Sunday Observations (and some links)

1. My wife is the best music critic I know.  Not because she breaks songs down with technical criticisms, but because music that she doesn’t like actually makes her angry.  Wanna hear a twenty minute diatribe?  Put on the first five seconds of Jimmy Buffett’s, A Pirate Looks At Forty.  “Mother, mother ocean.”  Then it starts.  “That line ruins the whole song.  I can’t stand that nonsense.”  I love it.  Makes me laugh every time.
2. I saw a commercial that told me that I can now order from Dominos via Twitter.  This doesn’t seem like a great idea.  Of all the things I have ever thought about tweeting at Dominos, an order wasn’t one of them.  It will probably make prank ordering much less of a hassle though.
3. Halloween has come and gone.  How much did my family spend on costumes?  Zero dollars.  We said, “Kids what do you want to be for Halloween?  We suggest you wear the same thing as last year.”  They fell for it.  It was funny because my ten year old’s costume legs ended halfway up his ankles.  It looked like Boba Fett had a horrible tailor.  Next year we may put a little more effort in.  My plan is to grow a mustache and put on a Hawaiian shirt, tuck it into my jeans, and go as Magnum P.I.  I want to dress my six year old up as Higgins. My ten year old can be Rick.  And my wife can be the mysterious Robin Masters.
4. If you have ever paid for a ringtone, you have forfeited your right to complain about anything.  We could be hanging out and you might start complaining about the price of gas, and I’ll just stop you right there.  “Zip it.  No complaining.  Remember, you paid money so you could hear the Milkshake song every time your wife called you.  I don’t want to hear any First World whining.”
5. I think that if we ever do invent a time machine, the first thing we should do is send anti-vaccine people back to the middle ages.  That way they can enjoy the smallpox, diphtheria, yellow fever, and typhoid.  At least they’ll be able to get quality equestrian instruction.  That way, IF we decide to bring them back to the present, they can all get jobs at Medieval Times, or travel with a renaissance fair, and my guess is, we’ll never have to deal with their nonsense again.

LINKS

• Today is Dia De Los Muertos.  Here is a link explaining the origins.  I love the artwork.
• Hotels gross me out a little.  10 Hotel Secrets.
• To celebrate the release of Spectre, here is an interactive map that shows everywhere James Bond has ever been.
• Cool new hoverboard.  I must have one.