Olympics 2012
I’ve been waiting to watch the Olympics for awhile now, but since the games are not being shown on Qubo or Nick Jr. the odds of me actually watching much of them are slim to none. I did manage to get my kid interested in the diving and gymnastics events only because they were flashy. Once they went back to showing just the races, she tuned out and asked for her show. I sort of almost decided against the entire thing after catching a few minutes of the God awful opening ceremonies. That trip through history to return an iPhone was pretty awful.
Other than that, the Internet is doing a great job of covering the games. All of the results are coming in WAAAAY before NBC gets off their asses and airs the actual event. Waiting for NBC to show you the swimming competition is like working in IT and waiting to see Dark Knight Rises after the crowds die down a bit. You’re expecting your geek coworkers to not spoil it for you the minute after it comes out.
Does NBC understand that with Twitter and Facebook and oh, I don’t know Google and every other news site, that the results will be announced as they happen at the games and not during prime time when you choose to air the events? Maybe this is just proof at how vapid of a culture we’ve become, expecting the rest of the world to wait for us to show up… much like Michael Phelps at the pool. All that Subway made him slow.
Actually, I’ve got this vibe of treating this like it’s a reality show house competition. It seems very unpatriotic… or maybe uber-patriotic… like the bad kind of patriotism.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Beetles!
When we moved into our house in 2004, we were told by the exterminator who was doing work for the previous owners as part of the contract that we have a lot of bugs. Not in the house, but on the property. With two big oaks, two big maples, and a shit load of pines, there are plenty of reasons why there are lots of spiders, ants, and termites. Now, we’ve got beetles.
I had just cut the grass and we were relaxing in our patio chairs. I could distinctly smell the all too familiar scent of cat shit from our neighbor strays and it was pissing me off as usual. As my daughter wandered around playing and looking at bugs, she told me to come check out these strange, HUGE bugs. Sure enough, there was these gigantic beetles crawling in and around a pile of cat shit. Three to five of them were just frantically crawling out from under a pile of dirt and grass and poop. I walked throughout the yard and noticed another set of beetles doing the same thing. Apparently, I was lucky enough to not have stepped in either pile during my cutting of the grass.
We checked the Internet to try and find out what kind of beetles these were but no such luck. They are either dung beetles or hister beetles from what we could narrow down.
I went back out after dark with the camera but could find no trace of them. I even looked again this evening and no trace of them.
Squirrel Hill Tunnel Traffic
They have been working on the Squirrel Hill Tunnels for what seems like years. This past weekend they closed down from Friday through to Monday at 5:00AM to do more work. Traffic was still backed up at 6:30AM this morning as we were backing up to the Churchill exit. I thought they had gone late or there was an accident. No such thing.
Do you know what was backing traffic up so badly, this morning? Hundreds of commuters didn't expect to see half of the roof missing on the inside of the tunnel and had to slow down to inspect it REEEALLLL close.
Now, you may think I'm exaggerating, but for the 600 yards the roof had been ripped up above us, traffic slowed to a crawl. However, when we reached the end of where the work had been done, everybody took off like a shot. Literally no traffic exiting the tunnel. It's like, "Is it going to fall on me? What the hell is that curved thing up there?"
I was inspired to parody a meme that has been done to death, but it's been selling pretty good in my online stores.
I even got a shout out on Twitter from PittGirl
Best "Keep Calm and ...." shirt ever? Yes.#pittsburgh#tunnels skreened.com/mongoware/keep…
— Virginia Montanez (@JanePitt) July 30, 2012
I love this town and the people in it. Just... not... the ones staring up at the roof of the tunnels instead of actually driving.
Drive on, Pittsburgh
Drive on, Pittsburgh
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