"Sanitation Control Vehicles" sounds much more official than "garbage trucks". So official that after I typed it, I thought that maybe it was an actual term, that people may actually use.
NOPE!
So.. umm.. use it! All the cool kids are. 😛
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LOUD!
And this one if you want to undo it without having to reload the page:
shhh!
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I think this might be my ultimate favorite video of 2011!
I thought it was important to let everyone know that I am currently wearing the reddest shirt ever.
That is all.
Edit: here's a picture, since spudart is asking to see it –
Ahh Netflix. I don't remember how, but during one of my searches last month I came across the movie "Transmorphers" and was intrigued by its reviews – a mix of "OMG THIS IS HORRIBLE" to "This is so bad it's good." Not available to stream, and not willing to part with money to watch it, I tried to get it sent here from another library. It took a couple weeks, but I finally got it (along with the sequel "Transmorphers: Fall of Man") and just finished watching it.
Wow.
It was pretty horrible.
The basic premise is: alien machines take over the planet, destroy humanity, and blacken the sky. The survivors live in hiding, but for some reason after hundreds of years things suddenly escalate. One man, a soldier who had been charged with treason 5 years earlier and cryogenically frozen as punishment, is humanities only hope and leads an attack on the machines. Their mission is to capture a machine's power source, reprogram it with a command to shut down the machines, and take it to the mainframe where it can be uploaded like a virus. Oh, and Mr. Freezerpants Soldier finds out that he's actually a cyborg.
It's hard to imagine making a decent movie with a plot like that, and unfortunately I can't say that the odds were overcome. The acting was pretty bad. The special effects were a joke (those old movies from a million years ago with clay dinosaurs/skeletons/cyclopi/etc were more realistic). There were times when a weapon was firing, but they seemed to have forgotten to put in the flash or laser beam, and the exact opposite where something happened but the audio from the explosion or whatever seemed to be missing. There were several points where the background music was louder than the dialogue.
So, is there any way the movie could have been worse? Yep. The audio for the dialogue was out of sync for most of the movie. It was probably off by half a second or so, but it's a bit disturbing to watch a person's mouth and voice be off like that.
Even being so bad, I did find it entertaining, so I'm going to jump over to Netflix after I post this and give it a 2/5 rating. Up next… "Transmorphers: Fall of Man"!
(For those curious, it is available from Amazon, so you can read the reviews here: Transmorphers. There are also used copies for like $3 if anyone really REALLY wants to see it.)
I… wait.. uhhmmm…
PLEASE TELL ME THIS ISN'T REALLY HOW COTTON CANDY IS MADE!
Today, and last week (either Tuesday or Wednesday) I went to Subway (store #3361 in Whitewater, WI) for breakfast. I've mentioned before that I love their breakfast flatbreads. It seems as if Subway wants me to burn myself and spill coffee all over though.
Here's the problem: they're giving out lids that don't fit the cups. They must have run out of the nice black lids that fit, and switched to a cheaper lid that's just a little too big for the cup. Unfortunately, when trying to put on a lid that's just a little too big it feels like it SHOULD be able to go on… until you force it, causing the cup to squeeze and spill coffee – right on your hand.
That first time I just decided to shrug it off, even though the mis-fitting lid allowed the coffee to slosh up out of the cup while pulling into the parking lot at work, spilling coffee in my car. Today I avoided a similar mess by only filling the cup about 3/4 full.
Like I said, the first time I just shrugged it off, but now they've had at least a week to figure this out. The lids don't fit. It's easy. They either don't care about their customers, or they can't figure out that a lid that doesn't fit… doesn't fit. Whether this is an act of incompetence, or a willful disregard for their customers, I will no longer be visiting this, or any other Subway, unless it's somehow made quite obvious that things like this are taken seriously.
This one show the rims of the lid and cup lined up with each other (or rather, not lining up):
This last one is the lid, with a sheet of paper used to measure the cup. The edge of the paper to the blue line is a measure of the inside of the rim, which is quite a bit smaller than the inside rim on the lid:
