{"id":32,"date":"2011-02-26T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-09-18T07:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T13:38:05","slug":"randomness-from-a-sleepy-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Randomness from a sleepy mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to know what the potential buyers from House Hunters International do for a living.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, I&#8217;m happy for people who can spend $800,000 for an apartment in Italy, but they&#8217;re 23 years old and look like retail clerks.\u00a0 Jealous?\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t scientists genetically engineer a grass that only grows 3 inches high?\u00a0 You wouldn&#8217;t think it would be that difficult. \u00a0 They&#8217;ve come up with giant watermelon and tomatoes the size of my thumbnail, but they can&#8217;t muck around with grass?\u00a0 Is Husqvarna\u00a0 involved in some giant conspiracy to keep our lawns out of control?<\/p>\n<p>Who came up with the popcorn ceiling and why?\u00a0 Texture, schmexture, it&#8217;s nothing but ugly.\u00a0 I want to meet the guy who convinced people that this was a good look for any room anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when the advantage of cable television was that there were no commercials?\u00a0 That&#8217;s why you PAID for television, because you could watch shows, even complete movies, with no interruptions.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;ve got 750 channels, and 494 of them are nothing but infomercials.\u00a0\u00a0 Satellite radio subscribers, take note.\u00a0 This is happening on the radio, too.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I was in a restaurant that offered soft boiled eggs for breakfast.\u00a0 What happened to soft boiled eggs?<\/p>\n<p>Elephants are huge, and they only eat vegetation.\u00a0 Lions are lean, and they only eat meat.\u00a0 Why should I have salad EVER?<\/p>\n<p>Why is there an Easter Bunny rather than an Easter Chicken, or Easter Duck, or some other egg bearing animal?<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t they sell cashews or macadamias in their shells?<\/p>\n<p>Society has decided that a person isn&#8217;t responsible enough to drive before the age of 16, vote before the age of 18, or drink alcohol before the age of 21, yet\u00a0 can retain custody of a child as long as you gave birth to it, even if you were only 12.\u00a0 Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>When will we finally have hover travel, like in the Jetsons?<\/p>\n<p>Are airline tickets for flights on 12.13.12 going to be really really cheap?<\/p>\n<p>Why hasn&#8217;t someone invented a pillow that stays cool on both sides so you don&#8217;t have to flip it over?\u00a0 Battery operated, maybe, or on a swivel cord?\u00a0 (I&#8217;m claiming rights to this idea, in case any of you try to patent it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, I have seats that heat in my car, but I can&#8217;t get a mattress with built in heat.\u00a0 Why, oh why am I destined to have a cold arse for the first 30 minutes of sleep?<\/p>\n<p>The national average salary for a high school teacher is $52,000 annually; astronauts range from $65,000 &#8211; $100,000 annually; the President of the United States earns $400,000; LeBron James earned $45,000,000 last year.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s a head scratcher.<\/p>\n<p>Why hasn&#8217;t Jelly Belly made a bacon flavored jelly bean?\u00a0 How did cappuccino flavor make it to market before bacon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to know what the potential buyers from House Hunters International do for a living.\u00a0\u00a0 I mean, I&#8217;m happy for people who can spend $800,000 for an apartment in Italy, but they&#8217;re 23 years old and look like retail &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/?p=32\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekarmafarmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}