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Randomly Weirded Out

WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH… RESTROOM HABITS?!

Having some sort of hint at a persons bathroom/restroom habits gives you some sort of insight into a person. Well.. maybe it doens’t give you insight, but it surely leaves an impression on you. A lasting impression.

It’s like that one time I was doing a #2 at a previous workplace. One of my bosses came in and took a piss. I recognized him by his shoes. And then he proceeds to walk out of the bathroom without washing his hands. Sick. And THIS is the guy who always has a bottle of Purell around. Weird. After that incident I made sure never to shake hands with him.

Anyway, today’s rant is brought about by an experience I just had not 5 minutes ago:

I just went to the building restroom. In this restroom there is one urinal and one stall. Right as I entered in, a guy was just leaving the urinal. Clearly he had PEED in it and didn’t flush. Apparently he didn’t see the sign that said, “GENTLEMAN ALWAYS DO’T (sic) FORGET TO FLUSH” So I was a bit grossed out putting my pee on top of this stranger’s pee, but part of the advantage of peeing standing up is that it grosses you out less (well, at least I think so).

So I’m there, having a jolly good time peeing my brains out when I hear the door open. It strikes me as kind of odd since I’m used to taking care of business on my own that there are now 3 people in here. I half expect to hear the door to the stall open since I’m using the only available urinal. It doesn’t open. After 10 seconds of silence I look over my shoulder, whilst peeing, to see if the guy is waiting for me or what. I see no one. I shrug it off thinking this guy stealthily made his way into the stall. Odd that I didn’t hear it lock. All this time the water is running from the sink next to me (there’s a barrrier in between) and I’m thinking, “Jeez.. this guy is washign his hands for a REALLY long time! How anal.”

I finish peeing and to my surprise there’s no one there. It’s just an abandoned bathroom sink gushing water and no man. I realize then that the door opening was that guy leaving, not another person entering. Wtf?!

Can someone explain some things to me? 1) Already weirded out by him not flushing. 2) Why did he leave the water running? 3) Why are people so weird?!

I just thought it was so bizarre. I don’t have an obsession with bathroom habits, but I’m sure all of us have come across them. And often we are left scarred from such experiences.

Fight Clubz

The other day Audrey, Emily and I were talking about real life Fight Club between our friends and other potential fights we’d like to see.

Some notables:

- Blair vs Bush: We believe Bush would win because Blair is just pure British weenie
- Hillary Clinton vs Teresa Heinz: This is a tossup because Clinton’s is maniacal but Teresa’s got spunk
- Superman vs Batman: the eternal debate..
- Dumbledore vs Gandalf: Whose magic is stronger?

.. to discuss more go here!

(Yes, a minor attempt at reviving/utilizing the forums. ;))

Dog poo

I’m currently at home in LA on my last day of a 4-day. I’ve been down here attending the Microsoft PDC (Professional Developers Conference) which was interesting.

My parents live in a townhome community of about 20 or 30 homes gated into our own little bubble. The houses here are nice but one thing that lacks are yards (front and back) from any home. It’s not a big deal since we still have our concrete walkways.

I was walking around this morning when I was started by a huge rottweiler (i think) that seemed to be confined to someone’s 8×10 porch space (?). First of all, the barking almost made me crap my pants. Secondly, I don’t see what these people are thinking having a dog that 1) lives in such a confined space, 2) doens’t have a yard to run in (it was sitting on concrete steps) and 3) has a dog that obviously barks in an area where homes are fairly close together. What were these people thinking?? I hope they were dog sitting for the day.

What finally prompted me to write about this were the 2 or 3 piles of dog POO I saw on the said walkways!! What is up with THAT?! First they have a dog in an environment that I think is not fair for a dog (AND the neighbors) and now there’s dog POO right smack in the middle of the walkways?! Granted, the said poo may not have beloned to the said dog.. said..sed..zed… but these two events, which happened directly on the same walk, really annoys me. Don’t people think?!

While we’re talking about poo, here’s an amusing link from last week when Bush made a surprise appearance at the UN to talk about a terrorism issues. Apparently he doesn’t really know how their protocol works:

US President snapped requesting ‘bathroom break’

Yahoo! Mail seeks Yahoo! Males

I don’t know why I still have a Yahoo account. I remember that I got it after having a Hotmail account because I really thought Hotmail sucked and Yahoo was definitely better. The problem was that everyone kept emailing me at Hotmail (at the time) and I needed an MSN Passport for various reasons.

But with the advent of Gmail, I ditched Yahoo! Mail altogether. I do check my Yahoo! Mail every now and then for… well for reasons unknown I guess. I do receive the random email there from time to time.

I remember when the first Yahoo! Mail login page was very bare. No pictures. And then they decided to ramp up the marketing a bit and added this attractive woman on the front. I remember the first day I saw that and thought it was a nice surprise. They were sprucing up the interface a bit with nice colors, good fonts and a pretty face.

This same face greeted me for a long time.. I’d say a couple years. The other day I noticed that they revamped their interface again! Now instead of the attractive blond, I had a stately-looking elderly man greet me with his magical smile. I thought that was kind of interesting and it made me wonder if they were targeting the older crowd.

Well, today I logged in and this is what I saw:

and I was about to login when I noticed their ad. It reads: “We don’t just find viruses. We zap ‘em.” But when I looked at the picture I couldn’t make out how it related to their ad. Have a closer look yourself:

What pops out (figuratively..and literally) to you? Me thinks Yahoo’s target audience is horny, young men.

Blacks are “Looters” and White are “Finders”

“Well, at least that is what you’d think if you read the captions on the Yahoo Slideshow. … The theme is simple, if you’re a poor black in New Orleans you are a looter. If you are white you are a finder. Pathetic. And what we see here hardly constitutes looting in any real sense. These are people trying to get some food to keep from starving to death. “

Blacks are “Looters” and White are “Finders”