Nobrainer’s Think Tank

Per Drudge:

Obama says he ignored Beck rally…

I was more than happy that I chose to be out of town this weekend.

From WaPo…

The largest egg recall in U.S. history comes at a point of great consolidation in the egg industry…

Go on.

Just 192 large egg companies own about 95 percent of laying hens in this country

Wow… Talk about ownership concentration.

The NY Times has an article about how sometimes when people are faced with too many alarms, they learn to ignore them. There’s really not much in the article that I didn’t summarize in the previous sentence, but it’s a good segue into an idea that’s been on my mind recently.

Like some of you, I’m annoyed by car alarms, or as I think they should be called, car false alarms. In all my years, I’ve never heard an car alarm sounding for a proper reason. The only anecdote I have of a car alarm working properly came from a friend in high school. At that time someone through rock through his car’s window while it sat in his driveway. In the short time it took to get a look at the scene, the perp had already fled. In other words, the alarm told him immediately that his window was broken, whereas otherwise he would have had to wait until the morning to figure that out.

So I have a proposal. I think, that when a car is sounding an alarm for no good reason, it should be socially acceptable to give it a reason. I think that it should be allowed — if not encouraged — to throw rocks, bricks, or other suitably heavy, low value items through the windows of cars with annoyingly inaccurate alarms. That’s a fair response, right?

From my OnStar update (emphasis mine):

Based on oil life and mileage readings, next required maintenance and 25,000 mile service estimated at 31,400 miles.

That amuses me.

What really amuses me, however, is that the email contains a report about “remaining oil life.” And that is fine except for that a) the electronic display in the car shows that information and b) the oil life monitor is set by me. That means, as best I can tell, that if I reset the oil life monitor right now, OnStar would just tell me that I told the car about how good it’s oil was.

For a bunch of magic people with the ability to fly, why the eff do they walk everywhere?