\u2022\u00a0 Something’s very wrong.\u00a0 I have been cutting out carbs and exercising for the last week — shouldn’t I have dropped 10 pounds and 30 cholesterol points by now?<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0 On a related note, Fiber One<\/em> has got to be the worst breakfast cereal in the solar system.\u00a0 It looks like cat litter and tastes like… well, used cat litter.\u00a0 It should be sold in feed stores.\u00a0 I wanted to mix the rest of the box into our birdseed but my wife, wisely, said no.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 We still have a landline because cell service is unreliable where we live.\u00a0 And we are still training ourselves not to pick up the phone when we get calls from an unknown number, even if it appears to be from our local area code.\u00a0 Our friends may be annoyed when we let their calls go to the answering machine, but I trust most will understand<\/a> that our ratio of spam to legitimate calls is at least 7-to-1.\u00a0 (Nationwide<\/a>, the ratio is about 1-to-1.)<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Some tech company needs to invent a house-wide noise-cancelling system that activates whenever Canon in D<\/em> is played by anyone on any device within earshot of me.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 The difference between celebrities and nobodies is that lots of people are willing to pay (or stay up late) to see\/hear celebrities tell stories.\u00a0 Conversely, no one wants to listen to your story about seeing Miley Cyrus at an interstate rest stop.\u00a0 Well, maybe some do.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Seeded raisins must be really popular or else I am really unlucky.\u00a0 Every time I look for seeded raisins in the grocery store, only the seedless ones are left.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 I have finally concluded that the TV show The Walking Dead<\/em> isn’t very realistic.\u00a0 I mean, we never see the zombies eat<\/em> anything (except for the rare human, and they are eaten rare) so what exactly fuels zombie muscles?\u00a0 If we are to take that show seriously, shouldn’t the walkers at least be shown drinking Red Bull or gumming Velveeta?<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Speaking of Walkers: If every human who ever walked the earth (over 100 billion of us!)\u00a0 were buried in one place, each in their own 6-foot x 12-foot plot, the cemetery would be the size of Texas.\u00a0 Abel’s grave would be in the northwest corner of the panhandle, which is the most Republican district<\/a> in the United States.\u00a0 For what it’s worth.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 1796 was the year that the city of Cleveland (originally spelled Cleaveland) <\/em>was founded.\u00a0 This would prompt young Ohio farmboys to launch what would become an autumn ritual: meeting behind the barn to smoke cornsilk and make sly biblical references to Cleaveland<\/em>, without ever mentioning or remembering which party is supposed to cleave unto whom.\u00a0 The descendants of those farmboys carry on today, as Cleveland Browns fans.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0 Every violent tragedy now, we are all asking, “Is it a hate crime?\u00a0 Is it terrorism?” as if the name we assign to it will somehow put it in a compartment removed from normal life.\u00a0 Sad news: this is<\/em> normal life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022\u00a0 My new artistic credo is, go bold or go home.\u00a0 Like Andy Warhol, minus the decadence. I’m getting too old to play things safe and, frankly, safe isn’t all that interesting. \u2022\u00a0 That said, I do have self-imposed limits … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/c7.jpg\")
<\/a>\u2022\u00a0 Now-You-Know Department:\u00a0 This figure-8-shaped item (at right), which most people would just call a plug, is actually a C7 connector.\u00a0 The prongs on the appliance comprise the C8 connector.\u00a0 These are most commonly found on audio\/video devices.\u00a0 Sadly, now that you have eaten of the Tree of Electrical Knowledge, you must be banished from the Garden.\u00a0 Depart then, and cover your connectors in shame.<\/p>\n