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The dog on the train – BART

the curious monkey — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:13:32 +0000

It’s just another day, except this was different.

It was one of the few days I head up into the city (San Francisco) for a couple of meetings. Instead of driving as I usually do, I decided to take the train. It was early enough in during the commute time that I could still get a seat. I sat down and started to have a look around. It’s habit. I like to be aware of the environment around me. It was the usual mix of daily commuters on the train, except for one. A lady; probably in her mid 20′s sat a few rows in front of me. on her lap sat her dog. One of those dogs that look like they have a beard and extremely bushy eye brows. A little research online told me that they are called Schnauzer’s. Cute little fellow, sitting there chewing on his chew toy. Beside her was a little baby pram. Seemed normal enough.

After a few minutes of vigorous chewing, her dog got fed up with his toy and dropped it. The owner bent down, picked up the toy and tossed it into the pram. Hmmm… that does not seem very sanitary for the baby; I thought to myself. Then I realized that the lady had been playing with her dog the whole time and had not even once looked into the pram to see how the baby was doing. I decided to pay a little more attention to the pram. It was then that I realized that the pram was not for a baby buy for the dog.. it was a doggie pram.

Just like regular human baby prams it had a sun hood, looked like it folded for easy storage, had zippers and compartments for storing toys and treats and actually seemed very very study. I would say looked more sturdy than a lot of baby prams. The only thing that gave it away was the brand that was stamped at the top of the hood – “Pet Gear” http://www.amazon.com/Pet-Gear-Trails-Stroller-30-pounds/dp/B0006Z9RB2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1271711560&sr=8-1

The following description is from the Pet Gear Inc, website:

“Pet Gear strollers are a great way to take your pet with you on a long walk through the park, a walk around the block, or maybe even shopping at the mall. They safely contain and protect your pet wherever you go. The Happy Trails Plus stroller has a fashionable Euro-Canopy, removable weather guard, large storage basket, parent tray, waterproof interior pad, front swivel wheels, shock absorbers, and rear brakes.”

Something is very wrong with this image. Isn’t the whole point of taking your dog for a walk to WALK YOUR DOG? For your dog to get exercise? I mean, am I being old fashioned by thinking that this is a little crazy?

What do you’ll think?

[news] – US resort offers $219 room for $19 with a tent

the curious monkey — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:19:54 +0000

I think I am losing my mind. I am not a marketing guru or anything like that, but this just does not make any sense to me.

I just finished reading an article on BBC News that The Rancho Bernardo Inn, a “Luxury Resort” here in the United States was offering rooms that usually start at $219 for as low as $19 a night. I understand that part. That’s actually a damm good deal. It’s this next part that I don’t understand.

The room starts at $219, but the resort will then reduce the price of the room for each amenity you don’t want in the room.

The cheapest deal – $19 – means guests sacrifice a bed, breakfast, air-conditioning, towels, toilet paper, a mini-bar and lighting.

Staff will even unscrew the headboard from the wall – but leave a small tent.

Wait, did I read that right? They even take out the toilet paper (a roll costs less than $0.50. Probably much less when they buy it wholesale).

General manager John Gates said that during tough economic times it was a way to help people stay at a nice resort who normally could not afford to.

So you take everything nice out of the room so its worse than a 2 start dump (last I checked even 2 star motels gave you toilet paper) and think your giving people a way of saying at a “NICE RESORT“?

What makes even less economic sense is that your room is going empty anyway. So instead of letting someone stay there at $19 with full comfort (which might actually convince the person to come back and pay full price) you increase your overheads by getting your staff to strip the room on a per client basis, so they can stay in a TENT IN AN EMPTY ROOM with NO toilet paper and expect them to come back and pay full price next time???

DUDE, WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?

Source: BBC News.

[Funny] Flight from Sacramento to San Francisco – $ 353.00

the curious monkey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:30:17 +0000

I am subscribed to price alerts for flights out of the Sacramento, CA airport. Most times it is quite useful and lets me find some good deals, but every now and then I get some real jems like this offer.

I mean seriously…. Who priced this flight. For those who are not familiare with the geography of this area, you can drive from Sacramento to San Francisco in under an hour.

On a US domestic Flight

the curious monkey — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:09:26 +0000

I find myself flying again, and it never ceases to amaze me how the mighty have fallen. On my US Airways flight the once free pretzels they gave as snacks are not there anymore. You can buy a snack box that has “Premium” snacks in it for $7.00. I’m surprised they still give you something to drink for free. Thankfully this time around i picked up a decent deli sandwich before boarding the plane. The last time around I forgot to do that and ended up buying one of the gourmet inspired “Hot” sandwiches. It was one of the driest, blandest, and worse tasting sandwich ever. it was not even HOT.

