The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa

That's So Mature

Maturity is when you realize that you're not going to die if you can't have it.
--the lock (me)

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
- Benjamin Disraeli

When We Agree Without Thinking

Three posts in three months. Pitiful.

I had a thought. Understanding something isn't the same as agreeing with it although we all are victim of this. Some ideas, we agree with only because we understand it and it's always been that way. We have understood it for so long we may even think it was our idea to begin with.

It is possible to see someone's point but completely disagree with it because of varying outcomes. You can see it unfolding in a way the other does not if you think about it. The trick is figuring out what you've already accepted without thinking about and reevaluating that decision injecting your own principles.

You can convince a person to set their arm on fire given enough time (lots of it...like years), support, evidence, testimony and maybe even an example or two or a million. It doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I've been up for 30 hours straight. I wonder if that has something to do with me making my first post in a couple of months.

Gibberish or the Language of God?

I let Toddler Lock got crazy on my laptop. Here is what she had to say:

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Nnghghhkkkkk bn nee e iiiiiiiiiiiiokim mnnn nnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnn kl.m,,;l.;]

--

Everything in the house is a toy for her...except her toys. Protect your things!

Power of a Few

In the absence of understanding, a very large majority go with the experts' point of view which in many cases is from a very small minority.
-the lock (me)

Strange Messages

I got into work this morning and had 2 voicemails. I checked them, they were voice response units saying I need to push 2 for this 3 for that. Kind of odd. I deleted the worthless messages then checked the caller ID. It was the local county jail. Hmmmm. Maybe I should start calling family members to see if they're unincarcerated. Is that a word? It is now.

McSecret

The term secret sauce was created during the coldwar, in order to help discontinue the use of the term "russian" dressing.

Talker Toddler

Toddler lock turned 18 months yesterday evening. At this stage in her life, she is saying the word: mom, dad, yeah, good, pat, blast off, go, duck, bye.

Don't ask.

Mom wants to get her a potty trainer seat. Not to necessarily begin potty training. Just to get her accustomed to it being around.

Quick McScape

I had an idea for a restaurant design. Particularly useful in high crime areas. If the place were being robbed, one of the staff could hit a 'hostage' button and all of the windows in the place would turn into doors and slide open providing a quick escape. The number of exits in the place would go from two to 20 and the patrons could scatter out the window-doors leaving the criminal with few hostages. Criminals hold hostages by controlling the few exits a place has. It's just a bottleneck. Opening the whole restaurant up would negate this form of control. Crime would be reduced by a simple, extra architectural feature.

I thought it was a good idea.