Why is it that every messenger bag that will fit my 15″ laptop is either super conservative black and business-like, or looks like something my ten year old sister would use it to store her Jonas Brothers magazines? Why is there no in between?
20-something year old upwardly mobile women need to protect, organize and transport their laptops as well.
There is a market. Let’s make that happen.
Connecticut got it’s first taste of winter with snowfall on Sunday. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the fun snow where you run outside with the dog and throw a couple snow balls around and realize (too late) that you should have worn gloves, and you stay outside anyway… It was the dangerous snow. It was ice. It was horrible. I was out with some friends at the time, and after a particularly terrifying drive home involving a near-accident, a 360 degree spin in the middle of the road, and witnessing an accident at the end of my street, i’m thinking.
I remember when I was taking driving lessons all those (6) years ago, I didn’t learn a whole lot about driving in the snow. Just the basic advice sort of thing; slow down for corners, avoiding hitting the brakes abruptly etc. but so much of that is kind of figuring it out for yourself. Learning how your car handles and taking precautions before you even start the car, but I don’t think that was enough. My Dad has taken an advanced driving course on driving in different conditions, and he never seems to have any problems. He always makes it up the drive way. I think everyone should take a course like this, or at least winter-driving should get more attention in regular driving school. Now, I’m already a pretty precautious driver. Never been in an accident, never got a speeding ticket…never even got a parking ticket now I think about it. So, maybe i’m a little paranoid, but seeing watching people zoom past me on Rt. 15 yesterday while my heart was still pounding through my chest was really concerning to me. 4wD and snow tires doesn’t make you immortal, and people should be more careful.
I looked up some winter driving tips and I found this . It’s your basic list of things to-do to prepare for winter driving fun.
Better safe than sorry.
I’ve recently had two seperate conversations about teleportation. It was a little odd, but they made sense contextually. Both conversations started because teleportation would have solved our problems. I could teleport myself to Boston to see Kara and have some toast with her. I could teleport myself to see Jenn, who lives only twenty minutes away. Teleportation rules.
However, these conversations opened up a whole can of worms. After putting a little thought into it, I’ve changed my mind about teleportation. Essentially, I believe that teleportation, although RAD, would mean doom for mankind. The world would fall into shambles as we all literally became one global community. You want to hang out with a kid from Madagascar? Oh ok. Guess what?! You just got some weird disease that they only have there and you brought back one of Darwin’s birds, now they’re killing the Blue Jay’s that hang out at Sean’s. This is the end.
Economies would fall apart. People would become even fatter and lazier as we wouldn’t ever need to walk or drive anywhere. McDonalds drive thu would be useless, just teleport your food to your couch. You don’t even have to get into the car. Double Cheeseburger, no pickles? ZAP. Fat. (Although, this would lower the chances of drunk drivers getting into accidents in the name of 4th meal. But Teleportation Under the Influence (TUI) would become an issue.)
You would meet every creepo who added you on myspace, in real life. Rick from Florida thinks you’re cute? Guess what, he’s in town and wants to meet up. E-voiding people would become next to impossible. You can’t put your teleportation machine on vibrate and say “oh i didn’t hear you teleport in. It was on vibrate”.
Those PSA’s they run on NBC late at night would be useless. It’s 11PM, do you know where your children are? Well, they could be asleep or they could be in Antarctica. And hanging out with an Antarctic drug dealer as well.
Technically, would teleportation enable time travel? If I sent myself from here in Connecticut, US of A back home to Sydney, AU of Stralia, where they’re ahead something like 14 hours- would have I just broke some time / space continuum?
I just read a little about teleportation in Wikipedia (can you tell i’m bored at work?) and my brain exploded. This is too much. There’s a reason I didn’t major in Physics.
But I can certainly conclude that I do not support the scientific exploration of creating teleportation for every day use.
On that note, I’m out.
Please teleport responsibly.
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