I miss flying airlines like Malaysian, Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Sri Lankan Airlines and the like where you actually looked forward to the food and its FREE. Virgin Atlantic now flies domestic routes in the US under the local brand of Virgin America and they provide you a nice free meal and snacks for local domestic flights while still being competitive with the other US airlines, so why cant they?

i got angry with my front door

the curious monkey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:39:31 +0000

technology is a wonderful thing. it makes all our lives easier than it used to me, but it boggles the mind that sometimes it is implemented half way through, and that really sucks.

i have a routine, i walk towards my car, press the unlock, listen to the reassuring click sound that tells me the car has been unlocked and i open the door and get in. same when i get down from the car. i click the car and wait to hear it click back to know the door is locked and we are all good.

today morning i had my hands full of stuff and was a bit preoccupied when i ran out of the apartment, closed the front door and locked it. dammit, it did not lock; so i tried it again. still unlocked. i was starting to get annoyed at the door. why was it not locking itself. after staring daggers at the poor door for a few seconds it struck me that this was my apartment front door not my car door. thats why it was not clicking back at me when i clicked on the lock button. DUH!

i proceeded to sheepishly put the door key into the lock, turn the key locking the door, looked both to my left and right to make sure non of my neighbors had witnessed this very embarrassing moment of me clicking my front door and headed to my car which responded much better and as expected to my unlock clicks than my front door had.

this got me thinking. why don’t they have the same mechanism for buildings that they have for automobiles. its a very useful technology that can be used in many different area’s. why was its implementation stopped at just automobiles?

am i the only one this has happened to? i would love to hear if anyone of you have experiences something similar.

video – McCain vs. Obama dance off

the curious monkey — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:40:46 +0000

“i would tap that .. my friend”

lol…..

[update: looks like the original video on break.com was removed, so i've updated the post with a link to the youtube video.]

politics – palin is a parrot – john cleese

the curious monkey — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:36:51 +0000

John Cleese talks about the palins, and says that michael palin is no longer the funniest palin.

can someone please say “PAWNED!!!!!”

DISCLAIMER: the views expressed in this video is not that of the curious monkey but those of john cleese.

politics – obama is actually a duck

the curious monkey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:12:28 +0000

about a week ago i wrote a post wondering on the underlying racism that is clouding the 2008 US presidential elections. you can read that here.

well i guess i should say that its no longer an underlying tone. the following news video shows the open ignorance of some Americans which is a direct representation of the current state of literacy and general knowledge that alot of Americans in the south are known for, as well as a glimpse into how racism still plays a very big part in America. the land of the free.

the whole video is pretty sad and funny at the same time, but there were some highlights to this that stood out more than others. we actually learnt facts that no one knew before this

* Obama is actually a DUCK.

* Palin, (who could not keep her own daughter from screwing around and getting knocked up) is filled with the holy spirit and will bring honesty and integrity to the white house. this actually reminds me of a quote from Confucius

“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.”

* Obama and his wife could be anti white.

* Obama is friends with a known terrorist. wait… didn’t president bush charter a plane to fly some laden’s out of America right after 9-11, because they were close family friends of his???

spoof – I kissed a girl – Katy Perry

the curious monkey — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:55:14 +0000

i’m assuming that everyone has heard katy perry‘s song i kissed a girl. i mean you cant NOT have heard it. they play it every 5 minutes on the radio. well its a nice catchy song and all but it needed a spoof. a version of the song that a guy could sing, so i scratched my head for a bit and came up with the following. i think its quite good.

I Kissed A Girl [spoof] – the curious monkey

This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It’s not what, I usually do
Just wanna try you on
I’m curious for you
Caught my attention

I kiss you girls and I like it
The taste of you cherry chapstick
I kiss you girls because I like it
I hope my girlfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight
I kiss you girls and I like it
I like it

No, I don’t even know your name
It doesn’t matter
Your my experimental game
Just human nature
It’s what, all good boys do
It’s how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey

You girls are just so magical
Soft skin, red lips, so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable
Too good to deny it
Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent

humour – how to calibrate your mouse

the curious monkey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:27:31 +0000

wonderful little how to that i received via email today.

MOUSE CALIBRATION

This really works.

Is your mouse calibrated?
You should do this every few days.
More often if you spend a lot of time on computer.
I was shocked to see that this works!

To re-calibrate your mouse, click and hold on the Y below. Then drag the Y toward the g. If it doesn’t work, you might want to clean your mouse.

Y ou dumb ass. You’ll believe anything