Haven’t posted anything in a while, so here’s something on my mind:
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I get it. Kids make messes. You have the special crayons and markers that only appear on special paper, and now you see more of these special gyro-bowls that prevent spilling, no matter how the kid handles it.

The reason I find it stupid. Simply put, kids need to make these messes, they need to make these mistakes in order to learn when they do bad things. Products like these are simply for the benefit of the parent, which I find to be extremely selfish. I know, I don’t have any kids, so it’s probably not my place to say anything, but having been a kid, I needed to make messes in order to know what not to do. This is how I learned things. If I were a kid now with one of these bowls, I would grow up thinking I can handle anything anyway I wanted with no consequence (of course I would hope later in child development it actually wouldn’t be a problem, but a kid should start learning things as early as when they start walking and talking). Like I said before, this is to make things easier for the parents. And parenting shouldn’t be easy. It should be hard.

Plus, these gyro bowls, they look ridiculous too. They also have similar concepts for other children products, such as a “Bubble Bowl” which I guess is so kids don’t spill all the soapy water for their bubbles. And, I imagine the special paper for those special markers and such just make things more expensive. And that’s just crazy.

Quick note, I do get sippy cups, that seems more for the safety of the kid, so they don’t accidentally try drinking more than they could handle. At least that’s how I see it, plus they are much younger at that point, that I understand those more.

But I will stress this, again, I have no kids (don’t plan to), am also not any type of child behaviorist, or behaviorist in general, nor work in child development industries. I’m just a regular person with an opinion, and this has been on my mind since the store I work at got those dumb Bubble Bowl thingys.

Apparently, there is a big issue with typing on a regular keyboard. People can’t find the right keys because it’s QWERTY instead of ABC. That is down-right idiotic. It’s almost a waste to mention it here, but since I recently posted about a neat keyboard based on Scrabble, I need to post what is considered a dumb “innovation” for the keyboard. This particular keyboard lets a person type in two ways: the normal QWERTY way, but at the flip of a switch (or a button, whatever), it becomes a ABC keyboard.

And I have to agree with the DVICE poster, this is dumb for the fact that not everyone needs this keyboard, so if they go to, say, a library they’ll be screwed.

But the absolute main reason it’s dumb: ergonomics. It’s a great big word that basically means something is designed to fit for the job. In this case, the placement of the letters on a QWERTY keyboard are the way they are based on letters typed most. RST are common consonants, and are placed where the index, middle fingers have easy access to them, as well as the popular vowel ‘E’. Like when typing ‘ARE’, I can do that with one had, because they are all on one side. Also notice how unpopular letter such as the ‘q’ and ‘z’ are in corners, because they are less used. Therefore, an ABC keyboard would be completely unnecessary.

Source: DVICE

Yeah, the election coming up, the whole Financial situation, blah blah blah.  Let’s put all that aside and just laugh.

Let’s start with some interpretations of some warning signs.  (These are from a user on ClipMarks, URL: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/BB3541B7-1614-44C6-B31E-9EAF8047B6F6/ )

Mutated giant

Use light to lift rubble

<– Take this image on your left for example, which is my favorite, “Use your flashlight to lift the walls right off of you!”

And this image to your right, “After exposure to radiation it is important to consider that you may have mutated to gigantic dimensions: watch your head.”

You can view more from the link mentioned just above.

One of my favorite segments on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is the Headlines, usually done on Monday nights.  Just the fact that things get published with our a second glance or some kind of editing is just hilarious.  Here’s a few Headlines that actually went to print:

“Storm power outage kills local trees, ice cream, and fish”  |  “Highway 4 bypass overpass bypassed”  |  How about “Golden Ripe Bananass” for 39 cents a lb  |  and don’t forget about the “cereal killer”

Read more from NBC.COM

And let’s not forget the site for all those bored out of their minds: Bored.com.  There you can go to sites that really serve no purpose other than give you something to look at or do for a few minutes or so.  But the best part, Dumb Stuff.

Speaking of dumb things people say or do, I found a great little page entitled “Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed to Travel”.  One example from that site: “A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii.  After going over all the cost info, she asked, “Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?”"

And another batch of Dumb, Dumb things, Courtoom talk, that’ll have you rolling on the floor.  And, I’ll give you a little taste from that web page: Lawyer: “You don’t know what it was, and you didn’t know what it looked like, but can you describe it?”

In conclusion…People are just, well, dumb.

Thank you and good night!