Olivia Mojica: American Idol – Out; Pron – In
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Isn't she so cute in her American Idol profile? And she's only 18? Isn't this whole video like ranked #1 on "what women do to mess up their lives" - congratulations on leading a fulfilling life. It's well deserved.
Well; now she's even cuter (in my opinion at least). She washed out of American Idol and she quickly descended into the porn industry. I'm not sure if its a lateral move or not. Could even be a step up. Quality entertainment. That's what this is.
Pretty crappy video, but I guess its her audition tape for the next round of guys who will take a hit at her, for cash.
Isn't she the second American Idol who likes to tape herself bangin' nasties with people? I forget the other one's name.
Dignity. In a word. That sums up this post.
Diatomaceous Earth: A Flea Control Experiment
We have 3 dogs and 2 cats in our house. We've lived here for about 2 years now and the past 2-3 months are the first time we've ever noticed fleas. I think it's because of the new lawn chemical company we use. They hadn't been insect spraying during the winter, and since January was warm, I think the fleas came out a little early.
Anyways, our animals have some fleas now - well short of an infestation, but one flea is too many in my book. We use Frontline (or whatever it's called), but it has been awful at controlling them, the fleas kept coming back. So I purchased some Diatomaceous Earth to try and kill them.
From what I read online, it works by dehydrating insects with a soft, waxy bodies. I guess it's made of dead sea animals of some kind, and they absorb the water in the insect, killing them. Since it's not a chemical, they cannot become immune to it - which makes me happy. And it's environmentally friendly. You can use it on ant mounds as well - God knows nothing else gets rid of them, so I'll be trying that during the summer.
So I buy this bag. Maybe 3-4 pounds or so (a $20 investment, maybe a little less).
First; what they don't tell you. Diatomaceous Earth is a very fine powder. Think flour. You blow on it and it goes everywhere like a fine dust. So spreading it is very difficult. If you buy the stuff, buy a powder applicator so you can spray Diatomaceous Earth onto the target. Otherwise, you'll just end up with a clumpy distribution. Also buy a mask for your face. The powder isn't harmful, but it does irritate the eyes a little and I don't think you wanna be breathing large quantities of it - better safe than sorry, right?
I had put some on the carpets last week, but tonight we tried it on the dogs. The dogs shook almost immediately afterwards and dust went everywhere! The cats went mental - but they do that no matter what. There is a nice haze in the house now. But, if we let the dogs out and they get wet, it defeats the whole purpose of dehydrating the insects.
But; not sure if it'd work or not, we decided to become mad scientists. I found a random flea on a dog and put it in a jar with the dust and shook it around for a bit. The flea immediately became coated with the Diatomaceous Earth and was jumping around like mad. The results? 15 minutes later, still jumping and walking around the jar. 30 minutes later, it was dead. No movement was noticed at all.
Pretty impressive; but we will see if it works on a wide scale experiment on the animals. I have hopes for total flea extermination within the next few days.
Product Videos Made Simple
After a long wait, we've finally implemented product videos onto one of our sites. Pretty simple to do, through You Tube. The compression makes the color look a little odd, but it serves its purpose. Here's a quick link to a product so you can see a sample of how we've implemented videos. It's pretty simple really (well, for any site other than a Yahoo Store). Thanks to Don for working on Good Friday and getting this completed for me. It works great and easy to use. Don is always good at that!
I wish YouTube had an autoplay feature and an auto-repeat feature as well. The videos for these items are only 10 seconds long and have no sound. I see no reason for them not to start working without any interaction.
Knut Needs a Mate
Follow-up on the Knut story. Zoo officials now want to find Knut a mate.
Most recently, the zoo in the western German city of Gelsenkirchen on Wednesday made it known that it would be interested in having Knut meet two-year-old polar bear Lara. "In theory," a spokeswoman for the Gelsenkirchen zoo told the news agency ddp on Wednesday, "he could already come here when he turns one."
Knut already claimed his first victim a few weeks back. Now you want to produce more of these blood thirsty killers? Planet of the Apes started like this. First, they were cute house animals, then they killed us all! It's like history is repeating itself (well, movie history, or something like that).
I feel like Tim, who warned King Arthur about the killer bunny in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but no one listens.
Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
Oh sure, its just a harmless baby polar bear is it? I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh know, you *knew* didn't you? Oh its just a harmless little baby polar bear, isn't it?
Let's compare shall we?
- Killer Rabbit: White
- Knut: White
- Killer Rabbit: Killed Bors
- Knut: Killed a Panda
- Killer Rabbit: Cute and Cuddly
- Knut: Cute and Cuddly
There can be no mistake. Knut is an unstoppable killing machine. Stop this creature before he bites your head off, like the rabbit did to poor Bors.
Home Depot Self Check Out
So, I go shopping at Home Depot for some shelves for our warehouse. I get the shelves after searching through the store for an hour (does anyone else understand why it is impossibly difficult to find something at Home Depot, anyways) - of course there isn't an employee around to help out. Is there ever?
So I lug these shelves up to the cash registers to check out. They aren't heavy; just bulky. So I want to check out with a human being who has a gun to scan these things in. It's the middle of the day on a Thursday. One, count them one, register is open, the rest are all closed. Four employees are standing by the "self checkout" helping people ring up their stuff. I understand the concept of the self checkout and generally like it for small stuff. Impersonal. Yes. But do employees at these stores every say hello anyways? No, so they are impersonal too.
Anyways, four people at the self checkout helping people ring up stuff. One register open. The line at the register is like 6 people long, and course everyone has a ton of junk. Nails; that have to be rung up one a time. Eh? It takes me 30 minutes to move 5 feet and get checked out.
If it takes four people to run a self checkout that should, optimally, require 0 people (or 1 maybe to make sure people don't steal stuff), then isn't there a problem? Perhaps?