Attention Deficit David

How Much Is That Kitty In The Airplane

While I understand what Continental airlines is getting at with this ticketing choice about pets in their online reservation system, it always strikes me as funny when I see it. (See section highlighted in yellow.)

I'll take a coach class window seat and a puppy.

Misadventures In Advertising

Misadventures In Advertising, originally uploaded by davidjschloss.

Here I present to you what has proven to be one of the most egregious mis-advertisements I've seen in a long time. This is an unaltered, untampered with bowl of Raisin Bran, poured out of a box of very expensive (relative to the stuff from Post or Kellogg's) cereal from Whole Foods.

Notice the pretty picture on the box. Notice the raisins in the pretty picture on the box. Now, notice that there are almost no visible raisins in the bowl?

This was the fourth of five bowls I got out of this box. The average number of raisins per bowl? Two. That makes this cereal more like a box of Bran than a box of Raisin Bran, eeh?

On the front of the box, under the picture it says "Serving Suggestion." My guess is that Whole Foods is suggesting that I go out and buy some fucking raisins to put into their worthless bowl of Bowel Flakes.

A Very Obsessive Thanksgiving To You

I'm not often obsessive, thankfully the gene that turned the houses of my parents into dueling junkyards usually only appears in me as a desire to get things done right fucking now when they're bothering me.

On Thanksgiving though, that approach doesn't usually work, resulting instead in a big pile of food that's ready at the wrong time. So for the last few thanksgivings I've turned to computer assistance to help plan my meals. It's been excel the last few years, but this year it was iCal.

Behold! A day's worth of cooking in order, timeline based! Now you too can play along with our home cooking game, Schlanderson Thanksgiving®

I've Been Waiting (Waiting) And I Want To Have You

Fwd:, originally uploaded by davidjschloss.

Seen posted over urinal at Japanese restaurant. I stood there for two-and-a-half hours, and didn't get the job. Guess I'm not good enough at waiting.

Good Morning, Good Morning, To You

Considering how much I LOVE the period of morning that runs from dawn until everyone has to be at work, it's surprising that I spend so little of my life awake during it.

Sure, I guess it's because I don't have to go to an office, and that in the times when I did have to go the whole "morning" thing was spoiled by the whole "office" thing. But I really do love doing errands in the early AM as a town, village or city wakes up. I love seeing things turn on, people start doing their thing. It's a great time to be awake.

Today I had to head to the farmer's market bright and early to get our turkeys for Thanksgiving and I managed to stop by the local coffee place (and pick up pies) then go to a new French bakery in town (a cake) then browse the farmer's market (root veggies) and get my birds.

And now, since I only got about four hours of sleep last night, having fully appreciated that which life has given me this day, I shall take my ass back to bed.

Customer Service Rocks

I forgot to mention recently that I bought a Saturn Vue hyrbid (called the Greenline) and I'm utterly in love with it. I was reminded of this when the phone just rang and it was a rep from the plant that built it, asking how I like it. I like it dandy, I said, and the two bits of feedback I had went right into a database to go to the product manager.

Friggin awesome.

God shuffled his feet

God shuffled his feet, originally uploaded by davidjschloss.

And i would ride 5000 miles

And i would ride 5000 miles, originally uploaded by davidjschloss.

Self portrait, mile 5000.03 for 2006

A Dark Time

"Before the Internet, we just wondered lots of things"

- Abby just now after we looked up the millionth little bit of trivia online that otherwise would have ended in "huh, I wonder about that..." without the benefit of the 'net.

Stomping Ground

So I was stomping around my bedroom in a rough approximation of Godzilla (don't ask, really I get goofy at bedtime sometimes) and then I had the odd thought that the "monster" movies never show the attacking creatures stopping to take a leak. Suddenly the thought of a giant lizard rampaging a city, breathing fire upon its occupants and then pausing mid-devestation to relieve him/herself while swatting Air Force planes from the sky really made me laugh. It's times like this I wish I were a cartoonist.