Here are two unrelated things I'm blogging about simply because I'm bored.
I have my doubts about how smart the new Apple "Genius" feature on iTunes really is. For those who aren't familiar with it, it supposedly is able to make playlists out of your music by choosing songs that sound like the one you pick. So you just scroll through your music till you find a song you like and click the Genius button and voila, it should give you a playlist made up of songs that sound pretty close to the one you chose. Sounds great, right? Well overall I've been mostly impressed with it, although just now in the Genius playlist I created from the song "No Myth" by Michael Penn I had the song "Chopped In Half" by Obituary show up. Maybe Apple knows something I don't?
A couple days ago I bought some mice to feed the snake back at my place and had a near disaster happen on the way home. See, I normally buy about 5 mice for the snake, and this time was no exception, except that usually the guys at PetSmart put these mice in a fairly large paper box. Well, this time they put these mice in a very small paper box, and I figured it wouldn't matter if they were cramped for the car ride home cause they'd be dead soon anyway. After paying I had the cashier put the box into a plastic bag just cause the mice will piss and shit a surprising amount in the short time they're in there, and I didn't want anything seeping through the box. It turns out that the plastic bag was a lifesaver because when I got about halfway home I realized that the mice had chewed their way through box and were now crawling around inside the plastic bag. Naturally I was worried that next the mice were gonna eat their way through the bag or just escape through the opening, so I decided to just tie off the opening and hopefully suffocate the mice (that's what the snake was gonna do to them anyway). After tying the end of the bag I spent most of the ride jostling it around so the mice wouldn't be able to easily get a spot they could start chewing through. Well, I got most of the way home when I realized that one of the mice was wiggling out of a small hole near the opening of the bag. I quickly turned on the next side street and had to try to grab the mouse by the tail (which I did) and get it back into the bag. The problem was that the hole the mouse had wiggled out of was very small, so I had to untie the bag while holding it in one hand and holding the mouse by the tail in the other. In the end I had to thump the mouse on the head a couple times to daze it before I could get it back in the bag, but eventually I did get it back in there and quickly made it home where I fed all five mice to the snake. Crisis averted.