I was watching the local channels for updates on weather and such, and saw a segment on Dr. Phil that cracked me up. They had this guy who claimed he could treat ADHD/ADD (whatever the stupid medical term is for what’s really just obnoxiousness) with diet. Ok, sounds reasonable. Then he goes to show his plan to this lady and her child, and here’s his method of finding what foods are bad for the kid’s body. The body supposedly knows what’s good/bad for it. Alright, I can imagine that possibly being true. Now you’re wondering, “Well, how does he get this kid to listen to his body about what’s good/bad for it? He obviously hasn’t been picking the good foods so far, so it’s not like his body has been that helpful of an indicator.” Here’s the hillarious part: he has the kid hold his middle finger and thumb together as tight as he can and some food in the other. He would then try to break the kid’s grip by pulling his finger between the kid’s two fingers to feel how tight he had them held together, failing to break through on many fruits and vegetables. I’ll give you a moment to stop laughing. Anyway, the lady and the kid of course bought it, and I’m still laughing, as is that guy, all the way to the bank I’m sure. Even if there is any science behind his “grip theory,” it’s lost in his subjective means of measuring.
Alright, back to weather watching. Here’s hoping the roads will be good enough to get home today.
So I spent the weekend playing Santa and playing Crystal Chronicles with Luda. It was a bit rough, but I’m done. Well, almost anyway. I can’t say much without revealing too much about presents, but Saturday was an interesting day so I feel like I should share.
First, shame on Toni for not getting up early and going shopping with me. 
Second, I have some advice for Worst Buy: on the Saturday before christmas, a busy day for the “Craig Krinsels” you targeted with your latest marketing campaign, you might want to have cashiers at all of your freaking registers!! You know, so you don’t have lines that wrap halfway around the stupid store! Perhaps their slogan should be: “Come to best buy and we’ll cure your bad habit of procrastinating! After waiting in line with all the other procrastinators for hours, you won’t ever wait until the last minute to buy presents again!” And no, this isn’t just a problem for the store in Beavercreek. I found what I wanted, went to get in line, and promptly left the store in disgust once I found the end of the damn line. I then went down to the store in Miamisberg. Again, freaking long line. About the same length. Bottom line: Worst Buy lost a sale yesterday to Circuit City. At least I got a laugh from a riced-out, green Impala in their parking lot. I’ll try to get the image up here from my phone, although it’s not a very good picture.
Third, traffic was bad, but no worse than expected. I managed to bypass the major traffic problem areas for the most part because I’m so cool. 
The rest of the weekend was spent playing Crystal Chronicles with Luda, mainly working towards gathering cure/thunder rings. Our precious rings. Our ring/myrrh gathering was hampered by the stupid glare-causing sun, so we engineered a ghetto curtain.
The true geekiness of Lego logic gates cannot be measured by us mere morals, but be assured it is beyond comprehension. I can’t believe I skipped past this when I first saw it on slashdot’s main page.
In an effort to make beatings from bullies even more painful, someone has created pierced eyewear. Yes, they pierce your nose to hold the lenses on your face. I can see the slogan now: “Less comfortable than contacts, yet dorky looking!”
And apparently the guy left them on for 4 days. I wouldn’t want to wear any type of eyewear to bed, and sleeping on those seems like it would be much worse.
Sitting here with Tone in IDL training. None of the variables are assigned types, and the syntax is all messed up. The value is being assigned to the variable on the right side of the assignment operator? What kind of god would allow that?
So, Marge’s great idea this year for the family xmas party: having everyone bring five $1 lotto tickets, put them all in a basket and have sort of white elephant gift exchange. On your turn you would either take 5 tickets from the basket and scratch them off or you would have the opportunity to steal three at random from someone else. If you go to the well, so to speak, the winners, if any, are announced. Can you see the problem with this? Yeah, doesn’t take a genius does it? Holy statistical problem, Batman! 60% chance at a known value(s) versus the overall odds of winning something, which is about 25%.
Which brings me to the title of my post. Third person to go to the well scratches off a $3000 winner. D’oh! Things just got a bit more serious. With loose rules on stealing, this was a problem. Myself, I did my best to ignore it, and stayed the heck away from the matter. Anyway, we are doing something a bit less stressful next year since our family is in charge. I’m thinking we use the $3000 as an endowment for a talent competition of sorts. ^_^
