And in case you’re not familiar with that story, I’ll let Wikipedia do the explaining in plain English.
For those of you who want something closer to the source material, you can consult the Bible in a few places:
Here’s El Greco’s rendition of the same scene:
After claiming to have attempted delivery to our house twice — claims invalidated our front door camera — things were looking up. Yesterday, I got a call at 12:29 (as recorded on my phone’s call log) that I would receive my delivery from UPS that day. And miracle of miracles, the UPS truck showed up yesterday afternoon at 4:55!
I know the time the truck arrived, because the front door cam caught the truck and the porch cam captured me recording the truck’s arrival for posterity:
The driver parked the truck, got out of his seat, and stepped into the back. I could hear shuffling and rumbling as he searched for the delivery. This continued for three minutes.
And then he emerged from the back and said, “Sorry, sir, it’s not on this truck. It might be on another truck passing through later today.”
No other truck passed through later that day.
Hey, UPS — you’re not very good at this, are you?
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If you’re in Seminole Heights and if you’re in a situation where you might not be able to afford pet food, Health Mutt on the corner of Central and Hanna has set up a community pet pantry. It works on the honor system — take what you need, leave what you can.
Health Mutt is an actual corner store in the middle of a residential neighborhood, which is increasingly rare in this age of strip malls and mega-shopping complexes. They’re one of the go-to places in the community, and I hope they
It’s on one of my bike exercise routes, and even though we don’t have pets (I’m allergic to cats and Anitra’s allergic to dogs), I think I’ll pass by the nearby Publix, pick up a couple of cans of dog and cat food and drop them off there.
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For more, see this local news station’s report on Health Mutt’s community pet pantry.
In case you’re wondering: Yes, I’ve taken the accordion out camping — and to Burning Man as well.
Thanks to Austin Ziegler for the find!
UPS says that they attempted a delivery at 9:06 p.m. this evening…
…and this is what my front door camera says:
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One of us is mistaken, and I have evidence.
Did you miss part 1? It’s here.
The “Monkeys in India stole the coronavirus blood samples” news story is just one more data point for Elon Musk’s pet theory that we’re living in a simulation. It’s my theory that whoever was running it got bored, walked off, and left the intern at the controls.
Pictured above is CNN reporter Oscar Jimenez, back on the job after being arrested without being given a reason by while covering the protests sparked by the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. He and 2 other credentialed journalists in his crew, producer Bill Kirkos and photojournalist Leonel Mendez, were taken into custody while on camera, which is the sort of thing that you’d expect to happen only in what Donald Trump would call “shithole countries”:
I’m going to get some “Well, actually…” responses for this observation, but it should be noted the one guy in the CNN crew with the white-bread name was not arrested:
CNN’s Josh Campbell, who also was in the area but not standing with the on-air crew, said he, too, was approached by police, but was allowed to remain.
“I identified myself … they said, ‘OK, you’re permitted to be in the area,'” recounted Campbell, who is white. “I was treated much differently than (Jimenez) was.”
Jimenez is black and Latino. Kirkos is white, and Mendez is Hispanic.
Jimenez and crew have since been released, and over the next little while, we need to ask — and keep asking — this important question: Why was this allowed to happen?