50 Random Thoughts of People My Age

I noticed this online on a blog I read (link) and I still can't stop laughing at some of these things.... hahaha. Seriously, number 3, 5, 11, and 38 are so true! ENJOY!

1. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
2. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.
3. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
4. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
5. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
6. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
7. Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
8. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
9. The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase "Regards" again.
10. Do you remember when you were a kid playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.
11. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
12. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
13. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
14. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
15. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone's laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it.
16. How in the the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
17. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
18. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
19. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.
20. Lol has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".
21. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
22. Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.
23. Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".
24. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?
25. Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)...ummm...Goonies"
26. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
27. While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it...thanks Mario Kart.
28. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
29. I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.
30. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.
31. Bad decisions make good stories
32. Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do!
33. Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
34. If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.
35. Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from, this shouldn't be a problem....
36. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
37. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to fall after leaning your chair back a little too far.
38. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
39. I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. I think things like, “I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?”
40. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dang it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?
41. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
42. When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light internet stalking.
43. I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
44. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
45. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
46. I think that if, years down the road when I'm trying to have a kid, I find out that I'm sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
47. Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what do to with it.
48. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket and/or Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
49. I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
50. The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimate d that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There's nothing like being made to feel like a fatty before I enjoy my normal dinner.

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My dream machine -- Old school NES arcade built from a PC

Yet again.... another great Gizmodo find! I currently have my old NES with 20 or so games in my room and I think that it would be SO SICK to build something like this!!! Ahhhh.... This was built from a PC emulator and paddles. Maybe after work in my free time I could start building this..... anyone down?

Build Your Own Bartop NES Cabinet [DIY]: "

If you've got a spare PC and 17-inch monitor, why not fashion your own NES bartop cabinet slash arcade machine?

Step-by-step instructions are available over at Instructables, but the end product is a tabletop Nintendo emulator with both USB ports and authentic NES plugs. Plus, since it's PC-based as opposed to NES-based, the whole thing can function as a standard computer as well.

But what would you prefer—a sleekly integrated screen with a tiny emulator PC, or a chunky, nostalgic cabinet like this one? For some reason (probably that I'm old enough to have thrown more than one birthday party in an arcade), I'd take the chunky cabinet. Then I'd kick myself as I remembered that my apartment has no space for the thing. [Instructables via gearfuse]

All-Edges Brownie Pan Makes My Inner Child Rejoice!

Okay.... I am very much obsessed with the crispy corners of brownies.... THIS LOOKS AWESOME!!!!! I might just have to buy it! Here is a post from the blog Gizmodo. The author bags on it, but I know that is BOMB TRACK!
--Randy

All-Edges Brownie Pan Makes My Inner Child Want to Die [Taste Test]: "

Attention, gross chewy-edge brownie people: You're wrong. You always have been, and you always will be. But that hasn't stopped you from getting your very own brownie pan, to help you indulge your vice in the purest way possible.

Here's the pitch:

The serpentine wall shape of the All Edges Brownie Pan conducts heat better than your average baking pan resulting in more even cooking. The crazy shape also gives each piece two yummy edges,and that's where the concentrated brownie love is!

Granted, I can get behind that operative term—"even cooking"—as long as it can be twisted to mean that my brownies will be uniformly gooey, not chewy, or crunchy, or whatever wrongheaded adjective you choose to cling to.

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Utah’s 4-day Work Week

Last year, the state of Utah mandated a four-day work week for state employees. The salaries and number of hours each worker put in remained the same as the workday became longer, but offices were closed on Fridays.

After 12 months, Utah’s experiment has been deemed so successful that a new acronym could catch on: TGIT (thank God it’s Thursday). The state found that its compressed workweek resulted in a 13% reduction in energy use and estimated that employees saved as much as $6 million in gasoline costs. Altogether, the initiative will cut the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions by more than 12,000 metric tons a year. And perhaps not surprisingly, 82% of state workers say they want to keep the new schedule.

Even those who do not work for the state have benefitted since offices are open later Monday through Thursday. Other states and businesses are looking at the results and may possibly try the schedule out. Link -via Digg