I have to admit that I have a soft spot for panda bears. From time to time I hear of people being mauled by brown bears, or black bears, or grizzly bears, but I’ve never heard anything in the news about people being mauled by panda bears. Naturally that makes me feel as if they are not vicious, even though they probably are just as likely to attack as any other kind of bear! I recently saw this cute video online about some baby panda bears that were being kept in a play pen, and one of them is intent on escaping. The video is just so cute; it makes me wish I had a pet baby panda bear (but only if they stayed this little and cute!)
Made in America
I’m trying to buy Made in America products for Christmas presents this year. I am finding it to be a very difficult task. Many of the gifts that people want are electronic in nature, and most of those items are made overseas. When I Google “Made in USA” very few items actually show up that would be things that the people on my gift list would really like to have.
I’d like to shop local, but I don’t want to pick up every item on the shelf and turn it over to see where it was made. I figure that if I look online first for the product itself, then I can go to the local store to buy it. If you have any suggestions about where to find items that are Made in USA, please let me know, I’m interested!
Paperless receipts?
I was just reading on a great website called livescience.com that there may be paperless receipts in our future! When I first started reading it, I was thinking that I am a receipt freak and I don’t know how this would work, and if I would like it or not.
According to the article, the merchants will be able to email your receipts to you instead of handing you a paper one. The good part of this is that you would then not worry about losing your receipts, or having shoe boxes full of them. You could store them on a thumb drive or memory card! This would free up a lot of space. The downside of this, though, would be that I often like to look at my receipt before I leave the store to find out for sure that I was not overcharged for something. I frequently find that I AM overcharged for something and then I want to fix it before I leave the store. It is a real pain to discover an error like that after I get home and then have to drive all the way back to the store to resolve the issue!
So, I am not convinced that paperless receipts would be a good thing for me.
Fast Five
The next fast and furious movies looks sweet! Fast Five as it is called looks to be action packed with some pretty amazing car stunts. Vin Diesel is one of my favorite actors. He is once again in this movie. I think I probably wish I looked like him. All the ladies would be after me!
The location where this movie was shot is also quite awesome. Rio De Janeiro is a beautiful city. Someday I hope to visit there.
Dancing street cop
This video is really something else! I can’t believe they let this police officer do this. Granted, he is retired and I am sure that this was only for a short time with other current police officers on stand-by. Either way, without looking at this too seriously, it is quite amusing. I can think of a few local officers that might do this in my area with permission.