{"id":8241,"date":"2013-12-11T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2013-12-11T07:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T12:27:53","slug":"random-time-killing-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/12\/11\/random-time-killing-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Time Killing Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, been over a week so I feel compelled to put something up here &#8211; though I don&#8217;t really have much to say (what, you don&#8217;t really wanna hear about the weather or the &#8220;Texas Bowl&#8221; do you?).  I guess I need to start titling these posts with something other than the day of the week. <\/p>\n<p>As was mentioned in the comments on the previous thread, I didn&#8217;t watch any of the live &#8220;Sound of Music&#8221; on NBC. Mostly because I&#8217;m not a musical kind of guy (I like music, just not musicals).  I just have a hard time suspending my disbelief.  In my experience, people don&#8217;t spontaneously erupt into song and dance numbers.  And, I mean, a bunch of &#8220;street tough&#8221; gang members bursting into song and snapping their fingers and dancing?  I don&#8217;t think so.  I never saw that happen on &#8220;The Wire&#8221;.  I will give credit to NBC for at least trying to do something different in this age of &#8220;American Idol&#8221; bullshit teevee.  Along those lines, I liked this Simon Pegg tweet earlier this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is a pre\u00c3\u00abmptive satirical critique of X Factor culture in which social misfits are imbued with sudden fame.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simon Pegg (@simonpegg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/simonpegg\/statuses\/410679209619881984\">December 11, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Uruguay, which has legalized (and nationalized) the pot industry.  Apparently every adult will be able to buy 40 grams a month, and if you get a license you can grow up to six plants.  Let&#8217;s see, 80 grams for me and the wife to split a month, 28.3 grams in an ounce, that&#8217;s a bit less than three OZs a month.  Yeah, I think we could make that work.  <\/p>\n<p>I guess everybody heard that Nelson Mandela died and (horror of horrors) Obama shook Raul Castro&#8217;s hand at the funeral.  You know what that means, right? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/chamberlain-shook-hands-hitler\"> John McCain reminded us that Neville Chamberlain shook Hitler&#8217;s hand<\/a>, so clearly that means that we&#8217;re going to cede Florida to Cuba.  I&#8217;m trying to think of the downside to that, but can&#8217;t really think of anything.  For one, it&#8217;ll mean national healthcare for all our NY retirees down there &#8211; gets them off our books, and they won&#8217;t need insurance anymore.  Plus we probably won&#8217;t be hearing much more from Marco Rubio.  <\/p>\n<p>OK, I guess I&#8217;ll give in and talk about the weather.  It got cold again here (not super cold, considering it&#8217;s December, but colder than it&#8217;s been), but we more or less got nothing from the big killer storm that worked its way across the country.  I&#8217;m starting to wonder why it is we&#8217;re supposedly known for shitty weather around here &#8211; we&#8217;ve become the Miami of the Northeast.  Our friends to the east of Lake Ontario aren&#8217;t so lucky, though.  They&#8217;re currently in the midst of Lake Effect snow where the accumulation is being measure in feet.  Like a foot or more yesterday and another couple of feet today.  Sucks for them, but they&#8217;re used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, time to get going for work.  I guess we&#8217;ll have to talk about the Texas Bowl next time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, been over a week so I feel compelled to put something up here &#8211; though I don&#8217;t really have much to say (what, you don&#8217;t really wanna hear about the weather or the &#8220;Texas Bowl&#8221; do you?). 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