving and get retina burn for another mile. It is so much worse with SUVs, where the headlights are eye level with passenger cars. It's dangerous for drivers, I think.
Now Sylvania is promoting them on TV. Check out these pictures:
What if that were you coming around the bend? That would suck, no? You know what's safer, Sylvania? Not brighter headlights. Driving slowly around dark curves.
I got a fancy new camera for Christmas. I've been taking pictures of everything. Lately, I've been taking pictures of animal prints in snow, my cat, fruit, cardinals, my parakeet, snowy scenes on my street, icecicles hanging from the Frank Lloyd Wright, and friends. There are so many settings on this camera, I'm really just learning how to make my pictures come out. But I'd like to put some up here. Drop me an email or comment if you know of an easy way to do it, K?
I was in the gym on Sunday and somebody had C-SPAN on the television (interesting choice for the workout, but OK). They were airing recordings of the previous day's campaign trail. I was there long enough to see the end of Hillary Clinton and the beginning of Rudy Giuliani. I couldn't believe how uncharismatic Rudy Giuliani was, at least compared to Hillary Clinton. Say what you want about either of them in terms of policy and platform, but Rudy is stiff and has little to say about the future and tons to say about the past (ironic because his mantra seems to be that the Republican Party is more hopeful than the democratic party). Rudy was on a stage in a traditional theater-like setting. He didn't seem to be connecting at all to the people in front of him. Clinton, on the other hand, was in a gymnasium with people all around her. She was talking to the people about concrete topics that concerned them. Though I'm not sure that I agreed with her on many of what she said, it seemed as if she genuinely cared about the people in the gymnasium. I was huffing and puffing on a treadmill and I was almost nodding my head in agreement with her!
Obnoxiously bright automobile headlights suck. Especially on SUVs. I hate driving along a road when a car with those awful headlights comes at me. They're not high-beams, so they can't even dim them for the oncoming driver. My choice is to a) not look at the road as I drive past, b) stop entirely and look out the passenger window, c) continue driving and get retina burn for another mile. It is so much worse with SUVs, where the headlights are eye level with passenger cars. It's dangerous for drivers, I think.
Now Sylvania is promoting them on TV. Check out these pictures:
What if that were you coming around the bend? That would suck, no? You know what's safer, Sylvania? Not brighter headlights. Driving slowly around dark curves.
posted by nugatory | 11:23 AM
1 Comments:
I totally agree with you about the headlights! Even worse are the drivers in non-SUVs that keep their brights on even when there's oncoming traffic. Brights are a privilege people, not a right. When I was home on break, there were some drivers who had their brights on even while driving on the highway, which is completely ridiculous. First of all, you should NEVER need brights. And second of all, just because the highway's divided it doesn't mean that oncoming vehicles are shielded from your headlights. I can almost begrudgingly accept the annoyance of trucks and SUVs that seem to have bright headlights, but drivers who lack he courtesy and common sense to know when it's inappropriate to use their brights is incredibly frustrating. Grrrr. Not that I'm bitter or anything...
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