I Sat Stunned at the Simplicity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr23tpWX8lM




Now, if you actually watch till the end and leave off jumping down my throat for posting this...they don't show you how to get or make the special key in order to actually be able to do this. Some critics have said it is just another marketing ploy for lock companies....I dunno. I just thought it was remarkably simple and stunning in it's simplicity.

I thought....hey, I should post this and email it. This is important to know...at least I think so. Then, as I was looking at the clip on YouTube...I noticed several others. And one in particular made me look harder. This company actually sells the bumpkey. Yes. That is what I said.
Bumpkey.us @ http://bumpkey.us/ sells the keys that you can buy to bump most locks. But that is not all. It seems that Bumpkey.us wants to assure their customers that they will not sell their personal information to anyone, so they have a privacy statement. This is the first two lines:

"BumpKey.US respects your privacy. This document explains our policy relating to your personal data that is provided to us."

Does anyone else see the irony here? The absurdly insane irony? I actually called the FBI office in Denver and talked with the Duty Officer and he was very polite and did not laugh at my naiveté. It's totally not against the law. Not whatsoever. So I called the local TV station (KRDO) at the suggestion of the Duty Officer and the guy at the news desk couldn't be bothered. "Already done the show" he says. By the tone of his voice, he sounded distracted. Probably didn't even recognize what I was talking about. Guess something else was vying for his attention at the moment. So there you have it. Totally legal to sell someone a product that's sole use is for breaking and entering...or maybe I should say...Unlawful entry. I totally must be going thru midlife because the only words that pop into my head are...."what is the world coming to?".

♥Pam

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I'm A....

I'm a Mazda RX-8!

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I Could Sputter and Spout

because I was "made" to switch to the new blogger this morning....grrrrrr. But I don't want to spend the energy.
What I was going to start this post off with is...

I Do This....Do You?

Let me tell you that I am certain others do do this...but it sounded like a fun thing to title this post.

Let me also tell you that this may seem a random jumble of things but in reality....it's not....er random. It is a jumble.

Okay. If I am reading something or watching something and I am curious about it...I go look it up. In the days before internet profundity, I went to the library or our ancient set of encyclopedia's. I like the library. I have the ability to request any book on line and have it delivered to the closest library, as we have 7 or 8 branches in our overpopulous city. That to me is phenomenal. They email me when it arrives and I go pick it up. Then they email me when it's due and I can renew it online. Awesome. I can put holds on popular books like, "From Baghdad, With Love". Currently, I am number 32 in line. I started out in the 50's. Anyway, I guess I should say...I love the library and consider it one of my greatest privileges as an American citizen. I don't buy books anymore unless it's for someone else. I donated all my non medical books to the library. Well, I kept some that had significant sentimental value or were given as gifts. I have learned how to organically garden, raise chickens, set up solar power banks, can foods, raise a fawn, well...I could go on, all from books borrowed from the library.
But I have an insatiable curiosity sometimes. I am intrigued with all manner of information and knowledge and love to research it. I'm not always patient with some search engines but....let me give you a for instance.
Last night...late, last night....I caught the movie "Muriel's Wedding". I have been wanting to watch it for some time now but usually end up catching it, on cable, after it's been on for a half hour or more, and it's also waaaaay down on the Netflix list. I still missed the first 15 minutes but...
I totally identified with Muriel, played by Toni Collette. I loved Toni in "Connie and Carla". In "Muriel's Wedding", I was very impressed with her Australian accent. I am very familiar with her most recent work and was...intrigued. So...I did what I usually do...I went to IMDB to see if she was from Australia...and she is. Surprise, surprise. Born in 1972 in Sydney. Wow. Listening to her English accent in "About a Boy" and lack of any accent (heheheee) in "Connie and Carla" and "Sixth Sense" and "Little Miss Sunshine", I was intrigued and googled her. I found a one line statement about her involvement in PETA and her stand on "mulesing". I looked up "mulesing" of course and found it a practice in Australia to prevent "flystrike" or myiasis. So of course, I looked up "flystrike" and found that info interesting. I found on the wikipedia site that there had been a research study by Fell and Shutt in 1989 concluding that the animals do suffer in more ways than just experiencing pain. But that the practice of mulesing wouldn't be outlawed until 2010. Interesting.
Then, I noticed a comparison to "crutching". Read that and went back to the info about flystrike and saw a reference to MDT. This is Maggot Debridement Therapy which we have used in homecare as a treatment therapy for very bad wounds. I like to work with wounds...not enough to become a WOCN or Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse....but I deal with a lot of wounds in home care.
So...that reminded me of a recent conversation I had with my mother. She does the same thing. Hmmmmm, imagine where I learned to do that? Anyway. We were talking about it because I was mentioning something I read in a book and went and looked up. Sometimes it's about gathering the trivia...mostly it's about trying to understand a complex situation or problem better and sometimes it's to verify the veracity of a statement. For instance...

Have you ever heard of the Bonus March? Did you know there was a very public expression of antisemitism in our nation during the early years of WWII? These are just a smattering of things I have looked up this past week.
As I was pondering this peculiarity about myself, it occurred to me that although I learned and retained a lot when I was in elementary, junior high and high school, it seems like I didn't learn near enough. Or maybe it was that I was given a nice neat package of things to learn. Or maybe it was that I was not emotionally or intellectually ready to learn more. Or possibly, the world has changed and is parting with it's secrets more. Likely.....it's a combo of all these factors.

I guess I live up to my nerd reputation. In junior high school, I wasn't a nerd. I was good in english and social studies...I only passed math because I tried so damn hard my teacher felt sorry for me...thanks Ms Bennison. And science was interesting but...without the math, much of it got lost in me brain. But that changed as I got older. My curiousity over powered my inability to "get" things easily and I labored at learning. But back in the day...I was just one of the many uncool but not a jock and not a burner/doper kids in junior high school. Then of course, I went to my all girls high school which you can read about here. So, I can relate to Toni Collette's character in "Muriel's Wedding". A lot. More than you can imagine.

I've come full circle. I think that was enough of a ride for today. Did you click on any of the links? Did you learn something new and/or interesting here today? I enjoyed giving a quick peek into the inner workings of my brain or at least the things I am intrigued by.
♥Pam