Crazy lights

Ry and I were driving home through the country roads of Southern Virginia last night (it might be central Virginia, but it feels like the deep south down there). As we are driving on a dark road surrounded by farms, a light shines directly at us from ahead. It's in our lane. It circles about. We gasp and swerve into the other lane - luck would have it that at 11:00 p.m. the farm roads are sparse of traffic. As we pass the light, we realize that it is a man, walking down the middle of our lane, flailing his arm about with his flashlight in it. There was another man walking with him who had chosen to walk on the shoulder of the road.

This post may not do it justice, but it was weird. white lights darting about in front of you late at night on a lonely road. If we had been drinking beer it might have been a UFO story.

MySpace to determine the future of the USA?

So today's story is one of technology and I guess how far we've come. Quoted from the linked story, "...there's a new marker of the elusive "it" factor: The number of people who have added you as a MySpace friend." I'm not sure I want to publically admit it (wait, it's online, isn't that already public admittance?) but I have a MySpace page. I have reconnected with some high school and college friends through MySpace. It's been a good place to share comments, stories, and photos as well as catch up on everyone's life. My sister, on the other hand, believes anyone with a college degree and a MySpace page needs some help. Now don't get all mad at her yet, she's not saying that cruely, but just stating her opinion that MySpace is a playground for teenyboppers to share their latest crushes and dating stories ("OMG, my BFN and I totally HH for 10 min!")

But back to the link at hand... So if the primaries are a popularity contest and your friends on MySpace are the voters, then yes the democratic candidates are ahead. But if the primaries are still when you go into a booth with a little curtain and push a button on a touch screen that says in big green letters "VOTE" then maybe we don't have anything here. I guess I'll say you decide.

Eggs, it's whats for breakfast

So saturday morning our alarm clock sounds the "News, Traffic and Weather" of the local radio station. The traffic report includes a story about a tractor trailer that has spilled its contents on the capital beltway causing a back up and delays. Not uncommon for the DC Metro area, what was uncommon was the contents being eggs.

This morning, MSNBC lists the story on their website. Just one more joy of living in this city.