What I Was Thinking While I Was on the Toilet Today

The toilet really has got to be the best modern invention ever.* Imagine if everyone was still doing their business in trenches and holes with no plumbing to flush it away. Blech. Yes, although there are many parts of the world that unfortunately still have to resort to that, at least there is a foreseeable solution. Thank you, Sir John Harrington. You, you really deserve inventor of the millenium award. Hm, maybe that's why the toilet is called the john.

I learned from Wiki answers that it takes about 1.6 gallons of water per toilet flush. That's quite a bit of water. It grossed me out when I first started doing this, but usually I would wait until the second trip to the bathroom to flush the toilet. I got over the gross-ness, because it's my own anyway, and now I get to use two times less water! (This is for number one only, of course =]) Gotta stick to the best mantra learned from Meet the Fockers.

<3. If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

*The next best invention is tampons.

Do You Own a Smartphone? You'll Get Far in China.

China's Migrant Workers and Smartphones as Status Symbols

Interesting. I was even more fascinated to discover at the end of the blog post that 90 percent of the world cannot afford a smartphone. Such a staggering statistic when I see my friends all put out their Androids, iPhones, and Blackberries to text someone back, check the score of a game, or google the answer to a question because it's right at their fingertips. Technology may be advancing at lightning quick speed, but it seems to be a very select sliver of the global population who is privileged enough to reap its benefits. Put someone who possesses the know-how to utilize this technology next to someone who probably doesn't even have a mobile phone, and where are you? One possible answer is the Beijing subway.

Mac, 1. Windows, 0.

Today I was talking to my friend and he commented about how awesome Windows 7 was because it had this built-in search feature where you could type in keywords and the program would look for all the files in your computer that had those terms in it. Before when he owned an older version of Windows he had to download some Google software that had that function because it was not yet part of the OS. I responded by sounding amazed that there would be such a neat little useful function.

Inside I was smugly thinking, yah, my older generation Mac has that as an option on the toolbar too, and it was already a built-in feature without additional software downloads. It's called Spotlight.

"Japanese Phone Makers Look to Ride Android's Surge"

Complete the sentence. To be competitive in the global economy nowadays, you have to _____________________.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/business/global/03android.html

Jumping on the Bandwagon

I have just discovered the many uses and features of a smartphone. This could be dangerous.