Ugh, backing up a vehicle is such a drag! You either have to try and reverse your brain while you look through your mirrors, or you have to contort yourself into a twizzler-like twist to see straight out your back window. Now, some of you may be lucky enough to afford a car with a backup camera on it. If you are, you know how quickly you become reliant on the thing. It makes parallel parking a cinch, and forget about ever wondering where the family pet is before backing out of the driveway. Backup cameras make those situations an anxiety of the past. There’s good news for people like me who have only had the privilege of using a backup camera in cars I've rented or borrowed. The NTSB has ruled that in four years, by 2018, all new cars must come equipped with backup cameras. I'm all for it, these cameras save lives and make reversing a million times easier. We do, however, need to get this whole selfie craze under control before we haphazardly give another camera to most of America's teenagers. That aside, bring it on!
Jurassic Park is an awesome movie. That is a fact for a number of reasons, but mainly because dinosaurs walk the earth again. It would be so awesome to have dinosaurs walking the earth again…well, actually, maybe not. They would end up eating us, and that wouldn’t be fun. A wooly mammoth, on the other hand, would be cool. A giant, furry elephant?! Yes please! If you agree with me on that, you’ll be happy to hear that a group of scientists just preformed a necropsy (an autopsy on an animal) on a preserved wooly mammoth. During the procedure, they found blood and tissue samples like none ever found before. Thanks to the amazing preservation of the mammoth, for the first time scientists have the resources to not only learn more than ever before about this species, but in the future they could possibly clone one!!! Ok, I may be getting ahead of myself; there is a lot of scientific witchcraft and wizardry that needs to happen first. Not to mention a lot of ethical and scientific questions to answer as well. Putting all that aside though, seeing a wooly mammoth would be pretty cool I think.
When people go to Disney World it’s to have a good time, maybe a little adventure, and overall some excitement. The people eating at Downtown Disney’s T-Rex Café on Monday definitely got their fill of excitement. The centerpiece for the aquatic themed room in the T-Rex Café was a huge fish tank filled with fish and other marine life. During dinner the tank sprang a small leak. Well…not so much a small leak, but more of a giant leak. The fish tank began to spew gallons upon gallons of water onto the floor and restaurant patrons. The leak was so big that the fish were being shot out onto the tables and floor along with the water. It was reported that all the fish and aquatic life were saved alive. Apparently, the staff of the café did a great job handling the situation. And the guests of the restaurant all left happy. Even though they didn’t get the night out they expected in Disney World, they got an equally enjoyable night at SeaWorld instead, and they never had to leave the park.
There are many reasons not to speed, I don’t think we need to list the whys here, but one of the reasons is that it can be expensive. Anyone who has gotten a speeding ticket knows that it is an expensive law to break. It’s easy to get upset about the ticket, and forget the real reason for it. Tickets are given out to motivate people to drive safely and follow the speed limits. A town in Texas has started posting their speed enforcement locations on various social media sites. The idea is that motorists can check the site, know where the speed trap is, and drive safely so as to avoid a ticket. It’s an interesting concept. I, for one, am interested in anything that will reduce the number of people slamming their breaks when they see a police car on the side of the road.
Everyone knows the Forrest Gump quote “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” Outside of thinking of the movie, this quote doesn’t come to mind often. This past weekend, however, it was publicly displayed. Not the quote itself, but the message. Edgar Martirosyan was working his normal shift, delivering pizzas just like any other day. Then he got a delivery going to “writers at the Dolby Theater.” What Edgar didn’t know was that the pizzas were going to the Dolby Theater, but not to a room of writers. The delivery was to go to the Oscars. When Edgar arrived with the three large pizzas, host Ellen DeGeneres led him through the crowd handing out slices to some of the world’s biggest stars! He even got the chance to meet his favorite star, Julia Roberts. Edgar Martirosyan’s life truly was like a box of chocolates. He went to work fully expecting just another run-of-the-mill, nougat-filled day, and instead he was greeted with an amazing cherry cordial-filled star-studded event. It was, as Edgar Martirosyan put it, “the American dream.”
